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WEATHER Cloudiness with showers today; rain tonight followed by clearing wea ther Thursday; lower temperatures in most sections today; cooler Thursday and in west tonight. Tshk Hhelhy Bailg Him« CLEVELAND COUNTY’S NEWSPAPER SINCE 1894 TELEPHONES 1100 ■*4 - State Theatre Today - “Incendiary Blonde” Starring BETTY HUTTON VOL XL1I1-273 ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWS SHELBY, N. C. WEDNESDAY, Nov. 14, 1945 TELEMAT PICTURES SINGLE COPIES—lie British Repel Violent Attacks By Indonesians During Nightl Participants In Atomic Talks Concerned About Soviet Reactions DECISIONS ARE VITAL TO WORLDPEACE Communique Expected To Be Reassuring To Russia CLIMACTIC WEEK By John M. Hightower WASHINGTON, Nov. 14. *—(JP)—Allied officials involv ed in the atomic bomb talks here indicated today that they are largely concerned now about Russia’s reaction to the forthcoming Anglo American-Canadian proposal for controlling atomic force. There is a strong feeling evi dent on the part of some that this is one of the climatic weeks of history. Decisions now being whip ped into shape will influence vi tally the future of Anglo-Ameri can relations with Russia. These re lations are the core of United Na tions plana for policing world peace. Evidence recently available from British authorities Is that President Truman, Prime Min ister Attlee and Prime Minis ter Mackensie King of Can ada win seek particularly in their communique on plans for international atomic controls to reassure Russia. This may be done by offering to share sci entific knowledge of atomic power fnlly with the Soviet union and other countries. Indications are that at the same time Russia will be invited to re assure the westers allies about her policies and intentions by agreeing to toes her scientific In formation in the contemplated pool and, possibly, by giving some evidence of her long-range terri torial and political aims. WHAT HAPPENS The question which has official insiders worried is, what happens if Russia doesn’t want to accept the Anglo - American proposal? Would a negative reaction from Moscow, they ask, tend to split the world into two camps? Would it take all the wraps off an atomic armament race? Because of the dangers foreseen by allied diplomats in any real disagreement among the big three over the handling of atomic pow er, there is some chance that the proposals put forward by Attlee, Truman and Mackenzie king will be general in approach to the prob lem rather than hard and fast specifications for a solution. This would leave the way open for Rus sian suggestions and counterpro posals and avoid the appearance of laying down a demand for a take-it-or-leave-it reply. ASKS COOPERATION The three met for two hours late yesterday after Attlee had deli vered a 30-mlnute speech to con gress. In that address the British leader asked for constantly tight er Anglo-American cooperation and said that after the atomic talks here the allies would have to get together with all the nations of the world. See DECISIONS Page 2 DRIVE REPORTS NOT COMPLETE Spongier Reports Over $10,000 Collected In Business District Over $10,000 has been contribut ed to the Community Center pro ject from the business district, and hardly half the reports have yet been completed, Chairman Mai A. Spangler said today In a prelim inary report on the $100,000 city wide drive for the Shelby and Cleveland County Foundation. The industrial division, headed by Charles Dover, went into ac tion Monday and at the close of the week will render its report on contributions made through the various plants and their office and other employes. Chairman Spangler together with Wjllis McMurry, chairman of the business district solicitation, call-, ed on solicitors to press their campaigning to a conclusion so that a report may be rendered Sat urday that will be fairly conclus ive. However, donations will con tinue to be acceptable, Mr. Spang ler said. JEWISH RABBIS MARCH ON THE CAPITOL—Upwards of 1,000 Jewish rabbis line Delaware avenue in Washington in their march on the capital (background) to plead for transfer of homeless Jews from Europe to Palestine. They will seek a conference with Great Britain’s Prime Minister Clement Attlee in Washington to present four-point program. (AP Wirephoto). Wit» D,'*Pute '**•—*. ReS‘""° N*Jjg5> *•*•!* A-. . / Tk' By T„7^r^#,,0"» PP*a,TV>; !CorPoratiZ fLdjspute betZ *ted Pr** P^'J°*°Z^r ot ‘ negot'*tion3 French, Soviets Reverse Views On Krupp Trial NUERNBERG, Nov. 14 —{IP)— French and Soviet prosecutors re versed themselves today and voted in favor of a United States prpos al to substitute Alfred Krupp for his father, ailing Gustav Krupp Von Bohlen Und Halbach, as a de fendant in the forthcoming war crimes trials. At the same time Justice Robert H. Jackson, U. S. prosecutor, rec ommended a 12-day postponement of the trials until Dec. 2. The trials are scheduled to open Nov. 20. The motions were heard today in the first public session of the court. The British prosecutor. Sir David Maxwell Fyfe, has opposed the sub stitution, holding that the elder Krupp should be tried in absen tia. He also opposed any delay in the opening of the trials. NEAR DEATH The French and Soviet decision came after a unanimous report from a medical commission that the aged Krupp had “senile fatt ening of the brain,” and would never be able to face trial. He is believed near death. Jackson filed a motion with the International Military Tribunal yesterday, requesting that Alfried, who took over active management of the huge Krupp arsenal empire See FRENCH Page 2 Railroads Destroyed CHUNGKING, Nov. H— (IP) — Chinese communists have destroy ed one-tenth of all China’s rail ways—approximately 875 miles of trackage—causing "widespread dis location” of the country’s trans portation network, Cabinet Spokes man P. H. Chang asserted today. Carolina Textile Workers Charge Management ‘Sitdown’ D.r Tk. A D.... Qi.ll_ ..1 1L _ n_»_ Unrest in the textile industry of North Carolina and South Caro lina today (Wednesday) centered around charges by the Textile Workers Union of America-CIO of a management “sitdown,” in one case, and “selling out," in another case, “to defeat the union.” In still another case, textile workers in a Blacksburg. S. C., plant Joined in a walkout that brought to three the number of mills closed in that state, while disputes simmered in seven North Carolina mills. u««anv*o MW »UV Ul fTlU VUl" ton mills In Durham, Erwin and Cooleemee—all in North Carolina — were calling: for a government investigation of the company, charging “a de liberate sitdown” to which the company has replied by stat ing that it "had nothing to do with the closing of the plants.” The request for government in vestigation of the Erwin Mills was contained in messages to recon version Chief John W. Snyder and ! See C AIIO LINAS Pa*e 2 • >V VY11I1 LIIC uiauu. The union, which is demanding a $2 a dffr wage increase from the company and plans strike votes among some 500,000 workers with in three weeks, had accepted Schwellenbach's invitation to meet with a special government concil iator in Washington today. Benjamin F. Fairless, presi dent of “Big Steel,” however advised the Labor Secretary that further discussions would be fruitless until OPA acts on long-pending requests for in creases in steel prices. “We be lieve in and strongly support” collective bargaining, Fairless told Schwellenbach, but “we feel no useful purpose could be served by the proposed meet ings.” In a broadcast interview last night (ABC) Fairless asserted that negotiations were being “blocked by the union and the government.” He declared that CIO President Philip Murray had said that his demand for an Increase of $2 a day “was not subject to dickering or compromise.” COSTLY Granting the union’s demands for wage increases, Fairless said, would1 cost the steel industry “at least $225,000,000 a year.” He charged the government was keeping steel prices frozen and that wages "cannot continue to go up»when prices must remain at their pres ent level.” Continuing labor disputes throughout the nation kept idle about 270,000 workers. I In San Francisco, negotiations' in the strike of 12,000 CIO and See STEEL, Page t Mansvelt Disappears BATAVIA, JAVA, Nov, 14—f^P)— The Dutch news agency Aneta said today that Dr. W. M. P. Mansvelt, political adviser to the acting governor general, Hubertus J. Van Mook, had “disappeared” in Batavia and was believed to have been kidnaped by Indonesian extremists. SGT. HAMRICK SGT. HAMRICK PRESUMED DEAD Sgt. Elvis H. Hamrick, son of Mr. and Mrs. L. R. Hamrick, of 207 East Avenue, and husband of Mrs. Laura Gaskey Hamrick, of 710 N. DeKalb street, has been presumed dead by the War Depart ment, according to a letter receiv ed by his wife today. Sgt. Hamrick had been reported missing in action on November 10, 1944, and the letter said that no evidence that he survived has been found. He was a crew member aboard a B-25 Mitchell bomber which participated in a strike mis sion on enemy shipping in Ormoc Bay, Leyte Island, in the Philip pines. During the mission, the aomber sustained damage from enemy anti-aircraft fire and was last seen with its cockpit filled with smoke while over Ormoc Bay, ihe letter stated. A two-day search for survivors proved fruitless. Prior to entering service, Sgt. Hamrick was employed by Sterchi Brothers in Shelby. He was a nember of the First Baptist :hurch. He was 30 years of age. Huss Arraigned Tuesday, Trial To Open Today NEWTON, Uov. 14-WV-'Trial of Revis Huss, 27, Banoak section farmer indicted for murder in con nection with the August 23 death of his 23-year-old wife, Lorene Huss, is scheduled to open this af ternoon. Huss pleaded not guilty to the charge when arraigned yesterday. Judge Allen H. Gwyn of Reids ville declined to grant a defense move for selection of a 100-man venire from outside Catawba coun ty for the trial.. However, he di rected court officials to draw a spe cial 125-man jury group from out side townships directly interested in the case. In another case, Pearl Hinson, 41, of Hickory, was found guilty yesterday of manslaughter in con nection with the death in Septem ber of Ed Peeler, at the latter’s trailer residence in Hickory. Sen tence was not passed immediately. JEWS PROTEST BRITISH PLAN FOR PALESTINE 12-Hour General Jewish Strike Is Called; Disa gree With Bevin ASSEMBLY MEET JERUSALEM, Nov. 14.— QP)—A 12-hour general Jew ish strike in protest to new British proposals for settling the Palestine problem started at noon today without inci dent. All Jewish shops, restaurants, work shops and factories were closed and Jewish-operated buses and taxis stopped. Jewish workers in essential ser vices were requested to continue work in military camps, hospitals, postoffices, telegraph and broad casting stations as well as at the El Aviv harbor, where the first cargo ship to arrive since 1940 began discharging merchandise. The people of Palestine eagerly were studying British foreign Sec retary Ernest Bevin’s statement. A number of mass meeting dem onstrations were planned in Pal estine towns during the afternoon. There wag widespread ob jection throughout Palestine to the statement of British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bev in that Britain and the Unit ed States jointly would at icmpi mi solve me yruuieui, and to his intimation that e ventually Palestine would be placed under a trusteeship. (Britain at present governs Palestine under a league of nations mandate. The Jewish elected assembly, made up of representatives of all Palestine political parties, will meet Nov. 19 in Jerusalem to dis cuss the British statement. CURFEW REVOKED In connection with the general strike of Palestine Jews, it was announced lale last night \hat the self-imposed curfew has been revoked, allowing the possibility of outdoor protest demonstra tions. The council (Vaad Leiuni) ordered all Jews working on Brit ish government or military enter prises to leave their jobs, and in dicated an effort would be made to halt all interurban traffic in the Jewish areas of Palestine. The Jewish press generally as sailed the Bevin statement. Typi cal of the comment was that of the Palestine Post, which said it failed “to deal squarely with Pres ident Truman’s repeated proposals that 100,000 Jews should be ad mitted to Palestine immediately.” PRESENT RATE Bevin said yesterday that until the report of a joint committee See JEWS Page 2 PFCfBRITTAIN GIVEN MEDAL Pfc. Forest Brittain, son of Mrs. Sterl Brittain, of route 1, Bel wood, winner of the Silver Star medal for meritorious servicet Is now at Fort Bragg to receive his discharge from the army, accord ing to word received here. The soldier, who won the Sil ver Star award while laying anti tank mines in a race with ap proaching German ranks and sue ceeaea in oreamng up tne attack, arrived at New York aboard the Excelsior Sunday. Overseas since April, 1944, he entered service in August, 1942, and received his ba sic training at Camp Walters, Texas. He also holds the Pimple Heart, Combat Infantryman’s badge, good conduct medal and ETO ribbon with five stars. WHAT’S DOING TODAY 7 pin. — Cleveland Aviation club meets at Hotel Charles. 7:15 p.m.—Workers Council of First Baptist church meets at the church. 7:30 p.m. — Prayer meeting at Presbyterian church. 7:30 p.m.—Fellowship hour at Central Methodist church. 7:45 p.m. — Midweek prayer and praise service at ' First Baptist church. THURSDAY 7 p.m.—Regular meeting of Kiwanis club. 7:30 p.m.—CAP cadets meet at armory. Industry Plans To Lay Cards On Table On Every Big Issue Of Conference WASHINGTON, Nov. 14.—(/P)—Industry plans to lay | on the line, today or tomorrow, its stand on every big issue before President Truman’s management-labor conference. iio Liic uiuuouiax | entered its tenth day, the man agement delegation decided, in the words of President Ira Mosh er of the National Association of Manufacturers, that the time has come to “shove things along a lit tle.’’ Almost the entire 18-member in dustry delegation started" work last night on a statement of busi ness’ position on collective bar gaining, observance of contracts, jurisdictional quarrels and other subjects in the conference agenda. As they worked, however, one j of the nation's most important! wage disputes—the CIO demand for a $2 daily wage increase from United States Steel corporation— came to a new impasse. The corporation rejected Secre tary of Labor Schwellenbach’s sec ond appeal that it enter into wage discussions, starting today in Washington, with the United Steel Workers of America. U. S. Steel’s president, Benja min P. Fairless, telegraphed Sch wellenbach last night that further discussions would be fruitless un til OPA acts on long-pending re quests for steel price increases. The union had accepted the invi tation to resume talks. Deadlock On Control Council Continues Byrnes Says Russia Insisting On Unanimity Rule In Control Of Japan WASHINGTON, Nov. 14.—(/P)—Secretary of State Byrnes disclosed today that the United States and Russia are still deadlocked over Soviet demands for the establish ment of an allied control council for Japan. CHINESE LAND AT TS1NGTA0 City Occupied By Ameri can Marines, Cooped Up By Communists TSINGTAO, Nov. 14 —(/V)— Thousands of American-trained and equipped Chinese nationalist troops are landing unopposed to day from U. S. transports at this North China city, occupied Oct. 11 by American marines who since have been cooped up by the pres ence of Chinese communists near ! by. Whether the marines will be pulled out of their lone foothold on Shantung peninsula, reportedly dominated by the Reds, was not made known. The leathernecks, of Maj. Gen. Lemuel C. Shepherd, jr.’s Sixth division, have been limited to garrison duty since ac cepting surrender of more than 10,000 Japanese. Some of those Japanese, allow ed to retain arms, stand guard over Tsingtao industries which in clude nine large cotton mills. Many Japanese civilians are keep ing the factories open. COMMUNIST HANDS On the peninsula’s top, the strategic ports of Chefoo and Weihaiwei are in communist hands. American warships were anchored off those two ports for See CHINESE Page 2 Japan, Facing Starvation, Begs Food, Fuel Shipments IU&XU, jnov. 14—w—uesper ately-hungry Japan appealed of ficially today for allied food and fuel, promising to pay—in install ments—by shipments of gold, dia onds, silk and other goods. General MacArthur’s headquar ters reported that it was not ready to indicate what the allied answer might be. Japanese Minis ter of Commerce Sankuro Ogasa wara announced the formal appli cation for the imports — mostly from America—to stave off threat ening famine. He made it clear that Japan's alternatives are sim pie: Darter or cue. OCCUPATION PEAK Lt. Gen. Robert L. Eichelberger meanwhile reported that occupa tion forces in Japan and Korea are near their peak and soon will decline from their present 460,000. j He did not say, however, how : soon the U. S. forces might reach j the minimum 200,000 which Mac Arthur has indicated will, by next spring, be adequate. While American reparations rep resentatives deliberated the price See JAPAN Pa*e 2 .rcussia, ne saia, is insisting up- j on a unanimity rule in the council similar to tne one unaer which the control council in Berlin functions. Byrnes contended that the rule is responsible for failure of the Ber lin group to accomplish many things that should have been done in Germany under the Potsdam agreement. In the proposed Japanese council all members, under the Russian plan, would have an equal voice and all would have to agree before anything could be done. "Hiis means that an objection by any one could block action. The United States is holding out for a council in which Gen. Doug-i las MacArthur, Allied commander in Japan, would have a decisive voice in case of disagreement. Byrnes also told newsmen the United States and Russia have not discussed the civil strife in China. Asked whether there had been any conversations with the Chi nese government in an effort to settle the conflict between the na tionalists and communists, Byrnes said merely that the Chinese sit uation is a matter of great regret to Washington officials and they hope for some amicable settle ment. The secretary’s discussion of the control council for Japan came in j response to questions after he said! that the United States has receiv- [ ed a Russian reply to a communi cation presented by Ambassador W. Averell Harriman, with refer ence to a military council for Ja pan. No agreement has been reached on that matter or on a far eastern advisory commission which is meeting here without; Russian participation, Byrnes said, j Fairless told Schwellenbach that “we believe in and strongly sup port” collective bargaining but “we feel no useful purpose could be served by the proposed meet ings.” Schwellenbach had arranged the meeting for today, under a special conciliator, Arthur S. Meyer, of the j New York State mediation board, after U. S. Steel had declined a! similar request for negotiations j on the same ground. In a broadcast interview CABC) ' shortly after his final reply to the j labor secretary, Fairless contend- j ed that negotiations were being j “blocked by the union and the government.” He said the union was obstruct ing peaceful settlement through President Philip Murray’s decla ration, in a meeting last month, that the union’s demand was "not subject to dickering or compro mise.” Fairless added that the government was blocking an agree ment by OPA’s tardiness in giving price relief when many steel pro ducts were selling at less than cost. Murray, on the other hand, con tends that "the steel industry is See INDUSTRY Page 2 JAPS ACCUSED OF GIVING GUNS TO JAVANESE Nip 16th Army Surren ders 6 Weeks After Ar rival Of British CABINET FORMED SOERABAJA, Nov. 14.-^ f/P)—British Indian troops battling in the heart of this naval base hurled back three suicidal attacks by Indones ians during the night, killing more than 100 and sustaining a half dozen casualties of their own as fighting raged with undiminished fury. Sharp encounters developed In the morning over possession of the Kota railway station and marshalling yards. The British called up a barrage of 25-pound ers and tlirew a smokescreen over the battle area. The Indonesians are entrench ed in pre-war Dutch-built pill boxes and railway signal boxes in the area of the station. British artillery fired sporadi cally throughout the night and morning, after the Indian troops advanced a mile southward through Soerabaja, east of the Kali Mas river which divides the city, and into the vicinity of the Kota sta tion. The Indonesians still held the court of justice and another gov ernment building south of the Bri-' tlsh-held post office, and a clus ter of other buildings farther south. BATAVIA, Nov. 14—(JPh- British Maj. Gen. D. C. Hawthorn blunt ly accused the commander of the 16th army and his chief of staff today of having deliberately hand ed over arms to “unruly elements” in Java and bundled the pair off to Singapore to answer the charg es as fighting continued between British and nationalist troops at Soerabaja. Hawthorn administered a verbal lashing to the two of ficers, Lt. Gen. Yiuchiro Na gano and his chief of staff, Map. Gen. Moichiro Tamamo ta, at a formal surrender cere mony, held a full six weeks after the arrival of British See JAPS Poge 2 bill ANNUUNUS WAGE INCREASE DETROIT, Nov. 14—(AP)—Generali Motors Corp. today announced ital approximately 70,000 salaried' em-| ployes- would be given a 10 percent I increase on the first $500 of| monthly salary, retroactive to| Nov. 1. The general increase does notl apply to senior officers and di-| rectors, the announcement said. The company said the increa will affect 30,000 General Motors| salaried employes in Michigan, | of which 13,000 are in Detroit. C. E. Wilson, General Motorsl president, said the compensation! of salaried employes receiving I more than $500 a month “will be I reviewed in the light of this gen-1 eral increase and on the basis of| their contribution to the success| of the business.” The announcement was made I as the CIO United Automobile! Workers were demanding a 30 per| cent wage increase for all hourly rated employes of General Mo tors and the other members of] the auto industry's “big three”—I Chrysler Corp. and the Ford Mo-j tor Co. Commenting on the 10 per cent | ncrease, Walter P. Reuther, UAW VIO vice president and director of | its General Motors department j said: “If the 10 per cent salary in crease granted General Motors of fice employes is not used by the I corporation as a lever to get price increases for its cars, it is a wel- ( come down payment on the 30 per| cent increase to which all Gen eral Motors employes, office work-] ers and factory workers, are en titled. “If it is to be used by the cor-1 poration to get price increases as] «as contemplated in the ‘cost ofj living’ increase offered the UAW last week, it is meaningless because I ;he resulting increased cost of liv-J ing will make it impossible for! 3M workers to buy any more of| the goods they want and meed."
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