WEATHER Cloudy today and tonight, showers and thunderstorms today and in east tonight; Saturday, clearing in most sections. Mild temperatures Saturday. Tshe Hhelhy Daily Hkar - State Theatre Today - COMPLETE NEWSREEL COVERAGE Jap Surrender Pictures Also Feature “MIDNIGHT MANHUNT* TELEPHONES 1100 CLEVELAND COUNTY’S NEWSPAPER SINCE 1894 U/\T vi m noi a nnr\m a nrvnTv nr>nno kTriTTrn AOOVU1A1U1/ L nuuo nuiro UUJUUU JL , Al. X’XVIJLfAX, ODri. 1^, IV&O iCiLIilUAi riVyiUlVGtO CMINVjrL.il, lAlrURS-DC Near-Record Tropical Hurricane Driving Toward Florida Coast OVATION FOR CORREGIDOR HERO—Crowds lining Lower Broadway in New York City acclaim Gen. Jonathan M. Wainwright — Ox ford University will confer honor ary doctor of law degrees Oct. 2£ on Gen. Eisenhower, Gen. Mark W. Clark, U. S. Ambassador John G Winant, Harry Hopkins, British Field Marshals Sir Bernard L Montgomery and Sir Alan Brooke and Air Marshal Sir Arthur Ted der. it was announced today. , In kitchen, store and factory, the wartime squeeze is gone or slated to go. All rations but sugar may end this year. Scarce clothes are due back in 60 days or so. Most trav el curbs are off this week-end. The War Production board reports reconversion running two to three weeks ahead of schedule, after the one month of peace. The makers of washers, re frigerators, autos and such aids to good living are still sending optimistic reports to Washington. They already have reported: By December a production rate 12 per cent higher than the pre-war av erage, in terms of pre-war dollars. By next June, 87 percent higher. Re - employment doesn’t climb that fast. Perhaps 6,200,000 per sons will be idle by mid-Decem ber. I MORE JOBS To encourage business expansion, higher living standards, and more jobs—quickly—is the new govern ment drive. The first phase was getting rid of controls. That is well under way. For the country at large, this is the outlook in the next few months: The kitchen prospects: Meat rationing may be eased further by October 1, lifted en tirely soon after. Fats and oils,—very scarce now, may be ration-free by the turn of the year. Sugar prospects are dim until See U. S. Page 2 NBC, ABC Back On Normal Operation NEW YORK, Sept. 14—{/P>—Ra dio networks NBC and ABC re turned' to normal operation today after a 26-hour strike by approxi mately 500 union broadcast engi neers. The engineers began returning to their jobs in New York and other major cities last night. The walkout ended after officials of the companies and thOv union, the National Association of Broadcast Engineers and Technicians (Ind.) agreed to resume negotiations to ' day for a new wage contract. It was the breakdown of these negotiations, union officials said, which caused the engineers to walk out of their jobs Wednesday evening. The National and Am erican Broadcasting companies termed the strike “unauthoriz ed.” JAPAN URGES U S. TO FORGET PEARL HARBOR Premier Higashi-Kuni Says Japan To Build Peace ful Nation HARD PERIOD AHEAD By Russell Brines TOKYO, Sept. 14.—(iT*)— Premier Prince Higashi-Kuni called upon the people of Am erica to forget Pearl Harbor as Japan builds “a completely new, peaceful” nation, in an exclusive statement today to The Associated Press. “America has won and Japan has lost,” the premier wrote in an swer to a letter from the Associat ed Press. “The war is ended. Let us now bury hate. This has been my policy since organization of the present cabinet. “People of America—won’t you forget Pearl Harbor; we Japanese people will forget the picture of devastation wrought by the atomic bomb and will start entirely anew as a peace-loving nation.” The prince recently publicly soli cited a letter of criticism and sug gestion from the people and pro mised an answer whenever possi ble—an unprecedented promise in Japan’s history. The Associated Press took him at his word and sent a letter con taining ten questions and received a nine-page letter of reply within gl&jQUts. ; -- •' ROAD AHEAD Higashi-Kuni sketched a long and difficult period ahead in building a “new Japan.” He listed these maj or immediate problems: “First, how to carry out faith See JAPAN Page 2 PFC. RANDALL DIES ON LEYTE Pfc. Marvin Flay Randall, 19 year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. V, M. Randall of Belwood, route 1, wmmrnrnmimmmmammmmBm-smx PFC. RANDALL died in the service on August 26 while stationed on Leyte, according to word received here by his par ents. He had previously been re ported ill. Pfc. Randall entered service ir October, 1944, received his train ing at Camp Wheeler, Ga„ and lefi for overseas service the following March. He is survived by his parents, twc sisters, Mrs. J. D. Stilwell, of Hick ory; Marilyn, at home; two broth ers, Clyde Randall, of*, the Navy and Howard, of the home. Eichelberger Thinks Occupation Of Japan May Be Ended In Year TOKYO, Sept. 14.—(JP)—The occupation of Japan “may be washed up” within a year, Lt. Gen. Robert L. Eichelberger predicted today, while General MacArthur promised there would be no “kid glove” enforcement of surrender terms and ordered complete suspension of all operations of the Domei DOMEI NEWS AGENCY IS SUSPENDED Had Served 65 Papers In Japan; Every Daily A Subscriber TOKYO, Sept. 14—(/P)—General MacArthur today ordered com plete suspension of the Japanese Domel news agency. I Suspension of the agency came without apparent warning and without explanation. Domei has served approximately 65 papers in Japai and every daily in the islaiv. was a sub scriber. Domei formally ended operations at 3:29 p.m., when American of ficers delivered at its headquar ters the order that "no further news will be disseminated from this building” and established a guard at all exits. GOVERNMENT- SPONSORED Japanese sources said that the Americans also called on Inosuke Furuno, president of Domei, and told him that the agency was por hibited from disseminating any news, even locally. Domei was formed in 1936 by a government-sponsored amalgama tion of the previously competing Rengo and Nippon Dempo agencies. Since then it has held a monopo listic position. Domei always has been recog nized as at least a semi-official agency. Throughout the war it was the major source of Japanese news and propaganda. Asked what Japanese newspap ers would do for news, Brig. Gen. Le Grand Diller, MacArthur’s pub lic relations officer, replied that American news services were a vailable. Record Enrollment At Gardner-Webb Opening Next Week Freshman orientation week is underway at Gardner-Webb Junior College with 125 first year students on the campus preparatory to the opening of school next week when a record prospective enrollment of approximately 300 students is ex pected, President Phil Elliott said today. Tests are being given today and tomorrow, and on Monday the freshmen will register; on Tues day, sophomore registration will occur. Wednesday will see class room work launched with formal opening exercises scheduled for 12:10 that day. 10,640 Tons Sugar Coming From Peru PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 14—(y^P)— The steamer Peter Desmet is sche duled to arrive here today with a cargo of 10,640 tons of raw sugar —the first from Peru in 10 years. Self-Government For India Is Predicted By Asaf Ali lrUVSnA» AllUii*, OCpi. ***•-\n ) Asaf Ali, member of the all-India congress party working committee, said today he expected the next six months would find India well along the road toward self-govern ment. Any British offer which falls short of Sir Stafford Cripps’ 1942 proposal that the Indian people be given an opportunity to attain self-government af ter the war, Ali said, would “fall like an atom bomb.” Ali’s statement came at the end of a two-day session of the com | m.iicc tvmtu utwattu a i to boycott the forthcoming gen j eral elections in India because of dissatisfaction with electoral pro cedures. A canvas of the commit teemen indicated a majority be lieved the party shsuld enter the elections, seek to capture as many seats as possible and attempt to liberalize the franchise later. HOLD ELECTIONS Ali asser>» the British govern ment’s decision to hold elections in India was the first step toward Bee SELF Face I news agency. Eichelberger expressed his views at a press conference in his eighth army headquarters, where he ob served that “when an insular coun try loses its land, sea and air pow er and is without raw materials and has big countries sitting on its flanks, it can’t be much of a threat.” "If the Japs continue acting as they are now,” he said in answer to a question, “within a year this thing should be washed up.” He estimated the occupation would necessitate the use of about 400,000 American troops, but dis closed that orders for some units, notably railroad troops and engi neer shore parties, already had been cancelled when it was dis covered that Japanese installations were in better shape than expected At present the eighth army has between 90,000 and 100,000 men in Japan and more are en route, Eichelberger said. FOLLOW BY TRAIN Eichelberger said Maj. Gen. Oscar W. Griswold would establish occu pation headquarters for the 14th corps at Sendai today and that a full division would follow him by train tomorrow. The 27th division, he said, would occupy Nagato in northern Hon shu, within a few days. The nintk corps, commanded by Maj. Gen. Charles Ryder, will oc cupy Hokkaido Island, northern most of the Japanese group, on Sept. 27 establishing headquarters at Sopporo. MacArthur, in his statement re plying to critics of occupation, noted the impatience displayed at the so-called “soft” policy. He termed it necessary, however, and added: “It is extraordinarily cMffl See EICHELBERGER Page 2 NEWSPRINT SHI LOW No Improvement In Sup ply Expected Before July, 1946 WASHINGTON, Sept. 14 —<£>)— A “dog-eat-dog” newsprint mar ket in 1946 was predicted today unless publishers agree to self imposed restrictions. Col. J. Hale Steinman of the War Production board said in an interview no great improvement in the newsprint supply can be ex pected until next July. But all government control* will probably be discarded December 31, as recommended yesterday by WPB’s newspaper industry advis ory committee. The committee al so proposed relaxing consumption quotas one degree for the quarter beginning October 1. Steinman is chief of the WPB printing and publishing division and a Lancaster, Pa., publisher. He sized up the first six months of 1946 this way: “It will be a very dangerous period for some publishers in short supply.” Those who lack long term pur chase contracts or mills of their own will find uncontrolled market buying a “dog-eat-dog fight,” Steinman said. He predicted this scramble may lead to vastly in creased prices when OPA ceilings are removed. After World War I newsprint rose to $267 per ton The present maximum base price is $61 a ton. “There is little prospect of any further relief before July, 1946," Steinman said. “With the begin ning of the new wood cut year we can expect Canadian production to go up again and there will be some prospect of imports from Scandinavia.” Publishers will do well, he ad ded, to agree on “voluntary, co operative” controls conforming with anti-trust laws. He remarked that the publisher agreement to refrain from buying in the European market for an other 12 months probably will die with the consumption control or der.