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Revolution Flares In Venezuela As Military Factions Rebel
Army Will Permit
Peron To Run For
President In April
By Laurance F. Stuntz
BUENOS AIRES, Oct. 19.—(/P)—Col. Juan Domingo
Peron will be permitted by the army to run for president
next April 7, a reliable source reported today as a stunned
populace dazedly accepted his swift return to power.
aut tne army, patently the pow
er behind Peron and President
Edelmiro Farrell, was reported to:
have stipulated further that the
government must remain impartial
in the elections, giving no direct
aid to Peron.
This source said the army, rep
resented by the powerful Campo1
De Mayo garrison, had laid down
conditions for Peron’s return from
custody to the dominating posl-;
tion in Argentina’s violent poli-1
tics. |
Evidently Intent upon retaining
its iron grip on the government, j
the army was said to have vetoed
any attempt to install either Hor
tenslo Quljano or Aramdo Antille,
both staunch supporters, in the new
cabinet. Quljano was Interior
minister and Antilie was finance
minister when Peron resigned Oct.
9 as war minister, labor minister
and vice president under pressure
from Campo De Mayo group.
Neither Quljano nor Antille ap
peared in the cabinet which was
sworn ift yesterday.
This version would explain a
number of puzzling circumstances:
The presence In the capital, un
molested, of Adm. Hector Varnen
; go Lima, a Peron opponent who
served briefly In the past week as
I navy minister; and the fact that
! the army stood idly by and per
mitted the streets to be dominat
ed by Peron demonstrators.
As for Gen. Eduardo Avalos,
leader of the Oct. 9 movement,
who had taken Peron's post of war
minister, one report said he had
patched up his differences with
the strong man after quitting the
war ministry.
Midnight brought an official
end to the 24-hour general strike
which had paralyzed the capital
and left it in the hands of march
ing demonstrators—many of them
youngsters below voting age who
professed allegiance to Peron be
cause their apprentice schools had
been formed by him.
NEXT PRESIDENT
It was estimated the strike had
See ARMY Page 2
Luxury Tax Cut
Meets Opposition
Senate Finance Committee Would Keep Excise Levies
Into 1947
WASHINGTON, Oct. 19.—(/P)—Prospects dimmed to
day for a tax reduction next July 1 on such things as whisky,
Allied Advisory
Commission
Meet Postponed
By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER
WASHINGTON, Oct. 19. —UP)—
The State Department announced
today a seven-day postponement ol
the first meeting of the allied ad
visory commission on Japan. Rus
sian attendance Is in doubt.
The official reason for the post
ponement was that some of the In
vited governments would not be able
to get their representatives here in
time for the scheduled session Oct.
23.
Therefore, the announcement said,
"It has been decided to hold the
first meeting of the commission on
October 30." It was obvious, how
ever, that this delay allows addi
tional time for the efforts now evi
dently under way by President
Truman and presumably other "Big
Three” officials to resolve some of
the difficulties dividing the allied
powers and assure Russian atten
dance.
TEN NATIONS
Ten nations are supposed to be
on the commission. It has been of
ficially announced the United
States, Britain, China, the Philip
pines, Australia and Canada will
be represented.
Acceptances are supposed to be
on the way here from France and
the Netherlands. There are reports
that New Zealand’s formal accep
tance is enroute. Only Russia’s at
tendance is completely in doubt.
This uncertainty stems from the
fact that some time after the
United States proposed creation of
the advisory agency, Moscow put
Its support strongly behind a pro
See ALLIED Page *
Berlin Newspapers
Approve War Trials
BERLIN, Oct. 19. — VP) —' All
Berlin newspapers printed the lull
text of allied Indictments against 24
leading Nazis today with approving
editorials expressing hope that
punishment would be a long step
toward Oerman atonement.
Extra paper rations were furnish
ed to attain maximum circulation
and reprints were posted on bulle
tin boards.
I
fur coats and jewelry.
Heavy opposition developed with
in the senate finance committee
against cutting back the special
excise levies on that date to their
prewar levels, as voted by the
house in the pending tax reduction
bill.
Experts estimate the half-year
revenue loss from such a reduction
at $535,000,000.
Other tax cuta already ap
proved by the committee ag
gregate $4,780,000,000, and
Chairman George (D-Ga) is
trying to hold the total slash
to $5,000,000,000 limit recom
mended by Secretary of the
Treasury Fred M. Vinson.
Motions have been made to de
lay the excise reductions until
Jan. 1, 1947, or even until the fol
lowing July 1.
RATE CHANGES
When and if the excise taxes go
back to their pre-war levels, here
are some samples of the rate
changes: Furs, Jewelry, cosmetics
and luggage, from 20 percent of
retail price to 10 percent; liquor,
from $9 a gallon to $6; beer from
$8 a barrel to $7; electric light
See LUXURY Page 2'
Belgium Proposes
Debate On Leopold
BRUSSELS, Oct. 19. —(A")— The
Belgian senate indefinitely post
poned a scheduled debate on King
Leopold’s future today after the
government confirmed press re
ports that it possessed a full account
of a 1940 meeting between the King
and Adolf Hitler at Berchtesgaden,
U. S. EMBASSY
OFFICIAL AT
CARACASSHOT
Trouble Began At 4 P. M.
Yesterday; President's
Home Seized
HEAVY FIGHTING
WASHINGTON, Oct. 19.—
(/P)—A United States embas
sy officer at Caracas was fir
ed on last night in the course
of spreading revolution in
Venezuela.
The conflict is between rebel mili
tary and government forces.
The incident involving the em
bassy official was disclosed by the
State Department today in making
public dispatches from Ambassador
Frank P. Corrigan on the revolt.
The upheaval, according to these
officials, began at 4 p.m. yesterday
at San Carlos barracks near Cara
cas and by 9 p.m. last night the
rebels had control of the president’s
residence at Miraflores and the
nearby military academy.
They had set up headquarters in
the academy.
MeanwhUe, government forces
under the leadership of President
General Isiah Medina y Angarlta,
who has taken personal command,
have captured the San Carlos bar
racks.
At the town of Maracay, about 30
miles east of the capital, it was re
ported that there was heavy flght
See V. 8. Page t
BUTTER POINTS
GOINGDOWN
Price Will Probably Go
Up; Meat Rationing
To Continue
WASHINGTON, Oct. 19. —UP)—
Butter may cost fewer red points
next month. But housewives pro
bably will shell out more cold cash
for it.
They are likely to pay five to six
cents more a pound beginning Nov
ember 8. That’s because cancella
tion of a government subsidy to bat
ter processors will push up retail
ceiling prices that much.
On the other hand, there is a
good possibility that the current
butter ration value of 12 points a
pound may be cut to eight, effective
October 31. j,
One reason, said food officials
who asked anonymity, is the recent
release by the Army of 80,000,000
pounds of butter.
MEAT RATIONING
At the same time there was an
indication that the better outs of
meat will continue to be ration
ed in November; OPA already is
printing meat point charts for next
month.
Withdrawal of the flve-cent a
pound butter subsidy, effective Oc
tober 31, marks the beginning of the
end of this wartime method of
handling food cost problems.
Secretary of Agriculture Ander
son has said that all but a very few
See BUTTER Page 8
WHAT’S DOING
TODAY 51
7:00 p.m.—Duke Power com
pany dinner for farm leaders
at Hotel CharlM.
730 pm.—Masonic fellow
ship supper at lodge room in
temple.
Vv
TODAY IN CONGRESS:
Strikes, Taxes, Unemployment,
Atomic Energy Hold Stage
By MAX HALL
WASHINGTON, Oct. 19. —<iP)—
Congress struggled today with Ideas
for America’s future and this is
what happened:
Taxes—Cool water was thrown
on the idea of cutting taxes next
July on liquor, furs, Jewelry, thea
ter admissions, railroad tickets, and
phone calls.
Strikes—The idea of some kind
of new anti-strike law moved for
ward.
Air Force—Gen. H. H. Arnold,
boss birdman of the Army, was in
vited to step into the senate mili
tary committee and talk in favor of
giving air forces equal ra»$c with
the Army and Navy in a single de
partment of national defense.
Atomic Energy—The capital was
seething with Ideas on that su
premely-important subject,
USES CONTROL
Jobs—The house made ready for
a sharp debate over returning the
U. S. Employment Services tp state
control now, Instead of later as ad
cated by President Truman,
Diplomacy—It was learned that
leading senators are helping the
State Department write a new In
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V
*>td.
CAVALRY MOUNT AGAIN — After changing of guards, the Life
guards and Royal horse guards are shown coming across the parade
ground at Whitehall, London.
Communists Oppose
Shidehara Regime
National federation Of Toilers Holds Moss Meet, De
nounces Suggestion
TOKYO, Oct. 19.—(/P)—Japanese leaders asked the
socialist party today to join in a united front against the
Shidehara government, which they said “has no ability to
cope with the present situation.”
The socialists did not reply im
mediately. Further talks between
the groups were set for tomorrow,
but the National Federation of
Toilers, a workers’ organization,
strongly denounced the commun
ist suggestion at the first toilers’
mass meeting since the surren
der.
Meanwhile Foreign Minister Shi
geru Yoshida told his first press
conference the chef task of Pre
mier Kijuro Shidehara’s cabinet
was to carry out terms of the Pots
dam conference smoothly and as
rapidly as possible “to demonstrate
our good faith through deeds.”
Communist leaders Yoshio Shiga,
Shigeo Kamiyama and Ichizo
Matsuraoto called at the office of
the Japan socialist party and for
mally asked the party to join in
opposing the cabinet.
The communists and the social
ists once were bitter political foes,
but Shiga expressed belief that
the groups could cooperate in a
"unified single trade union.”
FIRST MASS MEET
The toilers drew a capacity au
dience at their first mass meeting.
After four of their leaders attack
ed the communist plan for one
front opposition to Shidehara, they
affirmed support of the imperial
institution, said Domei agency.
Domei called the meeting notable
for “its open denunciation of com
munism in the face of growing
communist activities.”
The agency also reported that
the cabinet today discussed a por
tion of the democratization in
structions General MacArthur gave
Shidehara when he assumed the
premiership, and decided to call
See COMMUNISTS Page 2
Reports Asked On
War Fund Monday
A call for a full report to date
on United War Fund contributions
in the Cleveland county area was
received today by Chairman Shem
K. Blackley who in turn urged all
campaign workers to press their
solicitations through Sunday, when
most of the churches will make
their appeals, and get reports to
him or Treasurer Paxton Elliott
at the First National bank by
Monday.
Preliminary reports from rural
churches showed response last
Sunday with further appeals to be
pressed this week and at the meet
ings of Sunday.
Several firms and individuals
not yet contacted have mailed do
nations directly to Mr. Blackley
who asked that others not seen by
solicitors do likewise.
President And
Cabinet Talk
Wages, Prices
WASHINGTON, Oct. 19 —(^>)—
President Truman discussed wage
price policies with his cabinet to
day, but there was no • immediate
announcement on the results.
Press Secretary Charles G. Ross
said that a statement on policy
and new machinery to deal with
labor disputes probably will be
deferred until Monday.
President Truman told his news
conference yesterday that he
would have a statement after the
cabinet meeting. He did not spe
cifically say that it would be made
today.
Ross said the scope of the Pres
ident’s statement would depend
upon the cabinet’s discussion.
Present administration policy is
to allow wage increases only to
correct any inequalities and where
no compensatory price increases
result. Administration spokesmen,
however, have leaned recently to
ward more liberal wage policy
while holding the line against
price spirals.
KEY QUESTIONS
Ross also told reporters the
President is not ready yet to an
nounce his selection for chairman
of the labor-industry conference
convening here November 5.
Both labor and management
See PRESIDENT Page 2
Troopship Crashes,
Leaving SO Dead
PEIPING, Oct. 17—(Delayed)—
An American crew were killed to
day when a troopship crashed at
tempting to land at Nanyuan air
field near here.
The plane was one of the first
arriving today with Chinese gov
ernment troops on an accelerated
schedule under which 29 planes
began bringing the soldiers from
Shanghai to Nanyuan.
(The cable did not specify the
number of crew members killed
or the type of plane.)
Other government troops con
tinued to arrive at Peiping’s west
field from Hankow in an overall
air movement which will trans
port the 92nd army and other for
ces from Shanghai to North Chi
na within three weeks.
REPEAL OF
STRIKE NOTICE
ACT IS URGED
Measure Binds Govern
ment To Conduct Strike
Votes On Notice
"NOT WORKABLE"
WASHINGTON, Oct. 19.—
(!P)—The labor department to
day urged repeal of the strike
■notice section of the war lab
or disputes act.
Tiie department said this section
is “hurting rather than helping
the cause of industrial peace.”
The request was made to the
house military committee by Dan
iel W. Tracy, assistant secretary
of labor, during hearings on a bill
to repeal the law known as the
Smith-Connally act. The measure
binds the government to conduct
strike votes if unions give 30 days
notice.
Tracy did not advocate repeal
of other sections of the law, en
acted several years ago over a
presidential veto.
But the section providing for
the filing of notices of labor dis
putes and the holding of elections
on the question of whether there
should be a strike, he Said, “is not
workable.”
ihe National Labor Relations
board, Tracy said, "just can
not handle the volume of
work” that Is being piled on
it.
During the week ended October
17, he added, there were 123, no
tices filed, compared with 23 filed
during the same., period last year.
POOR RESULTS
"We are not getting results that
justify the amount of time and
money we are putting into the
job,” he declared.
Tracy said he believed the strike
notice section “serves to increase
friction between management and
labor” because “the advantages of
a strike vote conducted by the gov
ernment have not been overlook
ed.”
The 30-day “cooling-off” period
provided by the section he told
the committee, "frequently becom
es the white heat point of the
dispute.”
As to other sections of the
Smith-Connally act, Tracy said
consideration of changes would
be “more timely after there has
been an opportunity for manage
ment and labor to discuss,and de
velop their views on ther subjects”
at a labor-management conference
called by President Truman for
November S.
Chairman May (D-Ky) told a
See REPEAL Page 2
Britain Said Not
Able To Help China
SHANGHAI, Oct. 19. —(ff)—
British Ambassador Sir Horace
Seymour asserted today that Brit
ain “simply isn't in a financial
position” to help China through
long term lend-lease, as the United
States is planning to do.
“We must remember,” the ambas
sador said, “that Britain’s whole
position has changed and that she
now is the world’s greatest debtor
nation.”
Sweden To Control
Uranium Output
STOCKHOLM, Oct. 19—W)—The
Swedish 'foreign office announced
today that a bill would be intro
duced in parliament to forbid the
mining of uranium,—chief source
of atomic energy — except under
government license. Export would
be prohibited.
Indictments Served
On 23 Defendants;
Bormann Still Free
NUERNBERG, Oct. 19.—(/P)—The world’s first great!
war criminals trial of 24 high nazis and German militarists
and industrialists will begin in Nuernberg on Nov. 20, the
International Military Tribunal announced today.
AUTHOR, NATIVE
OF AREA, DIES
Hatcher Hughes, Writer
Of Pulitzer Prize Play,
Is Dead
Hatcher Hughes, 65, author of a
Pulitzer prize winning play and
Columbia university professor, who
was a native of Cleveland county,
died at his home in New York last
night. He had been assistant pro
fessor of English at Columbia Uni
versity since 1922.
He is survived by a brother. Gor
don Hughes, who lives at Kings
Mountain; two sisters, Mrs. Molly
Neal, of Blacksburg, S. C„ and Mrs.
Fannie Adkins, who lives near York,
S. C. He also leaves a large group
of cousins who live in this vicinity,
including Dr. Ben Gold, of Shelby;
Mrs. C. A. Hamrick, of Double
Springs, Mrs. Frank Cabiness, Shel
by, route 5; Mrs. N. A. Miller, of
Brevard; Mrs. Frank Cline, of
Lawndale; Mrs. D: P. Ramsey, of
Polkville; Mrs. D. D. Lattimore, of
Polkville; Mrs. Foster Elliott, of
Polkville.
RELATIVES HERE
Many of his relatives here rem
ember him well. Mrs. Hamrick says
that she recalls as a schoolboy he
was extremely bright and witty. She
went to school with him at Polk
ville.
From 1906 to 1909 he was a mem
ber of the faculty at the University
of North Carolina. He was also a
member of the National Institute of
Arts and Letters.
He had not been in Cleveland
county for many years and left here
when quite young.
Work Resumed At SO
Idle Coal Mines
PITTSBURGH, Oct. 19. - (JP) —
Work was resumed today at more
than 50 of the 1,000-odd bitumin
ous mines made idle by the great
27-day strike of mine bosses seek
ing recognition of their union.
There was every indication that
by Monday, the day set by UMW
President John L. Lewis in his
“back-to-work” call, the great
majority of 216,000 strikers would
have re-entered the pits.
The steel industry, still crippled
by the coal shortage, will continue
curtailed operations until more
fuel is available. It was hoped
that full production could be re
sumed in 10 days or two weeks.
Bulletin
WASHINGTON:, Oct. 19 —
(fP)—The senate finance com
mittee voted today to forgive
all federal income taxes daring
war years on the service pay
of enlisted personnel in the
armed forces.
Veterans below the grade of
commissioned officers won’t
even have to file returns on
their service income if Con
gress finally approves the pro
vision.
Montgomery Ward Regains
Control, Again Defies WLB
CHICAGO, Oct. 19. — m— Fresh
defiance of War Labor Boeld di
rectives came from Montgomery
Ward and Company today as it re
gained from the Army control of
properties which were seized in
seven cities by the government more
than nine months ago after a pro
longed dispute with a CIO union.
As the Army yesterday prepared
to relinquish its control of the huge
mail order house, effective at 11 '59
p.m. (EST) Thursday, Sewell L.
Avery, board chairman and dentral
figure in the controversy with the
union and the government, an
f
4
nounced abolishment of compulsory!
i maintenance of union membership
| and check-off of unlcn dues.
I These were the principal issues
by the CIO Mail Order, Warehouse,
and Retail Employees Union in
contract negotiations. Ward’s re
fusal to obey WLB orders embrac
ing them precipitated two seizures
of the company by the government.
The last seizure, on the late Pres
ident Roosevelt’s order, was on Dec.
28, 1944, and its legality still is in
dispute before the U. S. Supreme
I See WARD Page 2
The date for the beginning of the!
proceedings to establish responsi-|
bility for the Second World Wa
andits cruelties was set by the tri
bunal shortly after the massive in-1
dictments presented to the court|
yesterday at its first sitting in Ber
lin had been served on 23 of the de-|
fendants here in the Nuernberg jailil
The 24th defendant, Martini
Bormann, apparently still is atl
large and probably will be tried in|
absentia.
The indictments were served on I
the defendants—politicians, mill-1
tarists, industrialists and other!
functionaries in Hitler’s Nazi reg
ime—at 2:15 p.m. (8:16 a.m. East
ern standard Time).
Maj. Anthony Neave, a British]
lawyer, gave copies of the 24,800-1
word accusation to the men ia|
their carefully guarded cells. He I
explained to all exactly what|
their rights were.
The indictments were served on I
Hermann Goering, Rudolf Hess, I
Joachim Von Ribbentrop, Robert I
Ley, Wilhelm Keitel, Ernst Kal
tenbrunner, Alfred Rosenberg, I
Hans Frank, Wilhelm Frick, Jul-1
ius Streicher, Walther Funk, Hj-1
almar Schacht, Gustav Krupp Von I
Bohlen Und Halbach, Karl Doe-1
nitz, Erich Raeder, Baldur Vonl
Schirach, Fritz Sauckel, Alfred
Jodi, Franz Von Papen, Arthur
Seyss-Inquart, Albert Speer, Con
stantin Von Neurath and Hans [
Fritzsche.
The formal indictment was pre-1
sented yesterday in Berlin to the
court which will try this great-1
est war crimes case in history.
Judges and prosecutors of the I
United States, Russia, Great Bri-1
tain and France participated.
The defendants have 30 days in j
which to prepare their defenses.
The survivors of Hitler’s regime,
which sought at the cost estimat
ed at 10,000,000 lives to dominate
the world, were charged individ
ually and collectively with con-!
spiring to wage war—a crime a
gainst humanity.
In addition to the individuals,
the prosecution will attempt to)
establish the responsibility of sev
en Nazi organizations — the Ger
man general staff and the high
command the German cabinet,
the leadership corps of the Nazi
party, the SS or Elite guard, the
Gestapo, the storm troopers and
the SD or secret service.
The indictment charges a com
mon plan or conspiracy to over
throw the treaty of Bersailles, re
arm Germany and to acquire ter
See INDICTMENTS Page 2
FIRE DESTROYS
HAMRICK GIN
Loss Upwards Of $20,000
In Early Morning Fire
At Boiling Springs
Fire of undetermined origin de
stroyed completely the C. J. Ham
rick and Sons gin together with
60 bales of cotton badly damaged
early today at Boiling Springs.
Loss was placed at upwards of
$20,000, partially covered by insur
ance.
The frame and sheet iron struc
ture was so far burned when the
fire was discovered around 3:30 a.
m. that all efforts to save It were
futile, but people rallied from the
surrounding territories and col
lege to play water on the burning
cotton so that it will not be a to
tal loss.
The ginning equipment had
been installed anew for this sea
son while the drier was put into
service last year to make it mod
ern in equipment and causing it
to represent much additional in
vestment at the time fire rased
completely the gin. The insur
ance did not begirt to cover the
loss.
Shelby’s fire department ans
wered the call and Joined the ga
thering of townspeople in salvag
j ing the burning bales of cotton.
The gin was located just back
of the store at the northern edge
of the Boiling Springs commun
ity.