s.
WEATHER
Fair and continued cold today
and tonight; low temperatures to
night, 26 to 30 in the southeast and
24 to 28 in the north and west por
tions; Sunday, fair and wanner.
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VOL XLIII— 282
ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWS
SHELBY, N. C.
SATURDAY, NOV. 24, 1945
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WAR CRIMINALS
TO TESTIFY IN
OWN BEHALF
Defense Counsel Will Seek
Witnesses From U. S.,
England
PLANS OUTLINED
By Daniel De Luce
NUERNBERG, Nov. 24.—
(JP) — Defense counsel an
nounced today that a ma
jority of the 20 nazi leaders
on trial before the interna
tional tribunal would testify
in their own behalf and that
witnesses would be sought
from Britain and the United
States.
The outline of plans to combat
the war crimes charges developed
at a press conference of the de
fense attorneys. The trial was
recessed over the week-end after
a presentation by the prosecution
of documentary evidence topped
by the words of Hitler ordering aj
war of extermination against the|
Poles.
Attorney* for Field Mar
shal Wilhelm Keitel, who was
chief of the German high
command, mid a nephew of
Winston Churchill and a cou
sin of British Field Marshal
Sir Harold Alexander who were
once prisoners of the Ger
mans would be asked to testify
in his behalf.
Churchill’s nephew was identi
fied as Giles Romilly, a corres
pondent of the London Dally Ex
press who was captured at Mar
vin. Field Marshal Alexander’s
cousin was identified as Capt.
Michael Alexander, who was made
a prisoner in Italy.
rftlSONER TREATMENT
It was indicated that Keitel
wished the two to swear to his
Interest in the welfare of allied
prisoners. Both Romilly and the
captain were liberated by the al
lies. Romilly broke out of Da
chau a few days before American
troops reached that horror camp.
Rudolf Hess’ attorney is seeking
“on his own responsibility” to sub
poena the Duke of Hamilton,
whose estate the No. 2 deputy
Fuehrer said he was seeking when
he bailed out of his Messerschmltt
on a mysterious flight to Scotland
' May 10, 1941. The attorney ad
ded that Hess, who claims amne
sia, "doesn’t know anything about
the Duke of Hamilton, because he
can’t remember.”
Joachim von Ribbentrop, who
was Hitler’s foreign minister, wishes
to call the Virglnia-bom Lady As
tor and other notables in England,
including Lords Londonderry, Bea
verbrook and Derby.
TO TAKE STAND
Attorneys said that among the
defendants who definitely would
take the stand were Hans Frank,
who was governor-general of Po
land; HJalmar Schacht, former
economics minister; Hans Frltzche,
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SEE HEALTH
OFHCERSOON
1 Cleveland Board Of
Health Makes Progress
In Filling Position
Prospects are considerably
brighter for Cleveland county
getting a full-time permanent
health officer as a result of In
formation obtained yesterday af
ternoon by the board of health
which held a special session In the
office of Horace Grigg, secretary
to the board. Chairman Glee A.
Bridges presided at the meeting.
Two prospective candidates for
this position of health officer
were discussed by the board and
the committee composed of Dr.
Ben H. Kendall and Mayor Har
ry Woodson, was authorized to In
terview each of the prospects and
to make a report. Both candi
dates have been serving in the
armed forces. One of them has
already received his discharge and
the other will be discharged with
in the next few weeks.
TEMPORARY SERVICE
In the meantime this same
committee reported some success
in working out temporary arrange
ments for health service until a
permanent officer is named. De
tails of this arrangement ahve not
been made public but will be an
nounced shortly, It was stated.
Members present for yester
day afternoon’s session were
Chairman Bridges, Dr. B. H. Ken
I dall, Dr. H. C. Thompson, Mayor
Harry Woodson, Horace Grigg
•ad Dr. H. S. Plaster,
Chinhsien Surrounded
By Nationalist Troops;
Unorganized Resistance
By Spencer. Moosa
CHUNGKING, Nov. 24.—(/P)—The newspaper World
Daily News said today that mechanized units of the nation
alist 12th army have surrounded strategic Chinhsien on the
Peiping-Mukden railroad ICO miles north of the great wall.
vsuiiiimuusus repeatedly nave iuie
cast that the city would be the
scene of their first big-scale fight
against the Nationalist drive, but
the newspaper reported only “un
organized” Red resistance.
The communistic new Szechwan
Daily alleged that Chinese Reds
meanwhile, have poured into Muk
den in strength, and asserted that
Gen. Chu Teh, commander-in-chief
of the Chinese communist forces,
already has 200,000 men .massed in
Manchuria, including the Reds’
“people’s militia.” The report made
no reference to the Russian forces
which—so far as is known here—
still are occupying Mukden.
The World Daily News attribut
ed its report that Chinhsien has
been surrounded to “reliable sour
ces.”
It said that Nationalists already
have occupied the railroad station
at Chinhsien against “unorganized
resistance.”
The same source also reported
Nationalists have captured lien
shan on the Peiping-Mukden line
75 miles north of the great wall,
and now are approaching the
communist-held Manchurian sea
port of Hulutao, seven miles to
the east.
If the Nationalists actually have
surrounded Chinhsien, it is pos
sible they have bypassed Lienshan
and cut across-country, observers
here pointed out.
From Pa tow, western terminus of
the Peiping-Suiyuan (inner-Mon
golian) railroad, came reports that
Mongol cavalry units had broken
through the encircling commun
ists to relieve the Nationalist de
fenders of the city. There was no
confirmation of the Chinese press
dispatch reporting this first slash
ing of the Red siege ring.
PEARL HARBOR PROBE:
Republicans Dig Into
Atlantic Charter
Hull And Welles Soy Churchill, Roosevelt Reached
Understanding For Parallel Action
By Jack Bel)
WASHINGTON, Nov. 24.—(JP)—Republicans of the
Pearl Harbor committee duv deeper today into the 1941 At
lantic Charter meeting of the late Franklin D. Roosevelt
PVT. DOWNS
PVT.DOWNSDIES
IN GERMANY
Pvt. Dewey D. Downs, son of W.
J. Downs, of route 3, Lawndale, has
died in Germany as a result of in
juries received in a train wreck, ac
cording to a message received by his
father from the War Department.
The message, received last Sun
day, reads: “The Secretary of War
has asked me to express his deep
regret that your son, Pvt. Dewey D.
Downs, died in Germany 26 Oct. 45
as a result of injuries incurred in
a train accident. Confirming- letter
follows." Signed: Edward P. Wit
sell, acting Adjutant General of the
Army.
Entering service in April, 1944, as
a volunteer, Pvt. Downs went over
seas the following February and was
with the Third Army. The last let
ter from him was received by his sis
ter, Mrs. Clee Buff, of Lawndale, on
October 16. In the letter he stated
that he was welL
PRICE ADVANCES
FOR COTTONSEED
RALEIGH, Nov. 24—John Win
field, market newsman with the
state department of agriculture,
reports steady advance in the
price ( of cottonseed being sold in
North Carolina.
Wagon lots of seed are averag
ing $47.50 per ton at cotton gin
ners’ stations throughout the
state, Winfield said.
This is an average of 30 cents
more per ton than the price paid
cotton producers during the sec
ond week in November.
A
and Winston Churchill.
Senator Ferguson (R-Mich) told
a reporter he Is looking specifically
for any sign that a military com
mitment might have been made in
the meeting four months before the
Japanese attack capatulated this
country Into war.
Available for questioning oh
tills and other points were
former Secretary of State Cor
dell Hall and his former under
secretary, Sumner Welles.
Both told the committee yester
day they knew nothing about any
military agreement.
Both said that Mr. Roosevelt and
Churchill had reached an under
standing to take parallel action In
warning Japan that any further ag
gression would call for action by
the United States and Great Britain
to protect their security. Hull and
Welles each said there was nothing
beyond that, so far as they knew.
IN RECORD
But Ferguson said he wanted an
explanation of an exhibit in the
committee record.
One paragraph of the exhibit, a
memorandum prepared for Presi
dent Roosevelt on Nov. 27, 1941 by
Gen. George C. Marshall, then
Army chief of staff, and Admiral
Harold R. Stark, then chief of
naval operations, said:
"After consultation with
each other, United States, Brit
ish, and Dutch military authori
ties in the Far East agreed that
joint military counteraction
against Japan should be under
taken only in case Japan attacks
or directly threatens the terri
tory or mandated territory of
the United States, the British
commonwealth, or the Nether
lands East Indies, or should the
Japanese move forces into
Thailand west of 100 degrees east
or south of 1 degrees north, Por
tuguese Timor, New Caledonia,
or the Loyalty Islands."
Hull, 74 and ailing, spent an hour
on the stand yesterday answering
questions put by Gerhard Fesell,
one of the committee counsel.
Dressed in a black, pin-stripe suit,
he flung a black topcoat around
his shoulders before he sat down.
UNRELATED
Rep. Keefe (R-Wis) complained
to reporters afterward he had dif
ficulty in following Hull’s testi
mony, asserting “his answers were
often unrelated to the questions he
was asked."
, But Senator Lucas (D-Ill) told
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Doing Well
WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W.
Va., Nov. 24—{JP)—Gen. Dwight D.
Eisenhower, suffering from a severe
cold and under treatment at the
Army’s Ashford General Hospital
here, “spent an excellent night,"
it was announced today.
The newly-designated chief of
staff entered the iiospltal yester
day.
K
HARD FIGHTING
IN SEMARANG
AND AMBARAWA
Indonesians Accused Of
"Butchering Women
And Children"
use artFllery
By Ralph Morton
BATAVIA, JAVA, Nov. 24.
—(JP)—Heavy fighting be
tween British and Indonesian
troops erupted today in Sem
arang and Ambarawa. The
British said Indonesian ex
tremists in Ambarawa had
stormed the civilian internee
camp and “butchered women
and children.”
A statement, by Lt. Col. H. C.
G. Harding, British provost mar
shal, also said that Dutch and Am
boinese troops of the 10th Dutch
battalion shot down 60 Indones
ian police "in cold blood” in the In
donesian central police station in
Batavia a few days ago.
The British used naval and ar
tillery fire in repulsing 1,000 armed
Indonesians in Semarang yester
day. The official communique said
the town had suffered ‘consider
ably” from the fighting in the past
three days.
j-xvLttvm uu uccix uumyaiauveiy
quiet during the past 48 hours, with
only a few cases of sniping and
looting reported.
A patrol has been sent to search
for 20 Indian soldiers and a Da
kota transport in which they crash
ed yseterday. No sign of the plane.
Its passengers or crew has been
found, although they were known
to be safe after their crash land
ing. They were believed to have
been captured by Indonesians.
Defendants In War
Crimes Trials Want
Britons To Testify
NUERNBERG, Nov. 24. —(/Pi—
Defense counsel announced today
that a nephew of Winston Church
ill and a son of British Field Mar
shall Sir Harold Alexander would
be asked to testify for German Field
Marshal Wilhelm Keitel, one of
20 Nasi defendants being tried by
the International War Crimes tri
bunal.
Rudolf Hess’ attorney said he was
seeking to subpoena the Duke of
Hamilton, on whose estate Hess
landed when he parachuted into
Scotland in 1941.
Former Nazi Foreign Minister
Joachim Von Ribbentrop wants to
call Lady Astor and other British
leaders including Lords London
derry, Beaverbrook and Darby, de
fense counsel said.
Tennessee Trio
Accused Of Burning
Bodies Of Infants
MANCHESTER, Tenn., Nov. 24.
—(/p— Authorities awaited a labor
atory report today to determine If
human ashes were found at a tourist
camp near here, while three per
sons were held on murder charges
In connection with the alleged burn
ing alive of one infant and the cre
mation of four others.
The trio being held were identified
by Sheriff Sim Banks as H. H.
Peters, 55, his wife, 46, and her son,
Harry F. Carraway, 28.
Sheriff Banks said he placed the
trio In jail at nearby Fayetteville,
Tenn., after two legro employees
of Peters, who operated the tourist
camp, had told him five babies had
been cremated in an ash heap at
the camp between October 18 and
Nov. 19.
Japan’s Atomic Bomb Research
Ended; Cyclotrons Destroyed
iviwil/i nuv. At—pr;—japan was
stricken from the field of atomic
research today as American sol*
diers armed with sledge hammers
and blow torches suddenly started
the destruction of five cyclotrons
—one of them a 200-ton giant
made in the United States.
The cyclotrons, ordered des
troyed by General MacArthnr
in another blow at Japan’s
war-making potential, will be
broken np and . the pieces
dumped into the sea.
Two of them—the 200-ton ap
paratus bought in America through
the assistance of Prof. Ernest O.
Lawrence, iamea university oi
California physicist, and a smaller
one—were in the laboratory of Dr.
. Toshio Nishina at Tokyo.
I Nishin, 65, dean of Japan’s nuc
lear physicists, was “heartbroken”
when American officers told him
his huge cyclotron was to be de
molished, the scientists’ secretary
said.
The secretary, Miss Sumiko Yo
kayamo, cried when she told of
Nishina’s dismay.
Of the other cyclotrons, two
small ones were at Osaka Imperial
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CIGARETS FOR PRISONERS—At an airdrome in Siam, released American prisoners receive cartons of
cigarets from Sgt. M. W. Rock (left) of Carnegie, Pa„ while T/Sgt. Robert Anthony of Albany, Ga„ stands
beside him. Below (left to right) are Pfc. Glenn Self, Lubbock, Tex.; Capt. H. W. Post, Driggs, Idaho, member
of the ATC force evacuating the men; GM2/c J. F. Campbell, Dyner, Tenn.; and Pvt. W. E. Yarbrough,
Plainview, Tex.
umuiwtt'
UD ON PRICES
Intensive Drive Launched
To Keep Food Prices
In Check
WASHINGTON, Nov. 24. —(AV
OPA launched an intensified drive
today to keen food prices in check
as meat, butter and all other red
point products came off the ration
list.
George Moncharsh, chief of OPA’s
enforcement department, predicted
it would be a “somewhat mote dif
ficult” job to hold prices now that
I rationing has ended.
He said in an interview, however,
that OPA is “all set” to crack down
on any violators of price ceilings.
Investigators already have been
transferred from other OPA price
programs to augment the regular
staff assigned to see that tailings on
meats and fats are observed.
Moncharsh said OPA expects the
job to be toughest in areas remote
from meat, butter and other food
production centers.
“Under rationing,” he explained,
points were set to assure even di
stribution. This helped to ease the
pressure on prices.
"Now that rationing is out, we
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Jaycees Collect
Scrap Paper Sunday
Shelby folk are urged by the
Junior Chamber of Commerce to
prepare their bundles of scrap pa
per and place them on the curb
in front of their homes for col
lection by the Jaycees in their
roundup tomorrow.
The Jaycees are conducting the
roundup in response to another
request for scrap paper to be
used in connection with reconver
sion.
Members of the Jaycees will
meet at the Southern depot at
1:30 tomorrow afternoon and will
leave from there to collect the pa
per.
WHAT’S DOING
SUNDAY
10 am. to 8 p.m.—USO
center open to service folk vis
iting in city.
12:30 p.m.—Directors of USO
meet at service center.
MONDAY
10 a.m.—Ministerial associa
tion meets at Central Metho
dist churqh.
7:30 pm.—Cleveland Lodge
202 A. F. & A. M. meets at
lodge room for work in first
degree.
7 p.m.—Chamber of Com
merce directors meet at Hotel
Charles.
Nipponese Granted
Right Of Import
May Import Food, Cotton, Petroleum, Salt; Order
Clears Way For Revival Of Trade
TOKYO, Nov. 24.—(/P)—General MacArthur today
granted the Japanese government permission to import food,
cotton, petroleum and salt—clearing the way for revival of
De Gaulle Asks
Reorganization
Of Armed Forces
PARIS, Nov. 24—(A5)—President
De Gaulle has asked the consti
tuent assembly for a complete re
organization of Frances ' armed
forces—a step he repeatedly urged
on his superiors without success
in his years of service as a French
army officer.
French newspapers said today
the general’s program would per
mit a thorough shake-up of the
country’s tradition - ridden army
and the introduction of new ideas
and methods made necessary by
the advent of the atomic bomb.
Prior to France’s collapse in
1940, De Gaulle urged greater me
chanization of the army. His
ideas largely were ignored by his
own country but were studied
closely by the Gertnans.
ELITE FORCES
Observers interpreted the an
nouncement of a widespread demo
bilization from the classes of 1938
through 1942 in the medical and
sanitation corps as a possible in
dication that the new army might
be fashioned after the closely-knit
elite force so often proposed by De
Gaulle.
After outlining to the assembly
yesterday his newly constituted
government’s economic and foreign
affairs policies, De Gaulle said:
“Finally it appears to the gov
ernment that the assembly cannot
complete its career before laying
new foundations for national de
fense.”
De Gaulle’s cabinet has been sc
organized that he heads the single
national defense ministry. He is
assisted by a minister of armies
in charge of personnel and a min
ister of armament for supplies.
THERMOMETER
TAKES DROP
With the thermometer dropping
down in the low twenties early
this morning, whitening the ground
WTTh a heavy frost Cleveland coun
ty woke up to ideal hog killing
weather. Farmers were taking ad
vantage of a clear cold day in
many instances to slay their pork
ers. '
Reports varied on the mercury
readings. At Fallston, it was re
ported by one householder that
the thermometer had registered at
20 degrees early this morning. In
Shelby another early riser said
that at 7 o’clock this morning the
mercury stood at 22 degrees while
from Kings ^fountain came a
report that the reading was 27 de
grees.
Garages and filling stations all
day yesterday did a land office
business in anti-freeze fluids fqr
acto radiators and were still sell
ing it this morning. Extra blankets
were welcomed last night and
overcoats were the rule this morn
^ing.
loreign trade.
An allied headquarters press re
lease said neither extent nor sour
ces of the imports in 1946 has
been determined. Amounts will de
pend upon availability of shipping
and world supplies as well as Ja
pan’s ability to pay in commen
surate exports.
Sankuro Ogasawara, minis
ter of commerce, on Nov. 14
revealed the Japanese govern
ment had applied for permis
sion to import 3,000,000 tons of
food, mostly from North Amer
ica; 180,000 tons of cotton, and
1,130,000 tons of coal.
Japan already is sending vitally
needed exports to far east points,
headquarters disclosed. Coal is go
ing to Korea and to Hong Kong,
and timber is being shipped to
China.
KANOKOGI SURRENDERS
Kazunobu Kanokogi, fourth on
the new 11-man list of Japanese
war leaders ordered arrested by
MacArthur, surrendered today at
Sugamo prison. Kanokogi, 61, long
has been identified with the Black
Dragon Secret Society and Nation
alist activities, headquarters said.
The premier of American-occu
pied Japan consulted General Mac
Arthur today, presumably about
next week’s Diet session which is
scheduled to chart reforms lead
itVT onroir from nrorfimn
tarianism.
Indicative of the times, Kijura
Shidehara in all probability out
lined to MacArthur the Diet
speech on government policy he
will deliver next Wednesday.
DIET OPENS
The Diet session, opening Mon
day, is expected to legislate such
reforms as women’s suffrage and
recognition of labor's right to or
ganize.
A long standing post in Japan's
imperial setup was erased tctiay,
The Imperial household minister
announced the formal end of the
office of lord keeper of the privy
seal, held by Marquis Koichi Kido,
The Japanese people were told
today by Kyodo news agency, quot
ing unofficial circles that the oc
cupation of the country would cost
Nippon 10,000,000,000 (b) yen an
nually. That would amount to
about $667,000,000 (ml. Edwin M.
Pauley, President Truman’s per
sonal representative on the allied
reparations commission, already
has voiced doubt that Japan can
meet the occupation costs.
58 Killed In
Calcutta Explosion
CALCUTTA, Nov. 24 —(JP)— An
explosion of smokeless powder at
the U. S. Army ammunition dump
in Kanchrapara, 30 miles north ol
here, yesterday killed 58 persons
including six American soldiers.
Five American soldiers and 4C
Indian workmen were injured.
The dump, said to have been the
largest American ammunitior
dump in the world during the war
was being used for the disposal ol
ammunition left in the India-Bur
ma theater.
United States Army officials in
New Delhi said there was no con
nection between the explosion and
the Indian demonstrations in Cal
cutta.
HOPE OF EARLY
SETTLEMENT
DIM TODAY
GM Rejects Auto Workers'
Proposal For Arbi
tration
OFFER WITHDRAWN
By The Associated Press
Hopes of an early ending of ,
the nation’s biggest strike, in
volving some 200,000 CIO em
ployes in more than 70 Gener
al Motors plants, were dim to
day but the government, with
President Truman’s approval,
moved to attempt settlement
of the bitter wage dispute.
General Motors last night re
jected the CIO United Auto Work
ers propsal for arbitration of the
30 per cent wage rate increase dis
pute by a three-man board. It also
told the union it had withdrawn
a previous offer of 10 per cent wage
hike.
as inese developments came
in Detroit, Secretary of Labor
Schwellenbach in Washington
said plans, having President
Truman’s approval, had been
made for conferences in the
capital next week in an effort
to end the strike which start
ed Tuesday, and which a G-M
spokesman termed ‘TOO per cent
effective.”
The corporation, In turning down
the union’s arbitration proposal,
termed it ‘not an offer of arbitra
tion but a demand for arbitration.**
The company statement said "strip
ped of it’s deception, the union pro-'
posed that General Motors relin
quish its rights to manage its busi
ness.”
NOT SURPRISED . .....
Union President R. J. Thomas
said the rejection did not surprise
him, and added that “if the cor
poration were willing to accept the
principle of arbitration in any
form they would have made a
counter-proposal.
Company and union repre
sentatives will be invited to
Washington conferences, prob
ably next Wednesday, with Ed
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SHAH USERS OF
COAL SUFFER
Firsf Freezing Weather
Finds Domestic Bins
Empty
There is actual suffering In homes
for the lack of fuel, says coal deal'*
ers who are having their troubles
parceling out in small quantities the
scanty shipments they do receive.
One car of lump coal is being un
loaded today. This dealer says, how
ever, that he has orders on hand
for 500 tons. Other dealers are out
and do not know when another car
will arrive. Shipments are usually
diverted in transit on orders from
the district manager of the Solids
Fuels administrator, so dealers do
not know when they will receive a
car until it has arrived. Therefore,
dealer promises to customers are
always indefinite.
Run-of-the-mine coal was offered
for stoves and grates, but dealers
say this is not saleable or usable
.for the reason that it smothers out
and wastes in the grates.
PREFERRED USERS
Users of stoker coal seem to be
supplied for the time being at least
because they bought early in the
spring and summer. Industrial
users, institutions such as hospitals,
schools and the like have coal in -j
their bins because they are prefer
red users and so designated by the
Solid Fuel administrator.
Poor people who are unable to
buy in quantities are actually suf
fering. This class has been al
lowed by coal dealers to pick up
piece of coal from the coal yards.
Wood slabs and other waste lumber
are being used whenever available.
Cord wood is high and scarce and
not satisfactory for use in coal
' grates. S
| RED TAPE
Salesmen for coal companies are
powerless to help the situation. Some
say they have ample coal ready for
shipment but can’t ship beyond 70
per cent of allotments except on
i directions from the Solid Fuel ad
ministration, a government agency
and this involves much red-tape.
Senator Hoey who was at home
j yesterday was distressed over the
I situation and especially the red- -
tape involved in Washington in get
ting acute situations relieved. He
promised to intercede again for
Shelby and other North Carolina
rti+ioe n.'horo > nivilionc are onitinlUi
i cities where« civilians are
1 in distress lor lack of fuel.