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WEATHER Partly cloudy and not quite so warm today with scattered thun dershowers in east this afternoon; fair and cooler tonight; fair and mild Wednesday. ] The SIhellIy Bailg Stett CLEVELAND COUNTY’S NEWSPAPER SINCE 1894 TELEPHONES 1100 - State Theatre Today - “A THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS” Starring CORNEL WILDE VOL XLII1- 218 ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWS SHELBY, N. C. TUESDAY, SEPT. 11, 1945 TELEMA1 PICTURES SINGLE COPIES—6e * Truman May Come To Kings Mountain For Speech This Fall ACCEPTS BID FOR ADDRESS ► TENTATIVELY Senator Hoey Notifies Star Of Probable Acceptance LIKELY InTToVEMBER President Truman today ac cepted tentatively a speaking engagement at the Kings Mountain battleground cele bration for early November when he visits North Carolina in the course of a trip to Warm Springs, Senator Clyde R. Hoey advised The Star to day by long distance tele phone. Senator Hoey had Just come from a conference with the Pres ident In which he and Senator J. W. Bailey urged appointment of Judge John J. Parker to the Su preme court bench. In course of the talks Senator Hoey renewed the Invitation to the President to visit Cleveland coun ty and participate In the 165th anniversary celebration of the Battle of Kings Mountain, turning point of the American Revolution. President Truman, who previously1 . had accepted an Invitation to ad * dress the North Carolina State Senate gathering In Statesville, eakl •hat' Mountain visit could be Included in his itin erary he would like nothing bet ter than to visit that historic spot; he felt It could be arranged for him to speak at Statesville in the morning and at the battle-1 ground In the afternoon. Glee A. Bridges, chairman of Cleveland county commissioners, who suggested earlier that Presi dent Truman be Invited to speak at this year's celebration said to day that he would start at once shaping county-wide committees to arrange the gala celebration which would be deferred for President Truman’s convenience. The President told Senators Hoey and Bailey that he would be un able to make a suggested visit to Hendersonville on the trip, but that he thought the Kings Moun tain engagement can be worked In. President Herbert Hoover in 1930 came to Kings Mountain for the 150th anniversary of the Bat tle of Kings Mountain. WAR CAPTIVE CAMP LOCATED ON HOKKAIDO U. 8. S. PANAMINT, Ominato Bay, Japan, Sept. 11. — (A>)— Car rier pilots who made radio contacts with allied prisoners of war at Bibla in west central Hokkaido re ported yesterday the captives ap peared in good condition. The prisoners seemed to be cloth ed adequately, waved and “Jumped around" in elation as the American fliers roared overhead, added the pilots, Lt. Cmdr. Robert Startzell, Houston, Tex., and Lt. (Jg) Walter X. Webb, Galdwlnsvllle, N. Y. After communicating with the prisoners by walkle talkie radio, Startzell and Webb reported that the senior medical officer is Capt. J. R. Bumgarner, Hillsboro, N. C. There are four other camps in the vicinity. Ten to 12 tons of supplies were dropped on Blbia and drops will be continued until the captives can be released. Trial Of Joyce Set For Next Monday LONDON, Sept. 11. —W— The trial of William Joyce, 39, Ameri can-born Nazi radio propagandist known as Lord Haw Haw, on a charge of treason has been set for * next Monday. The trial will be heard by Jus tice J. Tucker at London's famous old Bailey court. Also scheduled for trial at the September session of central crim inal court is the case of John Amery, 33-year-old son of the former Brit ish secretary of state for India on a treason charge. At a preliminary hearing in July, Amery was accused of attempting to induce British prisoners of war to fight alongside the Germans WASHINGTON CROWD GREETS GEN. AVAINWRIGHT—A cheering crowd surrounds Gen. Jonathan M. Wainwright and his wife, Kitty, (center), as the hero of Corregidor arrives at the National Airport from San Francisco. He was liberated from a Jap prison camp in Manchuria recently. Gen. George C. Marshall, army chief of staff, sits just to the left of Mrs. Wainwright.—(AP Wirephoto). Wain wright Ready To Tell His Story General In Seclusion Today After. Strenuous Day Of Acclaim Yesterday By Arthur Edson WASHINGTON, Sept. 11.—(/P)—Gen. Jonathan M. Wainwright is ready to tell the “pitiful story” of the last days of Corregidor and the prison horrors that followed. Hoey, Bailey Ask Parker’s Nomination WASHINGTON. Sept. 11—(/P>— Democratic Senators Bailey and Hoey ol North Carolina called at the White House today to urge the appointment of Judge John J. Parker to the United States su preme court. Parker himself was on President Truman’s calling list for later in the day. Now a member of the U. S. court of appeals for the Fourth circuit WASHINGTON, Sept. 11. — UP}—John J. Parker of North Carolina, it was learned today, may be appointed the United States member of the interna tional court to try German war criminals. which includes North Carolina, Parker was urged as a successor to Owen J. Roberts, who recently retired. He won a strong endorsement recently from Comptroller General Lindsay Warren, a fellow North Carolinian. ONCE NOMI IATED Judge Parker was once nominat ed for the supreme court by Pres ident Hoover but the senate did not confirm the nomination. He has been a Judge of the Fourth U. B. Circuit Court of Appeals since Oct. 3, 1925, by appointment of President Coolidge. In 1920, Parker was the Repub lican nominee for governor of North Carolina. He is 59 years old. Some congressional sources have See HOEY Page 2 WHAfS DOING TODAY 7:00 p.m.—Regular meeting of the Lions club. 7:30 p.m.—CAP cadets meet at armory. 8:00 p.m.—Local chapter of Eastern Star meets at Maso znlc Temple. 8:15 pm. — Members and would-be members of Shelby Saddle Horse association will meet in council chamber of city halL WEDNESDAY 7:45 p.m.—Prayer meeting at Presbyterian church. 8:00 pm. — Fellowship hour at Central Methodist church. 8:00 p.m. — Midweek prayer and praise service at First Baptist church. He hasn t said Just when his re port will be given t® the war de partment. And there is no indica tion when it will be given to the nation. Perhaps that won't come j until the army has tracked down j the individual Japanese responsi- j ble for the grimmer details of that story. The general’s taking a rest today—a well-earned one. Yester day he: 1. Saw his wife for the first time in four dreary years. 2. Made three speeches. 3. Got the congressional me dal of honor fifcm President Truman. 4. Rode through miles of cheering spectators—in an open car In typical (hot and hu mid) Washington weather. 5. Held a news conference, at which he disclosed that Jap anese Jailers heaped, ‘indigni ties” on high ranking Ameri can officers. “The American people,” he said, “must realize fully the nature of the enemy we knew so well.” Yesterday’s pell-mell schedule was strenuous enough to put a well man in the hospital. But Wainwright, 62. still weak from his imprisonment, and with a tooth ache to boot, showed the same stuff that brought him through his long ordeal. THOUSANDS CHEER He grinned and waved to the thousands upon thousands who cheered for “Skinny.” And his voice was firm and determined when he See WAINWRIGHT Page * Tropical Storm Off Puerto Rico MIAMI, Fla., Sept. 11% —W— A tropical disturbance qf moderate Intensity was apparently centered about 370 miles north of San Juan, Puerto Rico, and wfes moving northward at about 18 miles per hour, the weather bureau said in a 4 a.m. (EWT) advisory. Only meager observation data had been received from the storm area, the bureau added. The disturbance was attended by winds of 50 to 60 miles per hour over a somewhat larger area north ward. Caution was advised to vessels in the path of the storm. Japanese On Borneo Give Up To Aussies SYDNEY, Sept. 11—(A>)—Lt. Gen. Baba, commander of Japanese on Borneo, and Rear Adm. Saburo Sato, commander of Nipponese naval forces on New Guinea, have surrendered to the Australians, it was announced today. SECRET POLICE WILL DISBAND Head Of Kempei-Tai Re ports ItWfli Be tnd * ed By Oct. 15 TOKYO, Sept. 11 —(vP)— The commanding general of the dread Kempel-Tai, Japan’s secret police, told me today that his organiza tion would be disbanded com pletely by Oct. 15 and “don’t worry about secret organization, for there will be none.” “I am obedient only to the im perial will of the emperor,” Lt. Gen. Jo Imura said througn his interpreters. “Our chief concern now is the establishment of peace in this country. There shall be no steps toward a secret under ground movement permitted.” Both Imura and his next in command, Lt. Gen. Otogoro Ishi da, pledged themselves personally responsible to keep down any moves against occupation troops and peace of the world. HEADQUARTERS I met Imura at his big brick headquarters across the street from the imperial palace grounds. Within these sober walls, was the place where scores of Japanese civilians have told me that many persons suspected of opposing the war were held for days—deprived of food, deprived of legal repre sentation, and questioned for long hours. Imura is a 57-year-old field of ficer who served in New Guinea and New Celebes, returning last December to Tokyo where he took over the defense of that city until assuming his present post. Ishida and Imura spoke through their own two interpreters, and my interpreters stood idly at my side. He had been a prisoner within these walls only a few weeks ago, and had expressed fear when he learned we were go gee SECRET Page 2 Devereux Reported In Bibai Area Camp OMINATO, Japan, Sept. 11.—(JP) —Lt. Col. James P. Devereux, he rois marine commander on Watce Island, is alive and in charge of one of the prisoner of war camps in the Bibai area of Hokkaido I Island, five prisoners of war from I the district reported here today, i —____ British Want $3,000,000,000 From U. S. In Next 3 Years i By JOHN jvi. lUliHlUWMl WASHINGTON, Sept. 11. — (/Ph Financial help totalling at least $3,000,000,000 for the next three years appears to be the British goal in an Anglo-American economic confrence opening here today. Both sides are reluctant to talk about actual dollar aid although that is the core of the whole con ference. The British would like the United States to say what assistance it can offer. j The Americans would prefer for the British to tell what they want and then negotiate on that basis. KILGORE GIVES I UP FIGHT FOR , MORE BENEFITS Suggests Supplement To Let Payments Last For 26 Weeks NO $25 MAXIMUM WASHINGTON, Sept. 11.— fP)—Senator Kilgore (D-WV) today abandoned his drive for unemployment compensation benefits ranging up to $25 a veek for 26 weeks. Instead he suggested that the 'ederal government supplement state funds where the maximum payment period does not last 26 weeks. As Kilgore explained it to a news conference, a state which paid benefits for 14 weeks would get federal money for 12 more weeks. Present rates would be re tained—there would be no as surance of a $25 maximum. Kilgore said he was willing for the senate finance committee to knock out of his bill a mandatory clause saying that if the states did not pay the proposed schedule of benefits, the government would. Both Senators Vandenberg (R Mich) and Taft (R-Ohio) have suggested that the government augment state payments to allow for a 50 percent longer period of payment, at present rates. But Kilgore said this would be unfair, that this would mean pay ments would last 21 weeks in Mississippi, 30 weeks in Michigan and 39 weeks in Washington state. He told reporters uniformity was the only fair way. PRIVATE ENTERPRISE The finance committee may vote an Kilgore’s suggestion later to day. Emphasis on the part of private enterprise should play in assuring peacetime jobs came today from backers of the so-called full em ployment bill. They carried to a senate bank ing subcommittee (10 am. EWT) changes embodying this emphasis but stating that full employment should be the government’s “re sponsibility.” In the redraft, the first point of the projected law states that it shall: “Stimulate, encourage, and See KILGORE Page 2 U. S. Corporations Slated For Control WASHINGTON, Sept. 11 —</P)— Congress moved today to take over control of virtually all gov ernment corporations. A bill on which the house sched uled debate this afternoon would require most of the 101 govern ment corporations to submit an nual budgets which would be sub ject to congressional change or rejection. House leaders expect the pleas ure to pass late today or tomor row. It has been opposed by some of the agencies concerned, but a similar measure by Senator Byrd (D-Va) and Butler (R-Neb) has been endorsed by President Tru man. French Troops Off For Inio-China \_ PARIS, Sept. 11. — m— The French press agency said today the first contingent of French reoccU pation troops—900 members of Gen. Jacques Leclerc’s Second armored division and 150 marines—left Mar seille yesterday for Indo-China. The conference, which will help determine the pattern of postwar trade and therefore of peace for years to come, will be organized at a meeting called for 4 pjn. (EWT). ECONOMIC OFFICIALS It will bring together Lord Hali fax, the British ambassador, and assistant Secretary of State William L. Clayton, who head their delega tions. Also present will be top eco nomic officials of both govern ments. Halifax will have a news con ference Wednesday. The negotia te BRITISH Page 2 FRED BLANTON BLANTON HEADS RED CROSS UNIT Other Officers, Directors Elected, Committee Reports Heard Fred W. Blanton, banker anc insurance executive, was called back to chairmanship of the Cleve land county chapter of the Am erican Red Cross, a post he filled for five years from 1938, when ih< board of directors held their an nual meeting Monday night. H< succeeds Dale R. Yates who foi two years headed the organiza tion until his recent removal t< Vincenpes, Indiana. Re*-electetf wefb Fred *L. Baird vice-chairman; Robert H. Cooke treasurer; J. L. Suttle, jr., secre tary and assistant treasurer. Nom ination of the staff members wll be first consideration of the new board of directors which this yeai was elected for the first time or a rotating basis. DIRECTORS NAMED Elected directors for one yeai terms are R. T. LeGrand, Horacf Easom, B. G. Beason, J. B. Low: ery, A. L. Calton, C. Rush Ham rick, sr., Samuel Wilson, B. Aus tell, A. C. Brackett and Dori Bolt; for two year terms are Mi Blanton, Mr. Suttle, Claude C Falls, Mrs. Rush Stroup, M. A Spangler, sr., J. Horace Grigg Datha Elliott, Lester O. Hamrick Jean Schenck and Reid Misenhei mer; for three year terms Thai C. Ford, J. U. Rollins, M. G. Whit worth, Hugh Hoyle, Earl D. Hon eycutt, Holt McPherson, Tom C Stamey, John F. Schenck, jr Charles Dover and Had c. Houpe Reports on the past year’s worl were were rendered by the com mittee chairmen. Mrs. H. E. No ell, war prisoners aid chairman reported 120 visits and that onl; two Cleveland county boys remaii in custody of the enemy, they be tag in Japanese camps so far a is known. Holt McPherson, disas ter preparedness chairman, re ported that committee in readi ness for emergency call; Mrs. 1 L. Kemper’s report on home nurs ing showed activity; the produc tion report of Mrs. Frank Love’ surgical dressings report showei 113,400 dressings made in tha program; in knitting 325 worker put in 8,403 hours making 1,17 articles under direction of Mr: Norris Lackey; in sewing 1,74 filled army kit bags, 1,807 u.nfiil ed, 288 navy filled, 400 bedpai covers, 100 housewives, while 20 utility bags are ready for ship ment together with 100 men’s pa jamas and 50 infants’ slips. In nurses’ aid, Mrs. J. W. Har bison, chairman, 18 aides pe month averaged duty for a tots of 4,386 hours. Four had put i over 500 hours each, they beta Miss Elizabeth Alexander, Mr: Thelma Hopper Smith, Mrs. Ine Allen and Mrs. Max Francis. Bi. See BLANTON Page 2 Committee Votes To End War Time __», WASHINGTON, Sept. 11 —<#) The house interstate commerc committee vo 'd unanimously tc day to do at y with war time a the end of this month. The action, if approved by th whole Congress—and such appro val seems certain — would tur the nation’s clocks back one hou: The legislation provides for \e establishing standard time at a.m. Sunday, Sept. 30, last day c the month. Rep. Boren (D-Okla), author ( fhe measure, said he expected t bring it before the house tomoi i row and predicted it would pa; | there without a dissenting voice Ex-Premier Still Alive 3 Hours After Shooting, Is Given ‘50-50 Chance’ TOKYO, Sept. 11.—(/P)—Hideki Tojo, the Japanese war time premier who ordered the treacherous Pearl Harbor at tack, shot himself today as General MacArthur’s operatives knocked at his door to arrest him—but American blood trans fusions tonight had given him a “50-50 chance” for life. A Japanese doctor earlier had reported nothing could save the “dying” ex-premier. Nearly three hours after the shooting, however, he remained alive—although he probably was not conscious of the fight his former enemies were mak ing to save him. Tojo, shaven-headed “razor brain” of Japan’s militarist clique, had identified himself through a window as American officers neared; then, lacking time for the ceremonial knives which he had prepared, used a pistol on himself. General MacArthur tonight di rected tha„ 39 other persons, in cluding Shigenori Togo, member of Tojo’s Pearl Harbor cabinet, and Lt. Gen. Masahara Homma, of Philipines Infamy, be taken into custody by the American military forces. The list included: Togo, Okinori Kaya, Admiral Shigetara Shimada, Nobusuke Ki-1 shi, Rear Adm. Ken. Terashima, I Michiyo Iwamura, Kunihiko Hash ida, Hiroya Ino, Chikahiko Koizu- 1 mi, Sadaichi Suzuki, all members ' of the Pearl Harbor war cabinet; and General Homma, commander > of Japanese forces in the Philip pines who was “responsible” for the , death march from Bataan and who , accepted General Wainwright’s sur ■ render. Also listed were Jose Laurel, pup pet president of the Philippines; Jorge Vargas, puppet ambassador from the Philippines to Japan; Heinrich Stahmer, German ambas sador to Japan; Pratap Mahendra, president of the “Aryan army,” Indian pro-Japanese organization, headquarters spokesmen explained. MacArthur also ordered Lt. Gen. John R. Hodge, com manding the 24th army corps occupying Korea, to replace all Japanese in governmental po sitions as rapidly as possible “consistent with the safety of operations.” MacArthur's order for the for mer premier’s arrest came after See EX-PREMIER Page * Italy First Topic Before Ministers Future Of Germany, Atomic Bomb Not On Agendo For Big Five Foreign Ministers LONDON, Sept. 11.—(/P)—Secretary of State James F. Byrnes told a press conference today tha^ Italy would be the - first topic for the conference of foreign ministers of five i allied nations meeting this afternoon and that the atom ■ bomb was not on the agenda. The foreign secretaries of Rus , sia, Great Britain, France and • China are here with Byrnes, start : ing peace machinery provided by ■ the Potsdam conference. Byrnes himself did not say so, but it was understood that ' the United States would ask 1 that the bulk of Italy’s col j onies be left under Italian con trol as trusteeships, with Unit ed Nations supervision. It is expected that the Dode canese Islands, off Turkey’s west coast, will go to Greece. At the narrows of the Mediterranean— Fantelleria—the first island con quered by air power alone—prob 1 ably will become either a British t or international base. A strip of 3 Italian Eritrea will be claimed by i Ethiopia. The British are expected to ask ) t that a strip of eastern Cyrenaica, ■ Libya, be taken from Italy and i placed either under international D or Egyptian rule. The territory is - inhabited by the Senussi tribe of - Arabs, whom the British have promised freedom from Italian • rule. r TWO WEEKS 1 Byrnes said he expected to re l; main in London two weeks and l then commute between here and Washington. He talked with the z British foreign secretary, Ernest 1 Bevin, early today. Byrnes said the future of See ITALY Page * 19,000 Women And Children In Java l Internment Camps t MELBOURNE. Sept. 11. —(/P) —A smal. Allied party has land e ed in Java and found 19,000 women and children crowded in 1 five Batavia internment camps, the Netherland East Indies gov ernment information office an 2 lounced today. f Two thousand of those in terned were said to be seriousb f ill. o Allied medical officers arc taking medicines and relief to s the internees and war prison ers, the announcement said. SENATE URGING END TODRAFT Committee Asks Explana tion Of Demobilization Plans WASHINGTON, Sept. 11 —(IP)— The senate military committee overrode objections of Chairman Thomas (D-Utah) today to de mand an explanation from Sec retary of War Stimson and Gen. George C. Marshall of demobiliza tion plans. Even after they were told the army plans to step up its release of men from the present rate of 11,000 to 22,000 a day, members insisted upon public hearings. Thomas then announced they will begin tomorrow and that Stimson, Marshall, Secretary of Navy Forrestal and Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King had been invited to appear. Senator Edwin C. Johnson (D Colo), who criticized what he call ed the "snail's pace” of demobili zation, said Thomas asked the committee to delay action until military leaders fix the number of men needed for occupation in Asia and Europe. The committee was informed that in the first week of Septem ber the army had discharged 72, 573 men or 20,598 more than re leased the previous week. At the same time, members ; learned that the army’s strength on Sept. 1 still was 8,f '0,00 m pared with 8,103,000 a year prev iously. War department records fumish d the committee indicated that aischarges now are coming at the rate of 4,380,000 a year. This would be almost doubled, committee members heard, when the rate of °,000 a day is reached. The army said it could dis bar ge men as rapidly in the 1*6 xoaration centers as it could get them back to this country. It edd ied that 661,000 had been released I between May 12 and Sept. 1.