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Starring WARNER BAXTER
CLEVELAND COUNTY’S NEWSPAPER SINCE 1894
TELEPHONES 1100
VOL. XL111-263
ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWS
SHELBY, N. C.
FRIDAY, NOV. 2, 1945
TELEMAT PICTURES
SINGLE COPIES—6c
TEMPORARY TRUCE REACHED IN JAVA FIGHTINI
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Street Fighting Breaks Out In Cairo; Anti-Zionists Begin Strik
CZECH TRAITOR EXECUTED—The body of Joseph Ffitzner, No. 3 war
criminal of Czechoslovakia, hangs from the gallows In Prague Just after
4 he was executed for high treason. He had served the German Nazis as
deputy mayor of Prague.—<AP Wirephoto).
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Number Idle Due To
Strikes Is 266,000
Newest Strike Is That Of 16,500 CIO Textile Work
ers In New England
By The Associated Press
Fresh labor disputes added thousands of workers to
the ranks of idle today, the national total of men and women
off the job because of work stoppages jumping from 243,000
LAWNDALE UPS
WAR FUND $859
Blackley Pressing Final
Report Yet Few Thous
ands Short
Lawndale’s contribution of $859.10
today swelled the United War
Fund which Is In process of com
pleting its tabulations and retir
ing from the field.
C. D. Forney. sr„ chairman, and
Fred Denton, treasurer, yesterday
handed Chairman Shem Blackley
that sum which was the contribu-;
tlon of the people of the Lawndale
community and the Cleveland Mill
aSt Power Company.
Final figures are not complete
from Kings Mountain and several
rural churches yet, but It appeared
today on the basis of best available
information that the county will;
fall but a few thousands short Of j
the goal—many other counties are
falling far short. Mr. Forney sum
med up the situation to Mr. Black
ley when he said “folks are forget
ting this war more quickly than
any trying experience the nation |
has known.' When they got gas the I
has known. When they got gas
they forgot all about the watf and
the job of cleaning up the wreck
age.”
VICKY SAYS 77 .
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to 4bb,UUu.
The newest and biggest strike
was the walkout of approximately
16,500 CIO textile workers in 19
plants in three New England
states, Maine, New Hampshire and
Connecticut. Another 5,000 work
ers in the San Francisco bay area
were made idle because of the
strike of AFL and CIO machin
ists, making the total idle in the
region 60,000.
Some 10,000 textile workers in
nine plants in Maine left their
jobs in a controversy over wages,
which vary according to the type
of work performed. They have
asked for a raise of 10 cents an
hour. Eight mills in Connecticut
employing 2,500 and two mills in
New Hampshire employing 4,000
struck in a dispute over demands
for a closed or union shop. No
wage issue was involved in their
demands.
There was little indication of a
settlement of the strike of AFL
and CIO machinists in the San
Francisco bay area as an addi
tional 5,000 workers were made
idle because of shutdown of in
dustries. Some 60,000 workers in
about 200 plants are affected by
the walkout, which started last
Monday over demands for a 30
percent wage increase for the ma
chinists.
MILK SUPPLY LOW
Retail store milk supplies were
reported shrinking because of the
closing of a carton producing
plant. A union spokesman said
See NUMBER Page 2
CROWDS STONE
OFFICERS, LOOT
JEWISH SHOPS
General Strike Called In
Protest Against Bal
four Declaration
BRITISH BLAMED
CAIRO, Nov. 2.—(/F)—
Street fighting broke out in
downtown Cairo today coin
cidently with the beginning
of a general strike by anti
Zionists elements and police
fired shots into the air to
disperse crowds who hurled
stones at Jewish establish
ments.
Demonstrators went through the
bazaar, breaking windows and
looting Jewish shops. The largest
Jewish department store in Cairo
was set afire, but the blaze was
quickly extinguished by fire bri
gades.
Outside the Azahar mosque po
lice used tear gas to disperse
crowds who stoned the officers.
Pamphlets were distributed
among the crowds saying “wo
must wake up the Zionists
from their dream of a home
in Palestine.’’ The pamphlets
blamed the British for trying
to create a national home for
Jews there.
OUT OF BOUNDS
Most areas in Cairo were de
clared out of bounds lor U. B.
service personnel.
All communications in Cairo
had been halted as demonstrators
paraded the streets carrying signs
reading "down with the Zionists.”
The general strike had been
called in protest against thd Bal
four declaration, which was Issued
28 years ago today. It promised
Palestine as a Jewish national
home.
ARAB PROTESTS
Delegates of five Arab associa
tions presented a note to all for
eign diplomats which said:
“We beg to inform your
country all the Arab world is
starting today this active
struggle against the Zionists,
who will threaten the Arab
world by their existence in
Palestine. We demand that
the British government halt
atrocities and unjust treatment
against Arab leaders' and im
mediate release the leader of
Palestine, Grand Mufti Haji
Amin Al Huseeini—now a
prisoner of the French In Pa
ris x x x ” .
Demonstrators had started a
march to Addlen palace, the resi
dence of King Farouk.
The newspaper Egyptian Mail
said that strike leaders had
threatened to wreck shops unless
they remained closed.
Postal Receipts
On Increase Again
Shelby’s postal receipts,
which took a bad dip In Sep
tember doe to the drop off in
overseas mailing of packages
this year, came back strong in
October to register an Increase
of nine per cent over the pre
ceding October, Postmaster R.
M. Laughridge announced to
day.
October receipts totaled >13,
163.03 compared with last year’s
>12,119.58, or an increase of
>1,043.45.
The year’s total, January
through O t o b e r, continues
running approximately nine per
cent over last year for a to
tal of >109,806.73 compared
with >100,82940 last year.
Witnesses At Trial Curse
Yamashita, Demand His Death
By DEAN SCHEDLER
MANILA, Nov. 2—(/P)—Chinese,
Filipino and Spanish witnesses
who hysterically cursed the Japan
ese and screamed for the death
of Lt. Gen. Tomoyuki Yamashita*
threw the war criminal trial of
the former Philippines commander
in-chief into continual turmoil to
day.
Members of the prosecution
staff and interpreters both
were required to quiet a Chi
nese woman whose four-year
son had been snatched from
her arms and repeatedly bay
-
oneted.
The woman testified she had
lost nine of the 12 in her family,
had seen women and children
slain and raped when 39 Chinese
were herded into a lumberyard
and murdered last Feb. 10.
“I’d like to kill that Japanese
man,” she screamed in Chinese at
Yamashita as she finished her
testimony and leaped to her feet.
BESTIAL SCENES
Scenes “so bestial it is hard to
find words to describe them,” were
See WITNESSES Fi|i 2
Vigilance Urged Against
Outwardly Pleasant Japs
Who Dream Of Conquest
TOKYO, Nov. 2.—(3>)—Vigilance against resurgent
Japanese who still dream of reconquest and revenge while
outwardly appearing complacent, an allied headquarters au
thority declared today, is more imporant at present than the
rounding up of war criminals.
Brig. Gen. Elliot R. Thorpe said,
however, the attitude is limited to
a few individuals with small fol
lowings.
“We are more interested,” he
said, "in what’s going on day by
day in Japan and less Interested
in what was done in the past by
men who have already been ar
rested by the Japanese police and
have no chance of escape.”
Simultaneously, allied headquar
f ters disclosed that three Japanese
army officers under arrest are be
ing questioned about the execu
tion of three Doolittle airmen on
Oct. 15, 1942, at KiaQgwan, near
Shanghai.
Two members of the powerful
Iwasaki family resigned from key
positions in the Mitsubishi Hold
ing company — last of the great
financial family heads to yield to
American pressure—it was re
ported authoritatively today.
RETIREMENT
Baron Koyata Iwasaki, president
of Mitsubishi Holding Co., and
Hikoyata Iwasaki, vice president,
resigned at a stockholders meet
ing yesterday. They had held
their positions 30 and I(J years, re
spectively. Previously one of the
company’s principal officials had
told the Associated Press the Iwa
sakis had no retirement plans.
Leading officials of Yasuda and
Sumitomo—two others of the big
four family combines—already had
resigned and Mitsui has announc
ed the prospective retirement of
members of 10 Mitsui families, in
cluding Baron Takakimi Mitsui,
president of Mitsui Holding Co.
It is understood that American
authorities are concentrating upon
these combines as the major old
line Zaibatsu and that less pres
sure has been applied to Okura,
considered the fifth ranking fa
mily monopoly.
SUBSIDIARIES ALSO
The Iwasakis also resigned po
sitions in numerous Mitsubishi
subsidiaries. The newspaper Asahi
reported that Ryozo Tanaka, for
mer president of Mitsubishi Trad
ing Co., was named president of
the Holding company. Harunosuke
Suzuki retains his position as the
principal managing director.
Japanese investors stand to lose
90,000,000,000 yen ($6,000,000,000)
invested in munitions companies
but the government presumably
will defray part of the loss. The
estimate, including $42,000,000,000
yen due various arms plants for
wartime losses, was made by the
ministry of commerce and indus
try.
Government
Seeks To Halt
Bus Strike
WASHINGTON, NOV. 2 —(#)—
The government attempted today
to halt a spreading Greyhound
bus strike that has tied up serv
ice in 19 eastern states.
Howard Colvin, assistant com
missioner of the government’s
conciliation service, told a repor
ter he was trying to bring the
workers and employers into a new
conference. He said he didn’t
know when or where the confer
ence would take place, but any spot
agreeable to both parties would
suit him.
Pour thousand drivers, garage
tt.en and terminal men are out in
a dispute over wages, and a union
official has predicted if a settle
ment isn’t reached soon the strike
will be nation-wide.
Servicemen traveling on govern
ment orders or on government
paid tickets have been issued ex
change tickets good either on the
Pennsylvania railroad or the na
tional Trailways system bps lines.
George E. Siff, president of New
York local 1202, declared yester
day “if a settlement is not reach
ed soon, the strike may spread
throughout the country.’’
The walkout has affected opera
tions pa far west as Chicago,
north to Montreal and Portland,
Me., and south to Washington,
D. C. _
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MRS. BEAM
IS ACQUITTED
Cleveland Jury Deliberat
es 45 Minutes In Drown
ing Case
After 45 minutes deliberation
yesterday afternoon, a Cleveland
Superior court jury found Mrs.
Ethel W. Beam not guilty of mur
der in connection with the drown
ing of her infant daughter last
June 12. A defense of temporary
insanity had been set up.
Trial of this case in which the
state sought a verdict of second
degree murder or manslaughter
was started Wednesday afternoon
and continued through the whole
of yesterday.
The defendant herself took the
stand yesterday morning and tes
tified that she remembered she
felt her child was in grave dan
ger and that she was trying to
put her In a safe place., Since
her arrest soon after the tragedy,
Mrs. Beam had been confined in
the state hospital for the crimi
nal insane. After the verdict
acquitting her of any charge re
turned yesterday afternoon she
returned with her husband to her
home at Waco. ,
SESSION RECESSED
Judge Allen H. Gwyn, presiding
over this term of court recessed
the session early this afternoon
for the week but will return next
week for the completion of the
criminal docket and the trial of
the civil calendar.
Prayer for judgment was con
tinued in the case of Robert Lee
Perry who had been charged with
the theft of $45 from his em
ployer. Evidence was offered
tending to show that he had al
ready returned this money to his
employer.
Prayer for judgment was also
continued in the case of Muriel
Rippy, charged with the theft of
the personal effects of Jewel
Hombuckle.
BLANTON HEADS
KIWANISCLUB
C. M. King And Hugh E.
Noell Elected Vice
Presidents
Fred W. Blanton was elected
president last night of the Shel
by Kiwanls club to take office In
January succeeding incumbent
President Reid Misenhelmer and
serve for a one year term. Mr.
Blanton, organizer and second
president of the Tryon Kiwanis
club Is president of the M. and J.
Finance Co. and the Blue Ridge
Insurance Co. of Shelby and is
active in the civic and business
life of the community.
C. M. King of the Shelby school
faculty and Hugh E. Noell, engi
neer for the state highway de
partment are the two vice-presi
dents. Rush Hamrick was re
elected treasurer.
Six directors were also elected
to serve next year: W. L. Angel,
J. H. Grigg, A. V. Hamrick, D. H.
Harris, Cline Hendrick and J. S.
McKnight. These directors will
select a secretary, a position now
held most acceptably by Henry
Edwards who succeeded Charlie
Burrus last year after Mr. Burrus
had served twenty years.
The Kiwanis club now has a
membership of 107, the largest in
the history of the club organized
about 23 years ago. This, howev
er, includes members who are in
service, honorary as well as ac
tive.
WHAT’S DOING
TODAY
7:30 p.m. — Revival service
at First Baptist church.
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JOHNNY COMES HOME TO CHILDREN—Young Johnny Walsh, naval
sailor whose wife vanished two months ago while he was on Guam,
comes to his home in Seattle and is greeted warmly by his three small
children whom he hardly knew. The Navy gave him an extended leave
and hurried him home after it was learned that it was he whose father
wrote President Truman and the Navy department: “For God’s sake,
send my son home: his wife has disappeared.” The children, left to
right, are John Patrick, 5; Maureen, 3, and William, 16 months.—(AP
Wirephoto).
Reoccupation Of
Manchuria Begun
Government' Troops Landing From U. S. Transports
At Two Points On Liaotung 'Bay
By Spencer Moosa
CHUNGKING, Nov, 2.—(/P)—Chinese government
troops, pouring from United States transports, began re
occupation landings today at two ports in Manchuria on the
same day the Russians were scheduled to begin withdraw
ing from the country, the army newspaper Sao Tang Pao
reported. Japan wrested Manchuria from China ion 1931.
Outlawing Bomb
Will Be Very
Difficult Task
Washington, Nov. 2 —(^—Presi
dent James B. Conant of Harvard;
University advised today against
pinnnig hopes on outlawing such
terrible weapons as the atomic
bomb.
For example, he said, poison gas
was not used in the World War 2
"not because it was outlawed, bpt
because it was not an effective
weapon.” The atomic bomb, he
commented, is effective.
Dr. Conant, an eminent chemist,
was a witness at the last day of
public hearings by senate military
commerce subcommittees on legis
lation to set up a national science
foundation.
Senator Fulbright (D-Ark) asked
Conant whether it would take
three or five years for other coun
tries such as Russia to catch up
with America in the field of atom
ic energy.
"I’d put the figure at 5 to 15
years,” Conant replied. "It’s a
guessing game.”
As Conant saw it, there are three
lines of defense against the atomic
bomb: (1) International arrange
ments, (2) military preparations
and (3) basic research.
He also said that just as the
atomic bomb "is peculiarly the pro
duct of highly industrial society, it
is peculiarly adapted to the de
struction of an industrial society.”
The landing points were on op
posite points of Liaotung Bay.
On the west side, Generalissimo
Chiang Kai-Shek's men went
ashore at(Hulutao, 70 miles north
west of the scene of clashes be
tween his soldiers and Chinese
Communists in the area of Chin
wangtao.
On the east side, the troops
were landed at Yingkow, 100 miles
southwest of Mukden and 1401
miles north of Port Arthur.
Both Yingkow and Kolytao have
rail connections with Mukden. The
landing at Hulutao places Chiang’s
men near rail lines to the rear of
Chinese Communist forces which
are opposing any overland move
ment of central government troops
toward Manchuria through north
China. ■
BY TRANSPORTS
The army newspaper said the
troops, of the 13th, 16th and 94th
Chinese armies, were taken to
Manchuria in U. S. transports from
Haiphong, Indo-China, and Hong;
Kong.
The government soldiers will be
moved north in strength this
month to permit complete with
drawal of the Russians by Dec. 1,
said a semi-official dispatch from
Tientsin.
Meanwhile, as scattered fighting
occurred in 11 northern provinces
of China, a central government
cabinet spokseman charged anew
that the Chinese Communists had!
threatened to fire on any govern-;
ment soldiers landed from U. S.
ships in Communist “'liberated !
areas.” I
Bowles Promises Increases
In Prices To Be Negligible
By MARVIN L. ARROWSMITH |
WASHINGTON, Nov. 2 — (£*)—
Any price increases under the ad
ministration’s revised wage-price
policy seemed likely today to be
“negligible.”
That’s Price Administrator Ches
ter Bowles’ view of how President
Truman's program of permitting
price boosts only under rigid con
ditions will work out.
Meanwhile John L. Lewis’ Unit
ed Mine Workers Journal assert
ed, the wage-price policy would
“enlarge the realm of confusion.”
These were other developments
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on the hot issue of wages and
prices:
•Secretary of Commerce
Wallace said there is danger
of another depression ‘if cor
porate profits stay up and
wages down.” He told report
ers this could mean four to
seven million people unemploy
ed for years, once the expected
buying boom is over.
Bowles announced that retail
price ceilings for new automo
biles will, be unveiled in four or
See BOWLES Page 2
1,500 DUTCH
NATIONALS
EVACUATED
Indonesian Forces Straf«
By RAF Planes Dur
ing Night
leaderT”confer
By Ralph Morton
BATAVIA, Nov. 2.—(/
Peace was restored in tl
Mageland area at noon todal
by a temporary truce whic]
followed a night of shar
fighting between Indonesial
extremists, and British India!
troops, during which RAJ
planes again strafed the Indq
nesian forces.
Elsewhere in central and
tern Java conditions were repor
generally improved, although
situation at the naval base
Soerabaja was described I
delicate.”
Col. C. H. O. Pugh, command^
of the British garrison at
baja, succeeded in effecting
evacuation of 1,500 Dutch
tionals,—mostly women and ch
dren—and a similar number we
expected to embark tonight.
At Magelang, British and In-1
donesian leaders were reported I
confeiring during the trace,}
effected with the aid of Dr.[
Soekarno, president of the "In-|
donesian republic,” who
cease fire orders previously
been ignored by the extremists.|
Outcome of the negotiation
remained in doubt.
The RAP strafing during
night enabled Gurkha Infantry
reoccupy additional areas in
town, which is about 260 mi]
southwest of Bay*via, and redn
ed danger to the hospital,
viously reported under fire by
Indonesians.
OUT OF CONTROL
A British commentator said
fighting involved extremists a|
parently out of the control of
Soekarno, and added that a peac
ful solution depended upon wh
tiler the extremists would ob
Soekamo’s instructions to ce
See 1,500 Page 2
RESIGNATION
OF GORTTOLD
Quits As High Commj
sioner For Palestine;]
Disorders Continue
By HENRY B. JAMESON
LONDON, Nov. 2—(JP)—The
ignatlon of Lord Gort as high
missioner for Palestine was
nounced to Commons today as
recent outbreaks of violence tl
were branded officially as a “v
ton resort to force” which
nullify Britain’s attempts to
the Jewish problem.
Apparently there was no
connection between Lord Got
resignation and the disturb
however. Making the ar
ment, George Hall, secretary of
colonies, said the high commissi
er had stepped down because oil
health.
A curfew was impose i ye
in Palestine following a night I
which railways were cut in at If
20 places and explosions were
off at widely scattered points. |
STREET FIGHTING
Street fighting broke out
downtown Carlo today, coincide
al with the beginning of a gen
strike by anti-Zionist elements ^
distributed pamphlets dem
that the Jews be awaked
their dream of a home in
tine.” Police fired shots in the
in attempts to disperse the crov
In Palestine, the post said
outbursts there indicated the Jd
’’have gone over from defensive |
offensive action” in their ca
for the lifting of British white
per quota restrictions on Jewish
migration. The newspaper said
acts represented “a new x x x
in defiance which the Jewish
pie were driven to proclaim
cause it was clear that the
paper, far from being revoked,
to be continued in force,”
Hall told commons casualties!
the outbreaks in Palestine
five killed and at least eight i
ed. adding that because of
widespread nature of the
renorts on them Were