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“Two O'clock Courage”
TOM CONWAY
ANN RUTHERFORD
ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWS
SHELBY, N C.
THURSDAY, SEPT. 13, 1945
TELEMAT PICTURES
VOL. XLI11— 220.
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JAP GOVERNMENT WILL ROUND UP ‘WANTED’ LIST
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JAPAN BEATEN
TO HER KNEES
BY AIR BLOWS
Industry Paralyzed By
Blockade Effected By
Air-Sown Mines
MILLIONS "STARVING
By Russell Brines
TOKYO, Thursday, Sept.
13.—(A*)—Japan was beaten
to her knees before surrender
by the American “aerial in
vasion” which virtually para
lyzed industry and so com
pletely blockaded the islands
that 7,000,000 Japanese prob
ably would have starved to
death if the war had contin
ued another year.
This was reported by seven pro
minent industrialists at a press con
ference yesterday.
They said that American air raids
decided the outcome of the war
and that Japan was defeated before
the first atomic bomb was dropped.
Only the militarists and industrial
ists, however knew the^ had been
beaten. The former wouldn’t admit
it and “we Industrialists were too
cowardly to speak out."
The industrialists participating
in the conference were Ryozo As
ano. president of the Japan Steel
Tube Co., Ltd., and director of
Asano Portland Cement Co.; Aii
chiro Fujiyama, president of the
chambers of commerce and indu
stry; Ichiro Hattorl, managing di
rector of Mitsubishi Trading Co.;
T. Komatsu, managing director,
Japan Steel Tube; Klyoshi Miya
saki, president of Mitsui & Co., and
Hlsanobu Terai, president of Nip
pon - Yusen - Kaisha (steamship
lines'.
8UCCEESFUL BLOCKADE
Asano, with nods of agreement
from the others, disclosed that
mines strewn by Superforts were
highly successful in the blockade.
He said ship losses in June and
July, 1945, proportionately were one
vessel sunk by submarines to six by
bombing and 12 by mines.
Resultant shortages of coal, oil,
salt and food contributed to para
lysing of Industry so completely
that industrialists indirectly in
formed the militarists shortly be
fore the surrender that Industry
could not continue.
The industrialists estimated that
10 per cent of the population
would have starved if the war con
tinued another year. They said of
ficial rationing had been half of
normal diet since July, 1945, and
that food still was a major prob
lem.
NBC, ABC BACK
ON AIR TODAY
Broadcasts Resumed Min
us Engineers Who Walk
ed Out Wednesday
NEW YORK, Sept.* 13—(JPi—The
American National Broadcasting
companies returned to the air at
8 am. (EWT) today, their regular
opening time, but engineers who
walked out yesterday remained
away from their jobs.
Engineering executives and some
radio announcers and producers
turned technician to put the net
works on the air—manning con
trol panels, pulling switches and
turning dials.
The engineers walked out at 8
a.m. (EWT) yesterday, disrupting
nationwide service and causing
cancellation of some programs.
A. T. Powley, president of the
Independent Engineers’ union, the
National Association of Broadcast
Engineers and Technicians, said
last night the men would be asked
to return to work today.
He was not available Immedi
ately for comment this morning
as the networks went on the air.
Both NBC and ABC said they
expected their broadcasts to be
“as normal as possible,” and NBC
said it expected "probably not too
much Interruption of regular pro
grams.”
NO CANCELLATIONS
Neither reported any program
cancellations, but NBC said its
world-wide news round-up going
on at 8 a.m. (EWT) was forced
to omit Washington and the Pa
cific from the points usually re
porting. That left only London
and New York, NBC said.
Officials of both networks term
ed the walkout unauthorized and
said It began without warning.
The union said It resulted from
a breakdown in contract negotia
tions.
After the walkout yesterday, the
8m NBC, ABC Page 2
■■■WY'W
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YANK DOCTOR TREATS TOJO AFTER SUICIDE ATTEMPT—Capt. Janies Johnson, U. S. Army doctor
from Newark, Ohio, takes the pulse of ex-Jap Premier Hideki Tojo during a blood transfusion after the
instigator of the Pearl Harbor attack shot himself in a suicide attempt at his home near Tokyo. A Japanese
nurse (right) assists. In the background is the Japanese doctor who attended Tojo immediately after the
shooting but gave him up to die. This picture was made by Charles Gorry, Associated Press photographer
with the war time still picture pool, who was at Tojo’s when he shot himself.—(AP Wirephoto via Navy radio
from U. S. S. Iowa in Tokyo Bay).
MAP PLAN FOR
JAPS’ TRIALS
U. S. Hopes Measures
May Be Similar To Those
Against Nazis
WASHINGTON, Sept. 13 —«PV
The United States hopes lor quick
and vigorous action against Japa
nese war criminals paralleling
measures taken against German
war criminals, it was learned to
day.
A high government authority
made it clear that Washington
hopes to apply to Japan the theory
evolved by Robert Jackson, U. S.
prosecutor in Germany, that per
sons responsible for starting an
aggressive war should be adjudged
guilty of war crimes.
It also made evident that the
same procedures for trying local
war criminals at the scenes of
their misdeeds and for joint allied
trial of the top men is contem
plated in respect to the Japanese
problem.
IN*KOREA
It was said that the immediate
purpose, of the American military
in Korea should be to remove the
Japanese conquerors of that long
occupied land from power but no
evidence was offered here that a
comprehensive policy on Korea has
been drawn up.
Likewise from top official sour
ces no comment was forthcoming
on the action of Lt. Gen. John R.
Hodge, American military gover
nor of Korea, in retainihg Japanese
administration in power for the
time being.
Gei?. Eisenhower Is
Received By Pope
ROME, Sept. 13.—(/P)—Pope Pius
XII received Gen. Eisenhower, his
son, Lt. John Eisenhower, and
Gen. Mark W. Clark, U. S. com
mander in Austria, in a private
audience today.
Following the audience Gen. Eis
enhower visited St. Peter’s cathe
dral. The Allied commander was
expected to return to his head
quarters in Germany tomorrow.
SANTIAGO, Chile, Sept. 13—
(A5)—A violent earthquake shook
this capital at 7:18 a.m. today.
TODAY IN CONGRESS;
800,000 Discharg
By Dec.l Promise
WASHINGTON, Sept. 13. —(IP)—
The Army told senators it expects
to be discharging 800,000 men a
month by December 1.
The Navy asked Congress again
—please—not to reveal part of the
Pearl Harbor story, the part about
the Japanese code.
Congress listened to the Army and
Navy—with mixed feelings.
That was the situation on Capi
tol Hill today, along with congres
sional news about surplus property
. . . standard time . . . government
corporations ... airports . . . un
employment pay . . . and the Jap- j
Shoe Rationing
To End Oct.l
By MARVIN L. ARROWSMITH
WASHINGTON, Sept. 13. —(/P)—
Shoe rationing may end October 1.
It will if top officials of the War
Production board follow recom
mendaUw** of the agency's leather
bureau. It’s the job of that bureau
to know the shoe situation thor
oughly.
A decision will be made In the
next week or so, after conferences
between WPB Chairman J. A. Krug
and OPA Administrator Chester
Bowles.
OPA shoe officials are not ex
pected to voice any strenuous ob
jections to the WPB proposal, al
though October 15 and November
1 have been mentioned more fre
quently within OPA as likely dates
for ending the program.
There is not complete agreement
in WPB on the October 1 date. The
agency’s Office of Civilian Re
quirements reportedly wants to
make sure before committing itself
that stocks and the production out
look are adequate* to permit unre
stricted buying.
Both OPA and WPB have indi
cated that when shoe output reach
es the rate of 30,000,000 pairs a
month, rationing can be ended. The
recommendation of WPB’s leather
bureau is saifl to be based on strong
indications that such a rate will be
achieved nex|t month. If it is it will
be only about 3,000,000 pairs short
of the 1939 monthly rate.
In advocating an early end of the
See RUMOR Page 2
Hurricane May Pass
North Of Puerto Rico
MIAMI, FLA., Sept, 13—(JPj—A
tropical hurricane located about
80 miles northeast of St. Thomas
is expected to pass about 70 miles
north of Puerto Rico today, the
weather station at San Juan, Puer
to Rico, reported.
The hurricane was accompanied
by winds up to 75 miles an hour
and was moving westward at a
bout 16 miles per hour, San Juan
reported.
Fifty-mile gales were reported
over areas up to 150 miles north
of the hurricane.
Storm warnings continued along
the north coast of Puerto Rico to
the Virgin islands.
es Monfiily
d By Amy
anese Black Dragon society.
High army officers did some more
explaining befoj^ the senate mili
tary committee dn their plans for
faster discharges.
Before the hearing opened, Sen
ator Edwin C. Johnson (D-Colo)
said the army had given him the
800,000-a month forecast, and he
said it sounded good to him.
PEARL HARBOR
As for the Pearl Harbor facts:
It was learned that the Navy has
renewed its plea for continued sec
See 800,000 Page 2
WEATHERSHEAD
OF CELEBRATION
Plon Three-County Cele
bration At Battleground
When Truman Visits
A purpose to make the Kings
Mountain battleground 165th an
: niversary celebration a threfe-coun
ty affair, in which Gaston and
York counties would join with
' Cleveland because of their natural
association and interest, is being
voiced by Lee B. Weathers, who
last night was designated by coun
ty officials to serve as general
chairman of the event.
Senator Weathers plans to talk
with officials of the two other
counties to enlist them in making
the celebration a broad communi
ty affair upon the November 2
visit of President to that historic
spot, turning point of the Amer
ican Revolution.
Commission Chairman Glee A.
Bridges said that enlistment of
Senator Weathers to direct the
celebration assures its success and
he pledged the county govern
ment to support the event whole
heartedly.
Consideration of the celebration
was the principal item of business
as Chairman Bridges played host
to county officials and employes
at his home in Kings Mountain
where a delicious ham supper was
served.
Nazis And Fascists
In Shanghai To
Be Segregated
SHANGHAI, Sept. 12—(Delayed)
—(fP)—Nazis and fascists In Shang
hai will be segregated—porbably in
the infamous Ghetto that the
Japanese established here for Eu
ropean refugees—to await return
to their own countries, Gen. Tan
En Po declared today.
Tan, military commander of
the Shanghai-Nanking area, said
he favored treating the Nazis, fas
cists and all collaborators the
same as Japanese.
Responsible for disarming about
250,000 Japanese in this area, he
said those actually within Shang
hai would be disarmed and quar
tered outside the city to await
transportation to Japan within
five days.
Both Chinese and American of
ficials are busy meanwhile col
lecting information on collabora
tors.
WHAT’S DOING
TODAY
6:30 p.m. — First Baptist
Training Union business sup
per at the church.
7:00 p.m.—Regular meeting
of Kiwanis club.
7:30 p.m.—CAP cadets meet
at armory.
FRIDAY
12:30 p.m.—Regular meeting
of Rotary club.
8:00 p.m.—Called meeting of
Cleveland Lodge 202 A. F. &
A. M. for work in Master Ma
[ sons degree, at lodge room.
SMALL NATIONS
EMISSARIES
SEEK BYRNES
Gather In London For
Urgent Talks On Balkan
Situations
WANTS uTsT SUPPORT
By John A. Parris, Jr.
LONDON, Sept. 13.—(/P)—
Representatives From east
ern and southeastern Europe
were gathering in London to
day for urgent consultations
with Secretary of State Byrn
es on numerous touchy Balkan
situations now before the Big
Five council of foreign min
isters.
Byrnes saw King Peter of Yu
goslavia at Claridges hotel on the
express invitation of the young
exiled monarch. Later the sec
retary of state consulted with the
Greek regent, Archbishop Damas
kinos, at the American embassy.
Another Byrnes conference was
with Herbert Evatt, Australian
foreign minister.
Diplomatic quarters considered
significant the disclosure by the
American embassy that the Am
erican diplomatic representatives
' were hurrying to London. Already
here are Arthur Bliss Lane, Am
j erican ambassador to Poland, and
Robert Patterson, ambassador to
Yugoslavia.
Maynard Barnes, minister to
Bulgaria, arrived in Paris this
morning and was expected here
soon. Burton C. Berry, American
representative on the Allied con
trol commission for Romania, was
expected today or tomorrow.
U. S. SUPPORT
Robert Gray, American minis
ter to Eire, also will arrive here
tomorrow for consultations with
Byrnes.
Some diplomats said they be
lieved King Peter was trying to
gain American support for his
view that Marshal Tito’s regime
in Yugoslavia was dictatorial, and
that the situation demanded a re
shuffle of authority.
The young monarch was in Par
is last week conferring with Dr
Vladimir Macek, Croat peasant
leader, and was believed attempt
ing to persuade Macek to come to
London and set up a government
in opposition to Tito.
Byrnes’ talk with the Greek re
gent was believed linked both with
a proposed peace treaty for Italy
and Balkan politics.
Byrnes took advantage of a day
recess in the conference of five
leading allied foreign ministers.
Staff representatives of the Unit
ed States, Great Britain, Russia,
See SMALL Page 2
Cloth Mill Sets
Safety Record
A record of 1,733,000 man 4
hours without a loss of time
accident was achieved at 11
p.m. last night by the Cleve
land Cloth Mills, it was an
nounced by Doris Bolt, safety
director for the plant
It is the longest by more
than three times such period
free of accident and is the re
sult of an intensive safety
educational program put on
among workers in the plant,
Bolt stated.
A safety award will be pre
sented the mill by the State
Industrial Commission and the
Liberty Mutual Insurance Com
pany which cooperated in de
veloping the safety program.
FIRST INTERVIEW:
To jo Says He Planned
Suicide For Long Time
Before Final Action
By Duane Hennessy
YOKOHAMA, Sept 13.—(/P)—Hideki Tojo, in the first
interview since he shot himself two days ago, said today he
had planned to kill himself for a long time but that when he
saw American officers standing outside his house he “knew
tne time naci come.
The deposed Japanese dictator
then shot and wounded himselt
near the heart with a .32 caliber
pistol, but prompt blood transfu
sions and other treatment by
American army doctors saved his
life and he was declared today tc
be in “satisfactory” condition.
In talking today Tojo brushed
aside many questions relating tc
war and politics, but when askec
if Saburo Kurusu had knowr
about Pearl Harbor plans v.’her
he talked to Cordell Hull aboui
peace, Tojo replied that he could
not answer without documentary
evidence.
Tojo was registered as patient
No. 10,694 and was the 100th pat
ient admitted Tuesday at the
Army’s 98th Evacuation hospital.
He looked little like a dictator
as he was interviewed. He was
propped up on his bed with a
folding chair and pillows behind
his back. He was covered Dy a
clean white sheet, but his feet
were sticking out. He was dressed
in G. I. pajamas many sizes too
large.
Tojo said he felt much better
but suffered a little pain “inside,”
pointing to his left side. Maj. El
Ibert Elliott of Houston, Tex., said
Tojo's condition was considered
"quite satisfactory,” but later the
former war lord’s eyes appeared to
become slightly glassy and he com
plained of being tired.
Asked wny he decided to shoot
himself instead of performing the
traditional ceremony of hara kiri,
he replied:
“While hara kiri is the tradi
tional manner of ending your life,
I feared I might miss.”
He explained that the tradi
See TOJO Page 2
Konoye Tried To
Avert War In 1941
Was Unsuccessful In Efforts To Get Conference With
Roosevelt In Summer, 1941
^ By Russell Brines
TOKYO, Sept. 13.—(/P)—Prince Fumimaro Konoye, Jap
nese vice premier, declared today that he had tried in the
summer of 1941 to meet President Roosevelt and avert the
war but his proposal failed partly through militarist opposi
tion and partly because the Japanese government was re
garded internationally as a liar.
DR. THACKER OF
NORFOLK DIES
Was Married To Former
Miss Addie May Dixon
Of Shelby
NORFOLK, Va„ Sept. 1. —UP)—
Funeral services for the Rev. James
«'nest Thacker, D. D., 75, retired
inister and assembly evangelist
of the Southern Presbyterian
church, who <^d at his home here
late yesterdaw*after a long illness,
will be cosOfeed at Second Pres
byterian cn!fBB| Saturday at noon.
The Rev. Clmrles H. Gibboney,
pastor of the church, and the Rev.
W. H. T. Squires, D. D., will con
duct the services. Interment will
be in Elmwood cemetery.
Dr. Thacker had been a resident
of Norfolk since. 1900, and served
as pastor of the Second Presby
terian church here from that year
until 1909, when he organized the
evangelistic department of the
United States.
MISSOURIAN
He was bom in Columbia, Mo.,
December 14, 1869, the son of the
late John Hayes Thacker and Mrs.
Mary E. Thacker. He received his
A, B. degree from Davidson Col
See DR. THACKER Page 2
long has had a reputation a
broad as liars,” he explained,
“because they were unable to
control Japanese militarists in
the field, or often didn’t
know what the militarists were
doing.
“It was that way when I was
trying to see Roosevelt. The gov
ernment was considered a liar,
because no matter what we prom
ised regarding China, final decis
ion on the removal of our troops
from China depended upon the
military. That was one reason
why the meeting was never held.”
SUCCEEDED BY TOJO
Konoye, premier in that fateful
summer and fall, said that an ar
gument with the then war min
ister Hideki Tojo over continuing
peace negotiations led to his own
resignation and Tojo’s climb to
the premiership.
“I feel confident that if I had
been able to see Mr. Roosevelt I
could have established a basis for
intervention of the imperial house
in the rising war tide within Japan
at that time,”. Konoye said in an
interview.
The prince, who was succeeded
by Gen. Hideki Tojo as premier
in October, 1941, said that the
Pearl Harbor attack the following
December was engineered in
strictest secrecy by a small group
under Tojo and that many of the
military clique, all the civilians
and himself were totally unaware
See KONOYE Page 2
■CRASH OF BURNING PLANE KILLS 14 AT MIAMI—This is the smoking wreckage of a four-engined Navy
rivateer plane which crashed near the Naval Air Station in Miami, Fla., Sept. 12 find killed 14 Navy men.
>5 No. 3 engine on fire, the pline was being guided to cleared runways by radio when the crash came. One
aewman, W. J. De Roche of Somerville, Mass., parachuted to safety and tried to rescue his comrades from
jthe wreckage, but was driven back by flames and exploding ammunition.—(AP Wirephoto).
GIVEN 2 DAYS
TO SHOW SOME
PROGRESS
Officials Asked Permis
sion To Handle Further
Arrests
MANY SUIODE CASES
TOKYO, Sept". 13.—(£>)—
Eighth Army headquarters
empowered the Japanese gov
ernment today to round up
the remaining Japanese on
General MacArthur's “want
ed” list.
No time limit was set but it
was indicated that the gov
ernment would have to show
some progres within two days
or the privilege would be
withdrawn.
The government had asked per
mission to handle further arrests
after Hideki Tojo, deposed wartime
dictator, shot himself two days
ago while American officers ham
mered at his door. Now in "satis
factory” condition and able to
talk W’ith correspondents today,
Tojo had headed MacArthur’s list
of those sought for questioning
about war crimes.
Japan today reported formally
that its imperial headquarters had
been abolished in compliance witn
MacArthur’s orders, and MacAr
thur announced that Gen. Walter
Krueger of the Sixth Army and
Vice Adm. Harry Hill of the Fifth
Amphibious Force would enter
Sasebo, Kyushu, Sept. 20 to pre
pare for its occupation two days
later.
Tojo offered no defense of nis
militarist government which
launched the Pearl Harbor attack,
while Prince Fumimaro Konoye,
present vice premier, blamed mil
itarists like Tojo for his own
failure to avert war.
ROUNDED UP
As Tojo, raised to a semi-sitting
position, ate his first food since
his attempted suicide Tuesday,
others who had played major roles
with him since the sneak attack on
Pearl Harbor either were being
rounded up or were doing a more
effective job of self-elimination.
The navy minister in Tojo’s
infamous "Pearl Harbor cabi
net,” Adm. Shigetaro Shimada,
surrendered quietly at his home
to an American officer, saying
he had contemplated suicide
but changed his mind. Like
Tojo. he faces questioning and
possible court martial as a war
criminal.
But the man whom the Japan
ese war machine had planned to
See GIVEN Page X
DEATH CLAIMS
A. B. HUMPHRIES
Ritas Friday Afternoon
For Well-Known Bearer
Dam Farmer
Funeral services will be held Fri
day afternoon at three o’clock at
Beaver Dam Baptist church for A.
B. (Bob) Humphries, who died in
the Shelby hospital at eight o’clock
Wednesday evening. Mr. Humphries
had been in ill health for some time
and confined to his bed for the past
six weeks.
Services will be conducted by Rev.
John W. Suttle and the body will
lie in state at the church which he
served as a deacon for 35 years.
Interment will be beside his wife,
the former Effie Jenkins, who pre
ceded him to the grave twelve years
ago.
LEADING FARMER
Mr. Humphries was one of the
leading farmers of the county and
lived on Highway 74, near the
Beaver Dam church. He was a
member of the Masonic brother
hood, active in the religious and
civic affairs of his community.
Surviving are the following chil
dren: Cletus Humphries, Edwards
Humphries, Frank Humphries, Mrs.
Morris Hamrick, Mrs. Haywood Po
teat and Miss Ethel Humphries,
all of this county. Two brothers.
Jack and Joe Humphries, of this
county, also survive, together with
two sisters, Mrs. A. D. Callahan of
this county, and Mrs. Bill Wells of
Charlotte.
PERSHING 85 TODAY
WASHINGTON, Sept. 13——
John Joseph Pershing, general ol
the armies, is 85 years old today.
The man who led the American
Expeditionary Force to victory in
World War I is “in good condi
tion for his age,” said Maj. Gen.
Shelley U. Marietta, commandant
of Walter Reed hospital.