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WEATHER North Carollan: Pair weather with little change in tempera tures today, tonight and Friday. Tshk Scheu-g Essig gstm CLEVELAND COUNTY'S NEWSPAPER SINCE 1894 TELEPHONES 1100 - State Theatre Today - “WHAT A BLONDE” Starring LEON ERROL VOL. XLIII-208 ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWS SHELBY, N C. THURSDAY, AUG. 30, 1945 TELEMAT PICTURES SINGLE COPIES—6c MacARTHUR LANDS AT ATSUGI l» * * *-t: -*# ***##****#* ••••»,, Halsey Sets Up American Naval Shore Headquarters In Japan 2,500,000 Troops Now * In Germany Will Re Reduced To 400,000 BERLIN, Aug. 30.—(IP)—Gen. Eisenhower said today that the 2,500,000 American troops now in Germany would be reduced to a fixed occupation force of about 400,000 well before the end of the winter. The American commander said the importation of food from the United States to feed Germans was inescapable, but that he did not mean he intended to fatten the Germans. He said he hoped to have the Ger mans elect their own officials in city and rural areas this fall. Eisenhower declined to predict how long the Allied occupation of Germany would last, saying this was a matter of higher government policy, but added that the Ameri cans did not expect to stay here forever. He said the intensity of mutual suspicion among allied powers In Germany was giving way in the face of frankness and honesty. He said his recent trip to Russia re vealed to him many things that showed remarkable. planning for the welfare of the masses. Describing the redeployment of United States troops homeward as being constantly accelerated, Eisen hower said that even the estimate of 400,000 men as an occupation force might be reduced later, pro vided the Germans did more for themselves and less policing be came necessary. Reconversion News Mixed: Good And Bad Better Living In Sight; Rich Markets For Industry, But Unemployment On Increase WASHINGTON, Aug. 30.—The climb toward better living got a boost today. OPA, starting Sunday, is handing out more meat, more cheese, more butter . Snyder Urges Standard Pay For Unemployed WASHINGTON, Aug. 30 —(IP)— « f .» Establishment of a national un employment compensation stand ard received strong endorsement today from John W. Snyder, di rector of war mobilization and re conversion. Snyder told the boose ways and means committee unem ployment during reconversion probably will total six million by the end of the year and eight million by early spring, and that sharp redaction In the living standards of displac ed workers Is threatened. The committee Is hearing wit nesses on a bill to standardize Job less pay at $25 a week tor 26 weeks. "The return to peace Is part and parcel of the war.” Snyder said in his prepared testimony. “The human as well as the material costs of transition are costs of war. We have recognized this fact in the progress for assistance to business and veterans. We cannot In good conscience adopt another attitude towards displaced war workers." NOT COVERED Present unemployment compen sation systems, he continued, cover only some 3 million of the na tion’s 52 million gainfully em ployed. Among those excluded are 2,900,000 federal employes, many of them workers in shipyards, ar senals, munitions depots, gun fac tories and explosives plants; 200, 000 in the merchant marine; and 2,000,000 employes of firms hiring fewer than eight workers. The bill would extend Jobless pay to all of these groups. As reasons for increasing max imum benefits Snyder cited these figures: “The over-all cost of living is up about one-third—and the pric es of food, clothing and household goods are now from 45 to 50 per cent higher than in August 1939. "An unemployed worker today would need at least $22 to buy as i See SNYDER Page 2 British Reported In Port Of Hong Kong IGNDON, Aug. 30. -ifP)— A Reu ters dispatch from Sydney today said British Pacific fleet head quarters announced that a strong British naval force under Rear Ad ' mlral Cecil Harcourt had entered the Port of Hong Kong to reoccupy that crown colony. dui uic war manpower com* mission said in a more sobering announcement, that 2,000,000 war workers have lost their jobs since Japan's fall Some, however, have been rehired already. Otherwise the news—from in dustry and government alike — was good. It ran like this: 1. Within six months, travel by ship across the ocean may be fairly easy. Within a year, regular world cruises. 2. Fanners will give industry a rich market. Surveys show one in four wants a tractor or other machine, one in five a car or truck. 3. Courtesy behind the coun ter is coming back, say re tailers—along with deliveries, easier credit and pre-war store services. Canned milk becomes ration free on Sunday. And red points will buy about 28 percent more meat, 60 percent more cheese, 25 percent more but ter and margarine, fats and oils were unchanged. NO END IN SIGHT Price Boss Chester Bowles said he couldn’t guess when meat ra tioning would end. Beef steaks and roasts went down 2 to 3 points a pound, ham burger and bacon 2 points, lamb and veal 1 to 3 points, and pork chops, steaks and roasts 1 to 2 points. The only Jarring ration note: OPA indicated tires might be rationed longer than most people think. CITIES HARD HIT In its estimate of lay-offs, the War Manpower commission said the cities hardest hit were De troit, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Cleveland, and Newark. This was WMC’s first official estimate since the fighting stop ped 16 days ago. The farmer emerged as one of the big potential customers for the nation's businessmen and fac See RECONVERSION Page 2 YOKOSUKA IS OCCUPIED BY TARS, MARINES Nimitz Watches Forces Wade Ashore With Lev eled Guns 'THIS IS ^PLEASURE" By Morrie Landsberg YOKOSUKA, Japan, Aug. 30.—(JF)—Admiral Halsey set up American naval shore headquarters in Japan today a few hours after ten thous and American marines and blue jackets waded ashore with leveled guns and occu pied the nearly deserted Yoko suka naval base. Halsey's four-star flag was hoist ed at 10:45 am. (9:45 pm, Wed nesday, Eastern War Time). The Third fleet admiral however, maintained his actual headquar ters aboard the battleship Missou ri where Japan will formally sur render Sunday. Airborne troops, landing at At sugl airfield with General Mac Arthur, occupied Yokohama, five miles closer to Tokyo. Not a shot was fired in the first seaborne invasion in Japa nese history. Marines reached Yokosuka at 9:35 am., Japan time A:35 pm. Wednesday, Eastern War Time) and the task force commander, Rear Adm. Oscar C. Badger, dock ed his flagship cruiser, the San Diego, at 10 am (9 pm. Wednes day, Eastern War Time). A stocky Japanese vice admiral awaited Admiral Badger and Rear Adm Robert B. Carney, Admiral Halsey’s chief of staff, at the battleship dock. Carney accepted surrender of the base, which Badger will ad minister, at 11:13 am. (10:12 pm. Wednesday, Eastern War Time). SEIZE FUTTSU British earlier had occupied two small islands in the Bay, and Am ericans took a third, seizing also the thin blade of Futtsu Penin sula across the Bay from Yoko suka. Marines reaching Futtsu at 5:58 am (4:58 pm- Wednesday, East See YOKOSUKA Page 2 Grand Jury Indicts 13 Mica Companies ASHEVILLE, Aug. 30 — UP) — Thirteen corporations and 15 of their officials were charged with violating the anti-trust law in the operations of the mica Industry in two indictments on file in U. S. District court here today. The Buncombe county grand jury returned the indictments late yesterday. They charged the de fendants with conspiring to fix the terms, conditions, and man ner in which the mineral is pro duced and sold. The government said those named in the Indictments con trolled about 85 percent of the domestic production of sheet mi ca, 65 percent of the production of fabricated mica, and between 90 and 95 percent of wet ground mica production. A large part of United States production Is centered in western Nortl) Carolina. Mica was des ignated as one of the strategic materials necessary to national defense. Fliers Released From Jap Prisons Tell Of Brutalities SHANGHAI, Aug. 30. —</P>— Stories of brutal Japanese captors who beat them with bomboo sticks and metal rods until they were black and blue from knee to hip and could hardly walk, were related here by eight American filers. One airman said he had his wrists tied behind him and had been hung by his thumbs in efforts by the Jap anese to force him to reveal Ameri can plans to invade Nippon. All are in good condition, and their wounds are healing. They still are held by the Japanese who threatened correspondents with bayonets when they first tried to Interview them in the YMCA here. Entrance wu gain ed after a 15 minute delay. The eity of Shanghai still awaits its official release. The prisoners are: 2nd Lt. Harold H. Eifler, Chicago, pilot of an Army B-24 bomber: 2nd Lt. William R. Martin, Jr., Colorado Springs, Colo., and Sgt Clyde J. Sel lers, Mt. Pleasant, Mich.; Navy fliers AMM l/o Walter Pallack, Chicago; AMM 3/c Frank Maratea, Chicago; AOM 3/c Ted Hauser, North Hollywood, Calif., and Sea Boo FLIERS Page t MARINES GAZE ON LANDING SITES IN JAPAN—-larines aboard the U. S. transport Lanier crowd the rail for a first look at Japan as the ship plows through Sagami Bay on the approaches to Tokyo. This picture was made by Max Desfor, Associated Pres photographer on assignment wtih the war time still picture pool.— (AP Wirephoto via Navy radio from Guam). LENTZ MOVING TO MARION JOB Succeeds Michoux As Third District Mainten ance Supervisor L. E. Lentz, maintenance super visor here for district one . of Di vision Nine for the State Highway and Public Works commission, has been transferred to division three, where he will hold the same posi tion. He will be stationed at Marion, and will go tomorrow to the new job, it was stated today by Hugh Noel, division engineer. Lentz will succeed R. V. "Dick” Mlchaux of Burke county whose death occurred Monday. No successor for the district one supervisor’s post had been named today but Mr. Noell expects to fill the po6t in the next few days. As supervisor of district three, Lentz will have under his mainte-! nance supervision state highways! in McDowell, Burke, Rutherford! and Polk counties; as supervisor1 of district one he had that respon-l sibillty for Cleveland, Gaston and Lincoln counties. Mr. and Mrs. Lentz, who have made their home at 627 South Washington, will leave tomorrow to take up their residence at Mar lon. Plans Underway To Feed Europe WASHINGTON, Aug. 30. —(IP)— President Truman disclosed today that the State and War depart ments and the foreign economic ad- i ministration are working on plans! for the feeding of Europe, pending! operation of the Bretton Woods and other postwar financing programs. Mr. Truman told his news confer ence that he was unable to give de tails since the plans were still being studied and worked on. He said representatives of the British governments would come here to participate in discussions ne cessitated by the abandonment of the lend-lease program. He would have more to say about that later, he stated. Game Broadcast Tonight At 8:10 A play-by-play broadcast of the Shelby-Oak Park, 111., third round game of Junior Legion national championship play will be fur-1 nished tonight starting at 8:10 p. m. In front of The Star office for! fans unable to make the trip to I Charlotte. Lee Kirby will report the game1 which comes through facilities of Charlotte’s radio station WAYS. Truman Will Not Ask Courts Martial Thinks Entire Country Shares Blame For Pearl Harbor Disaster; Spurned Preparedness By The Associated Press WASHINGTON, Aug. 30.—President Truman announc ed today that he will not order courts martial in the Pearl Harbor disaster. He said the entire country shares in the blame. BYRON PRICE GOES TOBERLIN Forrtier Censorship Head To Be Public Rela tions Adviser WASHINGTON, Aug. 30 —(JP)— President Truman announced to day that Byron Price is being sent to Germany as public relations ad viser to American occupation for ces there. The President said Price, now winding up his work as director of censorship, will go as his per sonal representative to advise with Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower and Lt. Gen. Lucius V. Clay on all matters concerned with public re lationship. Mr. Truman said the officers asked for Price and he personally was happy Price was going. The President stressed, in ans wer to a question, that Price would be his representative in Berlin. Asked about the nature of the duties involved, he said that Eis enhower and Clay wanted an ex pert’s advice, and had requested Price’s services. Mr. Truman said he would handle everything that has to do with public relations. Price, former executive news editor of the Associated Press, was called by President Roosevelt to organize and take over the war time office of censorship shortly after Pearl Harbor. The censor ship office was abolished with Ja pan’s capitualtion. St. Lawrence Seaway May Be Completed WASHINGTON, Aug. 30. —(IP)— President Truman plans to recom mend to congress soon the comple tion of the St. Lawrence Seaway project long advocated by his pre decessor, President Roosevelt. Asked at his news conference if he planned to make a recommenda tion for the completion of the pro ject, Mr. Truman said simply, “Yes, I do.” “I’ll let you know about it when I get it ready,” the President assert As some congressmen set up a clamor for military trials to shed more light on America’s greatest defeat in arms the president told his news conference: “I think the country is as much to blame as any individual in this final situation that developed in Pearl Harbor.” That was his analysis to a news conference today after studying j the official documents on investi gations of the setback which this country suffered when the Japan ese struck Hawaii Dec. 7, 1941. Mr. Truman authorized this quotation: “I came to the conclusion that the whole thing is the result of the policy which the country it self pursued. The country was not ready for preparedness. “Every time the president (Franklin D. Roosevelt) made an effort to get a preparedness pro gram through the congress, it was stifled. Whenever the president made a statement about the ne cessity of preparedness, he was vilified for doing it. “I think the country is as much to blame as any individual in this final situation that developed in Pearl Harbor.” UNIFIED COMMAND Questioning brought from the president these additional points: 1. He has no objection to a court martial but will not order one, 2. He still favors a unity of See TRUMAN Page 2 De Gaulle Back Home PARIS, Aug. 30. —(JP)— Back from the United States and Cana da, Gen. De Gaulle arrived at Orly airfield late today. ‘Going Splendidly’ Sa;'s Commander Of Occupation By The Associated Press ATSUGI AIRFIELD, NEAR TOKYO, Aug. 30.— General MacArthur arrived in Japan and set up head quarters in Yokohama as Nippon's military ruler to day amidst the first alien armed forces ever to occupy the sacred islands. Paratroopers and seaborne marines and sailors swarmed out of the skies and in from the sea in an unbroken stream. They took over Atsugi airfield, 18 miles from Tokyo; ran up the American flag over Yokosuka naval base, Japan’s second largest; rode by Japanese truck into Yokohama, port of Tokyo where the occupation force will establish general headquarters; and began evacuating prisoners of war from “a black hell hole” where “bestial beatings were common.” True Story Told Of Heroic Death Of Cohn Kelly By ELGAR BROWN Representing: The Combined American Press ABOARD MERCY SHIP REEVES OFF OMORI PRISON CAMP, To kyo Bay, Aug. 30—UP)—How Capt. Colin Kelly actually died in battle was related for the first time to day by the surviving crewmen on his warplane. Their lips had been sealed for nearly four years by confinement in a Japanese pris oner-of-war camp. America’s famed ace, one of the war's first martyrs, didn’t sink the Japanese battleship Haruna by piling his bomber against it’s stack —but he died a great hero just the same. At the mention of his name, tears welled into the eyes of Pfc. Robert Altman, 26, of Sanford, Fla., just evacuated from the vile Omori camp in the suburban Tokyo area. Altman’s story was told under dramatic circumstances. This aux iliary, high speed transport and others of the tiny mercy fleet huddled in the bay south of To kyo bulging with Allied prisoners, deathly sick, ailing and sound, brought out dining the night from their hell-hole to relate sickening stories of abuse and viciousness by sadistic captors. DEC. 10, 1941 Altman was loading 500-pound bombs onto the B-17 at Clark field, Luzon, on December 10, 1941. He asserted: “Suddenly the Japs launched an air raid and we had to take off with only three bombs. We cross ed northwest Luzon and saw the Nips’ landing party under the pro tective bombardment of three des troyers and one heavy battleship See TRUE Page t WHAT’S DOING TODAY 7:z0 pun.—Regular meeting of Kiwanis club. 7:30 p.m.—CAP cadets meet at armory. FRIDAY 7:30 p.m.—Regular meeting of of Rotary club. Nuernberg Stage Being Set To Try Nazi War Criminals By RICHARD KASISCHKE NUERNBERG, Aug. 30—(AV-In the bomb-blasted heart of this one time showplace of Nazidom they are working feverishly to prepare the stage for one of the greatest dramas In history — the trial of Nazi arch war criminals before an international military tribunal. It would be a task In an; city anywhere to prepare for the influx of an estimated 1,000 people from two hemispheres to participate in and record the trials which will last weeks, perhaps months. In Nuernberg j 1 —in whose waste of stone an intact building is an exception and where food and fuel are short—the job is herculean. The chief defendants, Hermann oering, Joachim von Ribbentrop, ' ranz von Papen already are on hand. Other top-ranking survivors of Hitler’s new order assembled here for the trial include Marshal Wilhelm Keitel and Col. Gen. Al fred Jodi of Hitler’s general staff, Jew-baiter Julius Stretcher, Kurt Daluege, former gestapo chief; Ro See NUERNBERG Pace X The occupation is "going splend idly,” MacArthur said. Yanks were moving in an orderly fashion "without bloodshed” and he said the Japanese appeared to be act ing in good faith. The occupation by troops in full battle dress and ready for any contingency, was eight hours old when MacArthur stepped onto Atsugi airdrome from his shining silver C-54 transport, "Bataan.” At 2 p.m. (1 a.m. Eastern War Time). The supreme Allied commander landed amidst cheering paratroop ers of the 11th airborne division who began pouring from an un ending stream of transports at 6 a.m. (5 p.m. Wednesday, Eastern War Time) simultaneously with landings at Yokosuka, led by the Fourth Marino regiment. The fourth Marines, rushed to the Philippines from China, were one of the heroic outfits in the fight for Manila Bay and stood to the last on Corregidor. Today’s landing was made by a reactivated regiment. The 11th airborne division helped MacArthur clear 200,000 Japanese out of the Philippines and were vic tors at Nichols Field where Japan struck its first blow at the islands. DULY SALUTED Paratroops units drove in Japan ese trucks, duly saluted by enemy officers, to occupy Yokohama, five miles closer to Tokyo than Yoko suka. This was the first step toward a Juncture between the sea and air borne forces whose original landings were made 18 miles apart on either side of Miura peninsula. Both air and sea forces were See OCCUPATION Page 2 COUNCIL TO MEET SEPT. 10 Outsiders May Plead Cas es For Entry To Unit ed Nations By GRAHAM HOVEY WASHINGTON, Aug. 30. —W— Countries formerly allied with Nazi Germany may get a chance to plead their own cases before the Big Five foreign ministers in London next month. , Similarly, it was learned today, nations involved in territorial dis putes may be summoned to present their views when the council con venes for the first time September 10. The council is a creation of the recent Potsdam Big Three confer ence. Secretary of State Byrnes is ex pected to propose full hearings in order to bring out all facts related to any controversial matters he fears might menace the peace of Europe. Burnes also is understood to have several other suggestions designed to speed up the work of the coun cil. It has been assigned the task of drawing up proposed peace treaties for Italy, Romania, Bulgaria, Hun gary and Finland, in addition to recommending solutions for the ter ritorial disputes. COMMITTEES One proposal Byrnes may make would establish committees of ex perts to deal with the major special ized problems. For example, a com See COUNCIL Page »
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