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VOL. XLIII-236
ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWS
SHELBY, N. C.
TUESDAY, OCT. 2, 1945
TELEMAT PICTURES
SINGLE COPIES—«c
MOLOTOV THREATENED TO QUIT BIG-5 CONFERENCE
ACCOUNTING OF
WAR MATERIE
IS DEMANDED
MacArtfiur Asks Full In
formation On Annual
War Production
FREEDOMOF PRESS
TOKYO, Oct. 2—(/P)—Pres
sure mounted among Japa- j
nese today for top-to-bottom
reorganization of their cabi
net by the time demobiliza
tion is completed in mid-Oct
ober; and General Mac Arthur
demanded a full accounting of
Japan’s military production
as well as existing stocks of
war materiel.
He asked the Japanese govern- ■
Jnent for full information on the j
annual production of arms, ord
nance, ammunition and automotive
equipment from 1941 through Au
gust. 1945. plus estimates for the I
remainder of 1945.
Japanese sources reported a
rising sentiment for elimina
tion from the cabinet of min
isters once associated with the
beaten. war-making regime,
as well as those blamed for
failure to anticipate growing
food, housing and fuel short
ages.
Earlier reports — strictly with
out confirmation — have hinted
that Emperor Hlrohito might ab
dicate in a thorough government
housecleaning when his task of
carrying out the principal sur
render terms is finished.
Army doctors today reported
that former Premier Shigenori
Togo suspected war-criminal, isn't
faking; he does have a heart at- j
tack and consequently his appear
ance at U. S. Eighth army prison
has been delaved.
SEEK TREASURE
Allied occupation authorities!
continued their search for hidden
gold, silver and currency which
the Japanese wartime administra- i
tion’s military commanders plun
dered in the nations they overran
(In Shanghai, Mayor Chien Ta
Chen said the war loot of Japa- \
neae and Germans in Shanghai
would be seiaed by his adminis- j
tration and returned to its own- j
ers even though it had been trans- ‘
ferred to Swiss and Portuguese.
He added at a press conference
that the 2.400 Germans in Shang
hai would be placed in a restrict
See ACCOUNTING Page 2
DERAILED TRAIN
DELAYSTRAFFIC
NORFOLK, Va., Oct. 2.—t/F*)—
Traffic on the Seaboard Air Line
railway's Portsmouth-Norlina line
was delayed today by derailmrtit of
a northbound freight train at Roa
noke Rapids, N. C., about 4:30 a. m.
J. C. Wroton, general manager of
the railway said the interruption of
traffic was temporary and was ex
pected to be cleared later today.
Meanwhile passenger train No. 18,
due in Portsmouth at 12:40 p.m. was
being detoured via Virginian rail
way tracks from Alberta to Jarrett
and to Atlantic Coast Line tracks
from Jarrett to Weldon where it
was to return to SAL tracks.
From six to eight loaded gon
dolas were derailed in the accident,
and a report from the scene esti
mated approximately one-fourth of
a mile of track damaged.
Wroton said the cause of the mis
hap was being investigated. None of
the train’s crew was hurt, he said.
French, Annamese
Hold Their Fire
LONDON, Oct. 2. —(>P)— The
southeast Asia command said in a
broadcast reported by Reuters to
day that an agreement to “cease
fire in French Indo-China was
reached yesterday by French au
thorities and leaders of the Anna
mese independence movement.
The colony has been torn by dis
orders since the Japanese surren
dered, and natives have killed at
least one United States officer.
Maj. Gen. D. D. Gracey, comman
der, of British occupation forces in
Indo-China, arranged the meeting
and guaranteed the Annamese safe
conduct. _«
SHELBIAN Di S WITH PRESIDENT—Jimmy Weathers, M 3/c, right,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Bynum Weathers, played the piano for President
Truman and is shown here as he later dined with him and heard him
reveal the atomic bombing of Hiroshima aboard the cruiser Augusta re
turning from the Potsdam conference.
TRUMAN ASKS
SHOWDOWN
Refuses To Withdraw His
Nomination Of Mc
Keough; Faces Fight
By JACK BELL
WASHINGTON, Oct. 2 —(JP)—
President Truman shoved In the
chips today for a politically-im
portant senate showdown on hts
nomination of Raymond S. Mc
Keough as a maritime commission
er.
Packed with controversy, the
appointment involves two ques
tions :
1. Can the bulk of senate
Republicans, who don’t like
the CIO, get enough Demo
cratic votes on their side to
engineer the first rejection of
a Truman nomination? Mc
Keough is on the CIO's po
litical action committee pay
roll.
2. Is the AFL strong enough
among senators to swing the
balance by its opposition to
McKeough?
Mr. Truman reputedly has told
his legislative lieutenants he wants
the nomination of the former
New Deal congressman voted up
or down. i
VOTED DOWN
The senate commerce commit
tee voted it down, 10 to 7, yester
day. The senate will get the is
sue immediately, but it may delay
a vote.
Eight Republicans and two De
mocrats — Senators Overton of
Louisiana and O'Daniel of Texas
—forced committee adoption of the
adverse report. Seven Democrats
voted for approval.
The committee decision came
after Chairman Bailey (D-ND)
announced that the President had
written him requesting committee
action so the matter could be de
cided by the senate. Sometimes
presidents withdraw nominations
after unfavorable committee ac
tion. Mr. Truman made it plain
he wasn’t going to.
The reasons committee members
gave for their action varied. But
all came back to this central
point: McKeough's employment by
the PAC as its Chicago district
director in the Roosevelt fourth
term campaign. No one had any
thing to say against McKeough’s
character or his other qualifica
tions.
INDONESIA ASKS
INDEPENDENCE
President1 Says Cabinet
Will Refuse To Meet
With Dutch
By VERN HAUGLAND
BATAVIA, Oct. 1. —(A5)— (Relay
ed)—President Soe Karno of the
"Republic of Indonesia” and mem
bers of his cabinet said in an in
terview today that they would, re
fuse to meet with Charles OC "Van
Der Plas or any other representa
tive of the Dutch government to dis
cuss the independence Karno con
tends his native government already
has achieved.
At the same time, Soe Kamo—
who doesn't use any first name—
defended his wartime series of anti
American and anti-British radio
talks as solely a part of his program
to induce Japanese to give the Indo
nesians greater freedom.
Soe Kamo also discussed that
Field Marshal Count Terauchi, Jap
anese commander for the southern
Pacific regions, had summoned him
and his vice president, Mohammed
Hatta,»to Saigoon, Indo-China, and
informed them Aug. 9 that Japan
had granted the Indonesians com
plete, immediate Independence.
UNIFORMED
“Terauchi said nothing of any
likelihood of Japanese surrender,”
explained Soe Kamo, who speaks
English quite well. VWe had heard
rumors of Japanese reverses, but
we knew little of what actually was
going on.”
The Indonesian -leaders said that
Van Der Plas, who announced at
a press conference yesterday that
he had invited all Indonesian lead
See INDONESIA Page 2
WHAT’S DOING
TODAY
7:30 p. m.—CAP cadets meet
at armory.
WEDNESDAY
6:30 p.m. — Presbyterians
have congregational supper fol
lowed by usual Wednesday eve
ning worship hour, both at the
church.
7:15 p. m.—Sunday school
council of First Baptist church
meets at church.
8:00 p.m.—Fellowship hour at
Central Methodist church at
which family night will be ob
served.
8:00 p. m.—Midweek prayer
and praise service at First Bap
tist church.
PARLOUS DAYS AHEAD:
Disagreements Among Big
Five Are Disturbing News
By DeWITT MacKENZIE, AP News Analyst
You’d think that the big five
council of foreign ministers in Lon
don would have been able to reach
some sort of workable accord, what
with the second world war still cast
ing its monstrous shadow over us,
and the entire eastern hemisphere,
from Europe clear through Asia,
facing a desperate period of hunger
and pdlitico-economic chaos.
Time is precious in these parlous
days. It would be absurd, of course,
to suppose that peace treaties and
other far-reaching agreements can
be reached in a few hours but it’s
a terrible mistake to underestimate
the dangers of slowness in getting
the war-torn countries—enemy as
well as allied—back on their feet as
fast as possible. Before the coming
winter 1s through we are going to
see situations in the late war thea
tres where delay of even a week in
distribution of $od will cost many
lives from starvation. Maybe that
delay can be charged to tardiness
in implementing peace and getting
rehabilitation under way now.
This isn’t to say that the present
foreign ministers’ conference has
See DISAGREEMENTS Page 2
PEACE PLAN
OFFERED IN
OIL STRIKE
Schwellenbach Urges Both
Sides To Accept Arbi
trator's Word
ASKS PAYTNCREASE
By Harold W. Ward
WASHINGTON, Oct. 2.—
(fP)—CIO oil workers and 11
big companies—locked in con
troversy over wages—today
studied a government peace
proposal calling for:
1. A temporary 15 per cent
pay increase, and
2. Agreement by both sides
to accept an arbitrator’s final
settlement.
Acceptance would bring an Im
mediate end to strikes which be
gan September 16 and spread to
12 states. Latest hit area is the
west coast. Pacific military and
naval supplies thereby were jeo
pardized.
Secretary of Labor Schwellen
bach presented the peace plan
early today to weary negotiators
who acknowledged a hopeless dead
lock after seven days of concilia
tion under government supervision.
Schwellenbach had to turn his
attention elsewhere, too, as John
L. Lewis’s soft coal miners added
to government strike worries, and
troubles plied up hi the telephony,
auto and southern textile indus
tries.
The government, with papers al
ready drawn for seizure action
should the oil dispute continue to
leave refineries idle—prodded un
ion and management representa
tives to compromise on the CIO
demands for 30 per cent higher
wages—but quickly.
SUGGESTION
Continuing that “if this strike
continues on into the winter, the
people will be hungry and cold,”
Schwellenbach suggested:
1. Immediate return to work
by the 36,000 striking union
members and full resumption
of operations by management.
2. Return to a 40-hour work
ing schedule “as soon as man
power availability permits,”
with an increase of 15 per
cent or its equivalent in the
basic pay rate.
3. Agreement to accept the
See PEACE Page *
Factions Team
Up In Congress
To Push Roads
WASHINGTON, Oct. 2 —(/P)—
Senate Democrats and Republi
cans teamed up today to push the
button for a huge postwar road
building program. It calls for an
outlay of' more than $3,000,000,000
in the next three years.
Senator McKellar (D-Tenn)
planned to step down from his
chair as presiding officer and ask
immediate action on the bill, al
ready passed unanimously by the
house. As chairman of the com
mittee on postoffices and post
roads, he will call up the measure
which the committee approved
without dissent yesterday.
Actually the pending measure is
limited to a finding by Congress
that the “war emergency has
been relieved to an extent” that
the vast federal aid program can
be started:
The program was autohrlzed by
Congress last December as a post
war measure to cushion the shift
to peace. Under it the states
must match dollar for dollar the
federal funds provided.
$500,000,000 FUND
The program authorizes more
than $600,000,000 federal funds for
the current fiscal year ending
June 30 and the same amount for
the two following fiscal years.
In addition the program includes
$87,250,000 annually to help build
highways, roads and trails in for
ests, parks and Indian lands.
The planned allocations for the
first year, as set forth in a report
issued by the public roads admin
istration include:
Federal-Aid Secondary
Highway or Feeder Urban
State System Roads Highways
N. C. 5,433,060 4,453,613 1,492.475
S. C. 3,050,328 2,518,039
Gen.Patton Is Reported
Relieved Of His Command
By WES G ALLAGHER
FRANKFORT ON THE MAIN, GERMANY, Oct. 2.—(IP)—It was officially announced
today that Gen. George S. Patton, Jr., who differed with Gen. Eisenhower over denazifi
cation policies in Bavaria, had been relieved of command of the famed Third Army he led
through France. He will take over the Fifteenth Armv. which is reduced now to a
paper organization.
The Fifteenth, which completed
its Job as an occupation army in
July, now consists of a headquar
ters staff and a few troops doing
research work.
Lt. Gen. Lucian K. Truscott, Jr,,
commanding the Fifth army which
is slated for official dissolution
Dec. 1, will succeed Patton in com
mand of the Third and of the
eastern half of the American oc
cupation zone.
The changes will take place
about Oct. 7.
Recent remarks of the Third army
commander about the denazifica
tion program in Germany were re
ported by this source to be the
Patton, who has often been in
hot water for speakin out, got him
self into difficulties Sept. 22 when
he expounded his personal theories
about the denazification of his Ba
varian area at his headquarters in
Bad Toelz.
He told a news conference then
that it might be necessary to keep
some Nazis in office “to insure our
selves that women, children and old
men will not perish from hunger or
cold this winter.”
ciutigised
, -This statement brought editorial
criticism in the United States, as
did Patton’s comparison of “this
Nazi thing” to the “Democratic and
Republican fight back home.”
"You always find the ‘outs’ back
home making charges against the
‘ins’,” Patton explained.
Promptly, Eisenhower’s head
quarters told Patton to "clarify” his
remarks. Patton then summoned
another news conference. At the
second conference he said his com
parison of German and American
politics was an “unfortunate ana
See GEN. PATTON Page 2
GEN. EISENHOWER (left) and GEN. PATTON (right) shown as they
left their recent conference at the former’s headquarters.
GLOBESTERON
HOME TRAIL
"Jumped Hump" Of China
Today, Passes Half
Way Mark
By PAUL MILLER
MANILA, Oct. 2—(£*)—The Globe
ster ‘‘jumped the hump” of China
today, passed the half-way mark
in its flight around the world, and
hit the long Pacific trail for home,
reaching Manila at 1:25 p.m.
(Manila time; 11:25 p.m. Monday,
eastern standard time).
Arriving at Nichols field after
their 1,415-mile hop from Kun
ming, China, passengers had a
three-hour stop before boarding a
new plane—the Bataan Meteor—
for the 1,587-mile flight to Guam.
The new plane took off for Guam
at 4:46 p.m. (Manila time; 2:46
a.m., E. S. T.)
It was the second plane change
since the Globester run started
from Washington last Friday—the
first flight in the first regular
globe-circling service of the army
transport command.
Another change of planes will
be made at San Francisco as the
flight moves toward the conclu
sion of its race to round the
earth at 150 miles an hour.
Six stops, including the last at
Washington, remain after Manila,
with the remaining hops averag
ing 2,057 miles each.
The Globester plane is expect
ed to reach Honolulu at 11 a.m.
Wednesday, Honolulu time (4:30 p.
m., E. S. T.) and hula dancers
will entertain the passengers at a
luncheon during their two-hour
stop.
Bombay Celebrates
Gandhi's Birthday
BOMBAY, Oct. 2 .—(£•)— This
city celebrated the 76th birthday
of Mohandas K. Gandhi today.
Many business and educational
establishments suspended activi
ties in honor of the Indian na
tionalist leader, and followers
sent him a purse of 76,000 rupees
(about $47,000)—1,000 for each
year of his life. He also was giv
en 840 yards of hand-spun yam—|
200 hanks for each year.
Democrats Back
Administration
Tax Proposals
By FRANCES M. LE MAY
WASHINGTON, Oct. 2. —(/P)—
Democratic strength built up pre
ponderantly today behind the ad
ministration’s proposal for a $5,000,
000,000 tax cut next year that would
free 12,000,000 low income persons
from further income levies.
A spot poll indicated that the
house ways and means committee—
which only last week cast aside
President Truman’s request for job
less pay liberalization—would give
speedy approval to the tax bill and
send it to the full house for a vote.
Moreover, Chairman George (D
Ga) of the senate finance commit
tee termed the tax-cutting proposal
submitted yesterday by Secretary of
the Terasury Fred M. Vinson “a
very constructive approach.”
SPECIAL TAXES
Vinson proposed repeal of Janu
ary 1 of both the war time three
per cent normal tax on indiibduals
and the 95 per cent excess profits
tax on corporations. He also recom
mended sharp cuts of excise taes on
such things as furs, jewelry, liquor
and cosmetics, effective next July
!•
Republicans, however, stood firm
on their own tax program, which
would slice income levies 20 per j
See DEMOCRATS Page 2
PLAN WAR FUND
DRIVE TONIGHT
Blackley Announces Drive
Opening Oct
ober 9
Final plans for the United War
Fund’s drive in Shelby and Cleve
land county, outside the Kings
Mountain and Number 4 Township
where a separate campaign is be
ing waged, will be mapped at a
meeting of local leaders with
Shem K. Blackley, general chair
man, at the Charles Hotel at 7
p.m. tonight.
Preliminary plans call for the
kick-off breakfast next Tuesday
morning, Mr. Blackley stated.
Tonight at 10:30 from 10:30 to
See PLAN Page 2
Riot Area In India
More Quiet Today
BOMBAY, Oct. 2. —(A5)— Police
today reported the first 12 hour
period without a major violent in
cident since Hindu-Moslem distur
bances began last Wednesday.
Two additional fatalities from
previously inflicted stab wounds
were reported, however, bringing
the total deaths to 33. The injured
number is 168.
City Fathers Pass Model
Planning, Zoning Ordinance
First formal step toward laying
out Shelby as a planned and zoned
city was taken last night as the
board of aldermen in a meeting
at the city hall k passed a model
zoning ordinance* and laid the
groundwork for the appointment
of a zoning commission, whose
duty it will be to sell the idea to
the citizens of Shelby and then
present a workable plan of land
utilization to the board of aider
men for further action.
The new zoning commission will
be named * within the next few
weeks by the board of aldermen,
members of which stated last |
night that they wanted more time
to deliberate on personnel for this
all-important commission.
In addition to members of the
city board at the meeting last
night, there were also present
George Franklin, attorney for the
North Carolina League of Munici
palities, who explained the working
of the zoning system to the city
fathers: Dale Stentz. secretary of
the chamber of commerce, an or
ganization which has consistently
See CITY Page 2
HE AND BEVIN
FREQUENTLY IN
DISAGREEMENT
Ministers Seem Unable
To Reach Even Super
ficial Harmony
MEET NEARS CLOSE ;
LONDON, Oct. 2.—(^—In
formants high within th«
counsel of the foreign minis
ters’ conference .said today
that Soviet Foreign Commis
sar V. M. Molotov threatene(
to go home over the weekeru
after a heated argument with
British Foreign Secretary
Ernest Bevin.
The two have been reported a
loggerheads frequently during thi
sessions which were drawing to
ward a close. !
The representatives of the Unit
ed States, Russian, Great Britain
France and China met more thar
two hours this morning and re
convened for another session later
It seemed that even the most su
perficial agreement could not tx
reached.
Molotov was reported by
persons present at the week
end exchange to have taken
exception to a remark by Bev
in that the Soviet Commissar’s
methods were “Hitlerian.”
The clash resulted when Molo
tov demanded that the minister!
rescind a decision of Sept. 11 or
procedure, which permitted Franci
and China to sit in on all discus
sions.
DEADLOCK ISSUE
This is the issue which hat
deadlocked the conference foi
more than a week with Russia in
sisting that the Potsdam decision
be adhered to with only the for
eign ministers of the Big Thret
discussing and drafting peaci
treaties for the Balkan states.
The report was that Molotoi
said in effect that when th<
group of powers reached an agree
ment in common and that after
wards one or more realized theii
mistake, the council should recon
sider and repeal the decision. -
To this, Bevin was understoot
to have said he had “never heart
anything more like Hitlerian me
thods.”
Persons present said Bevln’i
remarks were translated int<
French ahd Russian while th<
ministers sat tense and waited foi
an explosion.
When the interpreters finished
See MOLOTOV Page *
Robert Bellaire
Killed In Japan;
Lectured In Shelby
TOKYO, Oct .2. —m— Rober
Bellaire, Colliers corresponden
killed in a jeep accident near Tokyt
Sept. 29, was buried with a simple
military service at the Yokohami
army cemetery today. His body
draped with an American flag, wae
interred among 39 other Americans
who have died since occupation
forces landed here. ,
Capt. George T. Donnelly, Cow
ington, Kv., chaplain of the Fas
East Air forces, conducted the ser
vice.
Mr. Bellaire gave a lecture ir
Shelby a few years ago under spon
sorship of the Inter-club council
which annually brings an outstand
ing speaker to the city for a lecture
Mr. Bellaire spoke in Shelby short
ly after he had been returned to
America on the Gripsholm after his
release from an internment camp
in Japan. n
No Trace Found Of
Plane In Distress
RALEIGH. Oct. 2. —f.Bi— Despiti
a widespread search conducted yes
terday and last night, no trace hat
been found today by an army plant
from which distress signals wert
picked up Sunday night by tht
Seymour Johnson Air base head
quarters, at Goldsboro.
Planes from the base patrolli
several counties south of Goldsbori
but no trace of the plane was fount
Dis"-ess messages said both motoi
of the ship had failed, and bef<
the radio operator could ideni
the craft his sending apparatus
failed.