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1 Cleveland Is Short $200,000 In E Bond Sales—Have You Bought Yours? I WEATHER Rain and continued rather cold today; rain changing to snow and colder tonight; Thursday mostly cloudy and continue cold becoming partly cloudy in afternoon. Tlei- Hlxellty Baily Him« CLEVELAND COUNTY’S NEWSPAPER SINCE 1894 TELEPHONE 1100 - State Theater Today “WONDER MAN” Starring DANNY KAYE VOL XLII1— 291 ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWS SHELBY, N. C. WEDNESDAY. 'T ; 1945 TELEMAT PICTURES SINGLE COPIES—5* 1 Diplomats Sought To Destroy Nationalist Government—Hurley I Big Three Of Labor Solidly Aligned Against * Administration Program By Harold W. Ward WASHINGTON, Dec. 5.—(fl3)—1The CIO’s open break with the administration today aligned labor’s big three into solid and formidable opposition against President Truman’s program for fact-finding as a means to end industrial strife. congressional leaders nasienea i to determine how seriously this united front among the CIO, AFL and UMW would threaten enact ment of the law Mr. Truman ask ed in a special message on Mon day. But they went ahead with their plans to draft a bill to carry out his program and to introduce it today if possible. CIO President Philip Murray made the break in a bitingly criti cal radio broadcast from Pitts burgh, where he is directing strat egy of the CIO-Steel Workers in their Impending strike at the U.S, Steel corporation. The AFL, through President William Green, and John L. Lewis' United Mine Workers pre viously had criticized Mr. Tru man’s plan—which calls for 30 day strike^ truce while fact-find ing boards are at work—on the contention that it would shackle labor. But Murray went further. He said the plan was designed “to weaken and ultimately destroy la bor union organizations.’’ CIO OPPOSES “The CIO,” he declared, “is op posed to the basic policies thus pursued by the administration.” The CIO leadership has been cooling toward the Truman administration since V-J day, when the President decided to liquidate the War Labor board. CIO members of the See BIG THREE Page 2 Nazi Aviatrix Tells Of Fall Of Berlin Soys Bormonn Joined In Death Pact With Hitler; Der Fuehrer Like A Madman By James F. King OBERURSEL, GERMANY, Dec. 5.—(fP)—Capt. Hanna ^leitsch, German aviatrix who flew the last nazi plane out of Berlin, has told U. S. counter intelligence investigators that the missing Martin Bormann joined in a death pact with Hitler a few hours before the German capital fell. FRANCEGETS LOAN FROM U.S. WASHINGTON. Dec. 8— (/P) — France's rehabilitation , program was bolstered today by a $550,000, 000 loan from the United States as Anglo - American negotiators sought early agreement on a credit about seven times as large for Great Britain. French negotiations with the Export-Import Bank ended suc cessfully when Ambassador Henri Bonnet signed a contract enabling his country to uae the fund to purchase goods requisitioned when lend-lease was In effect. Meanwhile, British and Ameri can officials entered the 13th week of their conversations optimistic that they were close together on the terms for a loan of $3,500,000, 000 to $4,000,000,000. FLEDGED TO REPAT France pledged to repay her loan within 30 years at 2 3-8 per cent Interest. Indications are that Bri tain will pay about two per cent over a 50-year period, with spe cial provisions cancelling interest charges in depression years. The contract signed yesterday stipulates that France’s loan must be spent entirely in the United States for American products. Britain probably will be allowed to spend her money anywhere be cause of her heavy debt to mem bers of the empire and other na tions in the sterling bloc area. OPA TO INCREASE NEWSPRINT PRICE WASHINGTON, Dec. 5— (/P) — OPA plans to announce soon an Increase of at least $5 a ton in newsprint celling prices, it was learned today. An official who asked that his name not be used Bald the increase “might be a little more" than $5. Although the purpose of any price boost would be to restore earnings of United 8tates mills to prewar levels, the increase would apply to Canadian as well as domestic producers. This policy always has been fol lowed in the case of newsprint price adjustments. Canadian mills produce about three-fourths of the newsprint used In this country. . The blonde, 38-year-old pilot save a graphic description of the final hours of Hitler and his com panions in a Reichschancellery junker, but said she left upon the Fuehrer's orders before suicides were carried out. The army took her story off tho secret list today with the comment that it was "prob ably as accurate a description as will be obtained of those last days.” Bormann, aide to Hitler, chief >f the Nazi S.A. (Storm Troops) ind head of the Volkssturm, the people's militia called to action in ;he final weeks of the war, is being Tied in absentia by the intem ;ional military tribunal at Nuem >erg for war crimes. The drama of the end bordered >n comic opera as Russian shells jurst overhead, according to Capt. Reitsch. She said Hitler berated 3oering, Himmler and others as xaitors while going through the lotions of directing a phantom •escue army that had been wiped >ut days before. rHEATRICS She reported further: Goebbels, surrounded by his wife and six children, launched nto bursts of oratory With all the! heatri&s of a man actor. Eva 3raun became disgustingly drama ;ic. Blank-faced Blermann kept it his desk, writing a historical ecord of the finish of Nazism. As the Intensity of the Russian jarrage increased, the shaking fuehrer, on the verge of collapse, sailed for repeated suicide re See NAZI Page it PIEDMONT COUNCIL MEETS: Army Offers Equipment To Aid Scouting Program The United States army so ap ireciates the value of scouting hat all of the branches are ready o assist Intensification of the pro Tam for senior scouts, the Pied aont Scout council was told at its [uarterly dinner meeting here last light. Capt. Robert McCauley, AAF, 'f Atlanta, recently appointed laison officer for scouting units, s principal speaker for the oc asion, offered assistance in tech ical training and procurement of quipment for scout study. “It must be understood, how ver,” Capt. McCauley said, “that TRIED TO GET U.S. ARMS FOR COMMUNISTS Cites Two Instances Of Conflict With Career Diplomats BEFORE COMMITTEE WASHINGTON, Dec. 5.— (TP)—Maj. Gen. Patrick J. Hurley charged today that a career diplomat he left in charge of the embassy at Chungking sought to “de stroy” the Chinese national ist government by getting lend-lease arms for the Chin ese communists. He said the official was George Atcheson, Jr., counselor at the Chungking embassy. Hurley added that the arms were not given the Communists, and that Atcheson later was recalled from China. Hurley testified the Atcheson in cident occurred after he had left China on a trip to Washington. He said Atcheson wrote a letter to the Secretary of State advocating furnishing lend-lease arms and equipment to the Communist for ces, and claiming that he had the support of every official member of the American embassy in that recommendation. Atcheson is currently on duty for See TRIED Page X BONDS PAST $2,000,000 Crossing the two million mark in total, but still lagging by some $200,000 in E bonds, Cleveland county was one up and one to go on the Victory Loan today as campaign Chairman Jack Dover called for renewed purchasing of the Series E bonds. Chairman Dover is back in the campaign actively though still on crutches recovering from a broken ankle sustained some weeks ago FREE MOVIE TICKETS Free tickets good for admis sion to any of Shelby’s four theaters will be given with each bond purchased Friday, it was nounced this afternoon. The Rogers, State, Carolina and Webb theaters are joining in free movie sponsorship of Victory Bond sales. In a fall about the time the Vic tory Bond drive was getting un derway. He is gratified at the way bond buyers have pressed the total past the $1,900,000 over-all goal, and he is anxious that the E bond buyers press the comity’s showing higher before the end of December. It is evident that the county will make one of its best showings on the overall figures—War Fin ance Chairman George Blanton hopes the quota will be met twice over—but unless there is renewed activity in the E bond buying group the county will come up far short in that classlflcatidh, offi cials state. An allotment of $7,900 to Cleve land county was made by the Standard Oil Company from its $900,000 purchase of Victory Bonds, J. A. Kiser of Gastonia announc ed today. it is not tne intention oi tne army to alter or Interfere with the scout ing program in any way but in this war higher army officials have recognized the man-building qualities of character and initia tive instilled by the scouting pro gram, to be of inestimable value." "In recognition of this fact," Capt. McCauley continued, “liai son officers have been appointed to assist in any way they can. We will be prepared to help procure equipment from the RPC that they may become the permanent w. See ARMY Page Z . v ' -- } HOFFMAN DOES HIS LAUNDRY—With a clothespin In his mouth. Rep. Clare E. Hoffman (R-Mich) hangs up socks he washed in his of fice in Washington, D. C., in an effort to beat the high cost of living. Hoffman said he washes his own handkerchiefs, socks and underwear, and patches his suits and shirts in the interest of economy. (AP Wire photo). Reported Truce In Bandoeng Is Denied Fighting Continues In Summer Capital, Ambarawa, And Semorang By Vern Haugland 'BATAVIA, JAVA, Dec, 5.—(A*)—An Indonesian nation alist radio announcement that a truce had been arranged in embattled Bandoeng was denied promptly today by British authorities, who said British Indian troops, supported by tanks and artillery, attacked an Indonesian-held building in that summer capital. Fighting also was reported in Ambarawa last night and early today, while in Semarang, Indone sians fired mortar shells against an airfield, the British said. The press statement said In donesians in Semarang also were tampering with the water supply, booby-trapping water installations. The British reported yesterday that reinforcements were being rushed to Bandoeng by air, even as representatives of the unrecog nized Indonesian republic were on their way to the summer capital in an attempt to halt the fight ing there. EXPLOSIVES FOUND The Indian attack in Bandoeng recovered quantities of explosives, arms, ammunition and a high-, power radio transmitter, the Brit ish said. Thirty women and chil dren were evacuated,by the Brit ish from a village northeast of Bandoeng last night. The British statement an nounced that RAF casualties in the island of Java thus far totalled 19, including nine kill ed in hostile actions, five in crashes, three in other acci dents and two missing. Nearly eight battalions of fresh Dutch troops—some 6,000 men — are garrisoned at present on the Malay peninsula, it was learned here. The troops, outfitted in Bri tish jungle-green battledress, are being given intensive training and are expected to be ready for ac tion within two months. Reds Again Refuse Iranian Troops Entry To Azerbaijan TEHRAN, Dec. 5—(tf5)—The Rus sians have refused, in a second note to the Iran government, to permit entrance of additional Iranian troops into the troubled northwestern province of Azerbai jan, it was disclosed today. Iranian troops, ordered to the province which is the scene of a lo cal autonomy movement, still were bivouacked at Sharifabed, where they were halted Nov. 20 by the R*ssia6s. Soviet ttoops have oc cupied the province since 1941, when they were, sent to guard the Russian lend-lease supply lane. The new Russian note was dated Dec. 2 and delivered by the Soviet embassy In Tehran. SEASON'S FIRST SNOWFALL HERE Cold Wind, Driving Rain Add To Discomfort Of Being Outside Snow which swept out of the mountains last night found wet footing in Shelby and only a small part of it remained on the ground. Wind whipped a driving rain across the countryside all day yes terday and well into the night. This changed into snow and sleet before midnight and some of the stuff began to freeze as it struck the ground. Bus schedules had to be canceled temporarily in some parts of western North Car olina, although service was still being maintained between here and Asheville this morning. Wind velocity which buffeted drenching cold water against those who dared go abroad reached 42 miles an hour last night at the Charlotte airport and was about the same here; Umbrellas, galoshes and overcoats were scant protec tion against the freezing droplets peppering man and beast. Nearly one and one-half inches of rain fall had fallen in 24 hours early last night and the prospects were for more today. Temperature were freakish. The mercury was stand ing well above freezing before the snow started falling and began to drop rapidly in the early hours of this morning. Continued rain and cold are forecast for today. Snow fellttfief ly here this morning, and more snow is predicted for tonight with prospects that it will be much colder. Gardner-Webb Gets $1,000 Contribution To Cottage Program A contribution of $1,000 from R. P. Jarrett, proprietor of the Jar rett Springs hotel at Dillsboro, to the Gardner-Webb building fund for use in the cottage construc tion program was announced today by President Phil Elliott. The gift brings to $8,000 the cottage construction fund which will require $18,000 in present projects, President Elliott stated. TALKS HAD BEEN SET TO BEGIN TODAY Called Off By Reuther Who Announced He Is Leavig Town MOTORIZED PICKETS DETROIT, Dec. 5.—(/P)— Resumption of negotiations between striking CIO auto workers and General Motors on the company’s complaint of illegal picketing activity were postponed today at the request of the union. Walter P. Reuther, United Au tomobile Workers (CIO) vice president, announced the post ponement of the conference, which had been scheduled for this aft ernoon, saying he had been called out of the city and would be unable to participate. Reuther would not disclose his destination or the reason for his departure. The picketing negotiations have been regarded by Gen eral Motors as a prelude to resumption of collective bar gaining on the union's de mand for a 30 percent wage increase yithin the corpora tion’s present price ‘ structure. Additional moves to intensify the UAW-CIO strike which has idled more than 200,000 GM em ployes came today as Ford local 600, the nation’s largest local un ion, announced plans for motor ized picket column at General Motors plants here Saturday. PICKET LINE Handbills distributed to its members by local 600 called all of its more than 51,000 members to participate in “Detroit’s largest J mobile picket line” and said that starting from the local’s head quarters at 10 a.m. (Eastern Stan dard Time) the line of automobiles ! would picket GM’s Cadillac, Tern j stedt, Chevrolet forge, Chevrolet j axle, transmission and Diesel plants and the General Motors | building. Time of the motorized picketing was set to coincide with a confer ence of 250 delegates from UAW CIO GM locals who will assemble here to consider President Tru mans appeal for an immediate re turn to work. The GM confer ence will formulate recommenda tions to be submitted to local un See TALKS Page. 2 1VHATS DOING TODAY 6:30 p.m. — Sunday school workers business supper at First Baptist church. 7:05 p.m. — Sunday school workers’ council at First Bap tist church. 7:30 p. m. — Presbyterian prayer meeting. 7:30 p.m. — Fellowship hour at Central Methodist church. 7:45 p.m. — Midweek prayer and praise service at First Baptist church. 7:45 p.m. — Midweek prayer and praise service at First Baptist church. THURSDAY 7:00 p.m.—Directors of Exec utives club meet at Hotel Charles. 7:00 p.m.—Regular meeting of Kiwanis club. 7:00 p.m.—CAP cadets meet at armory. AT WAR CRIMES TRIAL: Czechs Bullied Into Submission By Threat Of Air Bombardment By DANIEL DE LUCE NUERNBERG, Dec. 5—(^—Her mann Goering shattered Czecho slovakia’s last will to resist Hitler’s war machine with the ultimatum that “half of Prague would He in ruins from aerial bombardment within two hours,’’ the internation al military tribunal was told to day. American prosecutors at the trial of Goering and 19 other Nazi lead ers accused of war crimes laid be fore the court official German records and French and British diplomatic reports disclosing the Hitler pattern of threats, treach Senate Votes Active * . / Participation In UNO, Discusses UNRRA Fund WASHINGTON, Dec. 5.—(fP)—The senate turned today to further relief for victims of war after voting, 65 to 7, for active participation in the peace-seeking United Nations CHINESE MOVE TO NANKING Executive Yuan To Meet In Former Capital After Dec. 15 By SPENCER MOOSA CHUNGKING, Dec. 5—A cabi net spokesman said today that China’s Executive Yuan would meet in Nanking after Dec. 15th and that under present plans Pre mier T. V. Soong also would move to the former capital. The spokesman, P. H. Chang, an nounced that personnel from var ious ministries would be establish ed at Nanking within 10 days al though the government would re main at Chungking, possibly until next March. Fifteen hundred gov ernment workers will be flown to Nanking before Dec. 15, he said. Meanwhile, vice-minister for for eign affairs Liu Chieh announced that Russian-Chinese negotiations for the airborne movement of Na tionalist troops into Mukden and Changchun, Manchuria would be concluded within a few days. NORTHERN PROVINCE Liu said the troops would take over principal and municipal ad ministrations in the rich northern province. The Nationalists’ overland drive already has passed the rail town of Sinmin, 30 miles west of Mukden, and is heading for the historic, in dustrially rich city itself, press dis patches said. Their advance along with the Peiping-Mukden railroad has been virtually unchallenged all the way from the great wall gateway of Shanhaikwan, the dispatches re ported. Other press reports, however, de scribed brisk fighting the past few days along the great wall south of Kupehkow, one of the main passes leading from China proper into Jahol. The main nationalist objective in this drive was re ported to be Chengteh, capital of See CHINESE Page 2 Urges Checking Of Safety Equipment For Bad Weather J. P. Hollis, field representative for safety promotion for the state department of motor vehicles, to day urged that auto drivers check all safety equipment on their cars, explaining that such, when in good condition, makes driving less hazardous under extreme con ditions this time of year. Hollis urged that lights and brakes be checked, that wind shield wipers be kept in first class condition and that rear view mir rors be utilized. He also called upon Shelbians to make their city a safer place to live by driv ing in a safe and sane manner in the “rough weather ahead.” ery and broken promises that crushed the Czechs only five months after the Munich pact led British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain to proclaim "peace in our time.’’ In cold detail, the prosecution disclosed the ordeal of Czecho slovakian President Emil Hacha when he was imperiously summon ed to Berlin the day before Ger man troops marched across the border on March 14, 1939, and was told that Prague would be bombed if the Czechs fired on the Nazi See CZECHS Pa*e 3 vi uvili Senator McKellar (D-Tenn) plan ned to step down from the -presid ing officer's rostrum • to try for speedy approval of a $550,000,000 UNRRA appropriation. It is the final installment of this country's original pledge to the United Na tions Relief and Rehabilitation Ad ministration. The house weeks ago approved the last installment and today opened debate on a second $1, 350,000,000 pledge. McKellar well past the dinner hour last night banged his gavel on senate passage of the UNO bill setting up machinery for this country's active role in the in fant organization. The measure now goes to the house where Chairman Bloom (D-NY) of the foreign affairs committee told re porters he hoped for final pass age before the December 20 holi day recess. MEETS NEXT MONTH A UNO organization meeting is scheduled in London next month. Senate passage found only one Democrat, Senator Wheeler (Mont) and six Republicans, Senators Lan ger (ND), Moore (Okla), Rever comb (WVa), Shipstead (Minn), Taft (Ohio), and Wherry (Neb) voting "no” on the final rollcall. Wheeler protested that the leg islation would give any president power to involve this country in war without approval of congress or the public. “I do not want to jeopardize See SENATE Page 2 1941REC0RDS ARE STUDIED Stimson Soid To Have Op posed Continued Talks With Japs WASHINGTON. Dec. 5— (£>) — Henry L. Stimson’s reported op position to any army-navy recom mendation for the continuance of diplomatic conversations with the Japanese in November, 1941, came under the scrutiny of congression al Pearl Harbor investigators to day. With Lt. Gen. Leonard T. Ge row, head of the war plans divi sion at the time of the attack, scheduled to testify, committee members had before them a me morandum he drafted Nov. 27, 1941, to Gen. George C. Marshall, then army chief of staff. Gerow said in his notation that Stimson. then secretary of war, wanted to be sure that a memoran dum Marshall and Adm. Harold R. Stark were having drafted ‘'would not be construed as a recommendation to the president that he request Japan to reopen the conversations.” The Gerow memorandum went on to .say that Stimson was “re assured on that point" by the war plans chief. When the Marshall-Stark me morandum went to the president, it made no mention of the dip lomatic negotiations with Japan and did not repeat a November 5 recommendation that no ultima tum be given the Japanese. It recommended, instead, that “prior to the completion of the Philippine reinforce See 1941 Page 2 Full Shopping Days Bofor* CHRISTMAS k
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