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MACARTHUR DEALS JAP MILITARISM DEATH BLOW
History May Disagree With Victors On War Responsibility-Tojo
Quisling Convicted,
Condemned To Death
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LONDON, Sept. 10.—(/P)—The Oslo radio announced
P today that Vidkun Quisling had been convicted of charges
of high treason and condemned to death.
xne pronouncing or the sentence
by the court that tried Quisling
for cooperation with the Germans
during the occupation of Norway
was broadcast direct from the
courtroom.
Under the new law legalizing
the death penalty in Norway, the
sentence will be executed by a
military firing squad composed of
10 soldiers firing 10 bullets.
Under the law Quisling can ap
peal to the Supreme court which
can commute the sentence but
cannot reverse it.
The presiding judge at
Quisling’s trial, however, was
Erik Solent who also is a Su
preme court justice and thus
one of the group which would
paas on any appeal.
Unless Quisling is held for pur
poses of giving evidence in other
war crimes cases. It is likely that
execution will be carried out with
in three weeks.
URGED INVASION
Quisling, 58, was major in Nor
way’s pre-war army and a former
defense minister. The prosecution
during the three weeks trial ac
cused him of meeting Hitler,
Seo QUISLING Page 2
Wainwright Receives
• Hero’s Welcome ——
| FgK [W Ineludes Pared* Along Washington Streets,
Welcome From Congress
WASHINGTON, Sept. 10.—(/P)—Gen. Jonathan M.
Wainwright, tired but triumphant, returned to a hero’s ac
claim today from the trials of Bataan and the horrors of
NAVY CHANGES
POINT SYSTEM
A«Mc Credit For Overseas
Service To Point Dis
charge Plan
»
>
WASHINGTON, Sept. 10. —<JF>—
The Navy to lowering the gangplank
for 433,000 more prospective civi
lians.
Effective Saturday, it is adding
credit for overseas service to its
point dteoharge system: One quart
er cA a point for every month of
service outside the continental
Untied States since Sept. 1, 1939.
No change was made in the point
totals necessary to qualify.
With the 327,000 made eUgible for
release when the point system first
was announced August 15. the new
action swells to 750,000 the number
to bs ready for discharge.
Ovarseas credit is given not only
for any duty outside this country
but for assignment to any ship in
commission.
COMING HOME
Simultaneously with the Navy’s
announcement last night, the Army
disclosed that it has set next Feb
ruary as the date for completing
the return of some 2,000,000 un
needed troops from Europe. It add
ed that more than 1,750,000 men
would be back from the Pacific by
June.
The latter figure indicated occu
pation forces in the Pacific would
be closer to 690,000 than the 900,000
previously estimated. This arose
from the fact that the return of
1,750,000 men would leave only
about 150,000 to share the occupa
tion chore with 540,000 others tick
eted for Pacific duty for the first
time.
Promising the Navy’s present
critical scores will be lowered as
rapidly as possible, Secretary For
restal added that within six months
half the men now in uniform will
be out. Within a year, he said, the
Navy would be down to its estimated
peacetime strength of 500,000. That
compares with a current total of
more than 8,300,000.
WHAT’S DOING
I
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TODAY
7:30 pm.—Cleveland county
hapter of Red Cross will meet
at Hotel Charles.
7:30 p.m.—State Guard drill
at armory.
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Japanese prisons.
The hero of Corregidor arrived
at the captal's national airport at
12:25 p.m. (EWTi. His wife,
•'Kitty" was waiting to greet him
as he stepped from an array trans
port command plane at the na
tional airpourt.
General George C. Marshall,
army chief of staff, accompa
nied Mrs. Walnwrlght.
Other high ranking army of
ficers stood in line to meet
the returning hero.
It was their first reunion in over
four years.
More than |.000 people and two
bands, greeted him at the air
port.
They had only a few momenls
together.” "Skinny” Wainwright
had to answer the acclaim of a
crowded, cheerful capital. To
gether the couple began an ap
plause-packed day of narading
through flagged bedecked streets,
appearances before Congress and
a White House meeting with Pres
ident Truman.
SHARED ORDEAL
The army commander who
fought the Japanese on Bataan a
gainst overwhelming odds until his
small force ran out of ammuni
tion was accompanied here by
four comrades who shared that
ordeal with him.
Wainwright was suffering with
See WAINWRIGHT Page 2
Henderson Nominated
For District Attorney
WASHINGTON, Sept. 10— UP) —
President Truman sent several
nominations to the senate today,
including:
David E. Henderson for U. S.
attorney for Western North Caro
lina, succeeding Theron Lamar
Caudle, resigned.
Korea Ready To Explode
Under Continued Jap Rule
By John Grover and Richard K.
O’Malley
SEOUL (KEIJO), Korea, Sept. 10.
—(#)—Korea was a potential powder
keg today after American occupa
tion forces moved In and announced
that Japanese administrative offic
ials \fould remain in office—but
would be under direct orders from
Lt. Gen. John R. Hodge, command
er of the 24th army corps.
Koreans, jubilant in expecta
tion of quick freedom under
American occupancy after hav
ing been dominated by the Jap
anese nearly half a century,
termed the army’s administra
REFUSES TO
TALK IDEA HE
MAY RETRIED
AP Correspondents Get
Exclusive Interview
With Militarist
now liveTon FARM
By MURLIN SPENCER AND
RUSSELL BRINES
(Copyright 1945 by the Associated
Press)
TOKYO, Sept. 10.—(£>)—;
! Gen. Hideki Tojo, who as Ja-j
pan’s warmakijig premier
| launched the attack on Pearl
Harbor, declared in an ex
clusive interview today that
the American victors now
could fix responsibility for
starting the war but that his
tory might disagree.
The one-time terror of Asia,
who now Is living quietly on his
comfortable farm outside Tokyo,
refused flatly to discuss such
questions as whether he expected
to be tried as a war criminal and
what defense he was preparing,
but was willing to talk of many
things, in moods ranging from
steely-eyed impassivity to hearty
laughter.
A little earlier, a formerly
high-placed Japanese politic
ian had told ns that Tojo ex
pected to be tried as a war
criminal and hoped to accuse
President Roosevelt of being
the world’s top war criminal,
then commit suicide in tradi
ditional hara kiri fashion. Of
this Tojo himself sharply re
fused to speak.
His whole attitude he expressed
in this statement:
“Real soldiers fight to the finish
in the field. War ends when peace
is declared. Each respects an ene
my who fights hard and cleanly
and so MacArthur has respect of
myself as well as the Japanese
people.”
HISTORY’S VERDICT
Asked who was responsible for
i starting the war, the man who was
premier and virtual dictator of Ja
pan from before Pearl Harbor un
til the Americans took Saipan, re
See REFUSES Page 2
i
SEVERE STORM
STRUCKJ5UNDAY
Randall Family At Earl
Suffers Lightning
Shock
A severe electrical storm attend
ed by a heavy downpour of rain
brought but slight relief Sunday
afternoon from heat of Indian sum
mer’s beginning.
The storm had near tragic con
sequences, however, in lower
Cleveland as lightning struck near
the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. A.
Randall, of Earl, knocking out elec
tric fixtures and severely shocking
members of the family.
Clyde Randall and his sister,
Miss Reba Randall of Camp Pickett.
Va„ home on vacation, were sitting i
on the porch and were shocked and j
burned by the bolt. Miss Randall'
was smitten as she pointed to the
roof which had sprung a leak under
the force of the high wind. Mrs.
Randall, who had come to the door
at her daughter’s call, was dazed
and shocked and had to be given
first aid; though in a highly ner
vous condition yet, she was able to
come this morning to her work at
Cohen’s where she Is employed as
a saleslady.
tive decision "» slap in the
face."
Demonstrations broke out in the
capital and political factions plas
tered the city with posters of pro
test.
A brief announcement by Brig.
Gen. Crump Garvin, Hodge’s chief
of staff, immediately after the Am
ericans landed at Jlnsen, deflated
Koreans’ hopes for quick, complete
Independence. After Hodge formally
accepted the surrender of the south
ern half of Korea (Russians will oc
cupy the northern half) from Lt.
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t
MacARTHUR AT U. S. FLAG-RAISING IN TOKYO—Gen. Douglas MacArthur (second from left!, supreme
Allied commander, and high-ranking officers behind him bow their heads during prayer Sept. 8 after the
historic ceremony at which the American flag was raised on the roof of the U. S. embassy in Tokyo. The
chaplain (left), who is offering prayer, is Lt. Col. Eugene Patrick Walsh of Richmond, Va. Others in the
picture were not identified.—(AP Wirephoto via Signal Corps radio from Manila).
PEARL HARBOR
ACTIONTALKED
Congress Calls For Inves
tigation, Decision Is
Deferred
WASHINGTON, Sept. 10. —(A5)—
Final action on legislation calling
for a congressional investigation
of the Pearl Harbor disaster was
deferred today by the house until
tomorrow.
At the suggestion of Democratic
Leader McCormack of Massachu
setts the house set aside one hour
to debate the proposal tomorrow,
with the understanding amendments
could be offered freely.
Republicans have served notice
they would offer an amendment to
give them equal representation on
the investigating committee.
As passed unanimously by the
senate last week, the legislation
calls for an inquiry by a ten-mem
ber committee, three Democrats
and two Republicans from each
branch. House Republicans want
three from each party from each
branch.
INTEREST HIGH
With the outcome virtually a
foregone conclusion, interest in the
case was heightened by two other
questions:
1. Whether Rear Adm. Husband
E. Kimmel, naval commander
the Pacific bastion when the Jap
anese struck, will request the court
martial the Navy had offered him.
2. Whether still secret Navy do
cuments should be made public
against official wishes.
Those two questions were raised
over the week-end as the result of
a letter from Secretary of the Navy
Forrestal to Chairman Walsh ID
Mass) of the senate naval commit
tee. Walsh released portions of the
letter.
NO REPLY
In it Forrestal disclosed that he
had offered Kimmel an open trial in
See PEARL Page 2
PRISONERS OF
JAPS DIED OF
MALNUTRITION
YOKOHAMA, Sept. 3— (Delay
ed)—(£>)—One hundred American
prisoners of war of a total of 400
died in a single winter from mal
nutrition and exposure in one
Japanese prison camp. Capt. How
ard W. Friedman of San Fran
cisco, U. S. army medical officer,
said today.
The camp yas near Yokkaichi,
where the prisoners worked in
heavy industries. Friedman said
he kept records and aided in the
treatment of the sick but that
medcial supplies were almost non
existent.
Friedman and 194 Americans
were first located when Fifth
air force planes, landed on the
outskirts of fire-razed Yoyama.
Of the 195 American prisoners,
130 had been without shoes until
after the surrender when the
Japanese issued them footwear.
Everyone had stories to tell.
Coloney Stubbs told of S-Sgt.
Ralph C. Kellett of Greenville, S.
C.—"One man who never let down
—who can handle Americans and
Japs and get things done.”
Supreme Court
Post Likely To
Go To Patterson
WASHINGTON, Sept. 10 — VP)—
President Truman will fool a lot
of people on Capitol Hill if he
doesn’t send up the appointment
this week of Robert Porter Pat
terson to the Supreme court.
Patterson, 54 year old undersec
retary of war, is a Republican. If
nominated, he will replace Asso
ciate Justice Owen J. Roberts,
Republican who resigned.
Congressional reports have it
that Mr. Truman isn’t enthusias
tic about Patterson’s record as
undersecretary. The two never hit
it off well when Mr. Truman was
head of the senate's war investi
gating committee.
SUCCESSOR?
But the President apparently
thinks the prospective appoin
tee was a good judge while he was
a member of the federal circuit
court of appeals.
If Patterson goes upstairs, a
great many legislators will be
watching closely to see who suc
ceeds him as undersecretary of
war. They figure that whoever
he is, he will be secretary before
Thanksgiving. Most congressmen
think Secretary of War Stimson
will retire before then.
The Capitol Hill guessing game
seems to center on Louis A. John
son as a possible presidential
choice for the post. Johnson had
the job once before, as assistant
to Harry F. Woodring.
RATIONING OF
MEAT GOES ON
OPA Officials Quash Ru
mors Program To End
Oct. 1; No Date Set
WASHINGTON, Sept. 10 —(/T>)—
Government food officials said
today no date has been set yet for
termination of meat rationing.
With cattle marketings increas
ing seasonably, supplies of meats,
particularly beef and veal, are
improving. At the Office of Price
administration it was said how
ever, that the meat supplies have
not increased sufficiently yet to
warrant ending of rationing.
There has been speculation that
rationing would be ended October
1. Aides of Secretary of Agricul
ture Anderson said that action
may be possible but no agreement
to that effect has been reached
yet between the agriculture de
partment and the OPA.
Several weeks ago, Anderson
expressed belief that meat sup
plies would improve sufficiently
to warrant ending of rationing
this fall, possibly as early as Sep
tember. OPA Chief Bowles oppos
ed action that early.
Agriculture department officials
said the final decision of lifting
of rationing October 1 will be
determined-- by cattle marketings
and demands for meat during the
next two weeks.
HUSS KILLED
IN COLLISION
Marion Blackmon, Driver
Of Beer Truck, Held For
Manslaughter
Ben Evans Huss, 18, recently diS'
charged veteran of World War i:
who lived in the Zoar church com
munity, was instantly killed anc
two young women, Mrs. Heler
Johnson and Miss Eva Allen, bott
of South Shelby, are in the Shelbj
hospital in a critical condition a;
the result of a collision between i
beer truck driven by Marion Black
mon of Charlotte and the car driver
by Russ on highway 74 seven miles
west of Shelby Saturday night al
j 9:30 o’clock.
Blackmon furnished $1,000 bone
for his appearance in Clevelanc
Recorder’s court on September 2'.
when he will be given a preliminarj
hearing on a manslaughter charge
The collision took place on t
straight stretch of highway, Sgt
W. L. Hatcher of the State High
way patrol, who investigated said
The beer truck was going west anc
the car driven by Russ was comini
east. A projection of the truck hi1
the Russ car on the driver’s side
and sliced its way from front tc
back. The body of Russ was re
moved from the back seat. The twe
young women were brought imme
diately to the Shelby hospital where
it was stated they had a chance t<
live. However, their conditions thi:
morning were described as unim
proved.
Sgt. Hatcher said that his in
See RUSS Page 2
Strike Picture
Somewhat Brighter
By The Associated Press
Eighteen of 56 reported labor
disturbances today accounted lor
almost exactly three-fourths cf
the approximately 19,000 persons
idle, but the picture was bright
ened somewhat by the recall of
22,000 Ford workers to their jobs.
The eighteen disputes ranged
from the 15,000 idle at the Con
solidated Steel company plant,
I Orange, Tex., through such firms
as Westinghouse Electric (12,000),
the H. E. Frick Coke Co., Pitts
burgh (7.500), and the Kelsev
Hayes Wheel Co., Detroit (4,500),
Other disturbances involved
numbers from 25 upward to 1,500.
Congress Starts First Fall
Week Of \Reconversion’ Term
WASHINGTON, Sept. 10— (£>)
Congress concerned itself today
with the hero of Bataan and the
culprit—if any—of Pearl Harbor
It starts the first full week ol
its “reconversion” session by for
mally receiving Gen. Jonathan M
Wainwright and acting on a reso
lution for a congressional investi
gation disaster of Dec. 7, 1941.
Otherwise on Capitol Hill there
was talk on such diverse subject:
as a peacetime navy, surplus prop
erty, airports, wages and hours
the atomic bomb and presidentia
appointments.
General Wainwright, who
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Jap Imperial General
Headquarters Abolished;
Censorship Clamped On
TOKYO, Sept. 10.—(/P)—General MacArthur struck
Japanese militarism a death blow today by ordering the im
perial general headquarters abolished and simultaneously;
clamped a press and radio censorship on the beaten empire.
As supreme commander he issued a directive that the
headquarters must dissolve by Sept. 13. General headquar
ters was set up in 1940 a few months before Pearl Harbor
to coordinate army and navy activity.
AIRMEN KILLED
YAMAMOTO
Yanks Deciphered Japa
nese Code, Destroyed
Admiral's Plane
WASHINGTON, Sept. 10. —<£>)—
Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto—who
boasted he would dictate peace In
the White House—met flaming
death in the Solomons In April,
1943, because this country broke
a Japanese code.
The commander in .chief of the
Japanese navy was shot down by
American airmen who knew in ad
vance the course his aerial convoy
was to follow. They set an elaborate
trap, then sprung it from high above
. the admiral’s tightly-guarded bomb
. er.
i The Japanese themselves told of
Yamamoto’s death, but they did
, not tell the part American intelli
gence played in reading coded
orders.
J. Norman Lodge, veteran Asso
ciated Press writer, learned of the
i incident while a war correspondent
in the South Pacific. His long-un
revealed account related that the
enemy code was cracked in March
or April, 1943.
As a result, it was known what
time Yamamoto would leave Truk,
when he would arrive at Buka, and
when he would leave Buka for
Kahilli or Ballale.
Six Lightnings and some decoys
' were sent to the rendezvous. The
Yamamoto convoys arrived es
corted by 20 Zeros.
The decoys, flying at about 18,000
feet, tried to lure the Zeros away,
but the enemy fighters stubbornly
refused to be drawn from the pre
cious cargo.
, When this strategy failed, two
Lightnings peeled off at 34,000 feet
and headed in a vertical dive for
the two Japanese bombers, not
. knowing which one held Yamamoto.
, They exploded both bombers,
; despite the frantic defense of tne
Zeros.
Adding two of the Zeros to their
bag for good measure, both Ameri
can ships reached home safely, al
though badly shot up.
Tropical Storm
Off Florida Coast
MIAMI, FLA., Sept. 10 —</P)—
The weather bureau reported
early today that a tropical dis
turbance of “light to moderate
intensity,” centered about 140
miles northeast of St. Kitts, was
moving west northwestward at
about 14 miles per hour.
A 4 a.m. (EWT) advisory from
San Juan, Puerto Rico, said the
disturbance was accompanied by
, winds of about 35 miles per hour
j and cautioned against a possible
increase in the storm’s intensity.
Small craft warnings have been
hoisted in the Virgin islands and
northern Leeward islands west
ward to Puerto Rico.
| finally surrendered the Philip
pines to the Japanese after a
valiant fight, was scheduled
I to make personal appearances
in both the senate and the
house.
But before his arrival, the
house hopes to dispose of a sen
ate-passed resolution calling for
the Pearl Harbor investigation.
The lawmakers—dissatisfied with
> reports of army and navy inquiry
i boards—want an independent study
. by congress.
This was the situation on other
See CONGKESS Page 3
moved smoothly, sparks flew In
Korea over MacArthur’s policy of
retaining Japanese officials in of
fice.
Koreans demonstrated in Seoul
(Keijo) and termed it “a slap in
the face” when Lt. Gen. John R.
Hodge, whose 24th army corps
landed at Jinsen Saturday, pro
claimed that Japanese administra
tive officials would continue in
office. They had expected quick
freedom from the Nipponese.
Hodge, after accepting surrender
of southern Korea (the Russians
control the northern half), quick
ly explained that the Japanese
governor-general and his staff
would remain in office only to
carry out American orders and
would be allowed no independent
action.
NORTHERN HONSHU
Vice Adm. Prank Jack Fletcher
and his north Pacific naval forces
accepted Japan’s surrender of all
northern Honshu and the north
ernmost home island of Hokkaido
at Ominato naval base Sunday.
Japanese were ordered to disarm
and to continue their civil admin
istration.
MacArthur simultaneously issued
two statements from his nerfr
headquarters in the U. S. embassy
in Tokyo. One pledged that Jap
anese militarism would be elimi
nated. The other assured his troops
they would go home as soon as
peace could be made secure.
In his first statement he ex
plained that the Japanese would
rule themselves, subject to his or
ders and with occupation troops
ready to enforce his decisions if
necessary.
He warned his own troops
to respect the rights of Jap
anese:
“Looting, pillage rape . . .
would be but a stain on your
own high honor.”
To the Japanese, he announced
that freedom of speech, press, re
ligion and assembly would be en
couraged, limited only by the de
mands of military security. Al
though Japanese must obey his
orders, issued through their own
imperial government, they will be
free from “all unwarranted inter
See JAP Page 2
Gaffney Plant
Returned To
Owners’ Hand
GAFFNEY, Septr. 10. — (.F) —
Operation of the Gaffney Manu
facturing Company, biggest textile
plant in Cherokee county, was back
in the hands of the management
today following more than three
months in which the plant was
operated by the Army.
Capt. Halbert M. Jones, War De
partment representative who had
been in charge of the plant since
the Army took over last May 28,
formally turned operations back
over to the management yesterday.
No immediate operating plans
were announced by the mill man
agement.
Members of a union local at the
plant, however, issued a statement
in which they praised methods of
operation while the mill was under
army supervision.
LAST MAY
The army took over the plant
last May following a two-week
strike which union leaders said was
precipitated by refusal of the man
agement to continue a dues “check
off” clause in a contract between
the union and the company. Under
army operation, employees worked
under terms of the old contract, in
cluding the “check-off" clause, at
the direction of the War Labor
board.
In the period in which the army
operated the plant, Jones said, em
ployees increased in number from
about 650 to 750 and production of
cotton cloth increased from about
650,000 yards each week to approx
imately 900,000 yards weekly.