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CLEVELAND COUNTY’S NEWSPAPER SINCE 1894
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VOL. XLIII— 237
ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWS
SHELBY, N. &
WEDNESDAY, OCT. 3, 1945
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Oil Workers Said Ready To Accept Government Plan To End Strike I
DECISIONS OF
BOARD TO BE
GIVEN TODAY
Includes Temporary 15
Per Cent Pay Hike,
Arbitration
* MORE COAL STRIKES
By Harold W. Ward
WASHINGTON, Oct. 3.—
(IP)—CIO oil workers report
edly were ready today to ac
cept a government plan that
would end their cross-country
refinery strikes, coal and tele
phone troubles persisted.
The oil plan calls for arbitra
tion of the union's wage uemands
and a temporary 15 per cent pay
hike. The union wants 30 per
cent.
Decisions of the union's execu
tive board, and of the ten com
panies whose plants are struck in
15 states, were to be given to
Secretary of Labor Schwcllenbach
at 4 p.m. (ESTi.
Rejection of the peace plan
almost inevitably would lead to
government seizure of the re
fineries.
Schwellenbach has said army
and navy supplies soon will be
critically short and that civilian
stocks already arc in danger in
euch key areas as Detroit.
Past spreading soft coal strikes
served meanwhile to intensify the
labor department’s efforts to set
tle the oil dispute, now in its 17th
day.
SCHEDULED SHUT-DOWN
k And a scheduled four-hour "de
" monstration” shut-down Friday by
200,000 members of the National
Federation of Telephone Workers,
also has the government worried.
The coal strikes, already involv
ing 90.000 miners producing one
third of the nation’s bituminous
supply, forced the solid fuels ad
ministration to impose stringent
distribution controls. Coal supplies
from the critical areas were tag
ged for essential services only, such
as hospitals and utilities.
John L. Lewis sat tight as mine
after mine shut down in Pennsyl
vania and West Virginia. These
shutdowns followed refusal of the
soft coal operators to confer with
Lewis on recognition of his fore
men's union, a branch of United
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SUGAR FIND
ISGOODNEWS
U. S.'s Share Likely 2
Month Supply By Pres
ent Rationing
WASHINGTON, Oct. 3. —f/P)—
Discovery of 1,600,000 tons of sugar
In Java, recently surrendered by the
Japanese, raised official hopes to
day that sugar rationing might be
ended by spring.
Disclosure of the find was made
by Secretary of Agriculture An
derson after the word was brought
to him by E. C. Zimmerman, com
missioner of the Netherlands East
Indies in this country.
Agents for the Netherlands colo
nies made the discovery in Japan
ese ports. Java long has been an
important Pacific producing area.
Anderson said Zimmerman ex
pressed belief that additional large
quantities might be found in the
interior as well as on other East
Indies islands, suth as Formosa and
Borneo.
The sugar found in the Pacific
will be tossed into a virtually empty
United Nations pool and divided
among countries dependent upon it.
While no official estimate was
made, it is possible that this coun
try will get between 700,000 and
800,000 tons from the quantity found
in Java. This would be virtually a
two-month supply on the basis of
present allocations to civilians.
Cotton Ginnings For
Year Sharply Down
Ginnings of only 294 bales of
cotton of the 1945 crop to Sep
tember 16 in Cleveland county are
reported by Thamer Beam, spe
cial a^ent for the department of
commerce census bureau.
The figure compares with 4,144
bales at the same date a year ago
when weather and general condi
tion! were more favorable. „
WAITING FOR TRAIN IN GERMANY—Their blanket-wrapped posses
sions make a comfortable seat for this displaced German woman and her
child while waiting in Berlin for a train. They may wait for several days
because of the shortage of German transportation facilities. This picture
was made by Henry Burroughs, Associated Press photographer.—(AP
Wirephoto'.
Truman Calls For
War Fund Support
Blackley And McMurry Get Campaign Set To Raise
County's $23,932 Quota
As President Truman opened the National War Fund
campaign last night with an appeal for generous contribu
tions to help war fund agencies “finish the job they were
set up to do,” Cleveland county’s campaign organization was
set up looking to the kick-off breakfast next Tuesday morn
| ing when workers will go forth seeking the $32,932 quota.
winis MCMurry. commander oi
the American Legion, will direct
the campaign organization with
Shem K. Blackley as county chair
man, while in the separate cam
paign at Kings Mountain and in
Number Four township Byron
Keeter will serve as, chairman.
An intensiTe county-wide appeal
will be launched through each of
the churches starting this Sun
day, that phase of the drive being
headed jointly by Horace Easom,
Rev. Paul Hardin, jr.. and Mai A.
Spangler. It is the purpose to wage
the humanitarian campaign through
each of the churches, while in the
city and industrial plants there
will be separate organiaztions set
up as in each of the county
churches.
Charles B. Austell heads the city
organization's up-town canvass,
while Griffin P. Smith will direct
the canvass of outlying business
places. Mrs. Rush Stroupe and
I Mrs. R. H. Rogers will direct the
residential canvass.
Mr. Blackley said today that
See TRUMAN Page 2
WHATS D6mT
TODAY
7:00 p.m. — Congregational
supper at Presbyterian church,
to be followed by regular wor
ship service at 7:30.
7:15 p.m. — Sunday school
council of First Baptist church
meets at the church.
8:00 p.m.—Midweek prayer
and praise service at First Bap
tist church.
8:00 p.m.—Fellowship hour
and family night observance at
Central Methodist church.
GLOBESTER IS
RUNNING LATE
By PAUL MILLER
KWAJALEIN, Marshall Islands,
Oct. 3 —(AP)—The Army Transport
Command’s first world-circling
Globester flight, driving to make
up nearly three and a half hours
lost time, left Kwajalein for Hick
am Field, Honolulu, shortly after 7
p.m. local time today.
ATC officers said the big C-54
plane will skip its scheduled stop at
Johnston Island, and make the 2,
200-mile trip to Honolulu non-stop.
The Globester plane reached
Kwajalein at 6:30 p.m. today, local
time, in its second-try flight from
Guam.
The big around-the-world plane,
after being 315 miles out of Guam
earlier on its 1,551-mlle overwater
hop, had turned back when one of
its four 1,450-horsepower engines
cut out.
Capt. Marion H J*. Click of Den
ver, pilot of the Guam-Kwajaleln
jump, blamed magneto trouble for
the failure.
Another big C-54 was waiting at
Guam and*the passengers were off
with Capt. Click and his crew, at
8:28 a.m. Guam time, (5:28 p.m.,
E. S. T.)
The delay put the Globester three
hours and 28 minutes behind on its
151-hour globe-circling schedule
but Army Transport Command of
ficers seem confident that the flight
will be concluded at Washington by
Thursday, Oct. 4, as scheduled.
Senators Decry British
Policy On Jewish Issue
By J. W. toAVIS
WASHINGTON, Oct. 3. —(JP)—
A surge of sharp words against
British policy carried along senti
ment in the senate today for a for
mal demand that Palestine be open
ed wide to Jewish immigration.
“War problems are 'no longer a
factor,” Senator Wagner (D-NY)
told a reporter.
Wagner was co-sponsor with
Senator Taft (R-Ohio) of a reso
lution last year declaring for the
opening of Palestine and establish
ment of a Jewish commonwealth.
It called on the government to de
mand of the British that they re
pudiate a white paper which limited
Jewish immigration.
The resolution was shelved, how
ever, due to fears of upsetting the
Arabs in and near Palestine dur
ing the war. Arab leaders have
threatened trouble should Jews be
admitted wholesale.
TURNED DOWN
Wagner said now is the time to
revive the resolution. Taft put it this
way:
“The administration then oppos
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, T* J
CONGRESS GOING
STRONG ON
TAX REDUCTION
House Committee Votes
Greater Cut Than Ask
ed By Vinson
COMPROMISE PLAN
By Francis M. Lemay
WASHINGTON, Oct. 3.—
(/P)—Congress appeared to
day to be going considerably
beyond the administration’s
$5,000,000,000 tax cut recom
mendation.
In an expansive mood, the house
ways and means committee yester
day voted individuals a reduction
next year of almost a half billion
dollars more than Secretary of the
Treasury Fred M. Vinson proposed.
And there were indications, as
the committee turned to corpora
tion taxes today, that it might go
beyond repeal of the 95 per cent
excess profits levy as Vinson sug
gested.
It was understood that Chairman
Doughton (D-NC) had asked his
tax staff for figures on the effects
of cuts in present corporation sur
tax rates. Vinson made no reference
to these. He said repeal of the war
time excess profits levy would cut
corporation tax bills by $2,550,000,000
next year.
The administration won one ma
jor point as the ways and mean§
group voted yesterday to relieve
12,000,000 low income persons from
income taxes after this year. But
the committee brushed aside Vin
son’s proposal for outright repeal
of the three per cent normal tax.
COMPROMISE ADOPTED
Instead, it adopted a Republican
sponsored compromise keeping the
normal tax but on a more liberal
basis of exemptions for dependents.
This plan also reduces Individual
surtax rates by four percentage
points in each of the graduated
brackets.
This would grant Individual
taxpayers—estimated to number
50,000,004 when the war end
ed—relief of about $2,500,000,
000, against the $2,085,000,000
Vinson sought through simple
repeal of the normal tax.
Rep. Carlson (R-Kas), author of
the 1943 pay-as-you-go legislation,
offered the compromise program.
It was adopted as a substitute for
a proposal by Rep. Robertson (D
Va) embodying the administration
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All Known Allied
Prisoners Of War
In Japan Freed
TOKYO, Oct. 3. —(JP)— All of
the 30,805 known American and
allied war prisoners and civilian
internees from camps in Japan and
Korea have been evacuated.
The recovered-personnel section
of the adjutant general’s office,
Army Forces of the Pacific, re
ported today that all are en route
to their homes via the Manila
clearing station. Listed as dead were
1,390 others.
Hurricane Sweeping
Up From Caribbean
MIAMI, Oct. 3. —(ff)— A small
but violent hurricane put coastal
area? from Central America to the
Mexican Gulf states on guard as it
whirled up from the western Carib
bean sea early today.
Charted first as a tropical distur
bance near Swan Island yesterday
afternoon, the storm had increased
to full hurricane fury by night.
"This is a very severe small
storm,” cautioned Forecaster W. O.
Johnson of the federal storm
warning service in alerting vessels
in the northwestern Caribbean to
move out of the path of the blow.
Trial Of Laval To
Begin Tomorrow
PARIS, Oct. 3. —(&)— The
French high court of justice an
nounced today that the trial of
Pierre Laval, accused of betraying
France and collaborating with the
Germans, would begin on schedule
tomorrow.
He was chief of government in the
Vichy regime of Marshal Petain,
who is serving a life term under
commutation by Gen. De Gaulle
of a death sentence. ^
FACES OPPOSITION — President
Truman’s appointment of Ray
mond S. McKeough (above) as a
maritime commissioner faces a
showdown battle on the senate
floor. A senate committee already
has voted to reject the nomination.
McKeough is a former congressman
from Illinois. — (AP Wirephoto)
URGES REDUCED
APPROPRIATION
Truman Would Lower
Funds For Current Year
By $40 Billion
WASHINGTON, Oct. 3. —UP}—
The White House said today Pres
ident Truman has recommended
reductions of nearly $40,000,000,000
in funds appropriated for the cur
rent fiscal year ending June 30.
A statement said the sum recom
mended for repeal was slightly in
excess of $39,750,000,000 out of total
available appropriations of approx
imately $105,000,000,000.
Funds recommended for repeal
included $28,700,000,000 for the
Army, $8,300,000,000 for the Navy
and $2,800,000,0 for emergency and
war-related activities.
“In addition,” the statement
added, “the President recommend
ed reductions of slightly more than
$4 billion in contract authorizations
and $9,318,307 in adminstrative ex
penses for government corporations.
An additional $1,190,500 was recom
mended to be returned to the treas
ury from government corporations
established by the Office of Inter
American Affairs.
“In transmitting his recommen
dations the President has in each
case indicated to the congress that
all war and war-related appropria
tions will be under continuous study.
He has declared that he plans an
other full review of such appropria
tions and will make a report to
Congress on January 3, 1946, con
taining recommendations concern
ing further adjustments.”
Lawndale Slated
For $85,000 Post
Office Under Bill
Postoffice structures in the $85,
000 class for Lawndale, Cliffside,
Spindale and Cherryville are in
cluded in the list of 4,200 sub
mitted to Congress yesterday as
part of a $193,000,000 construction
program.
Commissioner of Public Build
ings W. Englebert Reynolds, who
submitted the list, pointed out
that the Inclusion of a building
in the eligible list is no indication
that a recommendation for its
construction is to be expected in
the near future. He said that
many may not be built for years.
County Cotton Crop
Looking Good So Far
The county cotton crop looks
pretty good at this stage, although
it’s still too soon to make a crop
forecast, Ben Jenkins, farm agent,
said this morning.
With about three different
crops of cotton in the county, de
pending on the planting time,
much of the cotton is just be
ginning to open g<x>d, and a few
days of warm sunshine should see
many bolls cracking open, al
though some of the earlier cotton
is opening well already.
Some damage was caused by the
recent wet-spell, Mr. Jenkins said,
but not enough to cause any ap
preciable loss in the county’s
crop, he said. w
Japs Warned To Keep
Hands Off In Korea
TOKYO, Oct. 3.—(/P)—General MacArthur today re
stricted Japanese overseas financial and business communi
cations to messages he has approved, and warned the Nip
ponese government to keep its hands off Korea while threats
of famine brought fresh troubles to the Japanese cabinet, j
vuooio mean wmie lias all
nounced to the United States its
determination to take a hand in
control of Japan, the Moscow ra
dio reported. The radio report
said formation of a four-power
control government for Japan
should precede any previously-a
greed-upon "consultative com
mission” to direct long-range al
lied occupation policy.)
American officials today report
ed they were watching strictly the
activities of more than 100 former
secret patriotic societies of Japan
and “all other subversive” groups.
Authorities are particularly vigi
lant, they said, against any evi
dence that these groups might be
going underground to continue
rightist activities which were in
strumental in whipping Japan in
to imperialism.
The warning to Nippon to keep
its hands completely off Korean
government affairs followed pur
ported “promotions” of Japanese
officials or civil functionaries
serving in southern Korea. “All
such purported promotions are in
effective,” allied headquarters as
serted, adding that its own mili
tary government is the sole au
thority in Korea.
The first report of a race riot
in northern Japan gave further
warning today of the approach of
inevitable famine — and possible
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Reorganization Of
Government Talked
House Members Disagree On Authority To Give Presi
dent In Revamping Bureaus
By Clair Johnson
WASHINGTON, Oct. 3.—(JP)—A scrap began in the
house today over how much government reorganization pow
er to give President Truman.
Most democrats rallied behind a bill which would allow
him, unless congress objected within 60 days, to reshuffle or
abolish all federal bureaus except four.
ANGRY POLES
SEEK REVENGE
Seek To Lynch Nazi At
Reburial Of 243 Mur
dered Poles
LUENEBURG. Germany, Oct.''3:
—(JP>—An angry throng of displaced
Poles, watching the reDurial of 243
murdered victims of the Nazis in a
pine forest at the outskirts of
Lueneburg, tried vainly today to
lynch one of the Germans being
forced to do the job.
While 24 of Lueneburg’s leading
Nazis were completing the reburial,
one was identified by a Pole as Kurt
Kautsch, formerly deputy com
mandant of the Lodz concentration
camp in Poland.
“This is the murderer Kautsch,”
the Pole screamed. “This is the
man who beat my brother.”
The crowd picked up clubs and
started closing in. Belgian military
police unslung their guns and fired
over the heads of the Poles. The
crowd fell back. But the angry Poles
continued shouting and spitting at
him and brandishing clubs.
Kautsch was arrested and placed
in the Lueneburg jail.
October Tire Quota In
54 Counties Reduced
RALEIGH, Oct. 3. —(/P)— An Oc
tober tire quota of 29,689 has been
set for the 54 counties of the Ra
leigh district office of Price Admin
istration.
The quota is about 800 less than
that of September.
xiuw
ever, moved to add at least eight
more agencies to those four.
Leaders of both parties agreed
the chief executive should be giv
en streamlining authority. The
battle, they said, is over how
much.
Chairman Manasco (D-Ala) of
the house expenditures committee
which drafted the legislation, told
a reporter:
“I believe we can pass the meas
jirepretty much as written.”
Chairman Halleck (R-Ind) of
a GOP legislative policy sub-com
mittee, said in an interview:
“I have prepared amendments
to protect the independent status
on at least eight more agencies.
These agencies are creatures of
Congress and should not be sub
ject to executive tampering.”
EXEMPTIONS
The mesaure does not deal with
cabinet positions or departments.
However, Rep. Jennings Ran
dolph (D-W Va) told a reporter
he would try for an amendment
to permit merger of the army and
navy. Manasco predicted this
move would be defeated, “because
we shouldn’t act on this question
now without adequate hearings.”
A further sign of ultimate de
feat for any such attempt came,
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Announcement On
Atomic Bomb Expected
WASHINGTON, Oct. 3. — <£»)—
President Truman plans an an-1
nouncement today regarding devel- i
opment and use of the atomic bomb.!
The President’s press secretary,:
Charles G. Ross, told reporters the
President’s announcement would be
made at a presidential news con-1
ference at 4 p.m. (EST).
'GET TOUGH, STAY TOUGH1:
Patton’s Transfer Received
With Mingled Relief, Regret
By DeWITT MacKENZIE, AP News Analyst
General Two-Gun Patton’s trans
fer from command of his famous
Third army, in occupation of Ba
varia, is being received by the
public at large with mixed feel
ings — relief mingled with regret
that misfortune should befall a
gallant soldier.
While no official reason has
been given for placing the Bava
rian administration in new hands,
General Eisenhower’s move follows
Patton’s recent statement to the
press that some Nazis should re
main in office for the sake of
better administration this winter.
V
This was contrary to Eisenhow
er’s stand for elimination of all
Nazis from office in accordance
with the Big Three declaration of
Potsdam.
Patton made a big mistake there,
but in assaying his difficulties we '
shouldn’t overlook another error
by the outspoken general. When
he compared “this Nazi thing’’ to
the "democratic and republican
right back home” he uttered what
he himself later admitted was an
'unfortunate analogy.”
See PATTON’S Face 2
FOUR-POWER
CONTROL BODY
IS PROPOSED
Conference Of Ministers
Adjourned With No
Mojor Agreement
DEPUTIES CONTINUE
LONDON, Oct. 3.—(JP)—A
Moscow broadcast disclosed
today that a Russian demand,
for a four-power control gov
ernment for Japan had been
presented to U. S. Secretary
of State James F. Byrnes at
the final day of the meetings
of the foreign ministers of
five leading allied powers.
Shouldering of common respon
sibility by "the four Allied powers
which played a decisive role in the
defeat of Japan”—a reference to the
United States, Russia, Britain and
China—was suggested. The impli
cation was that the proposed agen
cy should succeed the arrangement
under which Gen. MacArthur has
served as allied commander in chief.
The conference adjourned last
night after multiple disagree
ment on procedure, particularly
on Balkan peace treaties, but
deputies of the foreign ministers
continued work.
Russian Foreign Commissar V. M.
Molotov, Byrnes and French For
eign Minister Georges Bidault, in a
series of press conferences, gave
individual assurances of ultimate
agreements on peace treaties for
Europe.
The Moscow radio said the four
power control government for
Japan should be formed before the
establishment of a proposed far
eastern consultative commission to
direct long range policy for Japan.
CONTROL commission;
“Unfortunately, we did not dis
cuss the question of an allied con
trol commission for Japan,” Molo
tov said at the luxurious Soviet em
See FOUR POWER Page 2
RIO MEET MAY
BE POSTPONED
Conference To Draft Pan
American Defense
Treaty Hangs Fire
By GRAHAM HOVEY
WASHINGTON, Oct. 3. —(JP)—
Restrictive tactics of Argentina's
military government may cause
postponement of the inter-Ameri
can conference scheduled to open
October 20 in Rio de Janeiro.
Such action would constitute
a hemisphere slap in the face
for the Buenos Aires regime
which clamped on a state of
siege and arrested thousands of
its political opponents last week.
The United States was expected
to take a stand on the suggested
postponement sometime today, fol
lowing these developments:
1. Disclosure that American
officials had discussed with
Brazil the possibility of post
poning the conference or can
celling it entirely.
2. Informal suggestions by
three Latin American ambas
sadors in Washington that the
Rio meeting be delayed “so we
can all be better prepared.”
3. An unscheduled visit to
Capitol Hill by Acting Secre
tary State Dean Acheson and
assistant secretary - designate
Spruille Braden to discuss U.
S. hemisphere policy.
DEFENSE TREATY
Braden, who returned from Ar
gentina last week after serving four
months as ambassador, goes back
to the capitol today to appear be
fore the senate foreign relations
committee. It is considering his no
mination for the assistant secretary
ship in charge of Latin American
affairs.
The Rio conference was called
to write a Pan American defense
treaty as provided for at the Mexico
City inter-American meeting early
this year.
Argentina, having signed the
Mexico City acts and joined the
United Nations, is scheduled to at
tend the Rio meeting.
Although its agenda is limited to
the defense treaty, diplomats have
conceded that the question of
whether Buenos Aires was living up
to its hemisphere and United Na
tions commitments is certain to be
raised. ^