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CLEVELAND COUNTY’S NEWSPAPER SINCE 1894 TELEPHONES 1100
VOL. XLIII-235
ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWS
SHELBY, N. a
MONDAY, OCT. 1, 1945
TELEMAT PICTURES
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Nationalists, Commanists In China Work Out 8-Point Program
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AGREEMENT,
HOWEVER, NOT
YETREACHED
Communist Demands For
Virtual Autonomy Are
Stumbling Block
prospectTbrighter
By Clyde Farnsworth
CHUNGKING, Oct. 1.—(JP)
—An eight point program
aimed at erasing differences
of years standing between the
Chinese communists and the
Kuomintang nationalist gov
ernment has emerged from a
month-long discussion be
tween the two principals.
Final decision hinges, however,
on whether the communists will
yield in their demands for virtual
autonomy. Although danger of
failure Is still prevalent, prospects
aeem brighter.
Closely associated with the
issues were the policies of
Roaaia and the United States.
The recent shifts of Ameri
can state department person
nel have drawn the interest of
the Qnomlntang government,
while U. 8. marine landings in
North China concerned the
communists.
Above all this, it was learned
reliably that both sides agreed to
a political council incorporating
all party representation. Including
a section of non-party members.
Negotiations presumably are pivot
ing on the selection of members,
voting methods and a specific
agenda.
Other issues upon which it is
understood agreement has been
reached are: a policy of peaceful
reconstruction under the leader
ship of Chlang Kai-Shek.
PARTY EQUALITY
Recognition of the equal status
ef different political parties.
Punishment for traitors and dis
banding of puppets. The govern
ment emphasized that traitors
would be punished with due pro
cess of law and that In dlsband
See AGREEMENT Page 2
START WORK
ON NEWPLANT
Shelby Willwork And Sup
ply Company To Erect
Quarters At Once
Work on the new $30,000 plant
for the Shelby Millwork and Sup
ply company, to be located between
Suttle’s potato house and the Car
nation milk plant on Lee street
extension will be started this
week, it was learned today from
T. O. Daniels, general manager of
the firm.
He said that he hoped opera
tions could be started in the new
plant by the latter part of De
cember this year. The firm will
do a general business in building
supplies, make some specialty fur
niture items as well as manufac
ture store fixtures. One of the
first contracts it will handle is to
make equipment for several stores
for the William T. Knott com
pany.
The plant Itself will have about
25,000 square feet of floor space
and will be situated on property
which fronts approximately 1,000
feet on the highway. This prop
erty was recently purchased by
the Shelby Millwork and Supply
company from B. B. Suttle.
McBRAYER OPENS
NEW OFFICE
Three cases were handled before
10 o’clock this morning by John
Z, McBrayer, recently appointed
Cleveland county veterans service
officer, who opened his office in
the courthouse for the first time
today. The cases handled this
morning involved compensation
claims.
Mr. McBrayer has secured as
his secretary Mrs. Boyd Dickson
of Fallston.
Opening of this office this
morning marks a distinct step
forward in the -handling of veter
ans cases, county officials believe.
Mr. McBrayer is himself a veter
an of world war II and is famil
iar with problems of service men.
WITH GLOBESTER AROUND WORLD—Paul Miller (right!, assistant
general manager of the Associated Press chats with Capt. A. F. Ohllnger
of Toledo, Ohio, pilot of the ATC C-54 Globester (background) Just before
the plane took off from Washington on her flight around the world. Miller
was one of three reporters to make the flight.—(AP Wirephoto).
Number Idle From
Strikes Decreases
Work Stoppages In Three Industries Ended; Some
Continue; Others Threatened
By The Associated Press
The nation's strike idle fell to approximately 352,000
today, the first major reduction in more than a week, but
there were rumblings of prospective addition within the near
future.
This was the picture:
Ended—38,000 white collar work
ers of the Westlnghouse Electric
Co., who struck Sept. 9 in a demand
for bonus or incentive pay plans1
and which spread to 14 plants in
six states: 15,000 building service
employees in New York City whose
return to work permitted 1,500,000
other persons to resume their occu
pations: and 5,000 employees of the
Colorado Fuel and Iron Minnequa
Steel plant.
Threatened—Some 2,200 oil work
ers at the Union Oil Co. plants at
Oleum and Wilmington, Calif.; eight
locals of the CIO Oil Workers union
in the Allegheny valley of Pennsyl
vania: 1,500 United Farm Equip
ment Workers members in the
Peoria, 111., plant of the Caterpillar
Tractor Co., which employs 18,000;
some 14,000 in five Dayton , O.,
plants of General Motors’ Frigidaire
division; and 200,000 telephone
workers.
CONTINUING
Continuing—35,000 oil workers in
refineries throughout the nation;
65,000 wood and lumber workers in
a half-dozen states; 100,000 auto
motive workers, principally in the
Detroit area: 40,000 miners, mostly
in Pennsylvania and West Virginia;
and 50,000 textile workers, largely in
the Newark, N. J., area.
The Westlnghouse strike Involved
workers, in Pennsylvania, Ohio, New
Jersey, Massachusetts, Maryland,
and New York. Leo F. Bollens, pres
See NUMBER Page 2
CONGRESSTO
TALK TAXES
Enters Second Week With
Only One Bit Of Legisla
tion Passed
By JACK BELL
WASHINGTON. Oct. 1.— (JP) —
Congress this week goes into its
second month of discussion with
ony one of President Truman’s leg
WASHINGTON, Oct. 1. —f/P)
—The administration, telling
congress today 8,000,000 people
may be unemployed by spring,
recommended taxes be cut by
$5,000,000,000.
This cut, as proposed, would
affect Individuals and corpora
tions. It would make an esti
mated 12,000,000 low-income
people tax-free. It would mean
less taxes for air individuals.
islative proposals written into law.
Without controversy, the presi
dent won approval of his recom
mendation that the surplus proper
ty board of three members be tele
scoped into a single administrator.
Everywhere else along the line
there have been fights, delays or
See CONGRESS Page 2
Byrnes Leaves Problems In
London. Comes Home To More
By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER
Associated Press Diplomatic News
Editor
WASHINGTON, Oct. 1— (IP) —
Secretary of State Byrnes is ex
pected home from London this week
with reports of newly tangled Rus
sian relations stamping the pat
tern of his main problems for the
weeks ahead.
At the same time, Byrnes faces
decisions on the virtual crisis which
has developed in the last few days
over Argentina. One of his first
tasks must be to confer with his as
sistant secretary for Latin Ameri
can affairs, Spruille Braden, on
possible strengthening of United
States policy on Argentina.
The tension recently developed
between Russia and the western al
lies—Britain and the United States
—are viewed here as springing
mainly from two sources:
1. An evident desire of Lon
don and Washington to check
the extent of Russia’s direct
control over countries in east
ern Europe.
2. Prolonged uncertainty in
the American government over
what to do with the atomic
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‘FIRST BREAK’
IN SETTLEMENT
OF OIL STRIKE
Settlement Reported Af
fects Two Small Detroit
Plants
INCREASE GRANTED
WASHINGTON, Oct. 1—
(JP)—Settlement of a CIO oil
workers strike affecting two
small Detroit plants was an
nounced today by union presi
dent 0. A. Knight.
The union called this a
“first break,” although a min
or one, as conciliation confer
ences were resumed here on
the eight - state refinery
strike.
Under terms of a settlement ap
proved at 2:30 a.m., Knight said,
workers will return at noon to the
Keystone and Aurora Refineries
In Detroit.
The number of workers involved
was small at these independent
refineries, Knight added.
In the government - sponsored
conciliation conferences with 11
major oil companies, Knight said
he saw “no developments that
leads me to expect a settlement
soon.”
Terms of the Detroit settlement
were:
The workers will return at an
increase of 17 1-2 cents an hour
In pay, to adjust present rates to
what Knight called “proper levels”;
and
On November 1, when the re
fineries switch from a 48-hour to
a 40-hour week, an additional In
crease of 35 cents hourly will be
come effective.
The 35-cent boost, said Knight,
would provide the 30 per cent in
crease which the union seeks na
tionally.
60-DAY AGREEMENT
Previously the Wilshire Oil com
pany of Los Angeles, a good-sized
independent, had reached a 60-day
agreement with the union provid
ing the 35-cent hourly increase
sought. However, no strike was in
volved at the Wilshire operations.
Meanwhile, time was running
out for settlement of the contro
versy, and critical new develop
ments dragged the telephone and
ee FIRST BREAK?-Page 2
Plane Ready For
Second Leg Of
Globester Run
KARACHI, INDIA, Oct. 1—(JP
—The second of four Dougla
Skymaster C-54s being used ii
relays on the new Globester rui
was readied for departure at 6:1!
a.m. today Greenwich time (1:1!
AES Monday) for a 1,485-mili
daylight hop to Calcutta.
The flight—first earth-girdlini
air service—was only slightly be
hind schedule, with the delay at
tributed to extra long stopover
rather than loss ‘ of time in th
air.
A three-hour stop, longest sino
leaving Washington last Fridaj
was arranged for Karachi, wher
the Globester landed after a 1,356
mile flight from Abadan, Iran.
Air transport command officer
among the seven men and on
woman making the entire world
circling flight—the Globester i
handling other passengers betweei
intermediate points — are confi
dent the party will be in Washing
ton by Thursday.
PICTURE IN BRIEF
Here is the picture in brief go
ing into the Karachl-Calcutt
flight:
Miles flown—8,883.
Miles to go around the world
14,254.
Elapsed time (including stop)
53 hours.
Remaining stops — Calcuttc
Luliang, China, Manila, Guan
Kwajelein, Kohnston Island, Hon
olulu, San Francisco and Wash
ington.
Reaching Karachi, the aeria
tourists scattered over this grea
airbase and nearby precincts for
1. —A bath.
2. —Coffee, zacon and eggs. The;
were American style and hav
available everywhere sa far.
3. —Souvenirs, with the empha
sis on puzzle rings and “loca
money.”
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COLLEGE DEAN—J. O. Terrell, for
the past 10 years principal of the
Woodfin High School near Ashe
ville, and prior to that of the Oak
ley High School, has entered up
on duties as dean and instructor
in social science at Gardner-Webb
Junior College. He is a native of
Jackson county, studied at the
University of North Carolina and
Western Carolina Teachers College
where he was graduated in 1932;
Jie since has done ^aduate study
at George Peabody College for
Teachers, Nashville, Tenn.
MOLOTOV SAID
'STANDING PAT
Foreign Ministers Foil To
Agree; May Adjourn
Today
By FLORA LEWIS
LONDON, Oct. 1— UP) —Th(
council of foreign ministers, stil
seeking a foundation for Europe’!
peace structure, made a last min
ute effort to reach agreement to
day after the Soviet Union report
edly refused to sigs conference do
cuments unless her Balkan treatj
demands were met.
Delegates remained in session un
til after 1 a. m. debating the same
subject which has been argued foi
more than a week—Soviet Foreigr
Commissar V. M. Molotov’s insist
ence that only Britain, the U. S. S
R. and the United States be allow
ed to design the peace pacts wit!
Romania, Bulgaria and Hungary.
The Russians based their insist
ent demands on the Potsdam deci
sion that only nation which signet
an armistice with the defeated axt
Satellites be permitted to writi
peace treaties with those nations
China and France, both members o
the five nation council, were no
armistice signatories.
ENDING SOON
With the conference’s end im
minent, informed sources gave thes
I reasons for failure of the minister
j to agree on major peace problems,
i 1. Lack of preparation and ad
i vance exchanges of views.
, 2. The fact that three of th
i ministers—James F. Byrnes of th
> United State, Ernest Bevin of Brit
ain, and Wang Shih-Chieh of Chini
; —are new appointees,
3. What was described as Sovie
. sensitivity over publicity whicl
i pictured the U. S. in a more power
. ful economic and military position.
4. Mutual suspicion.
> 5. The varying interpretations o
such words as “democracy” amoni
> the powers.
MORE TO COME:
Reconversion Director
Foresees Eight Million
Unemployed By Spring
WASHINGTON, Oct. 1.—(/P)—Reconversion Director
John W. Snyder said today there may be 8,000,000 unem
ployed by next spring with “high unemployment” persisting
Distress Calls
Heard From
Plane In Night
GOLDSBORO. Oct. 1—OP)—Ra
dio distress signals from an army
plane in this area were heard last
night by Seymour Johnson Army
Air base and a search was expect
ed to begin this morning.
The air base said the plane re
ported two of its motors had gone
dead near Clinton, in Sampson
county.
Whether the plane crashed after
its last distress signal was picked
up last night by the army base
was not known.
The base said the plane’s radio
failed before it could give the
number of persons aboard or its
identity. It was said, however,
that the plane was based at Lang
ley Field, Va.
Shortly following the distress
signals, 15 radio patrol cars oi
the highway department were or
dered to patrol the Goldsboro
Clinton area.
SEARCH PLANNED
Later during the night Seymour
Johnson officials announced search
from the air would be started early
this morning, and radio patrol
cars which were withdrawn after
persons in the vicinity of Clinton
had been alerted, also rejoined the
search today.
LANGLEY FIELD, Va„ Oct. 1—
(A5)—The radio distress signals from
an army plane Goldsboro, N. C.,
reported heard last night at Sey
mour Johnson Army Air base, and
said to be based at Langley Field,
were not from Langley Field, base
operations officials here said this
morning.
All planes are present and ac
counted for, the Langley Field re
port stated.
GOLDSBORO, Oct. 1.—<P)—Of
[ ficials of Seymour Johnson Army
, Air base said here this morning
| that adverse weather conditions
were hampering the air search foi
; an army plane from which dis
! tress signals were picked up by
' radio late last night.
WHAT’S DOING
5 TODAY
7:00 p.m.—Regular meeting
of Junior Chamber of Com
merce.
7:30 p.m.—City council meets
! at city hall.
7:30 p.m.—State Guard drill
1 at armory.
7:30 p.m.—Regular meeting
' of American Legion at Legion
1 building.
8:00 p.m.—Boy Scout court
i of honor at the court house.
f TUESDAY
j 7:30 p.m.—CAP cadets meet
at armory.
through 1946.
He made this prediction in a 46
page report to the President and
congress. It was his fourth report.
He labeled it "Three Keys to Re
conversion — Production, Jobs,
Markets.”
Snyder's forecast was based on
the contention that job-giving will
be unable to keep pace with a pros
pective million-a-month demobili
zation.
But he was “firmly optimistic”
about the future, provided the na
tion work as a team. He asserted:
1— Prompt, peaceful settle
ment of labor-management dif
ferences is a reconversion
“must.”
2— Congress should act
promptly on those four points
in the President’s program
calling for “full employment,
transitional tax adjustments,
broadening and raising unem
ployment compensation, and
raising minimum wages.”
TAX MUSTS
(Three tax steps recommended
were: Repeal of the 3 per cent nor
mal tax on individuals, repeal ol
the excess profits tax, effective Jan
uary 1 next, and setting a definite
date for reducing excises).
3— The executive branch “must
and will be as vigorous in its poli
cies and programs to solve peace
time problems as it wf_ in solving
war time problems.” .n
4— Cooperation and teamwork
among “management and labor
business and farmers, federal, state
and local governments” is indispen
sable, if there is to be a rapid ex
pansion of peacetime production
jobs for all those willing and able
to work, and stable markets for bus
iness and agriculture.
Pointing to prospects of about
8,000,000 unemployed by spring
Snyder said the country must
See RECONVERSION Page 2
‘AXIS SALLY' — American-borr
Sally-Rita Zucca, radio propagan
dist known to U. S. troops in Ital;
as “Axis Sally”, sits in court a
Rome during her trial before ar
Italian military tribunal. She wai
convicted of intelligence with thi
enemy and was sentenced to foui
years and five months in prison. —
(AP Wirephoto via radio).
; Newspaper Week:
What And When
By the Associated Press
’ Newpaper Week is being observ
_ ed for the sixth time on a national
| basis from Oct. 1 to 8. Since the
first national observation in 1940,
American newspapers and the
agencies which serve them have
" increasingly stressed the impor
1 tance of a unified program.
The week is sponsored by the
Newspaper Association Managers,
Inc., an organization of managers
of state and regional publishers’
associations. It was established un
der a resolution passed by the man
• agers at their Chicago convention
> in 1939 which prepared the way for
the national program in 1940.
Before that, Newspaper Week
had been established regionally
} through the efforts of the Penn
. sylvania Newspaper Publishers As
■ soclatlon, the Oklahoma Press As
sociation and the California News
' paper Publishers Association.
5 The managers proposed the week
to demonstrate to the public the
j importance of the newspaper in
1 Sec NEWSPAPER Page 2
THE WHITE HOUSE
Washington
September 7, 1945
TO THE NEWSPAPERS OF THE NATION:
National Newspaper Week has a deeper significance in this
year of victory than through the war years now happily ended.
In this hour of exultation we should dedicate ourselves anew to
the perpetuation of one of our cherished heritages—freedom of
the press.
It is with a sense of genuine pride that I can emphasize to all
American editors and publishers and bring to the attention of
Americans everywhere one singular triumph of our war experience.
That is that the American free press through the stress of the most
horrible of all wars withstood subversive and open attack and oper
ated under a voluntary code of censorship.
Ours then is the plain duty, as we face the grave days ahead, to
work without ceasing to make a free press the true torch of world
peace.
r
(Signed) HARRY TRUMAN.
21 FINANCIAL
INSTITUTIONS
ARE SEIZED
Royal Household's Funds
Tied Up In Bank
Of Japan
officialTousted
By Russell Brines
j TOKYO, Oct. 1.—(/P)—Am
! erican occupation authorities
today began a quest for un
told millions of dollars in gold,
silver and currency which Ja
pan was believed to have
wrested from the lands it
overran in its try for world
dominion.
The search paralleled other
probes into imperialistic war-fi
nancing, made possible through
General MacArthur’s bold, secret
seizure today of 21 government
controlled financial institutions in ,
Tokyo and six other large cities,
and the ousting of their officials.
The bank of Japan, the nation’s
largest financial institution, one
quarter owned by the Japanese im
perial household, was closed by an
order of the allied command.
It will open tomorrow, said Col.
R. P. Kramer, MacArthur’s econo
mic and scientific chief, ‘‘if the
Japanese provide full cooperation”
in locating the assets of the seized
institutions which had office space
in the bank of Japan building.
American troops on guard around
| the bank assured depositors, many
of them women sobbing in fear that
they might lose their life savings,
I that their funds were safe.
CONFERENCE
i The hunt for the missing funds
that once belonged to the Philip
pines, China and other nations be
gan with a conference of Colonel
Kramer and Viscount Keizo Shi
busawa, governor of the bank of
Japan, and other leading Japanese
financial figures.
The Japanese denied that the
See 21 FINANCIAL Page X
GOP MEMBERS
ACCUSE FDR
Say He Played An Import
ant Part In $200,000
Loan Case
WASHINGTON, Oct. 1 —(Jf)—
Republican members of the house
ways and means committee said
today the late President Roosevelt
‘‘played an Important part” in his
son Elliott’s $200,000 loan.
Further, the minority group
said, Mr. Roosevelt ‘‘initiated” the
$4,000 settlement.
The Republicans expressed their
opinion in a dissenting report
made public as the house awaited
filing of the full record on the
“bad debt” case. Advance copies
of the minority report only were
made available to newsmen.
Committee Democrats told re
; porters the complete testimony—
i more than 1,000 pages—probably
i would be filed this afternoon. They
: said a statement by Elliott in the
■ record would take an opposite view
■ from that expressed by the Repub
licans regarding the role played
by his father in the matter. No
detailed information was made a
vailable in advance regarding this
testimony, however.
DENIAL
In a public statement several
weeks ago young Roosevelt denied
j that his father ever ‘promoted
; or assisted” his business affairs.
Regarding the $200,000 loan to
Elliott by John A. Hartford, gro
cery chain executive, and its sub
sequent settlement by Jesse Jones,
then secretary of commerce, the
Republicans asserted:
“The evidence is clear that when
Mr. Hartford’s attorney x x x was
first approached for the $200,000
that the intermediaries were di
rected to him by the President.
“The President of the United
States xxx not only played an
important part in effecting the
payment of $200,000 to his son by
Mr. Hartford, but he went fur
ther and initiated the settlement
by his cabinet appointee, Mr. Jes
se Jones.”
The Republicans quoted Hart
ford as saying ne made the loan
j because “I felt that I was on the
spot xxx and T did not want to
do anything to ineur the enmity
! of the President,"