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Paulette GODDARD
Fred MaeMURRAY
CLEVELAND COUNTY’S NEWSPAPER SINCE 1894 TELEPHONES 1100
VOL. XL111-264
ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWS
SHELBY, N. C.
SATURDAY, NOV. 3, 1945
TELEMAT PICTURES
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CAIRO POLICE
SUPPRESS ANTI
ZIONIST RIOTS
Six Killed In Alexandria
While Hundred Wound
ed In Cairo '
90 POLICE HURT
CAIRO, Nov. 3.— UP) —
Anti-Zionist riots broke out
in Cairo again today but were
swiftly suppressed by police.
Heavy patrols remained on duty
throughout the city to prevent
further renewal of the bloody vio
lence which yesterday cost six
lives in Alexandria and left hun
dreds wounded in Cairo, Alexan
dria, Port Said and other Egyp
tian cities.
MaJ. Gen. T. W. Fitzpatrick,
acting commandant of Cairo police,
personally directed his men as they
broke up crowds which were ston
ing business .establishments in the
cltv’s main business district today.
OUTBREAK BRIEF
Windows oi most snops along
Soliman Pasha street were smash
ed and merchants were forced to
shutter their stores before the
short-lived outbreak was quelled.
Shouts of down with Zion
ism were heard as college stu
dents demonstrated within
their school grounds.
American troops remained re- I
stricted to their barracks. Before
the new riots broke out, the Brit
ish had expressed hope that re
strictions on their forces could be
lifted today.
In Alexandria’s shopping center
not one pane of glass remained
intact. Communications were at
a standstill, cafes closed and the
atres not operating.
POLICE INJURED
Premier Nokrashl Pasha said
that Cairo casualties totalled
3211. Including 90 police, while
200 were Injured in Alexandria.
He reported 310 arrests in
Cairo, including 154 for loot
ing.
The interior of one Cairo Sy
nagogue was smashed. Rioters
overturned street cars and at
tacked Jewish homes as well as
places of business.
Several responsible Arab sources
publicly deplored yesterday’s out
breaks today. Abul Eyoun, Grand
Ulema of Alexandria (a religious
teacher), said the rioting hurt the
Arab cause because it was direct
ed against our Jewish and Euro
pean friends.”
However, the influential weekly
newspaper Akber El Youm claim
ed it had learned that Cairo Zion
ist leaders had hired "mobsters”
to stone Jewish shops in order to
discredit the strike which had
been called in protest against the
Balfour note promising establish
ment of a Jewish homeland in
Palestine.
BATAVIA TENSE
AS TRUCE HOLDS
BATAVIA, Nov. 3—(IP)—A Neth
erlands home government state-:
ment barring negotiation between
President Soekarno of the Indo
nesian republic and acting Gover
nor General Hubertus J. Van Mook
today Jarred delicate machinery
aimed at bringing the disputants
together at the conference table.
There was a feeling here that
the confidence that has greeted the
negotiations would snap, and a
grave vipw was held locally that
disaster Impended.
The atmosphere continued tense
in Magelang, where fighting was
halted yesterday under a tempor
ary truce negotiated with the aid
of Soekarno. The British were re
ported preparing stern measures.
Brigadier Richard Bethell and
Soekarno returned to Semarang
after conferring with Indonesian
leaders. Orders ware Issued to In
donesian extremists by the British
to stop fighting, and for -the time
being, they were obeyed.
A British statement said the ex
trmelsts "received more than they
bargained for when they picked a
quarrel with the Gurkhas” in de
fence of Soekarno’s cease fighting
order.
Attempt On Life Of
Lebanese President
LONDON, Nov. 3—(#")—An Ex
change telegraph distpatch from
Cairo said today an attempt was
made to assassinate the Lebanese
president, Beshara Al-Khoury, near
Beyrouth yesterday.
The president was driving with
his wife when a shot was fired
from an approaching car, the dis
• patch said, but neither was in
jured. The other car sped »wqy.
‘‘ONE-MAN ARMY’ COMES HOME—Major Arthur Wermuth, America's
"One-Man Army”, is greeted by his mother, Mrs, Clara Wermuth (right)
of Chicago, and his sister, Talia, upon his arrival in San Francisco after
several years in Jap prisoner of war camps. He is credited with killing 116
Japs single-handed in the fighting on Bataan.—(AP Wirephoto).
Filipinos Clamor For
Blood Of Yamashita
Witnesses Scream Threats And Shake Fists At Ac
cused Jap General
By DEAN SCHEDLER
MANILA, Nov. 3. —(/P)— The erstwhile "Tiger of Malaya”, Lt. Gen.
Tomoyuki Yamashita, who was reduced to the status of the jackal of the
Philippines by the end of the war, today was linked for the first time
directly with the hyena-like brutalities of the barbarous troops he com
manded.
A Japanese interpreter who
served with the brutal Kempet Tai
military police and the Filipino
secretary of a known collabora
tor with the enemy both testified
to the fallen tiger's knowledge of
the brutal doings of the Japanese
soldiers in a stormy afternoon
session concluding the first week
of Yamashita's trial as a war
criminal.
Narcisco Lapus, former sec
retary to the exiled political
General Artemio Ricarte, was
brought into court under guard
from an internee prison to
testify that in conversations
with Ricarte Yamashita af
firmed his order to “wipe out
all Filipinos.’’
PROTESTS VIGOROUS
Ricarte returned from exile to
the Philippines in 1941 in the role
of a "liaison and special fnvoy
from Japanese Premier Hideki To
jo to effect the friendship and pre
pare the islands for independence
under the Japanese rule.”
Lapus testified, over the stren
uous and repeated protest of teh
defense that the evidence was
"hearsay four times removed.” that
Ricarte contacted Yamashita at
least four times in the latter
months of the year, and pleaded
with him to spare the Philippines
from mass destruction and slay
ings.
But, Lapus asserted, Yama
shita was firm in his order to
the troops to "wipe out all Fili
pinas, as they are no longer
our friends. They now are
helping the guerrillas and are
100 percent enemies of ours.
Lapus said that from long and
intimate acquaintance he was sure
Ricarte had told him the truth
and that Ricarte quoted Yamashi
ta directly in repeating the con
versations.
Fermin Miyasaki, former inter
preter at the Japanese military
police headquarters, told the U. S.
military commission hearing the
accusations that Yamashita com
mended his club-wielding police
for their “fine work.”
The witness snid that Yamashi
ta’s commendation was read dur
ing ceremonies at the south Ma
nila Japanese military police
headquarters last December.
See FILIPINOS Page 2
ATOMIC ENERGY
CONTROL FUTILE
Minority Report Assails
Bill On Five
Grounds
WASHINGTON, Nov. 3 —(ff)—
Five objections to an atomic ener
jy control bill approved by the
House Military Committee were
cited in a minority report made
public today.
Signed by two committee mem
bers, Representatives Holifield (D
Callf) and Melvin Price (D-Ill), it
was only the first of several ex
pected before the House tackles
the legislation later this month.
A group of Republicans among
the ten committeemen reported to
have voted against the bill are un
derstood to be drafting a separate
! report to be filed with the majority
; views next week.
It was not even certain that all
17 committee members who approv
ed the bill would sign the majority
report.
Holifield and Price declared:
1. The commission proposed for
control of atomic energy develop
ment should be composed of “full
time, well paid members.” The com
mittee majority recommended a
nine-member commission paid $50
for each day of actual work.
2. Commission members should
be removable by the President
“whenever he deems it in the na
See ATOMIC Page 2
WHAT’S DOING
MONDAY
10 am.—Revival service at
First Baptist church.
7:30 p.m.—Revival service at
First Baptist church.
10 a.m.—Pastors and Work
ers conference Kings Moun
tain Baptist association at
First Baptist church.
7 p.m.—Junior Chamber of
Commerce at Hotel Charles.
7:30 p.m.—City board of al
dermen at council chamber.
PEACE EFFORTS
FAIL TO HALT
CHINA’SSTRIFE
Nationalist Peace Propos
al Flouted By Com
munist Faction
fighting” FLARES
CHUNGKING, Nov. 3.—
(/P)—The communist head
quarters spokesman here to
night countered a central gov
ernment peace proposal with
the announcement that when
“all Kuomintank troops
throughout the country are
asked to stop fighting, the
communists will do likewise.”
The nationalist proposal was de
signed to bring an immediate ces
sation of hostilities, K. C. Wu, in
formation minister, said in an
nouncing earlier that the offer
had been made. He said it con
tained four “concrete points” but
did not name them.
The communist spokesman
said “the civil war has been
widespread throughout China.
The fighting should stop not
only along the railways but
from South China to Bulutao
in Manchuria. The commun
ists approve the proposal to
replace communist troops with
railway police provided govern
ment troops withdr^v to a
distance.
Tne spokesman continued "m
other words, all railways should
be cleared both of communists and
government troops and placed un
der control of guards.
ADVANTAGE SEEN
“To give in on this point would
permit Generalissimo Chiang Kai
Shek’s soldiers to move into com
munist territory at will."
The spokesman stressed in his
answer to what apparently was the
Kuomlntang’s first point, the
cease fire order, that it should be
general and not directed at select
ed areas.
Replying to a central govern
ment charge that communist
headquarters was delaying the
work of the political consultative
council by refusing to nominate
its members, the spokesman said
the problem of civil war must be
solved before the council meets.
The central executive commit
tee of the Chinese communist
party at Yenan was awaiting the
return “very soon” of Chou En-Lai
one of its representatives at re
cent unity talks, before it names
its council delegates, he said.
WPB Succeeded.
Today By CPA
WASHINGTON, Nov. 3 —(IP)—
The War Production board goes
out of existence today.
The new civilian production ad
ministration will take over the
few remaining wartime controls
over Industry.
On Monday, some 3,500 members
of a staff that once numbered 23,
000 will go to work for the suc
cessor agency, CPA. Most of them
will be at the same desks, doing
the same jobs.
20 Americans Die
From Jap Poison
YOKOHAMA, Saturday, Nov. 3
—(IP)—Nineteen American soldiers
and a merchant marine died last
month on Honshu as the result of
drinking poisoned liquor, the
Eighth army provost marshal re
ported today.
Five of the men were stricken
in a cabaret while celebrating
their final night in Japan before
sailing home to be discharged.
The provost marshal said the
liqilor was obtained from bootleg
gers or from dealers who diluted
it with methanol of tetraethyl
lead.
"OPERATION SKINNY”
German Prisoners Mistreated By French
(The following eyewitness dis
patch was written by Associated
Press Correspondent Mel Most,
who spent 15 months in a German
internment camp after his cap
ture in the German occupation
of Vichy. Most was released un
der an exchange agreement),
By MEL MOST
CROUTOY, FRANCE, Nov. 3—
(/P)—The first German prisoners
of war returned to U. S. army con
trol by the French have been
classified as unfit to work by A
merican medical authorities and
from personal examination I can
.
report that many of them look al
most like corpses resurrected from
the horror camps of their own
fatherland.
The former German sol
diers who had been turned
over to the French as labor
ers, are being: taken back by
the Americans under a project
identified by the army code
name “operating: skinny.” They
were called back after inter
national Red Cross charges
that they were being: treated
below standards set by inter
national convention.
The charges resulted In Gen.
Eisenhower halting more trans
fers to the French and then agree
ing to take back those unfit for
labor. The French have insisted
that most of them were returned
in the same condition in which
they had been received.
One group of 1,151 prisoners ar
rived yesterday. It was a beggar
army of pale, thin men clad in
vermin-infested tatters. U. S. sour
ces say the men had been ade
quately fed, clothed, shod and e
quipped fath blankets when they
were turned over to the French
See GERMAN Page 3
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HIGGINS AND SONS CLOSE PLANTS ‘FOR KEEPS’—In their office just after announcing the closing of
three plants of Higgins Industries, Inc., in New Orleans during an AFL union walk-out, Anditew J. Higgins
and his four sons examine a post-war model of an airborne lifeboat that was ready to go into production.
Left to right: Frank O. Higgins, E. C. Higgins, Andrew J. Higgins, who is president of the industries, Andrew
J. Higgins, Jr., and Roland C. Higgins. Higgins has proposed that the unions purchase the closed plants and
operate them.—(AP Photo)
SEE TO CLOSE
UP HONKY TOM
Padlock Proceedings Are
Started Against Plan
tation Grill
Padlock proceedings have been
started in Cleveland Superior
court against the Plantation grill,
sometimes known as the Honky
Tonk on the Shelby-Grbver road.
A hearing will be held before
Judge Allen H. Gwyn next Tues
day in Superior court to determ
ine whether the place shall be fi
nally closed or not.
The petition for closing the es
tablishment was brought against
the alleged owners and interested
parties, J. V. Green, F. L. Ander
son and E. M. Rossie on behalf
of the officers and several citizens
of No. 4 township. W. L. Black
bum, a deputy sheriff in No. 4
township made the original peti
tion.
It is claimed in this petition
that spiritous liquors are sold at
this place in violation of the law
and that persons of bad repute
use it as a hanging out place. The
place is offensive to the good rep
utation of the community, it is
contended.
This is the same place that was
involved in a tire theft action
several months ago in Superior
court. It was contended then that
stolen tires had been stored and
marketed in the plantation grill.
Ownership has changed hands
several times since then, however.
CONFERENCE TO
BE PICKETED
Reuther Assails Labor
Management Parley
Opening Monday
WASHINGTON, Nov. 3 —(A5)—■
With the long-awaited Labor Man
agement Peace Conference only
two days away one of the nation’s
top labor leaders heaped fresh
coals on the wage-price fire today.
And a lesser-known leader, pro
testing that the independent un
ions are being ignored at the con
ference, threatened' that the big
labor chiefs who attend it Monday
will have to walk through picket
lines.
Walter P. Reuther, vice president
of the CIOI Auto Workers who are
seeking a 30 per cent wage increase,
said this:
1. It is a “national tragedy” that
the conference has omitted from its
program the “key question” of wag
es and prices,
2. He will ask for a court in
junction to prevent OPA from
granting any “unwarranted in
creases” in new car prices over 1942
levels.
OPA is expected to announce the
new car prices within a few days.
Reuther asserted at a news confer
ence yesterday the auto industry
was “pressuring OPA” to get “un
necessary price increases.”
Chairman Edward G. Wilms of
the Independent unions of New
Jersey protested at Paterson, N. J„
that non-affiliated labor organiza
tions had been given the “brush
off” in the planning of the labor
management meeting.
City’s October Building
Permits Total $104,000
Construction Takes Spurt With Number Of Business
Buildings Projected
Despite the scarcity of materials and the high cost of
construction, building has taken a decided upward trend in
Shelby during the past month.
Figures obtained this morning
from Hughlon D. Smith, city
building inspector, shows that per
mits involving costs of $104,800
were issued by him during the
month of October. These costs are
conservatively estimated Mr. Smith
said, and in some instances are
lower than the actual outlay.
Some of the construction is un
derway now, some of it has been
completed and some of it has not
been started.
Among the larger items repre
sented in this total include:
A garage on West Marion street
to be built by W. D. and Evans
Lackey at a cost of $15,000. Con
struction has not started.
Addition to apartment and
Cleveland hotel by Ed McCurry
at cost of $4,000. Work is well
undfyway.
Dry cleaning plant to be built
at 521 South DeKalb street by D.
E. McCraw at a cost of $3,000.
Work has not started on this pro
ject.
Merchants and Planters ware
house, cotton warehouse on Blan
See CITY’S Page 2
RECORD NARCOTIC
ROUNDUP NABS
CAPITAL FOLKS
WASHINGTON, Nov. 3— VP) —
Col. Edward J. Kelly, superinten
dent of Washington police, an
nounced early today that more
than 100 persons had been round
ed up in one of the largest nar
cotics raids in District of Colum
bia history.
Colonel Kelly said 32 squads of
220 Washington police, federal nar
cotics agents and U. S. Deputy
Marshals began the raid at 11:15
p.m., eastern standard time, last
night and that it was continuing.
At latest count, Kelly said, 125
men and women had been ar
rested and quantities of morphine,
marijuana, opium and heroin had
been seized.
Kelly said it was the largest
narcotics raid he could recall in
his 39 years of association with the
Washington police force. He said
tl\e raid was timed to coincide
with similar roundups in New
York and Baltimore.
UNHARES GOV’T
SURVIVES CRISIS
Presidential Candidate
Dutra Threatens To
Withdraw
By HOYT WARE
RIO DE JANEIRO, Nov. 3—(/P)
—The new Brazilian government
of President Jose Linhares surviv
ed a major political crisis today,
brought on when Gen. Eurico
Gaspar Dutra, candidate for the
presidency in the Dec. 2 elections,
threatened to withdraw over the
proposed removal of a state gov
ernor.
Throughout the night the pri
vate residence of President Un
bares was guarded by troops arm
ed with machineguns.
Dutra visited the residence twice
during the night, and near mid
! night announced: “I have a firm
| intention to participate in the
election Dec. 2. I will not with
draw my candidacy.”
Dutra was supported by Getu
lio Vargas, ousted after a 15-year
reign by the coup which installed
Unhares as interim president. The
Unhares government promptly
See LINHARES Page 2
I
Big Locomotive On
Seaboard Explodes
RALEIGH, Nov. 3—(£■)—Engine
crew members of one of Sea
board’s largest locomotives were
seriously injured last night about
12:10 when the engine exploded
on the Seaboard line bteween Sea
board and Gumberry.
The engine was reportedly found
lying two miles behind the engine.
Officials speculated that with the
explosion inside the boiler he ei
ther was blown or jumped from
his seat.
The injured are:
R. H. Hester, Raleigh, engineer;
J. A. Bailey, Apex, fireman; J. L.
Allen, Raleigh, brakeman.
Charge Army Covering
U'3 Pearl Harbor Facts
WASHINGTON, Nov. 3 —(IP)—
! Senator Brewster (R-Me) declared
[ today that an attempt had been
I made to "cover up” some army in
formation on the Pearl Harbor dis
aster.
Brewster told reporters this was
the only conclusion he could draw
from changes he said army officers
made in previous testimony when
they gave depositions in an inquiry
by Major Henry C. Clausen in 1944.
Brewster said Clausen was des
ignated by former Secretary of War
Stimson to make a new investiga
tion after an army board had re
ported on the sneak attack. The
result, the Maine Senator added,
was that several officers altered
their accounts of whrrt happened.
Ferguson (R-Mich; and Brew
ster complained to the senate yes
terday that the Pearl Harbor com
mittee, of whic hthev are members,
had shut them off from sources of
information by rejecting their de
mand to let them look at govern
ment records.
The committee voted to ask Pres
ident Truman to direct that gov
ernment employes might volunteer
information. But it did not request
that he alter his ordjer, issued un
der his powers as wartime Com
mander in Chief, that any sum
mons for records must come from
the committee rather than individ
ual members.
I
UNIONS ASSAIL
SALES PLAN AS
‘SMOKESCREEN’
AFL Threatens 24-Hour
Work Stoppage In i
Protest
STRIKES~SPREAD j
By the Associated Press '
A 24-hour work stoppage
of all AFL unions in the NeW
Orleans area was threatened
today as the union’s reaction
to the closing of three Hig
gins Industries plants by;
Boat Builder Andrew J. Hig
gins, sr., following a strike.
William, L. Donnels, publicity
chairman of the New Orleans AFL
Metal and Building Trades Coun
cils, said Higgins’ offer to sell the
plants to the union was a "smoke
screen to cover something we don’t
know about now.’’
Donnels said the Union would
ask for an investigation of the shut
down by congress or appropriate
federal agencies and that failing,
he said, the groups he represented
were considering asking all AFD
unions in the New Orleans area to
I stop work for 24 hours as a dem
onstration.
' BUS STRIKE SPREADS
There was a second threat of
further trouble along; the coun
try’s labor front, a spread of
the strike of 4,000 A FI, employ
es to six Greyhound bus lines
which has crippled service in 19
states east of the Mississippi.
A union leader had predicted
the strike would become nation
wide. The number idle across
the country by disputes, mostly
over wages, was 268,000.
Union leaders in Tulsa. Okla.,
said drivers for Southwestern Grey
hound bus lines in Oklahoma were
preparing to go on strike at mid
night and they predicted a general
spread of the walkout would in
volve bus drivers in Missouri, Kan
sas, Texas, Arkansas, New Mexi
co, Colorado and part of Tennessee.
They said the threatened strike is
over demands for higher wages,
the same issue involved in the
walkout of employes on the six
Greyhound lines.
Meanwhile, the Federal concilia
tion service asked company and
union representatives to meet in
Washington Monday to reopen
wage negotiations.
WORK STOPPED
In the New Orleans labor con
troversy, Higgins said he had been
placed in an impossible position hy
the local AFLi union leadershfp and
what he termed conflicting poli
cies of the War Labor Board and
National Labor Relations Board.
He declared he had ceased manu
facturing although he had $40,000,
000 worth of orders and could have
provided more Jobs than in war
time.
In Cincinnati, a threatened
strike of 145 city waterworks em
ployes, which would have paralyzed
the water supply of a half million
persons, was called off by three AFL
unions “in the interest of the pub
lic.” The action came after a vote
of the union membership and after
city council and union leaders met
to settle a wage dispute. Firemen,
oilers, machinists, engineers and
maintenance men had threatened
to strike over demands of 48 hours
pay for 40 hours work. The union
did not disclose its next move.
There were indications that the
40-day-old strike of 60,000 AFL
lumber workers in the Pacific
northwest might be nearing an end.
Federal conciliators hailed a set
tlement between CIO lumber work
ers and big fir operators as a hope
ful sign in ending the AFL workers
walkout over a wage issue.
In Salt Lake City negotiations
over contracts which would end
two-day old strikes in about 55
See UNIONS Page t
Laborites Extend
Gains In Britain
LONDON, Nov. 3—(/P)—Labor
ites today celebrated a smashing
victory in Britain's local elections
and the Daily Herald, labor party
newspaper, interpreted the results
as assurance from the English peo
ple "that they are ready to trans
form our country Into a socialist
commonwealth.”
Final returns in Thursady’s
balloting from 28 London and 154
important provincial boroughs
showed that:
Labor held 2,977 council seats,
a net gain of 1.245 over its stand
1 ing after the 1938 local elections.
Conservatives lost 760 seats and
I now hold only 835.
I Liberals elected 111 candidates,
134 below their last representa
tion.
Communists gained 15 seats for
a total of 22.
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