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» WEATHER North Carolina: Fair and con tinued cool today and tonight; Friday, increasing cloudiness and not much change in temperature. Tshk Hhkihg Bang Hm CLEVELAND COUNTY'S NEWSPAPER SINCE 1894 TELEPHONES 1100 - State Theatre Today - “NO TIME FOR LOVE" FRED MacMURRAY CLAUDETTE COLBERT VOL. XLIII-238 ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWS SHELBY, N. C. THURSDAY, OCT. 4, 1945 TELEMAT PICTURES SINGLE COPIES—Be *** *** -K * * * * * • Truman Delays Order For Government Seizure Of Oil Plants ERIC JOHNSTON AND PRESIDENT DISCUSSCRISIS Seizure Order Scheduled For Noon; No Explana tion Of Delay 51 PLANTS AFFECTED By Harold W. Ward WASHINGTON, Oct. 4.— (fP)—President Truman today delayed temporarily the is suance of orders for govern ment seizure of oil properties affected by a 15-state strike of CIO oil workers Charles G. Ross, press secretary, first announced the orders would be released about noon (eastern standard time) but shortly after that hour reported they would not be issued "for at least two hours." There was no expalnation of the delay. Ross had said the seizure orders were being drawn up following failure of govern ment attempts to settle the strike of 43,000 workers through arbitration of wage demands. Meanwhile, President Eric John ston of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, conferred with Mr. Truman about the labor crisis and emerged with the statement that both management and labor will have “to use their heads” to solve current disputes. "I say to you in my opinion if management and labor ought to Sea ERIC JOHNSTON Page 2 ' ARGENTINA IN THE DOG HOUSE Oth«r American Republics Seem Ready To Join U. S. Quarantine WASHINGTON, Oct. 4. —</P>— Argentina's army-dominated gov ernment Is back In the Pan Ameri can doghouse—only four months after It got out. United States patience with the Buenos Aires brass hats ran out yesterday. Today the 19 other Am erican republics appeared about ready to Join In hanging up the di plomatic '‘quarantine” sign along the Rio De La Plata, Argentina's northern boundary. Specifically, the republics seem to go ahead drafting a Pan Ameri can defense treaty that would ex clude Argentina. While treaty discussions are go ing on, however, the United States will take the lead In discussions of what else—If anything—the Ameri cas are ready to do about their perennial problem child. LIKELY TOMORROW The first official step in the new crackdown probably will come to morrow. The State Department has asked the Pan American union governors to meet then to “con sider” postponing the inter-Ameri can conference scheduled to open October 20 in Brazil. Actually, the host government al ready has called oft the conference. This came after the United States told Brazil it would not sit down at a conference table with the present Argentine government to draft the hemisphere defense treaty. The treaty had been the chief Item on the conference agenda. Meeting newsmen, Acting Secre tary of State Dean Acheson said the Argentine regime had repudiat ed completely the hemisphere and United Nations obligation it as sumed last spring. Hence it would not make sense for the United States, he said, to draft a military alliance with such a government. PRO-AXIS The Argentine militarists con ducted and permitted pro-Axis ac tivities during the war. These cost United Nations lives and property. Because of unmistakable pro allied sentiments of the Argentine people, however, this government was willing to take Argentina back Into the family of nations if the army-led regime would meet cer tain obligations. The militarists carried out some of these but gave only “lip service" to the rest. Having Just fought a long and costly war to eliminate militarist repressions, the United States is in no mood to look on with Indif ference while a military clique im poses the same repressions on its own people in the western hemis phere. ____ t L, JAPS’ OWN PHOTO OF ATTACK ON PEARL HARBOR—Believed to be one of the first pictures of bombs dropping on Pearl Harbor in the Japs’ sneak attack of December 7, 1941, this Japanese photo was found Lorn to pieces at the Yokosuka Naval base by U. S. Na ry Photographer Martin J. Shemanski from Plymouth, Pa. One Jap plane is shown pulling out of a dive near the bomb eruption in the center. Another is in the air it upper right (circle). Shemanski copied the picturi with a Jap camera, using Jap photographic plates, and brought the results back to the aircraft carrier Shangri-La, where the original picture was turned over ;o Naval authorities. This photo was flown to this country by Army courier.—(AP Wirephoto). Administration Moves To Curb Tax Slashes By Francis M. Le May WASHINGTON, Oct. 4.—(/P)—A renewed administra tion drive to hold first peacetime tax slashes to $5,000,000,000 cast doubt today on an early reduction in big wartime excise SIXTH PUNE OFF FORHOME Globester Is On Home Stretch, California To Washington By PAUL MILLER HAMILTON FIELD, Calif., Oct. 4. —(A5)— The Army Transport Command's globe-girdling flight was near its end today as the sixth plane of the world shuttle took off here this morning at 5:30 a.m. Pa WASHINGTON, Oct. 4 —(/P)— The world-girdling "Globester” flight was over Elko, Nev., at 10:47 a.m.. Eastern Standard Time, today on the last lap of its trip. In reporting this, the air trans port command estimated arrival time of the plane here as 9:07 p.m. cific Standard Time (8:30 a.m., Eastern Standard lime) on the last leg to Washington, D. C. The big C-54 four-engined states man is scheduled to arrive at the National capital about 9 p.m. (EST) this evening three hours ahead of the schedule originally planned for the six-day Journey. The seven men and one woman who made the entire trip changed planes here 3 hours and 20 minutes after their arrival from Honolulu at 2:10 a.m. (PST). They made the flight from the islands to the main See SIXTH Page 2 I levies. The excise issue, involving such things as liquor, luggage, jewelry, fur coats and lipstick, came be fore the house ways and means committee along with a showdown on repeal of the 95 percent excess profits tax on corporations. There apparently were enough votes to eliminate the excess in come levy and thus ease corpor ate burdens by $2,555,000,000 in 1946. However, there were reports that committee Republicans might seek further cuts for corporations as well as a bigger saving for indi viduals than the $2,500,000,000 voted Tuesday. This was almost a half billion above what Secre tary of the Treasury Fred M. Vin son had recommended. As a result Vinson made a quick trip to Capitol Hill late yesterday for a private talk with Democrat-, ic committee members. Afterwards it appeared the committee might pass over any action now looking toward a re duction in excise rates. Vinson had suggested July 1 as the date for restoring them to their pre-war levels. He said such action would save consumers See ADMINISTRATION Page 2 WHAT’S DOING TODAY 7:00 p.m.—Regular meeting of Kiwanis club. 7:30 p.m.—CAP cadets meet at armory. FRIDAY 12:30 p.m.—Regular meeting of Rotary club. 1 THE ATOMIC BOMB; Foreign Nations Look With Distrust On Our Ownership By DeWITT MacKENZIE, AP News Analyst President Truman’s atomic en ergy message, advocating develop ment of this power for the benefit of humanity but the outlawing of it by international agreement for war purposes, is a momentous move for which the world has been waiting anxiously. It probably is no exaggeration to say that the President’s action is of far greater importance than the actual explosion on Hiroshima of the first atomic bomb to* be employed militarily. After all, that was merely a horrific disclosure of an epochal instrument which already existed. The death and. >. * destruction which it wrought are inconsequential as compared with the iron-clad control of this pow er for, as Mr. Truman says, "ato mic force in Ignorant or evil hands could inflict untold disaster upon the nation and the world.” However, it isn’t the purpose of this column to dilate on the con trol of the bomb but rather to draw attention to its relation to the troubled international situa ti6n. We can be sure that gov ernment officials and scientists in the major capitals of the globe _ See FOREIGN Page 2_ PLAN WAR FUND CONCENTRATION ChairmcH) Blacklfy Hopes To Have Campaign Finished Soon Time allotted for the National War Fund and Community Fund campaign opening here next Tues day will be reduced considerably with victorious conclusion expect ed by October 22, Chairman Shem K. Blackley said today. A quota of $23,932 is sought — not the $32,932 as represented due to a typographical error in earlier re port. “We will still have the remain der of the month in which to com plete our business.” Chairman Blackley said, “but the campaign is geared to last just two weeks and we hope and intend to meet the quota in that length of time.” Funds to support local USO oper ations, Girl Scout and Boy Scout programs raised in the drive will be retained in the county, but bulk of the money goes for the national and International serv ices cited by President Truman as necessary “to finish the job of winning the peace.” INDUSTRIAL WORKERS Industrial employes in plants of the city and county generally will be contacted next week by committeemen working a pay-roll deduction plan in which employes will cooperate. Makeup of the retail and up town division, headed by Charles B. Amtell, will be announced prior to Tuesday morning kick-off breakfast. • The drive in rural churches will be directed through a six-man committee consisting of Rev. John W. Suttle, Rev. Paul Hardin, jr., Rev. Hugh Harrill, Rev. C. G. Is ley, Horace Easom and Mai A. Spangler, sr. Some of the chur ches expect to launch their appeal this Sunday. The drive will be carried to school children Friday in the dis tribution of 4,000 comic sheets through local schools—the folders See PLAN Page 2 Yamashita’s Trial To Begin Monday, Momma’s Soon After MANILA, Oct. 4—(£■)—Lt. Gen. Masaharu Homma, who command ed Japanese forces during the in famous march of death from Ba taan, will be arraigned as a war criminal in the near future, Col. Alva Carpenter, chief of General MacArthur’s war crimes branch, said today. Homma’s arraignment will fol low shortly after that of Gen. Tomoyuki Yamashita, now sched uled for next Monday. Homma, the chunky, bland faced general who surrendered to American occupation forces in Ja pan, is the man who arrogantly accepted the surrender of Gen eral Wainwright after the fall of Corregidor. _____ CONGRESS WILL APPROVE BOMB CONTROLPLAN Legislators Ready To Co operate But Demand Secrecy SOME ArFsKEPTICS By Jack Bell WASHINGTON, Oct. 4.— (JF) — President Truman’s plans for ironclad domestic control of atomic energy ap peared today for early con gressional approval. Leader Barkley (Ky) listed It as “very high priority” legislation in the senate. But legislators made it plain at the same time that they want a hand in deciding how much to tell the rest of the world about the atomic bomb. None disputed Mr. Tru man’s premise that the Am erican people must “use the knowledge we have won, not for the devastation of war, but for the future welfare of hu manity.” Some doubt was voiced, how ever, that his hope of outlawing the bomb as a weapon of war could be obtained. Mr. Truman»separated the coun try’s biggest enigma into home and abroad classifications in a message to Congress yesterday. COMMISSION He called first for creation oi a presidentially-appointed com mission to: 1. Control all mineral sources of atomic energy, plants and stockpiles. 2. Conduct all necessary re search, experiments and operations on further dvelopment for “mili tary, industrial, scientific or med ical purposes.” 3. Issue licenses for private op erations bases “upon a policy oi widespread distribution of peace time products on equitable terms which will prevent monopoly.” 4. Permit production, import and export of energy producing sub stances only under conditions it prescribes. 5. Set up roles of censorship for information about material and equipment under its jurisdiction. IMMEDIATE ACTION Mr. Truman stressed that im mediate action is necessary to See CONGRESS Page 2 U.S. Pledges Aid To Stricken Philippines Before Independence WASHINGTON, Oct. 4 —tfP)— The United States will help heal the war wounds of the Filipinos before cutting them lose to fend for themselves as an independent nation. President Truman made this pledge to President Osmena of the Philippines to quash speculation whether independence would be proclaimed before July 4, 1946 That is the date Congress has set, but Mr. Truman could advance it by proclamation. Indonesians Control Two Java Cities BATAVIA, Java, Oct. 4. — Indonesian nationalists are in com plete control of two of Java’s most important cities, Soerabaja and Mandoeng, an allied • military spokesman has disclosed. An Aneta dispatch said the na tionalists had seized the airfield at Soerabaji, principal naval base in the Netherlands Indies, and three fliers approaching the field turned back when they saw it thronged with natives waving white nation alist flags and bamboo spears. British Honduras Lashed By Storm MIAMI, Fla., Oct. 4. —{/P)— The British Honduras coast was lashed by a tropical hurricane today as the storm’s center moved inland 60 miles south of Belize, capital of the cen tral American colony. The federal storm warning ser vice in Miami reported the distur bance, accompanied by 90-mile winds, hanged its course from north northwestward to west-southwest ward during the night, and struck the coast this morning. __ ✓ Laval’s Trial Opens On Note Of Tumult PARIS, Oct. 4.—(/P)—The treason trial of Pierre Laval started in tumult today when defense attorneys tried to re sign in protest to what they called the “illegal” pre-trial examination of the former Vichy premier. uavai imnaeu suaneu an uproar with an opening declaration: “X am a patriot and I will prove it.” Presiding Judge Paul Mongi beaux, all 24 jurors and Andre PARIS, Oct. 4 —(A5)—Pierre Laval was expelled from the courtroom today during the first hours of trial for his life and the presiding judge, Paul Mongibeaux, announced that the hearing would continue without the presence of the former chief of the Vichy government. Mornet, the white haired prosecu tor of Mata Hari, Marshal Petain and now Laval, jumped to their feet to shout down the white-tied Laval. Laval, several times premier of France in the days before the re public was overrun by the Ger mans, faced the same high court See LAVAL’S Page 2 PIERRE LAVAL Evatt Urges Big-3 To Map Policy Russia, United States And Britain Must Take Lead, But All United Nations Should Participate LONDON, Oct. 4.—(TP)—A policy-mapping conference by the United States, Russia and Britain preliminary to a general peace-planning meeting of the powers which helped defeat the axis was proposed today by Australia’s minister WPB ENDED, CPA IS BEGUN Truman Signs Order Abol ishing WPB, Creating Its Successor WASHINGTON, Oct. 4.— (£>) — President Truman today signed an executive order abolishing the War Production Board and replacing it with a Civilian Production Ad ministration, effective November 3. Press Secretary Charles G. Ross said that WPB Chairman J. A. Krug was resigning, effective Nov. 3, when the Civilian Production Administration takes over under J. D. Small as administrator. Small is now chief of staff for WPB. The president’s order sets up the civilian production administration in the office for emergency man agement. It is expected to function as an arm of the office of war mobiliza tion and reconversion. OWMR will continue to fix reconversion policy. FORMAL ORDER An order formally organizing CPA and abolishing WPB already has been approved by Reconver sion Director John W. Snyder. It was scheduled for announcement at Mr. Truman’s news conference yesterday, but was held up for last-minute minor changes. CPA is slated to take over the few remaining industry controls on WPB's books when that agency folds. The new office, it is planned, will exist only so long as some controls are regarded necessary to assure orderly reconversion. ot external affairs Declaring that the future of the foreign ministers council to reach an agreement on basic principles of the European peace provided an “opportunity for a fresh start in peace making, H. V. Evatt suggest ed the following procedure: (X) A discussion by the three big powers on questions of ma jor principle and policy. (2) A meeting of all states which contributed militarily to the defeat of the enemy for drafting final peace terms. “No one has contested that the United States, Russia and Britain must take the lead,” Evatt told a press conference at which he ad vanced his suggestions. But the council meeting In Lon don he added, demonstrated that participation of other belligerents is indispensible in drafting the final peace. BRITISH DOMINIONS Evatt, who previously had pro tested against the exclusion of Australia from the foreign minis ters council, reiterated that the British dominions should be among thj countries drafting the final peace terms. He specifically men tioned India as one of the countries he thought should be represented. Some departing delegates to the council of foreign ministers express ed the view today that the confer ence, while failing to reach agree ment on basic principles of the European peace, had performed an important service in exposing the pitfalls that face the architects of the post-war world. Some of the gloom which per vaded the last days of the confer ence seemed to have been dispelled, and the foreign ministers them selves all expressed optimism for the future. The breaking up of the confer ence on the Soviet demand for ex clusion of France and China from See EVATT Page 2 Southern Bell Telephone Workers To Join In Strike Officials of the Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph com pany announced here this af ternoon that there will be a work stoppage from 2 o’clock to 6 o’clock Friday afternoon on account of differences be tween the Union and the WLB. The public is asked to make no calls between those hours, al though an effort will be made to handle emergency calls. CHARLOTTE, Oct. 4—(A5)—Tel , cphone workers in all North and South Carolina cities in which the Southern Bell system operates, are expected to join In tomorrow’s four-hour lay-off to hold a strike vote, Paul Summerville, chairman of all departments of the Char lotte branch of the Southern Fed eration of Telephone Workers said today. In announcing that the local would join in the 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. shutdown Summerville said that all North Carolina Southern Bell workers are organized into unions affiliated with the Independent See SOUTHERN Page * _ REAL FREEDOM FORCOMMON MAN ORDERED "Thought Police" Must Disband, Political Pris oners Be Freed CONFINEDFOR YEARS TOKYO, Oct. 4.—(JP)— ( meral MacArthur decreed a revolutionary Magna Carta for Japan today, ordering the imperial government to re move all bars to freedom of speech, religion and assembly, disband the brutal, still-ac tive “thought police;” and re lease their 3,000 political pris oners by Oct. 10. In a letter to the newly reor ganized Japanese central liaison office, MacArthur told the imperial government bluntly and clearly to abolish all legislation restricting freedom of the people. The letter also demanded re moval from office of home min ister Iwao Yamazaki, and chiefs of the Tokyo and Osaka metro politan police boards and of the territorial police of Hokkaido. MacArthur meanwhile offered no comment on Russian demands for a four-power control government to replace his rule in Japan. The orders went out amid a rising clamor by Japanese for release of the prisoners arrest ed by the “thought police” for voicing ideas that weren’t in agreement with the pre-surren der government. The prisoners have been confined for years in fetid jails from the south western tip of Japan to the northernmost home island of Hokkaido, sometimes called “Japan’s Siberia.” Tokyo newspapers in the past week have reported the prison deaths of several of these politi | cal prisoners. BLAND DENIAL Yamazaki, who heads the “thought police,” blandly denied * any knowledge of the prisoners in an interview with the Associated Press today. He did admit that his men still were on the job. and said they were being especially vigilant against any Japanese daring to advocate “elimination of the im See REAL Page 2 LUCAS TO GET HIGHEST AWARD Congressional Medal Of Honor For 17-Year-Old Belhaven Boy CHARLOTTE, Oct. 4 — (JP) — Jacklyn H. Lucas, the 17-year-old Belhaven, N. C„ marine who will receive the congressional medal of honor Friday in Washington from President Truman, is the ninth Carolinian to win the nation's highest decoration for bravery in World War II. Lucas, youngest man ever to be awarded the top honor, was cited because of bis courage on Iwo Jima, where he pulled two Jap grenades under his body and smothered them to protect four other marines who were with him in a spider web trench. He was badly injured but recovered and received his medical discharge Sept. 18. OTHER CAROLINIANS The other Carolinians who were awarded the top medal were: North Carolina: Capt. Charles P. Murray, jr„ Wilmington; Sgt. Ray E. Eubanks, LaGrange; Sgt. Max Thompson, Canton; and Cpl. Henry F. Werner, Troy. South Carolina: Pfc. William A. McWhorter. Lib erty; Lt. Col. George L. Mabry, Sumter and Hagood; Pfc. Thom as E. Atkins, Campobello and Pvt. Furman L. Smith, Central. Awards were made potsthumously to McWhorter, Eubanks, Warner and Smith. McWhorter’s widow, Mrs. Bethel McWhorter, received his award yesterday at the home of his par | ents, Mr. and Mrs. John O. Mc I Whorter of Liberty from Maj. I Gen. Edward H. Brooks, command ; ing general of the Fourth Corps : area. Sgt. Thompson returned to his ! home near Canton early this week land the homefolk plan a celebra tion in his honor Saturday. V :'i
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