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WEATHER North Carolina—Pair and rather cool today and tonight; Thursday, increasing cloudiness and continued cool. Ehe Hlxelhy Buily Him« State Theatre Today - "OVER 21” IRENE DUNN ALEXANDER KNOX CLEVELAND COUNTY’S NEWSPAPER SINCE 1894 TELEPHONES 1100 VOL. XLIII- 255 ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWS SHELBY, N. C. WEDNESDAY, Oct. 24, 1945 TELEMAT PICTURES SINGLE COPIES—Be U. S. SCORES POLITICAL USE OF LEND-LEASE ARMS <****' ******* * * * * * * * « * * * * * First Of Strike Votes Among Automobile Workers Taken Today Vidkun Quisling Shot By Firing Squad Before Dawn Today By NED NORDNESS OSLO, Oct. 24.—(/P)—Vidkun Quisling, Norway’s arch £ traitor, was executed by a firing squad before dawn today, paying the final price for dealing with an enemy his king and countrymen defied throughout the bitter years of the war. rne greatest secrecy surrounded the execution, a Foreign Affairs office spokesman said. Quisling was awakened In his cell at about 1 a. m. (9 p. m., Tuesday, EST) and rushed quickly before the firing squad of ten Norweigian military police. The only witnesses were an unidentified member of the state prosecution, a clergyman and the officer who gave the order to fire. The youths who formed the fir ing squad had been forced to flee the country during Quislings re gime. Members of the squad had been alerted tqp the past week for their task. Quisling stumbled to his death appoint an ambassador to Buenos through a murky, drizzling rain in the dismal execution square of the ancient Akershus fortress. To the very end he maintained that he was a patriot. He had sent a letter protesting his Innocence to king Haakon VII. The government had not planned to announce the execution for three or four days to avoid public ity and public curiosity. However, one Oslo newspaper learned of Quisling's death in time to catch its last edition with a brief sentence that he was executed. The story brought forth a ministry of justice communique seven hours later. The body presumably will be turned over to relatives for burial in Quisling’s native province of Telemark. A foreign affairs spokes man intimated that his brain would be removed for study. In the slightly more than five years he ruled Norway as Adolf Hitler's puppet, the name of Vldkun Abraham Lauritz Quis ling became a synonym for traitor. He was virtually unknown out See VIDKUN Page 2 WAGE-PRICE POLICY: Advisory Board Is Called Into Session Agenda For National Labor-Management Peace Con ference To Be Issued Today By Sterling F. Green WASHINGTON, Oct. 24.—(/P)—The reconversion advis ory board was called into special session to debate a revis ion of wage-price policy as the first of half a milliooi auto workers took a strike vote today. U. S. Sees little Way To Punish Peron Regime By GRAHAM HOVEY WASHINGTON, Oct. 24 — (A>) — United States action against Juan Peron's Argentine dictatorship will continue to consist mostly of pro tests and ‘pin pricks," a survey of the situation made plain today. Government officials concede gloomily that the Buenos Aires •‘strong man” apparently has come back stronger than ever, following his recent oyster as vice president. But after studying courses of action which might be open to the U. S. and the 19 other American Republics, these officials conclude that only the Argentine people can rid themselves of Peron's regime. No desire to appease Peron figur es in this conclusion. TWO COURSES Top U. S. officials concerned view the Argentine equation this way: Probably only two effective courses of aclNui against the Peron regime exist — armed intervention, which is diplomatically unthink able, and application of an eco nomic embalgo, which is unfeas ible. An economic embargo of Argen tina is out because EUrope—par ticularly Britian — is getting sore ly-needed meat, wheat, corn and linseed products from that coun See U. S. SEES Page 2 WHAT’S DOING t TODAY 6:30 p.m. — Special Sunday school business supper at First Baptist church. 7:30 p.m.—Fellowship hour at Central Methodist church, followed by meeting of Junior Board of Stewards. 7:30 p.m.—Prayer meeting at Presbyterian church. THURSDAY 3:00 p.m. — County - wide meeting of white school prin cipals in office of board of ed ucation. 7:00 p.m.—Regular meeting of Kiwanls club. I A CIV. 441VV Vlllg ««Ui UiOV/U.'KJ ll^UiCO on worker income and living costs assembled t); the staff of recon version director John W. Snyder. It originally was scheduled for next week. The government also prepared to issue today the agenda for the na tional labor - management peace conference starting November 6. The group will seek voluntary means of settling labor disputes to replace the wartime ‘‘no strike-no i lockout” pledge. DEVELOPMENTS Pressure for an early statement ! from the administration on wages and prices grew with these devel opments: 1. Upwards of 300,000 CIO Unit ed Automobile Workers in 96 Gen | eral Motors Corporation plants be I gan marking ballots in a federally | conducted poll on whether to back I their demands for 30 per cent higher wage rates with a strike. Strike votes involving additional , thousands of workers are schedul i ed for 20 Chrysler Corporation plants tomorrow and 51 Ford plants on November 7. 2. The CIO oil workers interna tional union was scheduled to meet with assistant secretary of the Navy H. Struve Hensel. He is striving to bring about resumption of negotiations between the union and operators of oil refineries seiz ed by the government in a recent 15-state strike. The companies Indicated will ingness to bargain. 3. The government had notice — along with the CIO United Steel Workers of America — that the U. See ADVISORY Page 2 VOTE FAVORING WORK STOPPAGE SEEMS CERTAIN Strike, However, Would Not Necessarily Fol low Election HOLDS ATTENTION By The Associated Press The first of three strike votes involving some half million workers in the auto mobile industry’s “big three’’ was held today as employes of | General Motors Corporation balloted in a federally-con : ducted election costing an es | timated $250,000. A vote favoring a work stoppage to enL .ce the CIO United Auto mobile Workers demands for a 30 per cent wage rate increase ap peared certain, even to corpora tion officials. But a union spokes man asserted that a strike would not necessarily follow the election. He predicted a light turnout of GM's 300,000 employes, but suffi cient to make a strike legal. Re sults will be announced by the National Labor Relations Board, probably late tomorrow. Union spokesmen predicted 90 per cent of the voters would approve a strike. The ballot held the center of at tention along the nation’s labor front, and will be followed by a vote tomorrow among Chrysler Corp. employes, and among Ford Motor Co, workers of Nov. t. Anrdfc* ’the cdHntry labor disputes kept about 225,000 men and women away from work, a slight drop In the last 24 hours. As workers voted, officials of General Motors and the union re sumed their wage conference, but there were no indications of a See VOTE Page 2 SHOE RATIONING HAY END SOON Oct. 28 Or Nor. 1 Tenta tive Dates; Late Dec ember For Tires By MARVIN L ARROW SMITH WASHINGTON, Oct. 34 — (/P) — Tentative plans call for an end of shoe ra toning either Oct. 38 or Nov. I, it was learned today. Government officials also have considered the possibility of treml natlng toe program earlier If these plans b am* generally known. These are other developments and prospects on the rationing front: 1. OPA has decided to cut but ter ration values from 12 points a pound to eight. It will announce this tomorrow. 2. Passenger tire rationing may be ended late In December. 3. Truck tires are slated to come off the list by late November. NO ANNOUNCEMENT Choice of a date for ending shoe rationing is expected to be made today or tomorrow by OPA and war production board officials. October 38 — next Sunday — Is advocated by those who feel that termination of the program over the week-end would give dealers a chance to get ready for unra tioned buying. Those vho favor November 1 be lieve it would be • good Idea to wind up (tie program at the start of a calendar month. In either $ase, present plans call for no announcement until the eve of the effective date. Congress Undecided About President’s Training Plan By JACK BELL WASHINGTON, Oct. 24 -HA5)— An uncertain Congress held up a moistened finger for the -winds of public reaction today before tack ling President Truman’s universal military training program. Brought up short against a problem many aren’t ready to meet, legislators appeared to be separating into these three groups: 1. Those willing to approve lock, stock and barrel Mr. Truman's proposal that a year’s training be given all physically able young men while they are between the ages of 17 and 20. This ap peared to be a minority group. 2. Those who want a modi fied training program which won’t interrupt young Ameri ca’s education. This seemed to take in the great body of middle-roaders. 3. Those who oppose any form of compulsion, think volunteer military training will meet the na tion's needs. They form another See CONGRESS Page 2 Directors Of Japan’s Top Family Monopoly Work To Reorganize / By Russell Brines TOKYO, Oct. 24.—(TP)—Directors of Japan's biggest multi-million dollar family monopoly, prodded by the stigma of being linked with the war effort, wrestled today with re organization—while the harassed government prepared to beg for outside aid to meet a food crisis. ine prooiem before the direc tors of Mitsui, a company dating back to 1673, was what to do with holdings which are frowned on under the present setup by Gen eral MacArthur. The problem before welfare Min ister Hitoshi Ashida was how to feed the people through crucial months of November and Decem ber until transportation deficien cies are overcome to permit ade quate distribution of the current ly harvested rice crop. Ashida said his government plans to ne gotiate with the United Nations relief and rehabilitation admin istration. While the Nipponese grappled with these paradoxical issues of rags and riches, American occu pation interest was focused on the visit of a war department official from Washington. Little was be ing said about the conferences of John J. McCloy, assistant secre tary of war, although these al ready have Included a meeting with MacArthur. RUMORED VISIT McCloy may have brought word on the oft-rumored possibility of MacArthur making his first visit to the United States since before the war. Or he may have discuss ed the forthcoming participation of Russian, British, Australian and Chinese troops in the occupation, Mitsui directors, it was learned authoritatively, are discussing such drastic moves as the retire ment of 10 Mitsui families and the liquidation of their huge stock holdings. No definite decision has been reached. The directors of Mitsui are dis cussing these possibilities: 1. Liquidation of the Mitsui See DIRECTORS Page 2 i John W. Suttle, dean of Cleve land county ministers, will serve as moderator of the association for his 33rd successive time. The theme of the meeting will be “The Call and Challenge of a New Era,” and the call and challenge will be pointed out as they appear; in Sunday school teaching, Chris-1 tian education, woman’s mission work, orphan responsibilities, heal ing of the sick, Christian literature, Baptist training union, world mis sions, conditions at home, and the like. Scriptural basis for the theme is taken from 1 Oor. 7:15t>, "But God hath called us to Peace”, and from Bom. 38 :b, “To them who are called according to the purpose of God.” In the first session on Thursday with the Fallston church, the as sociation will see three sessions, one at 9 o’clock in the morning, 1:30 in the afternoon and 7 o’clock at night. SECOND DAY On the second day, the associ ation will move to the Waco Bap tist church for two sessions, one at 9 o’clock in the morning and the final session at 1:30 in the afternoon. Among the speakers who will ap pear on the program are Phil L. Elliott, president of Gardner-Webb college, O. Max Gardner, Dr. Zeno Wall and M. A. Huggins, of the See ASSOCIATION AL Page 3 Raleigh Has No Official Notice If Trip To Be Canceled RALEIGH, N. C., Oct. 24—(J5)— Officials in charge of plans for President Truman’s scheduled vls-i it here November 2 had not been officially advised yesterday of any possibility that the trip of the Chief Executive might be cancelled. According to Washington reports, a heavy schedule of engagements before the management-labor con ference might force the cancella tion. English Translations Of Jap Laws Asked TOKYO, Oct. 24.— m —Allied headquarters today directed the Japanese Diet to furnish it with English translations of all legis lation at the forthcoming general assembly, including English re ports on the progress of ills through that body. COAL SHORTAGE EASING HERE One Compony Gets Car Of Coal, Others Have Cars Promised The coal situation In Shelby, though critical If cold weather should suddenly set in showed signs of easing up today, accord ing to reports from various coal dealers. Most conspicuous sign of relief was the announcement of one coal company that a car load of the warm comfort had just arrived, and the testimony of others that they had been promised ship ments which were expected to ar rive in a short time. Coasting along through a period of warm weather, Shelby has averted what might have devel oped into a situation of serious proportions had cold weather struck just at the time coal deal ers were finding their stocks ex hausted. One dealer said that during the recent cool snap, patrons had ap peared with sacks and even scrap ed up the slack off the yards. Large stocks of orders will make See COAL Page 2 College To Press Building Infirmary And Girls Dormitory A purpose to have the new in firmary and 48-student girls dor mitory in readiness by the fall of 1948 was determined by the build ing committee of Gardner-Webb Junior college in a session at Boil ing Springs Tuesday, Chairman Jack Dover stated today. The committee decided to have an architect proceed with plans for the buildings to fit into the broader construction pro^am which will be pressed more fully as conditions and availability of materials allow, Mr. Dover said. Pressing need for a student dor mitory space and the medical center caused the building com mittee to single out those projects for initial construction, Mr. Do ver added. I Mi JOIN GARDNER-WEBB FACUL TY—Mrs. Robert Gidney, top, and James Y. Hamrick, bottom, have' joined the faculty of Gardner Webb college it Was anhounced today by President Phil Elloitt. Mrs. Gidney, graduate of the Westminster Choir school, will be voice instructor; Mr. Hamrick, son of Mr. and Mrs. Huff Hamrick of Boiling Springs, recently dis charged from the army aft> ser vice in Europe, will teach English and assist in physical education. TO IMPROVE” COUNTYROADS RALEIGH, N. C., Oct."24 — tf5) — Governor Cherry today instructed the State Highway Public Works Commission to give principal at tention immediately to improve ment of county and secondary roads. In plain talk he said the rural roads in mapy sections were in deplorable condition and that he “had heard some people in the west were on the verge of a revo lution about it.” He said "the state has the money and we can pay” for the increased cost of labor and materials. LACKS VISION He told Chief Engineer Vance Baise, who was present, that Baise had spent so much time on figures, blue prints, and contracts that “you haven’t got the proper vision of county roads.” “A real emergency confronts us,” the governor said. Chairman A. H. Graham in an swer said the commission was giv ing county road improvement the high priority. Some people, he said, got an idea after the October 9 listings that main highways were the primary concern of the com mission. That, he said, was incor rect, because that program must be affected and those roads do no take the sa^ie type of equipment as do county roads. Byrnes Protests Use By British, Dutch In Far East Battles WASHINGTON, Oct. 24.—(IP)—Secretary of State Byrnes said today that the United States objects to the use of lend-lease arms for political purposes as they have been employed by British and Dutch forces in the far east. au tnai nas oeen aone aoout the objection, Byrnes told a news conference, is to ask the British and Dutch to remove the United States emblem from the military equipment they are using against nationalists in Indo-China and in Java. The policy of objection applies everywhere, Byrnes added, assert ing that if it has not been invoked it should be in South America or any other section of the world. He told inquirers that the United States had not received any pro tests from Venezuela or other South American countries. Howev er, some lend-lease arms were used by Venezuelan revolutionaries last week to put over what top offic ials here consider a liberal change in the government. In Indo-China and the Dutch Indies, lend-lease materials have been used by troops of the Colonial powers to attempt to restore or der. The United States last week announced a policy of non-inter vention in those situations but at the same time offered to try to patch up the difficulties if re quested to do so and sharply re minded the powers concerned that they should prepare their peoples for self-government. $100,000 Drive Set For Memorial Fund Chairman Mull Announces Mai Spangler Will Direct Intensive Campaign For Center A campaign to raise $100,000 this fall toward the Com munity Center project that will be this community’s mem orial to all who served in World War II will be taken right to the people in a drive opening November 6, because, as stated by 0. M. Mull who is chairman of the sponsoring Shelby and Cleveland County Foundation, “everyone will want to have a part in this. Announcing the purpose to add $100,000 by public subscription this year to the approximately $50,000 already on hand, Mr. Mull said that Mai A. Spangler will serve as campaign chairman of the in tensive drive which will be press ed in every plant, office, store and home. LIVING MEMORIAL “Never before in the life of our people have we had an opportunity to contribute to a cause of this kind, to help in providing a living memorial useful to present and future generations, a project that will add to the health, happiness and better living of all our peo ple from now on,” Mr. Mull said. “It is our thought that everyone will want to have part, however small, in this great and worthy project.” Mr. Spangler said that the spe cial gifts committee, headed by J. D. Lineberger, will set to work next Tuesday. Serving on that com mittee with Mr. Lineberger will be Lee B. Weathers, Thad C. Ford, Carl R. Webb, J. L. Suttle, jr., C. Rush Hamrick, sr., O. M. Mull, Mason L. Carroll, Fred W. Blan ton, Clyde A. Short and Mrs. R. H. Rogers. BUSINESS DISTRICT Willis McMurfy will serve as chairman of the business and pro fessional district solicitation, while Earl Honeycutt and W. L. Angel will direct the outlying business so licitation; Mrs. Rush Stroup will direct the residential canvass, while Charles I. Dover will head the industrial solicitation that will be carried to each worker every place of employment in the most intensive campaign yet waged. Walter E. Abernethy is chairman See $100,000 Page 2 UNILATERAL TRADE PACTS: Russia Is Consolidating Her Sphere Of Influence By DeWITT MacKENZIE, AP News Analyst There’s this, to be said of Rus sia, and we shall be smart to note it well: When the Muscovites have determined on a major objective, they drive head-on for it. That characteristic is illustrat ed in the Soviet action in propos ing to conclude unilateral trade pacts with the Axis satelliets Hun gary. ’ Romania and Bulgaria—a move which Britain and the Unit ed States have protested as vio lating the spirit of the Yalta a greement for concerted policies a mong the Big Three. The sig nificance of this development seems clear enough, and it sup ports the thesis advanced in this column long ago: Moscow has laid out for its sphere of influence virtually the whole of eastern and central Eu rope up to the line running from the great German port of Stettin on the Baltic right down to the Adriatic. Just take a look at your maps. Within this zone is the new Poland, Czechoslovakia, Aus tria, Hungary, Finland and the Balkans, with the possible excep See RUSSIA Page 2 Venezuela Asks Recognition Of New Government CARACAS, Oct. 24 —UP)— The ultra-conservative newspaper La Esfera appealed for immediate international aecognition of the De Facto government of Venezue la as the nation gradually return ed to normal today after the revo lution which ousted President Isa ias Medina Angarita. La Esfera was a bitter oppon ent of the Medina regime, al though it supported his predeces sor, Gen. Eleazar Lopez Contre ras in the abruptly ended presi dential campaign. At last re ports, both Medina and Lopez Contreras were in the custody of the revolutionary government, which had promised swift trials of the revolutionary. There were only scattered in stances of the looting and shoot ing which hei aided the revolution : on Oct. 18 business was normal in ; most respects. The familiar brown khaki of the police was missing, but green-clad soldiers, civilians ! and Boy Scouts kept order as well I as possible, and traffic was no i more snarled than usual. [WORLD SERIES A certain indication that th« country was almost back to nor mal came in the announcement that the eighth amateur baseball world series would start Saturday, i with Venezuela playing Costa Ri ca. The game had been postpon led one week by the revolution. A decree .which froze assets of public employes was clarified last night. The same decree fulfilled one of the revolutionary govern ment of President Romulo Betan court that the wealth of public functionaries all the way back to 1907 would be investigated. During a 15-day period a three man board will decide which for tunes will be sequestered. Reports of casualties from the fighting during the revolution still trickled in. The latest avail able total was 248 killed and more than 500 wounded. Communications Strike In Philippines MANILA, Oct. 24.—(JP)—A Strike of Filipino communications work ers for higher wages has virtually paralyzed Manila’s civilian contact with the rest of the world. The head of the Philippines Communication Workers’ union I has been summoned by the court of industrial relations to show cause why he should not be held In contempt of court for calling the strike.
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