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WEATHER Clear tc partly cloudy and con tinued rather warm today, tonight and Sunday. Tshe Zweibe Baily Hjnr - State Theatre Today - “JUNGLE CAPTIVE” Otto Kruger Vicky Lane Rondo Hatton CLEVELAND COUNTY'S NEWSPAPER SINCE 1894 TELEPHONES 1100 VOL XLIH-210 ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWS SHELBY, N. C. SATURDAY, SEPT. 1, 1945 TELEMAT PICTURES SINGLE COPIES—6c SURRENDER CEREMONIES ID GO ON AIR Truman Will Broadcast Short Speech During Ceremony AT 9:30 P. M. EWT WASHINGTON, Sept. 1.— (-T*)—The White House an nounced today that the Japa nese surrender ceremonies on the battleship Missouri in Tokyo Bay will go on the air at 9:30 P M., Eastern War Time tonight. Gen. Douglas MacArthur, sup reme Allied commander in Japan, notified the White House to this effect. From Washington, President Tru man will broadcast a speech of about eight or nine minutes dur ing the ceremony, after which the broadcast will be switched back to the Missouri for brief addresses oy General MacArthur and Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, Pacific fleet commander. The White House alse an nounced that the President will take part in a two-hour radio program beginning at 9 p.m. eastern war time tomorrow night to be conducted by the armed forces radio service. The President’s brief address on the Sunday program will begin at 8:19 pun. and all networks are ex pected to carry'at least part of the program. NOT CLEAR Presidential Secretary Charles G.! Ross said he did not know whether the broadcast of the surrender ceremony aboard the Missouri will be a delayed and recorded affair or | whether it will be simultaneous with the actual signing. TTre MacArthur message did not make his clear. All It said was1 that the ceremony would go on the1 air at 10:30 a.m. “On the second'': September 2 (Tokyo time) in Tok yo Bay (9:30 p.m. tonight Septem ber 1 in Washington.) It was not known this morning how long the ceremony will last. DEATH CLAIMS MRS. M.J. DOVER # » Mrs. M. J. Dover. 44, of Ross j Grove community, was found dead! In bed early this morning, having j apparently slipped away from a! heart attack during the night. She was the former Miss Minerva Hord of Waco. Mrs. Dover was found dead by her husband about four o’clock this morning. Although she suffered from asthma from time to time, she did not appear ill yesterday as she went to her work with the J. C. Penney Co., with whom she has been associated for about 15 years. Funeral arrangements had not been completed this morning pend ing word from a son in the Navy. Services will be held from the First Baptist church, of which she was a member with Dr. Zeno Wall offi cating, and interment will be in Sunset cemetery. Surviving are her husband, M. J. Dover of Ross Grove; her mother, Mrs. J. L. Hord, of Waco; two sons, Bruce, with the navy somewhere at sea; Lamar, with the army in England;- six sisters, Mrs. Carl Put nam, Kings Mountain; Mrs. W. N. Williams, Gastonia; Mrs. Ruth Hord McGregor, Detroit, Mich., Mrs. U. A. Black, Waco; Mrs. J. O. Long Abbeville, S. C„ and Mrs. Lewis Black, Statesville; and two broth* ers, Victor Hord, Charlotte, and J. L. Hord, Jr., who is in service some where in the Pacific. Advanced Status Of Post Office Lifts Box Rates P i Box rates at Shelby office will be advanced with the December quarter beginning October 1 it was announced today by postal officials following receipt of a directive bas ed upon the local office’s advance into the $100,000 receipts class. The 1944 receipts figure was $126,573, a new high mark, and as a result the box rentals will go to the next scale which is: Num ber one boxes from 75c to $1.00 per quarter; number two boxes from $1.00 to $1.50; number three from $1.50 to $2.00; number four from $2.00 to $3.00. I'. S. THIKI) FLEET PLANES FILL SKY OFF TOKYO—More than 1,000 carrier-based plar.es of Admiral Halsey’s Third Fleet stage an aerial show as the mighty force steams off the shores of Japan, awaiting orders to move into Tokyo and other Jap ports. In “V” formation, some of the planes are seen roaring over ships of the fleet.—(AP Photo from U. S. Navy) HOME-BUILDING IS INCREASING More Sheets, Work Cloth es On Way But They Will Be Higher WASHINGTON. Sept, 1. —TTPV— Here are home-front highlights as the nation ends another week of peace <it's wonderful): Private home-building is already ] Increasing. The Federal housing ad ministration said so. Big spurt com ing soon. You may have to pay more for work clothes, sheets, pillow cases. The OPA said the law compels it to | let mills charge more—and that this may raise retail prices. The heat's on congress to decide who gets fired when a veteran gets ills old job back. The proposal to pay more to un employed people has hit a brick wall in congress. Senator Vandenberg (R-Michi is suggesting a compro mise. UNEMPLOYMENT And here are the cities hit hardest by unemployment, together with the number of people who applied for unemployment payments in the week ending last Saturday: Detroit 87,557; Chicago 59,401; Los Angeles 50. 578; New York 48, 229; Newark 37,983; Buffalo 25,117; Paterson, N. J., 22,870. The figures were announced by' the Social Security board. The board also reported nearly 600,000 claims for unemployment compensation were filed in the week ended Aug. 26, bringing the total of claims then on file to 960,913. Yanks Impressed By Tokyo Defenses SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 1—(TP)— Both American army and navy men are "impressed” by the extent of Japanese naval installations in j the Tokyo Bay area, Lt. Gen. Rob-' ert L. Eichelberger, commander of j the Eighth army said today in a broadcast from Tokyo heard by the American Broadcasting company. Eichelberger said he had estab lished headquarters in the Yoko-1 hama aera but porbably would move to Tokyo with General MacArthur in the near future. Prisoners Tell Of Japanese Bestiality Men Beoten To Death, Spat Upon, Starred, And Otherwise Subjected To Torture i ___________ By Vem Haugland OFUNA PRISON CAMP, NEAR YOKOHAMA, Sept. 1. —(/P)—Ninety-five Americans and eight English prisoners, liberated from the filth of a hidden concentration camp to day related the war’s most gruesome tales of Japanese bestiality. They saw one man beaten to death and seven die of malnutri tion. Some were spat on in the streets on forced marches through irate crowds. Many were compelled to wear metal bits in their mouths for 14 hours at a time. Others were left with their hands tied behind them,for 24 hours. A 21-year-old pilot, Ens. Fred Turnbull, of Highland Park, Mich., tortured after his carrier plane was shot down over Formosa, said: “I tried to die and made peace with my God." "My captors tied my hands be hind me, made me lie down and covered me with my parachute,” the youthful Michigan pilot said. "I heard two shots." Already wounded when shot down, he was too numb to feel a bullet that entered his arm but felt one that pierced his chest. A Japanese made a practice swing at Turnbull’s neck with a sword after he had pulled the prisoner’s collar down and an angered Formosan, giving him first aid, hit him in the back with a bayonet for not moving fast enough. "At a hospital close to an air field, shrapnel and bullets were re moved without an anesthetic,” Turnbull said. "BIT TREATMENT” Eight survivors of a 12-man crew on a privateer plane were given the “bit treatment” after their ship had been shot down south of Tok yo Aug. 11. "The bits were used to keep us form talking,” said Naval Lt. John B. Rainey, of Houston, Tex. "Every half-hour, they came in to See PRISONERS Page 2 BROADCAST AT STAR OFFICE: Shelby Fans Flock To Game In Charlotte To Back Team Happy, cheering fans by the, thousands, devoted followers of Shelby’s great Junior Legion base ball team, poured toward Charlotte this afternoon to cheer their favor Additlonal temporary bleach ers erected in centerfield of Charlotte’s Griffith park to day lifted to 15,000 seating ca pacity for tonight’s game, offi cials announced today. ite club on to the national cham pionship they’re expecting them to bring home tonight if they defeat the Trenton, N. J., finalists. Additional thousands planned to come to The Star office where Lee Kirby will furnish a play-by-play report of the game from the playing field over long distance telephone through facilities of Charlotte’s radio station WAYS. Tonight’s broadcast is sponsored by The Star which will make up any deficiency in the fund already given for support of the broad casts brought from all the out of-town tournament games played by the Shelby club. Good wishes poured in as native See SHELBY Fage 2 CHANDLER HERE As Commissioner Of Baseball He Must Be Neutral "This business of being ‘bishop of baseball’ (a name given him by Senator Joe Blythe at his Char lotte clambake last night) is un comfortable in that I have to be neutral,” declared Senator A. B. “Happy” Chandler, high commis sioner of baseball, here this morn ing as he showed unmistakable en thusiasm for Shelby’s Junior Legion baseballers playing for the national championship tonight at Char lotte. “I can’t take sides myself, but I brought Bill Hutchinson with me to root for Shelby,” Chandler giin ned. Hutchinson, who as head of International News Service’s Wash ington staff scooped the world on the end of the Japanese war and the surrender terms, said he’d risk his reputation at prognostication that Shelby will sweep to the championship by taking Trenton tonight. Senator Chandler and Mr. Hut chinson came to Shelby after last night’s game to be overnight guests of Governor and Mrs. 0„ Max Gardner. They went today to Lake Lure to be luncheon guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Gardner at their Lake Lure cottage and leave late this afternoon from Gastonia for Was'.ington. Both were keenly re gretful that previous engagements made it impossible for them to see tonight’s game, Senator Chand ler having to meet Mrs. Chandler in Washington at 8 a.m. tomorrow to proceed to Boston where she is to christen the new aircraft car rier “Philippine Sea” at the Quin cy yards. Senator Clyde R. Hoey and other Shelby friends called on Senator Chandler during his visit here. Ezra Pound May Be Released ROME, Sept. 1. —<fP}~ An in formed source said today that Ezra Pound, American writer held by the U. S. Army in northern Italy, may be released because of lack of evi dence to suppprt treason charges brought against him in the United States. The final decision is up to the Justice Department in Washing ton. Pound was accused of partici pating in propaganda activities of [the Mussolini government. LEND-LEASE TOBE REPAID Byrnes Puts Quietus On Idea Debt Has Been Written Off WASHINGTON, Sept. 1. —UP)— Nations which received lend-lease aid had it straight from Secretary of State Byrnes today that the Unit ed States has by no means torn up their I. O. U.’s. They will not be asked to pay in dollars because they do not have the dollar credits. But they are on notice that they will be expected to make some kind of settlement. It seemed probable they would be requested to pay off in the form of lowered trade restrictions—parti cularly the British whose economic officials will arrive next week to discuss possible substitutes for lend lease. Byrnes made it clear in a formal statement issued yesterday that President Truman’s report to con gress saying the $42,000,000,000 of lend-lease might as well be written off did not mean there would be no settlements. ALREADY REPAID Victory, reverse lend-lease and the prospect of free postwar trade because of lend-lease operations al ready has repaid this country, Mr. Truman said. The State Department issued a press release using as a peg for Byrnes’ remarks this question: “In light of the recent lend-lease reports, are we to assume that all lend-lease debts are to be cancelled and the only lend-lease settlements rquired are settlements for ship ments unused or undelivered at the close of the war?” To this Byrnes replied “there is no justification for that assumption. Congress Reconvenes Next Wednesday WASHINGTON, Sept. 1. —(A1)— Congressional leaders officially no tified members of the senate and house by telegram today to be* back on the job next Wednesday. At one time Oct. 8 had been set for the reassembly date, but Pres ident Truman asked the leaders to meet sooner to speed reconversion legislation. WHAT’S DOING TODAY 8:15 p.m.—Broadcast in front of Star office of Shelby-Tren ton game to be played in Char lotte. SUNDAY 10:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.—USO center open to service men vis iting in the city. MONDAY 10:00 a.m.—Kings Mountain Baptist association pastors and workers conference at First Baptist church. 7:30 p.m.—First Baptist board 1 of deacons meets at church, i 8:00 p.m.—Boy Scout court of j honor meets at court house. WORKERSFROM GERMANY MAY BE REPARATION May Be Used To Repay Nazi Slave Labor From Allies COMPUTE MAN-HOURS LONDON, Sept. 1.—(^P)— A possibility that German workers will be used as repay-1 ment for nazi slave labor to western European countries entitled to reparations from Germany was seen today in a questionnaire sent out by the British foreign office. Among the war costs and dam ages, the countries are asked to list for prospective reparations the man-hours lost by forced labor of their nationals taken to Germany and man-hours lost in work com pelled by Nazi occupation troops. It was considered significant that this computation of labor losses was requested rather than the dol lar cost. The questionnaire asked that de tailed answers be filed with United States, British and French govern ments by Oct. 1 and it went to all European United Nations except Poland, which will present claims to Russia for payment from the Soviet zone of occupation in ac cordance with the Potsdam agree ment. In evaluating damages, the coun tries are asked to figure them out in United States dollars, accord ing to the rate of exchange in 1935. The prices are to be specie fied according to the values in 1938. CONFERENCE The questionnaire makes clear that the countries will have a chance to discuss their views on reparations at a general conference. Associated Press Corerspondent See WORKERS Page 2 ! GIRL ARRESTED IN HUSSC.4SE NEWTON, Sept. 1—(A5)—Sheriff Ray Pitts announced today that he had arrested a 19-year-old Valdese woman, listed as Mrs. Phoebe Hil i debrand, on an adultery warrant , naming her jointly with Revis Nuss, i now in jail here on a charge of murdernig his wife. Pitts said Huss, 27-year-old far ' mer and sawyer, would be given a preliminary hearing on the murder charge Tuesday, and that Mrs. Hildebrand, wife of an overseas sol dier, would be given a hearing on the morals charge on the same day. COUPLE QUARRELED The body of Mrs. Huss was found In a lake on the Catawba river near Hickory yesterday a week ago. She ■ remained unidentified for 24 hours until her husband viewed the body. ; He was taken into custody for questioning and later, Sheriff Pitts said he signed a confession that he choked his wife and threw her body into the water. Pitts quoted Huss as saying he and his wife quarreled after she j accused him of running around with another woman. They slap ped each other and then he seized | her by the throat and choked her, the officer said Huss told him. Mrs. Hildebrand was arrested at Valdese late yesterday. She is the mother of a five-year-old child, whose father she divorced before ; marrying Hildebrand, Pitts said. Stage Is Set For Final Signing Of Surrender Aboard Missouri Tonight By The Associated Press YOKOHAMA, Sept. 1.—American troops extended their steel grip today along both sides of Tokyo Bay, on the stage of which will be played out tomorrow the greatest military ! pageant of the century—the final and formal surrender of the Japanese empire. Last of the actors to take their places were the Eighth Army men of Lt. Gen. Robert L. Eichelberger, scheduled to begin their mass landings in the bay section by nightfall tonight. (A radio report said the landings already had begun.) As a backdrop there was the black horror endured by prisoners of war, who poured from their stockades of death and degradation with blood-freezing accounts of the wanton cruelties inflicted upon them i.n the years when Japan was riding the crest of conquest. Now, as the gaunt Lt. Gen—Jonathan Wainwright re marked, “the shoe was on the other foot.” He and his staff who survived the forced surrender of the Philippines and the evil years behind enemy wire arrived to witness the Japa nese surrender signatures tomorrow (Saturday night, U. S. time) aboard the battleship Missouri. Exact time of the ceremony was not disclosed. (But President Truman expected to address the United States be tween 10 and 11 p. m., Eastern War Time Saturday, which would be 11 a. m. to noon Sunday, Japan time.) General MacArthur, supreme allied commander over the conquered and obsequious Japanese, laid his plans at a private conference Friday night with Admirals Nimitz and Halsey and Generals Spaatz and Kenney in Yokohama’s new Kamikaze Pilots Urged Japs To Continue War TOKYO, Sept. 1. —(JP)— The Jap anese said today that for two days after Emperor Hirohito told his peo ple the war was over, several planes —evidently flown by fanatical sui cide pilots—dropped pamphlets on major Japanese cities asking the people to disregard the emperor’s word and fight on. A Tokyo resident, describing their action, said that the great majority of the people were shocked by the mere thought of disobeying the em peror. The move died quickly, he said, for lack of popular support. He quoted the kamikaze planes’ pamphlets as saying: “Don’t listen ; to the emporor—he has been ill ad vised. The emperor doesn’t know the real conditions. “We have enough food and planes ; left to continue this war. 23 shot I down an American Gruman and the pilot told us food conditions in the United States were very bad. “When the Americans land in , Tokyo we are going to give them a real surprise.” The informant said Japanese nor mally follow the emperor’s word j like sheep, and the kamikaze fliers 1 responsible for the pamphlets un doubtedly would be put to death if caught. I EDDA CIANO INTERNED I ROME, Sept. 1—(iT>)—The minis try of the interior said today Edda Ciano, daughter of the late Benito Mussolini, had been interned on Lipari, a grim island off Sicily where her father once imprisoned scores of anti-fascists. TWO FACTIONS MEET: Madame Chiang Called Back To China To Aid In Conference By DeWIlT MacKENZIE, AP News Analyst ! Over In Tokyo Bay the great man-of-war Missouri swings at an chor amidst the armada of fight ing ships, complacent in its mas sive strength, its decks spotless and its brass gleaming, waiting for the ceremony which will mark the of ficial capitulation of Japan to Al lied might. | The Missouri symbolizes the end of the barbaric attempt of the Axis powers to enslave their fel lows. It marks a moment of high drama from which it is difficult to turn aside. Still, while we wait for the Japs to sign, we shouldn't overlook that other drama which is being enacted Just ■across from Japan—the Chungking conference upon which may depend whether tills vast country will be plunged into that most terrible of all con flicts, civil war. This Chinese development in a way is as important as the official surrender aboard the Missouri. For Japan already is beaten and has lowered her flag, while the fierce quarrel between the Chinese Com munists and Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek’s government is an actiwe threat to peace in Osia. Fratriclj j See MADAME CHIANG Page 2 Grand Hotel. Japanese imperial headquarters made one half-hearted attempt to postpone the national ignominy a little longer by asking MacArthur today for further conferences on surrender terms, but it was declar ed at this headquarters that the Missouri ceremony would proceed as scheduled. Already on hand were the rep resentatives of Britain, Australia, New Zealand, Prance, the Nether lands and Russia. General Eichelberger, who came in advance of his army, declared, "if the Japanese continue their present attitude, there will be no trouble for them or for us.” If there should be, however, • General Spaatz, commander of U. S. strategic air forces in the Pacific, said that American planes were in position to drop at least 8,000 tons of bombs on Japan if necessary. Throughout the Pacific, the Jap anese were surrendering or ar ianglng to surrender vast forces peacefully. The only untoward In cident reported was the reported escape of there Japanese suicide boats from Hong Kong, where Brit ish aircraft promptly sank one, beached another and forced the third back to port. HONG KONG SURRENDER Surrender of Hong Kong was to be organized today at conferences between British Rear Adm. O. H. J Harcourt and the Japanese com mander. In the Philippines, the one time “Tiger of Malaya,” LI. Gen. To moyuki Yamashita agreed to go to Baguio tomorrow and sign surren der articles Monday for the re mains of his Philippines army. At Singapore, which Yamashita See STAGE Page 2 5,000 ENEMY TROOPS ON NEW GUINEA ARE ILL SYDNEY. Sept. 1. —<£>)— Gen eral Adachl, Japanese commander of the 18th imperial army, messag ed the general officer commanding the Australian sixth division today that 5,000 of his 14,000 troops in New Guinea have malaria or beri beri and 1,000 are litter cases. Adachl, who is making arrange ments for surrender, was quoted by the New Guinea correspondent of the Sydney Sun as saying it would i require two to three months to get I his forces to the coast from back jungle country. They are scattered over 500 miles between Ramu and Hollandia. He said Japan has sent no sup plies since April, 1944. For the past year, the troops have been subsist ing largely on native sago potatoes. .■\aacm is expected to arrive next week at the command post of an j Australian unit to be flown to sixth I division headquarters.
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