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WEATHER North Carolina—Fair and contin ued cool today and tonight; Thurs day, increasing cloudiness and not much change in temperature. CLEVELAND COUNTY’S NEWSPAPER SINCE 1894 TELEPHONES 1100 - State Theatre Today - “LADY ON A TRAIN” Starring DEANNA DURBIN VOL XLIII-243 ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWS SHELBY, N. C. WEDNESDAY, Oct. 10, 1945 TELEMAT PICTURES SINGLE COPIES-—6c Communist Crowds Shout Opposition To Imperial Rule In Japan MARSHALL SAYS UNARMED NATION COURTS RUIN Conferees Fail To Settle Coal Strike In 3-Hour Meeting Today TALKS WILL BE RENEWED LATER # IN THE DAY Schwellenbach Optimistic Over Prospects For Settlement DIFFER ONWORDING WASHINGTON, Oct. 10— (/P)—Soft coal operators and UMW chief John L. Lewis failed at a three-hour confer ence today to reach agree ment on a compromise plan to end strikes affecting 186, 800 miners. They did agree, however, to re new their talks with Secretary of j Labor Schwellenbach at a session' later In the day. Prior to the morning meeting. Schwellenbach reported that the two sides were ‘'not, far apart." Schwellenbach sought to settle differences which arose over wording of the peace proposal to negotiate the dispute on recogni tion of a foreman’s union affiliat ed with Lewis' United Mine Work ers. Lewis had objected to mak ing a letter from Schwellen bach, interpreting the agree ment, a part of the pact itself. The operators wanted Sehwel h ten bach's interpretation inclnd V ed to protect their position in opposing unionisation of the foremen, they said. The 20-day strike over refusal of the operators to recognize the United Mine Workers foremen’s union—the mine owners contend foremen and supervisors are part j of management—has 749 mines ' shut down In six states. Soft coal production is down nearly a mil lion tons a day. COUNTER PROPOSAL Lewis initially made the ' pro posal to end the strike if the op erators would negotiate on the recognition issue. But the opera tors countered with a condition: Their willingness to negotiate shouldn’t be taken as any retreat from their stand that foremen shouldn't be unionized. Lewis stood pat. He said his own text Is ‘‘all we have to offer” and the miners "will not be stipu lated out of our bargaining rights by weasel words added to the pro posal.’’ Schwellenbach prepared to of See TALKS Page 2 DARNAND FACES FIRINGSQUAD Former Chief Of Vichy Militia Executed At 9:40 A. M. Today PARIS, Oct. 10—(JP)—A firing squad of 12 French soldiera exe cuted Joseph Damand, former chief of the Vichy militia, at Fort De Chatillon at 9:40 a.m. today. Damand was convicted of trea son on Oct. 3 by the same court which yesterday pronounced sen tence of death upon his superior, Pierre Laval. A Dominican priestt, Damand’s lawyer, a doctor and two magis trates were in the small group which witnessed the execution. Just before the shots were fired, Damand cried out: “Viva La France! Farewell, my militiamen.” The short, gray-haired leader of the French Gestapo had been convicted of numerous crimes, in cluding intelligence with the ene my, recruiting enemy, recruiting enemy forces and collusion with the inside French territory. He was described by the judge who presided at his trial, Paul Mongibeaux, as one of the mili tary heroes of France who, "like many Frenchmen, was misled by Petain.” Damand wept when the court pronounced the death sentence. “If I made a mistake I regret it,” he said. "Petain represented for me a great man. He was a mar shal of France. He represented legality. Legality, however, is now In other hands.” v r. v_ * J SOUVENIR HUNTER—A. D. Pirone. MOMM 2/c from Trenton, N. J„ sight-seeing in Yokohama, dickers with a Japanese woman for sou-, venirs as sailors of the U. S. fleet looked over the Nipponese city before starting home. Peron Quits, Army Rules Argentina Gsn. Farrell Still President But He Takes Orders From / Military; Situation Confused ' By Laurence F. Stunts BUENOS AIRES, Oct. 10.—(/P)—The army ruled Ar gentina today after forcing the resignation of the strong man vice president, Col. Juan Domingo Peron, but the navy was reported demanding that the entire government quit and turn the nation over to the supreme court. WAR FUND HITS TOUGHER GOING Cleveland county's United War Fund drive swung into its second day’s run today with workers busily engaged in pressing indi vidual and firm solicitations but with no definite figures available as to the amount collected thus far in the drive for <23,932, Chair man Shem K. Blackley stated. Both Charles Austell, business district chairman, and Earl Hon eycutt, outlying business district chairman, said workers found most business asking the remainder of this week to complete individual solicitations so that it will likely be next week before any formal progress reports will be rendered. Meanwhile, campaign Chairman Willis McMurry called on indus trial people whose drive is getting underway also to be generous in victory asking this: “Is it worth four cents a week to YOU to keep our boys happy while still in ser vice through USO shows and ser vices? “Is it worth three cents a week to YOU to help feed the millions of starcing, homeless peoples of our war-torn world? “Is it worth three cents to you to support the score of active troops in Scouting with more in the making and to have competent supervisions for these boys and girls? “Is it worth 10 cents a week— $5.30 a year to YOU? One drive covers all these agencies for this year and all of 1946.” The New Little Postwar Home Associated Hress Newsfeatures has asked leading architects of the nation to submit outlines of what they consider their best small home. The result is an idea-pro iucing series that will help many prospective home builders to make plans for their new homes, begin ning today The Star will run pic tures and floor plans qf these fav orite small homes of the nation’s leading architects, one to appear sach week. Watch for them. The first is shown today on page 9. The situation In stormy Argen tina was confused, but this much was dear: Oen. Edelmlro Farrell, head of the military regime, still is president, but he takes Ids orders from Extiidee Avats, commander ot the big Campo De Mayo garrison in suburban Buenos Aires, whose personal quarrel with Peron brought about the military’s deman&far the resignation of the vice pre^dent. A high Navy officer told the As sociated Press Peron's resignation alone was insufficient, since it left unsettled the essential problem — the existence of the military gov ernment. But there was reason to believe the Army and Navy could come to terms. Juan Cooke, Farrell’s foreign minister, announced the cabinet would meet today. The Campo garrison, from whence in June, 1943, Oen. Arturo Rawson overthrew the government of Ra mon Castillo and became president for two days, had been Peron’s chief support. It turned against hfm yesterday amid the storm of opposition to his military rule which had been gathering fury for weeks. NATION PUZZLED At the end of the day the na tion still was puzzled over the meaning of the swift change in poli tical fortunes. Some bellved it might be the beginning of a return to con stitutional government, others held that so long as the Army retained an iron grip, nothing was changed essentially. Frowning, 53-year-old Avalcg, whom Peron himself had elevated from colonel to brigadier general See PEltON Page l Whats doing TODAY 6:30 p.m. — Sunday business supper at Firs tist church. 7:00 p.m.—Dinner meeting at Hotel Charles for orMUsa tion of Cleveland Aviation Club. 7:30 p.m. — Prayer me&jng at Presbyterian church. 7:45 p.m. — Midweek prayer and praise service at First Baptist church. THURSDAY 7:00 p.m.—Regular meeting of Kiwanis club. * 7:30 p.m.—CAP cadets meet at armory. 6:30 p.m. — Training Union business supper held at First Baptist church. I CALL MEETING FAR EASTERN ADVISORY UNIT No Change Contemplated In MacArthur's Post As Commander NINE GOvlRNMENTS WASHINGTON, Oct. 10.— —(£>)—The United States has called a meeting of a propos ed far eastern advisory com mission for October 23 in Washington, but intends to make no change in General Douglas MacArthur’s post as supreme commander in Japan. Secretary of State Byrnes an nounced the meeting today, say ing that invitations had gone out to nine other governments and that India may be included at Britain’s suggestion. Simultaneously, Byrnes disclos ed Russia had suggested that crea tion of the advisory commission be preceded by establishment of a control council for Japan. Such a step would mean either replacing or lowering MacArthur from his present position as su preme commander for the AUies. Byrnes, making it clear that he per sonally does not .-favor this Rus sian pWposracOT.ISiid^thdire Is no intention of altering MacArthur’s status. Nations invited to the meeting here are Russia, Britain, China, France, Canada, Australia, the Netherlands, New Zealand and the Philippines. Britain has suggested that India be included. The United States, agreeing for itself, has passed the suggestion on to Russia and China. TWO INJURED IN TRUCK WRECK Two Asphalt Trucks, Own ed By Same Firm, Crash Head-On Two asphalt trucks, crashing rliead-on into each other on High way 74, eight miles east of Shel by this morning at 10 o'clock, sent their two * drivers, Prank Sprouse and Henry Gregory, both of Kings Mountain, to the Shelby hospital with critical injuries. Sprouse is believed to have a fractured skull, as well as bad lac erations on several parts of his body, Gregory, considered the more seriously injured of the two, had one side of his face badly torn and one leg severely injured Both men were driving trucks for J. M. Coble, Greensboro haul ing contractor. Sprouse, driving a loaded truck, was on his way to Forest City when he met Gregory driving an empty truck returning to the plant at Kings Mountain. The two trucks met on a slight curve. They were both being at a high rate of speed, officers believed and a lef front tire is thought to have blown out on the empty truck. The trucks were damaged beyond repair. The accident was investigated by Highway Patrolman H. D. Ward. HAWTHORNE DANIEL DANIEL TO TELL ABOUTPACIFIC Celebrated Author And Traveller To Address Executives Oct. 26 Hawthorne Daniel, who has just returned from a globe-encircling trip while gathering information for his new Associated clubs lec tures and material for his new book, will be the next guest speak er at the Cleveland Executives club on the evening of October 26 at the Charles hotel, according to J. W. Osborne, the club’s secre tary. Mr., Daniel is a keen observer of things as they are and not as some starry-eyed individual thinks they are. Due to his detached viewpoint he has been able to forecast with surprising accuracy many of the conditions which have come to exist during the last four or five years. VISITS ISLANDS On his trip he visited Hawaii, the Marshalls, the Marianas, the Carolines, the Philippines, the Moluccas, Australia, China, the Cocoa Islands, Ceylon, Calcutta, Egypt, and European spots while See DANIEL Page 2 Senator Hoey Makes Record Of Charter Day In U. S. Senate (/P) SpHSal Washington Service WASHINGTON, Oct. 10 —i/F)— History classes for generations to , come will hear an eye-witness ac • count of tTnited Nations charter i day in the senate as told by Sena ! tor Hoey (D-NC.) , The North Carolinian has re ’ corded his version of the day — July 21—the senate accepted the i charter. He was asked to make • the recording for a collection of i eye-witness source material for » history classes of George Wash ' ington university, Washington, D. C. The university requested that he tell of the most interesting day in the senate during his first year as a senator. On one side of the record Hoey tells the story of the senate adop tion of the charter and on the oth er side describes its effect on I world conditions and its historical . significance. PROTESTS IGNORED: Twenty Years Ago America Thought All Wars Were Over By J. M. ROBERTS, JR., AP News Analyst Twenty jeans ago today America was preparing to get rich quick, wars wefe a thing of the past, the i Washington disarmament confer ence had left us feeling that we didn’t even heed the small de fensive navy agreed upon, and all was right with the world. A few voices raised in protest were drowned out by the clamor ous search for normalcy. The United States army was limited by law to 280,000 men, Congress had appropriated for 144,000, and actual strength was 133,000. To be sure, German failure to V disarm under the Versailles treaty had forced extension of the origi nal time limit for occupation of Cologne and the Rhineland, but the troops finally were moving out of the Ruhr. Mussolini had mobilized his fascist national guard and closed all rival politi cal clubs. greed on the initial steps of a fur The American acting consul at Leghorn, Italy, was seriously beat en by fascist!. But the League of Nations a See TWENTY Page 2 k POLITICAL PRISONERS ARE REEASED Shidehara Says Politics To Be By Will Of The Majority HELD MANY YEARS TOKYO, Oct. 10.—(/P)— Liberated political prisoners emerged from behind the massive walls of four Japa nese prisons today to the ac claim of welcoming commun ist crowds shouting oppo sition to imperial rule—while a newly formed national fed eration of toilers arose to de fend the imperial house and assail the reds. “The imperial system is the root of all evils!” Promoters of the newly-created federation resolved to “wage a de termined fight against communism which aims at extermination of our unique national policy under the emperor.” The federation and another group favoring a drastic overhauling of the Japanese dipt rose suddenly In uneasy Nippon today as the new liberal* premier,- Bfflrrin' Hijuro Shidehara, told his people in a hrrtaHpo ct • “The hold of the military cli que and bureaucrats on political power has been broken and all See POLITICAL Page 2 LI’S DEATH ACCIDENTAL Shot By Chinese Soldier After His Cor Killed Another CHUNGKING, Oct. 10. —<£>)— Li Shao Shlh, the communist party secretary-general here, was not as sassinated but was slain accidental ly by a Chinese corporal, Lt. Gen, Chang Chen, commander of the Chungking Gendarmerie, “reported today after an investigation. Chang’s statement to the official Chinese central news agency* quickly shattered a theory that 14, an ar dent communist once jailed for his political activities, had been as sassinated. , The general said investigation disclosed that Cpl. Tien Kai-Fo fired when Li’s chauffeur ignored an order to halt after his black se dan severely wounded Fvt. Wu Ying-Tang. “The shooting was ‘purely acci dental—it was as simple as that’,” Chang said. TIEN ARRESTED Tien was arrested and Chang said he would be punished according to law. Wu was reported near death See LI’S Page 2 CONGRESSHOLDS FIRE ON ARMY IN PEACETIME WASHINGTON, Oct. 10. -(/Pi Congress put a “wait and see” sign today on General Marshall’s recom mendation for compulsory military training in peacetime. Most legislators made if-apparent they want first to test the possibil ity that a standing army of volun eers can be built up to the size the chief of saff said is necessary for this country’s security. * If it can’t, then some 4re willing to try conscription. But not others. Senator Edwin C. Johnson <D Colo), acting chairman of, the sen ate military committee, cold a re porter: “I don’t believe in conscrip tion in time of peace.” Senator Austin (R-Vt), who does, said he thought it was too bad that Marshall’s recommendation—made in his biennial report—had to hit the country flat. It should be made clear, Austin said, that a year’s army training would be so arranged as to make it possible for young men to con tinue their education. Says Hope For Lasting Peace Predicated On Might To Enforce It By Elton C. Fay WASHINGTON, Oct. 10.—(IP)—General Marshall cau tioned Americans today that a rich nation which lays down its arms in this acre of terrifying and fantastic npw weannns courts catastrophe. The chief of staff said the Unit ed States should maintain a regu lar army, national guard and re serve of trained civilians so huge it could mobilize 4,000,000 men with in a year. It should not stint funds for in tensive scientific research. Mar shall asserted in his biennial report to the secretary of war, at a time when methods of attack hitherto unpublished may subject New York, Pittsburgh, Detroit, Chicago or San Francisco to a rain of annihilation from points thousands of miles from this continent. Here is what Marshall thinks this country should do: Provide money and means for continuous research into the mili tary ramifications of man’s scien tific advance. CITIZEN ARMY Provide a permanent peacetime citizen army, built around a corps of men who have received one year of compulsory military training. Encourage the national guard— it is ‘‘in the first category of im portance” in the citizen army. Maintain a regular army com posed primarily of a strategic for|3. with emphasis on air power, part of it deployed in the Pacific and Car ibbean. Keep the training program abreast of technical developments and the resulting modifications of tactics. “To prevent another interna tional catastrophe,” Marshall de clared. “there is no alternative but that this national must be prepra ed to defend its interest against any nation or combination of na tions which might sometime feel powerful enough to attempt settle ment of political argument or gain resources or territory by force of arms.” IGNORED REALITIES In the past, he said. “We have ignored the hard realities of world affairs. We have been purely ideal istic.” Marshall insisted that any hope for lasting peace must be predicat ed on the ability to enforce it with strength. He said the state depart ment believes that a decision now to adopt universal military training would greatly bolster this country’s efforts to obtain world organiza See GEN. MARSHALL Page 8 Strike Picture Is A Little Brighter 42,000 Textile Workers In Three States Return To Jobs; 418,000 Remain Idle Over Nation By The Associated Press The nationwide total of persons * away from work be cause of labor troubles was reduced by 42,000 today with the settlement of a three-state strike of textile workers. The reduction left the number off the iob in various in dustries at 418,000. At the same time Secretary of Labor Schwellenbach -was hopeful of ending the critical strikes In the soft coal fields which would enable some 182,000 workers to resume digging in 749 closed mines. The strike of 42,000 CIO textile print and dye workers in 284 shops in New Jersey, New York and Penn sylvania ended with a union-man agement agreement to a 10 cents an hour wage increase for men and five cents for women. The wage question cannot be reopened until Nov. 1, 1946. Full production was expected to be reached by tonight or tomorrow. The stoppage began in Paterson, N. J., on Sept. 27 and spread to other areas. The union scaled down ward its wage increase demand for 15 cents to 10 cents. In the soft coal dispute, which has cut into steel production, the secretary of labor was ready to of fer a new compromise proposal to Se STRIKE Page 2 Frost Evident In Low Places, Little Damage Experienced There was frost on the pump kins this morning, particularly in lowland areas but the mer cury’s drop below the 40 mark was quite short-lived and most plants and growing things es caped serious damage from Jack Frost’s unseasonably early visitation. In fact, Ben Jenkins, county agent, ventured the belief that cotton would be served by the frost because bolls are pretty well out and defoliation inci dent to frost will definitely accelerate the picking job. Jenkins said heavy foliage on I plants is impeding picking operations so that defoliation should prove helpful since bolls are pretty well matured despite lateness of the crop generally. ,ii TO DISCUSS NEW BUS STATION Formal discussion of Shelby's need for new and more modem bus station facilities will be held by officials of the Queen City Bus company with city officials at a dinner meeting here October 22, it was announced today by Clyde A. Short, president of the Cham ber of Commerce and Merchants association. Mr. Short said the bus company officials had accepted an invita tion extended by J. Dale Stentz, secretary, to meet with city offi cials and directors of the Cham ber of Commerce who have been strongly insistent for many months that some correction of the bus station situation be undertak en. Previously, bus line officials have visited Shelby and inspected a vailable sites but so far no con clusions have been reached as to its location. A larger lot on which loading and unloading operations may be handled off the street is being insisted upon by city offi cials who have had many com plaints against the present gener ally unsatisfactory arrangement cluttering up West Marion street. Argentine Ambasaior To Mexico Relieved MEXICO CITY, Oct. 10 —{/Pi Argentine Ambassador Hector Ghi raldo said today he had been re lieved of his post and will leave for Buenos Aires as soon as a secretary arrives as charge d’af fairs. “The action is due to per sonal reasons and is not linked with international matters,” Ghl raldo said.
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