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WEATHER Considerable cloudiness and not much change In temperature to day and tonight except colder In extreme west portion late tonight; rain tonight in west portion. The Shelhy Baily starr CLEVELAND COUNTY’S NEWSPAPER SINCE 1894 TELEPHONE 1100 - State Theatre Today - “YOU CAME ALONG” Starring ELISABETH SCOTT VOL XLIII— 279 ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWS SHELBY, N. C. WEDNESDAY, Nov. 21, 1945 TELEMAT PICTURES SINGLE COPIES—5# LONG-THREATENED G-M STRIKE GETS UNDERWAY DE GAULLE FORMS FRENCH COALITION GOVERNMENT COMMUNISTS GIVEN FIVE PORTFOLIOS They Had Demanded One Of Three Major Cabi net Posts crisis Iresolved PARIS, NwT 21.—(/P)— Gen. De Gaulle’s chief of cabi net said today that the presi dent had formed a coalition government giving the com munists five portfolios, in cluding a newly-created min istry of armaments. Gaston Palewski, who read off the list, said De Gaulle would present It to the constituent as sembly Friday. This was expect ed to resolve the crisis which a rose when the communists, with the largest representation of any party in the assembly, demanded one of three major cabinet posts —interior, war or foreign affairs. The new government includes four ministers of state without portfolios. These are Socialist Vincent Auriol, M.R.P. Franclsque Gay, Rightist Louis Jacqulnot and Communist Maurice Thorez, sec retary of the party. Four communists were named. Charles Tlllon became minister of armaments; Francois Billoux, national econow;Atgccfl ,£aul, industrial production; and Am ^ broise Croizat. labor. W BIDAULT RETAINED George Bidault of the popular Republican party (MRP* was re tained as foreign minister. Andre Malraux, widely known writer often considered to have communist sympathies but offic ially listed as an independent, became minister of information. De Gaulle retained the presi dency and with it the function of chief of the French armies as head of the national defense min istry, under which Tillon and the MRP minister of the armies, Ar mand Michelet, will serve. GROVER-SHELBY LINE APPROVED . ‘ O. M. Mull, attorney for the Greyhound Bus lines, received an order today from the Interstate Commerce commission at Washing ton approving the operation of a bus line by Greyhound from Shelby to Grover, making a new link in their network of lines over the south. This link will connect with trunks both at Shelby and Grov er. The same link of operations was approved some time ago by the state utilities commission. Operation of the §helby-Grover line should get underway shortly, Mr. Mull said. ^ Quiet Thanksgiving At White House WASHINGTON, Nov. 21 —<AV A small family dinner will mark tomorrow’s Thanksgiving observ ance at the White House. A pres idential secretary said today no other special plans had been made for the day. Sitting down to turkey with the President, his -wife and daughter, will be Mrs. Truman’s mother, Mrs. David Wallace of Independ ence, Mo., her brother, Prank Wallace, and their two children, also of Independence. MR. EASOM EASOM TO HEAD SYMPHONYFUND Seek $2,500 To Bring 65 Piece Orchestra Here In February Horace Easotn, long a leader In local musical circles, today accept ed chairmanship of the North Carolina Symphony fund’s cam paign to raise $2500 in Cleveland county for support of that state musical program. Miss Lalene Grigg will serve as secretary and Robert Gkiney as treasurer ' of the organization whose executive committee will be composed of the heads of the va rious civic organizations through out the county which will be ask ed to cooperate in raising of funds for the projected visit of the sym phony orchestra here in Febru ary. It is the purpose of the Cleve land group to bring the 65-piece orchestra under direction of Dr. Banjamin Swalin for a commun ity concert, while a concert for all children in the city schools would be rendered in the after noon. The State Symphony fund numbers O. Max Gardner and Clyde R. Hoey of Shelby as hon orary directors. Ginning Report Shows Cotton Off WASHINGTON, Nov. 21 —(Fh The census bureau reported today that 6,429,484 bales of cotton, counting round as half bales and excluding linters, had beep ginned from the 1945 crop prior to Nov. 14. This compares with 9,486,356 bales ginned to the same date last year and 9,929,895 in 1943. The ginnings by states this year and last included: North Carolina 306,951 and 557, 148; South Carolina 510,559 and 714,524; Tennessee 251,722 and 454, 108 and Virginia 9.956 and 19,517. WHAT’S DOING TODAY 7:15 p.m. — Sunday school workers’ council of First Bap tist church meets at the church. 7:45 p.m.—Thanksgiving ser vice at First Baptist church in place of weekly prayer meet ing. THURSDAY 8:30 pm.—Thanksgiving ser vice at Central Methodist church. 10 a.m.—Union service for all churches in city at Presby terian church. 7:30 pm.—Thanksgiving ser vice at Episcopal church of the Redeemer. Truman May Be Asked To Give Conference A Nudge WASHINGTON, Nov. 21— (fP) — A proposal that President Truman Intervene In the labor-management conference to hasten its seemingly slow progress was reported today. Persons concerned over what they consider the failure of dele gates to grapple effectively with major problems of labor unrest have suggested that Mr. Truman deliver to the conference a "yard stick” of the work he expects of It. This was reported by two public officials well posted on confer ence affairs, but both unwilling,to >e quoted by name._ One said the suggestion already had been taken up with Mr. Tru man, but neither wanted to guess whether the president might decide to step in. BEHIND PLAN Behind the plan was this ar gument: That in calling the conference Mr. Truman desired some volun tary agreement on means of mini mizing labor disputes which would make it unnecessary to call on congress for restrictive labor laws. That it U time—after more ~ A See TRUMAN Page 2 NAZIS ACCUSED OF PLAN TO ATTACKU. S. 20 Once-Powerful War Lords Plead Innocent To Charges PROMISES CONVICTION By Wes Gallagher NUERNBERG, Nov. 21.— (fP)—Justice Robert H. Jack son, chief U. S. prosecutor opening America’s case against the 20 nazi war lords facing the international war crimes tribunal, said today the Germans planned as far back as 1940 to attack the United States. He said Nazi records also dis closed that the Japanese planned to assassinate Soviet Marshal Sta lin in 1940, through the use of Russian traitors. In rapid fire order the 20 once-powerfnl war lords plead ed innocent to charges of en gulfing the world in a blood bath. Jackson promised in his 20,000-word statement to the court that the defendants would be convicted by the Na ils’ own meticulously kept records. The four-power international mU at after Nazi The chuit knocked the main de fense prop from under the Nazi chieftains when it abruptly de nied their claims that they could not be tried for war guilt under existing international law. PLEAD INNOCENT The pleas of innocence were entered in a hectic 10 minutes with responses varying from the dog-like bark of “no” from Ru dolf Hess, Hitler’s one-time depu ty, to a passionate reply of “not guilty in the eyes of God" from Baldur Von Schirachr, Hit Bee NAZIS Page 2 BENCHLEY DIES EARLY TODAY NEW YORK, NOV. 31 —(TP)— Robert .C. Benchley, 56, author, editor, actor and humorist, died early today of a cerebral hemor rhage at the Harkness pavilion fo the Columbia Presbyterian medi cal center Recently he had spent much of his time in Hollywood and return ed only a month ago from the Coast where he made a number of motion pictures. He had been do ing radio shows while here and was taken ill at his Scarsdale, N. Y., home a little more than a week ago aid went to the hospital. Benchley, despite a frequent as sertion that his motto was, “The Work Can Wait,” was an out standing success as a writer, critic, motion picture and radio actor. He was the author of nearly a dozen books of humor. In Hollywood he wrote and starred in a number of whimsical short subjects. “How To Sleep" won an academy award for the t>est short subject of the year. He also played supporting roles in many motion pictures. MAGAZINE CAREER Benchley was dramatic editor of “Life” from 1920-29 and of the “New Yorker” from 1929-40. He had been managing editor of “Vanity Pair” from 1919-20 and conductor of the “Books and Oth er Things” column in the New York World from 1920-21. He was born Sept. 15, 1889 at Worcester, Mass. He was gradu ated from Harvard university in 1912 after serving as president of "Lampoon,” Harvard’s comic ma gazine. In his magazine work Benchley often collaborated with Franklin P. Adams, Dorothy Parker, and Robert Sherwood. Benchley carried his humor over Into his private life. He delight ed mixing up appointments and sometimes wrote chatty notes to his bankers above his endorsement of checks. He married Gertrude Darling in 1914. They had two sons, Na WAR h^RO HENDRIX RE-ENLISTS—Jimmy Hendrix (right), 19, of Le panto, Ark., winner of the Congressional Medal of Honor for battle heroism in World War II, receives congratulations after re-enlisting in the army during ceremonies at the American Legion’s national con vention in Chicago. (AP Wirephoto). Leahy Refutes Part Of RiehaTdboa-.: Court Will Re-examine Richardson On His Report Of Luncheon Conversation With FDR WASHINGTON, Nov. 21.—(/P)—Adm. William D. Leahy has told a congressional Pearl Harbor investigator he has no recollection that President Roosevelt ever said it was doubt ful the United States would fight if the Japanese attacked the rmuppines. Disclosing that Leahy had made this statement to him, Rep. John W. Murphy (D-Pa) told a reporter to day he plans to re-examine Adm. J. O. Richardson, former commander in chief of the fleet, about a white house luncheon conversation with the late President on Oct. 1940. Leahy, who was Mr. Roosevelt’s wartime military adviser and was present at the luncheon 14 months before this country was plunged in to war, was called to testify before the senate-house investigating com mittee after it finishes hearing Richardson today. Cordell Hall, former secretary of state, also was on the list of witnesses, but Chairman Bark ley (D-Ky) said he may not be reached until after tomorrow’s Thanksgiving holiday. In his report of the Oct. 8, 1940 white house conversation Richard son testified earlier he asked Mr Roosevelt if this country was going to enter the war. He paraphrased the President’s reply as follows: “He replied that if the Japanese gee LEAHY Page t Bond Purchases Reach 65 Per Cent Quota — ■% WINSTON - Salem, Nov. 21 -UPy-i Individual Bond pur 11 hi ii djfc In North Carolina’s 800,000^: 65 per cent of the state’s quotiBccordinK to State EJnance Chairifpn Clarence T. LeftSach. He announced rtiat purchases yes terday Jumped by $6,400,000 yto at tain the above total. The goal of individual purchases is $55,000,000. He* said. SEAL SALE OFF TOGOODSTART Total Of $74? Has Been Received So For; Quota Is $4,200 An excellent start on the sale of Christmas seals and bonds by the Cleveland County Tuberculosis association has been made. Mrs. Rush Hamrick, • chairman of the drive reported that through No vember 20 a total of $741 has been received. Of this sum $306 was ' raised through Mrs. Hunter Neisler’s committee in the solicitation of business firms and industries in Kings Mountain. A total of $330 was raised in the solicitation of Shelby business firms and indus tries by a committee from the Junior *Chari« league, headed by Mrs. F. prackett. The bal ance was obtained in response to the mail campaign now under way. TB CONTROL Persons rq>fco have received their seals through the mail are urged to return remittances promptly. The money 4Wved from the sale of th«e bonds will be used in tu berculosis control work, aid in re habilitation of tuberculosis cases and in tuberculosis case finding work. Seventy-five percent of the funds raised in this county See SEAL Page 2 COVE WILL FIND AWAY: Mail-Order-Bride Comes Back For Second Try At Marriage By JOHN W. CANNON City Editor, The Star The course of true love, which Shakespeare said never runs smoothly, rarely has as many ups and downs as the romance of 70 year-old J. A. Jones, of near Polk ville, and his former wife, Mrs. Minnie English Jones, 60, who were re-united late yesterday after a year’s separation and a divorce which was obtained here only two weeks ago. The bridegroom-to-be kept an all-day vigil at the Shel by bus station,” awaiting the arri val of fee bride-to-be. _ L/Upia got in a rare uuw snuu a little more than two years ago when Jones ordered him a wife by mail after extended correspondence with this woman whom he had never seen. She arrived in the due course of time and they were married in South Carolina, honey mooned at Mr. Jones’ country home near Polkville. Within a few months after the marriage, both contracting parties became disillusioned and weary of the bargain and arrangements were made for a divorce because See MAIL-ORDER Page 2 TOP COMMANDS OF ARMY, NAVY ARE SHIFTED Eisenhower Succeeds Mar shall, Nimitz Takes Over For King McNarneyTspruance WASHINGTON, Nov. 21.— (fP)—The army and navy underwent a major shift i.n top commands today in the midst of an inter-service scrap over proposals to merge them. President Truman announced the biggest shake-up in the defense de partments since before the war, with these four changes: : 1— General of the Army George C. Marshall, 64-year-c)d Army Chief of Staff, retires, to be suc ceeded by general of the army Dwight D. Eisenhower, 55. 2— Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King, who will be 67 Friday, retires as Chief of Naval Operation, and Fleet Admiral Chestre W. Nimitz, 60, takes his place. 3— Gen. Joseph T. McNarney, 52, who recently was Acting Allied Su preme Commander in the Medi terranean Theater, succeeds Eisen hower as Commanding General of the American Forces in the Euro pean Theater, Commander - In - Chief of the U. S. occupation for ces in Germany and U. S. repre sentative on the Allied Control Council of Germany. 4— Adm. Raymond A. Sprunace, wartime commander of the 5th fleet who has been described by associates as a "cold-blooded fight ing fool,” becomes commander-in chief of the Pacific fleet in place of Nimitz. He is 59. OTHERS ASK OFF The shifts were announced at a late afternoon news conference yesterday. Mr. Truman said Gen. Brehon Somervell, commander of the army service forces; and Gen eral of the Army Henry H. Arn old, chief of the Army air forces, had asked to be relieved, too, but he had not consented to their re tirement at this time. He said both Marshall and King had sought retirement after Ja See COMMANDS Page 2 DUTCH ORDER WITHDRAWAL Order Affects Amboinese Troops Employed To Guard Palace By RALPH MORTON BATAVIA, Nov. 21—(#)—All na tive troops under Dutch control were ordered today to withdraw from Batavia in a drastic move by the allied Netherlands East In dies command, in the wake of what an allied communique called “se rious outbreaks of disorder” in the Java capital during the past sev eral days. There was no immediate aippli fication of the order, which ap parently affected Amboinese troops. These troops have been employed by the Dutch to guard the governor’s palace, Dutch bar racks and other Dutch property. They have been riding about in trucks and pointing tommyguns at crowds in defiance of British protests. The Indonesian nationalist claimed the Amboinese were guil ty of indiscriminate shooting, and charged the native Dutch troops had set fire to numerous Indo nesian compounds. COMPARATIVE LULL Meanwhile, a comparative lull settled over embattled Soerabaja. A dispatch from Associated Press Correspondent Vern Haugland said, however, that the British threw a fairly strong artillery bar rage at Indonesian positions south of the city for several hours last night. There were no late reports from Semarang in Central Java, where RAP Thunderbolts yesterday blas ted nationalist positions with 500 pound bombs. At last reports the Indian forces of the British were advancing, against “little resist ance.” A dispatch from Soerabaja quot ed British sources as saying In donesian casualties there since the beginning of the battle for the city totaled possibly 6,000. | t DR. DORTON DORTON GIVES UP WMC POST Will Resume Former Po sition As Head Of Three Fairs When the War Manpower com mission in North Carolina ceases to exist on December 1, Dr. J. s. Dorton, director, will come to his Shelby home, take a month’s va cation, and then return to duties, including directorship of the Cleveland county fair, before re turning to duty on the posts from which he obtained leave to take the federal position. Since December, 1942, when he entered WMC service. Dr. Dorton has been on official leave of ab sence from his position as direc tor of the North Carolina State fair, president of the Southern States fair at Charlotte, and ex ecutive secretary and treasurer of the Cleveland county fair here. Dr. Dorton will continue to maintain his home in Shelby bur. his business activities, except for the Cleveland county fair phase of it, will center primarily in Ra leigh. “I thoroughly enjoyed my work at WMC and I sincerely appreciate the fine cooperation and strong support of the commission's man power program which all North Carolinians, both employers and employes, gave to me and my as sociates," Dorton said. “Tar Heels generally did a fine job in com plying with WMC directives.” Japs Must Give Full Report On Location Of Allied Graves TOKYO, Nov. 21 Allied headquarters today directed the Japanese government to compile complete information on the lo cation of graves of allied person nel in Japan, reporting full de tails before Dec. 12. The direc tive coincided with a renewed search for personnel still listed as missing in Japan—including more than 1.500 airmen, Ellen Glasgow, Famed Author, Dies At Richmond Home RICHMOND, VA.. Nov. 21—(JP)— Ellen Glasgow, nationally known author, died today in the Rich mond home where she had lived most of her life. She was 71. Winner of the Pulitzer prize in 1942 for her latest book, “In This Our Life,’’ Miss Glasgow first won fame in the early 1900’s with her book. “The Voice of the People.” G-M WORKERS IN 20 STATES ORDERED OUT First Big Authorized Peacetime Walkout Of UAW-CIO WARD STRIKE CALLED DETROIT, Nov. 21.—(i^P)— The CIO’s United Auto Work-, ers union struck the plants of General Motors Corp. to day in a walkout aimed at crippling the gigantic produc er in order to force a 30 per cent wage rate boost. The strike, first big authorized peacetime walkout of the UAW CIO and the union’s first such blow at General Motors since the sitdown strike of 1937, began be fore 11 a.m. (eastern standard time). All GM’s plants in 20 states, employing close to 200,000 produc tion workers, were ordered out in NEW YORK, Nov. 21 —(A5)— Samuel Wolchok, president of the United Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Employ es of America, CIO, announced today that the union had called a nation wide strike of Mont gomery Ward and Company employes, to begin next Monday. the long-threatened battle be tween America’s largest labor un ion and largest operating corpora tion. The first reported walkout at an individual plant was at Flint, Mich., where employes left work at the Buick Mo tors plant. Nearly all had left the plant by 10:40 a.m. Buick’s force had been reduced temporarily from its original esti mated 9.000 by a shortage of frames which had stopped the pro duction of Buick cars several days ago. NO VIOLENCE In meetings at Flint last night, union members were warned to re frain from violence, but to sea that non-union foremen were not permitted to enter the Flint plants. Local 1075 of the AFL’s building trades council notified «... Flint UAW-CIO that ap proximately 1,000 AFL workers aiding in the General Motors reconverMon program will walk out in sympathy wjth the auto workers. Officials of the railway brother hood told the strikers that a sin gle man posted at track entrances to GM plants will be recognized as a picket line and that rail way traffic into the factories will cease. Chevrolet Local 659 took over a restaurant near the Flint plant this morning and prepared to serve coffee, doughnuts, and sandwich es to pickets. Two Flint Locals voted strike funds to augment those provided by the International UAW-CIO, but two other units turned down similar proposals. FINANCING Buick Local 599 voted to take $2 per member out of its general fund to aid the strike cause, and Fisher Body Local 581 voted a $2 strike assessment against each See G-M Page 2 AMBASSADOR QUITS WASHINGTON, Nov. 21 —(7P>— The White House reported today that Norman Armour, ambassa dor to Spain, is retiring from the foreign service. Charles G. Ross, press secretary, told a news con ference Armour is expected to re turn to Washington within two weeks. Foreign Issues Pile Up On Washington Calendars WASHINGTON, Nov. 21 —(fl Left-over atomic bombs can be con verted froi> war to peace. And some of those that America’s atomic energy factories still are turning out today may be used to drive vast power plants of the fu ture—a future of permanent peace. That is the opinion of Presi dent Truman, who qualified the conversion | ossibi / ties, however, by saying that first the world must arrive at a stage of international security that will assure It against de» struction. The immediate problem is one of confidence among nations, Mr. Truman told a news conference yesterday, and that takes time. Right now nations everywhere, he added, are paying more attention to domestic troubles and less than they will later on to foreign prob lems. FOREIGN ISSUES However, foreign issues are pil ing up on the calendars at the State Department and White House. Here are some of the top hstings: ■ 1. The Iranian government, w» / See FOREIGN Page S [. I T
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