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WEATHER North Carolina: Partly cloudy with little change in temperature today, tonight and Tuesday except warmer over the north portion. Tshe - Hhelhy Bnily Stett CLEVELAND COUNTY’S NEWSPAPER SINCE 1894 TELEPHONE 1100 - State Theatre Today - “On Stage Everybody” Peggy RYAN — Johnny COY Jack OAKIE VOL XLIII— 283 ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWS SHELBY, N. C. MONDAY, NOV. 26, 1945 TELEMAT PICTURES SINGLE COPIES—5# k NEW DEAL’ FOR CHINA * One-Week Demonstration Strike Begun By Ward Workers UAW RENEWS DEMAND FOR NEGOTIATIONS Picture Mixed In Maine Textile Mills: Some Out, | Some In 575,OOOARE IDLE By The Associated Press Montgomery Ward anc Company returned to the la bor scene today as 75,000 CIC employes of the big mail ord er house began a one-weel “demonstration” strike. A new move was made bj the CIO United AutomobiU Workers as the General Mo tors walkout, idling 200,00( went into its sixth day. A break came In the northwest Pacific lumber tieup which has kept 60,000 AFL unionists away from their Jobs since Sept. 24. In Maine. 2.800 CIO textile workers resolved their difference with two cotton mills operators, but 7,200 employes of seven other mills re mained on strike. Telephone service In Illinois and two northern Indiana conn ties waa back to normal after the company and 8.700 oper ators compromised their wage dispute. Altogether, 878,000 workers were Idle across the nation. Other ma jor strikes Involved 10,000 AFL and CIO machinists In San Fran | cisco, a strike which has kept 50, ' 000 other workers off their Jobe; 6,100 Brown and Sharpe Manufac turing Co. employes, Providence, R. I., and 4,300 Greyohund bus driv ers in 26 states. IN THE CENTER But the Ward strike occupied the center of the labor stage. CIO unions have been asked to picket more than 600 Ward Stores and mail order outlets in 42 states. At Issue are the union's de mands for a closed shop, check off union dues, and wage demands. "We are going out for one week and then, from time to time, might repeat the operationsaid See UAW Page 2 UNRRA FUND IS APPROVED WASHINGTON, Nov. 26— t/Pi — The house foreign affairs commit* tee today approved legislation au thorizing an additional appropria tion of *1,350,000,000 for activities of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration—the organization set up by the United Nations to succeed war torn coun tries. The committee’s action followed an urgent plea last week by Gen eral of the Army Dwight D. Els enhower, who praised the work of i UNRRA in liberated Europe. The legislation does not appro priate any additional funds, but a separate bill carrying an appro priation is under consideration by the house appropriations commit tee. The United States already has contributed $800,000,000 as its share of the UNRRA fund. Legislation appropriating an additional $550, 000,000 has been passed by the house and Is pending in the sen ate. Speaker Rayburn told reporters the new authorizing bill would De called up for house action before the Christmas recess scheduled to start around December 20. AT YAMASHITA TRIAL Blanket Deni. Camp Atrocit By DEAN SCHEDLER MANILA, Nov. 26. —</P>— A Jap anese defense witness for Lt. Gen Tomoyuki Yamashita asserted to day that the “Oroyku Maru” pris on ship ‘'hell-hole” on which-many of 1,300 captured Americans wenl mad—was well and comfortably equipped. Hie witness, Lt. Gen. Shiyojii Koh, was asked if most of ie pris oners were forced to walk to th« i ship last Dec. 13 when it was load ed with Americans bound for Japan .“Yes, most of them were marchec to the ship but some weaker ones ADMIRAL HALSEY QUITS THE SEA AFTER 45 YEARS—Officers and men salute Admiral William F. Halsey as he goes over the side of the Battleship South Dakota at Long Beach, Calif., after relinquishing command of the Third Fleet to Rear Admiral Howard F. Kingman. After a month «of temporary duty in Washington, Halsey tfill retire from service after 45 years in the Navy.—(AP Wirephoto). PEARL HARBOR PROBE: Justifies Fact Fleet Was Kept In Pacific Hull, On Stand, Defends Nation's Course In Late Days Of 1941 CURFEW TO BE ENFORCED Guaidc Placed Around Jewish Settlements After Jews Attack JERUSALEM, Nov. 26 —</P) British Sixth Airborne troops en forced a curfew along more thar | half the Palestine coast and sta tioned guards around three JewisT settlements today after 14 Pales tinian police were wounded ir Jewish attacks on two coast guarc stations. Presumably Maj. Gen. A. L Bols, British Military Commandei of the Civil District of Lydda, or dered the restrictions to prevem further landings of illegal Jewisl immigrants. The curfew, effective from 5:3( P. M. to 5:30 A. M., applied to thai section of the coast extending froir the northern boundary of Palestim to a point about 12 miles south oi Jaffa and Tel Aviv. It was noi operative in the immediate area o; towns and villages. JEWS ATTACK 1 A British communique said t : “party of armed jews” attacked th< Coast Guard stations at Givat Ol ga and Sidna Saturday night anc added that both stations wen wrecked. An unexploded bomb wai found in the Sidna building aftei the raid. Six of the wounded police wen See CURFEW Page 2 WHAT’S D01NG~ TODAY 7:00 p.m.—Chamber of Com merce directors meet at Hotel Charles. 7:30 p.m.—Cleveland Lodge 202 A. F. & A. M. for work in first degree. TUESDAY 7:30 p.m.—CAP cadets meet at armory. 7:30 p.m.—Hickory Camp 518 W. O. W. meets at Woman’s club house. WASHINGTON, Nov. 26.—(/P)—Former Secretary Cordell Hull testified today he believed the state department was “thoroughly justified in wanting the fleet kept at Pearl I Harbor in the critical days of late 1941.” The former cabinet officer took the stand before a ' senate-house committee Investigating the Pearl Harbor disaster for an hour’s questioning. In response to a question from Gerhard Gesell, committee coun sel, about the state department’s attitude on keeping the fleet in Hawaiian waters, Hull said: “We felt that it would be more or less useful, especially after the fleet was based at Pearl Harbor, that it remain there during the critical state of relations with certain other nations — Japan es pecially.” “We were dealing with one of the worst international desperadoes within the memory of man. He was at large, on a rampage, dan gerous, treacherous and undepend able in every way. “It was a little more wholesome in the many matters under dis cussion for our navy to be stand ing there.” JUSTIFIED Hull said that “from all tangible and intangible reactions” he had received he was convinced the state department was "thoroughly justi fied” in that viewpoint. Gesell reminded the gray haired witness that Admiral J. O. Rich ardson, then commander in chief of the fleet, had testified earlier in the investigation that he warn ed Washington officials the se curity of the fleet was endangered by its remaining in Hawaiian wa ters. Had Hull ever been advised of Richardson’s view, Gesell asked. “I don’t remember at any time that any person suggested the idea that the fleet couldn’t protect it self,” Hull replied firmly. NOT DELIVERED Hull said a projected Pacific See JUSTIFIES Page 2 •d Of Prison ies Is Made were taken in trucks,” Koh an swered. He testified he sent along 40 guards and a Japanese lieuten ant. Survivors have described hor ribly jammed condHons in the holds which 4rove many to mad ness before the vessel was bomb ed and sunk by American planes. The U. S. military commission trying Yamashita on war crimes charges ordered an Investigation of Koh’s administration of pris See BLANKET Page 2 ORLANDO SEEKS TO A1DJTALY One Of Big Four Of World War I May Be Offered Premiership ROME, Nov. 20 —Vittorio Emanuel Orlando. 85-year-old statesman and member of the Big Pour of World War I, today was Report :d attempting to resolve It aly’s government crisis, amid wide spread reports he might be offered the premiership. Orlando, a former premier and still vigorous despite his age, is known to be acceptable to the pow erful Christian Democratic party as well as to the right wing Lib erals and the Labor Democrats. Should the Communist party agree to enter a government headed by him, observers believed a cabinet could be formed quickly. CONFERS Orlando conferred for 45 minutes yesterday with crown prince Um berto, lieutenant general of the realm. Associates said he would continue his attempts to Iron out the disagreements which resulted Saturday in the resignation of Premier Ferruccio Parrt. Communist leader Palmiro Tog liatti also conferred wtih Umberto. See ORLANDO Page 2 HEAD-ON TRAIN CRASH KILLS TWO BUT TROOPS ESCAPE—-This is an aerial view after a head-on collision of a troop train (left) and a freight train (right) on the Seaboard Railway near Hanlin, Ga., in which an engineer and a fireman were killed and two trainmen were injured seriously. All of the troops escaped injury except for being shaken up. Note the car on the troop train which plowed under the locomotive tender and is Jammed against the cab. The trains were running between Birmingham, Ala., and Atlanta, Ga.—(AP Photo). L RUSSIA-IRAN SITUATION MAY TEST CHARTER U. S. Asks Russio For In formation About Ac tivities DIPLOMATS UPSET WASHINGTON, Nov. 26.— (TP)—'Allied diplomats here are taking an increasingly serious view of the situation developing between Russia and Iran over an uprising in the remote province of Azer baijan. Some fear it may present the United Nations with a critical test at the very outset' of organized efforts to protect the peace and security of all nations. The United States has moved cautiously into the situation by asking Russia for information a bout the activities of its armed forces in Azerbaijan. Essentially the question is WASHINGTON, Nov. 26 — (JP) —The United States has pro posed to the British and Rus sian governments that the armed forces of all three na tions be entirely withdrawn The proposal was contained in the text of the note which U. S. Ambassador W. Averell Harriman delivered to the Rus sian government in Moscow Saturday. The State Depart ment made it public today. whether the Red army has prevented Iranian troops from acting effectively against the rebel bands and whether this involved violations of Iran’s sovereignty. A Moscow dispatch last night night quoted diplomatic quarters i as saying that Soviet Foreign Com missar V. M Molotov during dis cussions with Iran’s ambassador, Madjid Ahy, had given assurances that Russia would respect Iranian sovereignty. The dispatch added that Molo tov Was said to have expressed surprise at Iranian contentions i that Red army troops had refused ; free passage to Iranian forces in Azerbaijan. PROGRESS MADE Reporting that stories of Red army interference had been de scribed officially in Moscow as exaggeratioris, the dispatch went on to say it was understood that , such progress had been made in . the Molotov - Ahy conversations See RUSSIA Page 2 Bulletin WENATCHEE, Wash., Nov. 26—(JP)— Sheriff Bruce Park inson said today it was believed 40 school children may have drowned when a school bus left the highway and went into lake Chelan. First reports said seven or eight pupils escaped from the bus, containing 50 students. Parkinson said the bns ran off the Lake Chelan road 10 miles above the town of Che lan, plunged over a 50-foot embankment into 50 feet of wa ter. A diver was being rushed from Coulee City. The driver of the bus was Royall Randall. Indonesians Retreating From Soerabaja; Fighting Flares Anew In Batavia By Vern Haugland BATAVIA, JAVA, Nov. 26.—(/P)—Long lines of Indo nesians were observed retreating southward out of battered Soerabaja today, the British said, as fighting flared anew in T)„l_* I-— o-/u ta v 'A British press release stated the movement of the Indonesians to ward Malang, 55 miles away, indi cated that the native nationalists were abandoning their last strong hold in the southern section of Soerabaja. Inside the big Java naval base city itself, however, an Indonesian force backed by a tank, a 47-millimeter gun and armored cars was dispersed yesterday after it attacked a British Indian unit. Two Indians were killed and one was wounded. Five Indonesians were killed and several were wound ed in a second engagement near a Soerabaja hospital. In Batavia, the capital of trou bled Java, the British said one of their punjab companies killed at least half of a force of approxi mately 100 attacking Indonesians. BOMBERS USED British authorities sent rocket firing Mosquito bombers into action for the first time in the Java fight-1 ing yesterday. The planes scored 13 direct rocket hits on the national ist radio station at Jogjakarta and nine on the radio station at Soer akarta. The pilots attacked an hour after allied planes had dropped warning leaflets. DUTCH "ORCES A national committee of the unrecognized Indonesian repub lic met at Batavia and heard Premier Sutan Sjahrir, counsel ing quiet among the people. The Indonesian nationalists are seeking freedom from the Nether lands. The Dutch force in the Batavia sector consists of about 2,000 native troops from the-islands of Amboina and Celebes and a number of pro Dutch Javanese. The British announced officially last week that Amboinese soldiers and their families would be with drawn from Batavia. The British also disclosed officially what they described as instances of brutality by both the Indonesians and by Dutch and Amboinese forces. Nazis Plotted To Kill Own Emissary Story Of Plan For Seizure Of Czechoslovakia Reveal ed In War Crimes Trial By Wes Gallagher NUERNBERG, Nov. 26.—(/P)—American prosecutors disclosed at the war crimes trial of 20 top nazis today that Adolf Hitler and Field Marshal Wihelm Keitel plotted in 1938 to assassinate their own German ambassador in Prague to create an “'incident” leading to the invasion of tiny bzecnosiovakia. The plot was just one step In Hitler’s lawless plans to subjugate Germany’s neighbors that were outlined in detail before the in ternational military tribunal. Reading from captured German documents, American prosecutors charged that detailed plans for the invasion of Czechoslovakia were made on April 21, 1938—just one month after Hitler overran Austria and assured the world he had no further plans for territor ial expansion. Plans for the proposed assassi nation of a German diplomat and a subsequent blitz invasion of the little country were known by the code name “case green” and were revealed in a file carefully kept by Hitler’s adjutant who was cap tured by American airborne troops, assistant prosecutor Sidney S. Alderman told the court. PILES UP EVIDENCE While American prosecutors proceeded to pile up evidence of Hitler’s plans for aggressive war, defense counsel filed lists of pros pective witnesses and desired doc uments, which included an indi cation that Rudolf Hess, No. 3 Na zi, will carry his insanity plea to the court. Counsel for Hjalmar Schacht disclosed that the former See NAZIS Page 2 USO BEQUEATHS FUND TO CENTER Service Center Will Close With December 30; Mrs. Wood Praised For Work Directors of the local USO in special session Sunday decided to close the service center here with December 30, transfer equipment to the American Legion auxiliary for use pending the community center’s establishment and direct ed any surplus funds left over be directed to the Shelby and Cleve land County Foundation for use in the community center. The USO leaders adopted a res olution commending Mrs. Draper Wood, chairman, for her devoted service to the center through the three years of operation; as the directors gave her a rising vote of thanks, the room full of ser vice men enjoying dinner there joined vociferously in the tribute to her. QUARTERS LEASED Quarters which the service cen ter has used rent free by courtesy of the Shelby Building and Loan association have been leased for other use as of January 1; the fact that Camp Croft is closing in Jan uary and that the number of vis iting service men is tapering rap See USO Page 2 Labor-Management Meeting Bogs Down In Disagreement WASHINGTON, Nov. 26— (IP) —t Reported plans of another com mittee to announce failure today sent the labor-management con ference off to an inauspicious start on what may be its final week. A management delegate said the committee on jurisdictional dis putes, due to meet for the first time in ten days, was preparing to file two conflicting sets of re commendations—one from its la bor members and another from the industry side. This delegate, an official of the National Association of Manufac turers who asked not to be iden ified by name, told a reporter the > management plan calls lor the bi* * labor organizations to work out some method among themselves for ending inter-union quarrels and to report their decision with in three or six months to the la bor department or the National Labor Relations Board. Labor members of the commit tee — while concurring that the problem is labor's to solve—report edly are insisting on the use of ex isting machinery. The management men contend See LABOR Page I l WILL WORK FOR INTERNAL QUIET AND SECURITY i Nationalists Drive More Than 100 Miles Into Manchuria economIFcouncil CHUNGKING, Nov. 26.— (#*) — Generalissimo Chianjf Kai-Shek proposed a new deal for China today, created a supreme economic council to tackle it and promised to “spare no effort to bring in ternal order and security.” “We must not allow internal dis turbances to make us lose sight of the basic need of the Chinese peo ple for a far higher standard of living,” he said in a statement announcing appointment of the council. While his troops drove more 'than 100 miles into Manchuria —about half way to the great city of Mukden where Chinese communists were reported massing — he asserted that his government was “acting to correct” those disturbances. Premier T. V. Sonog was mad* chairman of the new council, which was told to seek at once economic projects considered of prime im portance to be carried out in the next five years.. In what had been heralded as an important policy announcement, Chiang erected the council to as sure “a united, democratic, strong! and prosperous nation and a sub stantial rise in mass living stand ards of its people.” LAND TO PEASANTS (Chinese communists bid for po pular support by distributing land to peasants in their areas of oc cupation to ease their suffering* born of years of war with Japan.) The council was empowered to use China’s resources to the utmost to achieve the economic gains, to lay down broad plans to fulfill them and to co-ordinate the econo mic gains, to lay down broad plans to fulfill them and to co-ordinate the economic activities of the var ious governmental departments. Nationalist press reports, mean while, said Chiang’s troops had captured without resistance the railway city of Chinhsien, 100 miles See WILL Page 2 One Killed, Three Seriously Hurt In Wreck Near Newton NEWTON, Nov. 26.—UP)—Betty Jane Rowe, 17, of Hickory, was dead and three companions were in Catawba hospital here with serious injuries as a result of an automobile accident at 2:30 a.m. to day on the Startown-Hickory road. The injured were Henry Shook, 21, of Hickory, driver of the car, which was reported to have turn ed over four times; Edward Bar ger, jr., 23, of Hickory and Jane Smith, 19, of Hildebran. State Highway Patrolman Fred L. Garland, who investigated the accident, said the young people were returning to Hickory from Rock Hill. S. C., where they had taken Shook’s brother. Garland said the vehicle rolled 53 feet after leaving the road on a slight curve. The Rowe girl was said to have died instantly of. a broken neck and head injuries. Of the other victims, hospital attaches said Shook was suffering a brain con :ussion, Barger of a fractured ;kull and multiple lacerations and :he Smith girl of a brain concus sion and a neck injury.
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