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CLEVELAND COUNTY’S NEWSPAPER SINCE 1894
TELEPHONES 1100
VOL. XLIU-258
ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWS
SHELBY, N. Cr
SATURDAY, OCT. 27, 1945
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Netherlands Formerly
Had Refused To Recog
nize Soekarno
SILENT ON~DETAILS
THE HAGUE, Oct. 27—
(fP)—The Dutch ministry for
overseas territories announc
ed today that Hubertus Van
Mook, acting governor gen
eral of the Dutch East Indies,
had been ordered by the
Dutch government to open ne
gotiations immediately with
Indonesian nationalists.
A. W. L. TJarda Van Starken
borgh Stachoutver resigned as gov
ernor general of the Rich East In
dies empire Oct. 16 because of a
disagreement with the Dutch gov
ernment's policy in connection
with the Dutch government's pol
icy in connection with the nation
alist uprising in Java.
At that time the ministry for
overseas territories said the gov
ernment would not deal with Soe
karno. self-styled president of the
“Indonesian Republic.” The Dutch
have charged that Soerkarno was
an opportunist who collaborated
with the Japaneec. The ministry
said the government was ready,
however, to offer self-government
w.thin the Netherlands common
wealth to the Indonesians.
REPORTS CONFUSED
The ministry gave no further de
tails of its announcement today
and said that reports from the is
lands still were too confused for
it to be able to give a commentary.
^ mle SJarifuddln, Soekamos
tVilster of information, announ
ced in Batavia Thursday that the
Indonesians were willing to open
informal talks with the Dutch if
these two conditions were observ
ed :
The talks would be held in the
presence of a third party, a repre
sentative of the United States or
Britain, and the “right of self-de
termination of the Indonesian peo
ple” would be acknowledged.
A Batavia dispatch said Dutch
political Informants there express
ed belief that Soekarno’s move
mnt could be split and that this
farctor apparently was determin
ing Dutch strategy.
NEW HOSPITAL
TO BE BUILT
AT GOLDSBORO
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GOLDSBORO, Oct. 27.— UP) —
State Senator Thomas O’Berry,
chairman of a senate committee
appointed In 1943 to survey and
report on the need for a hospital
for feeble-minded negro children,
eald today a new 600-bed hospital
would be erected near the site of
the present hospital for negro in
sane here.
The new hospital will be ar
ranged so as to allow additional
space to accommodate another 400
children at a minimum of cost.
Plans for the new unit are being
drawn by A. J. Maxwell, Jr., Golds
boro architect.
The unit will be located on a
hill Just north of the present ne
gro hospital, where the state now
cares for feeble-minded negro
children.
O’Berry’s report was submitted
to the 1945 legislature and was
approved. The architect’s plans are
expected to be ready well ahead
of the next general assembly In
1947, when an appropriation will
be requested with which to erect
the structure.
Indian Summer Is
Buffeted About In
Wintry Weather
Indian summer, buffeted by bad
weather and periodic visits of Jack
Frost in recent weeks, c^me back
warmly today after sinking the
thermometer to the 43-degree
mark last night.
Cotton growers are taking full
^ advantage of the break in weather
to get cotton picked, although
• there is more cotton than ready
hands to pick it just now.
Further frost tonight is pre
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REV. MR. SUTTLE
SUTTLE AGAIN
IS MODERATOR
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Veteran Minister Named
Moderator For 34th
Consecutive Time
Rev. John W. Suttle, veteran
Cleveland county minister, who is
known over the county and state
for his more than 50 years work
in the gospel ministry, was yester
day unanimously named modera
tor of the Kings Mountain associa
te for the coming year, his 34th
consecutive time.
Rev* W. P. Big'gefstaff, pastor
of the Eastside Baptist church, of
Shelby, was named vice-moderator,
and J. W. Costner was elected sec
retary-clerk. W. A. Roberts was
made music chairman. •
The association, which brought
its ninety-fifth annual session to a
close yesterday at the Waco Bap
tist church, will convene next year
on Thursday and Friday before the
fourth Sunday in October, the first
day to be held at Union Baptist
church and the second day of
meeting to take place at Patterson
Grove Baptist church.
This year the first of meetings
was held at Fallston church and
the second day at Waco. It was
reported to be one of the most suc
cessful meetings the association
has had.
A new church, the Temple Bap
tist church, of Kings Mountain,
constituted March 4, 1945, was ad
mitted to membership in the as
sociation.
Among the speakers who appear
ed on the program were R. L.
Satterfield, of Meredith college, P.
L. Elliott, president of Gardner
Webb college, M. A. Huggins, gen
eral superintendent of the North
Carolina Baptist state convention,
L. L. Carpenter editor of the Bib
lical Recorder, Dr. Allen Easley,
of the department of Religion at
Wake Forest College and John A.
McMillan, editor of the Charity and
Children.
Superior Court
Opens Monday
More than 75 criminal cases
have been calendared for trial at
the term of Cleveland Superior
court which opens here Monday
with Judge Allen H. Gwyn, of
Reidsville, presiding.
Solicitor Folger Townsend will
prosecute the docket.
The same grand jury which sat
at the alst term of court will be
convened and will make reports
on its investigation of county in
stitutions.
Nation’s Steel Workers
Plan Strike Votes In
Drive For Pay Increases
By The Associated Press
The nation’s CIO steel workers, following the procedure
of CIO automotive employe? as part of their campaign to get
increased wages, plan strike votes.
neaaea Dy pmup Murray, presi
dent of the CIO as well as head
of the Steel Workers union, of
ficials today prepared the strike
vote petitions, which they expect
ed to have filed with the proper
federal agencies by Monday.
The strike ballots would In
volve more than 600,000 employes
in 766 steel, aluminum and iron
ore plants and were regarded as
the union’s answer to rejection by
major steel companies of its de
mands for a $2 a day wage boost.
The proposed vote was announc
ed as final tabulations in the sec
ond strike ballot of the automo
bile industry’s “big three” showed
workers in Chrysler Corporation
plants favored a work stoppage.
In a similar poll employes of Gen
eral Motors also voted in favor of
a strike. The results were regard
ed by CIO United Automobile
Workers leaders as a “mandate”
See NATIONS Page 2
U. S. Must Serve As
Guardian Of Peace
Hawthorne Daniel Discusses Growing Pacific Empire
Before Executives Club
America’s opportunity to serve as guardian of the peace
in a golden era immediately ahead, one in which the Pacific
empire stands to emerge -more definitely, depends upon
whether this nation is mature enough to accept its new and
greater responsibilities, the Cleveland Executives club was
told last night by Hawthorne Daniel, noted lecturer and war
correspondent, in its October meeting at the Hotel Charles.
SHIDEHARA FOR
PRESS FREEDOM
Calls It "Sheet Anchor Of
International Se
curity"
TOKYO, Oct. 27— UP) —Prime
Minister Shidehara said today ‘‘in
accepting the Potsdam declaration
the Japanese government has
willingly subscribed to the prin
ciple of freedom of the press.”
‘‘Holding that the principles are
the sheet anchor of international
security, I am persuaded it will
mark the first decided step to
ward the ultimate goal of all
thinking men in every land — a
wholesome democracy and an en
during peace.”
The prime minister issued a
statement in response to a recent
request by Wilbur Forrest, assis
tant editor of the New York Her
ald Tribune, who is vice-president
of the American Society of News
paper Editors and chairman of the
society’s special committee on
postwar freedom of the press.
Fbrrest, Carl Ackerman, dean of
the Columbia graduate school of
journalism, and Ralph McGill, ed
itor of the Atlanta Constitution,
spanned the world last spring in
the interests of press freedom.
They obtained pledges and state
ments from governments and ed
itors.
The society conducted a cam
paign to have specific guaran
tees on press freedom written into
the peace treaties with Germany,
Japan and Italy. Forrest visited
Japan after the surrender.
PERILOUS MONTHS:
Year Ahead Will Tell Story:
Are We Facing Peace Or War?
By DeWITT MacKENZIE, AP News Analyst
We shall have a fair Idea a year
from now whether we are headed
for peace or for another war—but
let none doubt that the Interven
ing months are filled with perils.
Blunt notice of the dangers was
given yesterday in Leeds, Scot
land, by Britain’s distinguished
former foreign minister, Anthony
Eden. He declared that the ter
rible warning of the atomic bomb
“has failed to produce any healthy
consequences,” and continued:
“The nations are not joined
closely . together. Unhappily, the
tendency is rather in the reverse
direction. The world unquestion
ably Is In very grave danger. We
.need cool, calm and understand
ing leadership.”
IN JEOPARDY
Simultaneously another noted
figure, Bishop O. Bromley Oxnam
of New York, president of the Fed
eral Council of the Churches of
Christ in America, told an Ohio
teachers convention in Cleveland
that if the big nations fall out,
the security of all nations is in
Jeopardy, and he added:
“Peace is not being negotiated
with Germany and Japan. They
See YEAR Page 3
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as me leading nation oi tne
world, thp United States has a re
sponsibility In contributing to the
advancement of the living stand
ards of the billion civilized people
who inhabit the lands which border
the Pacific and Indian oceans, the
speaker declared in one of the most
intellectually stimulating as well as
informative lectures in the series
brought here by the Executive
group.
“GOOD CONSCIENCE”
Mr. Daniel asserted that the only
way in which the United States
can retain its leadership is by ac
cepting its responsibilities and do
ing what decency and common
sense dictate in the preservation of
peace, and the enjoyment of a
golden age of progress and devel
opment which lies in the future,
if we iheet our responsibilities with
greatness of heart and good con
science.
The United States, Canada,
China and Russia are potentially
the world’s greatest countries to
day, he said. Mr. Daniel challenged
the leadership of this nation to
catch the vision of what is possible
if we will but marshal our forces
for the achievement of democratic
ideals to which we’ll have to give
more than lip service.
Laying background for his lec
ture. Mr. Daniels started with the
year 1781 as marking the advent of
a new area. He said that the Amer
ican Revolution marked the period
in which the shackles of the past
which for centuries had imprison
ed the mind of the common man
were broken. He cited the Declar
ation of Independence, the Bill of
Rights, and the American Consti
tution as the three greatest docu
ments ever struck off by the hand
of man, and he noted that in Great
Britain as a consequence of the
changes which were taking place
politically in the English speaking
world, there was an industrial or
economic revolution taking place
See U. 8. Page 2
Early Morning Fire
Completely Destroys
Efird’s At Concord
CONCORD, Oct. 27 —<£>)— An
early morning fire today complete
ly destroyed the three story Efird’s
department store in the center of
Concord with the damage expected
to run into many thousands of dol
lars.
The fire apparently started some
time during the night and the in
side of the building was ablaze be
fore it was discovered shortly be
fore 8 o’clock.
The building and all merchandise
was destroyed. The fire was
brought under control about 11
o’clock. Buildings on either side
of Efird’s were not damaged. No
one was injured.
GOVERNMENT
SEES BRIGHTER
LABOR PICTURE
Reconversion Expected To
Get Breather From
Strike Troubles
WAGE-PRICE POLICY
By Sterling F. Green
WASHINGTON, Oct. 27.—
(/P)—Government agencies de
tected signs today that recon
version may be accorded a
berathing spell from labor
management disputes over
wages.
L:.bor department sources pre
dicted unofficial^ that major work
stoppages will be stayed until the
end of the year because big strikes
now:
" • Might influence congress in
its consideration of anti-strike leg
islation.
2. Would tend to embarrass the
national labor-management peace
c nference beginnig I'ov 5.
Tb; federal conciliation service
reported that’ in the week ended
October 24 the number of strikes
settled exceeded# the number of
new ones which began, and con
cluded that "near normal” condi
tions may prevail by mid-Novem
ber.
WAGE—PRICE
Another factor is President. Tru
«nati’s new wage-., oe policy, which
he will disclose in a radio speech
- uesday r.ight. The administration
hop.; this will smooth differences
between employers and workers
over postwar take-home pay.
Senator Murray (D-Mont) sug
gested in a senate speech yester
day that r i coi : tax law pen
alty be invoked against corpora
collectively in good faith” with la
bor unions.
Murray said the plan should ap
ply also to firms which turn down
federal offers of - c: '-.tion or vol
untary arbitration.
It would deny the corporations
use of the “carry Lack and carry
forward” tax provisions permitting
companies to deduct the losses of
a bad year from the profits of a
good one.
1946 Meat Supply
Likely To Be About
Same As For 1945
WASHINGTON, Oct. 27 —(IP)—
Consumers can expect at least as
much meat In 1946 as In 1945, but
farmers may receive “moderately
lower’’ returns from sale of meat
animals, the agriculture depart
ment forecast today.
The meat supply in 1946, the
department said, is likely to bal
ance demand at the 1945 level of
wholesale and retail prices.
This means, the department ex
plained, that even if price ceilings
are removed the general level of
retail prices probably will be about
the same as in 1945.
The expected removal of sub
sidy payments to slaughterers not
later than June 30, 1946, may re
sult in some decline in cattle and
hog prices.
The department predicted some
what greater pork production.
TWO S.C. MILLS
VOTE ONJTRIKES
SPARTANBURG, S. C., Oct. 27
—(AO—Workers in two South Car
olina cotton mills were on record
today with one affirmative and
one adverse vote in balloting in
connection with a strike vote or
dered by the National Labor Re
lations board.
C. D. Puckett, business manager
of the Spartanburg-Cherokee joint
board, Textile Workers Union of
America (CIO) yesterday an
nounced the results of strike votes
taken at the Broad River mills of
Blacksburg and the Limestone
mills at Gaffney, the former vot
ing for and the latter against a
strike.
He announced the results as fol
lows:
Broad River—157 eligible; 77
for strike and 54 against.
Limestone Mill—243 eligible; 86
for strike and 115 against.
The strike vote in the mills was
ordered by the NLRB following a
dispute at the mills where nego
tiations have been underway for
some time for a new wage con
tract and wage adjustments.
TO ANNAPOLIS—Petty Officer 2
c Harry A. Teele, son of Mr. and
Mrs. L. E. Teel, of 817 Jefferson
street, Shelby, has received an ap
pointment to the U. S. Naval
academy, Annapolis, Md., and will
leave his present station at Pen
sacola, Fla., Monday to begin his
studies. A graduate of Shelby
high school, he has been in the
navy 21 months and served aboard
the aircraft carrier USS Guadal
canal. The appointment was made
by Senator Clyde R. Hoey.
VICTORY LOAN
OPENS MONDAY
Cleveland's Quota Is $1,
51 OyOOG With- $325
Of E Bonds
Victory Bonds go on sale Mon
day in the nation’s “clean-up”
bond selling campaign In which
Cleveland county is asked to pro
vide $1,500,000 of the nation’s
$11,000,000,000 total. Of that a
mount $325,000 is to be Series E
type.
In each of the preceding seven
great war loans the county has
measured up to its over-all quota,
though not in every instance
meeting fully the E-bond part as
signed. War Finance Chair
man George Blanton is confident
the Eighth and final Victory Loan
will be met in both phases if
every individual citizen meets his
personal challenge to buy to the
limit of his ability.
Virtually the same organization
used in preceding bond drives will
handle the Victory Loan and is
poised to swing into heavy action
next week, said Compaign Chair
man Jack Dover who has headed
each of the previous successful
drives.
Mac Arthur Has No
Plans For Coming
To States Soon
TOKYO, Oct. 27—(A>)—General
MacArthur has "no Immediate
plans” for visiting the United
States, his headquarters said to
day.
War department officials in
Washington said yesterday they
assumed MacArthur would come
home for a visit "in the near fu
ture.” There was speculation that
he might arrive at the capital be
tween Nov. l and 8th.
WHAT’S DOING
SUNDAY
10:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.—USO
center open to service folk vis
iting in the city.
MONDAY
7:30 p.m.—State guard drill
at armory.
Speaks In New York At
Navy Day Rally; Would
Outlaw Atomic Methods
NEW YORK, Oct. 427.—(/P)—President Truman pro
claimed to the world today a 12-point foreign policy based on
the use of military power to preserve peace while planning
to outlaw the atomic bomb.
"Loss of faith In the effectlve
nes of international organization,”
is the great threat to peace, he
said. "In an atomic age it would
be nothing short of disastrous.”
Until world cooperation reaches
the state where atomic methods of
destruction can be “definitely and
effectively outlawed forever,” the
United States will hold the wea
pon as a "sacred trust.”
He expressed willingness to ex
change fundamental scientific in
formation in talks with other na
tions which will begin soon, but
reaffirmed:
“These discussions will not
be concerned with the process
es of manufacturing the atomic
bomb or any other instruments
of war.”
The chief executive’s first over
all statement of foreign policy
since he took office last April was
made at a navy day rally in
Central Park.
It came in the midst of intense
diplomatic efforts to bring about
better relations with Russia and a
few hours after word that Gen
eralissimo Stalin, bad., re.ceiy.ed an
undisclosed message from Mr.
See SPEAKS Page 2
Carrier Roosevelt
Commissioned In
Navy Day Ceremony
NEW YORK, Oct. 27—(;F}—The
huge aircraft carrier Franklin D.
Roosevelt—45,000 tons of fighting
steel—was commissioned today in
impressive navy day ceremonies
by President Harry S. Truman
who told 10,000 persons at the New
York navy yard:
“This ship is a symbol of our
commitment to the United Na
tions organization to reach out
anywhere in the world and to help
the peace-loving nations of the
world stop any international
gangster.”
The commissioning was the first
of a day-long series of tributes to
the mighty American fleet which
swept the aggressor from the
oceans and gave this country su
premacy of the seas.
Hundreds of thousands of city
residents and visitors jammed the
city—its streets and buildings re
splendent in flags and bunting—
to take part in the lavish navy day
ceremonies.
China Disturbed
Over Red Policy
Russian Refusal To Allow Chinese Troops To Land At
Manchurian Ports Is Challenge
By Spencer Moosa
CHUNGKING, Oct. 27.—(fP)—A feeling of distinct un
easiness prevailed in Chungking today about Russia’s China
policy, as indicated by Moscow’s reported refusal to allow
Chinese government troops to land at Dairen and Port
A —i-T_
-artnur.
This alleged refusal was consid
ered by some here an open viola
tion of Chinese sovereignty over
Manchuria, specifically acknowl
edged by Russia in the recent Si
no-Soviet pact.
Official Chinese quarters
showed pronounced reticence
in discussing Sino-Soviet re
altions, in obvious fear of in
curring Moscow’s displeasure,
but strong undercurrents of
resentment were not difficult
to trace.
Chinese circles were perturbed
about the alleged Russian trans
fer of much of Manchuria’s
wealth, which from testimony of
See CHINA Page 2
All First Class
Mail May Be Moved
By Air In Future
LITTLE ROCK, Oct. 27 —C/P)—
Postmaster General Robert Han
negan indicated at a press con
ference here Thursday that all do
mestic first class mail would be
carried by air in the future.
The possibility of such air mail
expansion is under consideration,
he said. A general survey is be
ing made of postal rates, both for
eign and domestic, and the infor
mation will be submitted to Con
gress, said Hannegan.
Harriman Talks With Stalin,
Finds Him Rested, Not III
By EDDY GILMORE i
MOSCOW, Oct. 27—(ff)—Conver
sations between U. S. Ambassador
W. Averell Harriman and Gener
tlissimo Stalin concerning a com
munication President Truman sent
the Soviet leader have led to de
velopments which may have an
important bearing on future col
laboration among the allies, it was
learned today.
Harriman was received by the
Soviet leader at a vacation resort
in the Black Sea area, and discuss
ed with him at length mutual prob
lems.
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This was the second time since
Truman took office that he has
had Harriman go directly to the
Soviet leader with matters affect
ing the two nations. On the other
occasion, following the death of
President Roosevelt, Harriman ap
peared personally at the Kremlin,
at a time when Foreign Commis
sar V. M. Molotov was away, at
tending the San Francisco confer
ence.
Another point of importance
connected with the U. S. Ambas
See HARRIMAN rage 3
BAGIEV CALLS
FOR VAST NAVY
Asks Such Superiority Of
Strength No Enemy
Will Dare Attack
RALEIGH, Oct. 27—(flV-Vice Ad
miral David Worth Bagley today
called for a post-war navy “of
such superiority in size and
strength that no foreign power or
combination of powers will ever
again dare to attack this nation
or its possessions.”
Speaking at a navy day observ
ance here, the 64-year-old native
of Raleigh said, "already we have
heard the first rumblings of a
movement to scrap our armament
in favor of treaties or to lay up
our ships to save a few dollars.”
HOLD ADVANTAGE
To those, he said, “who pin their
hopes on treaties and conferences.
I say: good luck—the navy, like
every peace-loving American or
ganiaztion, hopes you anil succeed.
But until the new world order is
a reality, we would be foolish to
let ourselves be talked out of our
present advantageous position.”
Today the United States is in the
driver’s seat, he said. We must
continue strong enough to imple
ment our national policy by force,
if necessary, as insurance against
another world conflict.”
Admiral Bagley, a native of
Raleigh, is now on duty with the
navy department in Washington
after holding important com
mands in the Pacific during the
war.
He was introduced by former
Governor J. M. Broughton.
Bulletin
PORTLPAND, IND., Oct. S7
—(iP)—Four men were reported
killed and several others in
jured today when an army
transport plane crashed m a
farm northwest of PCMvttte,
lad.