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DOROTHY LAMOUR
ARTURO DE CORDOVA
VOL. XLI11— 286
ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWS
SHELBY, N. C.
THURSDAY, NOV. 29, 1945
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Eisenhower Criticizes French For
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Hampering Control Council
URGES SETUP
OF CENTRAL
, GOVERNMENT
Cites Potential Dangers
Of Unrest And Disease
This Winter
NO EMERGENCY YET
By James F. King:
FRANKFURT, GERMANY,
Nov. 29.—(/P)—Gen. Eisen
hower in a report released
here today, criticized the
French government fo^ ham
pering the Allied Control
Council and urged early es
tablishment of central Ger
man administration machin
ery.
•ummarlzing the itlon In
Germany in October, before he left
* to become chief of staff of the U.
8. Army, Eisenhower cited the “po
tential dangers of unrest and disease
this winter.”
Ha SeeUrad, however, there
waa “na Immediate emergency
in the America nand British
senegas tang as current rations
The release followed by a day the
White House disclosure of a report
to President Truman by Byron
Price, former censorship director.
Miming Stance for most of the oc
cupation difficulties.
Praising the British delegation
for going along in council matters
far the sake of unanimity, Elsen
hower asserted:
mere -/as no similar ooiution or
the deadlock which prevents estab
lishment of the central German ad
ministrative machinery provided for
by the Potsdam agreement as neces
sary for the treatment of Germany
as a single economic unit. French :
authorities In October maintained <
their opposition to this principle.
Only In November were there in
dications of progress x x x.
“On a number of other Important
matters, moreover, little progress i
\ made during the month. A
proposed law to authorize and en
courage a federation of German
trade unions on a national basis
could not be adopted on account of
French opposition.”
MUST HAVE FOOD
Otatl- the United States had no
Intention of "taking any active
steps to raise Germany above the
economic level required by human
it&rlanism," Eisenhower declared
that German industry must be
raised above the five to seven per
cent of capacity at which it is now
operating, and that food must be
imf -ted without thovrht of pay
See URGES Page *
CLAYF0RBR1CK;
LOCATED HERE j
Local Interests Seeking !
To Make Business For j
Returning Vets «
Good clay deposits adequate to i
sustain a large-scale brick manu- r
facturtng here were located by 1
state geologists on their inspection i
this week and local interests are t
shaping a new business designed s
for operation by several returning
local service men, it was learned i
today from O. M. Mull. 1
Dr. Jasper L. Stuckey, state geo- i
.logist, and his assistant, T .G.
Murdock, came to Shelby Tuesday
upon Invitation of Mr. Mull who, ;
acting through civic interest, took
upon himself investigation of pos
sibilities of the new business here.
SEVERAL DEPOSITS
The two geologists found several
locations which they are confident
would .carry long-term brick mak
ing operations, some of them be- -
ing conveniently enough close by t
railroad facilities to add to their 1
attractiveness from that stand- r
point. e
Mr. Mull said preliminary in- s
vestlgations had revealed that it \
wl)} require a $50,000 plant to set
up a brick making plant of capacity c
likely to prove profitable and he t
lp confident local interests will c
make available the necessary e
money when operators have been t
developed from Interested returning c
veterans. ' a
NAZI GENERALS DISCUSS TRIAL AT NUERNBERG—Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel (left), chief of the
German high command before the fall of the Reich, turns in his seat to discuss a phase of the proceedings
with Col. Gen. Alfred Jodi (right), ohlef of staff of the German army, during their trial at Nuernberg for war
crimes.—(AP Wirephoto).
Schwellenbach Takes
Hand In GM Strike
Ht And Warren Will Ask GM President To Resume
Negotiations Immediately . |
Nov. Otfckis of the CIO
United Steelworkers held in their hands today authority to
call a nationwide strike to enforce their demand for a $2
a day pay raise.
The power was given by members of their union who
voted in a national labor relations board election yesterday,
favoring a strike nearly 5 to 1.
Schwellenbach, who conferred
sdth President Truman late last
week on the GM strike, sat in on
i four-hour meeting with officials
it the CIO United Automobile
Workers at Washington yesterday.
The conference was called by
3hief Federal Conciliator Edgar L.
iVarren, who annouiyied later he
ind Schwellenbach would ask GM
President C. E. Wilson to resume
legotiations promptly with the
WASHINGTON, Not. 29. —</P)
—President Truman expressed
belief today that executives of
the General Motors corporation
should sit down and talk over
a wage dispute with representa
tive* of striking CIO unionists.
He gave this opinion at a
news conference after a report
er asked him about similar rec
ommendation by the advisory
hoard of the War Mobilisation
and Reconversion office.
trlklng union. There was no ad
vance hint as to what Wilson’s re
>ly would be.
Warren {CVi reporters he was
hopeful" of gcttnig the two par
ies together again and of finding
t common ground for discussion
>f the union's 30 per cent wage
ncrease demand.
Strikers at General Motors’
i'emstedt division in Detroit ap
>ealed to President Truman to
ise “Immediately the power and
orces at your command to make
leneral Motors officials negotiate
ettlement of our dispute by meet
ng with our representatives.” In
l telegram to the president the
rernstedt strike committee said a
lands-off policy “will only result
ti further stalling by General Mo
ors and prolongation of the
trike.”
UAW-CIO President R. J. Tho
nas and Vice President Walter P.
teuther said they were ready to
aeet with the GM management
See SCHWELLENBACH Page 2
More Than 600 UNRRA Workers
Accused Of Diverting Supplies
ncrtrunu, v*r.K.MA«X, NOV. ZH
-(fl5)—The United Nations relief
nd rehabilitation administration
las dismissed, suspended or ar
ested more than 600 of its work
rs accused of diverting relief:
upplies into the black market, it;
ras announced today.
Leo J. Margolin of New York,
hief of the UNRRA information
ureau in Europe, said a majority
f the workers Involved were Am
ricans and Britons employed in
tie French, American and British
ccupation zones in Germany. The
ction followed a two months in
vestigation.
Without specifying how many
of the accused workers were from
each zone, Margolin said:
“All were involved in black
market dealings — actually selling
or being a party to selling at black
market prices foodstuffs and
clothing earmarked for victims of
war."
REPLACED
He explained that the accused
workers would be replaced by de
mobilized American and British
See MORE THAN Page l
CONFERENCE
AT STANDSTILL
Labor And Industry Will
Air Differences In Open
Session
WASHINGTON, Nov. 29 —{/Pi—
Delegates to the labor-manage
ment conference emerged today
•from three weeks of committee
controversy to air their differenc
es in open session.
Certain that President Truman
would not step in to steer delibera
tions, conference leaders faced
possible heated debate on a series
of lost causes—among them, CIO
President Philip Murray’s resolu
tion urging general wage increas
es.
However, no specific recom
mendations on basic issues were
expected from this afternoon’s
plenary session.
With this in mind, some public
members had advocated White
House intervention to spur action.
But Secretary of Labor SchweUen
bach told the executive committee
yesterday Mr. Truman neither
.would intervene nor issue any in
structions to the conferees.
NOTHING NEW
Hope that the conference would
produce any Important new ap
proach to voluntary and peaceful
settlement of labor strife died
with disclosure that no agreement
could be reached on fact-finding
machinery.
Members of the executive
committee said they were un
able to report oat a suggested
plan for a 50-day “cooling off”
See CONFERENCE Page 2
NABS PLANNED
SURPRISE WAR
Transcripts Of Telephone
Conversations Given
As Evidence
NUERNBERG, NOV. 29— m —
German army plans for a “sur
prise war” against Austria and
Nazi fifth column plots leading to
German Invasion of the little coun
try In 1938 were placed today be
fore the international military tri
bunal trying 20 Nazi leaders on
war crimes charges.
Fat and not-too-happy Hermann
Goering was described as the man
who directed by telephone the
blitz Invasion of Austria after Aus
trian Nazis paved th* Way by de
posing Chancellor Kuit Schusch
nl8R- MB
Goering became serltftts as As
sistant U. S. Prosecutor Sidney
S. Alderman read in detail tran
scripts of telephone conversations
between Goering and Austrian
Nazis on the days before and on
the days of the unopposed In
vasion.
found in ruins
The records were found In thdj
ruins of the Berlin air ministry’1
building by Associated Press Cor
respondent Dan De Luce and given
to the prosecution for evidence.
“This highly Interesting docu
ment allows us to live again In
those grim days of Anschluss,” Al
derman declared.
Many of the telephone conver
sations were with Arthur Seyss—
Inquart, Austrian Nazi leader and
one of Goerlng’s fellow defend
ants. The prosecution said the
records clearly disclosed Nazi plot
ting to absorb Austria Into the
Reich.
Transcriptions of the telephone
conversations disclosed Goering
succeeded In having Seyss-Inquart
See NAZIS Page t
KARL EDUARD
IS ARRESTED
NUERNBERG, GERMANY, Nov.
2®—(ff)—The U. S. military gov
ernment at Coburg today announ
ced the arrest of Karl Eduard,
duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
and a grandson of Britain’s Queen
Victoria.
The duke was president of the
German Red Cross and had a
general’s rank in the Nazi storm
troops.
The Nazis used English-born
Karl Eduard as a show piece to
demonstrate that the German
aristocracy favored the Nazi re
gime.
The 61-year-old duke’s estates
have been confiscated.
Ailing and subject to attacks
of gout, the duke has been placed
under guard in a hospital. There
was no Immediate announcement
of the charges under which he
was being held.
Karl Eduard is regarded as one
of the richest men In Germany.
He speaks German with a slight
English accent. His family con
nections Include many European
bluebloods.
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NOTIFIED TO
DESTROY CODES
BEFORE ATTACK
Warning Dispatch Sent To
Attaches In Japan
Dec. 4, 1941
TO HEARMARSHALL
WASHINGTON, Nov. 29.—
(JP)—Congressional investiga
tors learned today that Am
erican naval attaches in Ja
pan and some districts of
China were notified Dec. 4,
1941—three days before the
Pearl Harbor attack—to de
stroy their codes.
Gerhard Gesell, committee coun
sel, put Into the records of the
senate-house committee investigat
ing the attack a dispatch sent to
the attaches Dec. 4 by Admiral
Harold R. Stark, then chief of
naval operations. Admiral Husband
E. Kimmel, commander in chief of
the Pacific fleet at the time was
marked in for a copy.
The message instructed the at
taches to "destroy this system"
at their discretion and to report
on their actions by replying with
the words “Jaberwock” and “boom
erang.” v
This developmenet in the Inquiry
came after Chairman Barkley an
nounced that Gen. George C. Mar
shall, former army chief of staff,
will be called as a witness before
he leaves for China as President
Truman’s special envoy. Marshall
is expected to depart in three or
four days.
Gesell read the Stark message,
copies of which he said arrived
while the hearing was in progress,
See NOTIFIED Page 2
Insurgents
Halt In Push
Toward Tehran
feEHRAN, Iran, Nov. 29. —(&)—
*»rbaijan insurgent forces, swerv
ing suddenly in their push down
the- main railroad toward Tehran,
apparently had abandoned today
any attempt to march upon the
Iranian gov nment troops main
tained a viligat watch in the cap
ital. V <
An official Iranian government
communique said last night a small
force of Azerbaijans was marching
on the town of Resht, 15 miles from
the Caspian sea, after taking and
then evacating the town of Takis
tan. The insurgents turned north
east toward the C-.piai? after
reaching Takistan, the communique
said, instead of continuing toward
Kazin—on the route to Tehran.
NEAR KAZVIN *
Iran.... government troops are
near Kazvin, where they had been
halted last week by a Russian gar
rison commander in a march to
ward the troubled area.
T1 d lopment brought a third
northwestern province into the
scope of the disturbances which
began two weeks ago in Azerbaijan
and spread to Khamseh, further
south. Resht lies in the narrow
coastal province of Gilan.
Meanwhile it was disclosed offi
cially that the Iranian government
has received a note from ...e Soviet
embassy in reply to Iran’s protest
that its military forces were being
impeded by Russian authorities.
The contents of the Soviet reply
were kept secret, but the best in
formed sources described the note
as unsatisfactory.
Stalin Will Take
‘Good Long Rest’
MOSCOW, Nov. 29—(JP>—Gener
alissimo Stalin has decided to
prolong his vacation and take
what was described as a “good
long rest” before returning to his
duties in the capital, a well in
formed and highly reliable source
said today.
This source said the Soviet
leader still was enjoying good
health.
Steelworkers Vote 5-1
In Favor Of Strike;
Not Likely Immediately I
DETROIT, Nov. 29 —(/P)—Secretary of Labor Schwel
lenbach took a personal hand today in the nine-day-old Gen
eral Motors strike which has idled 225,000 workers and stall
ed production in more than 70 plants.
Unofficial, incomplete returns toi-——
tne NLRB from hundreds of poll
ing places in 27 states showed the
workers voting 342,125 for, only
70,639 against a strike.
There was no indication a strike
would be called immediately or
even in the near future.
Officials of the USWA told
their local leaders before the
voting that a favorable ballot
did not necessarily mean there
would be a strike.
Workers were cautioned against
any premature work stoppage and
were informed the authority for
a strike rests with the national
wage policy committee and the
executive board.
The election was the greatest
NLRB vote ever undertaken in the
United States, involving 766 plants
and some 650,000 workmen, many
uiousanas oi wnom aia noc case
ballots.
The vote was called for by the
union after the steel companies
declared that they could not grant
a $2 a day pay boost without a
raise in steel prices, which the
OPA refused.
The story . was the same in ev
ery state, an overwhelmnig ma
jority for the strike authorization.
Complete returns from Penn
sylvania, greatest steel produc
er in the nation, with an an
nual ingot capacity of about
30,000,000 tons, voted 161,512
for, 36,817 against.
The teeming mills of Ohio pro
duced a 69,096 to 14,923 return for
the strike authorization.
New York Steelworkers plump
See STEELWORKERS Page 2
Marshall Plans
Early Departure
Foreign Relations Wants Hearings From Hurley And
Byrnes On Situation In China
WASHINGTON, Nov. 29.—(/P)—Armed with broad
powers, Gen. George C. Marshall sped preparations today
for a quick flight to China as his predecessor’s explosive
resignation headed for an airing on capitol hill.
WEDEHEYER
AIRS VIEWS
Thinks Marshall Being
Sent To China To Make
Survey
By SPENCER MOSSA
CHUNGKING, Nov. 29—</P)—Lt.
Gen. Albert C. Wedemeyer. U. S.
commander In China, told news
men today that he thought Gen
eral Marshall was being sent to
China “to make a survey of the
situation and make appropriate
recommendations to the President
concerning future U. S. assistance
—or military aid—to China.”
‘Tew men in the United
States, either military or ci
vilian, are better equipped to .
evaluate a situation than
General Marshall. He has a
fund of experience in interna
tional affairs, and enjoys the
respect of the President, Con
gress and the people of the
United States,” Wedemeyer
added.
General Marshall is coming to
China as special envoy, replacing
temporarily at least the resigned
U. S. Air’ assador Maj. Gen. Pat
rick J. Hurley.
NATIONALISTS HALT
Chinese press dispatches mean
while reported nationalists have
halted their fighting advance to
ward Mukden, Manchuria, because
Russians allegedly agreed to their
See WEDEMEYER Page 2
OPA HAS A FLAN:
Increased Production Low
Priced Furniture Is Sought
WASHINGTON, Nov. 29— (JP) —
OPA today announced a plan de
signed to increase production of
relatively low and medium-priced
furniture.
Scheduled to go into effect early
next year, the program provides
for manufacturers, price increases
ranging from 4 to 20 per cent for
roughly two-thirds of various types
of home furniture each firm pro
duced during March 1942.
There has been no decision yet
whether the public will have to
pay more.
It all depends, said an OPA
statement, on the outcome of con
ferences to determine how much
of the manufacturers increase, if
any, can be absorbed by the
wholesalers and retailers.
If cost absorption is required,
dealers’ mark-ups would be trim
med, but not to an extent that
would cut profits below pre-war
levels.
CONSUMERS BENEFIT
“Whether or not complete ab
sorption is required,” OPA said,
“consumers should benefit great
See INCREASED Page 2 j
Chairman Connally (D-Tex) of
the senate foreign relations com
mittee U _l reporters he plans to
call both Maj. Gen. Patrick J. Hur
ley and Secretary of State James P.
Byrnes before a closed door session,
perhaps Monday.
The purpose, Connally said, will
be an informal discussion of Hur
ley’s contention that he hr ; been
crossed up as ambassador to China
by subordinatees both in the State
Department and at Cb -king.
Connally stressed, however,
that he has no Intention of
ordering any such full-dress
hearing a Senator Wherry (R
Neb) demanded in a bitter sen
ate speech late yesterday. This
would have covered just about
everything connected with the
State Department, the Atlantic
Charter and the Potsdam big
three agreement.
It appeared, meanwhile, that
Marshall might get off for Chung
king sometime today.
As personal representative of
President Truman and retaining his
five-star, general of the army rank,
Marshall will be able to exercise
virtually unlimited authority over
American personnel, both military
See MARSHALL Page 2
WHAT’S DOING
TODAY
7 pm.—Regular meeting of
Kiwanis club.
7:30 p.m.—CAP cadets meet
at armory.
FRIDAY
12:30 p.m.—Regular meeting
of Rotary club.
8 p.m.—Called meeting of
Cleveland ladge 202 A. F. & A.
M. for work in third degree.
WANTS UNITED
NATIONS TO
TAKEOVER
Says League Of Nations
Ruined By Special
Conferences
doesn'-Ffear REDS
WASHINGTON, Nov. 29.—
(/P)President Truman Said to
day he saw no need for any
more big three conferences if
the United Nations organiza
tion works as it should.
Asked at a news conference
whether revisions in Allied control
policy and machinery for Germany
might require a meeting of him
self, Generalissimo Stalin and
Prime Minister Attlee, Mr. Tru
man said he was not in favor of
special conferences.
He wants the United Nations
to do its job, he added, as
serting he remembers that the
League of Nations was ruined
by special conferences.
The president stated he hoped
the United Nations would take
over within the next 90 days all
the problems previously worked, out
by Big Three meetings.
In his discussion of foreign po
licy Mr. Truman also developed
these points:
1. He does not share the fear
which a questioning reporter (Bert
Andrews of the New York Herald
Tribune) said some persons in the
country hold that Russia will not
cooperate toward world peace or
that Russia’s policies will lead to
war. He was very emphatic in
stating he did not share any such
fears.
2. At a later date, the president
will discuss fully the international
situation, particularly as it in
volves efforts of the nations to
cooperate for peace. The discus
sion hiay be at a news conference.
3. Negotiations are now under
way among the Allies ruling* Ger
many for a revision of the Pots
dam declaration on Germany in
some respects. Chiefly the United
States is seeking a modification of
the arrangement which requires
unanimous agreement among the
government, Russia, France and
Britain before any decision can
be made by the Allied control
council in Berlin. This effort at
revision grows ' out of Byron
Price's report on the possible fail
ure of American aims and policies
in Germany.
4. Gen. George C. Marshall, the
President’s special envoy to Chin*
probably will leave for Chungking
in three or four days and the in
See WANTS Page *
ALL SOERABAJA
IS OCCUPIED
Local Administration Set
Up There Under Brit
ish Control
BATAVIA, Java, Nov. 29—(AV—
The British command officially an
nounced today the complete occu
pation of the Java Naval base city
of Soerabaja—the scene of bitter
fighting in recent weeks between
Indonesian Nationalists and Brit
ish Indian troops — and said a lo
cal administration had been set up
there under British control.
Military operations continued
south of Soerabaja where 12 IndO'
nesian guns were knocked out yes
terday.
At Bandoeng, the summer cap!
tal 75 miles southeast of Batavia,
the commander of the British 37th
Brigade continued negotiations with
Soetarjo, the Indonesian “Gover
nor” of West Java. British author?
ities earlier had issued an ultima'
turn that any Indonesian found in
the northern half of Bandoeng af
ter noon today would be shot.
The British said other ttnns ol
their ultimatum provided tlat
Indonesian civilians be ' permitt
within 220 yards of any British
Japanese post and that any
civilians manning road blocks wi
be shot.
A British communique said
tarjo apparently was trying “in
hard” to cooperate but added
his efforts were ineffectual
he had no control over soma
Live Nationalist elements.