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WEATHER Rather cool Tuesday night fol lowed by gradual warming through Saturday, reaching about normal Friday; no precipitation indicat ed. Tshe HhelhyBaily Him« CLEVELAND COUNTY’S NEWSPAPER SINCE 1894 TELEPHONES 1100 - State Theatre Today - “THOSE ENDEARING YOUNG CHARMS" Robert YOUNG — Laraine BAY VOL -XLIII-248 ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWS SHELBY, N. C. TUESDAY, OCT. 16,1945 TELEMAT PICTURES SINGLE COPIES—6c Halsey Declares Deace Must Be A Military One If It Is To Last !********#*##,*#'**# ***•*•« CONFERENCE ON SOFT COAL STRIKE ENDS IN FAILURE ********** .##.** * ,* * •» * * * « Indonesia Denies Reports Of Having Declared War On Dutch MUST BE ON GUARD, YET COOPERATIVE Third Fleet Again Drops Anchor In San Fran cisco Bay GOOD T(TbE HOME SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 16. — (fP) — Admiral Halsey, warmly welcomed home from the wars, said today that the peace must be a military one if it is to last. "This is what we have dreamed of. hoped for, fought for and pray ed for—to return home again, I knowing that our enemies have j been vanquished," the admiral said i In a broadcast after the ships of j his Third fleet had dropped an- i chor in San Francisco Bay yes- : terday. “But let u* not forget that to be a lasting peace, it must be a military peace. "Enemies are both bom and made—the United States must vig ilantly guard itself against ag gression, yet cooperate to the ut most In perfecting a world organi zation which will function with smoothness, efficiency and certain ty." | The admiral was to get. the key to the city today, after ai parade of units of his Third fleet up historic Market street, and to night he and his officers will be guests at a banquet attended by city and state officials. As the fleet approached the Golden Gate yesterday, Halsey spoke his thoughts to a press con ference. Warning against ever allowing Japan to become strong again, he said: "Japan today is a fourth or See MUST Page 2 China Deluged With Worthless Jap Currency TOKYO, Oct. 16—(/Pj—Printing presses backed by Japanese bayo nets deluged China with now worthless currency adding up to about 54,000,000,000, (B) U. S. dol lars In face value, the Tokyo news paper Asahl said today. The figure was the first to be , published indicating the degree of financial plundering of Japanese occupied territories by Nipponese militarists. It was disclosed by the newspaper in its demands on j the imperial government to curb Inflation, Notes totaling 4,000,000,000,000 (T) Yuan were issued by the cen tral reserve bank of China, finan cial agency backed by the Japa nese militarists, the newspaper said. This sum, at the official rate of five yuan to one yen, equaled $800, 000,000,000 <B) yen, or nearly 20 times the war-time homeland note output of the bank of Japan, which contributed much to inflation in Nippon. The current rate is 15 yen to one U. S. dollar. EXPLOITATION American authorities, studying the records of the central reserve bank of China and other Japanese institutions used to exploit the empire’s conquests, have declined to announce figures until their survey is completed. Asahi’s report was made in a story outlining some of the fi nancial problems facing the gov ernment. But the actual plundering Im plied by the size of the China bank's note issue must be doubled to evaluate the total of militaristic financial profits. When the notes were first issued they were arbi trarily discounted at one for two former Chinese yen, thereby halv ing all bank accounts and other assets based on the former yuan. The notes probably are the larg est, but by no means the sole part, Of worthless wartime currency which the Japanese issued with out a single ounce of gold back ing. The central reserve bank of China served central China, in cluding Shanghai, PARTY t AS PIERRE LAVAL FACED EXECUTIONERS IN PARIS—This was the scene in the yard of Fresnes prison Paris Oct. 15, as Pierre Laval, former Vichy chief of state, faced the firing squad.-This is believed to be the y picture taken of the execution scene. Laval survived a suicide attempt with poison and also the firing ad's volley, and was killed by a coupe de grace firedinto his ear.—(AP Wirephoto via radio from Paris). U. S. HOLDS ATOM SECRETS Purnell Thinks No Other Country Will Perfect Bomb Soon WASHINGTON. Oct. 16— UP) — Rear Admiral William R. Purnell said today America still holds a number of "trade secrets” of atomic energy and predicted no other coyntry can make an atomic bomb "in quite a stretch of time.” Purnell testified before senate military-commerce subcommittees, holding hearings on a proposed national science foundation. He was described by Senator Magnu son (D-Wash) as the navy's ex pert on atomic energy. On the other side of the capital, the house military committee vot ed to reopen hearings Thursday on legislation setting up a com mission to control domestic acti vities in the field of atomic ener gy. Chairman May (D-Ky) said the hearings would last only one day and only four witnesses will be heard. They will be provided. May said, by congressional and other groups who had objected to the com See U. S. Page 2 WHAT’S DOING TODAY 7:30 p.m.—CAP cadets meet at armory. 7:00 p.m.—Scout executives of Piedmont council meet at Hotel Charles. WEDNESDAY 7:00 p.m. — Cleveland Avia tion club dinner at Hotel Charl es. 7:00 p.m. — Workers council of First Baptist church meets at church. 7:30 p.m. — Prayer meeting at Presbyterian church. 7:45 p.m.—Mid-week prayer and praise service at First Baptist church. WAR FUND Cherry Urges Clevelanders To Raise Quota Chairman Shem Blackley of the United War Fund of Cleveland county received a telegram this morning from Governor R. Gregg Cherry, honorary chairman, and Victor Bryant, acting chairman of the state drive urging that every ef fort be put forth in Cleveland county to achieve 100 per cent of the quota. In this connection Chairman Blackley issued a call to all team captains and solicitors to make a report of their progress by Friday morning. These reports should be made to Paxton Elliott at the First National bank. Never have needs among the des titute people of the world been so great. Too, it will be remembered that a substantial portion of the fund to be raised here will go to the USO for ministration to lonely soldiers in camps and hospitals. Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts of this county will also receive a large sum from the local $23,932 quota. The telegram received by Chair man Blackley from Governor Cherry and Acting Chairman Bryant fol lows: “Gratitude to fighting men for military victory at great sacrifice demands that we finish their job to insure peace. Realization that millions throughout the world owe every existence to our generosity and pride in North Carolina’s record of success plus in every previous form of war campaign effort de mands that we strive for nothing less than one hundred per cent of allocated war fund goal in every county. Urge that you encourage chairmen and solicitors to double and redouble efforts. Appreciate your efforts.” MANNERHEIM IS ILL HELSINKI, Oct. 16. — (/P)— President Baron Mann$rhelm has suffered a relapse from a recent ill ness and is confined to his home under the care of a physician. FAVORS RICH: CIO Denounces Tax-Cutting • Bill As Approved By House vvnomnuAvi’i, wv>t. iu— — | The CIO denounced the house approved tax-cutting bill today as a device for providing “huge wind falls to the richest corporations and wealthiest individuals.” It suggested to the senate fin ance committee a substitute pro gram designed to benefit primarily lower bracket income tax payers and small businesses. The program was outlined by Clifford McAvoy, legislative rep resentative'of CIO’s United Elec trical, Radio and Machine Work ers. ........ r-rcviuusiy aenawr mil lit Ohio) came out unexpectedly in favor of the treasury’s tax-cutting proposals in place of those voted by the house. The treasury wanted the excess profits tax ended January 1. The house bill would reduce the tax now and end it Jan. l, 1947. The treasury also proposed repeal of the normal income tax on indi viduals. The house scaled it down instead in such a way that some congress members complained it See CIO Page Z ^ ATOMIC BILL, TAXES TALKED Taft Unexpectedly Sup ports Treasury's Tax Cutting Plan By MAX HALL WASHINGTON, Oct. 16. —(/P> Death and taxes are the big sub jects in Congress today. As for death: The house military committei met to decide whether to reoper its hearings on atomic energy. Ai outcry had been raised becausi the group heard only four witnes ses on the atomic energy bill. Congress is seeking to use atomic power for a better life— —instead of death to the world. The question is “How!” As for taxes: A leading Republican Senator Robert Taft of Ohio, gave unex pected support to the treasury’s tax-cutting plan. This plan dif fers from the tax bill passed by the house. The senate finance committee is in the second day of a three day tax hearing. Today it hears from the CIO which already had criticized the house bill as help ing big corporations too much and wage earners not enough. JEWS, AIRPORTS These matters were argued ir committee rooms, where the rea work of congress is done. The sen ate didn’t meet today. The housi did—with much oratory schedulec on two subjects: 1. Palestine as a homeland fo: European Jews. 2. A bill to grant $600,000,000 o: federal cash for a 10-year federal state program of building airports The senate has passed a differen version of the airport bill. On taxes, Secretary of the Treas ury Fred M. Vinson told the sen ate committee yesterday the excesi profits tax on corporations shoult be abolished Jan. 1. Today, Taf told a reporter he agreed with Vin son. Vinson also advocated repeal o: See ATOMIC Page 2 Pvt. Hugh Hamrick Is On Way Home Pvt. Hugh F. Hamrick, son o Mr. and Mrs. Huff Hamrick, o Boiling Springs, has been evacu ated to the United States accord ing to a message received by hi; parents this morning. Pvt. Hamrick was next to th< last released, of Cleveland count; servicemen held prisoners o: war, and his parents received t message recently that he had beer released from a Japanese prison er of war camp and returned t< military control, and would be re turned to the states in the nea: future. The message today stated tha he left for the United States oi September 27. FRESH BRITISH TROOPSLAND IN EAST1NDIES Aneta News Agency Had Reported Nationalists Ready To Fight MANY PRISONERS LONDON, Oct. 16.—(/P)— The Free Indonesia radio as serted today that the “Indo nesian Republic” on Java had declared completely false all reports that it had declared war on the Netherlands. Meanwhile the all-India radio reported British reinforcements had landed on the rich Dutch East Indies to cope with native disturbances. The Netherlands news agency Aneta reported Saturday that the Indonesian peoples’ army of the Soekamo nationalist movement had issued a proclamation declar ing war on all Dutch, Eurasians and Ambonese. The Free Indonesia radio broad cast this purported statement from the “Republic,” contradicting the Aneta dispatch: “All news circulating abroad that it has declared war on Holland is false and untrue. The reports are only the evil provocations of foreign agents who are trying to discredit the Indonesian republic. The Indonesian rebuplic wishes to emphasize their policy which is to respect the principles of peace, humanity and justice.” BRITISH BRIGADES The all-India radio said the two ■ British brigades on Java would ■ be built up to a full division. The first objective of the Brit ish forces, the broadcast said, ! would be to take over internment i camps crowded with Dutch vari i ously estimated to number from i 60,000 to 100,000. Five thousand Dutchmen liber ated from Japanese prisoner of war camps are undergoing train ing at Singapore for service in Java and other parts of the Neth erlands East Indies. , McSwain Holds First Service At Shanghai Chaplain Horace R. McSwain, who is with Naval Advance Base Unit 13, and son of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. McSwain, of 820 West Ma rion St., Shelby, was the first chaplain in the navy to hold serv ices ashore at Shanghai, China, and in doing so clipped the army record by 30 minutes. The chaplain, who held Protes , tant services ashore on September . 23, for the first time since U. S. [ navy ships arrived there the pre vious month, held his service one . half hour prior to an army serv ice held by Chaplain O. W. Gar - land, of the Kiangwan ' Airfield | base. New Air Service To Begin November IS 1 CHARLOTTE, Oct. 16 —W>)— ; Eastern Air Lines’ new Detroit ' Miami service will begin Nov. 15, . with two flights daily in each di rection, it has been announced here. Winston-Salem, Charlotte and Columbia, S. C., are among, the eight regular stops on the route. THIRD FLEET WAR SHIPS COME HOME—White uniformed sailors stand under the mighty guns of the U. S. Battleship Wisconsin as units of Admiral Halsey’s victorious Third Fleet approach San Francisco for a triumphant homecoming celebration. Admiral Halsey, himself, was on the bridge of his battleship, the South Dakota.—(AP Wirephoto). Japan Starts On Long Road Back Poverty Stricken, Without Armed Force, Without Standing Among Nations TOKYO, Oct. 16.—(/P)—New Japan, poverty stricken and spiritually crushed, officially without vestige of an arm ed force foF the first time in history and without standing among nations, began the long road back to acceptance in the society of the world today. AVALOS JUST OBEYS ORDERS By LAURANCE F. STITNTZ BUENOS AIRES, Oct. 16. —(A5)— j War Minister Gen. Eduardo Ava- j los, leader of the Army movement which overthrew the military rule; of Col. Juan Peron, -disavowed the role of strong man today, asserting he merely was carrying out army orders in the revision of Argentina’s government. In an interview with the Asso ciated Press Avalos called the over throw of Peron, vice president, war minister and labor minister under President Gen. Edelmiro Farrell, a “revolution.” Losers in the political upset con tinued to be routed out of govern ment posts as civilian leaders weighed offers to enter a govern ment still headed by a military president. The offers were made by a civilian, General Prosecutor Juan See AVALOS Page 2 ^until/a<xiio aim iiiiiitai ioto w nuoc lives had been dedicated to the growth of the stolen empire strug gled to revise the constitution for a peaceful Japan in which the gov ernment would serve rather than dominate the people, and to out-do each other in cooperation with the conquering occupation forces. More than 500 members of the new Nippon working masses party, freed now from fear of the dread “thought police,” distributed hand bills calling for the mass suicide of the former ruling classes of Japan, then jubiliantly demonstrated be fore General MacArthur’s head quarters. Their Japanese banners, as they paraded past the imperial palace moat, dealt not with the problems of empire, however. They asked MacArthur to tell the government to give them more bread. FINALITY Evidence of what General Mac Arthur had in mind yesterday, when in his broadcast announcing completion of Japanese demobili zation he referred to the “humilia tion and finality of this surrender”, was developed in stories of self abasement of military men. Amer See JAPAN Page 2 Eisenhower Thinks Fair Election Would Likely End Communist Dominance In Berlin WASHINGTON, Oct. 16 —(IP)— General Eisenhower said today “informal reports indicate a fair and impartially supervised elec tion in Berlin would not support the present communist party do minance” of the city’s govern ment. The general put into his second monthly report on military gov ernment in the American zone of occupation a critique on politics in Germany—including those in the Russian zone. Here is what he had to say a bout Berlin, where the allied con trol authority has its headquar ters and where the four allied powers have four zones. “Four organized parties exist there. They were granted per mission by the Soviet, military au thorities to organize ahd so were functioning when United States forces occupied the U. St, sector of Berlin. The four parties are the communist party, the social dem ocratic party, the Christian-demo cratic union, and the liberal dem ocratic party. “The first two are well organ ized, active and have a basis of former members on which to build. The latter two groups are new parties, though drawing sup port from middle class, conserva tive Bourgeois elements formerly associated with the centrum, the German democratic party, and the German people’s party. They are less well organized and less active than the Marxist parties. This Is especially true of the liberal de mocratic party.| ‘‘The communist party of Ger many holds a majority of the See EISENHOWER Page X NUMBER IDLE IS LOWER BUT PICTUREDARK 385,000 Workers Still Of Jobs In 135 Labor Disputes violencFon DOCKS By The Associated Press The nation's labor disputes numbering at least 135, kep‘ some 385,000 workers fron their jobs today, the lowes1 total this month, but the gen eral labor picture was no bright. The darkest cloud came out c Washington in the form of Seer* tary of Labor Schwellenbach’s an nouncement of the collapse of tb conference to settle the critical sol coal strike. In New York city, where a 16 day strike of AFL Longshoreme has virtually paralyzed shippin in the world’s biggest harboi there was reported violence withl the union ranks and by CIO union ists, as extra police were ordere to the waterfront. On the bright side was the resumption of service to some 1,000,000 New England bus and trolley riders as buses, under control of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, began roll ing after a three-day strike of 1,800 eastern Massachusetts street railway employes. The scarcity of fuel in many t the strike areas brought furthi curtailments to steel and other it dustries, and threatened to clos large Pittsburgh high and junic high schools. Cold weather 1 See NUMBER Page 2 , National Defense Council Proposed By Senator Walsl By JACK BELL WASHINGTON, Oct. 16. —(A5) Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s rad. plea for complete Integration of tl nation’s armed services prompt! Senator Walsh (D-Mass) today ■ propose a council of national dt fense. The chairman of the senate nav committee suggested the secretari of State, War and Navy as membe with the President running tl show as commander in chief. t Walsh’s proposal came as an a ternative to merger of the Am and Navy. Most legislators thougl MacArthur was talking a merger > this kind when he told the wor last night: INTEGRATION “The great lesson for the futu is that success in the art of war d pends upon a complete integratic of the services. In unity will 1 military strength.” Senator Edwin C. Johnson (I Colo) told a reporter that as 1 sees it the only way “complete ii tegration” can be obtained would 1 through the creation of a sing military department. Johnson is acting chairman the senate military committ which begins hearings tomorrow « such a proposal. Secretary of W Patterson will be the first witne: Patterson favors the consolid tion and there have been some inc cations that President Truman for it, even though the Navy is o; posed. Auto Stunt Driver Hurt In Bus Jump At Fair Last Night CHARLOTTE, Oct. 16 —(A* Johnny Rogers, auto stunt driv was in Memorial hospital tod M for treatment of injuries he stflj fered when his automobile wiS wrecked in an effort to hur ■ over a 56-foot truck-trailer at tl Southern States f*ir grounds bl night. H At the hospital it was said p had suffered a passible fractil of the neck, but the diagnosis a I not complete. B