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WEATHER Clear tr partly cloudy today, to night and Sunday; s: _ ’y cooler tonight ard Sunday ard over north and west portions today. Tshe Hhelby Baily StettW - State Theatre Today - “Radio Stars On Parade” Starring FRANCES LANGFORD CLEVELAND COUNTY’S NEWSPAPER SINCE 1894 TELEPHONES 1100 VOL XL111-252 ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWS SHELBY, N. a SATURDAY, OCT. 20, 1945 TELEMAT PICTURES =S1 SINGLE COPIES—6e INDONESIANS SAY DUTCH USING U.S. EQUIPMENT HE FACES REVOLT — Gen. Isiah Medina Y Angnrita (above), pres ident of Venezuela, faces a revolu tion with rebellious forces reported in possession of his home at Mlra flores, a surburb of Caracas. Vene zuela's capital.—(AP Wlrephoto). SNYDERNOT FOR CEILINGS __ Proponents Of Price Ceil ings On Houses Expect Rebuff By MARVIN L. ARROWSMITH WASHINGTON, Oct. 20. —(/P)— ! Government proponents of price | ceilings on housing were reported today ready to concede that Recon- j version Director John W. Snyder | will side against them. If he does, that probably will mean the end of the move, since Snyder will speak for the admin istration. Those who have advocated ceil ings on both new and old houses are known to have come away from a meeting with Snyder yesterday pretty well convinced they had lost their case. The staunchest arguments for proponents were advanced at the meeting by Ch oter Bowles, price administrator, and John B. Bland ford, J-. national housing admin istrator. RESERVES DECISION Snyder reserved final decision, but he left the definite Impression I felt it would not be a politi cally wise move to ask congress for legislation to fix ceilings, it was learned. The same group had met with Snyder last Monday to present rec ommendations. and had left believ ing there was better than an even, chance the reconversion chief would try to put a lid on housing costs. The recommendations called for a price maximum on all new houses, a. wing what was described as a ‘■generous’’ profit margin 'or build ers. The . ‘ n provided for ceilings on old houses if they had changed; hands since January 1, 1P13. In ■uch cases the last les price would j be the celling. Mongolia Votes On Independence MOSCOW, Oct. 20. —<&)— The Mongolian People’s Republic (Out • cr Mongolia) voted today on wheth er It wants to remain a nominal part of China or become Independent. The plebiscite was based upon an agreement made between China and the Soviet Union when they signed a treaty of friendship and alliance last Aug. 14. All of Outer Mongolia's 900,000 citizens 18 years old or over are eli gible to vote. Outer Mongolia lies between Cen tral Siberia and Central and West ern China. Nominally a part of China, it became more or less au tonomous during the first World War. The Soviet Union has consid * ered the area under Chinese suzer »inty. WHATS DOING SUNDAY 10:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.—USO center open to service folk vis iting in the city. 1:30 p.m.—Special commit tee on Young People’s building for First Baptist church meets at the church. MONDAY 10:00 a.m.—General board meeting of Kings Mountain Baptist association at First Baptist church. 7:00 p.m.—City councilmen. Chamber of Commerce, and bus company officials meet to discuss new bus station. Senate Finance Group Approves Bill Cutting Taxes $5,629,000,000 By Frances J. Kelly WASHINGTON, Oct. 20.—(JP)—Approval of the senate finance committee was stamped today on a bill cutting taxes a total of $5,629,000,000 and giving individual taxpayers alone a $2,648,000,000 break next year. Corporations would benefit even more, by $2,841,000,000. The use tax on automobiles and boats would be repeated next July 1, for a revenue loss of $140,000,000 in the last half of 1946. The social security payroll tax would be frozen at 1 percent on employers and employes again next year. Veterans would receive spe cial benefits. Enlisted men would be forgiven the income tax on their service pay during the war years, and wouldn't even have to file returns. Of ficers would have additional time to pay the taxes which piled up while they were in uniform. But the heavy wartime excise taxes on furs and cosmetics, mo vie tickets and liquor, light bulbs and jewelry would not be cut to their pre-war levels next July 1, as the house previously voted. Nothing is final yet. The house ways and means committee originated a bill calling for a $5,350,000,000 reduction. The house approved it. Now the sen ate finance group has rewritten It with the aggregate cuts made $279,000,000 larger. ROAD AHEAD The bill has to pass the senate, go to a conference committee for adjustment of differences between house and senate, and win the president’s approval. The senator’s formula for re ducing individual income taxes is fairly intricate: (l)The 3 percent normal tax is put on the same exemption base as the graduated surtax—$500 a piece for the taxpayer and each dependent. Currently the normal tax is levied on net Income above $500 regardless of the number of dependents. (2) The rate in each bracket of the surtax is lowered by 3 percent age points. Up to there, that’s the way the formula stood until late yetserday afternoon. Then the committee unexpectedly voted an additional $563,000,000 of relief: (3) The senator said: Figure See SENATE Page Z Make Progress In Getting Yanks Home Those In Europe To Be Home By February; In Pacific To Be Home By June WASHINGTON, Oct. 20.—(/P)—Five months and one week after V-E day, the job of getting American soldiers home from the Atlantic and Pacific is nearing the half-way mark. Barring unexpected developments the war department expects to make good on the target it has set itself, which is: BUENOS AIRES STILL UNEASY Part Of Special Guard Re called; Street Demon strations End BUENOS AIRES, Oct. 20.—(IP)— Patrol cars crowded the downtown streets of uneasy Buenos Aires early today, and police using megaphones advised a populace agitated by the swiftly shifting political scene to be calm and remain in their homes. A short time later some of the extra police guards who had been placed over various parts of the city were recalled, but the police ordered extreme vigilance over the radical (Center) party, where the guarej was strengthened. Street demonstrations staged by supporters of Col. Juan Pe^bn, new ly restored to political dominance, ended. Transportation was restored yesterday following Thursday’s na tionwide strike arranged by Peron’s supporters. Presidents of three government banks have resigned their posts, it was learned. All soldiers In Europe home by next February except those need ed In the army of occupation and for disposal of surplus army pro perty. All soldiers In the Pacific home by next June except those needed for occupation in Japan and Korea, to man outposts such as Guam and the Philippines, and to dispose of surplus property. War Department figures show that Uncle Sam had in the Euro pean theater on V-E Day 3,059,000 men; in the Mediterranean 498,000, in North Africa and the Middle East 32,000 and in the Persian Gulf 18,000, a grand total of 3,607,000 for the German end of the war. Of this number 1,178,000 had been returned home on October 15. Of the 1,889,000 remaining a large percentage of the low point men likely will stay a while. They will make up most of the 370,000 needed for the army of occupation In Ger many, to wind up the army’s pro perty problems in Europe and to man such places as Ascension Is land. Thus from Europe about 1,519,000 remain to be returned. On V-J Day the Pacific strength was 1,565,000 and In the China Burma-Indla theater 231,000, a to tal of 1,796,000. Of this number 293,000 had been See MAKE Page 2 TODAY IN CONGRESS: Fight On Tax Bill Shaping Up Between House, Senate By MAX HALL WASHINGTON. Oct. 20. —VP)— The first month and a half of the brawling postwar Congress ended today with the following fights developing fast: Taxes—This fight will be House vs. Senate. The Senate finance com mittee has agreed on a tax-cutting bill sharply different from the one passed by the house. Somebody will have to yield. Atomic—-A battle over the Presi dent’s atomic bill shaped up this week when scientists spoke out against it. The White House hoped a long, complicated struggle would be avoided by quick passage of the bill. Military—Army chiefs asked con gress this week to merge the Army and Navy. Navy chiefs are expected to argue against it next week. So far, Mr. Truman is officially neutral. COMPULSORY TRAINING Universal Training — The Presi dent will make a personal trip to the capitol on Tuesday, to try to sell some sort of compulsory train ing for America’s youth. Lots of law-makers are determined not to be sold. The Senate finance committee worked all week on its tax bill, which the senate will probably debate next week — maybe Wednesday. Changes possibly will be made by the Senate during debate, but the com mittee’s recommendations are al ways influential, to say the least. The committee’s bill cuts $5,629. 000,000 Off Of the $32,500,000,000 experts say would be collected in taxes next year under present laws. That’s a good deal more than the committee was expected to cut. Also, it’s more than the $5,350,000, 000 reduction made by the house. LOW INCOME GROUPS Under both bills, 12,000,000 peo ple would be relieved of income taxes entirely, starting Jan. 1. See FIGHT Page 2 —4 JUNTA DRAWS REINS TIGHT ON VENEZUELA Seven-Man Group Promis es General Election By Secret Vote PRO-DEMOCRATIC By C. Allan Stewart CARACAS, VENEZUELA, Oct. 20.—(JP)—A revolution ary junta tightened its grip on oil-rich Venezuela today after unseating President Is aias Medina Angarita in a bloody uprising which cost 50 lives and left 100 wounded. The seven-man Junta, which promptly promised a general elec tion by direct, secret vote, an nounced it would follow a pro-de mocratic policy. The junta came into power af ter young army officers, ranging from the rank of major down, re belled against the Andinos, a wes tern military clique which had do minated national politics for a century. (Bogota dispatches said the an dinos still claimed control of the western states of Tachira, Merida and Trujillo. Whether these states possessed sufficient armed strength to threaten a counter-revolution was called "conjectural.” Persons with a knowledge of Venezuelan politics predicted the Andinos “will never voluntarily back down.”) President Medina and Gen. El eazar Lopez Contreras, former president who had announced his condidacy for the 1946-51 presi dency, were reported under arrest and scheduled to face a swift trial. (Bogota advices, quoting Caracas radio, said the trial would be on charges of graft and fraud. They added that the former government leaders would be given an oppor tunity to explain the source of their fortunes publicly.) A state of siege existed in Cara cas, which had been isolated from the rest of Venezuela. Newspa pers were censored, radio stations closed, transport paralyzed and electric current shut off. Reinforcements from insurgent held Maracay, 30 miles east of the oapltal, were reported enroute to restore order. Thousands of arm ed civilians had begun to loot Car acas homes shortly after the Me See JUNTA Page X WILL DISSOLVE JAP ZAIBATSU Family Controlled Monop olies In Japan Must Be Ousted TOKYO, Oct. 30—(JP)—Drafting of legislation to dissolve Japan’s Zaibatsu—family controlled mono polies—must await the forming of a new cabinet expected to follow the general elections early next year, it appeared today. Premier Kujiro Shidehara’s ministers rate election reform their basic policy making task just now and plan to postpone some other fundamental re forms, including dissolution of the Zaibatsu, for a government “more representative of the people,” said sources close to the premier after a cabinet meeting today. Government sources also said the Shidehara cabinet probably would resign after the election, making way "for a younger, more vigorous government” whose pre mier largely will be determined by the outcome of the election. They added that the government be lieves extensive legislation essen tial for dissolution of the Zaibatsu should be presented" to a more representative diet,” elected under liberalized voting laws permitting participation of women and youn ger men. RETURNING TROOPS On the occupation front, Eighth army headquarters at Yukohama announced that 30 ships are to arrive within the next four weeks to return nearly 58,000 troops to the United States. The ships will bring replacements and equipment from Seattle. The first four due are reported to be carrying 12,000 replacements —the first to arrive from the States. An order designed to curb black market operations was Issued by General MacArthur’s headquar ters today. It prohibits Ameri can military and civilian personnel from sending home any money See WILL Page Z War Trials Of Japanese On Atrocity Charges To Begin Within Few Days By James Lindsley TOKYO, Oct. 20.—(JP)—War trials for the first of 2,000 Japanese on charges including sickening atrocities are ex pected to begin within the next 60 days. “Approximately 500 suspects now are in custody.” said Col. Alva C. Carpenter, Port Wayne, Ind., cor poration lawyer, who is directing preparations for one of history’s greatest criminal trials. “More are being taken In daily. No, we will not wait until all are arrested to start the trials. We could start with class three cases within three weeks." Class three cases are those of Japanese accused of actual ly committing crimes such as beheadings, often done at the direction of superiors. These Japanese are regarded as small fry. Colonel Carpenter, chief legal officer of General MacArthur’s staff, said prospects for the crim inal list make it likely the total will double the present figure of 2,000. Among those already in custody are such well publicized person ages as Hideki Tojo. Japan’s pre mier when the war began, mem bers of his cabinet and such war leaders as Lt. Gen. Masaharu Homma, accused of responsibility for the brutal death march of Bataan. MORE COMPLICATED “Our problem here is consider ably more complicated than in Manila,” said the tall, square-jaw ed Carpenter. “We already had been occupy ing Manila for a long time When the war ended, had prepared much of our evidence so about all we had to do was catch our defend ants and go ahead. “In Japan, however, we had to empty prison camps, inter view prisoners about atrocities —in other words, start from scratch. Then we had to catch our criminals.” See WAR TRIALS Page X Strike In Utilities Is Near Settlement Agreemerit Reached After Gov. Kelly Threatens State Intervention By The Associated Press The three-day work stoppage of 2,000 utility workers appeared headed for settlement today as CIO union leaders urged the strikers to accept a new wage offer and go back to their jobs of servicing gas and electricity to some 2,000, 000 consumers in 2,000 Michigan communities. McKNIGHT TO ROME BUREAU John P. McKnight Goes To Rome As Correspond ent For AP John P. McKnight, who' recently was granted his discharge after three years in service during which he directed the army’s educational program in the Antilles department stationed in Puerto Rico, has sail ed for Rome, Italy, where he will resume his foreign service duties with the Associated Press. Since 1930, with exception of his service interruption, Mr. McKnight mr. Mcknight has been in the AP foreign service, having headed bureau operations for that news gathering agency at Lisbon, Portugal, Madrid, Spain, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Santiago, Chile, and other places including Puerto Rico. SLATED FOR PACIFIC Following his release from service, Mr. McKnight was slated for Paci fic assignment, but with the change in correspondent structure under General MacArthur’s orders he was assigned to the Rome bureau. Mrs. McKnight will visit her par ents, Dr. and Mrs. R. L. Wharton, in Havana, Cuba, before joining her husband in Italy. Mr. McKnight, son of J. S. Mc Knight, and the late Mrs. McKnight of Shelby, began his newspaper career as a reporter on the Shelby Daily Star, and later, after his graduation from Davidson, was a member of the staff of the Char lotte News before going with the Associated Press. A settlement agreement was ac cepted by the union leaders last night as effects of the walkout were being felt in at least three large cities and as Gov. Harry F. Kelly threatened state inter vention in manning the facilities of the consumers power company. Their acceptance was subject to ratification by the 22 state locals of the CIO Utility Workers union and an early decision was expect ed. Union leaders agreed to a set tlement after lengthy conferences with state and federal officials and representatives of the struck company. Elsewhere across the labor front, there were new and threatening disputes while some controversies were settled. There were about 415,000 workers idle because of labor troubles, a drop of more than 42,000 feet in the last 24 hours. With the expected return Monday of most of the 216,000 soft coal miners after a month of idleness, the national total is ex pected to be around 200,000, the lowest in several weeks. WAGE INCREASE Terms accepted by the Michi gan utility union leaders were for 13 cents an hour wage increase, the amount previously recommend ed by a special mediation panel and rejected by 17 of the 22 lo cals. As supervisory and non-striking employes manned facilities, a near normal flow of gas and electricity was furnished, but heating service in downtown buildings in Jack son, Battle Creek and Saginaw were affected by curtailment of service from central heating plants. Detroit, the state’s biggest city, was not affected by the See STRIKE Page 2 THE REV. MR. KALE CENTRAL HEARS KALE ONSUNDAY New Pastor And Family Installed At Parsonage Rev. W. Arthur Kale, named by the Western North Carolina con ference to succeed Rev. Paul Har din, jr., in the pulpit of Central Methodist church, arrived late Fri day to occupy the parsonage, 310 East Marion, and will preach his opening sermon to his new congre gation at the 11 a. m. service to morrow. His topic will be “A Name less Town That Also Became Fa mous.” Mr. Kale, who comes from First Methodist at Hickory where he made an enviable reputation, comes recommended as one of the leading younger ministers of the confer ence. A native of Asheville, he took his A. B. at Duke university in 1926 and his B. D. there in 1931 follow ing graduate study also at Yale university. His previous pastorates include service at Kannapolis ail\l Mooresville. Mrs. Kale, the former Miss Ruth Rogers of Jefferson City, Tenn., and their two children, Billy, 10, and Tommy, 6, are at the parsonage to day, but Mr. Kale was called back to Hickory, to conduct a funeral service since his successor, Rev. J. Clay Madison, had not yet reached his new post. Appropriations Bill May Be Changed To Discharge Measure WASHINGTON, Oct. 20. — (£>)— A move to convert a $52,000,000,000 appropriations withdrawal into an Army-Navy discharge measure headed into the senate today after repulse on a technicality in the House. If successful, it would effect the discharge of several hundred thou sand men with 18 months of service who have dependents or a desire to resume interrupted schooling. It might also provoke a veto. The bill already is loaded with a re quirement for prompt return to the states of the United States Employ ment Service offices. Funeral Today For Gen. Calles MEXICO CITY, Oct. 20—OP)— Funeral services were held today for Gen. Plutarco Elias Calles, 68, former president of Mexico, who died of a stomach ailment yester day after an illness of several years. President of Mexico for a four year-term, from Dec. 1, 1924, to Nov. 30, 1928, Calles was a domi nating figure in Mexican politics for many years. Big Share Of War Fund For Benefit Servicemen Have you contributed to the 1945 United War Fund drive? The campaign is now in its second week under leadership of Shem K. Blackley in Shelby and the county excepting Number 4 town ship where Byron A. Keeter is chairman. The county’s quota is $23,932 excluding Kings Mountain where $5,000 is being asked. The county outside Shelby and Kings Moun tain, where the campaign is being pressed through individual chur ches, is expected to provide $10, 000 of the total. ALLOTMENT The USO gets 70 percent of the 1945 fund to carry entertainment to American troops kept in Europe and the Pacific for occupation pur poses, Mr. Hoffman said. Soon after the final victory in i World War II, USO officials thought of bringing their activities to a close in a few months. Mili tary leaders, however, urged this organization to continue its work until all the boys are brought home, or at least until large groups of American service men are no i longer kept intact in foreign lands. Thus, the USO is planning to operate at least 15 months longer, and is already arranging top-flight shows for the make-shift theatres wherever Americans are stationed. The budget calls for expendi tures averaging at least $3,000,000 a month—compared with $5,000, 000 monthly expenses during the war. In addition to the USO, 16 agencies charged with carrying relief to the friendly nations devastated by war, will share the remaining 30 percent of the Ra tional War fund. SOEKARNO ASKS, TRUMAN TO PROHIBIT USE Java Natives Charge Am erican Neutrality Is Be- ( ing Violated ^ DUTCH~HOSTAGES \ By Ralph Morton BATAVIA, JAVA, Oct. 20. —(A5)—President Soekamo of the unrecognized Indonesian government appealed to Presi dent Truman tonight to pro hibit the use of American equipment by Dutch forces seeking to quell the independ ence movement. In a radio gram to the President, Soekamo charged that some of the persons fighting in Java were wear ing American uniforms. The radio gram said: “I beg to inform you that repre sentatives of the Dutch government, in an attempt to reestablish Dutch colonial administration in Indo nesia, have recruited their own army from Dutch prisoners of war and Eurasians wearing American uni forms and equipped with American arms, munitions and trucks to ter rorize the population by: “1 .Shooting at innocent passers by. *. K.ianappmg ana maltreating —even killing—captives. “3. Robbing private belongings. “Protests have been made to Al lied military headquarters without satisfactory results. “I appeal to you please to dis allow infringement of American neutrality and order the immedi ate discontinuance of American dis guise by the Dutch.” The Netherlands news agency Aneta reported grave fears today for the safety of 31 Netherlanders held as hostages since Oct. 4 by In donesian “extremists.” Eleven women and four children are in the group of hostages, who were taken from the Bandoeng Batavia train at Pondokgede, an Indonesian Christian village south east of Batavia, Aneta said. Dutch forces captured Pondok gede Oct. 14. They were approached under a flag of truce by national ists who declared they would kill all the hostages unless the Dutch eva cuated the village, Aneta added. VIOLENCE FLARES Violence flared yesterday at Se marang as a battalion of British Gurkhas troops occupied that port on the north coast of Java. In a three-hour skirmish, two of the Indian soldiers were killed and six wounded. Lt. Col. J. A. Melsop, British headquarters spokesman, said the battle started when the Gurkhas were fired on from government buildings they were about to oc cupy. An Indonesian governor, carry ing a white flag, came through the lines and said that those firing from the buildings must have been Japanese, since he had given or ders to Indonesians not to shoot at the British. RED CROSS WORKERS A Japanese officer attempted to reach those in the buildings and give an order to cease firing, but was unsuccessful. At the pavillion hotel of Sem arang the British found unharmed a group of workers for the Red Cross and an organization for relief and allied prisoners of war and internees. They also learned that two war correspondents, who had been re ported killed in a telegram received by Indonesian officials in Batavia, were safe. They are Ralph Con nistion of New York, representing Aneta, and Robert Osbiston, rep resenting the Sydney Daily Mir ror. Nazi Defendants Study Indictments NUERNBERG, Oct. 20 —(£•)— The Nazi leaders who face trial as war criminals were up at dawn this morning and looked like col legians cramming for final exami nations as they dug into their in dictments. “That’s the most studious group I ever saw,” one guard commented. Hie top-ranking Nazis read even during breakfast. As there are no electric lights in their cells and since the indictments were served late yesterday, this was the first chance they had to study the charges. Only Field Marshal Hermann Goering seemed to have a com pletely detached attitude as he stretched out on his bed in what appeared to be deep thought. Ask ed if he had made any decision regarding his counsel, the former Luftwaffe chief replied, “I'll think it over awhile."
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