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WEATHER Partly cloudy today, tonight and Thursday; moderately warm to day and Thursday; rather cool again tonight. I Tslxe LUJPUIY Baily Stett - State Theatre Today - “TRAIL OF THE LONESOME PINE” ' Also FILM VAUDEVILLI CLEVELAND COUNTY’S NEWSPAPER SINCE 1894 TELEPHONES 1100 VOL. XL1I1—225 ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWS SHELBY, N. C. WEDNESDAY, Sept. 19,1945 TELEMAT PICTURES SINGLE COPIES—6c President Truman Promises 'No Padding In Our Armed Forces* Fayetteville Marooned, All Roads East, South 1 Of Raleigh Inundated By The Associated Press Fayetteville was completely marooned and all highways east and south of Raleigh were inundated as high waters continued to rise on four North Carolina rivers, causing what weather bureau officials termed “one of the worst floods in + VlP statp’a Viiatnrv- ” I t Three rivers have already reach-/ ed record stages—the. Cape Fear at Fayetteville, the Dan river/at Danville, and the Haw at Moncure. At Fayetteville the Cape fear had reached 64.1 feet this mdming and was still rising with no rain fall. The flood stage at Fayette ville is 35 feet. At Elizabethtown, a crest of 34.8 was reached, with a normal flood) stage of 26 feet. The Neuse river was reported to have reached 255 feet at Smith field, where the river already was reported well out of its banks, and was still rising. At Neuse > crest of 23.8 was reached, and at Golds- j boro 15.1. The Roanoke river, originating1 in Virginia had reached a crest; of 42.7 feet at Weldon, compared with flood stage of 31 feet, and was expected to reach 48 by to morrow. Danville, Va.. recorded a record reading of 21.3 feet. The rapidly rising Tar reached its highest peak at Greenville when a reading of 12.8 was reported. A Tarboro a crest of 18.8 was reach ed. INUNDATED BRIDGES The highway patrol reported : considerable record in inundatei bridges. Transportation and communica tions have been disrupted, man: families made homeless and thou sands of acres of farmland ahead; inundated—and the water level, ii some instances, still is rising. Rec ord peaks appeared certain fo: some of the rampaging stream: and rivers, swollen with wate: which fell in record or near-rec ord amounts throughout the twc states. No lives have been reported lost because of flood condi tions, but property damage already is in the thousands of dollars and will mount higher. See FAYETTEVILLE Page 2 Burton, Patterson, 1 Symington Named Democrats See Political Strategy In Elevation Of Burton To Supreme Court Bv Jack Bell WASHINGTON, Sept. 19.—(fP)—Swift senate confirma tion seemed assured today for three major appointments by President Truman. They are: FACTS IN EPES CASE REVIEWED Mary Lae's Mother Testi fies She Never Resort ed To Drugs By JOANNE EDSON COLUMBIA, S. C, Sept. 19—Iff’) —Unearthing of the body of pret ty Mary Lee Williams Epes from a shallow foxhole grave last Feb ruary 14 was recounted In court today as the state sought to con vict Lt. Samuel C. Epes, 27. Rich mond, Va., of her murder. Richland county Sheriff Alex Helse opened the trial's third day by describing how Epes led offi cers to the grave in a lonely area } of nearby Fort Jackson last St. Valentine’s day. He recounted the trail of inves tigation that began with Epes’ report of Mary Lee's supposed dis appearance last January 29. Heise said the case was “brok en” when the young officer gave See FACTS Page 2 THIRD COUNTY TAXES ALREADY COLLECTED With a total of $95,528.36 of the 1945 county tax levy already col lected before the 1945 statements are mailed out, Charles Dilling, county auditor and tax supervis or, said this morning that Cleve land had experienced the best pre-payment collection in history. What has already been collected represents approximately one-third of the total 1945 levy. The tax books prepared by the county auditor’s office were for mally turned over to R. S. Gidney, county collector this morning. Statements will be mailed out to the 18,000 taxpayers in Cleveland county on October 1. F. R. Summers, representing the W. A. Mauney heirs, was the first citizen in Cleveland to pay his 1945 taxes. He made his re mittance ha May. One percent discount is still (allowed this month on pre-paid taxes. One-half of one percent will be allowed during October whereas in November, February and January taxes will be nee. 1. Senator Harold R. Burton, Ohio Republican, as associate justice of the Supreme court. He succeeds Re publican Owen J. Roberts, resigned. 2. Robert P. Patterson, present undersecretary, as secretary of war. He succeeds Henry L. Stimson, re signed. 3. W. Stuart Symington as surplus property administrator. He takes WASHINGTON, Sept. 19.—</P> —The senate today unani mously confirmed the appoint ment of Senator Harold R. Burton, Ohio Republican, to be a supreme court justice. over from a three-man board which he formerly headed. Congressional Republicans and Democrats alike got a lift out of Mr. Truman's unexpected choice of Burton for the Supreme court — but for slightly different reasons. Republicans liked the selection ROBERT P. PATTERSON of the 57-year-old senate colleague because they regard him as a high ly qualified lawyer and because he is one of them. POLITICAL STRATEGY Democrats chuckled at the poli tical strategy of the President. Some said he was influenced in his choice by Robert E. Hannegan, Democratic national chairman. Burton’s exit from the senate will give Gov. Frank J. Lausche of Ohio, a Democrat, a chance to ap point one of his party See BURTON NO ACCURATE FORECAST OF NEEDS POSSIBLE Speed Of Demobilization Not Governed By Fu ture Needs * CONFIDENCE IN ARMY WASHINGTON, Sept. 19— (/P)—President Truman de [ dared today that there will t be “no padding in our armed ' forces” and that “no one is going to be held in the ser \ vice a day longer than is ne cessary.” ' The president said in a . statement that no one can | accurately forecast at this . time the future military | needs and noted that General Douglas MacArthur had re vised his oWn estimates of the number of troops necessary for the occupation of Japan and Korea. MacArthur first estimated that he required a force of 500,000, but cut this to 400,000 and then to 200.000. “The army’s plans call for the return to their homes of more than 2,000,000 soldiers between V J day and Christmas, 1945,” the President’s statement said. ‘‘Be tween now and Christmas the dis charge rate will steadily rise from the present daily figure of 15,200 to not less than 22,000 per day and by January, 1946, to more than 25,000 per day.” Meanwhile press Secretary Charles G. Ross told report ers they would have to put their own interpretation on President Truman’s news con ference remarks yesterday on MacArthnr’s occupation force statement. See NO Page 2 13 LEAVE FOR INDUCTION . Thirteen selectees ,all between 18 and 19 years of age left here this morning for Fort Bragg for final induction into the armed services. Lamar Geran Champion was nam ed leader of the group. Only one, J. D. Clark, failed to report. Those who left were: Hoyle Wellmon Howard Wyatt William Austell Lutz Flay Edwin Edwards James Barloe Hines Ambrose Carl Lail, Jr. Marvin Barrett Hurchel Houser Harrill Emmett Glendon Greene David Eugene Ware Berauch Dixon Crowe, Jr. G. W. Ellis, Jr. Lamar Geran Champion U. S. COURT TO OPEN MONDAY A term of United States District court will be convened in the Cleveland courthouse Monday with Judge E. Yates Webb presiding. The grand jury will be in session for the consideration of bills of indictment drawn in the United States attorney’s office. Violations of the liquor law predominate but there are postal violations, OPA violations and other federal charges also to be tried. \ SILVER STAR AWARD—Marine Gunnery Sgt. Roy L. Parker, formerly of Shelby, is shown being awarded the Silver Star for heroic achievement in battle against the enemy on Okinawa. Enlisting in the U. S. Marines in 1938, Sgt. Parker saw duty aboard the U. S. S. New York, and in China during the Sino-Japanese war. He is a graduate of the Shelby high school, 1937 class. His wife and young daughter live at Wheeling, W. Va. Ministers Consider Italian Frontiers Italian Peace Treaty Has Become Knotty Issue Due To Conflicting Demands LONDON, Sept. 19.—(TP)—The council of Allied foreign ; ministers weighed the Italian-Yugoslav frontier claims today and it appeared tfiat the current meeting would get no fur ther than the Italian peace treaty, so complicated has that Such topics as the Balkans, the Dardanelles and the western Ger man border probably will be rele gated to the next meeting in late November or early December of the foreign ministers of the United States, Russia, Great Britain, Prance and China. Russia’s expressed interest in the Italian African colonies of Tripoli tania and Eritrea drew comments from London morning papers. The conservative Daily Telegraph asked: “Does the Soviet government seriously stake a claim to trus teeship for Italy's African possessions? x x x It would be as reasonable to suggest that Great Britain should become trustee for outer Mongolia.” Persons close to the conferees said they were expected to go home next Thursday or Friday, turning un decided questions about the Italian peace treaty over to deputies for detailed recommendations. KNOTTY ISSUE The Yugoslav-Italian border issue still was knotty. The United States and Britain were understood to favor the Wilson line as the fron tier, leaving Italy about two thirds of the Istrian peninsula. Austra lia, New Zealand and South Africa —all of which fought against Italy —urged a frontier slightly west of the present military Demarcation See MINISTERS Page 2 WHAT’S DOING TODAY 7:15 p.m.—Sunday School council of First Baptist church meets at the church. 7:45 p.m.—Prayer meeting at Presbyterian church. 8:00 p.m.—Mid-week prayer and praise service at First Bap tist church. 8:00 p.m.—Fellowship hour at Central Methodist church. THURSDAY 7:00 p.m.—Regular meeting of Kiwanis club. 7:30 p.m.—CAP cadets meet at armory. LORD HAW HAW IS CONVICTED Sentenced To Hong After Conviction On Charge Of Treason LONDON, Sept. 19. — (JP)— Wil liam Joyce, Lord Haw Haw of the German radio, was convicted of treason in Old Bailey today and sentenced to hang. A jury of 10 men and two women required less than 25 minutes to arrive at a verdict after Justice Tucker had ruled that Haw Haw had left this country in 1939 ’’wrap ped up in the Union Jack” in order to carry on German propaganda. The justice informed the jurors after listening to three days of legal argument, that Joyce was not a British subject but nevertheless he owed allegiance to the British crown when he left the country be cause of the protection afforded him by a British passport. This was despite his American birth and the fact that Joyce later took out Ger man citizenship. DRAMATIC SUDDENNESS Joyce will make an immediate appeal, his lawyers announced. Joyce stood quietly while the trial was thus ending with dramatic suddenness in his sentence to death. When he walked away toward his cell he gave what appeared to be See HAW HAW Page 2 Another Tokyo Newspaper Closed TOKYO, Sept. 19.—(/P)—General VfacArthur today closed another rokyo newspaper, the second with n 24 hours, ordering the English anguage Nippon Times to skip ts Thursday morning edition for publishing an editorial unapprov ;d by American censors. Government Moves To Aid Reconversion, Build Up Barriers Against Inflation WASHINGTON, Sept. 19 —(A*)— The government set up some peacetime barriers against infla tion today, after knocking down some wartime barriers to a free economy. OPA prepared to limit rigidly the costs entering into new home building—which opens up Octo ber 15—athough it cannot put a J ceiling on the final price of the house. These developments marked the further march of reconversion, in business and government. 1. OPA told retailers that wartime increases in manu factoring costs are not to be passed on to the public in the form of higher prices for new washers, refrigerators and si milar long-awaited products. 2. To speed the sale of vast war supplies, President Tru man signed a bill creating a single administrator of the Surplus Property board. 3. Another war agency—the office of economic stabiliza tion—was killed off. 4. The Brookings institution held that “a powerful move ment for higher wage rates” is the greatest potential in flation force. 5. Builders estimated that 500,000 new homes WMtld be started next year, wffli build* ins climbins to 1,000,000 hous es annually by 1948. STRICTER CONTROLS Price Administrator Chester Bowles reportedly was ready to announce stricter price controls on lumber, hardware, plumbing and other building materials. His plan is to impose dollars and-cents ceilings, which would be uniform in every city just as are See GOVERNMENT Page 2 NEW LIST OF WAR CRIMINALS EXPECTED SOON Purge Of Reactionaries In Jap Cabinet Is Predicted PAPERS SUSPENDED TOKYO, Sept. 19.—(/P)_ General MacArthur’s head quarters announced today it would issue soon a new and lengthy list of suspected Jap anese war criminals, while re liable Japanese sources pre dicted an imminent purge of reactionary elements in the cabinet of Premier Higashi Kuni. Premier Prince Higashi-Kuni himself in a press conference yes terday told Allied correspondents that his government intended to determine responsibility for start ing the war and try its own accus ed, provided General MacArthur approved. Demonstrating its resolve to keep' a firm grip on the conquered Jap anese, headquarters suspended for one day a second Tokyo newspaper —the English language Nippon Times. The paper was ordered 30 minutes before press time to withhold pub lication of its Thursday morning edition, not because of objectionable material but because its editors had failed to submit for American cen sorship a printertj-jjJtpOf of an edi torial on the recetltr'chaftge of for eign ministers. On Tuesday, the big Japanese language paper, Asahi, was ordered to skip publication for two days, for printing inflammatory articles. RESIGNATIONS The sources who spoke of im pending cabinet resignations said Vice Premier Prince Fumimaro Konoye probably would lead the list. He is a minister without port folio. Two other cabinet' members without portfolio who may step down at the same time, the sources said, are Lt. Gen. Toshishiro Obata, and Taketora Ogata. The latter who also is chief cabinet secretary, was named by MacArthur on a list of members of the “Black Dragon” society, but it was understood Am erican authorities had taken no ac tion against him, in order to give the1 Japanese governm&jt time to prove its contention that he was See NEW Page 2 “ 3 BROTHERS AWAIT DEATH Salisbury Boys, 12, 15, 19, Afflicted With Muscu lar Dystrophy SALISBURY, Sept. 19.—bP)—The three Pinion brothers, the eldest 19, wait with patience and forti tude for the death they know will not be long in coming. The brothers are victims of mus cular dystrophy a rare disease nearly always fatal. Doctors have pronounced their cases hopeless. David, the oldest, has suffered with the disease the longest—for 11 years. Billy is 15,’Lloyd 12. None has been able to walk since he was 10 years old. Physicians do not expect David to live more than a year longer. The youths spend most of their time in a small room in the home of their widowed mother, Mrs. D. E. Pinion. They like to read comic books and listen to their radio. Lloyd plays with his pet cat Smoky. SCANT INCOME The family’s only income Is from funds provided by welfare and charitable organizations, welfare workers say. Recently all three were exam ined by doctors at the Qfake Uni versity hospital in Durham. Noth ing could be done, the doctors agreed. The mother speaks openly of her sons’ illness. They have known for a long time that all will soon die. When a reporter recently visited the Pinion home, the mother dis played a clipping detailing the tragedy of eight-year-old Jerry | Wrinn of Miami Beach, stricken with the same disease. "I can certainly sympathize with ' little Jerry’s mother.” Mrs. Pinion said brushing back the tears. The brothers have a sister, a j I normal child, in an orphanage, j Wants Peacetime Navy Capable Of Delivering Atomic Bomb Attacks WASHINGTON, Sept. 19.—(/P)—Postwar control of the seas with a navy capable of “delivering atomic bomb at tacks” was urged today by Navy Secretary James V. For restal before the house naval committee. * jr v/li IU UC" termine the size of the peacetime navy, Forrestal said the key to future victory and to the freedom of this country “will be in the control of the seas and of the skies above them.” Specifically, he recommended: An active fleet, ready for bat tle, consisting of approximately 300 modern major combatant vessels including 11 battleships, 15 air craft carriers including three 45, 000-tonners, 21 escort carriers. 20 heavy and large cruisers, 29 light cruisers, 176 destroyers, 40 destroy er escorts- and 90 submarines in addition to supporting craft. 1 All the battleships, carriers, cruisers, destroyers and submarines would be new ships completed since 1940. A la id-up reserve of seven old battleships, 22 carriers built since 1940, 58 escort carriers, 14 heavy cruisers, 19 light cruisers, 191 destroyers, 257 destroyer escorts, L10 submarines and supporting :raft. “A ready reserve” of 100 addi tional major ships, Forrestal and Fleet Admiral Er nest J. King, chief of naval op srations, were called as principal witnesses at the hearing. Forrestal said no one know* what effect the atomic bomb will tiave on modeling navies, but em phasized that the United States navy intends to adapt the atomic Domb to carrier-based planes. While immensely destructive, he said, the atomic bomb “is still a bomb, requiring land or carrierbased planes to deliver it. And the best defense against it is “intercepting air power.” ‘‘If we were to give away our 'leet and rely wholly on the bomb, See WANTS Page * Schwellenbach’s Authority Increased Takes Immediate Action Toward Intervention, I# Necessary, In Detroit Strikes By Harold W. Ward WASHINGTON, Sept. 19.—(A1)—Labor Secretary Lewis B. Schwellenbach, armed with new authority, carried out to day his promise to “get right square in the middle” of De troit’s troubled labor situation. He delegated ms newly-ap pointed chief of the U. S. concil iation service, Edgar L. Warren, to study the Detroit strikes to de termine whether government in tervention is required. Warren, who flew to Washington from Chicago last night, also consider ed calling principals in the Michi gan city's strikes and threatened work stoppages to a labor-manage ment conference. Schwellenbach became the government’s labor “boss” un der the department’s reorgani zation. He held a presidential grant of broad new authority —although few new powers— to deal with industrial dis putes. President Truman shifted the War Labor board, the U. S. em LEWIS B. SCHWELLENBACH ployment service and the War Manpower commission to the La bor department. By that action he conferred all the authority inher ent in those agencies on Secretary Schwellenbach. Schwellenbach had presented his reorganization plan to Mr. Tru man August 10. Yesterday’s White House action was attributed to the labor storms which appeared to be gathering last weekend over Detroit’s automobile industry and elsewhere. HEADS CONCILIATION The cabinet officer immediately appointed Edgar L. Warren, chair man of the Chicago regional war labor board, to head the U. S. conciliation service. Schwellenbach plans to strengthen and enlarge this adjunct of his department. Warren arrived in Washington See SCHWELLENBACH Page 2 J.D. ALLEN IS DEATH VICTIM Funeral Thursday For Well-Known Farmer Of Elizabeth Section James D. Allen, age 72, died last night at the Shelby Hospital, where he had been a patient since last Saturday. He suffered a stroke of paralysis on July 31 and never fully recovered. Mr. Allen, a prominent farmer of the Elizabeth community, three miles east of Shelby was a faith ful member of the Elizabeth Bap tist church. He was the son of the late Daniel and Sarah Allen of Hendersonville and was married to Miss Bessie Borders in 1899. She survives, together with the fol lowing children: Mrs. L. P. Owen of Knoxville, Tenn., Mrs. Guy Willis, Mrs. Paul Limerick, Cor poral James C. Allen now serving overseas and unable to get home at this time. Miss Jessie Allen, Bill Allen, recently discharged from the Navy, and Pvt. Daniel B. Al len of Fort Dix, N. J. Two daugh ters Mrs. Monroe Poston and Faye Allen preceded him to the grave. Also surviving are five grand S. Stewart, J. M. Poston, jr., Bob by Poston and Douglas Limerick. Two sisters also survive, Mrs. E. C. Ross and Mrs. Betty Young of Hendersonville. Two brothers and one sister preceded him to the grave. Funeral services will be held Thursday afternoon at four o’ clock at Elizabeth Baptist Church with Rev. Boyd Cannon, pastor, in charge. Interment will take place in the Elizabeth cemetery. More Oils And Soap, Less Sugar In Last Quarter Of 1945 WASHINGTON. Sept. 19—— More oils and soap will be avail able to civilians in the last quar ter of 1945, but sugar supplies will be shorter for the next six months. Secretary of Agriculture Ander son's estimates: Vegetable oil shortening, cooking and salad oils, up 11 per cent. Household and bar soaps, up 5.4 ; per cent. Sugar, down 38 per cent. \
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