WEATHER Partly cloudy and wanner this afternoon and tonight. Sunday, considerable cloudiness and mild; scattered showers north and west portion, beginning in mountains. Tllje Schelbe Baily Him« CLEVELAND COUNTY’S NEWSPAPER SINCE 1894 TELEPHONE 1100 - State Theatre Today - “Senorita From the West” ALLAN JONES BONITA GRANVILLE VOL XLIII— 276 ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWS SHELBY, N. C. SATURDAY, NOV. 17, 1945 TELEMAT PICTURES SINGLE COPIES—5^| NIMITZ FLAYS MERGER, ASKS SECURITY BODY » More Closely Integrated Operations Wanted By Pacific Commander WASHINGTON, Nov. 17 — (A*) — Admiral Chester W. Nimitz asserted today the merging the armed forces "are unattainable, whereas the disadvantages are so ser ious that it is not acceptable.” Events which led to the Pearl Harbor disaster, the Pacific fleet commander told the senate mili tary committee, "have shown clear ly enough that not only between the war and navy departments but between both of them and the State department there should have been more coordination of thinking and action." But to bring this about in the future, Nimitz said, he favors not a single department of defense but a national security council, com posed of the secretaries of state, war and navy, as proposed by Sec retary of the Navy Forrestal. REVERSES SELF Acknowledging that this stand against merger reverses his opin ion of a year ago, he said: 'Tor this change of opinion I make no apology, since it represent* my conviction based on additional experience and farther study of the proposal and iU current hnplicatoins.” As a witness Nimitz followed by! a day General Eisenhower, thei European theatre commander, who urged strongly that air, sea and land services be placed under a single department headed by a civilian. After reviewing the successful prosecution of the war in the Pa cific, Nimitz said: "It is clear from this brief sketch of the last year that many opera tions by many forces,—land, sea and air—were closely integrated in our strategy. “It is also clear that the defeat of Japanese sea power, and the preponderance of our own sea power, played a tremendously im portant part in the result. "I feel that the successes which led to this result are convincing evidence of the merit of the sys tem under which they were ac complished. "Our successes were more rap id than I had believed possible a year ago. I believe we should have very good reasons—better reasons than any offered so far—before we change a system that has proved Itself so effective.” AAA ELECTION TO BE FRIDAY Cleveland county tanners will take time out from farming op erations next Friday to elect AAA community committeemen for the coming year. Three community committeemen and two alternates as well as a delegate to the county convention will be chosen In each of the county’s thirty-one farming com munities. The relegates will elect the three-man committee which will administer the AAA activi ties within the county. Chairman Dan W. Moore, of the county AAA committee, said to day that places of holding the an nual election are being determin ed and will be announced at an early date. In Cleveland county, Mr. Moore said, approximately twelve thous and farmers are eligible to vote for committeemen this year. The county AAA chairman in reminding Cleveland farmers of the approaching election appealed for full participation. “Solution of the postwar problems ahead of us Is the vital concern of every farmer,” he said. “It Is to his own best interest to vote in the coming election—to make sure that the men administering AAA program in the county are the ones he wants to represent him." Stores To Observe Thanksgiving Day Stores and public buildings will i be closed Thursday for Thanks giving day in Shelby. All banks and building and loan associations ■will also observe the- holiday. The postoffice will be closed all day, and there will be no deliveries, city or rural, but incoming and out going mail will be worked as us ual. Most of the industrial plants will not take a holiday, it was •Hated. > KING. EISENHOWER TELL VIEWS TO CONGRESSMEN—Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King, (left), the rank ing officer of the U. S. Navy, gestures as he tells his views on naval affairs to the House Military Com mittee in Washington. He said the navy is so weakened by demobilization that it could not fight a major battle now. At the same time in another hearing on Capitol Hill, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower (right), su preme Allied commander in the European war, peers over his spectacles and points to a chart in testifying before the Senate Military Affairs Committee to advocate merger of the armed forces into single defense department. Without a unified command, he said, "We may enter into another emergency, in a time to come, as we did at Pearl Harbor.” (AP Wirephotos.) SEEKING END OF JAVA FIGHTING Indonesians Put Torch To Soerabojo Ware houses BATAVIA, Nov. 17—(/P)—Cabinet leaders ol the unrecognized Indo nesian Republic will meet tonight with Dutch Governor General Hu bertus J. Van Mook in a session pledged to end the bloody fight ing in Java, it w%$ announced of ficially. Lt. Gen. Sir Philip Chrlstlson, Allied commander In the Dutch East Indies, widd preside at the meeting, which the Dutch char acterized as an attempt to stave off economic disaster on the Is land. Present will be young Premier Sutan Sjahrir, described as a mod erate, and his chief lieutenant, Amir Sjarifuddin. The anouncement came as the British reported a lull in the bloody fighting at Soerabaja, where the Indonesians fell back before the British Indian advance after put ting the torch to warehouses and stores. The official British casualty re port listed 14 killed and 59 wound ed at Soerabaja from Nov. 10 through 14. Casualties for the Brit ish since troops landed in Soera baja now total 405. Officially it was said the casualties since Wednes were “very light.” A r lgn of terror was spreading sn.on,; Indonesians in the Soera baja area, said a dispatch from As sociated Press correspondent Vern Haugland. He quoted refugees as saying the Moderates there were completely dominated by bands of youthful extremists who monopoliz ed the weapons and threatened leath to persons counselling peace. WHAT’S DOING SUNDAY 8 p.m.—Ministerial welcome service at Central Methodist. MONDAY 10 a.m.—General board meet ing Kings Mountain Baptist association at First Baptist church. < 7 pm.—Jaycees ladies’ night Hotel Charles. 7:30 p.m.-^-State Guard drill. i 7:30 p.m. — City council meets. I SO DAYS: Byrnes Wants Atomic Force Control As Soon As Possible UHAKXjtaSXUIN, £5. W., 1NOV. XI— /P)—The United States government i relieves the proposed United Na tions commission for the control : >f atomic energy — particularly i ;he atomic bomb—can be func ;ioning in two months. i Secretary of State Byrnes held ' >ut that possibility in a speech i lere last night. In the first administration pronouncement of atomic en ergy since the President and the prime ministers of Britain and Canada issued their dec laration Thursday, Byrnes said the period of three-nation se crecy on industrial know-how “need not be unnecessarily prolonged.” Referring to the proposed es tablishment of the commission,] Voluntary Arbitration Plan Given Support Progress Reported From Management-Labor Confer ence Session WASHINGTON, Nov. 17 —(JP)— The labor-management conference made Its first step toward Industrial peace today with the filing of a report Indorsing conciliation and voluntary arbitration when employers inri wnrlrprc Hicaorpp I -.. ■--- — In negotiating initial agreements between a union and a company, a conference committee agreed, no strike or lockout should be called until all peaceful bargain ing measures have been exhaust ed. The report, still subject to ap proval by the executive commit tee and the full conference, was the first so far made by six com mittees working on methods of reducing industrial strike. But on the hot issue of a national wage increase policy, the conference was worse snarled than ever before. Three resolutions now are before the executive commit tee, all indorsing collective bargaining but in three shades of opinion. Management offered a propoasl yesterday which would rule out »ny conference deliberation on na tional wage levels. John L. Lewis put in another supporting free bargaining without regard to the President's policy of raising wages generally without raising prices. And Philip Murray, CIO presi dent, declared he would continue ;o fight for his resolution asking See VOLUNTARY Page 2 MINISTERS TO BE WELCOMED Service welcoming new mlnis ;ers to Shelby will be held at Cen tral Methodist church Sunday light at 8 o’clock. The service vill be presided over by Rev. Wal ler Brown, pastor of the Shelby Presbyterian church and the wel ;oming sermon will be preached >y Rev. W. P. Biggerstaff, pastor >f the Eastside Baptist church. New ministers to be given the ;lad hand of fellowship are Rev. iV. A. Kale, pastor of the Central Methodist church, Rev. D, L. Stubbs, pastor of Hoyle Memorial Methodist church; Rev. J. M. Bar jer, pastor on the Shelby charge >f the Methodist church and Rev a. L. Bass, pastor of LaPayette Street Methodist church. ne secretary saia, "inis can De lone within sixty days.”' He emphasized again the wil ingness of this country to ex :hange immediately the basic scientific information on atomic inergy and said the three nations 'look forward” to the cooperation >f the other United Nations. At the same time, Byrnes con :eded that the three-power pro losals represented “a very modest first step in what is certain to prove a long and difficult jour ley.” . He said Americans should not ‘imagine wishfully that overnight ;here can arise full-grown a world government wise and strong e lough to protect all of us and tol :rant and democratic enough to sommand our willing loyalty.” / STRIKES HIT MONTffSHIGH 20,000 Midwestern Truck ing Drivers Join Ranks Of Idle By The Associated Press A complete tieup of over-the road trucking in eight midwest states by a strike of an estimated 20,000 AFL drivers was reported today by an operators’ spokesman in Kansas City. , Fred C. Wheelock, chairman of the employer negotiating com mittee in Kansas City, said oper ators had been unsuccessful try ing to meet with union officials to negotiate a new contract. Reports that an agreement had been effected at a Chi cago meeting to end the walk out, which started at midnight Thursday, as well as a threat ened strike of additional thou sands of drivers in four other states, were not immediately confirmed. Wheelock said that 80 compan ies operating through Kansas City See STRIKES Page 2 MS SLATED FOR JAP TRIALS GREENSBORO, Nov. 17— (IP) — Carlisle W. Higgins, United States attorney for the middle district of North Carolina, will be appointed first assistant attorney to lead in prosecution of Tojo at the trial of Japanese war criminals slated to begin early in 1946, it was re vealed here today. Higgins said this morning that he can “neither confirm nor deny the reports.” It is understood, how ever, by federal officers here and in Washington that the local man will be named officially within the next few days. “Any announcement must come from Washington,” the district at torney said. A late afternoon news dispatch from Washington stated yesterday that Joseph B. Keenan, of Cleve land, Ohio, and Washington, has been named head of the Japanese trials, his appointment to be an alagous to that of Supreme Court Justice Jackson in Europe. Keenan has made no formal announcement of Higgins’ appoint ment; but the Washington Dis patch predicted it along with that of Evelyn Cordell of Black Moun tain, secretary to Assistant Attor ney General T. Lamar Caudle, of Wadesboro, and former clerk of the North Carolina state senate ap propriations committee. Another North Carolinian whose name has not been revealed was also expected to be sent to Japan for the trials. The Black Moun tain woman is scheduled to leave December 2 to fly to Japan by way of San Francisco and Mani la. JAPS PLANNED BLAST AFTER PEARL HARBOR Decisive Engagement With U. S. Fleet Alterna tive Pearl Harbor Failure U. S. INVASION OUT WASHINGTON, Nov. 17— (IP)—Japanese naval leaders planned to seek an immediate, decisive sea battle with the American fleet if the raid on Pearl Harbor failed, congres sional investigators were told today. Rear Admiral T. B. Inglis pre sented to the senate-house Pearl Harbor inquiry committee a navy report on the Japanese plans which said Tokyo’s ward lords conceived the Dec. 7, 1941 attack in the first part of January, 1941, trained for it in the summer, and ordered it into effect Dec. 2. PRECARIOUS MOMENT In testimony yesterday, Inglis had said the United States Pacific fleet was numerically inferior to the Japanese in De cember, 1941. Thus it might have faced defeat had the Japanese brought it to battle. The report was based on trans lations of captured documents, questioning of prisoners of war, and questionnaires which Gen. Douglas A. MacArthur submitted to former members of the Japan ese naval high command after the occupation. The report said the Japanese made no plans to follow up the Pearl Harbor attack with landings in Hawaii because a troop transport train would have increased the possibility of detection of the strik ing force and because of the sup ply problem that landings would have presented. SECRET PLANS Expressing belief that the com plete plan was not known through out the top rank of the Japanese government, the report said: “It is x x x reported that the emperor knew in advance only the general outline of the plan and that none of the Japanese officials who were in the United States, including Ambasasdors Nomura and Ku rusu, knew anything about the plan in advance.” As has been previously reported, the navy study said the Japanese force left Hitokappu bay in nor thern Japan on Nov. 27 and moved to a point 200 miles off Hawaii where 361 planes were launched in three waves, begin ning at 6 a.m. and ending at 7:15. “Original plans called for the retiring task force to strike at because of the presence of a Midway if possible, but, probably United States task force south of Midway, that strike was not made,” it was added. Five Billions Tax Exempt Income Last Year Pose Problem WASHINGTON, Nov. 17 —>_- A Reuters dispatch from Luene burg, Germany, said today Jo sef Kramer, the "Beast of Bel sen,’’ and other leading defen dants in the trial there of con centration camp personnel had been sentenced to death by hanging. ence today by authorities studying his story of amnesia, but Hess professed not to know them. The request of justice Robert Jackson, chief u. s. prosecut that 38-year-old Alfried Krupp tried in place of his father, Gi~. tav Kurpp Von Bohlen Und Hal bach, was disposed of in a sessioi which lasted exactly 21 seconds. Justice Geoffrey Lawrence, the British chairman, said: “The motion to amend the in dictment by adding the name of Alfried Krupp has been con sidered in all its aspects and is rejected. The tribunal will now adjourn. BORMANN MISSING The decision means that no fa mily representative of the_ armament and steel empire, take over yesterday by the British mil itary government, will be in tl dock at the initial hearing. It was not reached until aft the Russian judge, Gen. I. T. Nikit chenko, arrived by air from Me cow today. The decision to try Borman. Hitler’s deputy and closest hench man during the final hours of N« zi Germany, was made upon ret ommendation of Sir David Max-) well-Fyfe, deputy to the Britt prosecutor. The British repoi said there was doubt whether was dead. The United States, bached France and Russia, has asked - Alfried Krupp be substituted a defendant for his father, Gi tav Krupp Von Bohlen Und bach, whose trial was postpor because of illness. In announcing its decision _ Bormann, the court simply classi fied him as “missing.” STALEMATE IN FRANCE HOLDS Communists Refuse To Join In Appeal To De Gaulle To Reconsider PARIS. Nov. 17—The communist party refused today to Join In a three-party appeal to Gen. Da Gaulle to reconsider his resigna tion as Interim president ol France. The deadlock over allotment of cabinet posts appeared no nearer solution following: a meeting this morning of a 30-member commit tee representing the three major parties In the constituent assem bly. Delegates of the Christian de mocratic popular Republican movement (MRP) i estates! their party’s determination to acc«pt only De Gaulle as president. Socialists, still trying to me diate the dispute, suggested that the committee ash De Gaulle to reconsider, bat the communists rejected the ap peal and the meeting ended without decision. De Gaulle himself was rejiorten refusing to compromise witfc com munist demands few one at th*. three key cabinet portfoDo* —war. interior or foreign atiotaa.