North Carolina Newspapers

WEATHER North Carolina: Clear to partly cloudy today and tonight; increas ing cloudiness Friday; continued warm. Ghefl Hhelby Baily Stett CLEVELAND COUNTY’S NEWSPAPER SINCE 1894 TELEPHONES 1100 * - State Theatre Today - "THE FALCON IN SAN FRANCISCO" Sfarring~TOM CONWAY VOL. XL111— 268 ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWS SHELBY, N. C. THURSDAY, NOV. 8, 1945 TELEMAT PICTURES SINGLE COPIES—6c U. S. STEEL REBUFFS TRUMAN WAGE-PRICE POLICY SUFFICIENT TO DISARM ALL INDONESIANS Band Of 1,000 Native Troops Beaten Off By British Forces TENSION” MOUNTS New YORK, Nov. 8.—(/P) —British Maj. Gen. E. C. Mansergh was reported by the Netherlands news agency Aneta today to have served notice on Indonesian leaders it Soerabaja, Java naval base, that he was bringing in sufficient troops to disarm all Indonesians there except an agreed upon .number of police. BATAVIA. Nov. 8—(A1)—A band of 1,000 Indonesians was beaten off by British Indian troops and tanks today near Batavia as ten sion mounted throughout Java. Almost simultaneously Dutch force* threw back another at tack on the TJUUitan airfield on the southeast outskirts of the capital, scattering a band of 300 Nationalist* after a pitched battle which lasted nearly an hour. The British colonel whose troops beat back the first attack, aimed at a camp for released allied in ternees and war prisoners, said that for the first time the Indo nesians appeared to be fighting un der organised leadership, 14 DEAD The Indonesians left 14 dead in the battle at the internee camp. Several Indonesians and two Pun jab troopers were wounded. At the TJUUitan airfield, one Indo nesian was killed, one was cap tured. and two Dutch soldiers were wounded. At Magelang. near the center of Java, the inhabitants were re 8m RITFTIC1ENT Page 2 A I Army uiscnarge Points Lowered To 50 Minimum WASHINGTON, Nov, 8 —UP)— The army haa decided to release this month enlisted men with 60 or more discharge points who are on furlough and enlisted men on temporary duty In the United States. It did not estimate the number affected. The army has also laid down ex emptions from overseas duty whtch will affect about 125,000 officers and enlisted men. Except for graduates of the military Intelligence language school, regular army enlisted men and volunteers for foreign duty, no enlisted man with 21 months or more honorable service since Sept. 16, 1640, will be assigned overseas for permanent duty. 33 MONTHS Officers with 33 months or more honorable service, or with 30 months If medical department of ficers, are exempt unless they are reserve officers who choose to re main on active duty, regular army officers, scarce specialists or are graduates of the military Intelli gence school with fewer than 39 months service and not eligible for discharge. Army nurses with 12 points or 30 years of age are exempt and no WAO officers are being sent across on permanent assignment. Attlee To Be Invited To Address Commons WASHINGTON, Nov. 8.— (/P) — Prime Minister Clement Attlee of Great Britain will be invited to address a Joint session of con gress next week. House Speaker Rayburn said today. Rayburn told reporters of the Invitation as he left a White House conference with President Truman and other congressional leaders. Attlee is coming here Saturday for discussions of atomic energy with President Truman and Prime Min ister Mackenzie King of Canada. Rayburn did not give, a specific date for Attlee's address but as sorted It would not be Monday. mmmm LEWIS AND MURRAY IN CONFERENCE DISPUTE—John L. Lewis (left), United Mine Workers chief, and Philip Murray (standing in picture at right), CIO president, address the Labor-Management conference in Washington with heated words which threw the meeting into a dispute over Lewis’ demand for a place on the conference's executive committee. Lewis finally won his fight with the help of William Green, AFL pres ident.—<AP Wirephotoj. NO HEALTH AID YET SECURED Rutherford - Polk Health Board Turns Down Part Time Request Health boards of Polk and Ruth erford counties have turned down the request of Cleveland county for the part time services of their health officer. Dr. Ben Washburn, to serve until a permanent health officer can be secured for this county, it was learned this morning from Mayor Harry Woodson who. with Dr. B. H. Kendall, was selected to make arrangements for the tem porary services of some health of ficer. Mayor Woodson was in confer ence yesterday with Dr. B. E. Rhyne, of Gaston county In the hope that some arrangement could be made with the department in that county to furnish health service to this county. Mr. Rhyne is consulting with his board of health to see if an assignment can be made and promised to let the Cleveland au thorities know by Monday. TOO BUSY The Polk and Rutherford offi cials felt that Dr. Washburn is too much occupied with duties in his own counties to use his time else where. In the meantime all the ven ereal disease clinics in the county have been postponed until a health officer is secur ed. Local nurses in the health department says they are receiv ing reports on many new cases of tuberculosis which should be followed up. Suggestion has been made that it may be possible to secure the part-time service of Dr. Z. P. Mit chell, former Cleveland health of ficer who left here last week for Iredell county to become health officer there. When he left he in dicated that if the Iredell board was willing he would be glad to help out until some permanent officer is secured. Dr. Mitchell has not been approached since he left. AT YAMASHITA TRIAL; 25,000 Brutally Or Murdered In MANILA, Nov. 8—(£")—The grim story of a Japanese reign of ter ror in Batangas province where 25,000 men, women and children were brutally1 mistreated or mur dered in seven months began td unfold today before the military commission hearing war crimes charges against Lt. Gen. Tomoyukl Yamashita. Survivors have said that the death toll of civilians was far greater in Batangas than it was In Manila. Populations of entire villages, these survivors have re ported, were held at bay at the Thinks Military Heads Should Be Part Of Cabinet By EDWIN B. HAAKINSON WASHINGTON, Nov. 8. —(A*)— Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur has ex pressed his belief that “the profes sional heads” of the armed services should sit In as ex-ofllclo members of the President's cabinet. The general's suggestion Is included in a transcript taken by the Joint chiefs of staff spe cial committee. This group in terviewed top army and navy leaders on a proposal to set up a single department of nation al defense. The transcript, made public by the senate military committee which is considering Army-Navy merger plans, quoted MacArthur as saying at Leyte In the Philippines Dec. 3, 1944: “I believe that the professional heads of tlffe services should be ex officio members of the cabinet. They should be present at all cabi net meetings without power of voting, but permitted to express their opinion, and above all else, to hear the cabinet as they discuss not onlv external affairs of the United States but internal prob lems." NOT POSSIBLE Brig. Gen. P. Trubee Davison, member of the Army-Navy staff committee, was quoted as telling MacArthur his suggestion was not possible "in the cabinet today the way the government is set up”, MacArthur added: “It was our forefathers who wrote See THINKS Page 2 WHAT’S DOING TODAY 7 00 pm.—Regular meeting of Kiwanis club. 7:30 p.m.—CAP cadets meet at armory. 7:30 p.m.—Pinal service In revival series at First Baptist church. FRIDAY 12:30 p.m.—Regular of Rotary club. Mistreated \ Batangas point of Japanese guns while the invaders burned down all their homes. JUMPED INTO WELL A Filipino witness, FampUn Umali, from the province, who re lated that he was tied pp with “about 700 men and I dofi’t know the number of women but there were many,” and “led of to a well about 300 feet wide and 60 feet deep.” One by one they were made to jump Into tht well, Umali said. See 25,000 Page 2 _____ Ijpeting v*— FLAY GIN BURNS WITH BIG LOSS Flames Quickly Inflict Damage $35,000 To $40,000 Fire which flashed and spreac rapidly from the press of the Flaj Gin company, six miles north ol Cherryville, caused loss of the en tire plant together with extensivt damage to 200 bales of cotton foi a loss estimated at $35,000 to $40, 000 Wednesday afternoon. Within a few minutes after th« fire broke out the entire building was aflame and the baled cottor caught rapidly from the heat ol the conflagration. Gin employe* barely had time to get out before the entire place was afire, and the Lincolnton fire department on its arrival found the building too fai gone to warrant work other thar salvaging burning bales of cotton Approximately half the cottor bales were removed to safety, bul nearly a hundred of them suffer ed damage in varying degree. The modern ginning equipment was owned by Lloyd Baxter and Johr M. Beam who had $5,200 insurance on the gin but no insurance or the cotton. Throughout last night and a gain this morning workmen were busily engaged helping save burn ing cotton, more than a thousand gallons of kerosene being used tc soak smouldering fires out oi burning bales. No plans for rebuilding had been revealed this morning. Pearl Harbor Probe Committee Must Be Given Information WASHINGTON, Nov. 8— (JP) — The White House said today that President Truman has ordered that the Joint congressional com mittee investigating Pearl Harbor must be supplied with any infor mation it desires. His memorandum, to federal de partment and agency heads, as well as to the joint chiefs of staff, authorizes all employes under them to give the committee “any in formation of which they may have knowledge.” The president’s action came at a time when Republicans and Democrats on the investigating committee were contending that political considerations are imperil ing the value of the whole inquiry. Jewish Refugees Land At Haifa JERUSALEM, Nov. 8 — (#)— While police stood by with armor ed cars and tommyguns to pre serve order, 789 Jewish refugees from more than a dozen European countries landed at Haifa without incident from the Canadian Pa cific liner Princess Catheleen to NEGOTIATIONS BETWEEN U. S., RUSSIA SLACK Two Nations Fail To Reach Agreement On Many Problems BYRNES CONCERNED By John M. Hightower Associated Press Diplomatic News Editor WASHINGTON, Nov. 8.— QP) — Negotiations between Moscow and Washington over a variety of problems rang ing from Japan to Turkey ap peared today to be farther from success than officials here had hoped. Here is the situation: 1. Foreign Commissar Molotov has replied to an American propo sal for an allied control agency in Tokyo which would be subordinate to the Far Eastern advisory com mission in Washington. There are strong indications that Molotov turned down this proposal and that Secretary of State Byrnes is not inclined to comprise the issue further. 2. The United States has laid a four-point program for revising control of the Dardenelles before the Turkish government. This would give Russia some advantages in the use of the straits which she does not nBW haya,.J$ut ft tails far short of Russia’s reported desire for military bases on the vital link be tween the Black Sea and the Medi terranean. 3. A Russlan-Turkish treaty of nonaggression and friendship which had run for many years expired yesterday following Soviet denun ciation. Diplomatic officials say they fear that Russia may make a few psychological passes at Turkey in order to gain the right to set up Dardenelles bases and also to win over certain territories in north eastern Turkey which the Russians have claimed. 4. The problem of the atomic bomb and peacetime uses of atomic See NEGOTIATIONS Page 2 Police Alerted In Search For Missing Child SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 8—(i^P)— San Francisco police alerted all California points early today to be on the lookout for two men who may have missing Dickie turn Suden, 3, with them in a late mod el sedan. Inspector Joseph D o n e g a n broadcast the alarm after Mrs. Mildred Beer of No. 3 Pinto ave nue, Park Merced, reported a three or four-year-old boy re sembling the turn Suden child had come to her door just before mid night, and was seized some time later by two men who forced their way into her home and knocked her down. She told Donegan she heard a noise at her room and found the blue-suited youngster outside a lone. She took him inside, fed him some milk and about an hour afterward called the police. Three radio squad cars were dispatched immediately to Mrs. Beer’s home in a new, suburban residential district in southwest San Francisco. 5 MINUTES LATER Five minutes after Donegan had received the woman’s call he phoned her back to see if the po lice cars had arrived. During that interval Mrs. Beer said two men came to the door, claimed they were policemen and pushed their way inside. One struck her on the forehead, knocked her down and held her while the oth er picked up the boy and carried him to a car parked outside. His companion joined him and the pair raced away with the lad. A report was flashed to the San Mateo county sheriff’s office and a deputy drove up the skyline boulevard ta San Francisco but did not spot the hunted car. The turn Suden boy, scion of a wealthy San Francisco Bay area mining family, has been missing since Nov. 1 when he disappeared from the yard of his parents’ home at Goodyear Bar, a mining community in the high Sierras. ASK COMPENSATION: Chinese Communists Demand Apology From Lt. Gen. Wedemeyer By Spencer Moosa CHUNGKING, Nov. 8.—(/P)—Chinese Communists de manded today that Lt. Gen. Albert C. Wedemeyer, U. S. commander in China, apologize and that compensation be paid for alleged American "interference” in China’s internal struggle. The Reds also demanded thnt Chinese government troops with drew from all Red - dominated areas, as the price for peace, but asserted that the government, In stead, was planning an all-out of fensive for which 90 divisions al-. ready were being massed in the north. The demand for Wedemeyer’s apology was contained in one of four protesting letters sent to the American commander by the com munists’ Yenan headquarters. Spokesmen at the communist headquarters at Yenan called "a complete lie,” government claims that the nationalists have been and would remain strictly on the defensive. More than 70 government divisions have massed around “liberated areas” of Honan province, and Hopeh province is surrounded by more than 20 government division, the communists as serted. Chou En-ai, Yennan negotiator here and No. 2 Chinese commun ist, announced the Yenan answer to Kuomintang peace proposals shortly after reports that the Rus sians had withdrawn from the Manchurian ports of Kulutao and Yingkow (Newchwang) leaving the Chinese Reds in comamnd, heigh tened the already tense atmos phere. DEMANDED WITHDRAWAL Chou said the communists de manded that the Kuomintang withdraw to positions outside the “liberated” areas before the civil fighting began and order all na See CHINESE Page 2 9,368,000 Bales of Cotton Indicated Off Approximately Three Million Bales From Last Year's Production WASHINGTON, Nov. 8.—^P)—The agriculture depart ment reported today that this year’s cotton crop production was indicated at 9,368,000 bales of 500 pounds gross weight, based on conditions prevailing Nov. 1. "■ ...r—t-- I This pstimafp rnmnarpc wlt.h Ia'kI NAZI SABOTEUR WENT TO FBI One Of Eight Landed By U-Boat In 1942 Gave Tip-Off* WASHINGTON, Nov. 8 -<£•)— One of the eight Gertqan sabo teurs landed by U-boats in 1942 made a beeline for the FBI and spilled the details of their mis sion. This tip resulted in the group being rounded up within 14 days, ruining their plans to wreck TVA —source of power for the atomic bomb project—and other key war and communications projects. Disclosing this yesterday in a statement. Attorney General Tom K. Clark said arrest of the group caused the Germans to change plans to send over a batch of sa boteurs by submarine every six weeks. The informer, George Basch, contracted FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover soon after slipping ashore with $80,000 in cash and boxes of explosives. He said he and Er nest Burger, another of the sabo teurs, had agreed to notify the FBI. Dasch had lived in the United States from 1922 to 1941 when he returned to Germany. At the se cret trial of the saboteurs before a military commission* he testified that his sole purpose in under taking the mission was to get out See NAZI Page 2 year’s production of 12,230,00C bales, with a 1934-43 annual aver age of 12,293,000 bales and with 9.779.000 bales forecast a month ago for this year’s crop. Unfavorable weather during much of the growing season ad versely affected this year’s crop. The indicated yield of lint cot ton per acre was reported at 249.7 pounds, compared with 293.5 pounds last year and with 231 pounds for the 1934-43 average. Cotton ginned from this year’s crop prior to Nov. 1 was reported by the Census Bureau at 5,153,639 running bales (counting round as half bales.) This compared with 8,282,768 bales ginned to the same date last year and 9,062,869 to the same date in 1943. HARVESTED ACRE The indicated yield per harvest ed acre and the production, re spectively, for cotton - producing states last year and this included: Virginia 460 and 406 pounds and 29.000 and 22,000 bales. North Carolina 454 and 36C pounds and 710,000 and 440,00C bales. South Carolina 384 and 303 pounds and 864,000 and 640,006 bales. Georgia 286 and 252 pounds and 810.000 and 650,000 bales. Tennessee 409 and 397 pounds and 562,000 and 495,000 bales. Ginnings of cotton prior to Nov. 1 in cotton producing states included: Georgia 68,335; North Carolina 207,783; South Carolina 417,514; Tennessee 170,157; Virginia 5,360. Auto Workers Wage Increase Demands Headed For Showdown oy me associates t ress The fight Ifr CIO-United Auto mobile Workers to obtain 30 per cent wage increases for the na tion’s auto workers appeared head ed for a showdown today as the! last group of employes in motor’s j “big three” voted in favor of a work stoppage to support the un ion’s demands. r/ie union yesterday flatly reject ed a compromise wage adjustment program offered by General Mo tor Corporation at the renewal of negotiations in Detroit. Earlier GM had fromally turned down as “ex cessive me union s aemana ior a 30 per cent wage rate hike in the motor industry. HEAVY MAJORITY Meanwhile, early returns from yesterday's national labor relations board election among 80.000 Ford Company workers disclosed a heavy majority approved a work stop page to support the union's wage proposal. Previously employes at General Motors and Chrysler Cor poration sanctioned the poaeible strike action. See AllTO Page 2 NO WAGE TALKS WITHOUT PRICE GUARANTEES Price Boosts Must Be Giv en Simultaneously With Wage Hikes BUS TIE4JP ENDED j ! WASHINGTON, Nov. 8.— i [Jfy—President Truman’s la bor-management conference toiled through a bulging agenda today, but United States Steel Corporation held the capital’s attention with a ?harp rebuff to Mr. Truman’s .vage-price policy. Through its president, Benjamin F. Fairless, the corporation notified Secretary of Labor Schwellenbach it would not resume wage talks with the CIO steel workers until It had the government's answer on steel price increases. Fairless dashed cold water, also, on Mr. Truman's proposal that employers grant wage In creases now, then wait si* months before seeking a price ceiling adjustment from OPA if profits dwindled too sharply. Fairless said if wages are boosted, additional steel price Increases — beyond those already pending—will be needed and the corporation, he added, will insist on assurances from OPA that’ they would be granted “simultaneously” with any wage hike. MURRAY ACCEPTS Philip Murray, president of the CIO and of the United Steel Workers, had accepted Schwellen bach’s proposal that collective bar gaining be resumed—in what Mur ray said was the spirit of Mr. Tru man's wage-price speech last Tues day—under a special conciliator. This new road-block in the ad ministration’s drive for labor peace loomed just as a minor but irritat ing snag was cleared away—the 30 hour tie-up of all bus and streetcar service in Washington. Delegates could again ride the trolleys to the labor-management conference, if they chose, under a, 14-day truce arranged between striking AFL traction workers and the Capital Transit Company. Full service was scheduled today while wage demands are negotiated. TWO APPROACHES On Capitol Hill, house members pursued these two legislative ap proaches to industrial peace: The rules committee prepared See NO WAGE Page * * 1 ELLUKAm UKUEO RELIEF OF COAL SHORTAGE HERE Telegram was dispatched this morning by the Shelby chamber of commerce and Merchants associa tion to the Solid Fuels adminis tration at Washington urging im mediate attention to the coal short age in Shelby. Copies of the tele gram went to Senator Clyde R, Hoey and Rep. A. L. Bulwinkle. The message which was signed by J. Dale Stentz, executive secre tary of the local organization read as follows: “Imperative that coal be ship ped to Shelby immediately to avoid suffering and possible epi demic of sickness. Not one ton available here now. Please inform us when we may expect relief.” Coal dealers themselves see lit— tie promise of relief before De cember 1 unless government agen cies step in. It ordinarly takes j around 20 cars a week to meet Shelby’s needs at this time of year. Kamikaze Pilots Try To Assassinate Jap Home Minister | TOKYO. Nov. 8—i'/P)—Two va- jf grant fonner kamikaze pilots who ' waited with drawn knives in the i darkened halls of the home min istry attempted vainly last night to assassinate home Minister Ken jiro Horikiri. The 61-year-old minister, at tacked as he returned from ad dressing a meeting of police chiefs on the increase of crime and “chaotic" conditions in Japan, was not injured. The assailant! were taken in custody.