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WEATHER ‘Increasing cloudiness with showers in extreme west portion this afternoon and in west and central portions tonight; Satur day, fair in west portion. Tshe Hhelhy Baily Him« - State Theatre Today “THE GIRL OF THE LIMBERLOST” CLEVELAND COUNTY’S NEWSPAPER SINCE! 1894 rv v/ i n ncuun TELEPHONES 1100 VULi. AJLilll— £OV ASSOCIATED PKESS NEWS SHELBY, N. C. FRIDAY, NOV. 9, 1945 TELEMAT PICTURES SINGLE COPIES—fie MEASURE TODAY GIVES NATION FIKST REVENUE CUT SINCE 1929 Measure Is Expected To Stimulate Business, 0 Create News Jobs reduceeTTpending WASHINGTON, Nov. 9.— (/P)—The white house today announced that President Truman had signed the bill giving individuals and busi ness a slash of $5,920,000,000 in 1946 taxes. Mr. Truman thus became the first president in 16 years to sign a gen eral tax reduction measure. Not since Herbert Hoover put his sig nature on a “Christmas present’’ slash In 1929 has there been an overall reduction of pocketbook levies. Congressional sponsors of Ihe legislation said it would sti mulate business In the recon version period and create jobs. The White House announcement this morning said the bill was signed yeaterdav. WHAT rr DOER The legislation: 1 Removes 12.000.000 low Income persons from the tax rolls and as sures reductions of 10 per cent or more for Individuals making up ♦o $i ',000 annually. Smaller cuts are provided for those with In comes ever $60,000. Total reduc tions for Individuals amount to I3.M4.000.0M. 3. Provides special tax treatment W for veterans of World War II. for giving all levies on service pay of enlisted men In wartime and giv ing officers three years In which to settle with the government. 3. Clips $3,136,000,000 off the bur dens of business next year, prin cipally through repeal of the cor poration war-imposed 85.5 per cent excess profits tax. 4. Repeals the $5 use tax on au tomobiles and boats at a saving of $140,000,000. 5. Freezes the Social Security tax In 1946 at one per cent on employes’ pay and employers’ pay roll. Without the “freeze’’ this tax would have Jumped January 1 to 2 5 per cent for each. EXCISE STAYS The bill makes no change In the excise levies on the so-called lux ury items such as liquor, luggage, furs. Jewelry and cosmetics. Congress sent the tax bill to the president amid demands for cuts in government spend ing and for a balanced national See GIVES Page S Mass Slaughter By Yamashita’s Men Reported 9 $ By DEAN SCHEDLER MANILA, Nov. 9—(JP)—The first details of a mass slaughter per pet/Tited last Feb. 16 and 18 by the Japanese in a ravine near Taal, Ba tailgas province were related to day by two black clad women at the Yamashlta war crimes trial. While tears streamed down her cheeks, Mrs. Conchita Laulhatl testified that the soldiers of Lt. Oen. Tomo Yukl Yamashlta set fire to a barrio (village) forcing her family to seek refuge in a near by sugar plantation. Pursuing Jap anese diverted the fleeing people toward the ravine. “I could hear screaming from men, women and children as shoot ings became intense and the Jap anese started showering people with grenades,” she told the com mission in a halting, choking voice. LAUGHING, SHOUTING ‘‘The Japanese were dashing around laughing and shouting dur ing this terrible time." Her husband and one-year-old daughter were among the more than 50 dead she saw In the ravine. Juanita Barrion, 26, told of los ing her mother, father, three sis ters and four brothers. They were victims of machine gun and rifle fire and grenades. She related how, as Japanese fired point blank Into the ravine, she pretended to be dead. The Yamashlta defense has con tended the Japanese in the area acted to crush guerrilla activities' which were hampering the Nippon ese in their losing defensive com ptlgXL ' I FLYING FORTS READY—With gas tanks loaded, these B-17 Flying Fortresses are stationed at Erlangen, I Germany, ready for any emergency in the U. S. occupation zone. Communists Renew Intervention Talk Wedemeyer Denies Aid To Nationalists But Admits U. S. Troops "Caught In Skirmishes" By The Associated Press CHUNGKING, Nov. 9.—Lt. Gen. Albert C. Wedemeyer, just returned to his China command from Washington, found himself involved today in a long range controversy with Communist leaders, who renewed charges of U. S. in tervention in China’s civil war. Wedemeyer denied intervention, but said his troops had been caught in minor skirmishes. Simultaneously, representatives i of the Chinese government and the communists reported some pro gress as they resumed negotia tions on a four-point peace pro gram. A Red spokesman said the chief ohstacle was a demand that nationalist troops be withdrawn immediately from all communist liberated areas. The communist New China Rally News, while specifying that the latest asserted l7. S. intervention had been blood less, charged that American troops and armored vehicles spearheaded the nationalists' capture of a railroad station and a village. Wedemeyer, in Shanghai, told Associated Press Correspondent Ri chard Cushing that American troops definitely were not provok ing trouble but said they had been drawn into minor skirmishes. He presumably referred to com munist charges of American ac tivity in North China in mid-Oc tobbr. The newspaper said new in stances of intercention occurred Nov. 1. The Daily News appealed to the communist newspaper Daily Work er in New York to “urge the American people and government x x x to cease the spearheading and transporting of Kuomintang (nationalist) troops by United See COMMUNISTS Page * Russia Said To Have Occupied Jap Isles TOKYO, Nov, 0 —UP)—Japanese sources Raid today Russia had oc cupied five small islands off the east coast of Hokkaido, northern most of the Japanese home islands. Relatively light Soviet forces, the forces said, occupied Kunashirl, Shikotan, Shitosu, Suisho and Tara ku islands. Indications Seen Of Decline In Loyalty To Shintoism Among Japan’s Millions D y UliEiXin DADO TOKYO, Nov. 9—(/P)—The em peror of Japan to outward appear ances retains the religious vene ration and devotion of a vast ma jority of the 75,000,000 defeated and dazed Japanese, but powerful fer ments are working which may change this in a few years. c American policy as executed I under General MacArthur has s been to permit Japan to re- 1 tain the emperor and use his t ur'que prestige to make smooth i the surrender, occupation and r program of democracy dictat- e ATOMIC ENERGY TALKS TO OPEN Truman Foregoes News Conference To Prepore For Conference WASHINGTON, Nov, 9 —(A>>— President Truman decided today to forego his usual weekly news con-' ference to get ready for the three-1 power discussion of atomic energy; this week-end. Eden Ayers, assistant White! House press secretary, announced the President’s decision at his own news conference. The atomic energy parley will bring together Mr. Truman and Prime Ministers Attlee of Great Britain and MacKenzie King of Canada. The three leaders will confer Sunday aboard the yacht Sequoia an the Potomac river. The Sequoia is the Navy Secretary’s yacht. A state dinner will be held at the White House Saturday night for the visitors. Attlee will be a guest at the White House until Monday morn See ATOMIC Page * 10 Leave For Final Induction Ten selectees left here this morn nig for Fort Bragg to report for final Induction into the armed ser vices. Those going were: Autsell Bettis. |r., Cullen Black, jr., Clarence Ray Wheelus, Albert Elijah Bowens, Robert Reid Gardner, Billy Webb Hoyle, D. s. Williams, Ed Dennis Pitchford, Wallace Dean Pltnam, Howard Hatcher Glover. ed by the conquerors. Bat there is no guaranty continu ing allied support for the im perial Institution, and the ul timate decision on the' em peror concept must emanate j from the Japanese people. , Thus far there is little evidence , f danger to the throne. Com- j aunists newly freed from prison nd other restraints clamor noisr ly for the emperor’s removal but j hey are an infinitesimal minor- ■ ;y. Nearjy' ayll other parties which ( lushroomed in the wake of Am rlcan-impose# new freedoms call FIVE KILLED IN BUCHAREST Six - Hour Riot Between Communists, Royalists Is Halted BUCHAREST, Nov. 9 —(JP>— A furious six-hour riot between com munists and supporters of Rou manian King Mihai was halted last night by the intervention of a Russian General after at least five persons were killed by gunfire and possibly 100 others wounded. Soviet General Susaikov, head of the Allied Control Commission in Bucharest, ordered troops of a Romanian Communist division to cease firing. Russian troops in the capital took no part in the fight. Violence broke out when troops fired on 50,000 demonstrators who ignored an order of the Soviet sponsored government of Premier Petru Groza banning celebrations of King Mihai’s 24th birthday. First shots in the riot were fired by unknown persons from the di rection of the ministry of the in terior, facing the square The fire was increased by troops guarding entrances to the square, although i there were reports that the officer in charge ordered his men to fire over the heads of the demonstre tors. Later troops opened fire again, apparently into the crowd. Eisenhower Will Come To States To Testify FRANKFURT, GERMANY, Nov. 3—(/P)—Gen. Eisenhower will leave for the United States within “a few hours” to testify before con gressional committees, his head quarters said today. The announcement did not state the nature of Eisenhower's tes timony, but it is expected that he will support the stand of the U. S. army chief of staff, Gen. George C. Marshall, for consolidation of the army, navy and air forces into one defense department. While the announcement said Eisenhower would return to Eu rope by Nov. 23, authoritative sources predicted his stay then would be short and in the nature of a farewell to his command in Europe before assuming duties as army chief of staff, succeeding 3en. Marshall. 'or democratic changes without ■ouching the “sacred and inviol tte” position of the Mikado. SIGH PRIEST Meanwhile, Hirohito goes about its functions as high priest and iivipely descended ruler of his peo ile with little or no alteration of he ancient shrine rituals. Next week Hirohito is journey ng to Ujlyamada in ancient ’Ise irovince. 250 miles southwest of rokyo, to worship at grand shrines ledicated to the sun goddess, Am See INDICATIONS Page 3 BRITISH DEMANE UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER Move May Be Spark Tc Set Off General Nation alist Uprising ALL JAVA TENSE By Ralph Morton BATAVIA, Nov. 9.—(TP)— British planes dropped leaf lets on Indonesian forces at Soerabaja today calling foi their unconditional surrender —a move which may signal a general uprising by well drill ed, Japanese-trained national ists throughout the entire is land of Java. The ultimatum ordered the na tionalists to lay down their arm before 6 a.m. tomorrow. Issuet in the name of Lt. Gen. Sir Philij Christ,isnn allipri rnmman-Hpr ir the Netherlands East Indies, thi leaflets said the order would b< backed up by the use of all na val, army and air forces under hii command. An explosive tension gripped al Java. A British army official ad mitted the situation at Soerabajt was critical. He announced tha more troops of the Fifth Indiai division arrived there yesterday and unofficially it was learnei that 4,000 Dutch troops would lam in Batavia tomorrow. INDONESIANS MASSING The Indonesians were repotrei massing 100,000 strong in centra Java, and leader after leader tool to the radio last night urging th people not to lay down their arm but to fight, a Dutch monitor ii Soerabaja said. Observers here said the struggl between the Dutch and Indones ians now had become so bitter tha it seemed only intervention b; the United Nations—or possibl; by the United States—would brinf See BRITISH Page 2 MEDICAL SOCIETY CONVENES TODAY Annual meeting of the Seventi District Medical society was t-i get underway at 3 o’clock this af ternoon with the opening session to be held at the American Legioi building, followed by a banque tonight at the Hotel Charles. Around 200 medical men an< their wives from the 10 countie composing the district were ex pected to attend, together with i number of others from outside th< district who were invited to at tend. Dr. W. I. Hill, of Albemarle president of the society, was t< be in charge. Dr. Ben H. Ken dall, of Shelby, is vice-preisdent and Dr. H. C. Thompson, secre tary. Other officers include Dr J. A. Elliott of Charlotte, coun cilor, and Drs. G. K. Padgett, D F. Moore and S. M. Schenck, com imuee on arrangements. Dr. H. R. Sherrill, of Shelby, anc Dr. R. T. Bellows, of Charlotte were to address the meeting thii afternoon. Dr. J. E. Hemphill, o: Charlotte, Dr. Roscoe D. McMil lan, of Red Springs, Drs. Monro< T. Gilmour, Paul Kimmelstiel o Charlotte were also to be heard. Dr. E. B. Lattimore, of Shelby will welcome the group at th< banquet tonight. Dr. Oren Moore of Charlotte, president of th< North Carolina medical society will make the address. Dr. Roberi L. Bennett, of the Georgia Warn Springs Foundation will make th< scientific address. City To Observe Partial Holiday Monday Nov. 12 Only a pratial holiday will b< observed by Shelby Monday No vember 12 for Armistice day whicl falls this year on Sunday. All fed eral offices will be closed by Pro clamation of President Truman This means that the draft and ra tioning boards will be closed. Stores will remain open as us ual and the banks and building and loan associations will operate on their usual schedules. The Unit ed States postoffice will remair closed Monday. There will be one city delivery but no rural delivery Malls will be dispatched as usual 11 IN INDOCHINA: Bitter Fighting Breaks Out As French Seek To Continue Reoccupation By Charles A. Grumich SAIGON, INDOCHINA, Nov. 9.—(TP)—Bitter fighting broke out yesterday when French troops were met by strong resistance from Annamese nationalists in the vicinity of Tanan, 35 miles southwest of Saigon. j.ue engagemeiiu oegun alter French overland columns and river-borne forces sought to con tinue reoccupying territory south of the capital. When they neared Tan An, a stronghold of the Viet Minh (native nationalists), the . the Annamese hit back. There were indications that Japanese de serters were collaborating with the nationalists. Fighting continued last night. , There were reliable reports today | that one French garrison had re | quested British Indian forces for j relief. Another report said that , the Annamese had turned a Japa [ nese-manned 75 against French ' troops. Until yesterday the Annamese had offered only shadow resist ance to French expansion south ward. The strength of the Annamese even in areas occupied by the French had been underscored Wednesday night when there were prolonged exchanges of rifle fire in the southern part of Saigon it self. The Annamese traded shots with French and British Gurkha troops in the streets and back yards. French rcoccupation continued as marines from the 35,000-ton battleship Richelieu pushed out to Tannieny and the coast,. The British and French contin ued joint operations to disarm surrendered Japanese north of the capital. Labor Works On I Bargaining Policy Lewis Denounces Murry's Wage Proposals; May Offer j Plan Of His Own ’ By Sterling F. Green ’ WASHINGTON, Nov. 9.—(fP)—John L. Lewis may try to draft a wage bargaining policy on which labor’s divided ; forces might unite at President Truman’s labor-management ; conference. ' Lewis last night roundly denoun ’ ced a resolution offered by CIO ■ President Philip Murray, declaring it would limit labor’s wage gains to the price advances of "a bottle of milk, a pair of shoes or a straw hat.” With support from A FI, President William Green, Lewis outlined to the conferences ex ecutive committee — and later to reporters — a wage program which would free labor to seek whatever it could “reasonably” ’ get. “We believe in the right of in ‘ vestors to get a return on their , investment, of industry to make a . profit, of labor to negotiate free \ ly,” the mine workers’ chief told ' correspondents after a clash with ' Murray in the closed committee ’ meeting. Free competition within industry as peacetime production rises, Lew ’ is said, will serve as a “limitation on prices and a brake on profits, while increased efficiency and ’ competition will lower the cost of articles to the consumer.” AGREEMENT Asked whether he might try to ' frame some other declaration of wage bargaining policy on which ( all of labor’s 36 delegates to the conference might agree, the brush ! browed UMW president paused, ! then said: “We might come to that.” Murray’s much-disputed reso lution, held in the executive committee since Monday, would put the labor - management meeting on record as favoring full and prompt collective bar gaining under the wage policy broadcast last week by Presi dent Truman—that wage rises are "imperative.” Although Murray’s resolution did not mention the price-control See LABOR Page 2 DEATH CLAIMS R. E. CARPENTER Funeral To Be Held Satur day Afternoon From Residence Here Robert E. Carpenter, well-known pharmacist in Shelby for the past 38 years, died this morning at five o’clock in the Shelby hospital from typhus fever and funeral ser vices will be held Saturday after noon from the residence at 413 S. LaFayette street with service to be conducted by Rev. W. A. Kale, pastor of Central Metho dist church. Mr. Carpenter entered the hos pital eight days ago and had been in critical condition. He was held in high esteem for his integrity of character, his loyalty to friends and his civic pride, so the end brings sadness to his host of friends. Born in Stanley, Gaston county, 70 years ago, the son of the late See DEATH Page 2 Hirohito Urges Christians To Work For Peace TOKYO, Nov. 9 —UP)— Emperor Hirohito expressed hope that “Christian churches of the world will now devote themselves to a just and durable peace." His statement was made during an audience granted to five Amer-' ican Protestant church leaders. j Wage Disputes In Motors, Steel Firms Hold Spotlight Mjy ilie asautiaricu * teas Wage disputes between CIO un ions and General Motors Corpor ation and United States Steel Cor poration held the top spot along the nation’s labor front today. The scores of work stoppages in var ious industries and businesses kept idle some 275,000 workers. In Detroit, General Motors termed “unjust and absurd’’ the charges by the CIO United Automobile Workers that 't had violated the Wagner Act by refusing to bargain collectively on the union’s demand for 30 l»ri inn n iaw uiriranrs for the corporations 325,000 workers. In Washington, the United States Steel Corporation told the National Labor Relations board it would co operate in making arrangements' for a strike vote Nov, 28 among some 500,000 CIO employes in 13 of its subsidiaries. NOT BORNE OUT | In a statement, General Motors, ! shortly after the CIO-UAW filed a complaint with the NLRB accus-j See WAGE Page 2 NATIONALISTS TAKE BATTLE POSITIONS Fighting Has Not Broken Out, Due To U. S. Ma rines In Area ALONG CHINESE WALL By Richard Bergholz CHINWANGTAO, Nov. 9. —(7P)—American transported Chinese nationalist troops have moved into battle posi tions opposing the Yenan communist forces along the eastern end of the great Chin ese wall, boundary between disputed North China and Manchuria, But. possibly because of the pres ence of American marines in strat egic positions in the area, fighting has not broken out, despite the fact thousands of nationalists and communists oppose each other at Shankaikwan (Linya), the ancient city which forms part of the great wall and is its eastern anchor on the gulf of Chihli, 10 miles north of Chinwangtao. The elements of two Chinese nationalist armies, the Thir teenth and the 52nd — were put ashore by United States amphibious forces under Vice A dm. Daniel Barbey. At first the Chinese troops crow ded Into this relatively small har bor city and milled about doing nothing before they spread out toward the great wall of China— and the strong forces of the com munist Eighth route army along it. Now there arc^ thousands of na tionalist troops lined up south of Shanhaiwan (Iinyu), the ancient city which forms a part of great, wall and its gulf of Shihli anchor just north of Chinwangtao. WELL DUG IN From all indications the com munists are well dug in both in and around Shanhaiwan and are sufficiently mobile to swing eith er direction to combat any forced entry into Manchuria along that sector. A serious and historic test is building up between the nation alists and the communists in the vicinity of the great wall, but as of the moment the civil war has not broken out in the coastal a See NATIONALISTS Page 2 28 JOIN CHURCH DURING REVIVAL Ten-Day Series Af First Baptist Church Closed Last Night "Running From God" was the final message of Dr. James W. Middleton, pastor of the First Baptist church, Atlanta, Ga., who closed last night a ten-day revival at the First Baptist church. The large auditorium was almost filled with an interested congregation to hear Dr. Middleton who is regard ed as one of the ablest ministers to conduct a revival at this church. During the revival there were 28 additions, making 130 accepted for baptism this year, the largest number in any one year during the 20-year pastorate of Dr. Zeno Wall. ONE OF BEST Dr. Wall regards the meeting as one of the very best held here dur ing his pastorate and said this morning, "Dr. Middleton’s sermons were passionate, scholarly, scrip tural, searching and stirring,” He added that the singing by the congregation and three choirs was without a doubt the best the church has had at any revival. Added be "I believe our people generally have been moved closer to God" as a result of this revival. On Sunday morning the bells or Chimes given by Earle Hamrick and Mrs. Hamrick to the church will be dedicated at an appropri ate service. The bells are a me morial to Mr. Hamrick's father. Rev. G. C. Hamrick, who Was a pioneer Baptist Minister and his mother who was a teacher for more than a half century in the public schools. The ordinance of baptism will be administered • at the Sundav night service.
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