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CLEVELAND COUNTY’S NEWSPAPER SINCE 1894
TELEPHONES 1100
VOL. XLII1— 215
ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWS
SHELBY, N C.
FRIDAY, SEPT. 7, 1945
TELEMAT PICTURES
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U. $. MILITARY MIGHT TO PARADE THROUGH TOKYO
EAL Plane Crashes In Pee Dee Swamp
LOCATED FROM
AIR 10 MILES
FROM FLORENCE
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20 Passengers Believed
To Have Been Aboard;
Complete Wreck
r
DENSE SWAMPLAND
SUMTER, S. C., Sept. 7.—
<7P)—A “completely wrecked”
Eastern Air Lines plane be
lieved to have been carrying
20 passengers has been locat- j
ed from the air 10 miles east:
of Florence near the Pee Dee
river, the nearby Shaw field;
army air base public relations
Dffice reported today.
Shaw Field said the plane was
four miles south of the beam on
which it was flying when radio
contact with it was lost at 2 a m.
today.
The area in which it was reported
located is a dense swampland.
Army air base planes from Flor
ence, Shaw Field, and Pope. Laur
inburg-Maxton in North Carolina
had been searching for the plane
since it was first reported missing
early this morning.
The plane was on a flight from j
New York, and radio contact with
it was lost at 2 a.m. at a point es
timated to be a few miles north
of Florence, the Eastern Air Line j
ofTice at Columbia, S. C.. reported, j
Eastern said that 10 civilian and I
nine Army passengers were believed I
to be aboard the huge air liner, I
which was manned by a crew of ,
three. i
The company announced the fol
lowing civilian passengers were
aboard:
Michael Shlnefleld, bar mana
ger of the Blackstone Hotel, Mlnml
Beach. Fla.: Mrs. G. G. R. Sharp j
and son, R. Stevenson, of Kingston,
Jamaica, bound for Toronoto; Mr.
and Mrs. Andres Gerard, French |
citizens; Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Fig- j
ueredo of La Guaira, Caracas.
Venezuela; L. F. Cokburn, 1744
Southwest Fifth St., Miami; and
W. E. Gray and W. E. Pierce, for
whom no addresses were given.
In addition to Capt. King, the
pilot, other crew members were R.
A. Kelley, co-pilot, and Gertrude
Graham, flight attendant. All were
based at Miami.
GEORGE SEES
TAX CUTS SOON
►
WASHINGTON, Sept. 7— WPI —
A $5,000,000,000 cut in federal tax
es effective next January 1 was
forecast today by Chairman George
iD-Ga) of the senate finance com
mittee.
The reductions would Include:
Corporations $2,000,000,000.
Individuals, $2,500,000,000 to
$3,000,000,000.
Elimination of one or two
excise taxes, such as the au
tomobile use tax, for an un
specified saving to taxpayers.
George, after studying President
Truman's recommendation to con
gress yesterday for "limited” tax
cuts in 1946, predicted that ‘‘a
quick tax reduction bill" would be
passed before Christmas.
He told reporters he hoped to
see the excess profits tax and the
capital stock levy on corporations
eliminated entirely, with "corres
ponding if not slightly greater" re
ductions for individuals.
George indicated the cut in in
dividual taxes might be a horizon
tal one, clipping each taxpayer’s
obligation by a percentage as yet
undetermined. He added that phase
would have to be worked out in
committee. Representative Knutson
(R-Minn) has proposed a flat 20
per cent slash.
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Many luxuries and semi-lux
uries carry special heavy war
time excise taxes due to ex
pire automatically six months
after the end of the war.
George said it was not his per
sonal intention to call for
earlier repeal of the super-le
vies, but he said the “Quickie”
bill ought to fix a date for the
termination of the war, for
tax purposes only.
“But only for that purpose,” he
emphasized.
Qeorge added that he was in
thorough agreement with Mr. Tru
man's recommendation for 6 long
range modernization of the reve
nue laws after enactment of the
transitional tax cutting bill. He
said he would call the joint tax
ation committee together, possibly
next week.
LATEST PICTURE OF HIROHITO—This picture of Emperor Hirohitc
of Japan < right i was made in Tokyo before the surrender, and was later
turned over to the U. S. Army Signal Corps, says the signal corps cap
tion. The date was not stated. A Japanese (left) bows reverently as the
emperor passes—(AP Wirephoto from Signal Corps radiophoto from
Manila).
Official Surrender
In China Sunday •
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—
Ceremony Will Involve Approximately 1,090,000
Enemy Troops; "100 Per Cent Chinese Show"
By Donald Huth
NANKING, Sept. 7.—(/P)—Indications today were that
the official Japanese surrender in China would take place in
this capital Sunday (Chinese time) and an American spokes
man made it clear it will be a “100 per cent Chinese show.”
me Americans nave oeen or-,
dered to stay in the background
and let the Chinese run it,” said
Brig. Gen. H. L. Boatner of New
Orleans, La., deputy commander
of the Chinese-Ameriean combat
command, who arrived here yes
terday.
Boatner said the Americans
would stand by and do only what
the Chinese asked them to do dur
ing the surrender of Japanese
troops in China, estimated at a
bout 1,090.000 men.
A comparatively small num
ber of Chinese, assisted by U.
S. troops, will accept the sur
render, and Gen. Boatner,
commenting on this, said that
“never in the history of the
world” has there been a mili
tary situation such as the one
now existing in China.
He explained the collapse of the
See OFFICIAL Page 2
Two Bills Would End
Daylight Saving Time
WASHINGTON, Sept. 7— (/T) —
Two bills to end daylight saving
time, begun January 1942, have
been introduced by Senators Bvrd
(D-Va) and Andrews (D-Fla.)
Measures designed to make vol
untary military service more at
tractive were submitted by Thom
as and Senator Maybank (D-SC).
A measure which would estab
lish a basis for price determina
tion and terms of sale of govern
ment cargo ships ivas introduced
by Senator Bailey (D-NC).
i McNUTT BACK
TO PHILPFINES
Will Probably Also Govern
Islands Taken From
Japanese
WASHINGTON, 8ept. 7— VP) —
Paul V. McNutt Is going back to
the Philippines. His friends think
the future will take him to some
other Pacific islands; also.
President Truman, when he an
nounced MeNutt’s nomination as
high commissioner to the Philip
pines yesterday, was asked by
newsmen whether McNutt also
would administer islands taken
from the Japanese.
Mr. Truman said the Philip
pines are the only place he
has a right to send a repre
sentative now.
The future of islands taken from
the Japanese will have to be de
cided at the peace table, the presi
dent added.
This left McNutt's associates in
the war manpower commission still
convinced their departing chief
ultimately would be administering
such conquered islands in the
western Pacific as cofne under U.
S. trusteeship.
They recalled that McNutt had
said forcefully he would not re
turn to the Philippines under the
See McNUTT Page 2
Admiral McCain Dies As
Result Of Combat Fatigue
By the Associated Press
SAN DIEGO, Sept. 7. — The
stout fighting heart which carried
slender, greying John Sidney Mc
Cain through the Navy's strenuous
flying course at 52 years of age and
to smashing victories over the Jap
anese, gave out last night—of sheer
exhaustion from combat duty.
“Admiral McCain gave his life
for his country. He was suffering
from complete fatigue resulting
from the strain of the last months
of combat,” asserted Capt. John
Vann, his personal physician.
The 61-year-old vice admiral,
commander of the famed, far-rang
ing fast carrier task force 38, had
been directing J almost constant
raids, mostly against the Japanese
homeland, for the last three
months.
In that time, McCain’s planes
knocked 'out 6,000 Nipponese air
craft and 2,000,000 tons of ship
ping, including approximately 100
warships.
In that time, too, McCain was
under terrific strain from combat
ting repeated kamikaze attacks on
his task force.
McCain lived Just long enough to
See McCAIN Page 2
Fanatical Japanese
Bitterly Opposed
Hirohito’s Surrender
By Russell Brines
TOKYO, Sept. 7.—(/P)—Well-informed Japanese sources
said today that fanatical young Japanese officers on Aug. 14
killed the commanding general of emperor Hirohito’s per
sonal guards division and by forging his name sent troops
to surround the palace in a vain effort to prevent the imper
ial surrender announcement from reaching the people.
Would Expand
N. C. Fair Into
Exposition
RALEIGH, Sept. 7.—(/P)— The
State Board of Agriculture today
unanimously endorsed a proposed
program to expand the state fair
from a six-day yearly fair to a year
around exposition costing approxi
mately $3,000,000.
The proposed program was
outlined to the board by Dr. J.
S. Dorton, manager of the
State Fair now on leave as state
war manpower commissioner.
The board expressed a desire to
begin enlarging the fair immedi
ately, and said that foundation
work leading to the proposed ex
position should begin before the
scheduled state fair next year. •
Dr. Dorton said that preliminary
negotiations, were underway now
with a view to acquiring Crabtree
State Park, a recreational park ad
jacent to the State fair property;
for enlargement purposes. Initial
funds to finance the project would
come from the issuance of bonds up
to $100,000 authorized by the 1945
legislature, and $62,000 in surplus
funds now being held by the fair
division. <-'•
The board adopted a resolution
urging the board of public build
ings and grounds to provide more
space for the agriculture depart
ment, saying that crowded condi
tions in the agriculture building
were becoming acute. The board
toured the various divisions of the
department yesterday and said it
was -“impressed with the need for
more space.”
It passed a resolution suggesting
that the South “drop its defeatist
attitude against the growth and ex
pansion of the cotton industry. It
urged that the State Department
of agriculture inaugurate and car
ry forward "additional programs
and functions looking to the ex
pansion of the industry.”
' Opening Of Foreign
Ministers Meeting
May Be Delayed
LONDON, Sept. 7—(JP)—A possi
bility that the opening session of
the Big Five council of foreign
ministers might be delayed 24
hours arose today when it was
disclosed that the Liner Queen
Elizabeth, on which U. S. Secre
tary of State James F. Byrnes is
traveling, would not reach South
ampton until Monday afternoon.
A British foreign office spokes
man sugested that U. S. Ambassa
dor John G. Winant might sub
stitute for Byrnes at the opening
session, scheduled for Monday, but
at the U. S. embassy it was said
that It was "extremely unlikely
that anyone would substitute for
Byrnes,” because "only he knows
what he is going to talk about.”
Unemployment Bill
Hit By Sen. George
WASHINGTON, Sept. 7 — (/P)—
President Truman’s $25-26 week
jobless benefit program was writ
ten off as unworkable today by
Senator George (D-Ga.)
In doing so, the finance com
mittee chairman virtually signed
a death decree for the bill which
the President endorsed for the
third time yesterday.
A majority of George’s commit
tee obviously is cool toward the
measure. And the attitude of the
house ways and means committee,
considering a similar bill, has
verged on the hostile.
The most telling blow, however,
was the disclosure that the laws
of nearly half the states, includ
ing the President’s native Missou
ri, would require any supplemen
tary federal grants to the unem
ployed to be deducted from tl\e
state allowances.
TTie killing climaxed a fantastic
attempt to keep Japan geared to
war, these sources related. The
finale to the battle over surren
der, between the emperor and cer
tain militarist elements, involved
a hot chase after the vital radio
recording containing the emper
or’s historic capitulation rescript,
they said.
Numerous kamikaze (suicide)
pilots dived to death in Tokyo Bay
as the result of the surrender
and some threatened to kill Ja
pan’s surrender envoys to Manila
—but there were no further ma
jor disorders.
Tokyo tensely had anticipated
possibly army revolts and insub
ordination.
The sources which gave this
information said that the first
surrender discussions among
the militarists began in Feb
ruary—at the time of the great
American carrier raids on Tok
yo—and that the emperor be
gan in March a fruitless effort
to obtain advice on capitula
tion.* "V; ■.
Before the surrender actually
came, Japan had hinted officially
to Russia that she was willing to
yield Manchuria and North China
in return for continual Soviet
neutrality, these sources added,
but this failed.
STRICT SECRECY
TTie emperor’s historic rescript
of surrender was finally recorded
on Aug. 14 at the imperial palace
in strictest secrecy and was sched
uled to be broadcast to the people
the next day.
The group of fanatical young
army officers learned of it and a
lieutenant colonel and a major
hatched a hurried plot to try to
prevent its reaching the Tokyo
radio. One of them was said,
See FANATICAL Page *
PLANS SETFOR
SCOOT EVENT
Third Annual Jamboree
At High School Stadium
Tonight
Tonight is the night, and the
Shelby high school stadium is the
place, when the third annual Boy
Scout jamboree will get under way
at 7:30 with 16 Boy Scout troops from
Shelby and Cleveland county
matching wits in the events to be
staged for the public and under the
auspices of the Shelby Rotary club.
The Scouts from Shelby and
neighboring communities meet to
participate in the contests arrang
ed to show the abilities and train
ing the youngsters have acquired
in their association and work with
this civic endeavor.
It is emphasized by the jamboree
chairman, Paul J. Kennedy, that
the attraction is staged free of
charge, and parents, friends and
the general public interested in
backing the work of the Scouts are
invited to attend.
IN CASE OF RAIN
In case of rain or bad weather to
such extent that the program can
not ,be given, the event will be post
poned until another time which will
be announced later.
The program will open with the
national anthem, followed by the
Scout oath. R. M. Schiele, scout
executive and speaker for the oc
casion, will then be introduced by
Mason Carroll, president of the
Rotary club.
Seven contests: knot tying, fire by
flint and steel, fire by friction,
water boiling, tent pitching, first
aid, singnaling, will bring the
Scouts into action. For each event,
the winning troop will be awarded
a silver plaque, donated by the Ro
tary club. Grand prizes, which will
be four in all, with their donors
are as follows: first, silver trophy
by Rotary club; second, scout bugle
by Campbell department store:
third, first aid kid by Spangler’s
Drug store; fourth, pup tent by
See FLANS Page 2
OLD GLOKY FLIES OVER TOKYO—The American flag, first to fly over
Tokyo since the Japanese surrender, is raised above the Nippon News
building by Lt. Bud Stapleton of Syracuse, N. Y. Raising of the colors
took place Sept. 5. The News building is in the downtown area of the
Jap capital.—(AP Wirephoto from Signal Corps radiophoto).
Wainwright To ‘Talk’
Only To Officials
Reorimands Maj. Gen. Jones For Telling Of Beatings
At Hands Of Jap Captors
By Kenneth L. Dixon
HONOLULU, Sept. 7.—(/P)—Whatever General Wain
wright has to sa£ about his physical beatings by the Japa
nese will have to be said officially to the war department and
the people back home, the hero of Corregidor said here.
Wearing the four stars of his
new full generalcy on a new
shirt whose collar was far too
big for his thin neck, hag
gard and his face deeply lined,
he said gently that Maj. Gen.
Albert N. Jones “shouldn’t have
talked about that.” In the next
breath, he said:
“I’ll have plenty to say on
that subject when I get to
Washington — officially, I
mean.”
Even that came only at the end
of a press conference aj which
he reminded reporters that he had
been deafened by artillery fire
and said questioning probably
would be futile. Then a reporter
showed him a copy of a Honolulu
paper reporting that Jones, a re
leased fellow-prisoner just arrived
In San Francisco, *aid Wainwright
had beep beaten and slapped by
the Japanese. 1
NO COMMENT
“I have no continent on that,”
Wainwright said—terse and tense.
Then he relaxed and added, 'he
shouldn’t have said that. But I still
have no comment.” He seemed to
reconsider. “But I’ll have plenty
to say on it when I report to
General Marshall and the war de
See WAINWRIGHT Page 2
WHAT’S DOING
TODAY
7:00 pm.—American Legion
and Legion Auxiliary will en- I
tertain at a dinner and dance
for members of Legion Junior
baseball team.
7:30 pun.—Boy Scout jam
boree in high school stadium.
8:00 p.m. — Called meeting
of Cleveland Lodge 202 A. F.
& A. M. at Lodge room for
work in first degree.
TRUMAN LEFT
OF CENTER
^OP Say* ""Its The Old
New Deal Dressed Up In
New Clothes"
WASHINGTON, Sept. 7 —W>)—
President Truman today pointed
the Democratic party left of cen
ter in the 1946 congressional cam
paigns.
In his 16,000-word message, the
President left little doubt that he
stands primarily with the so-called
liberal wing of his party.
Republicans noted this quickly
in their appraisal of the printed
message. It looked for all the
world to them like a campaign
document, subheaded to deal with
21 specific issues
Typical GOP comment came
from Rep. J. Parnell Thomas (R
NJ):
“It’s the old New Deal dressed
up in new clothes.”
Many Democrats had about the
same view.
Senator James E. Murray (D
Mont) said he never had any fears
that Mr. Truman would go Con
servative in the White House. But
if he did, the Montanan added,
the message would have set them
to rest.
WIDE COVERAGE
Mr. Truman dealt with about
every problem that politicians fig
ure will play a part when a new
house and one third of the senate
is elected in 1946. He left room,
See TRUMAN Page 2
ROOM FOR REFORM:
Partitioning Of Lands Of
Middle Europe Underway
By DeVVITT MacKENZIE, AP News Analyst
I
Quietly, but with that inevitability
which characterizes the European
politic-social upheaval, the expro
priation and redistribution of the
rolling acres of the landed gentry
is proceeding in |be eastern and
central part of the continent.
With the coinings and goings of
that section of Europe more or less
sub rosa, few details have been
available. We know there has been
extensive expropriation of the pro
perties of the feudal barons of
Poland. There are indications that
similar changes are going forward
in Hungary, the Balkans anu east
Prussia.
Now comes news that the tide
has reached western Europe. This
is in Saxony, Russian-occupied Ger
many, where large landed estates
are being broken up and turned
over to the small tillers of the
soil.
The development in Saxony is
disclosed in a decree published in
Berlin newspapers, breaking up the
landed estates—one of the first
great west European experiments
in communist land reform. This
decree is sweeping. It expropriates
all agricultural wealth belonging to
| See PARTITIONING Page 2
MacARTHUR TO
LEAD FORCES
INTO CAPITAL
Formal Investigation Of
War Crimes Is
Launched
9,000 liberated
YOKOHAMA, Sept. 7.—(IP)
—General MacArthur will
lead a three-mile parade of
American military might in
to the heart of Tokyo Satur
day (Friday, U. S. time) and
within three days all the capi
tal will be occupied, it was
announced today.
Meanwhile these other develop
ments were disclosed:
The 11th Airborne division, first
to set foot on enemy soil, now
has its entire strength in. Japan
and troops of the 27th division
have begun arriving.
Formal investigation of war
crimes against prisoners of war
was launched with the ap
pointment of an “atrocity of
ficer” and enlisted specialists
to visit each camp.
An additional 1,100 prisoners
have been liberated, bringing the
total to approximately 9,000, half
of whom have been evacuated.
MacArthur's press headquarters
said Brig. Gen. Elliott Thorpe
would head Allied counter-intelli
gence and would begin censorship
of the Japanese Domel agency
simultaneously with the arrival of
American troops in Tokyo tomor
row.
The First cavalry division, which
will enter Tokyo first, took ever
the Japanese army school of
Hara-Machido, 30 miles north
west of Yokohama.
NEAR PALACE
The parade marking the trium
phal entry of MacArthur into To
kyo will begin within sight of
Emperor Hirohito's palace.
The battle-equipped Seventh and
Eighth regiments of the First cav
alry division will march through
the bomb-shattered capital city of
surrendered Japan—the first such
march of a conqueror there in Ja
pan’s long history.
An honor guard from the
Seventh regiment — the regi
ment which fought under Cus
ter on the Little Bighorn—will
escort MacArthur from the To
kyo railroad station In the
Marunouchi business quarter,
east of the palace grounds, to
See MaeARTHUR Page 2
Historic Papers
Reach Truman
WASHINGTON, Sept. 7— UP) —
The Japanese surrender papers
signed aboard the battleship Mis
souri were presented to President
Truman by Secretary of WarStim
son today at an informal White
House ceremony.
Also turned over to the presi
dent were Emperor Hirohito’s im
perial rescript, calling upon hts
subjects to submit peacefully, and
the credentials of the two Japan
ese who signed the surrender.
The documents were flown into
Washington last night by Col. Ber
nard Thielen, of North Hollywood,
Calif. Thielen, acting as officer
courier for the war department’s
general staff, left Tokyo Sept. 3
with the historic papers and fiew
by way of Manila, Honolulu and
San Francisco.
The president, smiling and ob
viously happy, pointed to some
Japanese symbols on the imperial
rescript and said:
“This is the emperor’s signature,
I take it.”
The documents will be placed
in the national archives for pub
lic examination along with German
surrender papers already on ex
I hibition there,
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Quisling Case
Goes To Jury Today
OSLO, Sept. 7—(jPV—'The trea
son case against Vidkun Quisling
went to a seven-man judge-jury
panel today after he concluded a
two-day oration in his own de
fense.
“If my activity has been treason
—as the records of this case
charge—then in the name of God
I hope that for Norway’s sake
many of her sons will become the
same kind of traitor as I without,
however, being thrown into pris
on,” the pale-faced former puppet
I dictator declared.
The verdict is not expected to
be handed down before Sept 13.
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