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Robert YOUNG — Laraine DAY
CLEVELAND COUNTY’S NEWSPAPER SINCE 1894
TELEPHONES 1100
VOL XL1I1— 249
ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWS
SHELBY, N. C.
WEDNESDAY, Oct. 17, 1945
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Truman Expected To Ask Peacetime Military Training Program
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UNREST SEETHES:
Indonesians Await
N[etherlands, Reply
9 To Their Demands
By Ralph Morton
BATAVIA, JAVA, Oct. 17.—(/P)—Political unrest seeth
ed throughout Java today as the Indonesian national council
awaited a reply from the allied command in the Netherlands
East Indies to a set of four major nationalist demands which
council Vice President Mohammed Hatton said represented
"the only way to bring peace to this troubled land.”
(In Amsterdam Dr. H. A. Loge
mann, minister of overseas terri
tory, said the government was
ready to offer Indonesians self
government within the Dutch com
monwealth and would deal with
Indonesian leaders "who merit
consideartion,” but not with Soe
kamo, president of the "Indone
tsan republic.")
The national council met yes
terday in a bid to present itself as
a national government. Soekamo
was not present. He was touring
Western Java to restrain sections
of his followers bent on violence.
In his absence Hatton promised
the 187 council delegates that there
would be a national election with
in six months and that in the in
terim Soekamo and his cabinet
would be assisted by a working
committee of the council in rep
resenting the people.
The four-point program submit
ted to Lt. Gen. A. F. Christison,
Allied commander in the Nether
lands East Indies, called for re
moval of all Japanese, deportation
of all Dutch troops and preven
tion of the arrival of additional
Dutch soldiers, a quiescent role
for the Netherlands Indies civil
administration, the recognition by
| an impartial United Nations com
j mittee of the Indonesian national
council as the de facto government
, of the country.
PEACEFUL MEANS
i This correspondent asked Hat
| ton if he expected “to beat the
! Dutch by force when you have no
! guns, tanks or planes, and he re
plied:
“We shall win through peaceful
I See INDONESIANS Page
Committee Would
Reduce Spending
9
Cancellation Of Over $52 Billion Already Authorized
Is Recommended
WASHINGTON, Oct. 17.—(A>>—Cancellation of $52,
453,535,278 in government spending authorized for the cur
rent fiscal year was recommended today by the house ap
Inna Grese
Admits She Beat,
Lashed Prisoners
LUENEBURG, Oct. 17.—UP)—In
a voice charged with defiance,
blonde 22-year-old Irma Grese ad
mitted under cross examination
today that she lashed prisoners
at the Oswiecim concentration
camp with a cellophane-braided
whip and clubbed them with a
walking stick.
She said she scourged the pris
oners in spite of camp orders
against such methods of handling
them.
The hard-visaged young SS
guard denied under questioning by
Prosecutor Col. T. M. Backhouse
that she amused herself by send
ing women to work at a sand pit
outside the wire, where they
would be shot by guards on the
alert for escape attempts. Back
house suggested she was lying and
she snapped:
“I took an oath to tell the
truth, and you can think what you
like. But I’m not lying. I never
was in charge of the working
party at the sand pit. I never sent
women across the wire.”
DENIES DOG STORY
She also denied she had set
trained dogs on the prisoners.
“I suggest you had a dog,” the
prosecutor said.
"I should know better than you
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Tokyo Rost Placed
In Yokohama Jail
TOKYO, Oct. 17—(A5)—Chicago
born Iva Toguri, accused ol
broadcasting propaganda to Am
erican troops from Tokyo as “Tok
yo Rose,” was placed in the Yoko
hama prefecture Jail today, U, S
« Eighth army officials said.
The U. S. army is reassuming
authority in the case because she
is an American citizen. Wher
first arrested she had been turn
ed over to Japanese civilian po
lice.
propriauon committee.
A direct result of the war’s end,
the legislation which the commit
tee sent to the house for consider
ation tomorrow provides for:
Cancellation of $48,264,441,439 in
direct appropriations already made
for the year ending next June 30.
Wiping out $4,187,903,339 in con
tractual authority for same peri
od. If used, this would have re
quired additional appropriations of
that amount.
Recovery of $1,190,500 in funds of
corporations created by the coordi
nator of inter-American affairs.
While the committee made no
reference in its written report to
the possible effect that huge sav
ings would have on taxes, Chair
man Cannon (D-Mo) cautioned
against any over-optimism on the
part of taxpayers.
LESS DEFICIT
“This means that there will be
just that much less deficit spend
ing for the current year and the
national debt increase will be slow
ed down a little,” Cannon said in
an interview. “I see no prospects
for substantial tax reductions as a
result of this legislation.”
As applied to the various agencies,
the proposed cuts were:
Military establishment $30,
903,090,564.
Naval establishment $17,662,
163,961.
Miscellaneous executive
agencies $38,887,090,253.
Previous cancellations already
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WILL ADDRESS
CONGRESS
NEXT TUESDAY
Has Indicated Support For
Plan Proposed By
Gen. Marshall
MERGER ADVOCATED
WASHINGTON, Oct. 17.—
(A1)—President Truman will
appear before congress next
Tuesday to deliver a message
on peacetime universal train
ing.
The President will address a joint
session at 12:30 p.m. (EST), Speak
er Rayburn told reporters after a
White House conference on the ad
mir.' .'s legislative prcr -m.
Mr. Truman has indicated his
support for military training along
the lines advocated by General
George C. Marshall, army chief of
staff.
Announcement of the Presi
dent's plan came as Secretary
of War Patterson advocated
merger of the War and Navy
departments as a step toward
maintaining world peace.
Urging prompt action on the
controversial plan, he told the sen
ate military committee the subordi
nate branches should be ground, sea
and air.
"In my opinion, the .unification
of our armed forces is an essential
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WAGE-PRICE
REVISIONSEEN
New Policy Expected To
Stick To Hold-The
Line Plan
WASHINGTON, Oct. 17 —{IP}—
The War Labor board stops Issu
ing orders next Monday, but some
members believe President Tru
man shortly will adopt their idea
for a new commission to revise
the wage-price policy.
In other quarters there were
hints today that any new pol
icy will not stray far from the
present hold-the-line formula.
This opinion was based In
part on an anti-inflation
speech delivered in Boston yes
terday by Reconversion Direc
tor John W. Snyder.
As the United Mine Workers
strike continued to spread paraly
sis through the soft coal fields
these other developments occur
red in Washington:
1. A spokesman for the
bituminous operators said they
were “almost together" on a
new proposal which might per
mit the reopening of concilia
tion efforts conducted by Sec
retary of Labor Schwellen
bach.
Schwellenbach ended the meet
ings Monday night, after the op
erators rejected the last of five
peace proposals advanced in eight
days of conciliation. Since ther
the operators have conferred a
mong themselves.
POLICY COMMITTEE
2. UMW President John L. Lew
is considered calling the union’!
policy committee to Washingtor
to confer on strategy on the dis
pute, which revolves around a de
mand for recdgnltlon of the UMW
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U.S. C. Of C. Wants Flat
Percentage Tax Reduction
WASHINGTON, Oct. 17 —(ffp
The United States Chamber of
Commerce urged Congress today
to give individual income tax pay
ers a flat reduction of 20 to 25
percent in the new tax bill.
Ellsworth C. Alvord, chairman
of the chamber’s committee on
federal finance, also asked the
senate finance committee for re
peal of the corporate excess prof
its tax and reduction of ttie cor
porate surtax.
His prepared testimony came
after Chairman George (D-Ga)
told reporters he believes tax re
lief under the bill should be lim
ited to <5,000,000,000, as recom
mended by Secretary of the Treas
ury Fred M. Vinson.
The house ways and means com
mittee has estimated that Its ver
sion of the legislation, aB passec
by the house, would reduce federa
revenues $5,350,000,000.
Senator Edwin C. Johnson (D
Colo), another member of th<
senate finance committee, said lr
an interview he thought a $4,000,
000,000 cut would be plenty, re
marking:
“I think tax reductions are vio
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TOP SOLDIERS ARE TOP HUNTERS—Two of the nation’s top Army
men, Gen. George C. Marshall (left), Armachief of staff, and Gen. H. H
Arnold, Qomnwndw of Army Al* Jf'Oroee. odSrs in witiffeood bags of phea
sant after a week-end hunt near Bismarck, N. D. Each bagged his limit.
—(AP Wirephoto).
Navy Marks Down
Discharge Score
Expects To Release More Than Million Officers And
Men By First Of Year
WASHINGTON, Oct. 17.—(/P)—The navy has marked
down discharge scores for most of its personnel, with a goal
of releasing more than 1,100,000 officers and men by new
year’s. Previously the service had expected to send home
only about 830,000 by Christmas.
Announcing cuts effective Nov- ]
ember 1 for all but a few classifi
cations, the navy last night also
promised further reductions in
point scores in December and Jan
uary. The formula by which the
scores are computed was left un
changed.
For most enlisted men the point
score total was cut from 44 to 41.
Further reductions to 39 on De
cember 1 and to 38 on January 1
were promised.
Other groups affected by the
change which steps up the navy’s
discharge program by two months
are:
Male officers, other than doctors
—Point totals reduced from 49 to
46. Effective December 1 the score
needed will be 44, and January 1,
43.
FOB WAVES
Wave officers—point total cut
from 35 to 32 November 1; to 30
December 1; to 29 January 1.
Enlisted Waves—total cut from
29 to 26 November 1; to 24 Decem
ber 1; to 23 January 1.
Medical officers—previously an
nounced reduction from 60 to 53
points will become effective Novem
ber 1. Further cut to 51 forecast for
January 1.
The navy estimates 3,300 doctors
will be released by New Year’s.
Nurses—present point score of 35
for unmarried nurses will be cut
to 33 on January 1. All married
nurses will be released by Novem
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WHATS DOirnT
TODAY
7:00 p.m.—Ceveland Aviation
club dinner at Charles Hotel.
7:00 p.m.—Workers council of
First Baptist church meets at
the church.
7:30 p.m.—Presbyterian pray
er meeting.
7:45 p.m.—Mid-week prayer
and praise service at First Bap
tist church.
THURSDAY.
7:00 p.m.—Regular meeting
of Kiwanis club.
7:30 p.m.—CAP cadets meet at
armory.
Coal Is Burning
Question In N. C.
Shortage Acute
By the Associated Press
Rapidly dwindling stocks, with n
prospect of immediate relief, ar
threatening the coal bins of indus
trial plants and private home
throughout North Carolina.
The fuel shortage in some sec
tions of the state has reached th
acute stage, and there appears to b
no surplus coal in any localitj
Western North Carolina consumer!
particularly, are affected by th
diminished supply.
The shortage is a result of th
coal strike, and ag its of the gov
erpment’s solid fuels administratioi
emphasize the fact that no coa
can be sent to any communities o
industrial plants, no matter hoi
critical their need, unless the strik
ends. .
HOEY CONFERS
Sen. goey (D-NC) said in Wash
ington :ast night that he had con
ferred fw the second successive da
with C. J. Potter, solid fuels ad
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TWELVE LEAVE
F0H INDUCTION
The following Cleveland count
men >ft for Fort Bragg thi
morning for final induction int
the army. Norris Holland Jone
was named leader of the group:
D. Z. Newton, jr.
Charles Flay Fowler, jr.
J. D. Clark
David Smith, jr.
Max Lindberg Crotts
Doyle Alexander Parker
Wesley Clifford Botts
Jack Ernest Gaskey
Norris Holland Jones
Roger Raymon Sealey
Ambrose Ray Cook
Harrill Eugene Blanton
MILLION JAPS
GIVEN AMNESTY
BY RESCRIPT
Hirohito Describes Move
As One To Unite
His Notion
ELECTIONS COMING
By Murlin Spencer
TOKYO, Oct. 17.—(IP)—
Emperor Hirohito, whose fu
ture has been a burning topic
of speculation ever since the
American occupation, granted
amnesty today to nearly 1,
000,000 Japanese as an openly
avowed move to unite Nippon
“in meeting a great change in
history.”
Domei agency noted that one ef
fect of the rescript, honoring the
day when the first rice crop is of
fered to the gods, would be to enable
as many people as possible to take
part in the coming elections.
“We, in meeting a great change
in history, are indeed concerned tc
' conquer the difficulties of the
times with the country united ai
I one and will trust in the coopera
I tion and assistance of all the peo
pie, saia tne rescript. "Therefore
we have ordered our officials t<
parry out an amnesty.. All our offi
cials and people embody our will.'
UNPRECEDENTED
The rescript, unprecedented ii
scope, pardoned 320,000 Japanese
reduced the sentence of 37,000 an<
ordered restoration of civil right
to 600,000.
Domei pointed out the rescrip
provides that persons recoverinf
their rights must have lost them fiv<
years prior to Sept. 2, 1945. Previ
ous rescripts had pushed the dati
back 10 years.
The 'emperor’s appeal for unit;
was made at a time when Japanesi
communists, celebrating the releasi
of some of their leaders from pris
on on orders of General MacArthui
were working openly for an end ti
See MILLION Page 2
Dock Workers Are
Returning To Jobs
NEW YORK, Oct. 17—(£>)— A
, dock workers in greater number
■ returned to work today, Presiden
Joseph P. Ryan of the AFL inter
national longshoremen’s associa
tion said “the situation is im
proved immeasurably” and today
events might determine the out
come of a factional fight in th
> union.
» Ryan said 7,736 men returne
to their jobs this morning. H
said that was 1,200 more tha
5 worked yesterday—and more tha
had worked on any day since th
■ union’s 35,000 members went o
3 work 17 days ago tying up som
J 400 ships in New York harbor.
' Cotton Ginnings
■ Off Sharply
r} The county cotton crop as (
ij, October 1, 1945, compared wit
, | the crop at the same time la;
' j year, shows a sharp decline in th
j number of bales ginned, accordir
. • to Thamer Beam, cotton statistic
. > ian.
l The number of bales ginned u
. ■ to October 1, this year is 4,675, M
| Beam said. The number ginne
up to October 1, 1944, was 15,042
Lewis Says Efforts To
Settle Controversy
Will Be Resumed Later
WASHINGTON, Oct. 17.—(/P)—John L. Lewis today
called off the soft coal strikes effective Monday. A United
Mine Workers spokesman said the action was taken "in the
SIX BODIES IN
WRECKED PLANE
C-45 Transport, Lost Oct.
5, Found On Mount Se
quoyah Slopes
j GATLINBURG, TENN., Oct. 17
J —(A1)—Bodies of six victims of an
army plane crash in the Great
j Smoky Mountain National park,
near the Tennessee-North Caro
lina line, were being removed by
pack horse today from the tangled
wilderness of Mount Sequoyah’s
eastern slopes.
Members of a party composed
of army and park service men
reached the wreckage yesterday af
ter a two-day search, but had to
\ wait until today to begin removal
, of tlie bodies of the plai>e occu
• pants—five men and a woman.
The craft, an army C-45 trans
t port, disappeared Oct. 5 while on
a flight from Lambert Field, St.
[ Louis, to Charlotte, N. C. The
. wreckage was spotted by another
army plane early this week on
; what was then thought to be
Mount Guyot, but the search party
! located it in a growth of virgin
! spruce on the North Carolina side
. of Sequoyah.
ALL KILLED
, The search party was unable to
. immediately report condition of
J the wreckage, but after a port
. able radio transmitter was drop
, ped from a plane the group —
J headed by an officer from the
Greenville, S., C., army air base—
was able to report that all occu
pants were killed and it would be
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British Ready To
l Revise And Soften
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LONDON, Oct. 17—MP)—Official
British sources said today that
discussions were underway to re
vise and soften the Italian armis
tice as a stop-gap arrangement
until the final and formal peace
treaty can be drawn.
The next move toward placing
Europe on a peacetime basis is up
to the Soviet union, the officials
indicated, with both British and
Americans waiting to determine
whether, the U. S. S. R. will pro
duce a proposal to dissolve the
deadlock over treaties.
Damaskinos To Be
Provisional Premier
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ATHENS, Oct. 17—(fP)—A com
munique announced today that
Regent Archbishop Damaskinos
would assume provisional the pre
miership of Greece following fail
ure of attempts to form a gov
ernment.
Since Premier Petros Voulgaris
resigned last week, five attempts
to form a cabinet have failed.
Uncle Sam Knows He Can’t
Force Miners Back On Jobs
5 By NORMAN WALKER
3 WASHINGTON, Oct. 17.—(#)—
s Right now the nation’s coal digging
Job is being only half done. And the
government is helpless to get full
production restored.
It could step in and seize the 1,
000 or so strike-closed bituminous
mines. But it probably won’t.
Why? Because, from past ex
perience with miners, the gov
ernment is doubtful that they’d
go back to work even with
Uncle Sam in charge.
So instead of seizure the govern
ment has washed its hands—for the
time being, anyway—of the whole
controversy between John L. Lewis
and the soft coal operators on
unionization of mine foremen.
ICKES’ THEORY
Secretray of Interior Ickes, the
solid fuels administrator, told re
porters after a White House visit
yesterday he had “a theory” for
settling strikes. He did not say
what it was, nor whether it held
hope for ending the coal tieup soon.
Secretary of Labor Schwel
Ienback, after his own 10-day
See UNCLE SAM Page 2
puuuc interest.
Lewis, in a te!e~ram to officer!
and members of all local union*
said that future efforts to “abate
this controversy” over recognition
of his foremen’s union “will be re
sumed at a later more appropriate
date."
The United Mine Workers’
chief said “all negotiations in
cident to the controversy affect
ing clarical, technical and super
visory employees of the in
dustry have been discontinued.”
There are approximately 28,000
to 50,000 such workers. Strikes over
their recognition as a unit in Lewis’
UMW began September 21 and ha*
spread to more than 1,000 mines up
to today.
More than half of the 400,000
soft coal miners were idle when the
strikes were called off.
“PUBLIC INTEREST”
K. C. Adams, spokesman for the
United Mine Workers, said “obvi
ously the government has failed to
settle the matter," and added that
"obviously the action is taken in the
public interest.” •
Government conciliation efforts
under guidance of Secretary of La
bor Schwellenbach collapsed Mon
day night after eight days of fruit
less conferences aimed at settling
the strikes.
STRIKERS FINED
PITTSBURGH, Oct. 17. —m—
The western Pennsylvania coal
operators association disclosed to
day its members are imposing a $1
a-day fine on miners idle in the 26
day-old coal strike, on grounds the
stoppage is illegal and violates the
United Mine Workers’ contract.
This applies to 46,703 idle miner*
in the Pittsburgh-Uniontown area.
strkecalLed
IN ARGENTINA
BUENOS AIRES. Oct. 17—(/P)—
Argentina’s largest labor organi
zation, the General Confederation
of Workers, announced today it
had called a general nation-wide
strike for a 24-hour period be
ginning at 12:01 a.m., tomorrow.
Spokesmen for the union, which
has a membership estimated at 1,
500,000, said the strike was called
in protest against “any govern
ment of oligarchs’’ and against
“delivery of the government to the
Supreme court.”
The general workers confedera
tion includes among its members
the Railroad and Tramways un
ions, Telephone Workers syndi
cate, Commercial Employes and
Construction syndicates, the Wait
ers union, Meat Industry workers
and other affiliated groups. *
POLITICAL PRISONERS
A spokesman stated that the
confederation was demanding the
liberation of all political prison
ers, although Gen. Eduardo Ava
los, in his capacity of minister of
the interior, announced Monday
that all such prisoners had been
freed.
Police used tear gas today in an
unsuccessful attempt to disperse
approximately 2,000 strikers who
demonstrated in the central part
of Buenos Aires, urging the elec
tion as president of Col. Juan
Peron, who was ousted by the army
as vice-president.
The demonstrators were only
momentarily quieted, and soon
continued a parade, shouting “viva
Peron” and “Peron for president.”
Attorney General Juan Alvarez,
meanwhile, said he hoped the task
of forming a new cabinet would
be completed by tomorrow.
Canada's Regular
Army Is Increased
OTTAWA, Oct. 17—(/P)—Cana
! da's regular armed forces are to
! have a total strength of up to
55,000 men, compared with a pre
war enrollment of 10,877, accord
ing to newly disclosed figures. In
dications are that the reserve set
up will be substantially stronger, j