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WEATHER Increasing cloudiness; showers over the west portion today fol lowed by scattered showers tonight and Wednesday; little change in temperature. CLEVELAND COUNTY’S NEWSPAPER SINCE 1894 TELEPHONE 1100 - State Theatre Today - “On Stage Everybody” Peggy RYAN — Johnny COY Jack OAKIE VOL XLII1— 284 ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWS * SHELBY, N. C. TUESDAY, NOV. 27, 1945 TELEMAT PICTURES SINGLE COPIES—5* JAVANESE IN SOERABAJA LAUNCH COUNTERATTACK Itt I BRITISH SHELL SEMARANG FROM SHIPS Dufch Seek To Evacuate Women, Children, Sick And Aged BOTH SIDK APPEAL By Ralph Morton BATAVIA, JAVA, Nov. 27. (tP)—Indonesians in Soera baja launched a counterattack against British troops in that battered city today, and an official British report told of new attacks in Ambarawa and Bandoeng. The coastal city of Semarang remained a trouble spot. The Dutch news agency Aneta said British destroyers shelled areas of the city where pockets of Indone sian resistance were holding out. British sailors mounted guard in cleared parts of the town. In Batavia, prominent Dntch leaders and Bed Cross workers asked in a petition to the Netherlands East Indies gov ernment that 240.000 women, children and the aged and sick he evacuated from Java pend ing “the return of normal times.” The petition claimed that the same people who had suffered under the Japanese were now be ing attacked by Indonesians and declared "the people who have suffered so much already cannot stand the strain any longer.” ONE SMALL TANK The Indonesian counterattack In Soerabaja was mounted by a force of SO Indonesians with the aid of a small Japanese tank. A British inaian pairoi near me nospuai area was forced to withdraw. The Indonesians also attacked the released internees' camp and police station at Ambarawa, 30 miles south of Semarang. and forc ed Japanese troops guarding the camp and Its 10,000 civilian In mates to retire within the camp area for the night The British yesterday sent three RAF Mosquito bombers Into the battle for Ambarawa and the planes, using machineguns and cannon, strafed troop concentra tions and attacked roadblocks, warehouses and transport columns. In Bandoeng a British company returning from the airfield area was overdue and believed to have been held up by roadblocks. LIVE IN TERROR Aron Gutwlrth, local chairman for the Netherlands East Indies Red Cross, said when the mass evacuation petition was presented to the government, that "people are disappearing dally. We never hear of them again. The people are living in terror. These people who have suffered so much can not stand the strain any longer.” See BRITISH Page 2 ELECTION REFORM 0FIRST FUNCTION OF CURRENT DIET TOKYO, Nov. 27—(JP)—Emperor Hirohito, in a colorful reading of an imperial rescript, today made election reform the number one function of the current diet and Insured some revision of current laws. Standing before the imperial throne In the ornate house of peers, the emperor read the brief rescript in formal, heavy tones while members of both nouses bowed deeply. The Japanese rul er was flanked on the right by princes of the blood and imperial household officials and on the left by Premier Kijuro Shidehara’s cabinet. Specific mention of election re form In the rescript insured ac tion thereupon and made this the principal diet Issue. Simultan eously the rescript statement lim ited to the house of representa tives such reform. Indicating there probably will be no change In tH6 current appointive status of the house of peers despite consider able newspaper agitation. The rescript also broadly so licited harmony In dealing with other matters, which Include eli mination of repressive laws and action on such unprecedented government legislation as expro priation of large landed estates ^md establishment of labor union law. N Nationalists Told U.S. ■M: Planes Being Flown Into China For Their Use CHUNGKING, Nov. 27.—(/P)—Chinese nationalists to day heard that some 700 American planes are being flown into China, presumably for their use, as central government troops drove to within 90 miles of Mukden, vital rail center in the battle for Manchura. Associated Press Correspondent Richard Cushing wrote from Shan ghai that virtually every flyable American plane in India and Bur ma was being flown into China in an operation which already has cost several American lives. There were 11 crashes last Thursday when 22 P51s flying from Kunming to the Shanghai area encountered a weather front. Cushing was told the flight was ordered by the war department i and that the 10th Air Force was bringing transports and the 14th Air Force fighters. Ranking officers told Cushing the aircraft un doubtedly would be given to the Chinese Nationalists. U. S. Air Force officials said it is vital that the United States protect Allied gains in China, Cushing wrote, but the men flying the aircraft “are debating angrily whether they ought to be risking their lives three months after the end of the war.” ADVANCE Chungking newspapers said Na tionalist forces advanced 40 miles along the Pelping-Mukden railroad to Kowpangtze, 90 miles from Mukden. There was no report of opposition. Simultaneously, unconfirmed press reports indicated the Russians will permit the Nationalists to garri son Manchuria. They asserted a number of Chiang’s officials had returned to Changchun, Manchu rian capital. The Soviets also were said to have pledged the safety of Na See NATIONALISTS Page 2 Hull Denies Note Touched Off War Assails In Vigorous Language Report Madfe ByArrtty Board On His Note To Japs By Jack Bell WASHINGTON, Nov. 27.—(/F)—Cordell Hull today branded as "an infamous charge” the inference in an army inquiry board's report that the note he handed Japanese "peace” ambassadors Nov. 26, 1941 touched, the button that C OF C SEEKING CUFFSIDE ROAD Residents of the Duke Power Vil lage seeking a direct all-weather road Into Shelby have enlisted ac tive ''support of the local Cham ber of Commerce and Merchants Association here which have set a special committee to work on the ‘project to get a bridging of Broad River and Improvement of the road Into Number One town ship to serve a long-felt need. Mayor Harry S. Woodson, Dr. S. S. Royster, Thad C. Ford and Lee B. Weathers were delegated by President Clyde A. Short to confer with highway officials with the view to getting Improved roads to serve the expanding plant where the Duke company plans to spend $4,500,000 at once to in crease power production in Its big steam plant there. Secretary J. Dale Stents re ported several prospective in dustries considering locating plants here if satisfactory quarters for their operation can be provided. See C. OF C. Page 2 Hopkins In Hospital NEW YORK, Nov. 27—(/P)—Me morial hospital officials said today that Harry L. Hopkins, former presidential adviser, has been a patient at the hospital for the past week. No diagnosis of Hopkins’ con dition has been made, the. offi cials said, adding that he is "rest ing comfortably and will be here for a few more days.” Fact-Finding As Help For Labor Troubles To Get Test WASHINGTON, Nov. 27— (IP) — Fact-finding as a remedy for In dustrial strife still lacked appro val of the labor-management con ference today, but the government prepared to give it an early test. Secretary of Labor Schwellen bach proposed a three man board to Investigate the long-standing oil workers’ wage dispute which precipitated the first major post war strike on union demands for 30 per cent higher pay. Fifty three refineries finally were seiz ed by the navy. A labor department spokes man said the CIO oil workers union offered no objections to the fact-finding scheme but that “varying reactions” were coming in from tep oil com panies whose propert|M are under federal management. The spokesman Indicated the government plans to go ahead in any event, in an effort to hasten settlement of the wage case and get the refineries back into pri vate operation. The fact - finding commission would be made up of Dr. PYank P. Graham, president of the Uni See FACT-FINDING Page ft stanea me racinc war. The former secretary of state, testifying before a senate-house committee Inquiring Into the Jap anese attack on Pearl Harbor, as sailed In vigorous language the Interpretations made by the army board. "I sat under that Infamous charge for months when every reasonable minded person knew that the Japanese were attempt ing at that time to get complete control of the Pacific,” Hull de clared. “Somebody who knows lit tle about what was going on and who cans leas, says *why didn’t the United SMHF make concessions and kecg us out of war?’ ” he continued. “Any reasonably person knows that the Japanese were bent on attack and knows that we could not have stopped them unless we had lain down like cowards.” Hull earlier testified he had only an unverified report of the attack on Pearl Harbor when he conferred with the Japanese peace envoys at 1 pun. Dec. 7, 1941. Hull told the senate-house com mittee Investigating the attack that the White House had called him about noon of thkt day with the report that the Japanese had struck, but his informant was un able to confirm It definitely. The question arose, Hull said, whether he should receive the Jap anese at all or whether he should leave open the one chance in 10 that the reported attack had not taken place. Hull said he went Into the meet ing to find that the Ja] egates were talking *' peace." » The senate-house in' See HULL Page * * GOVERNMENT MAY INTERVENE IN GM STRIKE Company Again Refuses To Negotiate On Pres ent Demands 'unfairTractices' By The Associated Press Another breakdown in ne gotiations between the CIO United Automobile Workers and General Motors Corp. brought the possibility today of government intervention to settle the strike which has idled 225,000 GM employes. “Unless you are now prepared to modify your unreasonable wage demands,” General Motors told the union last night, “x x x we do not think anything can be gained by further negotiations x x x at this time.” The union, before the strike, filed charges of unfair labor prac tices against General Motors, and Walter P. Reuther, UAW vice pres ident, said the National Labor Re lations board would be notified “of this further violation “of the Wagner act by “refusing to nego tiate at all on our wage demands.” Referring to a union proposal that GM’s financial records be used to determine the company's ability to pay a 80 percent wage increase, the management declar ed, “it should be clear x x x that we will not negotiate with your union regarding our selling prices and profits.” ILLEGAL PICKETING GM also accused the union of illegal picketing, bringing forth a denial from Reuther. Management and union differed In their estimates of the effec tiveness of a one-week “demon stratlon” strike against Montgom ery Ward and company, which began yesterday and is scheduled to continue through Saturday. The union said 12,000 workers were out, but Ward’s asserted 92 percent of its 75,000 employes were on the job. Irving Abramson, official of the CIO United, retail, wholesale and department store employes, said the strike was 80 to 85 percent effective among Chicago’s Ward employes; 75 percent effective at Kansas City (2,500 employes) and Denver (1,500), 100 percent effec tive at Albany, N. Y., (2,500), Barre, Vt. (200) and Trenton, N. J. (200). The strike is to be extended to See GOVERNMENT Page 2 ‘Undercover’ Work Of Nazis Told At Trial By NOLAND NORGAARD NUERNBERG, Nov. 27— (/P) — Secret German activity to violate the Versailles peace treaty by the undercover construction of a navy and air force was disclosed today by American prosecutors at the war crimes trial of 20 Nazi leaders. Documents were laid before the four-power tribunal as evi dence that, from his earliest days of power, Hitler falsified public reports of battleship tonnages, built submarines and ^ trained U-boat crews in iso lated hideouts in Spain, Fin id and Holland rebuilt the program. Relchsmarshal Herman Goerlng and Grand Admiral Erich Raeder grinned broadly at one point as Assistant Prosecutor Sidney S. Al derman read from a list of in structions to Nazi diplomats on ways to parry questions of other countries about the Reich’s rear mament program. AMUSEMENT The instructions “apparently cause the defendants considerable unusement,” Alderman commented to the court. Charging that German scheming to violate the Versailles treaty started "soon after World War I,” Alderman submitted documents which he said proved that in the rery month that Hitler came into power, the German navy propos ed building a great arms industry See UNDERCOVER Page 2 NAVY DEMONSTRATES UNDER-WATER DEMOLITION—These members of a Navy under-water demoli tion team at Los Angeles show how they demolished under-water each obstacles in pre-invasion op erations against Jap-held Pacific islands. Wearing rubber suits and “web feet,” the expert swimmers place black satchels of TNT (lower center) against the obstacles, then retreat to a small boat before the ex plosion is touched off. <AP Wirephoto). YAMASnllA SAID ■ Reporf<fdrsT~D1sl!ked By Tojo He Wos 'Exiled' To Manchuria MANILA, Nov. 27 —<£>)— A de fense witness testified today that] Lt. Gen. Tomoyuki Yamashita was] so disliked by dictator-premier Hi deki Tojo that he was “exiled” to Manchuria despite his victory at Singapore. The witness, Keichoku Yoshida, a Tokyo attorney, declared at Yama shitas trial on war criminal charg es that the defendant brought down To jo’s wrath by sdying a war with the United States was “undesir able.” Yoshida claimed the wide pub licizing of Yamashita’s trial in Ja pan was having an effect opposite to that intended by the Americans because the Japanese people “knew Yamashita to be such a high char acter that the public is in sym pathy with him.” CALLED PACIFIST The attorney, one of a group brought here by defense attorney Maj. George Guy, assefted Yama shita was one of the “pacifist” See YAMASHITA Page 2 Minutes Of Kings Mtn. Association Come From Press Minutes of the 95th annual ses ion of the Kings Mountain Pap ist association, which met Octo >er 25th at the Fallston Baptist shurch and October 26th at the Vaco Baptist church, came from iie press Monday and immedi itely went to the Sunday school ward to be entered in southwide wmpetition with the Southern 3aptist convention. J. W. Costner, clerk who direct id compilation and publication of he minutes, said he expects to ixceed last year’s previous high nark 'of 98.82 attained for the as ociation by the high standard of ts minutes. The minutes show a total of ;366,894 given for all purposes, wth local work and missions, by 1 he individual churches and their irganizations during the associa ion’s year. Value of church and >arsonage proogrty was placed at 900,736) _ Sale Of E Bonis Continues To Lag Cleveland county has reached inly 27 percent of its quota on E wnds but is near the two-thirds nark on the way to its over-all luota of $1,510,000, War Finance Chairman George Blanton said oday. Sale of E bonds through No ember 24, last date reports were lade from the state War Finance, ffice at Greensboro, were only 86,812 against a quota of $310,000, iut the overall figure was $959,234. A Nine Jews Killed In Uprisings Monday Tension Sfetkening At British Troops Withdraw; Cordon Around Villages Lifted JERUSALEM, Nov.'27.—(A*)—Unofficial reports placed the toll in yesterday’s disturbances in the Jewish area of Palestine at nine Jews killed and at least 75 wounded, and the Jewish national council called a half-hour work stoppage today as a “token of mourning” for the dead. 15 CHILDREN DIE IN LAKE CHELAN, Wash., Nov. 27—(JP)— Dhelan today was a city of sor •ow, its beautiful Lake Chelan an cy ogre which had swallowed a lommunity of children when an nbound school bus, left the road yesterday. Fifteen youngsters and its driver were carried to death in the deep waters. The town hall stood ready 'or duty as a morgue. Six persons, five children and a voman passenger, escaped. Mrs. red Brown, the passenger, said Driver Jack Randle, 26, stood up md fought the wheel when the jus struck a rock in the snow iwept road and swerved over a See 15 CHILDBTCN Page 2 ~WHAf’SDOING~ TODAY 7:30 p.m. — Hickory Camp 518 WOW meets at Woman’s clubhouse. 7:30 p.m.—CAP cadets meet at armory. WEDNESDAY 6:30 p.m.—Sunday school and business supper at First Bap tist church. 7:30 p.m. — Prayer meeting at Presbyterian church. 7:30 p.m. — Fellowship hour, at Central Methodist church. 7:45 p.m. — Midweek prayer and praise service at First Baptist church. BRICK CLAY: State Geologists Seeking Basis For Industry Here xji , ju. oi/uu&ey, geu-1 logist, and his assistant, T. G. Mur iock, said this morning that theyj ire encouraged by preliminary in spections to believe that clay suit ible for brick manulV-are is pres ;nt in Cleveland coui\ty. The two geologists came here at nvitation of O. M. Mull, who said shat he feels certain local money will be interested in establishing a jrick manufacturing plant if satis 'actory working materials are found ;o support it. ENCOURAGING Dr. Stuckey said soil of the up land Piedmont sectiort is not as naturally abundant in clay such as neeueu iur ones masing as oui-; er sections, but he was definitely! encouraged by what he saw this morning and he believes there may! be other clay present that would | encourage establishment of a plant to serve local needs. 'Mr. Mull said he is not person-, ally planning a brick plant but if! conditions warrant one he would be glad to join in its financing be-! cause of the present and potential1 market for brick here. His invita tion to the geologists to make the inspection was purely in the civic interest, he said, but he hopes a brick manufacturing plant will be the result. The General Federation of Jew ish Labor cabled a strongly worded protest to the British Labor Party and British and United State La bor organizations. Tension subsided gradually as British troops withdrew from the trouble zone north of Tel Aviv. The British had thrown a cordon around six Jewish villages yester day, and armed with mortars and machineguns and supported by tanks, had entered the villages in search of persons responsible for attacks on coast guard stations. The cordon was lifted last night. The sudden outbreak of demon strations after the villages were blocked off for the search was laid to retaliation against the British seizure recently of a Greek ship which was carrying illegal immi grants. LABOR PROTEST The Jewish labor organization’s protest, sent to the British Labor party, the U. S. Congress of In dustrial Organizations, and the American Federation of Labor said: “It should be clearly understood that not a single man or woman gathered in the settlements car ried or used arms of any kind. Their opposition to the search was fully in harmony with the declared policy of Jishuv (Palestine Jewry) to resist the seizure of Jews who have sought a refuge in the Jewish homeland. “As we foretold, a policy which prevents Jews from entering Pales tine and establishes a regime which hunts down Jews who have already entered is bound to lead to tragic consequences. We again urge you to do everything in your power to avert a catastrophe.” The Jewish, national council call See NINE Page 2 RESIGNS AS AMBASSADOR TO CHINA Charges Lower Diplomats Frustrated Announced U. S. Aims AIDED COMMUNISTS WASHINGTON, Nov. 27.— (/P)—Maj. Gen. Patrick Hur ley today announced his res ignation as United States am bassador to China, and assert ed American foreign policy had failed in Asia. In a 1500-word formal statement, Hurley charged that the United States had “finished the war in the Far East furnishing lend-lease supplies and using all our reputa tion to undermine democracy and bolster imperialism and commun ism.” The retiring ambassador to Chungking said he agreed en tirely with the outline of Amer ican foreign policy which Pres ident Truman made in his Navy Day address, but stated that “professional diplomats in the lower echelons were frus trating attainment of announced policy aims.” Hurley said that when he was assigned to China he was directed by President Roosevelt to prevent collapse of the Chiang Kai-Shek guvtiimiem, ana Jteep me ijninese army in the war. OBJECTIVES “From both the strategical and diplomatic viewpoint the foregoing constituted our chief objective,” he said, “the next in importance was the directive to harmonize the re lations between the Chinese and American military establishments and between the American embassy in Chungking and the Chinese government. “Both of these objectives were accomplished.” Hurley said, however, that it was “no secret that the American pol icy in China did not have the sup port of all the career men in the State department.” “The professional foreign service men sided with the Chinese Com munists party and the Imperialist block of nations whose policy it was to keep China divided against herself,” Hurley asserted. “Our professional diplomats con tinuously advised the Communists that my efforts were preventing the collapse of the National govern ment did not represent the policy of the United States.” CONTRARY ADVICE “The same professionals openly advised the Communists armed par ty to decline unification of the Chinese Communist army with the National army unless the Chinese Communists were given control. “Despite these handicaps we did make progress toward unification of thearmed forces in China. We did prevent civil war between the rival factions, at least until after I had left China. We did bring the leaders of the rival parties to gether for peaceful discussions. “Throughout this period the chief opposition to the accomplishment See RESIGNS Page * HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS NOT TO BE DRAFTED CHARLOTTE, Nov. 27 —(/TV Local draft boards have received a directive from Washington that high school students will not be called for preinduction examina tions until they reach the age of 20 or quit school. The interpretation of the new directive by Lieut. Col. Charles R. Jonas, of the legal division of the state office at Raleigh, was ex pressed in these words: “Any person who entered high school before he was 18, and is ordered to report for induction while pursuing a high school course, upon his request, have his induction or preinduction exami nation postponed; first until he graduates; second, if he ceases to pursue continuously or satisfac torily his course, or third, until he is 20 years old, or which is earl iest.” Col. Jonas said that, in effect, the new order means that no high school student will be bothered by his draft board until he is 20, un less he graduates at 18 or 19, Is derelict in his classes, or quits school.
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