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CLEVELAND COUNTY’S NEWSPAPER SINCE 1894 TELEPHONES 1100
VOL. XLI11-246
ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWS
SHELBY, N. C.
SATURDAY, OCT. 13, 1945
TELEMAT PICTURES
SINGLE COPIES—fie
JAPS HOVE
TO CARRY OUT
NEW DICTATES
Cabinet Submits To Diet
Measures Liberalizing
Franchise
BREAK FORLIBERALS
By Russell Brines
i TOKYO, Oct. 13.—(/P)—
Premier Shidehara’s “crisis”
cabinet took its first step to
day toward meeting General
MacArthur’s dictate that the
Japanese government be made
the servant rather than the
master of the people.
In the face of rank skepticism
of Nipponese liberals, the cabinet
approved for submission to the
diet measures granting votes to
women and lowering the voting
age from 25 to 20 years.
In a move to comply with
the allied commander's order
for freedom of speech and
thought, the cabinet dismiss
ed 4.800 political (thought
control) police and abolished,
effective Monday, the 13
year-old law under which
they had arrested some 60,000
political offenders, mostly left
wing liberals.
General MacArthur gave his
directive for sweeping social and!
political reforms to Shidehara on- j
ly Thursday, but already one
draft of revisions was reported to
have been finished.
PROPOSED REVISION
The newspaper Asahl said Prince
Pumimaro Konqye, royal career
statesman and a recent addition
to ttnperor Hirohito’s advisers,
had presented a draft of proposed
k revisions to the emperor.
f Sources close to Konoye said
his efforts would strengthen the
power of the diet without mark
edly decreasing the position of the
emperor.
These sources quoted Konoye as
saying that Hlrohlto has been "se
riously considering" the possibility
of abdication.
The newspaper Mainlchl said
that according to a 1942 census
there would be 21,600,000 women
eligible to vote after the diet ap
proved the two measures.
BY DECEMBER
Newspapers predicted that the'
cabinet's proposed constitutional
changes would be completed and
submitted to the privy council for
approval, In time to be presented
to the special diet session sched
uled for December.
MacArthur’s directive called for
reforms of Japan’s laws to provide
See JAPS Page 2
British Take
Firm Stand On
Annamese Riots
LONDON, Oct. 13 —m— The
British government announced to
day that the British army which
went Into Indochina to accept the
surrender of the Japanese had
been ordered to take "firm ac
tion" against Annamese national
ists.
A southeast Asia command com
munique Issued through the min
istry of Information said MaJ. Oen.
D. D. Oracey, head of the control
commission at Saigon, had reach
ed the decision because '‘armed
bands of Annamese have contin-1
tied to attack our troops” despite
assurances of a truce.
"Certain key areas needed for
controlling communications with
the airfields and port are now be
ing occupied by our troops,” the
communique said. "Annamese who
obstruct will be treated firmly.”
SAIQON, Oct. 13—(JF)—Approxi
mately 100 Annamese and two
Japanese who were leading them
were killed and 800 taken prison
er in difficult operations begun at
dawn yesterday by French troops
expanding their grip on Indochina
westward from Saigon.
One of those killed was a Japa
nese air force captain.
Eight Frenchmen also were
killed and IS wounded in a skirm
ish in which British 25-pounders
supported an attack against a
nationalist stronghold.
The French announced that the
Annamese prisoners will be tried
before a court martial..
The French said there were
"plenty of Japanese snipers” a
mong the forces opposing the
French reoccupation of Indochina.
ARMED MIGHT THROUGH THE CANAL—An armed sentry stands
guard as the U. S. battleship Mississippi prepares to enter Pedro Miguel
lock in the Panama Canal en route from the Pacific war area to the
Atlantic. The big battle wagon, with other units of the First Carrier Task
Force, is coming home for Navy Day.—(AP Wirephoto).
Records Show Japs
Practiced Canabalism
By DUANti HENNESY
TOKYO. Oct. 13. —VPj— Japanese army orders approved cannibalism
among Nipponese troops, if they are the flesh of allied deaid—but they
were put to death if they feasted on their fallen comrades.
This was announced, with documentary evidence, today by the same
hitherto secret Allied headquarters section which yesterday disclosed the
story of an American flier's beheading by a Japanese naval Interpreter
and announced the identity of the Japanese soldier who chopped off the
head of a shackled Australian aviator.
Captured papers of the Japanese army showed some of its troops
were convicted of eating their own dead and were executed. The papers
called this “the worst possible crime against humanity.”
CONFIRMATION
Thin was the first official confirmation of cannibalism among Jap
anese troops, which had been reported sketchily from several fronts
during the war.
The evidence was found among thousands of documents about Jap
anese military operations, personnel and atrocities, seized by a U. S.
Army unit whose existence was undisclosed until yesterday.
Japanese newspaper men who were told of the documents, comment
ed that the Japanese people probably would not be as horrified at the
cannibalism as would Americans. They explained that since the days of
sailing ships, when becalmed Japanese crews ate the flesh of dead com
panions, the nation was aware of the practice.
CHILD DIES
FROM WHISKEY
Tenant Farmer Held In
Death Of 6-Year-Old
Cotton Picker 1
DOUBLE SPRINGS, Ala., Oct.
13.— OP) —A 60-year-old tenant
fanner was being held today with
out bond on a charge that he caus
ed the death of a six-year-old boy
by giving him “moonshine whis
ky," Solicitor J. A. Posey said.
The solicitor reported that Dr. W.
M. Godsey, physician of Haleyville,
Ala., examined the boy’s body
shortly after his death and diag
nosed the cause as “pneumonia in
duced by alcohol.”
Posey said that Sheriff C. O.
Hunter swore out a murder war
rant for Charley Taylor, the Wins
ton county farmer. Investigation
disclosed that the child drank
whiskey from a half-gallon fruit jar
passed around by Taylor in a cot
ton field, Posey declared.
A special grand Jury may be call
ed to investigate the case, he add
ed.
The solicitor identified the child
as Fletcher Lee Sellers of Ilaleyville
and said the boy drank the whisky
See CHILD Page 2
Founder Of Hershey
Fortune Dies
HERSHEY, PA., Oct. 13 —(&)—
Milton S. Hershey, who made a
fortune Af millions in chocolate
»nd cocoa and gave it away to or
phan boys, died today in the Her
ihey hospital in this central Penn
sylvania town he founded in a
:ornfield in 1903. He was 88.
WAR FUND IS
UNDERQUOTA
Workers Seek To Wind Up
Campaign With Appeal
In Churches
United War fund solicitors were
winding up the campaign which
started here last Tuesday morn
ing by checking up on last minute
donors today. Shem Blackley,
campaign chairman, said this
morning that despite the generos
ity of Cleveland county people the
quota of $23,932 is still unmet.
He is counting on the effective
ness of the drive In many of the
churches tomorrow when last min
ute appeals will be made. Any
body who has been overlooked In
the canvass is asked to see Pax
ton Elliott at the First National
bank.
DIVISION
Thirty-seven percent of the
money which is collected will be
used for USO operation In minis
tering to lonely and wounded sol
diers. The next largest division,
24 percent, goes to the destitute
peoples left In the war’s wake and
22 percent of the fund will go to
the local USO, Boy Scouts and
Girl Scouts.
“We cannot fall our people
now,” Is the way Chairman Black
ley summed up the need for push
ing the campaign to Its successful
conclusion the * first part of next
week,
Hoey To Teach
Clast Sunday
Senator Clyde R. Hoey will
teach the Hoey Bible class at the
Central Methodist church Sunday
morning at 10 o’colck, It was an
nounced today by J. H. Grlgg,
Argentina Without A
Government After Night
Gf Strife, Bloodshed
By Lawrence F. Stuntz
BUENOS AIRES, Oct. 13.—(/P)—Argentina was virtual
ly without a government today in a political crisis which had
exploded into open civil strife in downtown Buenos Aires
JAP BOASTS
OF BEHEADINGS
Principals In Much-Pub
licized Beheading Pic
ture Identified
By DUANE HENNESSY
TOKYO, Oct. 13. —<£>)— A war
criminal trial and probably exe
cution confront a cold-blooded Jap
anese naval interpreter who boast
ed in his diary of beheading an al
lied prisoner and also is accused of
decapitating an American flier—
after which he goaded drunken
Nipponese soldiers to bayonet three
more to death.
He is Kenneth Yunone, now held
in an Australian prison camp after
an international search for identifi
cation which even involved the Roy
al Canadian mounted police.
Yunone was captured April 25,
1944, at Hollandia, Dutch New Gui
nea, the same week General MacAr
thur’s forces invaded that area. But
the details were disclosed only to
day.
DIARY RECORD
On the previews. Oct. 24, in New
Guinea, he wrote in his diary:
‘This afternoon, I myself with my
own Japanese sword beheaded an
enemy soldier prisoner (nationality
not given. This was a new experience
for me. . . I really believe I was
magnificent. Amongst the Japanese
onlookers there were many who
declared their admiration for my
skill in making such an excellent
stroke.”
One of six repatriated mission
aries who definitely Identified Yu
none as author of the diary—they
knew him at .the time of the be
heading—told the grim story of
what happened to the four Ameri
cans the following Nov. 17.
After their plane was forced down
at sea off New Guinea natives be
trayed them into Japanese hands.
MISSIONARY REPORTS
The missionary related:
“After assembling local natives
Including school children, Yunona,
as he later boasted, served hls em
peror personally by recapltatlng one
of the crew. Then he ordered guards
to bayonet the other who were pre
sent, with hands tied behind them
and showing signs of abusive treat
ment.
"The soldiers hesitated and Yu
none gave them saki upon which
they became intoxicated and dis
patched the three Americans by re
peated bayonet thrusts.”
Yesterday allied authorities iden
tified publicly for the first time the
Japanese in the much-publicized
photograph which showed the be
heading of a captured Lt. William
Newton, Australian aviator on New
Guinea.
WHAT’S DOING
SUNDAY
10 a.m. to 8:00 pjn.—U. S.
O. center open to visiting ser
vice folks in the city.
MONDAY
10:00 a.m.—Shelby Minister
ial association meets at Cen
tral Methodist church.
7:00 p.m.—Jaycees meet at
Suttle’s to go to fish fry at
Ollie Moore’s place.
7:30 p.m.—State Guard drill
at armory.
7:30 p.m.—City council meets
at city hall.
last nignt.
Gun fighting involving police,
nationalists and internationalists
killed one man and left 35 wound
ed, including six policemen.
After the entire cabinet
with the exception of the
army and navy ministers re
signed yesterday, the army
announced it had the resig
nation of President Edchniro
Farrell “for use at any mo
ment.”
Today the only authority re
maining was that of the army,
navy and the two holdovers from
the fallen government, Minister
of War Gen. Eduardo J. Avalos
and Minister of the Marine Rear
Admiral Hector Vemengo Lima.
The police, apparently acting au
tonomously for the time being,
forbade newspapers to publish
news of the street fighting. How
ever, they were permitted to men
tion the 12-hour wait of thousands
of persons in front of the army
club yesterday while generals,
admirals, and civil leaders inside
debated the future of the coun
try.
POLICE ATTACK
It was after this debate broke
up without results that the firing
began. Who began it was uncer
tain but at its height police fired
on the crowd. Individuals in the
crowd returned their fire, and a
group of unidentified civilians —
perhaps nationalists — aided po
lice by shooting into the massed
thousands.
The fighting spread to other
parts of the city. Horses with
empty saddles galloped through
the streets and dead horses lay
among the wounded on the plaza
before the army club.
T« +V» o oHir Af fionfa UV» fhoro
was an openly nationalist out
break when nationalists and labor
ministry employes surrounded the
newspaper Ellitoral and shouted
‘Viva Peron.”
Col. Juan Peron was reliably re
ported at midnight tp be aboard
a navy ship in the harbor.
Nimitz Comes Home
To Texas Today
KERRVILLE, Texas, Oct. 13. —
(/P)—Fleet Admiral Chester W. Ni
mitz comes home from the wars to
his native hill country of Texas to
day.
At Austin last night, Rep. Lyndon
Johnston (D-Texas) a member of
the house naval affairs committee,
introduced the admiral to a cheer
ing audience of 4,000 as "the next
chief of naval operations, the com
mander-in-chief of the United
States Navy.”
Nimitz returns to Kerrville, where
he spent his boyhood, and Freder
icksburg, where he was bom, for
one brief day of visiting with kin
folks and old friends before heading
again for the Pacific.
Archbishop Of Armagh
Died Early Today
ARMAGH, Eire, Oct. 13. —iff)—
His eminence Joseph Cardinal Mac
Rory, Archbishop of Armagh and
Primate of all Ireland, died at 7
a.m. (2 a.m. EST) today.
The 89-year-old prelate, who re
cently celebrated his diamond ju
bilee as a churchman, was a native
of Ballygawley, County Tyrone, Ire
la id. He received his education in
church schools of Armagh and May
nooth.
Price Ceilings Recommended
On Houses, Both New And Old
By MARVIN L. ARROWSMITH
WASHINGTON, Oct. 13. —(£>)—
Despite reported administration
opposition, a strong recommenda
tion for price ceilings on houses is
being prepared today by the chiefs
of four government agencies.
Slated to reach reconversion Di
rector John W. Snyder early next
week, the program calls for:
1. Ceilings on all new houses.
2. Ceilings on old houses if
they have changed hands since
January 1, 1943.
These recommendations were
drawn up this week by John C. Col
let, stabilization director: Chester
Bowles, price administrator; John
B. Blandford, Jr., national housing
administrator; and Marriner S.
Eccles, chairman of the Federal Re
serve board.
Reports have circulated that
Snyder and President Truman are
opposed to ceilings on housing. But
proponents of the plan say both are
maintaining an open mind on the
subject, and will decide only after
all arguments have been studied.
Building industry representatives
See PRICE Page 2 /
SOLDIER’S LAST FAREWELL TO FAMILY—Pvt William H. Garrett,
23, of Waverly, Ky., stands with head bowed in grief at the graveside of
his father, mother, and six brothers and sisters at their burial in Morgan
field, Ky. All were killed in an automobile accident. Pvt. Garrett, lone
survivor of the family, was flown from his army post in France to attend
the funeral.—(AP Wirephoto).
Five Methodist
Pastorates Change
Kale Succeeds Hardin At Central; Barber, Stubbs,
Bass, And Bowman Other New Ministers
Five changes in Methodist pastorates in the Shelby area
resulted from Bishop Clare Purcell’s appointments which
were read at the closing session of the Western North Caro
lina Conference at Greensboro yesterday.
STORECHANGES
COMINGJAN. 1
Belk-Stevens To Expand;
Goodrich And Sears
To Move
Belk-Stevens Department store
has leased the store room now oc
cupied by the B. F. Goodrich store
and will remodel soon after the
first of the year. This additional ,
store will be tied in with the present
three rooms occupied by Belk
Stevens, this affording space for
adding other lines of merchandise
and enlarging department, says
William P. Ellis, manager.
The Goodrich store has leased the
store room now occupied by Sears’
Order Store in the old Bank Build
ing and will occupy soon after the
first of the year.
OTHER CHANGES
Sears’ Mail order store will move
to the Gardner building on West <
Warren steet and occupy the store
room now occupied by the Remnant
Store.
A number of other changes and
expansions are in process by present
local merchants and by new firms ,
seeking locations here. The mercan
tile business expects a big post-war 1
trade and more store rooms are
needed and would be built except for
the high building costs and mate
rial shortage. Several stores are fig
uring on air conditioning systems
and other improvements.
Quisling’s Appeal
Is Refused
LONDON, Oct. 13.—(VP)—The Nor
wegian supreme court today refus
ed Vidkun Quisling’s appeal from
the death sentence im/osed for
treason, the Norwegian information
office anr/unced here.
“Quisling's appeal was unsuccess
ful on all points,” the information
agency said. “The decision of the
supreme court was unanimous.
The former Norwegian puppet
leader, whose name became synon
! omous with “traitor,” had been sen
tenced by the lower court Sept. 10.
Under Norwegian law he was per
mitted to appeal only from the sen-,
tence, not from the court’s verd.l t
of guilty. : . . ^
Succeeding Rev. Paul Hardin, jr.
is pastor of Central Methodist
;hurch will be Rev. W. A. Kale,
vho comes here from Hickory.
Rev. Mr. Kale is widely and pop
Jlarly known in Catawba county.
Rev. Mr. Hardin goes to Wesley
Memorial Methodist church in
High Point.
Rev. J. M. Barber comes from
;he Hanes charge in the Winston
Salem district to the pastorate of
;he Shelby charge from which
Rev. R. M. Hauss resigned several
nonths ago and which was tem
oorarily filled by Rev. B. Wilson,
low on the'retired list. Rev. Mr.
Barber will preach his first ser
non Sunday morning at Sharon
;hurch.
Rev. D. L. Stubbs, jr., was ap
lointed to the pastorate of Hoyle
Memorial Methodist church suc
:eeding Rev. J, L. Pittard who
;oes to Ebenezer.
Rev. C. G. Iseley remains at
Rallston and Rev. W. L. Scott re
mains at Polkville.
SUCCEEDS GIBBS
Rev. R. L. Bass comes to La
i^yette Street Methodist church
succeeding Rev. J. S. Gibbs who
vas transferred to Spindale. Rev.
I. S. Winkler is to remain at
Central church in Kings Moun
tain. Rev. H. E. Jones will come to
Brace Methodist church at Kings
Mountain, replacing Rev. W. L.
Harkey, who went to the Lincoln
on charge. Rev. J. s. Higgins re
nains on the Cleveland charge.
Rev. J. T. Bowman who has
seen on the Lincolnton charge
:omes to Belwood to replace Rev.
J. M. Morgan who goes to Hanes
:harge in the Winston-Salem dis
See FIVE Page 2
TRUCK DRIVERS’
STRIKE THREAT
LOOMS AHEAD
Coal Conference Enters
Second Week; Little
Progress Made
NLRB IS SWAMPED
By Sterling F. Green
WASHINGTON, Oct. 13.
(JP)—The government looked
over its shoulder at the threat
of a 12-state truck drivers’
strike today and patiently re
sumed efforts to get about
200,000 United Mine Workers
back to digging coal.
The soft coal conference under
Secretary of Labor Schwellenbach
entered a second week as produc
tion losses neared the 10,000,000
ton mark since Sept. 21.
Schwellenbach’s only progress
report: John L. Lewis* and his
miners’ delegation are “still in the
process of arguing” with bitumin
ous operators the dispute over re
cognition of UMW's foremen’s
union.
One of the biggest strike votes
yet requested—in number of em
ployers involved—loomed 30 days
hence for the overburdened Na
i-oiuu ijaoor neianons ±soara.
It grows out of the petition' of
the AFL central states drivers
council, a teamsters’ affiliate, for
a poll of employes of 3,190 inter
city trucking companies in the
midwest.
many involved
Michael J. Healy, president of
the central states drivers council,
estimated between 30,000 and 40,
000 workers in the 12 states were
involved.
Swamped with requests for strike
votes. NLRB last night announced
that its New England office in
Boston was suspending all activi
ties under the Wagner Pair La
bor practices act to devote itself
to conducting strike ballots.
Other NLRB hearings, elections
and conferences in New- England
for the rest of October have been
canceled to handle the flood of
activity under the Smith-Connally
act, which requires that NLRB
take any requested strike vote af
ter a 30-day “cooling off” period
EARLY HEARINGS
Meanwhile, Chairman May (D
Ky> announced that he would like
to hold early hearings of the
house military committee on re
peal of the Smith-Connally meas
ure.
The army and war shipping ad
ministration told 35,000 to 60,000
striking AFL Longshoremen in
New York they were holding up
the return of troops from Europe
and asked them to get back on
the job.
At the same time the National
Maritime union, American Com
munications Association and Ma
rine Cooks and Stewards Associa
tion, all CIO, pledged their sup
port to the Stevedores. So did the
unaffiliated Marine Firemen, Oil
ers, Watertenders and Wipers As
sociation.
Standard Radio
Applications Made
WASHINGTON, Oct. 13. —(&)—
The Federal Communications com
mission today announced the fol
lowing applications for standard
radio stations in North Carolina:
High Point, the High Point En
terprise, Inc., 830 KC, 1 KW; Ra
leigh, The News and Observer Pub
lishing Co., 850 KC, 1 KW: Rock
ingham, Wayne M. Nelson, 900 KC,
1 KW.
ADENAUER OUSTED: .
Nazis Have No Place In
Rehabilitation Of Reich
By DeVVITT MacKENZIE, AP News Analyst
From Hamburg, Germany, comes |
word that the British have dis- j
nissed Dr. Konrad Adenauer, may
jr of Cologne for “not enough i
rnergy” in carrying out his duties.
Well, well! So old Adenauer was
ictually holding the office of Bur- ;
’omaster again. No wonder the ;
Prussians cling to the hope that 1
;hey may make a comeback. They
will, too, if they can keep people
ike him to the fore.
Adenauer is a square-headed i
Prussian, and exemplifies all the
rrrogance and dictatorial traits of
,his “master race." The British
have done what they would char
acterize as "a jolly good job” In
throwing him out on his stiff
neck, for he certainly has no
place in the rehabilitation of Ger
many along the lines of democra
tic government.
DOESN’T FIT
It isn’t that Adenauer cant be
efficent (in terms of Prussianism)
but he doesn't fit into the pic
ture of a new Germany—or if he
does, then the Allies haven't won
such a great victory after all. He
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