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DISTRICT NCEA MEETS OCT. 31 South Piedmont Area Teachers Will Meet In Charlotte The South Piedmont district of the North Carolina Education as sociation will hold its annual meet ing at Charlotte on the afternoon and night of October 31, It was announced today by the office of the board of education. The meeting will begin with a general session in the armory at 2;30 pm., to be followed by divis ional meetings of the classroom teachers, principals and superin tendents at 4 o’clock. At 7:30 in the evening, another general ses sion will close the meeting. W. L. Harris, president of the district, will preside. A large number of teachers from the county and city schools are expected to attend the meeting, it was said. The city schools will close at noon on Wednesday, the day of the meeting, in order that the teachers may attend, Walter E. Abernethy, city superintendent said yesterday. COUNTY SCHOOLS County schools, which are at present closed for the cotton pick ing season, will still be closed at that time. J. H. Grigg, county superintendent said this morning. Theme of the meeting will be “The School’s Leadership in the Pcstwar Era.” Principal speaker will be Dr. Franklin H. McNutt, member of the department of education of Woman's college of the University of North Carolina. Unopposed candidates for office In the district are Anna Schrock, of Salisbury, president; Frances Haywood, of Mt, Gilead, for vice president; Ray Lowder, of Lin eolnton, secretary The South Piedmont district is composed of 16 counties around Charlotte. Cleveland is the most western of those counties. VAST Starts On Page One beat to faithfully carry out repar ations but the suffering of war vic tims actually is greater than one Imagines.” The fortune In diamonds, total ling 131,000 karats in weight, was found in the Mitsui Trust Com pany vaults, deposited in the name of a Japanese government import and export control agency. Many of the diamonds had been contributed by civilians who were told they were needed for industrial use. Obviously the greater part of the diamonds never were used for that purpose. MORE DIAMONDS The same government control agency also has 33,000 karats of diamond in vaults at Osaka, con siderable gold and nearly 250 pounds of platinium in various parts of Tokyo. The discovery came shortly after another fortune in diamonds, be longing to Japanese admirals, was found in a package hidden in a chicken coop atop a mountain 160 j miles north of Tokyo. The movement of the gold from the mine is part of a plan to gather all government precious metals in Bank of Japan vaults in Tokyo and Osaka, pending instructions from Washington as to the disposition. Prince Fumimaro Konoye, an ad visor to the throne, told the news paper Asa hi today that Emperor Hirohito is watching with "great concern” the trend of American public opinion on the question of his possible abdication. Lamb stew is improved with the addition of a teaspoon of dried mar joram MASSfY ■' *»>». i„ „“*""*••• ■**» zZ’zysr^Z'.'*"~> New _ Cream Deodorant Sajely helps Stop Perspiration 1. Does not irritmte skin. Doe* not tot dresses ot men's shirts. 2i Prevents under-arm odor. Helps stop perspiration sifeljr. 3. A pure, white, antiseptic, stain less vanishing cream. 4a No waiting to dry. Can be used right after shaving. 3. Awarded Approval Seal of Ametican Institute of Launder ing— harmless to fabric. Use Artid regularly. 3 9C ond 59* pi“ MCM MM AND WOMiN USI ARHIP THAN ANYOTHU DtODOK < 'f MEMORIAL SERVICE — Memor ! ial service for Pvt. William M. 1 Sweezy, son of Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Sweezy, of route 3, Shelby, who : was killed in action in Italy, Oc tober 17, 1044, will be held at the Roes Grove church Sunday after noon at 3 o’clock. Rev. Lawrence Roberts will be in charge of the service, assisted by W. R. Gary, principal of the Fa 11s ton high school. AMERICAN Start* On Par* On* ! order and the Potsdam declaration coincide in spirit if not in actual j words. Both state for example that the fact of their defeat must be : brought home to the German peo | Pie. Both order in effect that Ger many should not have a standard of living higher than that of the ! surrounding countries in Europe, j that the development farming as a major German occupation should be stressed and that the industrial disarmament of Germany should reach far down into the Reich’s in dustrial life. Beyond these instructions, Amer ican policy was stated to call for the removal of all active Nazis or other persons hostile to the Allies— not only from public office but also ‘from positions of importance and quasi-public and private enterpri ses.” RULES IGNORED Fraternization was sternly frown ed upon in the original order. By contrast, reports flom Ger many invariably say that practically no industrial equipment has been ! removed from the American zone. The ban on fraternization has long 1 since gone by the boards and most j ! informed persons agree that the German people by and large are' | very popular with individual mem j bers of the occupation forces, i With respect to demilitarization and industrial controls the original | American directive is quite similar i to that ».* the Potsdam declaration. -It is not as specific, however, in stating that all industrial equip ment not needed for a minimum living standard either should be destroyed or removed. CONTROVERSY Publication of the original order ' furnished a vital starting point for what appears to be an incipient controversy over whether the poli I cies set out for weakening Ger * many should in fact be relaxed to allow that country to revive as an industrial power in Europe. Recently a group of advisers made j such recommendations to Eisen hower. Officials here said, however, ! that those were only one set of rec ommendations and that the whole policy now is being reviewed in the light of other proposals. INDICTMENTS Starts On Page On* the world. Among these are kigh rank officer* of the general staff corps, Including officers In the navy and air force, who have de monstrated they possess dangerous potentialities. All are lumped to gether in what is called the ‘‘elite group.” OTHER GROUPS There are two other groupings. One lists persons of dangerous skilled capacities, such as scien tists who produced the V-weapons and those who have received doc torates in chemistry and research. The other embraces those consid ered more than nominal Nazis, who might be dangerous politically. Nikltchenko announced that Bri tain* Lord Justice Lawrence would preside at the trial at Nuernberg, and announced that “promptly af ter the serving of the indictments, the tribunal shall fix and an nounce the date of the trial.” The indictments were to be served to day upon the defendants, who are in custody at Nuernberg. Nikltchenko said the prosecu tion would seek to prove these or ganizations were criminal: The Reich cabinet; the leader ship corps of the Nazi party; the Schutzsteffeln (S6); the Sicher heitsdienst (SD, or secret service); the Sturm Abteilung (SA, or storm troops); the general staff and the high command of the Nazi armed forces. ONE ENTITY A spokesman for the United States prosecutor said the last named pair—the general staff and high command—would be consid ered as “one entity, with a choice representative segment specifical ly Indicted.” Notice will be given under ar ticle 9 of the charter, Nikltchenko said, “that the prosecution intends to ask the tribunal to declare these organizations or groups, of which the defendants or some of them were members, are criminal organi sations, and any member of any uch grrup will be entitled to ap iy to the tribunal for leave to be »ard by the tribunal upon the ■lrction of the criminal character f such group or organization.” NEWEST Starts Ob Page On* supply power for nearly all of the Michigan’s major cities outside De troit, serving communities in 67 of Michigan’s >3 counties. Hundreds of factories have indicated contin uation of a strike would force them to halt operations. The dispute by the utility work ers was the latest major contro versy on the country’s labor front. Across the nation the number of workers away from their Jobs by stoppages was around 460,000. This number included the 2X6,000 soft coal miners who because of labor disputes have been away from some 1,000 pits in six states for nearly a month but who yesterday were ordered by John L. Lewis, United Mine Workers president, to return to work Monday. LONGSHOREMEN Another trouble spot on the la bor scene was the strike of AFL Longshoremen at New York har bor. Tension mounted as leaders of rival AFL factions remained at odds over ending of the 18-day old walkout. Violence flared near several piers along the sprawling waterfront yesterday but police broke up the disturbances. Union leaders and ship owners planned to resume wage contract negotia tions today as an estimated 8,400 Stevedores returned to work ser vicing some of the hundreds of idle ships. Another new labor dispute in volved 8,000 CIO United Steel i Workers in the Crane company j plant in Chicago. Five hundred policemen went to the plant yes ! terday after workers started a sitdown strike but they were sent back to their stations after the workers voluntarily left the building. Later company and union rep resentatives met and discussed a series of grievances which union spokesmen said have developed in the last two months. No settle ment was reached and picketing of the plant continued today as workers remained away from their jobs. Although the soft coal strike was declared ended by Lewis yesterday, it was believed certain that not all of the 216,000 miners who were idle will be back to work by Monday, as the UMW chief ordered. It probably will be a week or longer before coal production is back to normal. INDONESIAN 8Urts Ob Page On* love for the Dutch with iword and I fire will definitely not succeed in i their effort*. “Not for a moment will In donesia eounternance any form of colonial statu, whatever new garb it assumes or what ever fancy name is given it. War and revolution raging fiercely for years will be the only result.” Hatta restated five demands he said had been made upon Lt. Oen. A. F. Christison, allied command er in the Netherlands East In dies. They were: (1) End of the Netherlands In dies civil administration. (2) Recognition of Soekarno's administration. (3) No further landings by Dutch troops. (4) Removal of all Dutch troops and (5) Restriction of allied occu I pation troops to the job of liberat ing prisoners of war and interne es and disbanding the Japanese. Hatta spoke in the absence of! Soekarno who is touring the country in an effort to restrain his more extreme followers. < Hatta s statement as heard in London over the Bandoeng radio said “why should Indonesia be a partner in a commonwealth In which the Dutch tail will wag the Indonesian dog.” He charged that pre-war Dutch officials in Ja va were ‘‘Nazi-minded.”) GOVERNMENT Starts On Pact On* action on the agencies and depart ments mo6t involved was: 1. The solid fuels administration lifted all pits shipping restrictions in the seven mining districts where 1,010 mines had been closed down. SPA also totaled up the cost of the strikes since Septem ber 21, at 15.000,000 tons and fig ured the year's total deficit now at 26,000,000 tons. 2. Secretary of Labor Schwellen bach, twice repulsed in his con ciliation efforts in major stoppag es in the oil and coal industries, named a committee to determine what’s wrong with the U. S. con ciliation service and find a way to build it up. 3. Agencies searching for a wage-price policy capable of re ducing the number of strikes over pay looked carefully at three speeches of reconversion Director John W. Snyder for a way, Sny der apparently dropped a broad hint that the Truman administra tion wants to permit slight wage increases while holding living costs pretty much at present levels. DEFENDANTS Starts On Page One the Polish occupation. Martin Bormann, storm troop chief. Hitler’s deputy. Wilhelm Prick, Nasi "protector" for Bohemia and Moravia. Fritz Sauckel, SS and SA general. Albert Speer, Nazi munitions minister. Arthur Seyss-Inquart, gauleiter for the Netherlands. Julius Stretcher, Lumber One Nazi Jew-baiter. Hans Fritzsche, propagandist. Constantin Von Neurath, “pro tector” for Bohemia and Me.avia. Baldur Von Schirach, Hitler youth chief. < COMMUNIST HEAD CHARGES TRUMAN IS IMPERIALISTIC WASHINGTON. Oct 18. —VP>— William Z. Foster, bead of the com munist party in America, asserted today that “the Truman admini stration is yielding to the pressure of imperialistic forces.” He particularly criticized ap pointment of James Byrnes as sec retary of State, saying it was “a concession to the imperialists." He assumed the secretaryship of State,” he told the house committee investi gating unAmerican activities. Foster declared that spokesmen for what he termed the "imperial ists” included: Former President Herbert Hoover, New York Gover nor Thomas E. Dewey, Senator Van denberg (R-Mich), and John Foster Dulles, advisor to Dewey in the 1944 presidential election. “The voice of Mr. Hoover is more patent in Congress at present than the voice of Mr. Truman,” he as serted. Foster vigorously assailed the committee's inquiry in* commun ist activities, calling it "cheap red baiting.” Singling out Rep. Rankin (D-Miss) as a target, he said: "This whole committee action is i” flagrant violation of the consti tution. x x x Mr. Rankin is deliber ately trying to use the committee for his notorious reactionary pro gram.” C. L GRIGG IS TAKEN BY DEATH Charles I>. Grigg, 75, contractor, a native of Cleveland county, died today at his home in Gastonia fol lowing a short Illness. Funeral will be held Friday aft ernoon at a o’clock at °alm Tree Methodist church with services conducted by Rev. C. G. Isley, pas tor. The body will he In state at the church from 1 to 3 o’clock Fri day afternoon. Mr. Grigg is survived by his wife; two children, Tom Grigg, some where in Germany; a daughter, Mrs. Mary Dalton, of Gastonia; a brother, 8am Grigg of Gastonia; a sister, Mrs. W. A. Harrill, of Char lotte. Although Mr. Grigg was born In this county he had been away from here for 40 years but still main tained his membership at Palm Tree church. Bodies Of Crash Victims Being Brought Out Today SMOKEMONT, Oct. 18. —UP)— About 25 men, army and park ser vice, with six pack horses left here at dawn this morning to bring back the bodies of five men und a wo man who died in the crash of an Army C-45 transport plane on Oct. 5. According to Capt. Harry Find ley of the Greenville, S. C., Army Air base, the bodies are expected to be evacuated sometime today. They w ’l be transported to the Greenville Air base by ambulances. Salvage crews from the Greenville airbase are also expected to work their way up to the scene of the crash sometime during the day, it was announced. Infant Found Dead . In Bed At Home The infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Finley, 517 Booker Street, was found dead in its bed shortly after noon today. The child was one month old and the cause of death is unknown. Funeral ar rangements had not been complet ed early this afternoon. NATION-WIDE 8UrU On Pas* On* unconfirmed report that Vemengo Lima and other high navy chiefs were aboard the Drummond. Still a mystery was the status of Gen. Eduardo Avalos, who led the Campo de Mayo garrison movement which had forced Per* on’s resignation as vice-president, war minister and labor minister. Avalos had taken the post c| war minister, and Farrell's announce ment listed no successor thus far. In response to the general strike call issued by Peron’s friends in the general confederation of la bor, all trains out of Buenos Aires stopped running at one minute past midnight. But not all unions supported the strike. The Buenos Aires labor council, which includes represen tatives of ALG unions in the capi tal, said the strike was “imposed by Nasi elements in the labor min istry who, pistol in hand, are try ing to paralyse the country to aid Col. Peron.” Two persons died and six were injured in a crowd which attacked the offices of the newspaper Criti ca, outspoken critic of Peron and Farrell, during the night. Some employes of the newspaper said bomby and machlneguns were used in the attack. The building was fired, but employes extinguished the flames. The office of the news paper Alpgensa also was attacked. At the height of this violence, a government communique said the demonstrations which had flar ed throughout the day had “dis solved themselves in perfect or der” and that both the city and the rest of the country was per fectly calm. Peron told the hysterically cheering crowds massed in the Plaza de Mayo that he would take a brief vacation in a southern pro vince and then return to the capi tal to “fight shoulder to shoulder with the workers until I am ex hausted.” Furnished By J. Robert Lindsay and Company Webb Building Shelby, N. C. N. Y. COTTON AT *:«• Today Prev.Day March - _23.52 2?.58 May. --23.52 2^7 July .23.36 23.fi October.22.81 22JO December --23.42 23.45 CHICAGO GRAIN WHEAT December _ _1.7514 1.76% May .1.73% 1.74% July - __1.67% 1.68% CORN December - -1.18 1.18% May .1.16% 1.17% July - — __-_1.16% 1.16% December ...1.58 1.60% May .1.50% 1.52% July .1.38% 1.40% STOCKS AT 2:88 Amn Rolling Mill . ...— 28 American Loco - - 36 American Tob B . -- American Tel and Tel-185 Anaconda Copper - - 39 Assoc Dry Goods... Beth Steel - - 96 Boeing Air -• -. 37 Chrysler . - Curtlss-Wright . - 8 Elec Boat . 17 General Motors . -- 74 Pepsi Cola . - 34 Greyhound Corp - -— 27 International Paper --33 Nash Kelv .23 Glenn L Martin - - 28 Newport Ind ... N Y Central.39 Penn R R - --- Radio Corp . .. 15 Reynolds Tob B . -- Southern Railroad . - 50 Stand Oil N J.87 Sperry Corp - . 34 U S Rubber ... U 8 Steel . 81 Western Union . - 54 Youngstown 8 and T __65 5-8 1-4 91 1-4 1-8 33 1-4 7-8 126 1-4 5-8 1-2 1-4 1-2 3-4 1-2 3-4 30 1-8 41 1-2 40 1-4 3-4 3-4 73 7-8 1-2 1-2 NEW YORK, Oct. 18. —<JP}— Steels, motors, rubbers, rails and metals advanced fractions to around a point in today's stock market as buyers continued to place a brighter interpretation on the labor outlook. Higher were U. 8. Steel, Bethle hem, Chrysler, Goodyear, U. S. Rubber, J. I. Case, Western Union "A”, Cerro De Pasco, Philip Morris, Santa Fe and Standard Oil (N. J.) International Harvester was aided by announcement the company had on file a $100,000,000 expansion pro gram. Bonds were steady and commodi ties mixed. q hogs I RALEIGH, Oct. 18. (NCD I A)—Hog markets active and steady 1 with tope of 14.55 at Clinton and Rocky Mount and 14.00 at Rich mond. N. C. EGG8, POULTRY RALEIGH, Oct. 18. —UP)— Egg and poultry markets firm. Raleigh.—U. S. grade AA extra large 58; fryers and broilers 29.3. Washington.—U. S. grade A extra large 59; broilers and fryers 25 to 27. MARSHALL Starts Ob Part Ons "The war department has neith er been consulted nor informed.” The general declared that under separate commands the war and navy departments would compete with each other In peacetime for congressional appropriations. The committee, studying the nation’s postwar military prob lems, Is expected to get a re quest for Mr. Truman that every able bodied young man be requir ed to take a year of military training. That was the belief today among legislators who have talked with Mr. Truman. They reported he will make the request In a mes sage to congress Tuesday. Marshall said this country must have a constant powerful armed force to Impress the “political leaders and the professional sol diers of other nations, both friendr ly and unfriendly, that no act of aggression against the United States, however sudden, could suc ceed." “The national security,” he said, “is measured by the sum, or rath er the combination of the three great arms—the land, air, and na val forces. The urgent need Is for an overall, not a piecemeal ap praisal of what Is required to solve the single problem of na tional security with the greatest economy compatible with require ments. GOOD Starts On Pi|< On* more then three Ion* yean the Japanese robbed the Phil ippine* of food, stole their su gar, copra, hemp and tobacco, destroyed their supply of clothing. The pitiful survivors came straggling buck to the ashes of their homes. It was Impossible to distinguish the rich from the poor. All were barefoot, ragged, almost naked and homeless. They all need shoes, clothing and bedding. This is only one phase of the wide fjont on which the United War fund operates. There are the starving Chinese, the home less and hungry Europeans and the lonely soldiers. Chairman Blackley is calling on every Cleve lander to share and share gener ously. A geranium leaf dropped In a Jar before pouring in apple Jelly will help flavor it. ) School Ground Tree Is Being Removed The old oak tree which was a familiar scene to school students at the entrance to the junior high school, has now fallen prostrate on the sidewalk which the school goers’ feet tread. The tree, which had died, was cut down by school janitors yes terday but instead of falling the way they pulled on their ropes, it landed squarely across a telephone cable. The tree was removed from the cable and was being cleared away this morning. No damage was apparent to the cable. SCIENTISTS Starts On Pate On* reported to be keeping hands-off this hot Issue for the time being. TAXES Concerning taxes: The senate finance committee has ended its public hearings, and today was working behind closed doors on a bill which it will send to the senate for action next week. The committee apparently wants to abolish the excess-profits tax on Jan. 1—an action the house didn’t take when it passed its ver sion of the tax-cutting bill last , week. As for the size of individual ! income tax cuts, the senate group I had not yet agreed on any one plan. The house continues its debate on the airport bill today. It also expects to take up a bill to slice 52 billion dollars off the funds j voted by congress before the war ended. Recapturing of this sum was recommended yesterday by the house appropriations commit tee. Most of the money was ap ■ propriated for war and now won't be needed. WANT ADS FOR SALE—HOME RAISED PIGS. J. L. Self, near Piedmont High school, Lawndale. It 18p WE PAY CASH FOR FRYERS, hens, roosters, fresh eggs, coun try hams and side meat. Grif fin P. Smith. Phone 465. 6t 18c WANTED MAN OR WOMAN TO work In grocery store, experi ence helpful but not necessary Write, Grocery, Box 200, Shel by. N. C. 3t 18c WE HAVE FRESH SHIPMENT of blooming potted plants. Also cut flowers arriving fresh daily. Waldrep's Florist, 10l3 Toms St. Phone 978-R. 2t 18c WANTED: EXPERIENCED WAIT ress at Shelby Cafe. 6t 18c I Flood Control On Yadkin River Asked NORTH WILKESBORO, Oct. 18 —(JP)—A resolution asking imme diate action to secure adequate flood control in the Yadkin river valley has been adopted by inter ested residents of Wilkes, Cald well, Surry and Forsythe counties. The resolution followed a meet ing here yesterday with army en gineers, at which the flood control project was discussed. 2-Day Y.W.C.A. Meeting In Raleigh RALEIGH. Oct. 18—UP)—A two day conference of Young Wo men’s Christian association repre sentatives North Carolina contin ued here today. 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