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Scrap Paper Is Vital To Reconversion—Contribute Yours To Jaycee Roundup Sunday WEATHER Fair and colder today, lowest tem peratures tonight 20 to 25 in west and 25 to 35 in east; light frost in coastal area and heavy else where. » sz Ehe Hlxelhy Baily Hielt CLEVELAND COUNTY’S NEWSPAPER SINCE 1894 TELEPHONE 1100 - State Theatre Today - “That Night With You” Louise Allbritton — Franchot Tone Susanna Foster — David Bruce VOL XLIII— 280 ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWS SHELBY, N. C. THURSDAY, NOV. 22, 1945 TELEMAT PICTURES SINGLE COPIES—5^ CIO DIGS IN FOR LONG FIGHT ON GENERAL MOTORS ■i * * Indonesian Leaders Refuse To Meet With Netherlands Officials By Ralph Morton | BATAVIA, Nov. 22.—(JP)—An atmosphere of tense un rest pervaded Java today as leaders of the unrecognized In donesian republic announced they would refuse to meet with Netherlands East Indies officials “so long as the Dutch keep their present attitude. The announcement apparently ended hopes for a conference ol Nationalist leaders and Dutch of ficials with Lt. Gen. Sir Philip Christson as chairman, schedulet for tonight. The Indonesians made it cleai they were willing to negotiate — but with the British alone. An Indonesian spokesman said that “when the Dutch give an or der for the cessation of shooting and when the burning of our vill ages and murdering of our people Is stopped by the Dutch, then we shall be willing to talk with them.’ In the past 24 hours at least s score of Indonesians were killed In fighting In this capital, and snip ing and Intermittent attacks con tinued today, while unrest was reported In several other cities throughout the Island. NO SOLUTION The Indonesian spokesman said the Allied anouncement that Am bolnese troops (Dutch native troops) would be withdrawn from Batavia would not solve the prb lem, contending the Amblonese still were being used by the Dutch in other parts of Java. The British indicated these troops would be evacuated from Java. Indian troops, reinforced by tanks of the British Indian 11th cavalry still patrolled the streets of this capital. The patrols killed nine In donesians In a series of shooting affrays, lt was announced officlal See INDONESIANS Page t MUTODEFENDS VAMASHiTA Defendant's Former Chief Of Staff Seeks To Shift Blame By DEAN BCHEDLER MANILA, Nov. 22— UP) —Blame for the rape of Manila and thou aanda of Japanese atrocities In the Philippines became a will-o’-the wisp in the cross-examination tes timony today of Lt. Gen. Akira Muto in defense of his former boss, Lt. Gen. Tomoyuki Yama ahita. The man who was Yamashlta’s chief of staff sought at “the ti ger's” war crimes trial to shift the blame away from his chief to su periors, subordinate commanders and colleagues. Who commanded the Japanese divisions whose men raped, tor tured and killed, particularly when Nippon’s war machine in the Phil I lipplnes was in its death throes? the general was asked. DIRECT FROM TOKYO Muto replied that the various divisions, while coming under Ya mashita at times, actually worked through various field staff gen erals and field armies. In direct examination, he had said most or ders came direct from Tokyo. And who had responsibility of civil affairs—a field where atro cities were rampant—after Field Marshal Count Hisaichl Terauchi pulled up stakes? Muto acknowledged that Yama shita was the successor—but In sisted the “Tiger of Malaya” ac tually administered through Am bassador Murata who held a paral lel position. What about the horrible deaths in prisoner of war camps? WAR PRISONERS Muto said he heard Yamashita say many times he was “anxious about the care and handling of prisoners of war.” But General MacArthur'8 divisions returned to the Philippines at Leyte in Octo ber, 1944, and after that the of ficers were "so busy they simply had to depend on the reports of staff officers such as Lt. Col. 8a buro Ishikawa. But didii’t some of the prisoners starve to death? Mutos reply was that so did Japanese sollders, adding he be lieved “the rate in the army was 4ven higher, due to shortages.” The trial was recessed at noon, for a Thanksgiving day half holi day. It will reconvene tomorrow morning. NATIONALISTS GET HINGCHENG Troops Approaching Lien shon, Hope To Capture Hulutao Port By SPENCER MOOSA CHUNGKING. Nov. 22. —(A*)— Nationalists stabbing into Man churia have captured Hingcheng on the Peiping-Multden railroad 60 miles northeast of the great wall gateway of Shanhalkwan, and are approaching the rail town of Lien shan 15 miles beyond, a Chinese dispatch said today. Lienshan is less than eight miles west of the communist-held sea port of Hulutao, Manchuria, which nationalists hope to capture as a potential debarkation point for sea borne forces. Press reports here said the na tionalist defenders of the besieged Inner Magnolian cities of Paotow and Kweisul in Suiyuan province had beaten off fresh assaults of the attacking Chinese communists. IN NANKOW PASS Another dispatch reported nation alists were massing in historic Nan kow pass, northwest of Peiping, for a drive against Kalgan, communist held capital of Charar province. The welter of unconfirmed re ports on Chinese-Russia negotia tions for the transport of national ists into Manchuria widened con fusedly. One report today alleged that Chinese are renewing appeals for Soviet cooperation to enable movement of 45,000 nationalists troops by air to Mukden, Manchuria. Restrictive conditions Imposed by the Russians Hirhlto have made air movement of troops to Manchuria impossible, nationalist sources here declared. Picketers Will Take Thanksgiving Off Cincinnati" nov. 22—m—To give strikers an opportunity to ob serve Thanksgiving day, picket lines won't be established around strike-closed General Motors plants here until tomorrow. Willis Marrer, president of lo cal 674 of the CIO-United Auto Workers, told a mass meeting of workers yesterday that picket lines would not be set up until 7 a.m. Friday to “allow you men a free day of Thanksgiving.” 14,000 Pounds Of Turkeys Destroyed As Unfit For Use CHARLOTTE, Nov. 2*—UP)— Destruction of 14/XM) pounds of contaminated dressed tur keys brought to the local mar ket yesterday was announced by city health officials. Seizure of the fowls, they said, was made by City Inspec tor William C. Mclntire and Shelby Grey, pure food and drug inspector. The fowls were brought to Charlotte by truck and seised on arrival. They were disposed of in the city’s incinerator. Conference Gets Five-Point, ' Plan For Industrial Peace By STERLING F. GREEN WASHINGTON, Nov. 22 —(A3)— A live-point program designed to achieve Industrial peace through voluntary arbitration, fact-finding procedures and a strengthened federal conciliation service has been placed before the labor-man agement conference. A four-day Thanksgiving recess, however, will delay its considera tion until Monday. The program was submitted by the conference’s public hearings committee headed by Dr. Frank Graham, president Hatteras Inlet Hit By Tornado STORM STRIKES SUDDENLY, IS SOON OVER Lifeboat Station Heavily Damaged By 150-160 M.P.H. Winds STRUCK~AT 2 A. M. NORFOLKTva., Nov. 22. —(fP)—A tornado of short duration attended by winds which reached an estimated velocity of 150 to 160 miles per hour struck and heavily damaged Hatteras Inlet life boat station at 2 A. M., today, :oast guard headquarters here announced today. The station, located on the Hat teras banks off the North Carolina coast, was heavily damaged. No casualties to personnel were re ported. The coast guard said the wind came up suddenly and lasted only about three minutes, but during that time wreaked considerable damage tp buildings at the station. Two outside water tanks were blown down, a tied-up picket boat was hit hard and weather board ing was tom frwsw the building, the* ooast guliidiJB.w ' *All cooking foBhties were de stroyed. The water supply in a boat house remained intact. Asks Testimony On Air Patrols At Pearl Harbor WASHINGTON, Nov. 22— (JP) Senator Lucas (D-IU) called today for army and navy testimony on how many planes were available at Pearl Harbor In 1941 and why no long range patrols were being flown when the Japanese struck. A member of the senate-house committee investiga\|K. the disas ter, Lucas told repo^ers he wants to know why, if it,.wts possiN* to fly a 300-mile patrol «i* 1K0, simi lar dally reconnaissance could not have been in effect «* year later. “I want to know f the planes •were available and weren’t being used,” he said. Adm. J. O. Richardson tes tified earlier that he instituted the air patrol June 18, 1940 when the army ordered an alert in Hawaii but called it off in December of that year. Previous army and navy inquiries have shown that no regular patrol was flown after Adm. Husband E. Kimmel took over command of the fleet from Richardson on Feb. 1, 1941. IN RECESS The committee’s hearings were in recess today for Thanksgiving. But Lucas asked William D. Mit chell, committee counsel, to obtain information on the number of planes attached to the fleet under Richardson’s command the num ber of planes attached to the fleet under Richardson’s command the number under Klmmel's com mand. He asked also for a listing' of the long-range planes avail able at the time of the Japanese attack. s The committee ma?x delay Its inquiry Into this subject however, because Mitchell announced that the diplomatic side flnthe story * Sm asks of the University of North Carolina. Graham's (hjpt has heard reports from a 'number of labor, business and elvic groups not represented In the conference. The executive committee with held Graham’s report from publi cation, but a copy was made avail able to a reporter by a delegate who said he felt it should be made public. It termed the suggestions the “very minimum” pattern of settle See CONFEBENCE'Page S I THE FIRST THANKSGIVING REENACTED THE SERVICE MEN RETURN . LT. GEN. PATCH GEN. PATCH DIES OF PNEUMONIA Commanded 7th Army In France, III Since Noy. 14 SAN ANTONIO. Tex., Nov. 22— (JP)—Lt. Gen. Alexander McCarrell Patch, jr., 65, bemedalled veteran of two wars who led the victorious drive of the U. S. Seventh Army across Prance and Germany lost his battle for life last night The high-tempered slightly-built, six-footer, “Sandy Patch” to his friends and his men, who triumph ed in the Pacific theater as Well as on the European continent, died .of pneumonia in Brooke Gen eral hospital here. He had entered the hospital Nov. 14. Commander of the Fourth army at Port Sam Houston since last July, General Patch would have observed his 56th birthday anni versary tomorrow. At his bedside, where an oxy gen tent had been used to combat what hospital authorities called a special type of pneumonia, where his wifei Julia Lillell Patch; his daughter, Mrs. Charles M. Drum mond; his widowed daughter-in law, Mrs. Alexander M. Patch, 3rd, and his brother, MaJ. Gen. Jo seph Patch. The general's son, a captain, member of the U. S. First army in Prance, was killed Oct. 22, 1944, while assaulting enemy positions. CLIMAX OF CAREER The colorful career of Sandy Patch found a climax in the Eu ropean war. Placed in command of the Seventh army March 1, 1944, he trained the army for amphi bious operations and led lt when it hit the beaches of Southern Prance Aug. 15, 1944. In three months the Seventh drove the Germans back almost 60 miles. The smashing drive made General Patch the first army commander to pierce successfully the natural frontier formed by the Vosges mountains. Patch handled the final mopping up of the Japanese on Guadal canal, moving in with army troops late in 1942 to relieve the Ma rines. Previously he had com manded United States troops in New Caledonia. For his work at Guadalcanal, he Was awarded^ the navy’s distinguished service me dal. __ i <■ Hope For Conviction By Nazi Documents Accused German Leaders In High Spirits, First Time Since Trial Opened J3JERNRERG, Nov, 22.—(/P)—A moving pile of docU , ranging from intimate diaries of‘leading nazis to carefully worded secret plans of the German high command, was placed before the International Tribunal today as the Allied prosecution moved to convict 20 of Hitler’s highest DAMASKINOS WILL RESIGN Sophoulis Sworn In As Premier, Heads New Cabinet ATHENS, Nov. 22. —(&)— Arch bishop Damaskinos announced to day he definitely would resign as regent of Greece. He made the announcement to a press conference shortly after the 85-year-old liberal leader, Themis tokles Sophoulis, was sworn in as premier, heading a new cabinet. Damaskinos said he would make a statement to the Greek people later in the day. Sophoulis srid in a press confer ence tl^t Damaskinos was forced by the British to hold up his resig nation last night and swear in the new government. He said British Envoy Hector Mac Neil called upon Damaskinos and told him that un less he helped set up the new gov ernment, he (Mac Neil) would leave at once for London as a mark of protest. SWORN IN Earlier it had been announced that Damaskinos had withdrawn his resignation so that he could swear in the new government be cause the outgoing cabinet of Pa nayotis Kanellopoulis had no con stitutional power to do so. Damaskinos was apparently de termined, however, to resign. To his press conference, looking some what dejected, the elderly church man announced: “Yes, I have ten dered my resignation.” \ The announcement of a new ca binet resolved a sustained crisis. The Eolation to the crisis came after a day and night of discussions, amid rising political tension, during which British Commander Ronald Scobie was reported to have banned all public gatherings and to have confined British troops in .Athens to their barracks. DEALERSGET LITTLE COAL Shelby coal dealers have been i busy this week hauling out the j driblets of coal they have been re ceiving, a survey revealed this | morning. There is very little coalj on local yards and the bulk of the coal shipped in last week was stok er coal, it was indicated. Most of the coal which has been shipped from mines since the Great Lakes region. However it was indicated that heavier shipments will be made to this section in December. aides as war criminals. As the third day’s session open ed the four-power court ruled that Jew-baiter Julius Streicher was sane and must stand trial and de nied a defense motion which ask ed postponement of the trial of Martin Bormann, Hitler’s missing deputy, who is being tried in ab sentia. The tribunal accepted a medical board report finding Streicher sane and Lord Justice Geoffrey Law rence, presiding, ruled that his trial will,. proceed* For ttie first .time since the trial opened two feys ago, the ac cused Gerr>in learns appeared in high spirits. Smiling all the time, Reichmarshal Herman G o e r i n g chatted animate^ with defense counsel. Rudolf Hess, who has had only a vacant stare for most of the court proceedings, laughed for the first time as he talked with former foreign minister Joachim von Ribbentrop. Even the stern high command generals, Wilhelm Keitel and Alfred Jodi, were smil ing. DOCUMENTS Several hundred Reich docu ments selected from the file of more than 2,500 amassed by U. S. inveatigators will outline in the Germans’ own words the scheming and aggression by which Hitler and his henchmqji led the world into World War II. Declared Col. Robert Storey of Dallas, Tex., an See HOPE Page 2 IVHAT’SDOING TODAY 7:30 p.m.—Thanksgiving ser vice at Episcopal church of the Redeemer. FRIDAY 12:30 p.m.—Regular meeting of Rotary club. 6 pm.—Banquet for Royal Ambassadors of Hickory divis ion to open divisional con clave to be held/t't 'church. City Maz^s First Peacetime Thanksgiving In Four Years For its first peacetime Thanks giving in four years, Shelby closed up its public and private business tight today and joined in worship services in the various churches in a spirit of gratitude that peace has come. Today in Cleveland county was also marked by considerable holi day activity of a secular variety. The quail and rabbit hunting'sea sons opened and many a nimrod was in the field with gun and dog early this morning. As usual Thanksgiving dinner, marked in most instances by the traditional turkey and cranberry t NEGRO ADMITS BRUTAL SLAYING Young Woman Stabbed, Apparently Criminally Assaulted SANTA FE, N. M„ NOV. 22. —(IF) —District Attorney Bert Clancy an nounced at 3:30 a.m. (MST) today that Louis Young, 44-year-old negro convict from Houston, Tex., had signed a full written confession to the murder of 23-year-old Mrs. Eloise Kennedy, socially prominent wife of a Santa Fe banker. A charge of murder in the first degree will be filed today against Young, an “outside trusty” at the New Mexico state penitentiary, Clancy said. Mrs. Kennedy, pretty wife of Leon G. Kennedy, Jr„ and mother ; of a five-week-old daughter, was ' stabbed to death Monday in the ! bathroom of her apartment and, state police said, apparently crim inally attacked. DETAILS WITHHELD Clr.ncy declined to give any de tails of the slaying as contained in Young’s confession “because it might prejudice our case before a jury.” Investigators, including the di strict attorney’s office, city, county and state police, “broke” the case just 58 hours after Mrs. Kennedy’s mutilated body was found by her husband when he returned from work late Monday. Navy To Reduce Discharge Score WASHINGTON, Nov. 22 -(£»> The Navy plans to reduce the dis charge point score for enlisted men from 41 to 39 on Dec. 1. It will lower the score to 37 on Dec. 15 and to 36 on Jan. 1. The changes will make another 150,00C men eligible for release, the de partment announced last night. The change will not affect some specialists, including key punchers and shore patrolmen, nor enlisted women. For some ratings the score will drop only to 39 on Dec. 1 and tc 38 on Jan. 1. These are water ten ders, machinists mates, chief com missary stewards and ships cooks and bakers. In the Seabees, how ever, these ratings will be discharg ed under the new reduced scores. sauce was .served in ine eariy ai j ternoon. Returning service men i many of whom have come out of the service since last Thanksgiving joined happy families around the festive board and heightened the joy of the occasion. Special Thanksgiving religious services were held last night at the Eastside Baptist church and at the First Baptist church. This morning at the Presbyterian church uptown churches joined in a union service hearing a message from the Rev. W. A. Kale, pastor of See CITY Page 2 TIGHTENS HOLD ON FACTORIES ACROSS NATION Reply To Union Proposal For Arbitration Prom ised By Friday NEARLY 325,000 OUT DETROIT, Nov. 22.—(/P)— The CIO auto workers union dug in today for a long bat* tie against General Motors Corp. and simultaneously sought to tighten its already nearly complete strike-hold I on the company’s nation-wide factory network. “We will travel the strike road I to the bitter end,’’ said Walter P. Reuther, union vice-president who has led the fight for a 30 per cent I wage increase for General Motors’ employees. ! How far off that “bitter end” may be apparently hinged largely on two factors: 1. The nature of the corpor ation's reply to a union proposal . for arbitration of the wage dis pute. That reply, which the union had demanded by 4 p.m. Tuesday, had been promised by tt ,1 ■ Friday. Reuther said the union would “be willing to study GM's reply.” 2. The success of government mediation efforts. John W. Gibson, special assis tant to Secretary of Labor Schwel lenbach, arrived in Detroit last night. Gibson, who was president of the Michigan CIO council when he took the government post, said he would confer with Reuther and other union heads Friday. Company officials said he had not contacted them. NEAR STANDSTILL Within three hours after tha walkouts began at 11 a.m. (EST) yesterday, General Motors’ vast pro See TIGHTENS Page 2 GTS OBSERVE THANKSGIVING Chaplains, Troops Join In Grateful Thanks—Then Eat Turkey By The Associated Press Tokyo rose and the warlords were only memories in the studios of radio Tokyo today. American Protestant, Catholic and Jewish chaplains were on the air, thank ing God once more for the peace that marked their first steps on enemy soil. Throughout Japan, the Philip pines and the American-occupied Orient, troops bowed their heads in equally sincere gratitude—then snapped to grinning attention be fore messhall tables loaded with more than a million pounds of American turkey. One victory ship, the Great Re public, arrived in Tokyo bay re cently almost filled with Thanks giving fare for the troops. Occu pation forces in Japan and Korea alone received nearly 1,000,000 pounds of fresh turkey, complete with stateside trimmings. WORSHIP SERVICES G. l.’s and generals joined this morning in special worship services at Shanghai's Holy Trinity Cathe dral, and aboard each ship riding peacefully at anchor offshore came the familiar order as church hour struck: “Knock ,ot all unnecessary work; keep silence about the decks.” American soldiers remaining in Europe on occupation duty observed the day with church services, turkey with all the trimmings, football games and Red Cross dances and parties. The menu for troops throughout Germany included tomato juice cocktail, roast turkey, giblet gravy and sage dressing, cranberry sauce, mashed sweet potatoes, asparagus, celery, carrot sticks, hot rolls, bread and butter, jelly, hard can dy, oranges, apples, pumpkin pie and coffee. Thousands remembered their loved ones at home with radioed orders for flowers. ,| 3:
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