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* Victory Bonds In Your Possession Are Proof You Haven’t Forgotten WEATHER North & South Carolina: Mostly cloudy and mild, becoming cooler in the west portion tonight. Scat tered showers in the interior this afternoon. Tshe Hhelhy Baily Stett CLEVELAND COUNTY’S NEWSPAPER SINCE 1894 TELEPHONE 1100 - State Theatre Today - “YOU CAME ALONG” Starring ELISABETH SCOTT VOL XLIII— 277 ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWS SHELBY, N. C. MONDAY, NOV. 19, 1945 TELEMAT PICTURES -1-' ..... .Mfl SINGLE COPIES—6# ARREST OF 11 TOP JAP WAR LEADERS ORDERED NATIONALISTS PLUNGE DEEP IN MANCHURIA Broaden Toehold As Com munists Tighten Grip On Rich State FORCES~FAN OUT CHUNGKING, Nov. 19.— (fP) — Chinese nationalists troops have plunged 12 miles into Manchuria beyond the fallen communist citadel of Shanhaikwan and have fanned out 30 30 miles to the west, a communists spokesman de clared today. But simultaneously the spokes man asserted that "popular” troops ■were going to take over Manchu ria's capital of Changchun, +40 miles northeast of Shanhaikwan, the minute Russian occupation forces withdraw Dec. 1. CONTINUE RESISTANCE These “popular” forces, he said, were not attached to the famed communist Eighth Route army, but were pledged to maintain a “democratic rule’' in Changchun. He admitted that while the communist troops had been thrown back at Manchuria's border they would keep right on resisting the advance of the nationalist armies through the vast territory. The spokesman said this resis tance would persist as long as the Chungking government "fails to consult the people” on the form of government to be adopted. He said the Japanese and puppet troops already were disarmed in Man churia and there was no need for the government to send in armies. In the fighting north of Shan haikwan, the spokesman said the nationalists had burst into Liaon ing, most southerly of the Man churian provinces. Other elements, he said, struck westward overran the Hopei pro vince town of Funing, 30 miles from Shanhaikwan. Chinese press reports said today that 30,000 communist troops had stormed and captured the national ist stronghold of Paoto, in inner Mongolia. The Chinese central news agen cy said Paotow—one of two focal points in the struggle for control of the inner Mongolian province of Sulyuan — fell after communist troops forced the west gate late last month. The city, once nationalist army headquarters in Sulyuan, is the western terminal of the Peiping See NATIONALISTS Stalin Due From Vacation Shortly To Face Problems MOSCOW, NOV. 10 —<ff>— A qu.— —in ..,,.011 afafirs Is evident here following reports that Generalissimo Stalin would return soon rom his vaca tion. Four big issues—all coming un der the haed of Big Three collab oration — may be tackled by Stal in when he resumes his duties. These are: 1. The possibility of another Big Three meeting with President Tru man and Prime Minister Attlee. 2. The three-power declaration on atomic energy and Russia’s of ficial attitude on the proposals ad vanced by Truman. Attlee and Prime Minister MacKenzie King of Canada. 3 Control of Japan. 4. Thfe question of peace treat ies and the possibility of another meeting of foreigih i\lnlsters to con sider such treaties. DRUG STORES TO CLOSE THURSDAY; SCHOOL TWO DAYS Shelby drug stores will be closed all day Thursday, It was announc ed this morning by Albert Suttle spokesman for the group. Other stores will be closed also as well as the postoffice and public build ings. The courthouse and city hall will take a one-day holiday. Drug stores ordinarily stay open on holidays but this time agree ment was reached among the pro prietors that they would all close Thanksgiving. ! Schols will take a two-day holi day starting at close of the Wed nesday afternoon session, superin tendent W. E. Abemethy said. JAP STRATEGY AT PEARL HARBOR—This map shows the Japanese strategy in their attack on Pearl Harbor, as reviewed by Rear Admiral T. B. Inglis in testimony before the Congressional Investigating Committee in Washington. The solid arrow represeents the route taken by the Jap carrier force which launched the attack. The open arrow indicates the proposed route of heavy naval units which w(|re ready to rush into battle if the first aerial attack had failed. (AP Wirephoto Map). Carolinas Week-End Death Toll At 13 Highway Mishaps And Burnings Exact Heavy Toll Of Violent Deaths (By The Associated Press) Thirteen persons lost their lives in violent deaths In the Carolinas over the week-end, with highway accidents claiming eight. Pour were burned to death in flaming homes. six oi me iatauues were iisrea in South Carolina and the others in North Carolina. The series of highway mishaps left a number of persons Injured, several seriously. THREE AT ABBEVILLE Three persons loot their lives in one motor accident in South Carolina late Saturday night when two cars collided near Abbeville on a highway between Antreville and Iva, the home of all the victims. The dead were listed as Miss Lena May McGee, Mrs. Hoyt Dixon and E. L. Young, all occupants of the same car. Several other occupants were seriously in* jured. Mrs. Mildred Suber, Newberry, S. C., nurse, was fatally injured In an automobile crash in the city while she was on her way to her home from the hospital where she was employed. Rufus J. Cannan, 26, of near Clinton, S. C., was instantly killed Sunday when his car left a high way between Clinton and Whit more. A World War II veteran, he was released from the army three See CAROLINAS Page 2 Indonesian Radio Stations Demands “War On British” BATAVIA, JAVA. Nov. 19—(£")— An Extremist Indonesian radio sta tion called today for “war on the British” and asked Indonesian youths to reinforce the ranks of the hard-pressed native National ists at Semarang, scene r? the lat est outbreak on troubled Java. A dispatch from embattled Soer abaja said the British had reported evidence that the Indonesians were endeavoring to manufacaure bombs and weapons an a small scale there. Sporadic fighting continued in Batavia. A British communique said the situation in central Java “gives cause for anxiety in view of the extremely aggressive, attitude of local (Nationalist) Extremists both in Semarange and Jogjakarta.” The Extremist broadcast by a station in the interior came after Premier Sutan SJahrir of the un recognized Indonesian Republic rushed a three-man committee to Soerabaja to investigate the fight ing in the hope that a solution could be found. SJahrir has pled ged himself to try to restore peace in Java and has been critical of the previous Nationalist Govern ment's handling of the situation at the great naval base. __ INSURGENTS IN IRAN FIGHTING British Aroused By De velopments About Tehran LONDON, Nov. 19—(IP)—A for eign office spokesman said todaj information here confirmed report* from Tehran that a group of arm ed insurgents was moving on the capital of Iran from the Russian occupied northern province ol Azerbaijan. The spokesman said Britain’! attitude in Persia was based on the British-Soviet-Iran treaty of 1945 assuring the independence and sov ereignty of the country and pledg ing withdrawal of British and Rus sian troops by Marach 2, 1946. The spokesman made it clear that the reported refusal of Rus sian authorities to permit an of ficer of the Iran army In the dis turbed area to send a messenger to Tehran was considered inconsist ent with the tr/aty pledge. WHAT’S DOlN<r 7:00 pan. — Jaycee Ladies Night at Hotel Charles. 7:30 pan. — City council at City Hall. 7:30 p.m.—State Guard drill at armory. TUESDAY 7:00 p.m.—Scouters’ club at new Scout hut in Lawndale. 7:30 pan.—CAP cadets at ar mory. Dealers Take Brunt In Holding Down Car Costs By JAMES MARLOW WASHINGTON, Nov. 10 —(JPh This explains where you’ll figure in the new car prices just an* nounced. OPA is allowing automak ers — generally — to charge four to 12 percent more for the new cars than they got in 1942. That’s what they’ll charge the dealer when he buys from them. But when you buy from the deal er the price will be only one to nine percent higher. In some cases the manufactur ers’ price, and therefore the deal PRICES OF NEW CARS UPUTTLE Some Boosts Allowed But Generol Motors Lines Off ZVz Per Cent WASHINGTON, Nov. 19 —<flV New General Motors cars will coat the public a little less than pre war models, while prices for Fords, Studebakers and Chrysler-made autos will be somewhat higher. That’s the way OPA administra tor Chester Bowles sums it up in the first of his long-awaited an nouncements on price ceilings for the cars now trickling into show rooms. CUTS A SURPRISE The Mg surprise of Bowles’ announcement is that GM built Chevrolets Pontiacs, Olds mobiles, Buicks and Cadillacs will sell at retail for an aver age of 2.5 percent less than In January, 1942. Some increases had been expect ed, but there had been no hint of price cuts. The retail boosts are one percent for Chrysler and that company’s other makes — Plymouth, Dodge and De Soto; two percent for Fords; and nine percent for Stu debaker. In the case of Ford, for example, the retail celling for a new deluxe eight cylinder tudor sedan is $882 at the factory. The 1942 ceiling was $850. MODELS VARY OPA said that because of apparent model changes it had no basis at this time for com parison of any except Ford prices. Only a few comparisons of 1942 auto price ceilings and those for new cars can be made on the basis of OPA’s first announcement. Ford and Studebaker thus far are the only companies to receive specific ceilings. And the ceilings cover only a few models built by these companies. ers’ price, will be lower than In 1942. ABSORB CUT The reason the dealer will charge you a smaller percentage of increase than he pays the man ufacturer Is this: OPA is forcing dealers to absorb some of the higher prices allowed the manufac turers. OPA is allowing auto makers increases on the grounds that production costs are higher than In 1941. This Is why OPA thinks It’s fair See DEALERS Page l PROGRESS SEEN IN MANAGEMENT LABOR PARLEY Agreement Likely Soon On Voluntary Arbitra tion In Some Cases REPORTS SHAPED By Sterling F. Green WASHINGTON, Nov. 19.— (fP)—The labor-management conference entered its third week today still facing what one business delegate called “truly monumental” disa greements but reportedly ready to accept voluntary ar bitration as one remedy for industrial strike. Six working committees — each assigned a specific problem of industrial relations — were due to submit their first progress reports to the conference executive com mittee today. Some said they were ready with final recommendations. But none of the reports is expected to go through the executive committee and then through actual confer ence debate without some altera tion. ONLY ONE STEP Business action, the weekly re port of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, said yesterday the conference “appeared to be mov ing toward final agreement on policies that should serve to les sen industrial strike.” “Both sides were definitely in favor of collective bar gaining,” the publication said, “and both appeared ready to accept voluntary” arbitration of disputes and grievances a rislng under the terms of a labor-management contract. “Such arbitration should go far toward preventing strikes and lockouts growing out of differing interpretations of a contract,” it added. Despite this optimism, the arbi tration of disputes arising under existing contracts would eliminate only one cause of work stoppages and leave many openings for strikes, lockouts, boycotts and picketing. Two officials of the National Association of Manufacturers — neither willing to be quoted by name—have declared for instance that they would oppose the arbi tration of wage disputes or of dis ciplinary cases. No third party should settle a wage-increase See PROGRESS Page 2 ROY ALL URGES NAT1 DEFENSE Calls On Legion To Keep Pendulum From Swing ing Back Too Far CHICAGO, Nov. 19 —(/P)— Brig, Gen. Kenneth C. Royall, under Secretary of War, today urged American Legionnaires to make their influence felt on national defense measures. He said it would take a “strong and concered effort” to prevent "t h e pendulum o f American thought” from swinging “into the dangerous rosy zone of ostrich thinking.” Royall, in an address prepared for the legion’s 27th annual con vention, said publicity given or ganizations opposed to universal military training would indicate such groups “include a majority of our people.” He contended, however, that public opinion polls show an “overwhleming majority” favor universal training. “Bnt the voice of the many has almost been drowned by the cla mor of the few,” the undersecre tary declared. “Here is where the legion comes in. x x x x had your counsel been followed in the ’20s and ’30s when the legion time and again strove the necessity of military prepared the necessity of military preared ness, it is doubtful that the to talitarian powers would have dar ed embark on world conquest. It is cretain that Pearl Harbor would not have caught us perilously un prepared to defend ourselves, x x x “It is your duty x x x to study all problems of adequate national defense, reach your conclusions xxx and thoroughly make your influence and the influence of all other ex-servicemen felt to the point where sound legislation will be adopted.” Pearl Harbor Probers Find Jap Admiral Set Attack Plan Nov. 3, 1941 Responsibility Accepted By Admiral Asami Nagano To MacArthur's Investigators WASHINGTON, Nov. 19.—(/P)—The Pearl Harbor in vestigating committee learned today that Adm. Asami Nagano, chief of the Japanese naval general staff, testified recently at Tokyo that he alone made the decision Nov. 3, 1941—to attack the Hawaiian bastion. Nagano’s statement was taken | during an inquiry conducted by subordinates of Gen. Douglas MacArthur at the request of the congressional committee. The Tok yo testimony has been placed in the record of the current hear ing. The senate-house commit tee prepared to resume its ses sions today with further ques tioning of witnesses on the Japanese story of the attack. Following Rear Adm. T. B. Inglis to the stand perhaps tomorrow, is expected to be Adm. J. A. Richardson who was relieved as Pacific fleet commander several months be fore Pearl Harbor after re ported disagreements with the late President Roosevelt. A document placed in the com mittee’s record by its legal advis ers said Richardson, now retired, will be asked for “the complete story of the reasons why the fleet was based at Pearl Harbor. His trips to Washington in July and October, 1940, his discussions and disagreement with President Roose velt.” ALTERNATIVE PLAN The report of the Tokyo inves tigation conducted by MacAr thur’s subordinates at the request of the committee showed that Capt. Sadatoshi Tomioka, chief of the operations section of the Jap anese naval staff, testified that if the United States had made con cessions the attack plan “would have been discharged.” But he and three other naval of ficers answered “no” to this ques tion about the Pearl Harbor at tack: “Was the said action (or si milar actions in anticipation of a war against the United States) included in Japan’s prewar plan?” The other officers questioned on this point were Comdr. Tatsukichi Miyo, a member of the naval oper ations section: and Capt. Kameto Kuroshiima, and Comdr. Yasuji Watanabe, combined fleet staff members. The same four said that the late Adm. Isoro Yamamotcj, comman der in chief of the combined Jap anese fleet, conceived the plan for attacking Pearl Harbor early in January, 1941. 32,883 Bales Of Cotton Ginned In County Nov. 1 There were 32,883 bales of cot ton ginned in Cleveland county prior to Nov. 1 of this year it is announced by Thamer C. Beam, cotton statistician for this county. This compares with 40,443 bales up to the same time a year ago on 5 the 1944 crop. I A 50,000 bale crop has been freely predicted by cotton authori ties, which is less than a year ago due to bad weather in the spring and shortage "f labor on the farm. Gins have been running strongly since the figures were gathered up to Nov. 1, but since that time most gins are notifying customers that they will gin only two or three days a week. Picking is pretty well over in the county and the rural schools which clos ed so the children could harvest with the harvest, are reopening I today. CURBSIDE MEAL—A little Polish girl gropes in a mug for food as she eats by the curbside near the Anhalter Bahnhof in Berlin. She is one of the thousands of dis placed persons in the backwash oi war in Germany. (AP Wirephoto). ILLINOIS HIT BY PHONE STRIKE Chicago System Is Hall Paralyzed By Walkout By The Associated Press A strike of 8,700 operators of the Illinois Bell System disrupted tele phone service early today In Chi cago, 115 downstate Illinois com munities and in Lake and Porter counties, Indiana. A spokesman for the Illinois Telephone Traffic Union (Ind) es timated that by midnight at least 50 per cent of Chicago's telephone service would be paralyzed by the walkout. Affected was long dis tance and suburban service through exchanges operated by the Illinois Bell Telephone company, and lo cal service in communities not having dial telephones. The telephone company made ar rangements for emergency calls foi services necessary to health anc safety, such as police, hospital; and physicians. Normal long di stance telephone service was being maintained with points outside the i state. HEALTH PROGRAM: Truman Five-Point Plan Has Compulsory Insurance System ! WASHINGTON. Nov. 19 —(/P)— ■ The White House today gave out this official summary of President Truman’s National health program: Today the President sent to tl|3 I Congress a special message pro I posing a five-popint national health I program. ! CITES NEED The President points out that millions of our citizens do not have a full opportunity to achieve or enjoy good health; millions do not have protec tion against the economic ef fects of sickness. Even prewar, there were 31 counties in the United States each with more than one thousand inhabitants in which there were no practic ing physicians. About 1,200 counties, with some 15,000,000 inhabitants have either no lo cal hospital or none that meets even the minimum standards of national professional associ ations. Selective service had to rejec' five million young men, or one third of those examined. An ad ditional three million had to be discharged or rehabilitated. In his message, the Presidenl See TRUMAN Page 2 MILITARISTS IN CRIMES BACK < FAR AS 1920’S Charges Include Nanking Rapist, Black Dragon Society Leaders 57 OTHERsT JAILED TOKYO, Nov. 19.—{IP)— Eleven Japanese war leaders, including generals accused of responsibility for the rape of Nanking, the Mukden incident and the bombing of the U. S. gunboat Panay, were order ed arrested today. Simultaneously, headquarters an nounced that 57 more accused Japanese war criminals — mostly minor characters charged with brutalities against war prisoners— were in custody. General MacArthur directed thal the 11 be delivered to Sugamo pri son camp, Tokyo. PREVIOUSLY OMITTED While the men were not specifically named as war criminals, all were associated prominently with the militar ist decade and include some of the key men previously ignor ed in American lists of “wanted" Japanese. Two of the Japanese—Yosuki Matsuoka, former foreign minis ter, and Toshio Shiratori, forme ambassador to Rome, were in strumental in negotiating the tri partite (German - Italy - Japan pact. Others were: Baron Gen. Shigeru Honjo, for mer commander ifi chief of th i Kwantung army, considered re i sponsible for the Mukden incideni : which Japan used as an excuse t conquer Manchuria. Gen. Iwane Matsui, retire* blamed for the rape of Nankin and the bombing of the Panay. Gen. Kuniaki Koiso, premier f< a time in 1944 who as chief c staff of the Kwantung army ala had a hand in Manchuria’s con quest. r Gen. Jiro Minaml, once know as the Orains of the militarh clique and one of the men wb helped force selection of the “Pea: Harbor premier,” Hideki Tojo. Gen. Sadao Araki, former wi minister, styled by MacArthur "a important influence behind Tojo Yoshihisa Kuzuu and Kazunol Kanokogi, both top leaders in tb Black Dragon society of Jingot ; tic terrorists. Fusanosuke Kuhara, millionat industrialist and politician, ri cently mentioned as a possib leader of a new political setu and reported black dragonist. Gen. Jinzaburo Mazaki, arn extremist, close associate of Koii and Araki. The list of war leaders order* imprisoned stretched back in Japan's trouble period in the la 1920’s and early 1930's, when tl so-called “younger officers" begs a reign of terror which eventual won militarists domestic power. Eeleiso, whom well inform* Japanese civilians term the “re brains” of the army, recently wi lied by Mazaki in a newspaper ii terview with an abortive coup c See MILITARISTS Pogc 2 \ BUILDING BOOM READY TO GO Contractors See $7,308 000,000 Construction Next Year | SOUTHERN PINES, Nov. 19—( —A Department of Commerce o ficial, speaking at the 25th annu convention of the Carolinas branc Associated General Contractors America, Inc., today perdicted th the volume of new construction the nation during the coming ye will, approximate $7,308,000,000. i John L. Haynes, chief of t ' construction division, bureau of fc eign and domestic commerce, tfc "for the first time ina long, lo time,” privately financed constru tion “will be more than double t volume of public construction.” He estimated that national mai tenance and repair bill for t coming year at approximately $ 000.000,000. Haynes’ address this moral highlighted the opening session the two-day meet. This aftemc the convention schedule called i division meetings of building, hig way and public utility and msso ate member groups. i
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