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» WEATHER North Carolina—Partly cloudy and little change in temperature to day and tonight; scattered show ers tonight; Tuesday, clear and cooler. Tshe Hhelhy Bailgs Htsm - State Theatre Today - “Love A Band Leader” PHIL HARRIS LESLIE BROOKS CLEVELAND COUNTY’S NEWSPAPER SINCE 1894 TELEPHONES 1100 VOL. XLII1- 241 ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWS SHELBY, N. C. MONDAY, OCT. 8, 1945 TELEMAT PICTURES SINGLE COPIES—Be MARINES LAND IN FORCE ON CHINA COAST Will Help Regain Control Over Last Major Jap Dominated Area AT TWcTpOINTS » TIENTSIN, CHINA, Oct. 8. ,_(/P)—U. S. Marines landed in force at three points on the shores of troubled North China yesterday to assist Gen eralissimo Chiang Kai-Shek regain control over the last major area still dominated by Japanese. While a force of 100 U. S. 7th fleet transports and warships stood off the Taku river *bar, veterans of the First Marine division, took pos sesion of Taku and nearby Tangku port facilities and moved progres sively inland toward the famous treaty port and railroad hub of Tientsin. At the same time, a smaller landing team from the Sixth di vision swept ashore at Chlnwang tao, an all weather port and out let for the rich Kailan coal mines on the Gulf of Chisli. Third Amphibious Corps head quarters. commanded by Maj. Gen. Keller E. Rockey, Washington, D C„ made it plain that return of the Marines to China was for the purpose of maintaining law and order and not to patricipate in internal disputes. FAMILIAR GROUND The marines were back In fam iliar territory when they returned to Tientsin. It was here that they made their first appearance in China in 1900 and it was here that Smedley Butler won his first decoration. It has been nearly four years since a detachment of ap proximately 200 Marines was cap tured at Tientsin in the opening months of the war. Another 223 men and officers at the American See MARINES Page 2 METHODISTS TO SHIFT PASTORS Mony Changes Likely At Conference Opening Tomorrow Methodists of Shelby and Cleve land county, together with those throughout the area of the West ern North Carolina conference, have their eyes fastened on the annual conference opening at Greensboro tomorrow because one of the heaviest ministerial turnov ers—affecting perhaps one of every three pulpits— Is in prospect. Indications are that Rev. Paul Hardin, jr„ completing his second year at Central Methodist, will be moved to another appointment while several ministers of this sec tion ccsnpleting their fourth year would, under normal train of events, go to new pastor ates. Central Methodist has asked return of Mr. Hardin, but the popular minister is in such demand by leading churches over the conference that his transfer seems likely. OTHERS MOVING At the Lafayette Street church Rev. J. S. Gibbs is completing his fourth year and a new pastor will likely replace him there; on the Shelby Circuit Rev B. Wilson, a retired minister, is filling in since Rev. R. M. Hauss resigned to de vote himself to temperance work, but an appointment is likely to fill the place with a regularly as signed minister; whether Rev. J. Lee Plttard, serving the newly organired Hoyle Memorial church, will return to this or be transfer red to another assignment in keep ing with conference policy to ad vance returned service chaplains; Rev. J. G. Winkler is completing his fourth year at Central church in Kings Mountain and Rev. W. L. Scott is winding up his fourth year at Polkville, which usually means transfer; however, Rev J. M. Morgan is completing his sixth year at Belwood, showing Metho dists do not always follow the four year rule in making transfers. Rev. C. O. Isley on the Fallston charge, and Rev. J. S. Higgins on the Cleveland charge have neither completed four year stays and may be returned to those assign ments, although it’s all up to the bishop who reads the list of ap pointments at Friday’s closing ses sion. V, i»SOR HOME AGAIN WITH MOTHER—The Duke of Windsor, G.^at Britain's former king, stands with his mother. Dowager Queen Mary on the grounds of Marlborough House on his first visit to England in nine years. He renounced the British throne in 1936 to marry Wallis Warfield Simpson.— <AP Wirephoto via radio from London). f YAMASHITA’S TRIAL BEGINS Swaggering Nip General Pleads Innocent Of War Crimes MANILA, Oct. 8 -r-OP)— Boast- j ful Lt. Gen. Tomoyuki Yamashita, | erstwhile “Tiger of Malaya”, plea- j ed innocent of war crime* today1 after his counsel said the Americanj army had no case against him—and immediately the prosecution coun- j tered with a bill of particulars that accused the men of his command of 84 atrocities in the Philippines. Torture, mutilation, and massacre of more than 25,000 non-combatant men. women and children, were listed. The atrocities were not attribut ed to Yamashita himself. Since hfs trial, scheduled to begin Oct. 29, is to be the first of a round-the-world series Involving war criminal sus pects, the question of resoonsibility held by the imperial general for acts of the troops under his command was a precedent-setting point. Yamashita's court-appointed Am erican counsel moved at the gen eral's arraignment for dismissal of the war criminal charge against him on the ground it was general, vague and held Yamashita person ally responsible for no atrocities. He was charged only with failure to prevent his troops from commit ting "brutal atrocities.” SWAGGERING The big, noisy Yamashita, who i swaggered to victory for Japan in : Malaya then hid in the hills when the Americans came back from the Philippines, pleaded a belligerent and almost arrogant “not guilty!” See YAMASHITA’S Page 2 WHAT’S DOING TODAY 7:00 p.m.—State Guard drill at armory. 7:30 p.m.—Board of deacons of First Baptist church meet at the church. TUESDAY 8:30 am.—Kick-off break fast for war fund drive at Ho tel Charles. 7:00 p.m.—Rotary club di rectors meet at Hotel Charles. 7:00 p.m.—Lions club meets at Hotel Charles. COTTON CROP FORECAST DOWN 9.779.000 Bales Predicted For 1945 In October 1 Report WASHINGTON, Oct. 8 —(ff) The agriculture department todaj estimated this year’s production ol cotton at 9,779,000 bales pi 300 pound gross weight, on the basil of conditions on Oct. 1. This estimate compared witt 12.230.000 bales produced last yeai and with 12,293,000 bales lor th< 10-year (1934-43) average. Th< estimate a month ago was 10,626, 000 bales. The condition of the crop or Oct. 1 was reported at 70 percent of normal, compared with 70 per cent a year ago and with 68 per cent for the 10-year average. The per acre yield was indicat ed at 260.7 pounds compared witt 293.5 pounds a year ago and 231 for the ten-year average. The area for harvest was indi cated at 18,008,000 acres. The census bureau reported al the same time that 2,176,073 run ning bales of cotton for this year's crop had been ginned prior to Oct See COTTON Page 2 Enlisted Men With 2 Years Service To Be Let Out In March WASHINGTON, Oct. 8. —(JPh Effective next March, all Army en listed men with two years service will be eligible for discharge, the house military committee heard to day. By that time, Brig. Gen. Robert W. Berry testified, enough high point men will have been released to allow discharges on length of service alone. Between now and March, Berry said, critical point scores for dis charges will be reduced progres sively. At present the figure is 70 points. In November it should drop to 60 points. Berry also told the committee that ‘‘not many” two-year veterans will be discharged soon under a re cently-announced policy of releas ing ‘‘surplus” personnel. SHINTO ON THE WANE: Effects Of Order May Be Key To Reformation Of Japanese By DeWITT MacKENZIE, AP News Analyst Washington’s decision to abolish Shinto as a stete religion in Japan may prove to be the key to that misguided country’s reformation, for much of the hold which the militarists had on the people was attributable to the fact that the government spoke through the mouth of sacred Shinto. Lest there be some who fear this is a blow at freedom of worship, it should be said that it was not. The plan merely dissociates the religion from the very obvious evils of government control, but leaves the individual Japanese the right to worship as he chooses. If he clings to the ancestor and hero worship, which is the basis of Shinto (the way of the gods), then it is his prerogative to do so. The Shinto-state setup has beer a “natural” for the industrial ty coons and militarists, who have worked hand in hand to conquei neighboring states and reduce them to vassalage. Government schemes which ordinarily might have beer objectionable to many of the Jap anese public, became acceptable when passed down via the Shintc See EFFECTS Page 2 LEWIS ABSENT AS CONFERENCE IS RESUMED Producers Request Private Huddle With Schwel lenbach BOTH MUST YIELD WASHINGTON, Oct. 8.— (JP)—John L. Lewis was ab sent today when conferences were resumed between bitu minous coal operators and United Mine Workers in a government - sponsored effort to end a strike of 163,000 soft coal miners. An associate said Lewis had a prior engagement which kept him from attending the morning ses sion, but the mineworkers’ president was expected to join the conferences later today. Midway in the morning ses sion, the producers asked for a private huddle with Secretary of Labor Schwellenbach, who called the meetings. The reason for their request was not an nounced. At issue is recognition for Lewis’ foremen’s union. Lewis wants to talk with the operators about recognizing the union. But the operators say they won’t talk until the strikers go back to work. Schwellenbach called in both sides Saturday for a fill-in on the strike background. He called them back today, hope ful he would be able to convince them that coal production is so es sential that both Lewis and the operators will have to give ground. LEWIS REFUSED „ The mine owners asked the union ; chief Saturday to halt the spread ing work stoppages. But Lewis refused, saying the walkouts were begun locally by units of his United Clerical, Technical and Supervi sory Employes and that the United Mine Workers Union was not res ponsible. The UMW chief added that the coal strike did not involve wages or a shorter work week—the issues in most other strikes harassing the government In the past few weeks. He said the foremen want the oper See LEAVES Page 2 Physician Takes Own Life After Wife Kills Nurse SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 8—</P)— Dr. John H. Mansfeldt has joined in death the nurse his wife has been charged with murdering in a tragic climax to a supposed love triangle. The body of the 48-year-old pro minent San Francisco physician was found Sunday morning slump ed in the front seat of his car, parked at the top of a cliff in a remote ocean front picnic ground 19 miles south of this city. Deputy Coroner Ida M. Lasswell said he had been dead for three days. Evidence showed he had taken his own life with a powerful poison within a few hours of the time his wife, Annie Irene, 45, had been charged with the murder of Mrs. Vada Martin, the woman she believed was the rival for her hus band’s affections. There was no suicide note. WIFE COLLAPSES Mrs. Mansfeldt collapsed in the city jail when she was told of her husband’s death. "I killed him. I killed my hus band! Nothing can help me now. I killed hin\ and I wasn’t even right. He’s gone and I loved him so,’’ she screamed incoherently. “Oh what will happen to my poor babies? (Her three ’teen-age children). My whole life is gone— I’nl dead inside.” At first the stricken woman re fused treatment, but later she was transferred by court order to a psychopathic ward in the county hospital “for observation.” Discovery of Dr. Mansfeld’s body ended a state-wide search for the physician after his disappearance Thursday. He had appeared for a few moments at the Central Emer gency hospital to identify his wife, stared briefly and silently at her and then drove away. FEARS CONFIRMED Dr. Mansfeld’s death confirmed the fears of his wife, who repeat edly incessantly after her impris onment that she was certain he had done away with himself or See PHYSICIAN Page 2 TRUMAN WELCOMED TO THE FAIR—President Truman leans ovei the rail of the Judges’ stand at the county fair in Caruthersville, Mo., tc shake hands with George Gray, the fair's manager, who is welcoming th< chief executive. After his visit there, the President will try his luck a! fishing in Reelfoot Lake in West Tennessee.—(AP Wirephoto). War Fund Drive To Seek $23,932 Quota * ■ . ... Capt. John Z. McBroycr To Speak At Kick-Off Break fast Tuesday Morning An intensive drive to raise Shelby’s and Clevelanc county’s $23,932 of the United War Fund will be launchec with a kick-off breakfast at the Hotel Charles at 8:30 a. m Tuesday. Immediately afterward, campaign workers wil start their solicitation which campaign Chairman Willis Me Murry said is to be “hit hard and fast” in order to concen trate the drive into as short a period as will allow victorious KRAMER MAKES INNOCENCE PLEA Claims He Merely Carried Out Orders Of High er Nazis LUENEBURG, GERMANY, Oct. 8—(A5)—Josef Kramer \ swore on the Bible today that he was inno cent of War crimes and that a trocities committed at the Oswie cim and Belsen concentration camps he commanded were on or ders from higher placed Nazis. Kramer, described as the “beast of Belsen,” leaped from the pris oners’ cage l..:e a football player from a bench and trotted to the witness stand where he testified in a high pitched nasal k'oice. He said he was a loyal Nazi and a- member of the SS and as such only carried out obediently the orders of the Hitler hierarchy. While the other 44 SS guards and camp attendants jointly on trial with Kramer before a Brit ish military court, listened in tently, he told of a riot in a con centration camp just a year and a day ago: “There was a revolt. Persons See KRAMER Page 2 Lost Plane Breaks Propeller In Making Landing At Polkville A plane whose two occupants became lost as darkness enveloped this section made a forced landing in a cotton patch near the Polk ville school Sunday evening and suffered no more damage than a broken propeller. The two occupants were service men from Johnson City, Tenn., who became lost and landed be fore gathering darkness enveloped the area. Their privately owned former army trainer plane was little the worse except for the pro peller, and neither occupant was hurt. The boys were brought in to Shelby by W. M. Stamey and continued on to Johnson City, saying they would return for the plane. WIIVIVIOIVUI Capt. John Z. McBrayer, who los a leg in China and is now Clevelan< county’s veterans’ personnel servici officer, will deliver the address o the occasion just before material; are distributed and the worker; launch forth in quest of the mone; needed to carry the program to it; conclusion. This is the final Wa: Fund drive. Shem K. Blackley, county chair man, said the campaign organiza tion is in readiness to swing into th< task. He urged that everyone giv< thought to his part and be read; to make his contribution becausi the workers are busy giving thei; money and time to this humanitar ian effort. He said that Paxtor Elliott at the First National Banl is treasurer and that anyone no contacted might contribute bi handing his gift to Mr. Elliott di rectly; the campaign workers wif report to their division commander; or Mr. Elliott. BUSINESS Charles B. Austell is chairman o: the business district organizatior which includes Holland Eskridge Forrest Brackett, J. Lowery Auste1* J. L. Suttle, jr., Vance C. Weaver C. Rush Hamrick, sr„ Charles A Hoey, Brady W. Dickson, Charle; Eskridge, Worth Morris, Cecil Gil liatt, Milton Loy, Howard Black well, Norris Lackey, Albert Suttle Johnnie Brewer, Robert Hause, Mile; Beam, Bill Brown, Oliver Anthony George Carpenter, W. W. Crawley Paul J. Kennedy, Guy H. Roberts Sam Davis, Lloyd Wolfe, T. K Fletcher, R. K. Wilson, Mai Span gler, sr., Evans Lackey, Robert C Barnett, Worth Branton, Tildei See WAR FUND Page 2 Laval Locked In Dungeon As Trial Goes On PARIS, Oct. 8.—(TP)— Pierre Laval was reported by court attendants to be locked in a dungeon beneath the Pal ais de Justice today as the fourth day of his treason trial started late without the swarthy defendant on hand. The former premier’s lawyers consulted Judge Paul Mongibeaux ; and told him Laval refused to “associate himself with a judicial crime.” Thus, the former Vichy chief of government was main taining a decision he reached Sat urday not to attend the trial for his life. Part of the hour and 33 minutes delay was caused by the absence of one of the resistance jurors, Jean Germinal. He was replaced by one of the two remaining sub stitute jurors. Twelve of the jur ors are from parliament; the other ; 12 are from the resistance move- ; ment which opposed Germany and , the Vichy government during the : occupation. The main witness of the day, Gen. Boyen, was delayed in reach ing Paris because his plane was j fog-bound. This also contributed to the slow start. CHARGES Laval is accused of intelligence with the enemy and attacking the internal security of the state while serving in the Vichy regime of former Marshal Petain. Gen. Andre Boyen, tall and erect military governor of Lyon, took the witness stand and expressed regret that Laval was absent "as I have very grave things to say against him.” Boyen, head of the French dele gation to the armistice commission in' July of 1941 said the Germans • annexed Alsace and Lorraine and that a large area of northern France was ceded to Belgium “in violation of the armistice cl?us l es.” I "The Germans showed ci—rly See LAVAL Page 2 KILLS HUSBAND FOR ABUSE 1 Married At 14, Wife Tak es 26 Years Of Mis treatment MIAMI, FLA., Oct. 8 —(IP)— A | woman who said she suffered 26 years of abuse from the husband she wed at 14, told police she shot ' and killed him yesterday because ' she “couldn’t take it any more.” Police found Frank W. Cooper, ; 44, slumped dead in a chair, a .38 ’ calibre revolver bullet through his ; heart, after Mrs. Inez Louise Coop er telephoned police headquarters. “I just shot my husband. Send ; some men,” Police Lt. Roy Pottorf i ; quoted h< r. ; Detectives E. W. Hall and Bry an Howard found Mrs. Cooper a | waiting them at the Cooper home. | “I SHOT HIM” ' “I’m Mrs. Cooper and I shot him,” she told Hall and Bryan, pointing to a revolver on the din ing room table. “This is the cul mination of 26 years of abuse." The slight, 40-year-old woman I told the detectives her husband had been on a four-day drinking bout during which he lunged at her once with a butcher knife and struck her repeatedly. “He threatened me so often that many a night I did not expect to w'ake up in the morning,” Mrs. Cooper told Capt. Eddie Melchen at city jail where she is being held for further questioning. “I just couldn’t take it any longer.” The Coopers married 26 years [ ago in Columbia, S. C., when shei was 14 years old. They came to i Miami shortly after the wedding, j Nearly 5,000 Erwin Mills Workers Are Out On Strike By The Associated Press Between 4,500 and 5,000 employe; of the Erwin Cotton Mills at Dur ham, Erwin and Cooleemee, N. C. members of the Textile Worker; Union of America (CIO), were or strike today in a dispute ove) contract differences. Frank T. De Vyver, head of thi company’s personnel departmen at Durham, said the men did no report for work on the first shif this morning. De Vyver said there was a pick et line outside the Durham plan but that the demonstrations wen peaceful. i Today’s walkout is the culmina- j tion of a breakdown in negotia , tions between the management of j i the mill’s three plants and work- i . ers affiliated with the Textile 1 Workers of America, (CIO), which have been under way for the last i several weeks. ; The breakdown was announced ■ last week and a U. S. conciliation ; official who had been sitting in on the conferences, left Durham. The dispute hinges ori the union! See NEARLY Face 3 GOVERNMENT LKEYTOBE SHORTLIVED , Plans First Meeting Be fore Reporting Roster To Emperor DRAWS ONLIBERALS TOKYO, Oct. 8.—(/P)—Ag ing, dapper Premier Kijuro Bhidehara completed his “safe and sane” government for a hungry, restless Japan today, and planned the first meeting of his 15-man cabinet immed ately, even before reporting Its roster to the emperor—an unprecedented procedure. Domel news agency said he vould outline bluntly the head iches ahead for the new govern nent, which most observers say :annot survive more than a few nonths. Acceptance by Adm. Soyemu Toyoda of the navy portfolio completed the new cabinet— . all, said Secretary Daisaburo Tsugita, likely to meet with General MacArthur’s approval. Tsugita also predicted that PREMIER SHIDEHARA “another new cabinet will be formed by political party men when a majority party comes out of the general elections’* next January. Baron Shidehara drew heavily jpon parliamentarians — and un tied liberals—to make up his new government. Average age of the lew ministers is 61. The roster [including five holdovers from the previous cabinet): IT INCLUDES Premier Shidehara. 73, career iiplomat tackling his first big do nestic job. Foreign Minister Shigeru Yo ihida, 67, a hold-over who, like Shidehara, opposed Nippon’s mili :arist clique. Home Minister Zenjiro Hori ciri, 61, career government offi ;ial. Finance Minister Keizo Shibus See GOVERNMENT Page Z BECAUSE it's your job. Americans are decent. Am ericans are trustworthy. Am ericans don’t quit. Americans don’t shirk. The United War Fund seeks $23,932 to do Cleveland county’s part of the job. Our share is fair; more money, if contribut ed, would be used well. Part of $115,000,000 national total will provide services to our soldiers, sailors and mer chant marine. We do not at this stage of the game propose to reduce these services any faster than demobilization permits. Some agencies will liquidate next year. Those which do not will be carried for 15 months with the money now budgeted for 12 months, if we do our job. WE WILL!
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