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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
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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.