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» WEATHER Partly cloudy and mild today, to night and Wednesday except for scattered showers over the coastal area today. Tshk Scheu-g Bang Hm CLEVELAND COUNTY’S NEWSPAPER SINCE 1894 TELEPHONES 1100 - State Theatre Today - “BACK TO BATAAN” Starring JOHN WAYNE VOL. XLill— 212 ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWS SHELBY, N C TUESDAY, SEPT. 4, 1945 TELEMAT PICTURES SINGLE COPIES-*; FIRST OCCUPATION OF TOKYO SCHEDULED FRIDAY SEVENTH FLEET FORCES ENTER PORT OFDAIREN Search For 123 American War Prisoners So Far Unsuccessful 0 MET ByTiUSSIANS By John Grover 0s DAIREN, MANCHURIA, Sept. 3.— (Delayed)—(/P)—U. E. Seventh fleet forces enter ed this modern port city today and found it completely under Russian control and virtually undamaged. In their thus-far unsuccessful search for a party of 123 Ameri can navy prisoners of war from Guam, Wake and Corregidor, some of whom are high-ranking offi cers, the destroyers Evans and Hubbard made a high-speed run across the Yellow sea to this port. The prisoners now are believed to be In the vicinity of Mukden. The Russian commandant at Dairen and Capt. Chester C. Wood, Seventh fleet task unit command er, are cooperating in the con tinuing search. Dairen is filled with blond, stalwart Russians. Puked at strategic points are MW, heavy Soviet tanks. Russian officers rode In Amer ican staff cars and numerous lend-lease Jeeps were evident. The American landing party. In two whaleboats, was photographed by friendly Russians at the dock. Almost every building files a Red flag. ClvlPans, includirg an esti mated 60.000 Japanese, produced bolts of red silk which they con verted into Russian flags. Both Russian and Chinese government ^ flags Hew train Chinese establlsh -mants. ) NO OPPOSITION The Russians exhibited virtually no interest in the civilian popu lation, and the Japanese garrison offered no opposition when the Soviet forces came in through Dairen with machlnegun like ef ficiency. The Tokyo radio already had broadcast accounts of the surren- ■ der when the Americans reached Dairen. Many Russians had been , celebrating. They waved their bot-! ties, grinned and asked the Amer- ! leans to Join them. The offer was j declined, however, because (ft the Americans’ desire to locate their! prisoner comrades without 'delay. Commercially, Dairen has been a dead city for two years, except for black market activities. It boasts large dock installa tions, however, which Russians and Chinese—under their new 30-year friendship treaty, will share. The population is restless and Its most evident attitude Is one of •'what's going to become of us?” It results from Manchuria's un certain post-war status. DISCHARGE OF FATHERS ASKED f Sabath Urges Return To Civilian Ranks Of Five Categories WASHINGTON. Sept. 4— (/P) — Immediate discharge from the armed forces of almost all married men with families was urged today by Chairman Sabath (D-Ill) of the house rules committee. In letters to Secretary of War Stimson and Secretary of the Navy Forrestal, Sabath said these five categories should be returned to civilian life at once: 1. Men who have families and have been In service abroad. 2. Men with families and who have been in uniform at least two years, regardless of place of serv ice. 3. Students under 20 who were attending school at the time of their induction and who will re sume their schooling if discharg ed. NEEDED EXECUTIVES 4. Owners, part owners, execu tives and supervisors whose serv ices “are vitally needed in their businesses and their plants in re conversion to civilian production.” (included would be men in profes sions In which manpower is short.) 5. All limited service men ex cept those serving In administra tive Jobs in separation centers. To provide sufficient personnel and at the same time permit the discharge of those he listed, Sa bath urged an intensive recruit ment program with the difference * in required numbers to be made i, up by continuing inductions of * men between 20 and 26, family men excepted. RUSSIAN SAILORS TAKE OVER PORT ARTHUR—Russian sailors raise their naval flag over Port Arthur after the Soviet forces had occupied the Far Eastern port south of Manchuria. Russia lost Port Arthur to the Japs in the war of 1904.—(AP Wirephoto via radio from Moscow). Peacetime Congress Convenes Tomorrow Body Will Wrestle With Full-Employment Bill, Termi nation Of Draft Law, Etc. By William F. Arbogast. WASHINGTON, Sept 4.—(/P)—Congress starts its first peacetime session in almost four years tomorrow. It will be the “reconversion congress” as distinguished ; from the war congresses that have been in almost continuous session since late in 1941. Facing the lawmakers returning from vacations cut short by war's end will be five administration tagged "must” proposals dealing with: 1. Jobs for everyone willing and able to work. Congressional com mittees have been grappling with this one—the so-called "full em ployment bill”—for some time. They hope to work out a plan of cooperation between government, labor, industry and agriculture to create work for the millions idle or facing idleness because of the shutdown of war industries. 2. Unemployment compensation. Senate and house committees are Working on proposals to pay as much as $25 weekly for 26 weeks to workers unable to find Jobs. The administration is behind the plan, but Congress is cooling off on it. The issue may touch off President Truman's first big bat tle with Capitol Hill. SURPLUS PROPERTY 3. Surplus property disposal. A bill to substitute a single admin istrator for the three-man board now in charge of getting rid of war-born surpluses will be ready for house action next week. There See PEACETIME Page 2 Women Guards At Ravensbruck Report 200,000 Slain There BAD OBERNHAUSEN, Germany, Sept. 4—</P)—The French war crimes commission arrested two S.S. women guards of the notor ious Ravensbruck concentration camp today and heard from them that 200,000 women and children were slain there during the war. The camp was northeast of Berlin. Officials said the women told calmly of the camp’s meth ods. Feeble inmates were made to stand in water to their necks for 24 hours. The captives were quoted as saying many bodies were taken daily from the “pool of death.” Thousands of French girls were sent to the camp. FIXES MESSAGE FOR CONGRESS |-... - - WASHINGTON, Sept. *— (JP) — President Truman has drafted a comprehensive message for delivery to congress this week, the White House said today, and later will submit his views on disposition of the atomic bomb in a separate communication. Press Secretary Charles G. Ross told reporters he w'ould announce final plans tomorrow after a con ference between the president and congressional leaders. Ross said he would not be able to say until then whether the messages will be sent to Capitol Hill or delivered by the president in person, or what day they will be presented. ATOMIC BOMB Ross recalled that some time ago Mr. Truman said he would re commend to congress the creation of a commission to decide what to do about the atomic bomb. Soon after the first peacetime congress in almost four years meets tomorrow it will receive what Ross described as “quite a comprehen sive message” from Mr. Truman. The president completed it yester day during a holiday cruise on the Potomac river aboard the presi dential yacht Potomac. The reassembling legislators will form the “reconversion congress” as distinguished from the war con gresses that have been in almost continuous session since late in 1941. WHAT'S DOING WEDNESDAY 7:00 pm.—Sportsman’s meet ing at Hotel Charles. 7:45 p.m.—Prayer meeting at Presbyterian church. 8:00 p.m.—Midweek prayer and praise service at First Baptist church. REFORMS PROPOSED: Progress Noted In Talks : Between Chinese Factions By DeWITT MacKENZIE, AP News Analyst There are some signs—which one notes with extreme caution — of progress in the Chungking peace parley between the Chinese com munists and the nationalist gov ernment of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek. A communist spokesman In Chungking said yesterday that the talks were still in a ‘preliminary stage” and that no agreement had yet been reached. However, any progress—no matter how small— Is encouraging when we are deal ing with the bloody quarrel which i long has threatened to plunge China’s millions into civil war. The generalissimo, yielding some what to his opponents, has issued a striking V-J day message to the nation, declaring that now the Japanese war is over "we shall permit no further delay in the in auguration of constitutional demo cracy." He therefore proposes to summon the national assembly to get the reforms under way. EQUAL STATUS Chiang promises equal legal sta tus to all political parties and says the government is prepared to consider an increase in the See PROGRESS Page 3 BRITISH SHIPS AT SINGAPORE Occupation Forces Ex pected To Land Mo mentarily KANDY, Ceylon, Sept. 4. —UP) —British warships rode at anchor in the harbor of Singapore today for the first time in more than 3% years, and word was expected here momentarily that occupation forces had landed to take over the once mighty naval base from the sur rendering Japanese. Triumphant entry of the British vessels was announced last night by the southeast Asia command, which said that landing forces would go ashore as soon as preli minary arrangements had been completed. Leading the squadron into the bay was the cruiser Cleopatra, fly ing the flag of Admiral Sir Arthur Power, commander of the East i Indies station. MORE ARRIVALS Additional naval vessels, includ-, ing the cruiser Sussex, are expect ed to arrive in Singapore today uh der Rear Adm. C. S. Holland, who has been named commander of the naval occupying force. The com mander of the army occupying force also is aboard the Sussex. Singapore, one of the great out lying bastions of the British em pire, has been in Japanese hands since Feb. 15, 1942, when Gen. Sir Percival surrendesed his garrison to the forces of Gen. Tomoyuki Yamashita. Yesterday Percival—recently re leased from a Japanese prison camp —witnessed Yamashita’s surrender to Lt. Gen. Jonathan M. Wain wright at Baguio, Luzon. U. S. Not Dropping Treason Charges Against Ezra Pound WASHINGTON, Sept. 4 —(JP)— The justice department said to day it does not plan to drop trea son charges against Ezra Pound, American writer held by the U. S. army in northern Italy. A spokesman said the depart ment recently received a lengthy memorandum on Pound from military authorities in Italy and added that his case is being stud ied "intensively.” A Rome dispatch recently sug gested that Pound might be re leased for lack of evidence. Pound was indicted July 26, 1943 for allegedly giving aid and comfort to the enemy by acting as a propaganda broadcaster. Careful Thief Breaks Into Drug Store It was a careful thief who broke Into the Paul Webb and Sons drug store some time last night and took his stock of morphine. The intruder after breaking a win dow light to get in replaced the light with a piece of pasteboard when he left. According to report made to po lice this morning the thief evident ly had the lay of the land for he took the key to the cabinet where the narcotics are kept from the place where it was concealed be hind a medicine bottle and un locked the supply. This is the second narcotics theft committed here within recent weeks. Suttle’s store having been entered and robbed of morphine only a short time ago. HIROHITO OPENS SESSION OF JAPANESE DIET j Peers Resolve To "Ac knowledge Reality Of Our Defeat’' 'REBUILD- NATION' SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 4. —(A3)—The Japanese house of peers this afternoon resolved “to acknowledge the reality of our defeat,” and “to cut a way out of the present situation and embark upon a new course of national rebuilding.” Emperor Hirohito himself opened the parliamentary session this morning, calling for the Japanese to "surmount the manifold hard ships and trials attending termi- j nation of the war, make manifest, the innate glory of Japan’s na tional policy, win the confidence of the world,” and “devote our selves to reconstruction in every field.” The resolution adopted later by the house of peers expressed de termination to rebuild the nation “with a view to safeguarding the age-old national structure and contributing to world peace, in order that his majesty’s mind may be put at rest.” Hirohito had terminated the war, the resolution said, “in pro found consideration of the welfare of his subjects.” AVOIDS WORD The emperor, who appeared brief ly in person at the opening ses sion, did not once use the word “surrender” in the imperial re script as broadcast by the Domei agency, but merely referred to “termination of the war” and "ces sation of hostilities.” All Japanese were called upon tp “unite in service to the state with -greatensnr than ever." See HIROHITO Page 2 Chinese Fly To Nanking For Jap Surrender By SPENCER MOOSA CHUNGKING, Sept. 4. —(A5)— Troops of the American-trained and American-equipped Chinese Sixth army, which helped drive the Japanese from North Burma, will fly to Nanking today for the formal surrender of Japanese forces in the China theater scheduled for Thursday, the high command an nounced. The movement was scheduled to start several days ago, but was held up by bad weather. The high command reported the junction of forces under Gen. Yen Hsi-Shan from Shansi province and Gen. Pu Tso-Yi from the Inner Mongolian province of Suiyuan at Tatung in northern Shansi. The juncture took place Saturday. A number of other towns were recov ered peacefully, including Paoch ing in Hunan, once an American air base. Gen. Ho Ying-Chin, commander of Chinese field forces, who will accept the Japanese surrnder, sent a memorandum to Japanese com-1 mander Yasuji Okamura, listing 15. representatives who will receive regional surrenders, and the points at which these will be received. IN INDOCHINA The list included Gen. Lu Han, commander of the first area forces, who will accept the surrender of the Japanese in northern Indo china at Hanoi. The others are: Gen. Chang Fah-Kwel, comman-! der of China’s second area forces,' for Canton; Gen. Yu Han-Mou,' commander of the seventh war' area, Swatow; Gen. Wang Yao-Wu, I See CHINESE Page 2 I CLOSE UP OF MacARTHUR SIGNING — Gen. Douglas MacArthur, military ruler of Japan, uses one of five pens in signing the Japanese surrender papers aboard the U. S. S. Missouri in Tokyo Bay. This is one of the first original photos of the surrender ceremony to reach the United States, It was flown from Japan to Seattle, Wash., aboard a C-54 Army transport.—(AP Wirephoto). List Of Jap War Criminals Grows Released Prisoners Continue To Tell Stories Of Star vation, Brutality, Torture By Spencer Davis YOKOHAMA, Sept. 4.—(A1)—Americans freed from the hellholes of Japan told their stories of starvation, brutality and torture directly today fb Lt. Gen. Robert L. Eichelberger, commanding Eighth Army occupation forces—and names of Japanese responsible were added steadily to a growing war criminals list. The navy simultaneously sent a hospital ship, four transports, a cruiser and four rescue destroyers to Hamamatsu, 120 miles south west of Tokyo, to evacuate other hundreds of allied prisoners. These ships earlier had helped evacuate approximately 1,500 from the Tok yo area. j Due this afternoon were 462; others being brought to Yokohama! from the Ashio prison camp, and plans were rushed for release on! 3,000 more at Niigata, a west coast: port. In Northern Honshu and! northernmost Hokkaido an esti mated 11,500 await liberation. Eighty percent of the 2,000 already examined here are in “serious” condition, medical officers said. Carrier planes of the U. S. Third fleet searched Japan for others, and spotted 60 excited prisoners waving wildly from a camp at Hikone village, 50 miles west of Nagoya. One man was waving the tricolor of France. j BRITISH ALSO Adm. Sir Bruce Fraser, com manding the British Pacific fleet,; See LIST Page 2 Delivery Of Ashes Of War Dead Delayed SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 4—(/P) —Delivery of the ashes of Japa-1 nese war dead in Tokyo, Ycko-1 hama, Chiba and Ibaragi which' had been set for Sept. 7 has been indefinitely postponed as a “pre cautionary measure,” Tokyo radio said today. The broadcast, recorded by the Federal Communications commis sion, implied, but did not state, that Japanese authorities feared the delivery of the ashes might lead to trouble between the people and allied occupation forces. Attlee Traces War’s Beginning Back To 1931 By GLENN WILLIAMS LONDON, Sept. 4. —(£■)— Prime Minister Attlee last night pinned the blame for the six years of war upon failure to deal sternly with Japanese aggression 14 years ago, and declared victory will have been in vain unless all are ready to shoulder “the heavy responsibility that our victory entails.” "It will be our task in closest as sociation with other nations to seek to establish a world order in which war shall everywhere be banish ed,” he told the Britsh people in a speech marking the sixth anni versary of Britain’s entry into World War 2. Attlee announced that Britain’s sole endeavor in Europe now would be "to enable the will of the people to prevail and to assist the estab lishment everywhere of govern ments resting on popular consent.” OCCUPATION TROOPS The prime minister outlined British plans for demobilizing the armed forces with as much speed as possible; warned that British troops would be needed in far places for occupation duties for some time to come, estimated that in See ATTLEE Page 2 Madame Chiang On Way To Chungking LONDON, Sept. 4 —(/P)— The all-India radio said Mrs. Chiang Kai-Shek reached Calcutta today, enroute from New York to Chungking. BIRDSEYE VIEW OF HIROSHIMA: U.S.Newsman Tells Of Destruction And Death In Wake Of First Atomic Bombing HIROSHIMA, Japan, Sept. 4. —(fl>) I —Street cars rattle along the streets 1 where rot a single building stands. A few deadpan civilians peddle slow* ly through the rubble. Block after block contains only a' thin covering of rusting tin, a few i stones and some broken bricks. The twisted frames of less than a dozen buildings stand forlornly alone in the midst of ruin that was once touted as Japan’s most modernized city. i That was the Hiroshima I saw today with the first American post war victors to the w Id’s first tar get of the atomic bomb. We landed in a B-17 at the 2,000 foot Kure airstrip and drove in cars provided by the Japanese for the 12 miles to Hiroshima. For its size, no city in tije world was so completely wiped out by bombs as was this war-swollen metropolis of 400,000, whose heart was smashed completely by a single application of atomic bomb. The buildings, once the most modern of Japanese em pire, were simply smashed—not split apart as from an ordinary demolition raid — but leveled over the ground. By contrast, Bremen, Hamburg ^ and Berlin seem almost untouched. Of the few recognizable pieces of buildings still standings, only one remains of possible service. In it Hiroshima’s banks have set up counter^ and there several hun dred Japanese waited to do business. FULL OF HATRED The Japanese newspapermen whc 1 ad visited the city shortly after the leveling told me that the residents f Hiroshima “hate j i and think u the most fiendish, cruel people earth.” 1 Hirokuni Dadai, chief of the po See U. S. NEWSMAN Page 3 AMERICANS’ GRIP ON AREA IS EXPANDED Yanks Authorized To Re quisition Anything They Need In Japan MAY ATtTnD DIET By The Associated Press YOKOHAMA, Sept. 4.—(/P) —New landings today ex panded the American occupa tion forces’ powerful grip on the Tokyo area, and General MacArthur, in a general ord er, gave his armies authority to requisition anything they need in Japan. First occupation of Tokyo itself, scheduled for* Friday, is to be outlined in detail at a meeting of the Japanese first army command with Lt. Gen. Robert L. Eichelberger, Am erican Eighth Army com mander, at Yokohama Wed nesday. MacArthur Instructed the Japa nese to turn all existing prisoner of war camps over to the highest ranking officer interned in each, and gave him authority to demand of the Japanese whatever food and medical care is necessary for his camp. The initial Tokyo occupation force will number only 3,350, said the Japanese government com munique announcing that the en try was scheduled Friday, (Thurs day night, U. S. time.) The communique said po licemen would be detailed to maintain law and order in all areas of occupation; govern ment organs and public organ izations would continue to function as usual, and all ne gotiations between American forces and Japanese authori ties would be conducted by liaison officials. Preceding the occupation of Tokyo, General MacArthur’s troops were to half-encircle the capital with new landings today, while 120 miles southwest naval forces landed at Hamamatsu and other landings were being made at Ta kusu, port city of Yyushu island, 600 miles southwest of Tokyo, and at Kanoya airfield, also on Kyu : shu. American correspondents were , to be permitted to attend tomor row’s Diet meeting after General See AMERICANS Page 2 REVISHUSS BOUNDOVER Alleged Paramour Sen tenced To Nine Months Imprisonment NEWTON, Sept. 4— (ff) — Revis Huss, 27-year-old Banoak farmer, charged with choking his wife to death, was bound over to Superior court on a second-degree murder charge today. His alleged paramour in a rus tic love nest, Mrs. Phoebe Sue Hildebran of Valdese, was found guilty on a morals charge and sentenced to nine months impris onment. Judge Eddy S. Merritt who heard both cases in Catawba coun ty recorder’s court, ruled that the state had failed to offer sufficient evidence to hold Huss on a first degree charge, which was lodged against him in the arrest warrant. He fixed bond at $20,000. Judge Merritt said there was no evidence of premeditation on the part of Huss. On the other hand, he continued, it appeared that he killed his wife in the heat of a quarrel and threw her body into Lake Hickory without even at tempting to weight it down. CHIEF WITNESS Sheriff Ray Fitts was the chief witness against Huss at the preli minary hearing. He said the ac I uused had signed a confession ad nitting that he choked his wife, Lorene, after they had quarreled because she upbraided him for go ing out with other women. At Mrs. Hildebran’s trial several neighbors testified that she and Huss had occupied an apartment i near Hickory for a period last July. | They said the defendant told them I 'he was married to Huss. Mrs. Hildebran, wife of an over seas soldier, did not testify. She gave notice of appeal when the sentence was announced but later j ndicated she would servf bar | term.
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