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I WEATHER Mostly cloudy and mild with occasional light rains today and tonight; Thursday, partly cloudy and wanner with scattered show ers. The HhelhysBwily Stett - State Theatre Today - “BACK TO BATAAN” Starring y JOHN WAYNE CLEVELAND COUNTY’S NEWSPAPER SINCE 1894 TELEPHONES 1100 VOL. XLIII-213 ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWS SHELBY, N. C. WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 5,1945 TELEMAT PICTURES' SINGLE COPIES—6c Indian Troops Landing At Singapore OCCUPATION OF CHEAT BRITISH BASTION BEGUN ft . - Japs Fire Oil Tank Farm In Violation Of Sur render Terms PRISONERS CHEER By Charles A. Grumich SINGAPORE, Sept. 5:—</F) <—Indian troops landed at j Singapore today and began1 occupation of this one-time bastion of the British empire which was surrendered to the Japanese Feb. 15, 1942. The second battalion of the first I Punjabi regiment made the ini tial landing from light craft at the main wharf. The Japanese, in apparent viola tion of the surrender terms, had set fire to the oil tank farm at Port Dickson. A huge column of smoke was observed there yester day from the troopships enroute to Singapore. Troops of the Fifth Indian di vision went ashore this morning from landing craft witnout oppo sition and marched past tamed Japanese oentries and cheering j Allied prisoners of war still be hind barbed wire. CHEER LIBERATORS Prisoners in a camp near the Quay pressed against ‘he wire and roosted in the trees, cheering their Liberators. An arriving Australian, recog nize some of his countrymen, shouted: "Hello, you beauties.'' At first observation the damage to the harbor appeared slight, al though some redflagged superstruc tures in the harbor indicated sunk en ship*—probably victims of Su perfortress raids. The reoccupation, which will in clude the Johore causeway lead ing to the mainland of Malaya, began a day ahead of schedule. JAPS SUFFERED HEAVYLOSSES TOKYO, Sept. 5. —m— Premier Naruhiko Higashi - Kunl bluntly told the Japanese diet today that “enoromous” military losses and “impoverishment" and exhaustion at home had forced Japan to sur render. Speaking separately before the houses of peers and representatives, the premier said Japan had been rut off from her overseas empire and was unable to replenish war < losses, while her cities were sys tematically destroyed by bombing. The premier said that American i aerial attacks burned 2,200,000 ; homes, killed or wounded “hundreds of thousands" of persons, and that 10,000.000 were "war sufferers” In one form or another. "Especially after the loss of the Mariana Islands the advance of the § Allied forces became progressively “ rapid,” the premier said, "while air raid on Japan proper were Inten sified, causing disastrous damage that mounted as the days went by.” LAST STRAW Dumped upon a nation whose war-making power already had been "disastrously undermined” the atomic bomb—the last straw— 1 was deemed "likely to result in obliteration of the Japanese peo ple.” Higashi-Kunl added. ' "Moreover, the Soviet Union sud- 1 denly declared war . . . forcing us ' Into the worst Internation situa- : tion . . , Japan had to stand at the crossroads, (uncertain) whether ■ to hope against hope in the des- 1 perate struggle ... or to stop fight- 1 Ing.” i It was Emperor Hirohito who de- l elded, he said, “to save millions of „ his subjects.” The premier urged strict obedi ence to the imperial surrender com mand, “admitting frankly the fact of our defeat of today, and fulfill ing manfully and faithfully the terms of the Potsdam declaration to prove to all the world the true worth of our pledged word.” I' Wainwright Is \ Nominated To , Be 4-Star General \; WASHINGTON, Sept. 5. —(IP)— President Truman today nominated Lt. Gen. Jonathan Wainwright, recently liberated from the Japa nese, for promotion to the rank of four-star general I ( 1 f ( iAMASHITA, ‘TIGER OF MALAYA’, SURRENDERS—Gen. Tomoyuki Yamashita (right), erstwhile “Tiger of Malaya," commander of Jap forces in the Philippines, meets with American officers to surrender at Baguio, Luzon, P. I. The Yanks, left to right, are Maj. Gen. Robert S. Geightler, commander of American forces on Luzon; Maj. Gen. Leo Donovan, Army Air Forces officer; Brig. Gen. Robert B. McBride, Jr., 32nd Divi sion commander, and Col. Ernest _A. Barlow, chief of sfrom Army Signal Corps radiophoto. from Manila)., - taff, 32nd Division, (reading paper).—(AP Wirephoto Byrnes Reports Japanese Butchery, Says War Criminals To Be Punished OLD GLORY UP ON WAKE ISLE Adm. Sakaibara, Jap Is land Commander, Sign ed Surrender By The Associated Press WAKE, Sept. S—(IP)—The Amer ican flag was raised on Wake is land-symbol of marine greatness —at 1:50 o’clock yesterday after noon. The Japanese rear admiral who had commanded Wake since it fell on Dec. 23, 1941, saluted the stars and stripes. So did his staff and 40 of his garrison troops, who came to attention as a marine bugler sounded •’Colors." They sal uted as the flag was hoisted and their eyes followed as it rose, inch by inch, up a flagstaff which had been carried ashore from the American destroyer escort Levy Brig. Gen. Lawson Sanderson, commander of the Fourth Marine Aircraft wing, and 75 officers and men from three U. S. destroyer escorts reverently watched the flag arising after Rear Adm. Shigematsu Sakaibara, the island commander, See OLD GLORY Page * First Graders Must Have Certificates Of Birth, Vaccination Children entering school for the first time this year who have not yet presented their birth certifi cates and certificates of vaccina tion against diphtheria, will be excluded from school, Monday, September 10, unless those/certifi cates are obtained, superfntend&nt of city schools Walter E. Aber nethy announced today. These certificates are required in the Interest of public health, Mr. Abemethy explained, and must be presented by all' children en tering the first grade of school for the first time. WASHINGTON, Sept. 5. — Japanese troops captured an Amer ican flier forced to parachute Into the sea off New Guinea. They beat him with sticks virtu ally all that day, throughout the night, and until three o’clock the next afternoon. Then, while the troops screamed wildly, a Japanese civilian named Inouye hacked off the American's head with sijc slashes of a sword. The State Department told about1 that incident and others like it to- | day in a report it would not issue, during the war for fear the Japan ese would increase their butchery and shut off all shipment of relief supplies to allied prisoners. Secretary of State Byrnes observ ed with restraint at his news con ference yesterday that the report was not a pretty story. The guilty will be punished; war crimes will be prosecuted in Japan just as in Europe, Byrnes pledged. 240 PROTESTS The report told of 240 protests against mistreatment of prisoners sent to the Japanese government I through Swiss intermediaries by former Secretaries of State Hull and Stettinius; Undersecretary Ache son, and former Undersecretary Grew. An example: On May. 19, Grew asked the See BYRNES Page 2 Byrnes Sails Today To Attend Council NEW YORK, Sept. 5—OP)—Sec retary of State James F. Byrnes sailed early today for England a board the Queen Elizabeth to at tend .the five-power council of foreign ministers. Byrnes and his wife boarded the ship last night along with nearly 150 other civilian passen gers in a gay atmosphere reminis cent of pre-war sailings. He was accompanied by Assistant Secre tary of State James C. Dunn. Another passenger was John Foster Dulles, former foreign af fairs consultant to Gov. Thomas E. Dewey. Dulles will act as ad visor at the meetings of foreign ministers, which will discuss peace terms for Germany, Italy and Ja pan. Building, Farming, Selling Offer Best Job Openings By STERLNG F. GREEN WASHINGTON, Sept. 5.—(JP)— Building, farming and selling. These looked like the biggest openings for job-hunting veterans an( laid-off war workers. The war manpower commission, In a report prepared to guide its own officials, found that retailers would need 200,000 more sales peo ple and other store workers by October. An even greater demand will fol low October as stores build staffs for the Christmas shopping season Then sales employment will drop off, Construction, potentially a huge employer, is off to a slow start on its peacetime recovery. Even so, it will need 100,000 more men for new building by mid-October and another 100, 000 for repair and maintenance work. Because Japan collapsed at har vest time, agriculture was ready to hire about 1 million persons from August to October. Then farming will take its seasonal slump in em ployment. WMC’s survey of the work op See BUILDING Page « i Four Killed, Many Injured In Train Wreck ARCADIA, CALIF, Sept. 5—(/P)— The two locomotives and seven cars of a 16-car Santa Fe passen ger train were derailed in a spec tacular smashup last night, and a spokesman for the railroad said four persons were killed and 35 to 40 Injured. The second section of the east bound California Limited hit a siding switch about a mile from the Santa Anita racetrack about 7:45 pm. The locomotives crash ed over on their left sides. Two baggage cars and two passenger coaches Jammed together — one of the latter at right angle to the tracks—and three other passen ger cars left the rails. Three bodies were orought to a morgue improvised in the Ameri can Legion hall here. Two were identified as: The Rev. Victor Hugo Schroed er, 41, Congregational minister, of Barstow, Calif. Nobuo Itano, 57, an alien Japa nese, of La Habra, Calif., said by sheriff’s deputies to be a former resident of the Poston, Ariz., re location camp. NOT IDENTIFIED The body of another Japanese was not immediately identified. A Santa Fe spokesman said the cause of the wrecks was not known. Track was tom out for ap proximately 200 feet. A baggage car, splintered, snapped off a tel ephone pole, interupting service in the vicinity. An army surgeon amputated the crushed right leg of an uni dentified male passenger. Work men used acetylene torches to cut through twisted debris to free trapped passengers. Cries of “morphine!” and “mo ther!” were heard from inside the cars. Hundreds of spectators mill ed around the wreckage. Nearly 200 policemen patrolled the scene, and a police radio car’s loud speaker directed rescue workers. SERVICEMEN service men among passengers in the wrecked cars directed traf fic and administered first aid. Sailors and marines fashioned their jackets Into stretchers for the seriously Injured. Water Moore, assistant superin tendent of the line’s Los Angeles division, said trains were using the siding during work on the main track. The train’s first section had passed by safely some time before. Another Santa Fe spokesman, Ed Ryder, said a board would in vestigate today and that the rail-' way hoped to have travel resumed today. ARMY HINTS AT BROAD PLAN OF DISCHARGES Men With 45 Joints Up To May 12 Not To Be Sent Overseas SPUR ENLISTMENTS • WASHINGTON, Sept. 5.— (/P)—The army hinted broad ly today that it expects to I discharge within a year all I enlisted men 34 and older as ! well as those who had 45 points up to May 12. It dropped the hint in an announcement which said men in those categories no longer will be sent overseas. Meanwhile, the house military committee resumed Its study of ways to step up at once enlist ments in the regular army. The reason: So inductions between now and next May 15 can be held to a minimum. . The army announced that an intensive world - wide recruiting drive' is underway to raise a vol unteer postwar army. Under the direction of Brig. Gen. Harold N. Gilbert, the campaign will be car ried out by a force of 7,800 offi cers and men working from 600 cities and towns in the United States. The drive, the war depart ment said, will be more inten sive than the pre-Pearl Harbor campaign which raised the reg ular army and air force from .440,000 to more than 500,000. * At present the army is limit ed by law to an enlisted force of 280,000 but this ceiling may be raised by congress. Soldiers now in service who re enlist, whether overseas or at home, will be given furloughs , See ARMY Page t HEAVYTAXES WILL CONTINUE Doughton, Cannon Not Optimistic Over Large Cuts In Taxes WASHINGTON, Sept. 5. — (IP)— 1 Chairman Doughton (D-NC) of the tax-writing house ways and means I committee agreed today with Sec ! retary of the Treasury Fred M.1 ! Vinson that heavy taxes are likely for some time. I So did Chairman Cannon (D I Mo) of the house appropriations committee, although the Missourian voiced the hope “some billions” of dollars already appropriated could be recovered. Cannon gave his views as his committee met to hear Budget Director Harold D. Smith’s ideas on how much money al ready allotted for the current fiscal year would be turned back into the treasury. But whatever the amount, Can non said, he is not optimistic over the prospects of cutting taxes for some time “because we still will need billions to operate the govern ment and finance the national debt and we must get around to balanc ing the budget.” SOUND ECONOMY Doughton told newspapermen, “I don’t see how we can make great tax cuts,” adding: “But we won’t close the door. I never visualized any heavy cuts as some people are predicting. But I want taxes as low as possible for a sound economy.” The North Carolinian led the congressional battle that scrapped former Secretary Morgenthau’s 1943 I treasury proposal for $10,500,000, 000 in added taxes. The battle end ed in a bill producing a compro mise amount of about $2,000,000, 000 additional. SIZABLE TAXES Commenting on Vinson’s Labor Day tax speech in Peoria. 111., Doughton said: “I believe he is a practical man. We won’t be a great deal apart.” Vinson said that even after de mobilization and reconversion the federal budget probably would be around $25,000,000,000 a year, and to meet such an obligation “we must have sizable taxes—although we may be able to make some re ductions in the tax rates.” Doughton has said his committee will turn immediately to writing a tax-revision bill as soon as it com pletes work on legislation propos ing higher unemployment benefits. Formal Surrender Of All Jap Troops In China Expected Within A Week By Donald Huth NANKING, Sept. 5.—(/P)—Gen. Leng Hsin, commander of Chinese troops now in Nanking, said today the formal surrender of all Japanese troops in China would probably occur “within a week,” and other competent sources expect ed the ceremony to take place Sunday. The general said in a press con-1 ference that plans had been made | for dispersal of Japanese troops in China after the official sur- j render, but the details were not1 announced. After the formal surrender j ceremony Japanese troops will give up their arms, ammunition; and other war materials. This capital itself will be divid ed into districts for purposes of j disarmament, Gen. Leng said. He • declared revised figures showed! the Japanese had 78,000 officers and men, 14,000 sick and wound-; ed and 7,800 Japanese civilians in Nanking at the present time. In addition, he said, there are some 7,500 puppet troops in the city. Chinese Sixth army troops were expected to begin arriving today,! and Leng has ordered the Japa-1 nese to move out of the Chinese military academy so the new troops may be billeted there. The troops are being flown in a mass airborne movement from Chihki ang. Leng said there were about 400, 000 Chinese civilians now in Nan king, compared with the pre-war population of about 750,000. He, said there had been no disorders: since he arrived, Leng, whose headquarters is op posite Japanese headquarters, said the puppet groups will be dis banded about Sept. 17, and that “many have come over to our side.” The railroad between Nanking and Shanghai is being operated by puppet and Japanese troops, | Leng said. Last Friday a train . was derailed by bandits, and still another was derailed Sunday, but! the Japanese repaired the line, which is being used for both civil ian and military travel. In Nanking American corres pondents who have arrived for the surrender ceremonies have been confined to the Metropolitan ho tel and the International club for the present as p, safety measure. ‘GUESTS” OF JAPS The correspondents were told that the American and Chinese troops who arrived less than a See FORMAL Page 2 G-W Plans $120,000 Building Program Committee Instructed To Have Dormitory, Heating Plant, Clinic Ready Within Year — An immediate $120,000 building program designed to have a new 50-student dormitory1, central heating plant and the Royster Health Clinic ready for service by the opening of the 1946 college year was announced today by officials of Gardner-Webb Junior College at Boiling Springs A. W. McMurry, chairman of | the college’s executive committee, announced projection of the buil ding program following a series of meetings in which a six-mem ber building committee was nam ed to include J. R. Dover, jr„ chairman, Mrs. Rush Stroupe, Clifford Hamrick, O. M. Mull, J. W. Gardner, and A. W. McMurry. j DOVER LIBRARY PLAN Instructions to the building' committee were: 1. To proceed as soon as I practical to secure an archi tect to prepare plans tor a new dormitory to house a round 50 students, plans for a new central heating plant and plans for the Royster clinic. 2. To strive to have these buildings constructed and ready for occupancy at the opening of the college year in September, 1946; It was esti See G-W Page 2 WHAT’S DOING TODAY 7:00 p.m.—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. THURSDAY 7:00 p.m.—Regular meeting of Kiwanis club. 7:30 pm.—CAP cadets meet at armory. I Congress Waits Truman Message, Due Tomorrow WASHINGTON, Sept. 5. —(A3)— President Truman will send a mes sage to congress tomorrow, senate leaders said today, and it will be so comprehensive that it may take a couple of hours to read it. Talking with newsmen after a White House conference with the President, Democratic Leader Barkley (D-Ky) said Mr. Truman will not deliver the message in per son. It will be accompanied by separate documents pertaining to subjects discussed in the message. Conferring with the President besides Barkley were Senator Mc Kellar (D-Tenn), president pro tern of the senate, and Speaker Rayburn. Barkley Said the Presi dent 'did not show them the mes sage. CONTROVERSIAL ISSUES The conference was held as con gress reassembled for its first1 peacetime session since 1941. A dozen controversy-freighted issues confronted the lawmakers, but neither house scheduled any legis lative work this week. Speaker Rayburn said after See CONGRESS Page 2 DIATRIBE ON LEND-LEASE: America Will Not Neglect Her Part In Rehabilitation By DeWITT MacKENZIE, AP News Analyst One of England’s leading news papers, the Manchester Guardian, says the world’s greatest fear is that the United States, in her de sire to return quickly to normal cy, “may cast aside moral obliga tions which she assumed during the war.” The Guardian’s point is that we may not be willing to keep occu pation forces long in Europe. The paper maintains that American troops must be held in Germany until that country becomes demo cratic. While the Guardian’s fears are j I groundless, there can be no argu-l ment but that Allied occupation must be continued until reform has been achieved. Uncle Sam more than once has subscribed to this view and has made it clear that he fully intends to do his share towards making not only the Ger mans but the Japs democratic and peace-minded. Our desire for nor malcy—and it is great, as it is in all other countries—won’t preclude our playing our part in world re habilitation. We have pledged that. It must be admitted, however, that our spirit is at times rather See AMERICA Page 3 FIRST CAVALRY DIVISION WILL OCCUPY CITY Directive Says All Japs Must Be Disarmed By October 10 REPAIRS ORDERED By The Associated Press YOKOHAMA, Sept. 5.—(fP, | —The occupation of Tokyo will begin Saturday (Friday U. S. date.) The U. S. First (dismount ! ed) cavalry division, first in to Manila, where it liberated Santo Tomas internment camp last February, will enter the | bomb-shattered capital city then. General MacArthur is ex ! pected to move his headquar ! ters from Yokohama to the United States embassy build ing in Tokyo about the same time. The supreme commander of the Allied powers announced plans foi the First cavalry movement today ‘ shortly after he issued a far reaching directive which drove home to the full impact of defeat on Japan. The directive demanded forth with all information — necessary for swiftly disarming Japan’s war machine, and ordered the beaten nation to place vast facilities at the beck and call of steadily en larging occupation forces. Lt. Gen. Robert L. Eichelberger, whose Eighth army will occupy Honshu north of Yokohama, and all Hokkaido island, said all Jap anese troops will be disarmed by Oct. 10. In his area, which' embraces I Tokyo, Eichelberger expects tc | have eight and two-thirds combat divisions (more than 130,00C , troops) by that date. He esti mated the initial occupation of Ja pan's four islands would requlr* between 300,000 and 400,000 troops, SIXTH ARMY Occupational strength equal tc that of Eichelberger’s Eighth probably will be concentrated on South Honshu and the southerr islands of Shikoku and Kyushu See FIRST Page 2 iL HARBOR ECHOES HEARD WASHINGTON, Sept 5 —yp)_ The shadow of Pearl Harbor hung over Congress today as it conven ed for its first peacetime session since the Japanese attack on Dec. 7, 1941, which plunged the nation into war. Even as the legislators as sembled there were renewed demands for a congressional investigation to determine who, if anyone, was respon sible for the disaster. Indications, however, were that the consideration of practical poli tics would determine how far the demands will get. Any investiga tion that might eventually point the finger of blame at the admin istration conceivably would be us ed by the Republicans as an issue in the 1946 congressional elections. But some Republicans were wary that an investigation under taken by a Democratic-controlled Congress might clear the adminis tration and have an adverse re action on the minority party which has been most vocal in the de mands for an inquiry. DEFENDS HULL Meanwhile, Secretary of State Byrnes added his voice to those who have come to the defense oi former Secretary Hull against criticism leveled at Hull by the army’s Pearl Harbor inquiry board. The board, already rap ped on that score by President Truman and Secretary of War Stimson, said Hull “touched the button” of war in November, 1941, by handing the Japanese a document they considered an ul timatum. Byrnes told a news conference he thought Hull had showed that interpretation to be inaccurate in a letter the former secretary wrote to Stimson. And Byrnes added he thought the army board had gone beyond its jurisdiction in criticizing his predecessor. Asserting that so far he knew it was the first time a board of army officers had criticized a ci vilian official of the government, Byrnes added he thought any comment on Hull's conduct of foreign relations properly ahould be made by Congress.
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