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CLEVELAND COUNTY’S NEWSPAPER SINCE 1894 TELEPHONES 1100
VOL. XL1I1-257
ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWS
SHELBY, N. C.
FRIDAY, OCT. 26, 1945
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Japs Reluctant To Obey Order For Their Diplomatic Isolation
Income Tax Reductions
In Proposed New Bill
To Be Last Until 1947
By Francis J. Kelly
WASHINGTON, Oct. 26.—(A1)—Income tax reductions
which go into effect next January will be the last until 1947.
Chairman George (D-Ga) cf the senate finance committee
said so today as he and other conferees got together to ad
just differences in house and senate versions of tax-cutting
legislation.
"Whatever is done in this bill
regarding individual income taxes
undoubtedly will stick through
1946,” George told reporters.
"Any further change that might
be made in the long-range post
war revenue bill we propose to
write next year would not be ap
plicable before 1947.”
The senate bill cuts individual
Income taxes $2,644,000,000, all
taxes $5,788,000,000. In the house
bill, $2,627,000,000 of the $5,350,
000,000 total reduction is in indi
viduals income levies.
MAJOR POINTS
George said only four major
points are in controversy:
1. Excess profits tax on cor
porations. The house voted to cut
the rate from 85.5 to 60 percent
next year, repeal the levy in 1947.
The senate wants to repeal the
tax next January 1.
2. Individual income taxes. Both
houses agreed to extend to payers
of the 3 percent normal tax the
more liberal exemptions allowed
surtax payers. The house voted
to cut each of the graduated sur
tax rates by 4 percentage points,
and to assure every taxpayer a
minimum 10 percent tax reduc
tion.
The senate chose to trim each
surtax rate by 3 percent, then re
duce the total normal and surtax
by 5 percent.
The relief Is the same In both
bills for persons in the first $2,000
surtax brackets. From $2,000 to
$20,000 the senate provided more
relief than the house. Above $20,
000 the house cut deeper than the
senate.
SMALL CORPORATIONS
3. An amendment by Senator
Vandenberg (R-Mich) to help
small corporations by stipulating
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Association Holds
Second Day Sessions
Officers To Be Elected, Next Meeting Place Selected
This Afternoon
The final session of the ninety-fifth annual Kings Moun
tain Baptist association was underway this afternoon, in the
second day of the meeting being held at Waco Baptist church.
The first day of the meeting was held yesterday at the Fall
Democrats Given
Ups In Probe
Of Pearl Harbor
By JACK BELL
WASHINGTON, Oct. 26 —(IP)—
President Truman has signed an
order which Republicans said to
day gives the Democratic members
of the Pearl Harbor Committee a
stranglehold on the investigations
course.
The order provides that witness
es and records may be summoned
only by majority action of the ten
member Senate-House group. Six
lumbers are Democrats.
At the same time the President
rejected a proposal that individual
committee members be petmsted
to Interview prospective army and
navy witnesses and to look over
official records.
Republican protests may explode
In the Senate and House unless
some compromise is reached.
They are keeping silent now In
the hope they may force approval
of procedure similar to that of the
Senate War Investigating Commit
tee.
RECORDS OPEN
When Mr. Truman headed that
committee as a senator, each mem
ber was free to poke into any gov
ernment records he wanted to see.
He could take to anybody who
might have Information on the war
program.
Then he could report to other
members and If they decided an
investigation was warranted, it
was so ordered.
Senators said this system pro
duced many worthwhile leads. It
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Dutch Governor
Invites Soekarno
. For Conference
BATAVIA, Oct. 26—(iiP)—H. J.
Van Mook, acting governor of the
Netherlands East Indies, was re
ported today to have invited Pres
ident Soekarno of the ‘Indonesian
Republic” to meet him at the
home of the British military com
mander for informal talks looking
toward settlement of the Indones
p Un independence dispute.
ston Baptist church.
Appearing on the program this
afternoon were Rev. Jesse Blalock,
Rev. C. B. Bobbitt, Rev. B. F. Austin
and Pres. Phil L. Elliott, of Gard
ner-Webb college, who was to de
liver the inspirational address. The
association was slated to adjourn
at 3:45.
A date and place of the meet
ing for next year was also to be
decided thia afternoon. New offi
cers for the association were to
be elected.
In the morning session, L. L.
Carpenter, editor of the Biblical
Recorder, in Raleigh, Dr. Allen
Easley, of the department of re
ligion of Wake Forest college, Rev.
R. M. Hauss, of the Allied Church
League of North Carolina, Rev. C.
C. Crowe, and Rev. W. G. Camp
were speakers on the program.
Dr. Carpenter spoke on Chris
tian literature; Dr. Easley repre
sented Wake Forest college in be
half of Christian education. Mr.
Hauss, who deplored the drink sit
uation in America, said "When you
legalize drunkenness, you legalize
murder and all the other crimes
in the category.” Rev. Crowe
spoke on "The Church and the Re
turning Soldier.”
MISSIONARY ADDRESS
Rev. Camp delivered the mis
sionary address. “The center of
hope of the earth is In the cross
of Christ,” he said.
A night session of the associa
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THEY ALSO
STALL TO KEEP
MONOPOLIES
$2,500,000 Worth Of Ra
dium Confiscated By
Allied Forces
POLICY DISCUSSIONS
TOKYO, Oct. 26.—(JF)—
The Japanese foreign office
today showed reluctance to
obey General MacArthur’s
unprecedented orders for the
diplomatic isolation of Japan.
Domei agency quoted unnamed
informed sources as reporting that
the government would "exercise
great care” In following the or
der, but that foreign office offi
cials "would sound out” allied au
thorities on whether the directive
“conforms to the Potsdam decla
ration.”
MacArthur yesterday ordered
Japan to transfer all of her di
plomatic and consular properties
and archives everywhere in the
world to the allied powers, to cease
relations with foreign governments,
and to recall her diplomatic and
consular representatives from a
broad. The directive was prepar
ed by the joint chiefs of staff In
Washington.
The allies, Immediately after the
cessation of hostilities, had re
quested Japan to cease relations
with neutral powers. At that time
some quarters of the government
emment on any phase of the
request was Inconsistent with the
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STARVATION
STALKS EUROPE
Bevin Says Hunger May
Cause Further "Prolific"
Loss Of Life
LONDON, Oct. 26.—UP)—Foreign
Secretary Bevin declared In a
house of commons debate today
that hunger and privation In Eu
rope may bring "a further prolific
human loss more devastating than
the gun or the atomic bomb.”
Bevin said conditions in devas
tated Europe resulted from a po
licy Hitler Imposed. When the
Nazis discovered they could not win
the war, Bevin said they decided
to leave Europe In a state of
“complete anarchy.”
“We had studied the situation
for months and when we saw what
had happened, we had to alter all
our plans and redevise the sys
tem” Bevin continued.
POLITICS
He said Great Britain alone
could do “very little” to relieve
conditions in Europe.
Although everything was being
done to feed the people In the
British occupation zone, Bevin said
it had to be “balanced against the
resistance of our people to the
cutting of their supplies.”
He said grain was being burned
In the Argentine because of the
lack of oil and that it would be
common sense to send oil to Ar
gentina in return for the grain
“but there again politics Inter
venes.”
“More wheat must be supplied
if a disaster is to be avoided this
year,” the stocky foreign secretary
added.
Unparalleled Armaments
Race Has Already Begun
By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER
WASHINGTON, Oct. 26 —(/P)—
The world Is beginning ah arma
ments race without parallel In
history
Half the world does not trust
the other half. The United States
and Britain know how to get a
long; but Anglo-America and Rus
sia simply haven’t had the com
bination.
Washington and London shared
virtually all their top war secrets
—not all but 90 or 95 percent.
Russia would not trade.
Nor were the United States and
Britain inclined to give secrets
away to the Soviets.
There it was—they did not trust
each other.
After the victory the' Russians
established puppet governments
throughut eastern Europe.
They did this for security rea
sons—official Washington thinks
—to help protect them against the
capitalist west.
The United States, while
professing to love everybody,
began staking out claims on
strategic bases in the Pacific.
Into this brew of suspicion drop
ped the atomic bomb.
The Russians haven’t said
anything about the policy of
keeping it more or less “se
cret.” But diplomatic and sci
entific Washington are con
vinced that Soviet physicists
and engineers are working 24
hours a day to catch up.
Army, navy and political leaders
say this means the United States
must be so powerful that no oth
er country will dare attack. And
Russia feels she must be so pow
erful that no nation will dare at
tack her.
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POLICE SURRENDER IN REVOLT—Hands on head in surrender,
policemen of Caracas, Venezuela, are marched to the Miraflores Palace
at Caracas where they were imprisoned in a garage by soldiers revolting
against the regime of President Medina.—(AP Wirephoto).
Relations Between
U. S., Russia Better
Russia Seems Ready To Agree To U. S. Authority On
- Control Council For Japan
By Graham Hovey
WASHINGTON, Oct. 26.—(/T*)—Relations between the
United States and Russia seemed on the mend today in an
atmosphere of better understanding.
Mao Charged
With Provoking
Strife In China
CHUNGKING. Oct. 26—UP)— A
charge of povoking civil war in
China was flung today at Mao
Tse-Tung, the Chinese communist
leader who recently reached broad
peace agreements at a conference
with Generalissimo Chaing Kai
Shek.
“The responsibility rests entirely
with your side,” declared Gen. Fu
Tso-Yi, commanding China’s 12th
war zone, in making the charge.
He said:
Chinese oommunists soldiers have
attacked central government troops
at points between 150 and 250 miles
west of Peiping.
The communists are sending
more than 100,000 reinforcements
into the area.
The “approach of invading for
ces” has necessitated the evacua
tion by government troops of five
cities “to avert civil war.”
“There’s a limit to our patience,"
General Fu messaged Mao.
“Further armed assaults by com
munist troops will place us with
our back to the wall. Communist
forces must be responsible for any
crisis that may result.”
He added “I must make it crystal
clear I have received no order from
Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek to
return fire.”
Senate Committee
Probes Gambling
Among Navy Men
WASHINGTON, Oct. 26— (A>) —
The senate war investigating com
mittee turned today to an In
quiry about gambling among navy
men in connection with asserted
sale of ship supplies on Hawaiian
black markets.
Senator Ferguson (R-Mich) said
the investigators would keep an
eye on navy action against per
sonnel responsible for misuse of
food described by witnesses at a
committee hearing.
“It is up to them to push it
ahead,” he told a reporter, “but
we are going to watch it.”
Ferguson estimated about $1,
000,000’of government-owned sup
plies had reached the black mar
ket around Pearl Harbor. Chair
man Mead (D-NY) fixed illegal
sales at perhaps half a million.
xnese were the developments:
1. State department disclosure
that the two governments were
discussing the Soviet proposal for
a four-power council (U. S., Russia,
Britain, China) to govern Japan.
2. Indications Russia would
agree that when differences arose
in the council, the U. S. position
should govern.
3. Timely delivery of Russia’s
United Nations ratification docu
ments, which permitted the world
secruity organization to become a
fact Wednesday.
Washington officials hoped the
week-end might bring at least one
more air-clearing event: an an
nouncement that Russia had de
cided to participate in the allied
far eastern advisory confmission,
which will meet here for the first
time Tuesday.
UNDER DISCUSSION
Announcement yesterday of the
continuing four-power council dis
cussions climaxed a day in which
government officials and newsmen
debated this question:
When Foreign Commissar
Molotov first proposed the
council for Japan, did he mean
one like that set up to govern
Germany, or one like those es
tablished to administer former
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Former Chief
Hangs Self Ir
By GEORGE TUCKER
NUERNBERG, Oct. 26 ——
Bull-necked, lugubrious Dr. Rob
ert Ley, one-time luxury loving
chief of Hitler’s labor front, hang
ed himself in his cell last night
at the Nuernberg jail, where he
was awaiting trial as a war crim
inal.
His suicide may mean major
changes in preparations for the
trial of the 22 other leading Na
zis incarcerated there. With the
opening of the trial only a few
days away, Ley’s death was believ
ed to exclude the use of certain
documents with high value as
evidence, pertaining only to the
ex-labor boss.
Ley was pronounced dead at
8:10 p.m. (2:10 p.m., EST) last
night, after efforts to revive him
failed. The official announce
ment, issued by prison command
ant Col. C. B. Andrus of Denver,
Col., said the body was discovered
by a sentinel who became suspic
ious when Ley remained seated
motionless in his cell for more
than two minutes.
MOUTH STUFFED
“The sentinel called the pris
oner by name and received no
PRESIDENT TO
REPORT WAGE,
PRICE POLICY
Government Formulating
Plan In Attempt To
End Strikes
TUESDAY~BROADCAST
WASHINGTON, Oct. 26.—
(/P)—President Truman Will
announce his proposals for
wage and price stabilization
in a radio address Tuesday
night as part of a fast-de
veloping government attempt
to end strikes.
The President wHl broadcast
(10 p.m. EST) the outline of a
policy he and his advisers hope
will at least head off further
walkouts for nay increases.
Mr. Truman made known his
plan at a news conference yester
day. He also:
1. Spiked reports that his chief
price adviser, reconversion Direc
tor John W. Snyder, would re
sign.
2. Announced appointment of a
seasoned labor trouble-shooter,
Dr. John R. Steelman, as a pres
idential special assistant.
3. Said he had not encouraged
Charles E. Wilson, president of
General Motors, to propose a na
tional 45-hour work week, as Wil
son did after a White House visit
last Friday.
4. Made public the agenda for
the labor-management peace con
ference beginning Nov. 5 and let
ters from leaders who planned it.
5. Renewed his demand for en
actment of the so-called full em
ployment bill now bottled up in
a house committee.
Airmen In V. S. To
Be Discharged With
44 Points, 2 Years
WASHINGTON, Oct. 26— m —
All AAP pilots, navigators and
bombardiers who are In the United
States, have 44 points and two
years of service now are eligible
for discharge.
The same is true of other AAF
officers with less than 44 points
but with two years or more on
active service, if their services no
longer are needed.
The exceptions, an army air
forces announcement yesterday
said, are personnel in the air
transport command, the army air
ways communications system and
the weather service assigned to
foreign duty.
WHAT’S DOING
TODAY
7:00 p.m. — Executives club
meets at Hotel Charles.
7:30 p.m.—Kings Mountain
Chcrryville football game in
local ball park.
7:30 p.m.—Regular commun
ication of Cleveland Lodge 202
A. F. & A. M.
Nationwide Strike By
75,000 Mail Order House
Workers Is Authorized
By The Associated Press
Further labor trouble tor Montgomery Ward and Com
pany was threatened today.
A nationwide strike by some 75,000 employes of the
huge mail order house, which i,n the last few years has been
involved in numerous labor disputes, was authorized yester
day, by the general executive board of the CIO United Retail,
Wholesale and Department Store employes.
TRUMAN TO
SPEAK IN N. V.
Called "Most Important"
Since He Entered White
House
WASHINGTON, Oct. 26 — (&)—
President Truman expects to de
liver tomorrow in New York “the
most important speech from a
news standpoint” that he has made
since entering the White House,
a presidential secretary said today.
Marking Navy Day, it will <|>al
with foreign po!>.y.
The 25-mlnute address, the sec
ond the president will make while
all networks at 1:30 P. M„ E.S.T.
in New York, will be broadcast on
The first speech, a nine-minute
affair, will be at 11 A. M., E.S.T.,
aboard the new aircraft carrier
Franklin D. Roosevelt at the
Brooklyn navy yard. Eben Ayres,
assistant press secretary, labeled
the second address, to be made in
Central Park, the most import
ant since the president took of
fice.
New Venezuelan
Government Hopes
For Recognition
By PHILIP CLARKE
CARACAS, Oct. 26—(/P)—Spokes
men for the Venezuelan govern
ment expressed hoi»; today that
the announced recognition extend
ed by Cuba, Ecudor and Para
guay would lead soon to universal
recognition of the revolutionary re
gime.
The last hopes of the forces loyal
to deposed President Isaias Medina
Yangarita collapsed Wednesday,
after a week of exciting intrigue
during Which his followers Lad
rallied an army of barefoot, mach
ete-wielding Andinos from the hills
near San Cristobal in far western
Venezuela.
Japs Ask Permission
To Import Foods
TOKYO, Oct. 26—(AV-The Jap
anese government asked permis
sion of allied headquarters today
to import 4,350,000 tons of food
stuffs next year.
Of Nazi Labor Front
i Nuernberg Jail Cell
DR. ROBERT LEY
answer,” the announcement said.
“They (the guard and the corpor
al ot the guard) entered the cell
and discovered L^y was on the
toilet seat. His mouth was stuf
fed with rags torn from his un
derwear. Around his neck was
the hemmed edge of a towel, fast
ened to the top of the flush pipe
of the toilet. The guard called
the prison officer, Lt. Paul H.
Graven, Madison, Wis., who cut
the prisoner down.”
Ley had wet the toweling to
make sure that the knot would
not slip, and had drawn the noose
tight when he seated himself. The
guard, who looked into the cell
every 30 seconds, could see only
the prisoner’s knees. Apparently
Ley had planned his suicide long
and carefully.
DEFENDANTS NOT TOLD
The 22 other top-ranking Nazi
defendants were not informed of
Ley’s death. His body was re
moved to the prison morgue.
Ley was indicted Oct. 18 with
23 other defendants. One of
them, Deputy Fuehrer Martin
Bormann, will be tried in absen
tia. His whereabouts are un
known and he is believed to be
dead.
The leader of the labor Bund
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The time for calling the strike,
the board said at a meeting In
New York, will be decided by
President Samuel Wolchok. He an
nounced he would call It “at the
most opportune time.”
First, however, Wolchok said the
union, acting in the public Inter
est would “exhaust the processes
of negotiation and mediation, x x x
We are willing and offer to •-sub
mit all issues to arbitration.”
“MANDATE”
Interpreting result* of a
strike vote among General Mo
tors employes as a “mandate”
to press its wage demands, the
CIO United Automobile Work
ers today resumed negotiations
with the big corporation.
Union officials meanwhile await
ted a final tabulation of ballots
cast by Chrysler Corp. workers
yesterday on the issue of a work
stoppage.
Although only 83,654 of General
Motors’ 325,000 eligible employes
took the trouble to vote, the nearly
6-to-l majority in favor of au
thorizing a strike was considered
by the union to represent the
workers’ sentiments. The totals
showed 70,853 for a strike, 12,437
against and 364 ballots were void
ed.
OTHER DISPUTES
Elsewhere along the country’s
labor front, major disputes con
cerned the prolonged strike of
movie workers in Hollywood and
the CIO United Automobile Work
ers fight to gain a 30 per cent
wage rate increase for a half mil
lion motor industry workers. The
various labor troubles in industry
and business kept 223,000 workers
away from their Jobs 2,000, less
than were reported idle yester
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CHERRY URGING
WAR FUND LIFT
Blackley Asks Workers To
Complete Drive By
Monday
Governor R. Gregg Cherry, In.
a telegram this morning to Shem
K. Blackely as United War Fund
chairman, urged redoubled efforts
toward raising this community’s
part of the National War Fund.
“I am greatly concerned that
North Carolina raise its full U
nited War Fund quota," the gover
nor said. "To meet war-created
needs and maintain our state’s
reputation in every form of war
campaign this Victory campaign
must be successful, and I wish to
call upon you and your co-work
ers to renew your efforts until
the goal has been reached.”
Mr. Blackley in turn called up
on his campaign workers to press
solicitations and get final reports
in not later than Monday. A num- I
of church groups expect to com
plete their drives Sunday.
Appreciation for the excellent l
work done to date, especially by!
the industrial division, was ex- f
pressed by Chairman Blackley.
The War Fund campaign will
close ctth Monday since by agree
ment here it was to be terminated
prior to the Victory Loan and Me
morial Community Center cam
paigns. If any individuals will-1
ing to give have not been contact-]
ed they are urged to take volun-|
tary gifts to Paxton Elliott, treas-j
urer, at the First National bank,]
Mr. Blackley stated.
Most Naval Men In
ETO Returned To U. S.
LONDON, Oct. 26—(fP)—U.
naval headquatrers said
that of 18,200 naval offic
men stationed in the European
theatre Aug. 15, a total of 10,690
had been sent home for lnacttv
duty or discharge by Oct. IS. A
further decrease of 52 percent in
personnel was planned by