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WEATHER North Carolina—Clear to partly cloudy and rather warm today, to night and Thursday. Tfhe Hhelhy Baily ( Stett - State Theatre Today - “SHADY LADY” — Starring — GINNY SIMMS CLEVELAND COUNTY’S NEWSPAPER SINCE 1894 TELEPHONES 1100 1 VOL. XL111-267 ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWS SHELBY, N. C. WEDNESDAY, Nov. 7, 1945 TELEMAT PICTURES SINGLE COPIES—6c U. S. SAILORS SEIZED BY CHINESE COMMUNISTS UBIANS SEEK INDEPENDENCE FROM ITALY Police Ordered To Dis perse Groups Of More Than 5 Persons SUPPORTEDlY ARABS CAIRO, Nov. 7.—(IP)—The British ministry of informa tion announced today that 74 Jews and one Arab had been killed in anti-Jewish out breaks in Tripolitana. Troops and police In Tripoli, metropolitan center of the Italian colony in North Africa, were order ed to “shoot all looters and fire if necessary to disperse groups of more than five persons.” With the support of the Arab League. Libians are seeking inde pendence from Italy. The colony is made up of Trtpolitanla, the west ern section and Cirenaica, the eastern. Russia openly expressed Interest in some form of control over Trtpolitanla during the conference of five foreign ministers in Lon don. indicating she might ask a share in administering that colony and Eritrea. TKIPOLITANIA Foreign Commissar Vyacheslav M. Molotov told newsmen at the conference “there waa a grain of truth' in reports that Russia want ed sole trusteeship over Tripoli tania, in a discussion on disposition of Italy's colonies in North Africa. The ministry of Information com munique said stern measures, in cluding the imposition of a curfew, had been enforced to put down “a serious outbreak of rioting, violence and arson by the Arabs against the Jews in Tripoli City Sunday “Arrest* have been made of sub versive Arab elements,” it said. In addition to those killed, 83 Jews, 36 Arabs and two Italians were hospitalised. MOB ATTACKED • The ministry said the rioting started when an "Arab mob attack ed the Jewish quarter” of Tripoli, it added “These acts of violence, which are unprecedented in the history of Tripolitanta (which had always been characterized by friendship and the mutual goodwill of Arabs and Jews) were the wort of irre sponsible elements who. in a large majority of cases, came from the Arab section of the population. Bee LIBIANS Page 2 COALSHORTAGE GROWING WORSE i Dealers Unable To Get Red Cape Cut For Deliveries Coal dealers, their yards empty,! today faced a serious shortage with little relief in sight before De- j cember 1 despite the fact many homes are actually suffering for fuel. Only seven cars of coal, not one third of normal requirements! at this season, were received last | week by dealers who in most in stances are completely out o' stock. The situation appears to be gen-! eral over the state, and while lo cal dealers are doing all they can to alleviate the situation they ad mit inability td get coal for the most pressing needs. BEYOND LOCAL AID A bulletin from the North Caro lina Retail Coal Merchants asso ciation in Charlotte advises dealers to tell consumers whom they are unable to supply that the situa tion is beyond local aid and that the only way to get relief is through federal authorities at Washington. Senator Clyde R. Hoey, however, in a statement is sued at the capitol yesterday said he is doing all he can to get need- < ed coal diverted to North Caro- i lina shipment. In reply to local appeals for coal, Wade P. Ellis, are- distrlbu- < tion manager at Cincinnati, said . there is nothing that can be done < through his office to relieve the lo- ( cal situation. He cited the fact that strikes prevalent in coal mines for I three weeks had aggravated the 1 shortage and said that no coal can i be diverted here “bec&—there,* pimply isn’t ai/y.” _ It O’DWYER. GOLDSTEIN VOTE IN NCTV YORK ELECTION—William O’Dwyer (left), Democratic and American Labor party candidate for mayor of New York City, votes in the municipal election at a polling place in Brooklyn. Right: John J. Goldstein, the Republican-Liberal-Fusion candidate for mayor, votes at Public School 69 on 54th Street in Manhattan. O'Dwyer was elected.—(AP Wirephoto). Stalin Fails To Attend Celebration Misses Observance Of Socialist Revolution First Time Since He Became Premier MUSLUW, Nov. 7.—{/P>—Generalissimo Stalin, for the first time since he became the leader of Soviet Russia, failed to attend the massive parade of soldiers and civilians cele brating the Socialist revolution in Red Square. -I lie IJIfllliri LMUR.C » preiTUCil! earlier by allowing foreign Com missar V. M. Molotov to delivei the “state of the nation" addres? at St. Andrew hall in the Kremlin last, night. Stalin was reported yesterday tc have returned to Moscow from a month-long vacation in the south of Russia. Newspapers carried greeting? from world leaders on this 28th anniversary of the revolution, but messages from President Truman and Secretary of State James P. Byrnes were conspicuously miss ing. Congratulations of Prime Min ister Attlee and Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin of Britain were fea tured prominently in Izvestia, which also carried a message from Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek. In past years, messages from President Roosevelt have been a mong the most prominently dis played. ATOMIC ENERGY Molotov's remarks about atomic energy appeared to be the leading topic of conversation among the celebrating millions. A typical comment was that Russia should be given the secret, but would learn it anyway if the United States, Great Britain and Canada did not share it. Marshall Alexander M. Vassil evsky, deputy commissar of de fense, Issued an order of the day to the Red army telling it to “study and learn with persist ence” the lessons of the second world war and shoulder the task of becoming “the faithful guar dians of our socialistic nation." TRUMAN SENT REDS MESSAGE Announcement Denies Implicotioi^from Rus sia Of Ne< leglect WASHINGTON, Nov. 7 —<ffV The White House said today that President Truman had sent a mess age to Moscow congratulating the Russian government on the 28th anniversary of the Socialist Revolu tion. v « Reporters broughttqfeitie quea-r tion of the presidential message at a news conference ,fith Eben Ay ers, assistant press, secretary, on the basis of dispatches from Mos cow that no anniversary greeting from either Mr. Tripaan or Secre-| tary of State ‘James P. 3yrnes had been published in the Moscow news paper. was said that Byrnes did not send At the State Department, it a message because the occasion called for greetings from a chief of state rather than from the sec retary of state. Ayers also was adeed about re ports, some emaninating from the west coast, that Generalissimo Sta lin is or has been in the United States. “If it is so,’* Ayers said, “we See TRUMAN Page t Government Seeks Solution Of Transportation Tieup WASHINGTON, Nov. 7— (/F) — \ government conciliator got union ind company officials together to iay In an effort to find a solution hr the capital's transportation ieup, now In its second day. Four thousand street cai and jus drivers left their jobs yester AFL bus and trolley opera tors who struck yesterday for higher wages voted almost unanimously to resume work In Washington today. lay, and taxicab drivers have hreatened to take a sympathy vacation.” • Joining the government’s con iliator in the meeting was Rep. lennlngs Randolph (D-WVa), hairman of the house District of Columbia committee. Randolph and Federal Concilia ion Chief Edgar L. Warren have ' leen urging the company and AFL inion to meet. And as he enter d today’s get-together. Randolph old a reporter; , “We are making progress." Randolph planned to meet later today with members *f the AFL Taxi Operators union. said he would try to persuade them to remain on their jobs, A “HOLIDAY” Charles Garrett, union vlce-presl haven’t got anybody (to strike against” but that thQ board could order a “holiday.” The always-busy taxicab trade here boomed after yesterday’s sur prise transportation tleup. Capital streets Were clogged with the new volume of auto traffic as ancient and seldom-used vehicles were pressed Into service. The weather was mild and clear. Not a trolley or bus of the Capital Transit company — which serves the District of Columbia and suburban Mary land areas— rolled under the AFL-Amalgamated Street Rail See GOVERNMENT Page S dent, told newsmen STALEMATE IN INDONESIA Dutch And Indonesians Remain No Nearer To Compromise By RALPH MORTON BATAVIA, JAVA, Nov. 7 —(A5)— The Dutch and Indonesian Nation alists remained at odds today In their search for a compromise to end the bloody strife In the Neth erlands East Indies. Soerkarno and Soebardjo, who style themselves president and for eign minister of the “Indonesian Republic,” conferred again with the allied commander, British Lt. Gen. Sir Philip Christison. They were expected also to meet informally again with H. V. Van Mook, Lieu tenant Governor of the rich is lands. Van Mook has offered the Indo nesians a type of Dominion status under the Dutch queen with the Indonesians sharing equally in the development of the country. Soer kamo and his followers insisted they would accept nothing short of compete independence. JOCKEY FOR PLACE Both sides were jockeying for position in which world opinion will play a most important role.. At the morning conference, Soekamo proposed to divide Java into regional sections where con tact bureaus would be established to effect liaison between British officers and Indonesian local lead ers. Soekamo said this would en able the British to go into an area to disarm Japanese and res cue internees, because the way would be paved by the cooperating councils of Btritish and natives. The British army newspaper said an “uneasy situation” prevailed at Magelang, where considerable bands of armed youths were concentra ted. In Batavia, the British ar rested 31 such armed men. MISSING GIRL — Thora Cham berlain (above), daughter of Prank A. Chamberlain, a building contractor of San Jose, Calif., is sought by authorities following her disappearance Nov. 2. A school mate told officers the girl drove iway in an automobile with a man Kho accosted her. ((£>) Wirephoto). Unions Face Showdown On CIO Demand WASHINGTON, Nov. 7.— (fP)—Unions put aside their bitter wrangling over key posts in the national labor management conference to day for a showdown on the CIO demand that delegates discuss wages. The issue may pop up at the first possible return to the AFL fold—and over the op position of the CIO. Instead of an eight-man execu tive committee as had been pro posed, with labor’s four votes di vided between the AFL and CIO, the conference agreed to a 16-man committee with labor’s eight votes divided three each for CIO and AFL, and one each for Lewis’ U MW and the railroad brother hoods. Elsewhere in the capital there were these developments on the wage issue: The National Labor Relations board pondered whether it may conduct a strike vote by the CIO United Steelworkers of Republic Steel corporation while the union has a no-strike contract. REQUEST REJECTED The steelworkers asked for the vote after the corporation rejected their request for a $2 a day more pay. Republic challenged the re quest. At tire same time the ground work was laid for a wage discus sion in the shipbuilding and repair industry. Ernest A. McMillan, chairman of the national ship building stabilization committee, said there would be a conference on the subject December 4. He will choose the site later. The ship workers want 30 per See UNIONS Page 2 BOND SALE A THIRD OF WAY E Bonds, However, Are For Short Of $325, 000 Quota Through Nov. 3 Cleveland coun ty had sold $535,000 on Its $1,510, 000 quota of Victory bonds, ac cording to an announcement made this morning by George Blanton, war finance chairman. The county is falling far short of its $325,000 quota of E bonds, however. Through Nov. 3 only $21,581 had been reported through the state office at Greensboro where reports on all sales are made daily and In turn sent back to the respective county chair men. Chairman Blanton says he hopes for a stimulus to sales during this week with workers canvassing the prospects throughout the county. Many sales of bonds are being made to persons who in turn con tribute the bonds to the Commun ity Center, thereby aiding both causes. The Community Center is a charitable foundation and gifts to it are deductible on in come tax, but the foundation is not allowed to hold E bonds which must be made and kept in the name of individuals. The purchase of $50,000 in C bonds by Puke Power company reported yesterday will likely be followed by purchases by other industrial and business interests on an investment basis. Search Abandoned For Missing Boy DOWNIEVILLE, CALIF., Nov. 7 —(fF)—As the first snows of winter fell over the rocky terrain of this high Sierra mining community formal search for three-year-old Dickie turn Dusen, missing since last Thursday, was called off last night. Joseph turn Suden, gold mine operator and father of the boy, in q statement, announced that army troops are being withdrawn. “It was agreed that further use x x x of troops and forest service men would be futile due to the fact that the entire area within which the boy could have reason ably been expected to be found, has been thoroughly covered,” the statement read. DEMOCRATS OPTIMISTIC OVER ELECTION 0#Dwyer Elected Mayoi Of New York In Land slide Vote NO GOP~COMMENT By The Associated Press Democrat William O’Dwyer swamped two major oppon ents and won election as may or of New York city yester day. His vote far exceeded the aggregate of his opposition. It prompted Democratic lead ers to see good things ahead for the party in the state and nationally. They saw in it a decline in the political for tunes of Gov. Thomas E. Dewey. ^ ' Republicans withheld comment for the time being. In the second municipal scrap that captured more than local at tention in yesterday's first post RICHMOND, VA., Nov. 7— (/Pj—William M. “Biff Bill'’ Tuck, 49-year-old South Bos ton Democrat, is the next governor of Virginia. Tuck, present lieutenant governor and frfr more than 20 years a leader in the domi nant state Democratic organi zation headed by United States Senator Harry F. Byrd, won yesterday’s election by a ma jority of over two to one in a contest with State Senator S. Floyd Landreth, Galax Re publican, and Howard Carwiie, Richmond Independent. De mocratic candidates for lieu tenant governor and attorney general were also elected. war voting, Mayor Edward J. Jef fries was elected to a fourth term in Detroit’s hot non-partisan may oralty race against, Richard T. Frankensteen, CIO. union leader. Democrats elected these mayors elsewhere: David J. Lawrence, na tional committeeman for Pennsyl See DEMOCRATS Page 2 OH STOVE STARTS FIRE Fire which started from an ex ploding oil stove shortly after 1 o’clock this ’morning completely destroyed a 10-room tenant apart ment owned by George Sperling situated on the Ross Grove road, causing an estimated loss of $10, 000, not any of which was covered by insurance. The house was occupied at the time by Amber Bridges and a Mrs Lail. They lost a considerable part of their furnishings but were able to get some of the furniture out of the burning house. The Shelby fire department which answered the call could fight the fire only with its boos ter pump and the tank of water it carried on the truck, as no wa ter line extends from the city out that far. The firemen were suc cessful in saving a nearby dwell ing house which was kept wet while the blaze was burning in the apartment house. It was se verely scorched at that and an automobile which A was parked nearby had its tppSeverely dam aged by the heat, f ‘Planned Starvation’ At Santo Tomas Is Charged ___ _ ~ . .. . Joy MJMurm oviiiiUi^iv MANILA, Nov. The Jap anese operated Santo Tomas ci vilian prison camp under a “plan ned program of starvation” for approximately 4,000 interrtees, magazine Editor A. V. H. Hart endorp testified today at the war crimes trial of Lt. Gen. Tomoyuki Yamashita. At least eight internees died of starvation or malnutrition in the last four months of Japanese oc cupation, he stated. The Japanese commandant re fused to hear internees’ complaints because he said Japan did not ictuguiAc: cue ucucva vumvnuuu. Hartendorp told the U. S. mili tary commission hearing charges that Yamashita permitted whole sale brutalities by his command, that his own weight dropped from 170 to 106 pounds, and that the average weight loss of all interne es was 30 pounds. CONDITIONS WORSE He said conditions became steadily worse with the Nipponese commandant making progressive cuts in Internees’ rations. In October, 1944, the internees ra See PLANNED Page 2 _ Army Headquarters In Shanghai Clamps News Blackout On Incident _. \ SHANGHAI, Nov. 7.—(lP)—The reported seizure by Chinese Communists of several American crewmen from a Liberty ship in the Chinwangtao area today brought a prompt news blackout in U. S. army headquarters in Shang4 hai. ' Newsmen, dependent on British sources, were told some seamen were seized by the Chinese Communists but some were released with apologies. American army spokesmen refused to discuss the mat ter and the United States consul general’s office here said only that “vague” reports bad been received. Inquiries were referred to the Tientsin consulate, fron* which replies were unavailable. The known facts are the presence in North China of American marines and the operation of several Liberty ships, arousing considerable resentment among the Communists. This has produced an anti-American propaganda cam paign and at least two minor shooting incidents in which mere were no casualties. By SPENCER MOOSA CHUNGKINK, Nov. 7 —UP)— Chinese communists claimed a victory today over 70,000 nation alist troops in fighting along the Peiping-Hankow railroad as the Kuomintang official news agency reported intensified battling throughout the provinces of Shan si and Suiyuan. The communists also said they had recaptured the Hopeh province rail junction of Tae hsien Oct. 25. The already strained realtions between Ye nan and Chungking were fur ther endangered by the com munist claims. Under the veteran Gen. Ho Lung, the communists are tightening a ring of steel around Kweisul, Sui yuan capital, while other Red columns move from the west, pre paratory to assaulting the impor See ARMY Page * Special Session Of Jap Diet Is Likely Discuss Establishment Of "People's Police"; Revi sions Made In Education TOKYO, Nov. 7.—(/P)—Emperor Hirohito today called a regular meeting of the diet for Dec. 24, Kyodo news agency said, but there were indications that it might be superseded by an extraordinary session expected to begin Dec. 10 for considering election law revisions. i japans once-domineering ponce system meanwhile got another rough shake up. The nation’s police chiefs met at the home ministry to discuss establishment of a “people’s police,” the collection of civilian weapons, and the manage ment of economic police charged with controlling black markets. The Japanese government fired more than 5,800 enforce ment and surveillance person nel and announced it would appoint civilian advisory boards in major Tokyo police districts with unprecedented power to criticize public actions of of ficers. Some time ago the nation’s in famous thought police and mili tary police organizations were dis solved on allied orders and their leaders imprisoned for question-., ing. Also at the command of General MacArthur, the Japanese govern ment released 507 political prison ers and discontinued “protection and surveillance” over 2,026 other individuals. IN EDUCATION Elsewhere on the occupation front: The ministry of education abol ished from schools Samurai-flavor ed course in glider training, Judo, jiu jitsu, fencing and military drill. See SPECIAL Page 2 MISS WILSON IS ACQUITTED Superior Court Jury De liberated Only A Few Minutes I Miss Sara Wilson, who was driving one of the automobiles in volved in the collision in which Miss Kathleen Mauney was killed last January, was acquitted of manslaughter yesterday afternoon by a. Cleveland Superior court jury which deliberated only a few min utes. Judge Allen H. Gwyn, who is presiding over this term of court, had previously dismissed a similar indictment against Horace Addington, the driver of the other automobile. Miss Wilson took the stand yes terday on advice of counsel and admitted that she was driving the car after the court had ruled that she did not have to offer Incrimi nating evidence against herself. She said that as she approach ed the curve on which the acci dent occurred she slowed down her car to. 20 miles an hour and pulled over on the right shoulder of the road as far as she could. She testified that she could not avoid the crash. Previously Addington had tes tified that he also had slowed down for the curve and that he too had driven to his right hand side of the road. WHAT’S DOING TODAY 7 30 p.m—Revival service at First Baptist church. 7:30 p.m. — Prayer meeting at Presbyterian church. 7:30 p.m. —- Fellowship hour at Central Methodist church. THURSDAY 7:00 pan.—Regular meeting of Kiwanis club. 7:30 p.m.—CAP cadeta Meet at armory.
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