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ft WEATHER North Carolina — Considerable cloudiness and warmer today and tonight; Wednesday partly cloudy and continued warm. The Hhelhy Baily Him« - State Theatre Today - “Incendiary Blonde” Starring BETTY HUTTON CLEVELAND COUNTY'S NEWSPAPER SINCE 1894 TELEPHONES 1100 VOL. XLI11-272 ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWS SHELBY, N. C. TUESDAY, NOV. 13,1945 TELEMAT PICTURES SINGLE COPIES—6c General Agreement Said Near On International Bomb Control SJAHRIR BECOMES PREMIER OF INDONESIAN REPUBLIC World Prosperity, Good Neighborliness’ Basis Of Peace—Attlee INFORMATION LEAKS OUT IS . NOT OFFICIAL w _■_ Communique From Con ference Expected Thurs day Or Friday ONLY ONE~CONFUCT WASHINGTON, Nov. 13— (/P) — The Truman - Attlee conference was reported to day to have reached general agreement on steps toward international control of the atomic bomb. An announce ment is possible by the week end. This information was obtained from diplomatic officials who de clined Identification. They report ed that President Truman and Prime Ministers Attlee and Mac kenzie King have been in sub stantial agreement since their Sunday afternoon talk, and the task at the moment is one of working out wording for a com munique on which all can agree. Tentatively, the conference may be wound up Thursday night and the communique Issued Friday. The only fly In the ointment from the point of view of Amer ican, and possibly Canadian offi cials, Is the amount of informa | tion emanating from British sour " ees here aa to the preeminent role played by Attlee in the talks. One plan for putting atomic bomb controls under the United Nations security council, pooling scientific information through the same agency and generally streng thening the U. N. through closer cooperation of the United States, Britain and Russia has come to be known here as the Attlee plan. The White Rouse gave evidence that Mr. Truman was Irked by the situation. The White House clam med up and wouldn’t give out any Information at all. American officials meanwhile main tin ed tight - lipped secrecy about progress of the conference on atomic problems. There were indications from British authori ties, however, that It was making good progress and that a commu nique reporting some sort of agree ment would be Issued Thursday or Friday. This conference between Attlee, President Truman and Prime Min ister MacKenzie King of Canada, thus far has developed the appear ance of only one notable conflict —over whether to “outlaw” the atomic bomb as President Truman has suggested. Attlee was described by per See INFORMATION Page * ANDERSON SAYS No Marketing Quotas In 1946 For Cotton MEMPHIS, TENN., Nov. 13—</P) —Secretary of Agriculture Clinton P. Anderson asserted here that there would be no marketing quota for cotton In 1946. He made the statement prior to speaking last night before the Na tional Association of commission ers, secretaries and directors of agriculture. In his address, Anderson called upon farmers to set a parity In come goal based on 55 to 60 mil lion people employed, with a na tional Income of 150 billion dol lars or more. This goal, he said, should be ag riculture’s fair share of the na tional income under full employ ment, full-scale Industrial activity. He warned against the danger of raising the parity price, and said the benefits of such a policy were “short-range.” Three fundamental decisions which he outlined for the frame work of -an up-to-date, workable parity formula are: "First, we have to define a fair share of the national income; sec ond, we have to devise a parity formula that would yield that fair ^ share; and third, we have to work P out methods by which our parity goals can be reached.” CENSOR SOFTENER?—Eddy . Gil more (above). Associated Press correspondent in Moscow, and Sov iet Foreign Commissar Molotv re cently got together, drank a toast to Russian-American understand ing, and discussed Russian censor ship. Since then, AP and other news dispatches have been cleared by the Moscow censor without de letions. Gilmore is a native of Sel ma, Ala. (AP Wirephoto). WILL SUMMON HEALTH BOARD With efforts to get the part time service of a health officer from adjoining counties, so far unavail ing, Chairman Glee A. Bridge, ol the Cleveland Board of Health, was expected to call the members of this board into extra-ordinary session within the next few days. Mayor Harry Woodson and Dr, Ben H. Kendall, who were in structed by the local board ol health to make such temporary ar rangements as seemed feasible were Informed this morning by the Gas ton county officials that the re sponsibilities of their health de partment were such that a man could not be spared to give even part-time service to Cleveland county. Previously the local com mittee’s proposition to obtain tem porary service from Polk and Ruth erford counties had also been re jected. CARRIED ON In the meantime, the nurses and staff of the Health department have carried on in every way pos sible since Dr. Z. P. Mitchell’s res ignation became effective on No vember 1. Dr. Mitchell has gone to Iredell county to take the position of the health officer there. Nurses can carry on the small pox and diphtheria immunization projects but they cannot conduct the venereal disease clinics without the supervision of a physician. The county home and jail are calling local physicians when they need them. Truman Proclaims Fourth Thursday As Thanksgiving WASHINGTON, Nov. 13— (/P) — President Truman has proclaimed Nov. 22, fourth Thursday of the month, as Thanksgiving day. His proclamation asked that “we give thanks with the humility of free men, each knowing it was the might of no one arm but of all together by which we were saved.” Japan Facing Serious Fight Against Inflation uy husbclij muncs TOKYO, Nov. 13 —(JP)— War crushed Japan must cut her peace time budget in half and multiply, her taxes by five in order to con-' trol inflation, the semi-official postwar currency council reported today to the finance ministry. The newspaper Yomluri Hochl, reporting the sharp warning, said that the council had been charg ed with preparation of a five-year program to stabilize currency—al ready ballooned by a mushroom ing black market. The council recommended a 1946-47 budget of noi more man io.uw.wu.uuu yen. Non-military items of the present 111,434,000,000-yen budget are twice the proposed 1946-47 total. Cur rent tax revenues of 14,000,000,000 yen should be boosted to 70,000, 000,000, the council was quoted as urging. Indicating smoothness of his occupation program despite signs of restlessness among the Japa nese, General MacArthur today announced consolidation of his two armies in Japan into one force See JAPAN Page 2 PREMIER URGES UNITY BETWEEN TWO NATIONS Seeks To Remove Appre hension About Labor Party Program TALKS TOCONGRESS WASHINGTON, Nov. 13— (lP)—Prime Minister Clement Attlee told congress today that the foundations of peace must be “world prosperity and good neighborliness.” There is “no reason,” he said for economic rivalry between Great Britain and the United States. Speaking In the House of Rep resentatives to Senators and Con j gressmen who must approve any U. S. financial aid for Britain, At , tlee frankly sought to remove what he called “some apprehensions" about his Labor party’s program. In his 3,000-word address, the British leader mentioned only briefly the prime purpose of his visit to this country — to discuss with President Truman the even tual disposition of the secrets of atomic bomb production. He gave no indication of the course which the conferences are taking. - Attlee likened his Country to a mm In Britain returning from the war to find “his home blitzed, and his business ruin ed.” “We went all oat to win the war and now have to start afresh," he said. “Like him, we are facing the future with cour age and a determination to win through." Attlee said he looked forward to “an era of increasing cooperation and friendship” between the U. S. and Britain. Ihat friendship, he said, should not be “exclusive," but ; rather “a contribution to the knit : ting together with all peoples through the United Nations or ganization in the bonds of peace.” LOAN NOT MENTIONED Although Attlee Is Shown to have conferred with Lord Keynes on the progress of negotiations for a Unit ed States loan to Britain, he made no direct reference fa his address j to British requests for financial aid. The Prime Minister said he be lieved “some people over here” im agined that the British Labor party ; was “out to destroy freedom, free dof of the individual, freedom of i speech, freedom of religion and freedom of the press.” “They ar*» wrong,” he asserted, adding that the Labor *.arty was “in the tradition” of all British freedom-loving movements and “in See PREMIER Page 2 Shelby Pastor Put On Southern Board Dr. Zeno Wall, pastor of the First Baptist church has been named the member from North Carolina of th£ Sunday School board of the Southern Baptist con vention, succeeding Dr. B. A. Bowers of Gastonia, who tendered his resignation recently. Each southern state within the Southern Baptist convention has a member and Dr. Wall is the rep resentative from this state. He is representing the Sunday school board this week at the Baptist State convention being held In Raleigh. BAYONETED CHILD TESTIFIES—Rosalinda Andoy, 11-year-old girl who received 38 bayonet wounds at the hands of Japs who also killed her parents, cries while testifying on the witness stand in the trial of Jap Gen. Yamashita a$ Manila. Maj. Gricerio, Opinion of the prosecutor’s staff stands at/the tight.—(AP Wirephoto). Vr" U. S. Denies Extra Aid Given To China Communist-Reported $64,000,000 Loan For Buying Munitions Termed Completely False By The Associated Press CHUNGKING, Nov. 13.—(JP)—American officials de nied flatly today, amid increased reports of civil war, that the United States had gone beyond war-time commitments j in military assistance to China. STORES ADOPT NEW SCHEDULE Will Stay Open Four Nights During Christ mas Shopping Season Shelby merchants fixed their schedules for the Christmas shop ping season and adopted a new closing hour for Saturday at a meeting held at the courthouse this morning. Chairman Max Washburn presided. For Christmas, the stores will re main open until 7 o’clock on Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Monday before Christmas and will remain closed all day December 25 and all day on, January 1. Sug gestion was made that the mer chants take two days Christmas and remain open on New Year’s day but this was voted down. HOURS SET Hours to be observed for the re mainder of the time were adopted as follows: Stores will open at 9 am. each morning and close at 5:30 p.m. every day but S/turday. On Saturday the stores will open at 9 a.m. and close at 6 p.m. Emphasis was put on the fact that where these hours worked a hardship in individual cases each See STORES Page 2 WHAT'S WmT TODAY 7 p.m.—Rotary club direc tors meet at Hotel Charles. 7 pm.—Regular meeting of Lions club. 7:30 p.m. — Special meeting of Hickory Camp 518 W.O.W. at Shelby Woman’s club house. WEDNESDAY 7 pm. — Cleveland Aviation club meets at Hotel Charles. 7:30 p.m. — Prayer meeting at Presbyterian church. 7:30 p.m.—Midweek Prayer and Praise service at First Baptist church. • An American embassy spokes man termed completely unfound ed the communist published re port that China would get a $64, 000,000 loan for purchase of muni tions from the United States. Lt. Gen. Albert C. Wedemeyei said the United States would keep its war-time contract to equip 3£ Chinese divisions but denied com munist reports that 70 divisions would be supplied by the United States. He said conversations re garding military aid to China were on a much higher govern mental plane than his and he had no information on whether com mitments might be increased. In Washington, Secretary oi War Patterson said “there is nc danger of our troops becoming in volved in civil war in China un less they are attacked, in which event we may expect the Ameri can troops to react with vigor and success.” The Americans in China, Pat terson stated, are concerned en tirely with disarmament and re patriation of Japanese troops and when that mission is concluded will turn over their occupied a See U. S. Page 2 House Will Not Defer Vote On Military Training WASHINGTON Nov. 13 —</P) The house military committee to day rejected by a 15 to 12 vote a move to defer consideration oi universal military training legisla tion until next year. It agreed to resume hearings Thursday on the plan requested Oct. 22 by President Truman. The witness that day will be General of the Army Dwight D. Eisen hower. The vote occurred on a motion by Rep. Short (R-Mo) to defer further hearings until January, Only one witness, Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson, has been heard thus far. The committee voted in closed session. Chairman May (D-Ky) announced the result but declined to say how the individual mem bers stood. LEWIS ACCUSED OF SECRETIVE LABOR MOVES CIO-Auto Workers Say He Has Taken UMW Back Into AFL Fold BOTH ISSUEDENIALS WASHINGTON, Nov. 13.— (JP)—A CIO-Auto Workers contention that John L. Lew is secretly has taken his United Mine Workers back into the AFL was raised to day as the labor-manage ment conference reconvened after Armistice day holiday. The contention—quickly denied by Lewis and the AFL—was voiced I by Richard T. Frankensteen, vice- I president of the CIO-Auto Workers 1 union who told a news conference i such a reaffiliation would give the j I AFL another vote in the confer- j t ence. r Labor’s 18 votes are divided four f wavs. With pip-ht. parh fnr the ATPT. and CIO and one each for Lewis’ UMW and T. C. Cashen, repre senting the railroad brotherhoods. The United States Chamber of Commerce and the National Asso ciation of Manufacturers split in dustry’s 18 votes evenly. Associates of Lewis denied the Frankensteen report, which the Auto Workers official said he had on "very good information,” and AFL President William Green told newsmen it was "bunk.” CIO President Philip Murray said he knew nothing about it. SAME OBJECTIVES Thus far in the conference which opened last week to seek a solu tion to labor unrest throughout the country Lewis and the AFL have supported the same objectives. They teamed up to get the mine workers’ chief a seat on the con ference’s powerful executive com See LEWIS Page 3 RAISE IN CAR PRICES REFUSED WASHINGTON, Nov. 13 —(fl*)— Bitterly denouncing “government by pressure,” Price Administrator Chester Bowles told Congress today he is rejecting demands of automo bile dealers for higher retail prices on new cars. Appearing before the house small business committee, the OPA chief estimated members of congress have received more than 5,000 tele grams protesting OPA’s auto price plans, and declared; “Two and one half years in Washington has made me some thing of an expert on lobbyists and pressure group tactics. I have been alarmed at the tendency on the part of some to feel that congress and governmental officials should base their decisions, not on the validity of a particular issue, but on the mea;\ire of pressure which r £ i l i c s £ t e £ e r t c i ( t £ i c c c l l ! 1 i £ s i I ] i i i coum De iocusea at any given j • point.” Bowles told the committee, in the presence of hundreds of auto deal- ; ers gathered in the house caucus i room, that the OPA price sched-! ] ules for new automobiles the deal- i ers ‘‘are likely to have their best i profit year in 1946.” He said OPA would announce the 1 prices Thursday. < Little Change In Strike Picture, 272,000 Idle Quiet prevailed along the nation’s' ! labor front today in the wake of the Armistice Day holiday but threats of strikes in major indus j tries remained in the background. The number of workers idle ! across the country because of work | stoppages remained at around 272,-. | 000, only a slight change within the past week. Efforts to settle the country’s' largest single strike, involving some 60,000 AFL Lumber Workers in the Pacific northwest, have stalled, said a union spokesman in Port | land, Ore. Negotiations to end the seven wceivs mu wage uiapuic tun tinued but union leaders said there ivas no hope of immediate settle ment. The union is seeking $1.10 an hour for the industry's workers. Likewise, there were no indica tions that the strike of AFL-CIO machinists in the San Francisco Bay area for 30 per cent wage increase wras nearing an end. Now in its third week, the walkout of about 12,000 machinists has af fected some 60,000 workers in scor es of industries. The CIO-United Auntomobile See LITTLE Page 2 BILLED IN CRASH — Commodore lixie Kiefer (above), Pacific war ero, was one of six men killed a the crash of a navy plane near leacon, N. Y. Kiefer was “Cap lin Dixie” of the documentary lovie, “Fighting Lady.” (AP Wire hoto). MTpIrmTT IN TOP GROUP Local Station Group Will File For FM Sta tion Also A construction permit for the ew commercial radio station in helby is expected to be issued dthin the next few weeks, accord ig to information received from Washington. The application has been pend ig before the Federal Communi ations Commission for more than year now and is on the first roup to be passed upon. More han 1,200 applications accumulat d before the FCC during the war nd because of shortages of radio quipment for civilian use and the eed for all available broadcasting y the signal corps, a “freeze” or er was issued which stopped all lew construction. This "Freeze” rder was lifted 30 days ago and he Commission has divided the pplications in three groups, giv ag preference to those in group ne which are for stations in ities without radio facilities. The Western Carolina Radio Corp. rganized in Shelby in 1943 with a iaid-in capital of $30,000 has ought a ten acre tower-site and lost of the radio equipment and s ready to proceed with building studio when the franchise is is ued. IPPLY FOR F.M. Application is also being pre lared for franchise to operate an TV! broadcasting station in con lection with the standard AM tation as most of the new re , See RADIO Page 2 Trial Of Huss To 3egin Wednesday NEWTON, Nov. 13—(fF)—'Trial of levis Huss, 27, on an indictment barging the August 23 murder of lis wife, Lorene Huss, 23, is sched iled in Catawba county court Wed lesday. A true bill in the case was re urned yesterday by the Catawba bounty Grand Jury. HARD FIGHTING CONTINUES IN Soekarno's Successor De scribed As Moderate In His Views SOCIALIST LEADER By Leif Erickson BATAVIA, JAVA, Nov. 13. —(/P)—Sutan Sjahrir, de scribed as a moderate with whom the Dutch are likely to deal, became premier of the unrecognized Indonesian re public today as British forces blasted at Indonesian nation alists in the heart of Soera baja. Sjanrir’s selection as premier by the cabinet meant that the nationalists had decided on a new governmental system under which President Soekarno apparently will have but a minor role. The Dutch had refused to deal with Soekarno. A 36-year-old socialist leader, Sjahrir retained temporary the portfolios of home affairs and foreign affairs in the nationalist cabinet. Sjahrir, described as moder ate and a man with whom the Dutch are likely to deal, said in an interview he would make sharp changes in the cabinet. Soekarno, just re turned from nationalist rallies at Jogjakarta, seemed destin ed for a subordinate position and the new prime minister was expected to allot much wider powers to his ministers. Elections were planned before Jan. 31. COOPERATION The youthful Sjahrir ^ald his policy would be cooperation with the British in the task allotted them at Potsdam—releasing in ternees and rounding up Japanese. So far as the Dutch are concern ed, he said, “I shall encourage our getting together.” Sjahrir said the fighting between British and national ists at Soerabaja had hurt the nationalist cause, and that one of his first acts as premier would be to send a three member commission there to investigate the entire affair. The Warfare between the Brit ish, charged with the task of oc See HARD Page 2 EISENHOWER Warns Against Bringing Troops Home Too Soon BOSTON, Nov. 13—(fP)—A cau tion against too rapid return of American soldiers from Europe was left with the nation today by General Dwieht D. Eisenhower. The general said that he be lieved American soldiers “should be returned to their homes,” but added “America’s obligation to the world and ourselves should be ful filled.” Speaking last night to 500 per sons at a state dinner, Eisenhow er said: “If disintegration of our forces goes too far, it will provide evi dence to the German people that we are not equal to our task, and an enduring peace may disappear and the war may have been fought in vain. DAY OF DECISION “The day of critical decision is rushing upon us." The general said the “plain fact” is that “the keeping of the peace requires maintenance of ad equate forces in Europe. “We had a responsibility to the displaced persons of Europe,” he said. “We cannot neglect them. The sad fact is our job will be a con tinuous one until they have been given the opportunity to develop themselves a self-respecting stan dard of living.” He spoke extemporaneously from notes he jotted down while en route home from Europe.
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