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« WEATHER \f North Carolina: Fair weather with little change In tempera tures. tonight and Saturday. 9 - State Theatre Today - “JUNGLE CAPTIVE” Otto Kruger — Vicky Lon« Rondo Hatton VOL XLI11-209 ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWS SHELBY. N C. FRIDAY, AUG. 31, 1945 TELEMAT PICTURES SINGLE COPIES- -6c YANKS REACH EDGE OF TOKYO Kent Tosses One-Hitter As Simmons Kids Beat Oak Park 2-1 SHELBY TEAM * MOVES INTO : SERIESFINALS Trenton, Oak Park Play Elimination Game To night In Charlotte LOCALS OtTsATURDAY By CATHERINE BAILEY Star Sports Editor » Behind the one-hit pitching of Roy (Boots) Kent, Shel by’s American Legion junior baseball team came through in the tenth inning last night to nose out the Oak Park, 111., juniors by a margin of 2 to 1 in their second game of the Little World series in Char-1 lotte, thus gaining a berth in the finals for Saturday night.' The locals get a rest today, plsy- | lng the winner of tonight's affair I between Oak Park and Trenton, N. J., In Griffith stadium tomor row (Saturday) night at 8:15. If the Clevelanders can win tomor- i row’s battle they wUl bring home i the national title. Should they lose, 1 to another game will be played Mon ** day night to determine the win ner. mm tnetr preeens ipw, however, they h»n the edge on their opponents, since eith er teem they plsy must win three In a row to beet them oat. Thus the Shelby lads have been established as fa vorites to win the tonrney and a trip to the world series in late September or early Octo ber. Boots Kent and Don Cheek, first baseman, were stars of last night's thriller, Kent tossing air-tight ball with the exception of the six walks he dished out. and Cheek connect ing for the hit which drove In Harvey Bowen with the winning run In the tenth frame. Cheek also led the hitting for the fray by getting three for four time* up. HIT OFTEN The Clevelanders had a runner on base In every Inning, getting at least one hit In all -but two frames. They bungled several chances to score, however, by play ing wide off the bases and getting tagged by the Illinois fielders. However, they held their opponents in check with quick fielding on their own part and from the fifth through the ninth Innings Kent faced only 1<5 batters, the extra batter going down on a base on balls. Big Gene Hoffman fanned five r Shelby hitters, but Issued a total of ten hits, including two double baggers. With two away, Cheek connected for a single In the first Inning, but was caught off base to end the play. In the second Hut chins led off by taking base on error, advanced on Bridges’hit and went to third on Webber's sacri fice, tagging up on a wild pitch. Bridges, who went on to third, was caught off that base by a throw from the catcher and Paige fanned. In the third with two away, Washburn beat out an infield hit but was caught trying to steal sec ond. In the fourth Hutchins con nected, but died on base and in the fifth after Webber grounded, Paige walked, McKee fanned and Kent got a clean single, but Washburn fanned, leaving two on the sacks. Bowen and Cheek led off the aixth with consecutive hits and went to scoring position on Hut See KENT Page 7 Jaycees Give $200 To Community Center A contribution of $200 from the Shelby Junior Chamber of Com merce to the Shelby and Cleveland County Poundation for the Com munity Center project was announc ed today by Dick LeGrand, Jaycee president. The donation represente proceeds from the recently sponsored "Pep jgp Parade” which was staged under ■ ‘ auspices of the Jaycees ias a bene fit for the Community Center proj ect. New Fiscal Budget Set At $66 Billion WASHINGTON, Aug. 31.— (/P)—Uncle Sam has lopped 19 billion dollars off the money he figured to spend this year. The reason: the sudden end to the war with Japan. Only a month ago the gov ernment figured it would have to spend at least 85 bil lion dollars in the present fiscal year which ends next June 30. So—this 19 billion dollar cut brings the estimate down to 66 billion. This is 34 billion less than the record of 100 billion spent in the fiscal year which ended last June 30. But—even though the war’s over, at least 50 billion dollars of that 66 billion to be spent this year will have to go for war pur poses. For this reason: War contracts, or settling war contracts, paying, feeding, cloth ing, housing, and transporting people in the armed services, food for relief of foreign countries. The other 16 billion of the total 66 billion to be spent is going for things like running the govern ment, payments to or for war vet erans, tax refunds and interest on the public debt. (Of the 50-billion expenditures for war, about 14 billion already has been spent in the two months since the fiscal year started July 1. Of the 16 billion going for non war purposes, about 2 billion al ready has been spent.) FOOTING THE BILL i To meet the estimated 66 billion dollar bill the government will: 1. Get about 36 billion from re ceipts, mostly taxes, unless Con gress cuts taxes. 2. Get about 14 billion through selling bonds, including war Bee NEW Page * Star To Give Game Scores Tonight; Free Broadcast Saturday Arrangements were complet ed this afternoon by The Star to give Shelby fans Inning-by inning scores from tonight’s Trenton, N. J.-Oak Park, 111., Junior Legion game at Char lotte, winner of which will meet Shelby in the finals for the national championship Sat urday night. The scores will be posted on the bulletin board —the loudspeakers will not be used—and will be available by telephone until the office clos es at 10:45 p.m. Saturday night’s play-by-play broadcast by Lee Kirby will be made without asking further contributions, The Star un derwriting whatever additional cost there may be after last night's balance is applied. If a further game is necessary Monday to determine the championship, it, too, will be broadcast from The Star of fice. The largest crowd ever to attend a Star broadcast Jam med East Warren street and the general area Thursday night to hear the play-by-play of Shelby's thrilling victory over Oak Park, while another record-breaking crowd went to Charlotte to witness the game. MERRY-GO-ROUND; Chandler Sees Great Future For Baseball \ Editor’s Note: Senator A. B. “Happy” Chandler, new czar of American baseball who ar rived today to attend the Lit tle World Series in Charlotte while a guest in Shelby of Governor and Mrs. O. Max Gardner, contributes Drew Pearson’s column today). WASHINGTON — Drew Pear son has taken me for quite a few rides on his Merry-Go-Round. Right now, it’s my turn to take him for a ride. However, the spirit of victory and the warm summer sunshine has warmed the acid In my heart. The spirit of charity Is in me and so I will de vote this guest column, not doing a Job on Drew Pearson, but in stead to telling his Teaders some thing about Washington and I baseball. However, before I leave the sub ject of Drew Pearson, let me tell this to his readers. To know him casually is not to suspect him, , but to know him well is to under stand that he is one fellow whose bite is a lot wcrse than his bark. I have seen senators react more See CHANDLER Page 4 WAR PRISONERS CHEER LIBERATION IN JAPAN—.tilled prisoners of war wave flags of the United States, Great Britain and the Netherlands, and cheer wildly after their liberation by U. S. Naval forces from deten tion camps at Omori, Japan. The Navy caption with this picture said the men are the first war prisoners on Japanese soil to be freed.—(AP Wirephoto from U. S. Navy via Naval radio from U. S. S. Iowa in Tokyo Bay). RECONVERSION FRONT: Outlook Dark For Sugar And Coal Housewives Will Be Issued Anti-Inflation Shopping Lids To Help Fight High Prices By Max Hall WASHINGTON, Aug. 31.—(JF)—A nation plunging into its peacetime future passed these signposts today: The coal and sugar outlook was dark. There was brighter news on meat and gasoline. Housewives will help the OPA fight high prices. The WPB issued a cheerful report on reconversion of industry, It looked bad for the unemploy ment compensation bill—a proposal to hand out more money to Jobless people. The federal budget was slashed by 19 billion dollars. To be specific: Coal—Secretary of the Interior Ickes said Japan’s surrender has cut industry’s needs very little. He said it will be hard, "if not impos sible,” for the mines to produce en ough soft coal to satisfy the coun try’s requirements this winter. He added that he wants to free con sumers of "false optimism” caused by Army statements about coal. Sugar—Agriculture Secretary Anderson, vacationing in New Mexico, predicted sugar will be rationed throughout 1946. Meat—The Labor Department said meat counters in 56 big cities are better stocked than at any time since March. Also, the pork sltua See OUTLOOK Page 2 HUDSON MILLS LEASESSPACE Hudson Hosiery company, which operates two large hosiery manu facturing plants in Charlotte, has leased 10,000 square feet of space in Shelby for the early launching of additional manufacturing op erations here, it was learned this morning from M. E. Pierson, vice president. Yesterday Mr. Pierson was here completing the lease arrange ments, which were handled through Charles A. Hoey, with C. S. Thompson, owner of the West Warren street property to be u tillzed and getting necessary ren ovations underway so that ma chinery may be installed as soon as available. The plant will oc cupy the second floor of the Thompson property, just west of the Southern railway. ISO DATE SET No date for launching of opera tions was given by Mr. Pierson in a long distance telephone conver sation with The Star\ this after noon. He said It depends upon several factors, but he indicated a purpose to get production on a sizeable basis underway in the | very near future. No indication I of the nature of hose to be made ' here was given but the release of ! nylon recently has spurred the hosiery industry for the big mar ket for women’s hose soon thus to be opened. Mr. Pierson indicated that the operations here will be on a con tinuing basis and that the firm expects to continue its Shelby unit once started. OWI COMES TO END SEPT. 15 Interim International In formation Service Is Created WASHINGTON, Aufg. 31 —UP— President Truman today ' ordered the Office of War Information to go out of business by September 15 and transferred the foreign information functions of OWI and the Office of Inter-American Af fairs to the State department. By executive order, Mr. Tru man: 1. Created an interim inter national information service in the State department to take over foreign activities of OWI and the Inter-American office between now and the - end of the year. 2. Gave OWI’s duties of re view of federal publications to the bureau of the budget, as of today. 3. Directed abolition of OWI’s remaining functions on September 15, when Director Elmer Davis will start liquidat ing the agency. This must be' completed by Dec. 31, 1945. i With the end of the war in the Pacific, OWI Director Davis rec I ommended liquidation of his a I gency. Some of its 15,000 employe es likely will be absorbed by the State department, i In a statement accompanying an executive order, the President said he had asked the State depart ment to study foreign informatior needs and to formulate during See OWI Page 2 First Bale 1945 Cotton Is Ginned First bale of Clevelands 1945 cotton crop was brought to The Star office Thursday afternoon and was purchased by Harry Cohen, who makes It his annual practice to buy the first bale at premium price, for 35 cents a pound, or a total of $136.50 for the 390 lbs. Dave Williams, colored, raised the cotton on Ralph Spangler’s Mauney Mill place. Wilson and Cornwell ginned I the cotton, furnishing ‘Num ber One ginning receipt. Williams said that he has 50 acres of cotton under cul tivation and he’s hopeful of 1 making "close to 75 bales.” INVESTIGATION PEARL HARBOR IS DEMANDED Congressional Leaders To Hold Hearings If Necessary HULL MAKES DENIAL WASHINGTON, Aug. 31.— (/P)—Capitol Hill resounded today with clamor for further ! official investigation of Pearl Harbor. Legislative leaders of both party faiths declared flatly that if courts martial are not ordered for those censured in army-navy findings congress will conduct its own hearings. Those leaders, speaking privately for the most part, said the people want and should be given more facts than were made public in docu ments released by President Tru man Wednesday. No committee chairman - would promise any inquiry initiated by his own group, but several told a re porter there was no doubt congress would insist on the full story. Meanwhile, the State Department released a letter written by former Secretary of State Hull Sept. 28,1944, in which Hull staunchly denied that, his_prtrwar counter proposals to Japan constituted an ultimatum that provoked the Japanese sneak attack on Pearl Harbor. The Army board’s report on the disaster had said “Hull touched the button” that start ed the war. Typical of today’s congressional assertions was this comment to a reporter by house Republican Whip Arends (111.): “The people are entitled to the full story. If they don’t get it from the armed forces they’ll ask us to dig it out. Naturally, we do what the public wants.” FULL INVESTIGATION At Detroit Senator Ferguson (R Mich) said a resolution calling for a full senate investigate of the at tack is on his desk in Washington and will be presented to the cham See INVESTIGATION Page 2 Countess Ciano Turned Over To Italian Authorities ROME, Aug. 31 —UP)— Countess Edda Ciano, daughter of the late Benito Mussolini and widow of Count Galeazzo Ciano, was nand ed over to the Italian ministry of the interior today by Allied au i thorities She had been turned over to Allied authorities at Chi asso by the Swiss government yes terday. WHAT'S DOING TODAY 8:15 p.m.—Meeting of horse show enthusiasts at city hall. 8:15 p.m.—Inning-by-inning re port of Trenton-Oak Park base ball game to be given in front of Star office. SATURDAY 10:00 a.m.—General teachers meetings at senior high school. 2:00 p.m.—Teachers will meet with principals in auditoriums of their respective schools. 8:15 pm. — Play-by-play broadcast of Little World Series baseball game in which Shel by will be a participant. Trunan’fc Unemployment Bill Appear/Doomed To Defeat WASHINGTON, Aug. 31 —UP)— Termed by critics “a premium on loafing,” President Truman’s pro posal for greater unemployment benefits appeared today to have died aborning m the house ways and means committee. , One of the bill’s staunchest committee supporters conceded privately that probably no more than six of the 24 members would vote for it. The storm of opposition broke over the legislation as ways and means Chairman Doughton (D-N C) told Arthur J. Altmeyer, social security board chairman, ‘‘it puts a premium on loafing," and Rep. Knutson (R-Minn), senior com mittee Republican, added: “You are proposing to raise the bounty on idleness. Can’t you see you are encouraging unem ployment. Haven’t you any mercy for the American taxpayer?” UNEMPLOYMENT PAY The measure seeks, among other things, to establish a national standard, of $25 a week for 26 weeks for unemployment compen sation. The federal government would pay the difference between See TRUMAN’S Page 2 Yokohama Occupation Completed; More Troops Pon In Hourly By Air By Spencer Davis YOKOHAMA, Aug. 31.—(/P)—American troops moved up to the southern edge of Tokyo today in their second day of a bloodless occupation in which they were extending their control swiftly across the bay area. Parachute troopers, shooting a Japanese in the arm when he failed to halt in a restricted area, completed the oc cupation of this sixth greatest city of Japan, where General MacArthur has set up headquarters. They then sifted on north through the Kawasaki area looking for more prisoner of war camps and moved up to positions on the south bank of the Tama river, which winds along Tokyo’s southern outskirts. ' The Japanese government asked Lt. Gen. Robert L. Eichelberger to make Tokyo out of bounds for his U. S. Eighth Army troops pending demobilization to avoid pos sible friction. More troops were pouring in hourly by air to swell the initial landings of more than 6,000 men and officers. Marines took over the Tateyama hojo naval base and air station guarding the approaches to Tokyo Bay. Eiqjielberger’s veterans of the Philippines campaign will occupy this point and the Tokyo plain aft er the historic signing of the sur render Sunday aboard the Battle ship Missouri in the bay. Airborne troops were due today to move across to the east shore of Tokyo Bay for the first time and occupy the naval anchorage of Ki sarazu, north of where the Marines now are operating. “I haven’t seen so many peace ful Japs in a long time,” Eichel berger declared in compliment ing his long-time enemies for living up to the letter of the occupation agreement. “If the Japanese continue their present attitude, there will be no trouble for them nor for us.” In contrast to the clear beautiful weather which marked yesterday’s airborne landing at Atsugl and the occupation of Yokosuka naval base, up and across the bay from Tate yama, the leathernecks took pos session of the vital naval Installa tion in a driving rain storm. TO RECONNOITER The Marines, under the command of Maj. Wallace Crawford of Wil mette, 111., will reconnoiter the beaches and defenses and in gener al prepare for the army occupation to follow. Already, while plans-for the final surrender ceremonies still were un derway, naval occupation forces at Kokosuka had started development of the great base for the use of Al lied shipping. The me for the Sunday cere monies ill was not announced and See OCCUPATION Page * Hoey Stands For Reduction In Army Senator Speaks At Intercity Meeting Of Wesetrn District Kiwanis Clubs On the eve of his return to Washington, Senator Clyde R. Hoey was emphatic last night in announcing that he stands for immediate reduction of our military strength to a peace-time basis and that he is strongly opposed to further drafting of men for military service. Senator Hoey was speaking be fore an Inter-city meeting of Ki wants clubs with representatives here form Mo<?anton, Marion, Forest City, Rutherfordton, and Tryon. The number of visitors, together with the Shelby Kiwan ians, numbered nearly 200 to hear Senator Hoey in the first inter club meeting since travel restric tions were imposed. “The two great problems facing our country now are to prevent inflation and prevent a depres sion,” said Senator Hoey. He feels no alarm over the problem of un employment because industries will soon be converted to the making of peace-time goods and these in dustries, together with agriculture and construction will absorb those See HOEY Page 2 MacArthur, Wainwright Meet In Tokyo NEW YORK, Aug. 81. —(/Ph CBS distributed the following from Correspondent William J. Dunn under a Tokyo dateline: One of the most impressive meet ings of the Pacific war took place here just a few moments ago when Lt. Gen. Jonathan M. Wainwright, for three and a half years a prisoner of the Japanese, sat down with f.-en eral of the army Douglas Mac Arthur, whom he succeeded in the command of American forces at Corregidor. The meeting took place in a pri vate dining room of the new Grand hotel where General MacArthur and members of his staff awaited Gen eral Wainwright’s arrival. There was no ovation. MacArthur just wrung Wainwright’s hand and said simply: “Well, I’m glad to see you!” Wainwright, obviously in fine spirits, appeared to swallow mo mentarily before he answered: “I’m glad to see you, too!” That was all. Handshakes and in troductions followed and then Gen eral Sir Archibald Percival, former commander at Singapore and a Jap prisoner even longer than Wain wright, entered the party. He, too, had been hurried here by air at General MacArthur’s invitation to be present at the party and to sign the peace terms.
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