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WEATHER North Carolina — Fair and warmer today, tonight and Tues day; scattered frost In east and central portions tonight. Ehe Hhelhysaily Htm - State Theatre Today “SHADY LADY” — Starring — GINNY SIMMS CLEVELAND COUNTY’S NEWSPAPER SINCE 1894 TELEPHONES 1100 VOL. XL111- 265 ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWS SHELBY, N. C. MONDAY, NOV. 5, 1945 TELEMAT PICTURES SINGLE COPIES—6e kite House Denies Reported Clash Marines, Chinese Communists i i— i CHINESE PRESS HURLS BITTER DENUNCIATION Wedemeyer's Non-Inter vention Promise Brand ed A Lie INVASKWCHARGED WASHINGTON, Nov. 5.— (/P)—The white house said to day “there have been no clashes between Chinese com munists and United States marines." Eben Ayers, assistant press sec retary, made this statement to re porters. He did not Indicate what occasioned his comment. There were reports, however, from com munist headquarters In China that American marines had fired on Chinese communist represen tatives at Chinwangtao. The Chi nese, the dispatch said, “had to reply" to the fire, but withdrew after about an hour of hostili ties. Ayers told a news conference that President Truman had re ceived a message from Lt. Gen. Albert C. Wedemeyer. command ing general of the United States forces in the Chinese theatre. The general Informed the Pres ident, Ayers said, that “there have been no clashes between Chinese communist* and United States marines." By SPENCER MOOSA CHUNGKING, Nov 5 —m— The Chinese communist new Chi na Daily News reached new heights of virulence against the United States today In charging that Lt. Gen. Albert C. Wedemey er's promise that Americans would avoid participation In Chinese in ternal strife was ‘'nothing but a lie.” The charge against the com mander of American troops in China was carried in a dispatch from the communist headquarters at Yenan. The Americans, it said, not only armed and equipped cen tral government troops, "but have Invaded our liberated areas in north China, opened fire on us, arrested some of our army per See CHINESE Page 2 COUNTYSEEKS RURAL ROADS Petitions For 10-MiJe Stretch Presented To Commissioners Governor Cherry's order to the State Highway and Public Works commission to take Immediately under consideration farm to mar ket and country roads has had its results in Cleveland county, it was revealed this morning when two petitions were presented to the county commissioners asking for the hardsurfaclng of 10 miles of I rural roads. The commissioners of this coun ty in a telegram sent several days ago congratulated Governor Cher ry on his firm stand and last week, Max Washburn, member of the local board, personally con ferred with the governor, ex pressing the appreciation of the Cleveland commissioners for the sentiment already conveyed in the telegram. »_iuvcriiur ^uerry» reply in a letter of recent date was present ed to the commissioners this morning. UPPER CLEVELAND The board unanimously recom mended the carrying out of both projects on which petitions were presented today. One road runs from Knob Creek -church to Lee Carpenter's farm, a distance of five and one-half miles connect ing the Casar and Lawndale hard surfaced highways from Shelby. The other leads off Highway 18 near Claude Bridges and runs for a distance of five miles to the Fallston - Lawndale hardsurfaced highway. These recommendations will be turned over immediately to the state highway and public works commission. The meeting of the commis sioners was presided over today by Chairman Glee A. Bridges. Both the other commissioners, Mfcx Washburn and D. D. Lattimore, I were present as well as Henry Ed vards, attorney for the board. t I ■ ‘V ~ ’. DOOMED TO GALLOWS — Las , zlo Bardossy (above), former pre j mier and ex-foreign minister of Hungary, was sentenced Nov. 3 to be hanged in the country's first war crimes trial. He was convict ed of serving German interests during the war. (()P) Wirephoto). HOEYOUTUNES MILITARY VIEW Opposes Peacetime Mili tary Conscription In New Era I \\r A cixTkTrr*Tv\xT tor Clyde Hoey has announced that he is opposed to peacetime military conscription because "the soldier will not fight the battles of the future.” He said that "the accumulation and assembling of vast armies would provide a choice target for the robot bomb or the radar guid ed long-range plane carrying de structive bombs.” The day of ra dar. robot and atomic bombs makes old standards of warfare obsolete, Senator Hoey said, and he added: "The military leaders are fol lowing the same outmoded policy in advocating universal military training that they followed after the last war when they clamored for big battleships and large ar mies and refused to build airplan- t es and adopt modem methods of defense.” Hoey recommended the follow ing preparedness program: (1) A powerful navy, (2) a mighty air force; (3) an adequate standing army; (4) a strong national guard; (5* efficient intelligence service; (6) continued scientific research. "I am in favor of keeping Am erica strong, but I am not in fa vor of converting peaceful Ameri ca into a military camp and con scripting every 18-year-old boy and taking from the home, the farm, the school or college and disrupt ing millions of homes and lives every year when it is both un necessary and undesirable,” he See HOEY Page 2 Killing Frost As Mercury Hits 24 A killing frost with tem perature that dropped as low as 24 degrees this morning followed the sudden drop of the thermometer which only last week was up in the eight ies with unseasonably warm November weather. After flirting with freezing weather earlier, winter made a previous full-scale raid to day but bright sunny skies soon routed jack frost al though his damage had been done to flowers and tender plants. Politicos Look To Tuesdays > Elections For indicators’ uj m** iinwvui/ v/JUi v uiv WASHINGTON, Nov, 5 —(/F)— Tomorrow’s odd-year local elec tions may furnish some national political indicators, but neutral observers believe they will be very slim. The New York city and Detroit mayoralty elettions and a special congressional contest in the Tren ton-Princeton district of New Jersey offer the best possibilities in this respect. Democrats were saying today that a victory for William O’Dwy er, their candidate, in New York wrsiuu uc ouuicumig ui b seiDaCK for Gov. Thomas E. Dewey. They contend that Dewey, who is backing Judge Jonah Goldstein, Republican candidate, would be weakened by Goldstein’s defeat and thus rendered easier to beat for governor next year. TO BE EXPECTED Republicans, however, particu larly friends of Dewey, do not see it that way. One, eying the GOP split in the mayoralty race and the city’s long Democratlc-Ameri See POLITICOS Pag* 2 DUTCH SAID PLANNING TO END UPRISINGS Hope To Secure Part Of Western Java As Ral lying Ground BRING ?N~TROOPS BATAVIA, Java, Nov. 5.— (/P)—Dutch officials were un derstood today to be consider ing a plan to gain firm con trol of a small part of west ern Java and establish that area as a rallying ground from which they could extend their efforts to end the na tive nationalist uprising in the East Indies. The Dutch plan to bring In many more troops, although there has been official announcement on the subject. Some unofficial estimates of the size of the reinforcements run as high as 20,000 men before Christmas. Strife-torn Java was quiet today following the flare up of sporadic fighting in the north ern section of Batavia daring the night, bat it was like the quiet before the storm. Bat the picture as a whole is blacker and more ominous, with tens of thousands of trigger-happy Indonesians armed to the teeth The British are In a dilemma, ap parently undecided whether to fight their-way through .and re turn the island empire to 'putch control or merely continue td dis arm Japanese, rescue internees and defend themselves. NO MEDIATION At present the Dutch will not ac cept American mediation. Indonesian extremists and Dutch troops were Involved In the night fighting in Batavia, which broke out when grenades were hurled into the Dutch-guarded area around See DUTCH Page 2 Tried To Rid Philippines Of Filipinos MANILA, Nov. 5 —{#)— Narciso Lapus, who freely admitted he was very friendly with the Japan ese during their occupation; of the Philippines, today accused Lt. Gen. Tomoyuku Yamashita of having ordered the Islands "rid of Filipin os before the Americans return.” Lapus’ testimony, closely linking Yamashita with atrocities he is ac cused of having condoned by troops of his command, came, surprising ly, under cross examination by the General’s sharp-questioning chief attorney. Col. Harry Clarke. This Is the seventh day of Yamashita’s war crimes trial before a U. 8. commission of five generals. Lapus said that Gen. Artemlo Ricarte, Filipino ploltlco-militarist to whom he was private secretary during the occupation, appealed personally to Yamashita four times to spare Filipino lives, but that the general refused to modify his or der. •‘RID COUNTRY" He said Ricarte told him after one conference that Yamashita or dered the destruction of Manila "and other places in the Philip pines to rid the country of Fili pinos.” Lapus said the Japanese dM not trust any Filipinos except flKarte. He stated Ricarte declined? the presidency of the Phllipplnp last See TRIED Fage 2 U 1 GOOD FORTUNE COMES DOUBLE—Glad news came In abundance Nov. 3 for William P. Bingham (left) of Spartanburg, S. C., a Navy cook in the Naval hospital at Charleston, who is blind in one eye and is threatened with loss of the other as a result of an eye disease contracted in the Pacific. The Navy announced it had ordered immediate passage to the U. S. for his wife and two children from their home in Welling ton, New Zealand. At the same time, George Brown (right), 41-year-old ex-service man of the Bronx, New York, offered Bingham one of his eyes. —(Ap Wirephoto). Community Center Drive Opens Tuesday Mull. Directs Appeal. Ta People Ta Give Generously; List Of Donors To Be Part Of Memorial An appeal to the people of Shelby and Cleveland county to contribute generously to the Community Center Project, this community’s memorial to all who served in World War II, was made today on the eve of the public subscription campaign opening with the kick-off breakfast for campaign SMITH PLANNING BIG PLANT HERE Soys Large Investment To Be Made In Unit Planned For Fall Use Present plans of the Smith Douglass company, fertilizer man ufacturers, call for construction of a $400,000 to $500,000 plant in Shelby to be in operation by next fall, Oscar F. Smith, president, told a group of customers and Shelby business men who Satur day night joined in a dinner hon oring him while in attendance up on the local horse show. ‘‘We have great faith in the present and potential markets for super phosphates in this section,” Mr. Smith said in discussing plans of his company to place a large acidulation plant in the midst of what he views as a sec tion in which dairying will con tinue to grow and in which the consumption of fertilizer will in crease. Mr. Smith said that his com pany had bought a site for a plant here, but meanwhile had tenta tively arranged to purchase an other going plant in Charlotte; however, that deal failed to carry through with original plans for the unit here. He hopes that ma terials will be available to press construction in time for use next fall. Moscow Decries U. S. Isolationists LONDON, Nov. 5—(flV-'The Mos cow radio today broadcast an at tack upon “American isolationists” and accused them of being “orig inators of the idea of using econo mic and military might as a means of exerting pressure on other countries.” Former President Herbert Hoo ver and Senators Robert A. Taft (R-Ohio) and Burton K. Wheeler (D-Mont), were singled out for special mention. SMALL HOLDERS WIN BUDAPEST, Nov. 5 —</P)— The' small holders party, representing the center and conservative ele ments in Hungary, apparently swept the country yesterday in the 1 first free general elections held in central Europe since the war. t T»U1 ACiO Ol U XT. lTl. 1 UCDUCty. O. M. Mull, chairman of the Shelby and Cleveland County Foundation which seeks $100,000 this year toward the project, in an open letter to the community declared that "if we are to be benefited by our present remark able financial progress and if this progress is to be permanent, we must balance our financial growth with a like moral and spiritual growth. Our program must deserve the interest and co-operation ol Dur young people and include in Its service men and women of all ages.” Simultaneously, J. Hopson Aus tell, chairman of the Foundation’s finance committee, and Mai A, Spangler, sr„ campaign chairman, announced that a roll of all don ors to the Community Center will be made a part of that project as a permanent record of the me morial. Too, the list of donors will be published at the end of each week, the present week’s be See COMMUNITY Page 2 UNCOLNTON COUPLE DIES IN CRASH CHARLOTTE, Nov. 5—A man tified, on the basis of papers found In their possession, as Dr. and Mrs. James S. Gamble of Lincoln ton, were instantly killed around 7 o’clock last night when their plane crashed about a quarter mile west of Morris Field, accord ing to a report compiled at Mecklenburg county police head quarters The ship, a Culver Cadet plane, awned by Dr. Gamble, a practic ing physician at Lincolnton, was thought to have got out of con trol while he was cir**ng the area in an effort to find the right run way and make a landing. Dark ness had descended well in ad vance of that time. The light plane was reported to have gone nto a tailspin Just before crash ing into a wooded area. It W'as :ompletely demolished. Corporal Theodore C. Juhl, Jr. md Corporal Keith Pitchford, mil tary policemen, stationed at Mor ris Field, found the bodies of Dr. md Mrs. Gamble. They had been ;hrown clear of the plane, which s thought to have got into the fatal tailspin at a height ap proximating 500 feet. An observer n the tower at Charlotte Muni ilpal airport was si^id to have >een the luckless ship about the ;ime that trouble developed. BUS WORKERS IN 7 STATES JOIN STRIKE Drivers And Other Em ployes Of Greyhound Quit At Midnight WAGE DISPUTE KANSAS "CITY, Mo., Nov. 5.—(/P)—Bus drivers and oth er employes of Southwestern Greyhound Lines, Inc., left their jobs at midnight last night in seven southern and western states, joining strik ing Greyhound workers in 19 eastern states. Approximately 300 workers walk ed out In Texas. Other points af fected were in Oklahoma, Missouri Kansas. New Mexico, Colorado and Arkansas. Union leaders and company of ficials said the dispute was ovei wages. W. C. O’Kelley, business agent for the Amalgamated Street railway and motor coach em ployees union (AFL) in the southwest, said the union Is asking a cent a mile increase to driver’s pay more than the present 4 1-2 cents a mile. The company has offered 5.3 cents. In the East, drivers receive 5 cents and are seeking 5.75. The company has offered 5.4 in thai area. , No change was reported in the situation east cf tile Mississipp where 4,000 drivers/and other em ployes of six bus lines walked oui Nov. 1. At Albuquerque, N. M.t termina See BUS Page 2 TIRE SUPPLY STILL SHORT OPA Pessimistic Over Pos sible End To Tire Rationing WASHINGTON, Nov. 5 -UP) OPA today substituted a pessimis tic note for its previous optimisir on when tire rationing will end But the gloomy view isn’t sharec by the agency which will make the decision. Officials of the civilian produc tion administration, successor te the War Production board, saic there is a good chance the pro gram may be terminated by the end of the year or soon thereaf ter. Their estimate, given to a re porter with the understanding names would not be used, wae sought when the OPA issued t statement designed to tone dowr optimism generated after OP/ Chief Chester Bowles told Con gress recently that the end of tire rationing was “in sight.” Rationing officials of the a gency believe this gave the im pression that the end is imminent and that it might make enforce ment of tire rationing more dif ficult. In today’s statement. Max Me Cullough, assistant to Bowles, not ed that passenger tire application now exceed supplies by nearly 1, 000,000 tires. CPA officials said productior had climbed from around 2,500,00( passenger tires in September to £ monthly rate now of “better thar 3,000,000.” They said that barring strikes output should hit 4,000,000 soor and that this would eliminate quickly the backlog of applica tions. Fourteen Carolnians Die By Violence In> Week End mjj m.uc naauuoicu x teas Death by violence ended the lives of at least 14 persons In the Caro lines during the past week-end. High as the toll was, it repre sented a sharp increase in that of two previous week-ends, when totals of 18 and 24, respectively, were reported among lives lost. Eight of the past week-end deaths resulted from traffic accidents; two each from an airplane crash and from fires; one the result of a homicide and one a case in which the victim took his own life. At Charlotte, N. C., two people lucuuucu iji. ana lvirs. James F. Gamble of Lincolntn, N. C. were killed in an airplane crash. TRAFFIC DEATHS At Greensboro, N. C., Mrs. Mar jorie Franklin, 33, and her 10-year old son, Bobby, were killed in a two-vehicle collision. Two other persons were injured in the crash. George B. Humphries, 59, of Rock Hill, S. C., died of injuries suffered when he was struck by an automobile on a city street. Near Henrietta, N. C.. George See FOURTEEN Page 3 V MRS. F. R. MORGAN deathclaTms MRS. MORGAN Prominent Club Woman, Civic Leader Dies After Long Illness Funeral services are being held this afternoon at three o’clock from the home for Mrs. Helen Borders Morgan, prominent Shelby woman and widow of the late Fred R. | Morgan, who died Saturday night ; at 10:20 at her home on East Marion Street following an illness of two years. For the past year , Mrs. Morgan had been confined | to her bed most of the time so the , end was expected by her family and host of friends. Mrs. Morgan, one of Shelby’s loveliest women, who had long been active in the social and re ligious life of the community, was a daughter of the late Jake S. Borders and Margaret Wray Bor ucis auu was uurn in oneiDy oo years ago. She married Fred Mor gan 46 years ago, after graduation from the Shelby Female College and spent the first years of her married life at Double Shoals where her husband and his father, Elias Morgan, had built and op erated the Double Shoals Cotton Mill. Her husband was later con nected with several local textile plants and they spent the remain ing years of their lives in Shelby. Mr. Morgan died 12 years ago at Preston, ntario, Canada, while he and Mrs. Morgan were there in the interest of his health. CLUB LEADER Mrs. Morgan was one of the organizers of the Shelby Woman's Club and served as its president for many years, was active in the Twentieth Century literary club i and United Daughters of Confed eracy and had been a member of the First Baptist church since girl hood. Surviving are two children, Ger ald Morgan and Mrs. Bernard O. Stephenson, one grandchild Helen Morgan, all of Shelby, one brother R. Springs Borders of Nashville, , Tenn., one sister-in-law Mrs. B. B. Morgan of Gaffney, and one niece Mrs. Charles H. Williams, of See DEATH Page 2 U. S. Ready To Open War Crime Trials NUERNBERG, Nov. 5—</P)—The United States will be ready to open its war crimes case against 22 high Nazi leaders on schedule on Nov. 20, but the trial may be delayed by defense requests for additional time, Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson said to day. Jackson, chief U. S. prosecutor, said legal representatives for some defendants are expected to request more time in which to pre pare their cases. Five defendants, he pointed out, still are without counsel. TRUMAN TALKS AT OPENING OF CONFERENCE Says Controversies Must Not Be Allowed To Halt Reconversion COUNTRY~WORRIED WASHINGTON, Nov. 7.— (A5)—President Truman told management and labor today they must solve their differ ences because controversies “cannot be allowed to stop us” in the struggle to reconvert to peacetime production. Addressing the opening session of a labor-management conference of 18 industrial leaders and a like number of organized labor heads, the President said the American people do not like industrial strife that has retarded prosperity, “es pecially after the solemn promise" of both groups that they would "cooperate with their government." “I make no effort to fix the flame,” Mr. Truman said to the conference assembled In the audi toruim of the labor depaiftment. Outside, a picket line had been started before the meeting began by some independent unions whose representatives were not partici pating. REMOVE CONTROLS' Asserting he was anxious to re move all wartime controls as fast as it is possible, Mr. Truman said labor and management must find a way of resolving their differ ences "without stopping produc tion.” He added: “Finding the best way to accom plish that result without govern ment directive to either labor or in dustry — that is your job.” The President said the coun try is worried and “has a right to be” about industrial rela tions. “You have it in your power to stop that worry,” he said. See TRUMAN Page S CAIRO CALM AFTER RIOTS By GEORGE PALMER JERUSALEM, Nov. 5 —(A5)_ A precautionary dusk-to-dawn cur few was in force at Palestine trouble spots today after a quiet week-end in which there was no recurrence of last week’s Arab Jewish disturbances. (Cairo also was reported calm. However, dispatches said that 1, 000 persons were under arrest as an aftermath of rioting Friday and Saturday.) Maj. Gen. C. F. Loewen, mili tary commander of the northern area, issued the curfew order. It commanded all persons living in specified sections between Tel Aviv and Haifa as well as resi dents of the Haifa port and re finery areas to remain indoors be tween 5:30 p.m., and 5:30 am. A condillatory voice was raised over the week-end when Musa Bey El Alami, Palestine delegate to the Pan-Arab league, said that the Arab people would agree to addi tional Jewish immigration into Palestine if an impartial United Nations body decided the country’s economy could carry the load and if all allied nations also agreed to accept Jewish immigrants. The spokesman explained that the Arabs object not to “the Jews as such” but to political Zionism. He criticized the Jews for segre gating themselves into “water tight Jewish communities.” WHAT’S DOING TODAY~ 7:30 pm—Revival service at First Baptist church. 7 p.m.—Junior Chamber of Commerce at Hotel Charles. 7:30 pan.—City board of al dermen at council chamber. 7:30 p.m.—Boy Scout Court of Honor meets at court house. 7:30 p.m.—State Guard drill at armory. ' TUESDAY 8 p.m. — Kickoff breakfast for Community Center drive. 10 a.m. — Revival service at First Baptist church. 7:30 p.m.—Revival service at First Baptist church. 7:30 p.m.—CAP cadet* meet i at armory.
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