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CLEVELAND COUNTY’S NEWSPAPER SINCE 1894
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“Adventures Of Rusty”
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VOL XL1I1— 245
ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWS
SHELBY, N. C.
FRIDAY, OCT. 12, 1945
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I
OKINAWA A SHAMBLES AFTER TYPHOON PASSES
Farrell Cabinet Resigned Today Under Pressure From Two Sides
PERON SAID
ARRESTED AS
UNRESTGROWS
Military And Civilian
Groups Join In Register
ing Protest
electionTapril 7
By Laurance F. Stuntz
BUENOS AIRES, Oct. 12.
<—(JP)—The cabinet of Argen
tine President Gen. Edelmiro
Farrell resigned today, under
pressure of both military and
civilian groups.
Official announcement of the
mass resignation came as some
12 army and navy officers met
in the officers club, and a growing
crowd gathered In the streets out
side.
Vemengo Lima, new naval min
ister, announced that Peron had
been arrested.
A member of his household
earlier reported the former strong
man of the government had gone
to the countryside "for a rest,"
but there was a steady stream
of official visitors at his residence
during the morning. Plain clothes
men guarded the home.
Argentina’s tumultuous political
events started rising to a climax
late yeiterday, when Farrell an
nounced presidential elections
would be’ held next April 7.
TO SUPREME COURT
Leaders of various democratic or
ganisations harangued the grow
ing throng in the streets, repeat
ing their three-point demand that
the government be turned over to
the supreme court, that elections
be held without political party ac
tivity, and that a state of siege
relmpoeed a month ago by Far
rell be lifted.
The Farrell regime set next April
7 as a presidential election date
in a decree issued shortly after
the military group demanded Pe
ron’s detention and resignations of
Farrell's entire cabinet.
The political unrest was compli
cated by both military and civil
ian pressure on the government.
All Buenos Aires morning
newspapers, with the exception
See PERON Page 2
GEORGE WOULD
AMENDBILL
Objects To Wiping Out
Tax For 12,000,000
Low-Income Payers
WASHINGTON. Oct. 12 —W)~
Chairman George of the senate
finance committee called today for
reducing rather than wiping out
income taxes for 12,000,000 low
income Americans.
He thus wants a change made
in the $5,350,000,000 tax cutting
bill which rolled through the house
yesterday by a vote of 343 to 10.
The Georgia Democrat said his
committq* will open three days of
hearings Monday on the measure
which—as it passed the house —
would:
1. Grant a reduction of 10 per
cent or better to every individual
taxpayer next year, besides knock
ing 12,000,000 off the rolls entire
ly, for an aggregate cut of $2,527,
000,000.
2. Cut 1040 corporation taxes
$1,888,000,000 by lowering the busi
ness surtax rate and reducing —
though not eliminating until 1947
—the excess profits tax.
WINDSHIELD TAX
3. Prune back next July 1 the
excise levies on luxury and semi
luxury items to pre-war levels for
a savings to consumers of $535,
000,000 in the last half of 1946.
4. Repeal of $5 “windshield tax”
on automobiles, and
5. Freeze the social security tax
at its present one percent rate
each on employers and employes.
Otherwise the tax would have
climbed to two and one-half per
cent each January 1.
Commenting or. the house action
in fofeing 12,000,000 individuals
from tax liability George told a
reporter:
"I think it very unwise to nar
row the base, because we may
face the necessity of meeting trou
blesome budgetary problems down
the road. We might find it neces
sary to increase revenues rapidly,
and once off the rolls, it would be
hard to put the 12,000,000 on a
galn.”
Japan Makes
| Start On Road
I To Freedom
TOKYO, Oct. 12.—(/P)—Ja
pan today placed one of the
teading authorities on her
tyrannical constitution within
the emperor’s circle of advis
ors as she took her first, fal
tering steps to carry out Gen
eral MacArthur’s orders to
' afford her people the full
breath of freedom.
The government also sought to
import rice to alleviate a food
. crisis made even more critical by
| this week’s typhoon which swept
over central and southern Hon
| shu.
1 Simultaneously, fresh disclosures
I of American investigators made it
i clear that, however trying the sit
uation under an occupation, it
would have been worse had Japan
continued the war. Fifth army
] air force experts established an
other fact kept from the people—
' that Japan’s radar defense was so
! ineffective it could not be determ
i ined whether planes approaching
the homeland were friend or foe,
; how many there were or how
high.
Dr. Soichi Sasaki, honorary pro
fessor of Kyoto Imperial university
and leading authority on Japan’s
constitution, has been appointed
advisor to Marquis Koicho Kido,
the highest ranking consultant' for
the Mikado.
NEW DIRECTIVES
Announcement of the appoint
ment quickly followed new Mac
Arthur directives for: Women’s
I suffrage; encouragement of labor
unionization; abolition of “secret
inquisition” systems; revision of
monopolistic industrial control;
and advancement of liberal educa
tion.
The Japanese government re
quested MacArthur’s permission to
import 100,000 tons of rice from
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LESS MEAT FOR
COMINGWEEKS
By OVID A. MARTIN
WASHINGTON, Oct. 12. —(IP)—
Civilians will find slightly less ra
tion-free meat at their butcher
shops during the next few weeks.
That’s because the government
is stepping back in to require feder
ally-inspected slaughterers to re
serve a portion of their lower grade
output for export. The meat thus
reserved will go to Great Britain,
Belgium, Holland and France.
The butcher shops’ supply still
will b esufficient, however, the ag
iculture department said in an
nouncing the action yesterday, to
I alow civilians the amount of meat
! the government previously had
promised them in the last three
months of the year.
Food officials expect supplies to
increase enough next month to per
mit dropping the set-aside require
ments and to liberalize rationing
still further. However, complete lift
ing of rationing by November 1—
which some unofficial sources have
predicted—now appears out of the
question.
Officials say that an increasing
supply of chickens and fryers will
more than offset any temporary
reduction in civilian supplies of
beef, veal and mutton as a result
of the set-aside program.
Negro Youth Is
Lynched In Florida
MADISON, Fla., Oct. 12. —</P)—
A young negro ynder indictment for
assault with intent to rape a five
year-old white girl, was taken from
the county jail either late Wednes
day night or early Thursday morn
ing and shot to death, Sheriff Lon
nie Davis reported.
Sheriff Davis said yesterday that
the negro, Jesse James Payne, was
returned to the jail here from the
state prison Tuesday for arraign
ment. He had pleaded innocent to
the charges. His case had been
scheduled for trial Tuesday.
Arrested July 4 at Monticello, the
negro was later removed to the
state prison after state highway pa
trolmen had guarded him from a
crowd. The prisoner was wounded
at that time during a posse chase.
In reporting the death of the ne
gro Sheriff Davis said the county
jail here was not guarded. “I never
had had any guard at the Jail,” he
declared.
L
BOUND FOR HOME—At a wharfside at Le Havre, largest embarkation point in France, United States troops
carry their barracks bags aboard a ship to take them home.
Conference On
Future Policies
At Gardner-Webb
Representatives of public educa
tion, industry and the Gardner
Webb Colleg^ faculty and admini
stration went into a thorough dis
cussion of the future policies of this
college at three sessions held on the
campus yesterday morning, after
noon and last night.
The meeting was called by Pres
ident Phil Elliott at the request of
the trustees to determine the field
in which the greatest usefulness of
Gardner-Webb college lies. The ses
sion was attended by Dr. J. Henry
Highsmith of the State Department
of Public Instruction, Mr. Elliott
and representatives of the college
faculty, Walter E. Abernethy, super
intendent of Shelby schools, J.
Warren Smith of the vocational
training department of North Car
olina State college, Mrs. Rush
Stroup, W. L. Hicks and A. W. Mc
Murray, members of the executive
committee of the board of trus
tees. J. A. Tarleton, superintendent
of schools in Rutherford county and
Laxton Hamrick, principal of the
Central high school at Rutherford
ton-Spin(*«le.
FORMAL TRAINING
Although no definite policies were
mapped out, it was the prepon
derant opinion that Gardner
Webb’s greater usefulness lies in
formal academic training. It was
stated that the textile officials gen
erally feel that they would rather
have their employees come to them
with a background of general edu
cation rather thar. technical train
ing which they can get on the job.
There was also a general discus
sion of fitting in Gardner-Webb’s
farm with an agricultural program
for the community.
Officials who attended this meet
ing declared that it is indication of
a healthy trend. It shows, they
pointed out that Gardner-Webb is
feeling its way into the educational
field and is not content with its
present service to the community
Franco Government
Offers Amnesty,
Civil Liberties
MADRID, Oct. 12. —(JP)— Gen
eralissimo Francisco Franco’s gov
ernment, in a move generally inter
preted as a bid for support both
at home and abroad, held out to
the Spanish people today th' pro
mise of a restoration of civi liber
ties and amnesty for politic pris
oners.
The promise, extended in an of
ficial announcement which follow
ed a prolonged cabinet session last
night, is expected to be implement
ed by publication of a formal decree
in the near future.
Specifically, the announcement
said the government had decided
to:
(1) Restore the right of assembly
and guarantee individual liberties;
(2) Carry out all the provisions of
the 1945 Bill of Rights; (3) Con
duct municipal elections during the
first two weeks of March, 1946; (4)
Extend amnesty to political pris
oners convicted before the end of
the civil war on April 1, 1939, and
(5) grant a referendum, or plebes
cite, on important laws.
NEXT MEETING
IN ASHEVILLE
WNC Methodists Hold
Final Sessions; Appoint
ments Delayed
GREENSBORO, Oct. 12 —(>?=<)—
Western North Carolina cobfer
■ence of the Methodist church de
cided at its final business session
today to hold next year’s annual
meeting in Asheville at Central
Methodist church. Bishop Clare
Purcell, Charlotte, presided over
the morning meeting, which ad
journed at 12:30 p.m., to reconvene
in the afternoon for reading of
the appointments of pastors for
next year.
At this morning’s meeting the
A delay in the reading of
the appointments at the West
ern North Carolina conference
of the Methodist church re
sulted from an additional cab
inet meeting around noon to
day and Bishop Clare Purcell
was not expected to begin
reading the appointments un
til after 2:30 o’clock this af
ternoon, The Siiielby Daily
Star was informed by tele
phone from Greensboro at noon
today.
A report on the appoint
ments will be carried in Sat
urday’s Star.
bishop administered the vows to
ministers accepted by the confer
ence into full membership.
Dr. John W. Burton, president
general of the Methodist church
in Australia, who is in this coun
try to visit churches and annual
conference, spoke briefly to the
group convened here today, de
claring that the war has caused
great disruption to all of human
society, he said, “none will suf
fer more than the people of the
South Pacific.”
YANKS PRAISED
He praised the American men
who were in Australia during the
darkest days of the Pacific war
and said that the blood shed by
American men was noble blood.
“All the blood shed in the Pacific
islands,” he declared, “that of
white men and brown alike, had
the same high color of sacrifice.”
Reports were heard from the 10
district superintendents, and names
of preachers in the conference
were called for passing of charac
ter. Other business included re
See NEXT Page 2
Troops Unload
Supplies At
London Docks
LONDON, Oct. 12 —</P)—Troops
were ordered into the great, sev
en-mile long Liverpool docks to
day and began unloading 12,000
tons of urgently requested food
stuffs from five freighters and
nine coasters as the paralyzing
dock strike raised a mounting
menace to delivery of the nation’s
meager rations.
The strike spread to Edinburgh,
where 1,000 Scottish dockers quit
work in sympathy with the Eng
lish strike.
In London, strike leader Thom
as Powell warned that the huge
port would be tied up completely
by Monday unless a settlement is
reached oyer the week-end.
Most major ports already were
throttled as stevedores ignored re
turn-to-work pleas of union lead
ers, despite a government state
ment that negotiations could be
conducted only through regular
channels between union officials
and dock owners.
Nearly 50,000 workers were idle
in the spreading stoppage which
has tied up 400 ships, many laden
with food for short-rationed Brit
ons. The strikers are seeking a
daily wage of 25 shillings ($5).
Their present rate ranges from 16
to 24 shilling ($3.20 to $4.80).
Chairman Of WLB
Bows Out.Of Picture
WASHINGTON, Oct. 12 —<A>)—
The author of the nation’s war
time yardstick for wages leaves
the government today.
George W. Taylor cleared his
desk as chairman of the War La
bor board.
Taylor is resigning because WLB
is liquidating on White House or
ders. It is due to fold finally by
year's end.
CIVILIAN STATUS
TOKYO, Oct. 12—(A5)—War cor
respondents in Japan, the Philip
pines and Korea will revert to the
civilian status of foreign corres
pondents at 12:01 a.m. October 27
(Tokyo Time), allied headquarters
announced today.
IDLE AT 452,000:
Congress In Mood To Pass
Anti-Strike Legislation
By The Associated Press
| The country’s wave of postwar
I labor disputes brought congres
sional reaction today as leaders
of both parties went on record fa
voring new anti-strike legislation.
As new and continuing work
stoppages today kept the idle a
cross the country at 452,000, pro
minent legislators said they fa
vored repeal of the Smith-Con
nally War Labor Disputes act
which permits strikes if unions
vote in favor of them. They said
they wanted new legislation which
would make labor unions and em
, ployers “mutually responsible” for
observance of contracts.
In Washington conciliation con
ferences to end the critical soft
| coal strikes remained deadlocked
, and the government prepared for
possible rationing of manufactur
ed gas to industrial users. The
bituminous operators and John L.
Lewis of the United Mine Work
ers were called back for another
session today by Secretary of La
bor Schwellenbach.
As no agreement came over the
See CONGRESS Page 2
TAX BILL MAY
MEET TROUBLE
FROM SENATE
Gets Half-Way Through
Congress When Approv
ed By House
343 TO ^APPROVAL
By Max Hall
WASHINGTON, Oct. 12.—
(/P)—The tax-cutting bill has
coasted halfway through con
gress, but it still may run in
to some changes before it be
comes law.
That was the news from
congress today, along with
fresh developments on atomic
energy, strikes, and veterans.
Walter George, No. 1 tax man of j
the senate, came out against a pro- ;
vision in the tax bill which wipes I
out income taxes entirely for 12,
000,000 low-paid people on Janu
ary 1.
George (D-Ga) wants to cut these
folks’ payments away down—to
where they won’t be “burdensome”
—but he doesn’t think it would be
wise to take anybody off the tax
rolls altogether.
The bill was approved by the
House yesterday, 343 to 10.
George announced that the sen
ate finance committee, which he
heads, will start a three-day
hearing on it Monday.
Unlike the tax bill, the atomic
energy bill has hardly started its
trip through Congress, and Presi
dent Truman is said to be concern
ed about that.
Today, with both senate and
house having a recess, Mr. Truman
was reported to be trying to per
suade law-makers to put on speed
in connection with atomic matters.
This bill would create a nine
man atomic energy commission and
give it vast power over the peace
time development of atomic force
uiaiue nib uuubu ouites.
DECISIONS POSTPONED
The house military committee,
considering the bill and arguing
about whether to write some foreign
policy into it, has postponed any
decision until next week.
The senate was moving more
slowly. It hasn’t even sent the bill
to a committee. It has been unable
to decide which of its regular com
mittees should consider it.
Therefore support piled up today
for creating a brand-new senate
committee, even though Mr. Tru
man is reported to frown on this
method. Senator Vandenburg <R
Mich) and other senate Republicans
got behind a resolution offered by
a Democrat, Senator McMahon of
Connecticut, to set up a new sen
ate group.
Meantime the labor situation was
See TAX Page 2
DEATH DECREE
FOR DOSTLER -
ROME, Oct. 12—(AP)—Gen. An
ton Dostler, first German general
to be tried in western Europe as
a war criminal, was convicted by
an American military tribunal
today and sentenced to death for
ordering the summary^execution
of 15 U. S. soldiers caflHfe^ie
hind the German lines anH
The five-man commissioi^^B
ting in judgment on Dostler naa
taken the case under considera
tion at 4 p.m. yesterday.
The conviction was to be re
viewed by the commander of al
lied forces in the Mediterranean
theatre before the death sentence
can be carried out.
The American soldiers, with
whose execution Dostler was
charged, died before a German fir
ing squad at La Spezia on March
26, 1944. They had landed on the
Italian coast from rubber boats on
a mission to blow up a railway
tunnel.
Dostler’s defense was based on
the contention he had acted un
der a blanket order from Adolf
Hitler to execute all commandos
and that he consulted with his
superiors before the execution was
carried out.
WHAT’S DOING
TODAY
7:30 p.m.—Called meeting of
Cleveland Lodge 202 A. F. & A.
M. for work in first degree.
72 Dead, Ten Missing,
Many Injured, Damage
Heavy In Storm's Wake
By The Associated Press
Okinawa today was a shambles—reminiscent of its re
cent battle-ravaged litter—reduced by a 132-mile typhoon
that killed three American navy personnel, left 10 sailors
missing and more than 100 Yank soldiers injured, and sank,
damaged or beached 127 naval vessels.
The tvnhnon. whirh st.rnnlr Olri-i
nawa Tuesday after having twist
ed 150 miles to the southwest for
24 hours, swept northward to kill
at least 69 Japanese, flood 8,000
houses, wash away 81 bridges and
leave many thousands homeless in
central and southern Honshu.
Fifty Superfortresses from the
Marianas delivered 284 tons of
food to the 150,000 troops on Oki
nawa today. Approximately twice
that amount will be transported to
them during the next three days
by bombers from Guam.
In addition to food, the troops
need shelter facilities to replace
tents, quonsett huts and other in
stallations that were demolished
or heavily damaged.
Parked airplanes were rolled a
bout by the typhoon, the island’s
food stocks were nearly all de
stroyed, and hospital patients had
a nightmarish time throughout
the hours of darkness.
CASUALTIES
Official reports—conceded to be
fragmentary because of limited
communications—from army head
quarters in Manila and fleet head
j quarters at Pearl Harbor, listed
these casualties and damage on
Okinawa:
Three navy men killed and
10 missing.
One hundred soldiers injur*
ed.
Four hundred prisoners of
war killed.
Five small naval vessels sunk.
Fifty-two ships (presumably
small) and 70 other naval auxil
iaries of all types beached on Oki
nawa’s reefs.
Shore installations, including
dock facilities, extensively damag
ed.
HAVOC ON HONSHU
First, incomplete reports from
Tokyo listed this havoc on Hon
shu:
Sixty-nine killed.
8,000 homes flooded, 81 bridges
washed out, many thousands
homeless.
More than 1,000 acres of land
washed out and many thousands
flooded by heavy rains which ac
companied the typhoon, increas
ing the nation’s already critical
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War Fund Drive To
Reach Peak Sunday
Appeals Will Be Carried To Many Churches; Hope To
Attain Goal Next Week
With the climax of the United War Fund drive in Cleve
land county to be reached Sunday when the solicitation will
be carried to many of the churches, workers in this cam
paign were bending every effort to reach the $23,932 goal
early next week.
Chairman Shem K. Blackley
has not received sufficient reports
so far to give an accurate esti
mate on how much has been raised
so far but he indicated that ef
forts will have to be redoubled if
the quota is to be reached. Most
solicitors were working in their
clean-up canvass today and will
try to cover the greater part of
the territory by tomorrow night.
In the county communities, the
local chairmen are working through!
their churches. In the event any
person is overlooked in this call
for money contributions can 'U©>
mailed to Paxton Elliott at the
First National bank.
LAST OF DRIVES
This is the last of the War
Fund drives. The money now be
ing raised will wind up about 15
months for most of the partici
pating agencies.
Thirty-seven percent of the
money will be used for USO oper
ations among the servicemen. This
includes ministration to both the
healthy but lonely veterans and to
the wounded.
The next largest share, 24 per
ewill go to the destitute peo
t Europe and Asia. In Europe
there are 40,000,000 helpless
s who are dependingg on the
generosity of Americans. In the
Philippines and China there are
many more.
HOME SHARE
Twenty-two cents of each dollar
contributed in Cleveland county
remains at home for the local
USO, the Boy Scouts and Girl
Scouts.
The drive was started here with
a breakfast last Tuesday morning
at which Capt. John Z. McBrayer,
wounded veteran of this war made
an urgent appeal to support this
drive in the name of those who
cannot help themselves.
Industrial plants and business
organizations in Cleveland county
are participating with a will in
this campaign. So far their em
ployes have contributed generous
ly to the fund and those who have!
not been seen will be approached j
by the end of this week.
SIMULTANEOUS
At the same time that the ap- j
peal is being made here, the cam
paign is being carried forward in
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MEW EVIDENCE
FOR LAVAL
His Attorneys Declare
They Can "Explode"
Case Against Him
PARIS, Oct. 12—(JP)—Attorneys
for Pierre Laval now under sen
tence of death for collaborating
with the Germans, declared today
they had uncovered important new
evidence which would “explode"
the case against him.
The evidence, they asserted, will
prove that Laval—former Vichy
chief of government—was arrest
ed by the Germans while plotting
to turn his government over to
Gen. Charles De Gaulle.
The attorneys said documents
smuggled out of France and hid
den in Switzerland had been found
and returned today. These, they
said, showed Laval came to Paris
at the beginning of August, 1944,
to declare it an open city and to
have De Gaulle officially received
by a meeting of parliament.
Paris fell to the allies Aug. 23
and De Gaulle entered the cia
the same day.
CLAIM PROOF
Laval’s lawyers said the evi
dence would prove Laval drove an
day and night to Nancy in north
western France in order to free
Edouard Herriot from German
imprisonment and that he re
turned with Herriot to Paris where
he obtained reinstatement for
him as president of the chamber
of deputies.
The lawyers said they could
prove that Gestapo Chief Heinrich
Himmler personally ordered the
arrest of Laval before he could
carry through his plan.
The defense counsel said they
would present the evidence di
rectly to Gen. De Gaulle, who re
turned to Paris from Brussels to
day, and would appeal to him for
a new trial for the former Vichy
chief of government, now in Res
nes prison under sentence of
death.