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Buy A Victory Bond Friday And Get A Free Ticket To Any Local Movie WEATHER Mostly cloudy and not much change in temperature today fol lowed by clearing weather and a little colder tonight; some light drizzle in east portion today. I The-Schelbe Baily Him UL.UVUL.AJNL> COUNTY'S NEWSPAPER SINCE 1894 TELEPHONE 1100 - State Theatre Today - “Follow That Woman* Starring NANCY KELLY VOL XLII1— 292 ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWS_SHELBY, N. C._ THURSDAY. DEC. 6. 1945 TELEMAT PICTURES SINGLE COPIES—5#' I British Get Loan From U.S., Reported To Total $4,400,000,000 WASHINGTON, Dec. 6.—(JP)—Representatives of th< is, United States and British governments today signed a loar agreement for American financial assistance to Britain re ported to total $4,400,000,000. uie ainuuui ut uic iuuu was published In the British press. In Washington, all official informa tion was withheld for the present. The signing today, with Treas ury Secretary Vinson representing the United States and Ambassador Lord Halifax representing Britain, was not officially announced and the State Department declined comment. Official announcement of the agreement, following 12 weeks of negotiations between the two coun tries in Washington, was expected to be made tonight simultaneously in the two capitals. The London press said the agree ment called for repayment over a 60-year period starting from 1946, and declared no interest would be payable for the first five years. Thereafter, the accounts said, the rate of interest would be 2 per cent —about $88,000,000 a year. ENTHUSIASTIC Non* of the London newspapers commented editorially, but the ten or of the prominent headlines giv en the accounts Indicated enthus iastic approval of the agreement both by the Conservative and La bor press. The ultra - conservative Dally Sketch termed the loan a “Magna Carta for world trade,’* and said it would “ease Britain’s winter." The Laborite Daily Herald said failure of the negotiations would have meant “further tightening of belts, general imposition of restrictions to avoid a call for dollars, and a per iod of intensive trade rivalry." London newspapers said the agreement provided that of the total amount of the loan, $650, 000,000 would be used in payment for goods in process of delivery to I Britain when lend-lease was ended The papers, quoting their Wash ington correspondents, said the loai Itself—$3,750,000,000—and the $650, 000,000 lend-lease aid settlemen would be repaid on precisely thi same terms. BRETTON WOODS The dispatch to the Dally Heralc said acceptance by the British o the Bretton Woods monetary plai was a condition of the loan, anc that “the United States Congres; will be kept in session to ratify the loan simultaneously with the pass age of the Bretton Woods bill b; Parliament.” Announcement of the agreemen came after concern had been ex pressed in official circles here ovei progress of negotiations. When 1 had been reported that negotiation were on the brink of complete breakdown, the dispatches said Sir Edward Bridges, permanen Secretary of the Treasury, wae rushed from London to Washing ton by plane on three hours notice LONG-RANGE PLAN ' The Dally Mall said one condi tion in the document was tha Britain join with the United Statei in a long-range plan to reduce tariffs and eliminate quotas anc restrictions on world'trade. The Dally Herald, Labor part; organ, said the agreement woulc “not prevent an expansion of trade within the commonw<h, but wil enable the dominions to make Im mediate essential purchases In thi United States." The Sketch commented thal “what the Americans are really lend ing us Is new houses, new fac tories, new machinery and equip ment.” AT WAR CRIMES TRIAL: Britain’s Pledge To Poland Delayed War Hitlar Tried To Keep British Neutral, Had Planned To Invade Poland Aug. 25, 1939 By Daniel De Luce NUERNBERG, Dec. 6.—(JP)—Britain’s pledge to aid Poland in the event of hostilities delayed start of World War II seven days as Hitler unsuccessfully tried to keep the British neutral, according to a statement by Hermann Goering filed at the war crimes trial today. KONOYE, KIDO ON WANTED UST o By MURLIN SPENCER TOKYO, Dec. Two pow erful political figures whom many of the Japanese themselves con sider among their top war crim inals — Prince Fumimaro Konoye and Marquis Kolchl Kido—were of fered arrested as war crimes sus pects by Oeneral Mac Arthur to day. Seven other men whose activities date back to the Imperialistic pre ludes of the Pacific war also were listed as wanted. Konoye, the dashing Prince who served as one of Japan’s most prized “front men,” had been premier three times. Konoye, who was premier at the time of the China incident and held the post the last time just before Pearl Harbor, when he was succeeded by Hidekl Tojo, has been one of the most talked about men In post-war Japan. Recently he had been reported active In revis ion of the constitution and had asserted he was doing the work at the request of MacArthur although MacArthur denied this. He is a member of the Japanese royal family. Kido, who held the recently abol ished post of keeper of the Privy Seal, was Emperor Hirohito’s clos est adviser and had helped elevate Ip office such premiers as Tojo. auicu prosecutors iieia inf statement with the Internationa: military tribunal. Goering, one ol the 30 Nazi leaders on trial said Hitler originally had planned t< invade Poland Aug. 25, 1939, bui held up his attack until Sept, while his diplomats sparred to trj to “eliminate British interven tion.” The Goering statement sale Britain's signing of the Polish as sistance pact of Aug. 25 mad< Hitler pause. The fat Reichs marshal added that he had beer in secret contact with Lord Hali fax, then British foreign minis ter, "to do everything to stop wai with England.” Describing Hitler’s last-mlnutf efforts to keep Britain out of the war, Cql. Merwyn Grifflth-Jones assistant British prosecutor, de scribed the diplomatic maneuver! as "a bogus offer of negotiatior Intended simply to bribe or other wise keep England from assisting Poland.” BEHIND-THE-SCENES After seven days of behind-the scenes activity, the records intro duced as evidence revealed, Hit ler unleashed his war machine and Invaded Poland on' Sept. 1. On Sept. 3, Britain and France de clared war in support of Poland. “On the day when England gave her official guarantee to Poland the Fuehrer called me on the tele pohne and told me he had stopped the planned invasion of Poland,* Goering said in his statement which was given to Col. John H Amen of New York, an assistant U. S. prosecutor. “I asked him then whether this was Just temporary, or for good,’ the Goering statement continued “He said: ‘No, I will have to see whether we can eliminate British See BRITAIN’S Page Z ; COALITION GOVERNMENT CHINA S HOPE Communist Leaders Say Chiang Must Accept Compromise PEACE TALKS SLATED YENAN, CHINA, Dec. 6.— (JP)—The question of peace or • war in China hinges on ac t ceptance by Generalissimo ; Chiang Kai-Shek of the broad general principle of a demo cratic coalition government, i communists circles at this • communist headquarters city | said today. > Inability to sell that point to 1 the generalissimo caused the fail ’ ure of Maj. Gen. Patrick Hurley’s mission as United States ambas , sador, they aver. Any impression that Chiang was ready and will ing to give in on that subject and even had offered to take commun i ists into the government immedi ■ ately was totally false, senate [ leaders assert. ’ The approaching peace talks at Chungking, likely to decide the entire course of the future, would be helped by considering little publicized communist demands, ' Yenan says. Mao Tze-Tung, the communist ; leader, in a recently published book “On Coalition Government” r forecast election of a central gov , eminent dedicated to pushing a , policy oi “state managed, private [ managed, cooperative managed economy.” The culture of this new | state should be “commonly owned by the ordinary people,” not “for the small, privileged minority,” he wrote. DEMOCRATIC REVOLUTION Mao calls this "a burgeois demo cratic revolution” which only can be accomplished through the uni fied employment of "vast private capital in a cooperative economy,” which postpones to the distant nu ture realization of the party’s Marxist social aim. “To think of establishing social ism on debris of a colonial, semi colonial and semi-feudal China is an empty dream,” he declared. “To those who lift their eye brows at communist willingness to include capitalism in the present program, Mao replies "our answer is simple: to replacagfarelgn, im perialist and natlve^fepudalist op pression by development of a capi talistic class as welM^s a prole tariat. What exists lfljFpresent day China is a superfluous foreign Imperialism and native feudalism. We realize that under present conditions in China besides the state's economy, individual econo my of toiling masses <*nd cooper ative economy, private* capitalistic economy should be given the fac ilities for development. Without it everyone wuold be building on ashes.” > CHINESE STSTEM To the fear of some that after the communists come into power “they will perhaps, following the example of Russia, establish a ■ proletarian dictatorship and one party system,” Mao answered: [ "Chinese history will create a Chinese system. “For a long period," he said, “There will come into existence a special type of system which is en tirely necessary and reasonable for us, but different from that of Russia—a new Democratic state and government with a union of i several Democratic classes.” WEATHERMAN FLIRTS WITH FREEZING PfHNT —ii The weather man farted with a freezing temperature , ,early last night then changed hlaftiotion and by morning the mercury was ris ing perceptibly to give'Christmas shoppers the sporting chance they’ve been waiting ferr The thermometer dropped to within one degree of freezing since yesterday morning, reaching a low of 33 degrees and cavorted all the way up to tha 40 mark. Clearing weather and a little colder tonight was the promise early this morning. But Friday will be fair and warmer, Old Jupe told the reporter declaring that he wouldn’t hazard a guess on Sat urday. Three-quarters of an inch of rain fell yesterday giving a total fall for the past 48 hours of nearly two and one-quarter inches. A,.. _ \4Q RAISES OWN COTTON AT 95—D. S. Teague (above) of Concord, N. C., who was bom near Newberry, S. C., Nov. 6, 1850, has harvested a cotton crop continuously since 1863—a span of 82 years. Despite his age, for the last several years he has planted an acre of cotton and tended to it himself through the year, allowing no one to assist him. Hie picture was taken at the Gastonia, N. C., market where he has brought his bale for the past 10 years. (Ap Photo). Marshall Foresaw Pearl Harbor Danger Decided Early In 1941 To Send All Available P-36 Planes For Defense Of Hawaii WASHINGTON, Dec. 6.—(JP)—General George C. Mar shall testified today that early in 1941 he decided “to rob practically aH-combat pursuit squadrons in “the United States of most of their P-36 planes” for the defense of Hawaii. CHINESE AWAIT RED APPROVAL Nationalists 25 Miles From Mukden, Garrison ed By Soviets CHUNGKING, Dec. 8 — VP) — Chinese Nationalist forces are with in 25 mUes of Mukden but will de lay their entry until Russia ap proves a Manchurian dispatch re ported today. Soviet troops are garrisoning Mukden; there are no Chinese Communists in the city, the report said. Negotiations between Nationalist officials newly returned to Chang chun and Soviet Marshal Rodion Malinovsky were reported resumed and "progressing slowly.” The con ferees were arranging, among other things, early entry of airborne Na tionalist troops into Manchuria. Chinese Communists, whose op position to the 200-mile northward thrust of the Nationalist ground forces has been only sporadic, now are poised to enter Harbin, more than 300 miles north of Mukden, a dispatch to the New Szechwan Daily reported. WHAT’SDOING TODAY 7 pin.—Regular meeting of Kiwanis club. 7 pun—Directors of Execu tives club meet at Hotel Charles. FRIDAY 12:30 pm.—Regular meeting of Rotary club. 7:30 pm.—VFW meets in city council chamber at city hall. Marshall, then chief of staff of the army, also told a congressional committee investigating the Jap anese attack on Pearl Harbor four years ago that he knew of no commitment by President for the United States to go to war before it was attacked. The matter of sending addition al pursuit planes to Hawaii was brought up by committee counsel William D. Mitchell. Mitchell recalled a war navy department agreement in early 1941 that attack from the air was Pearl Harbor’s No. 1 danger. As a result of that, Marshall said, he pbaght "to see what radical tfMasares might be taken to meet to a degree” the needs of ’he pacific outpost. “I made Uie decision,” he said, "to rob practically all combat pursuit squadrons in the United States of most of their P-36 planes.” The 'general explained that there were certain engine defects in the then new P-40 iWarhawk) fight er planes. 50 FIGHTER PLANES Thirty P-36’s were rounded up, he recalled, leaving most fighter squadrons in the United States with three P-36’s each. Marshall See MARSHALL Page 2 fiuAf CHRISTMAS SEALS PUBLIC SCHOOL PICTURE: Reid Recommends Broad Program Of Consolidation <wauciAUu, -Lvtu. u —vuu« broiler Paul Reid at the State Board of Education recommended today that the 2,586 one, two, three and four-teacher public schools be consolidated. There are 4,402 piiblic schools in North Carolina. He prefaced his recommendation with an assertion that since the atomic age had arrived, there must need be even closer cooperation between people, and higher stand ards of education. Improved educational facilities can be offered to school children i * j ui me lesser pupuiaieu areas, ne said, if the smaller elementary and high schools, both white and ! negro, be consolidated. In that way, he said, one teacher would not have to teach several grades and a variety of subjects, In some of which they have not been par ticularly trained. The increased problem of trans portation, he said, would be more than offset by a greater excellence of scholastic offerings. In order that the consolidation , See REID Page 3 GEN. HURLEY HURLS CHARGES ATACHESON Says He Destroyed And Defeated American Pol icy In Iran FAILS TcTcLARIFY By Francis J. Kelly WASHINGTON, Dec. 6.— (A1)—Maj. Gen. Patrick J. Hurley shouted in a stormy session of the senate foreign relations committee today that Dean Acheson had “de stroyed” and “defeated” Am erican policy in Iran. Acheosn now Is undersecretary of state, No. 1 man under Secretary Byrnes. He formerly was an as sistant secretary. Hurley, who resigned last week as ambassador to China, did not explain immediately how Acheson had defeated American policies in the near eastern country. He and Chairman Connally (D vTvTvWV.'V ~r~-T;^ APj MAJ. GEN. HURLEY Texas) shouted back and forth at each other before the testimony went Into the record. The white-mustached ex-dip Ioiqat objected to Connally’s questioning and demanded to know if the Texas senator wanted to testify in place of him. Connally admonished him that the hearing was going to be con ducted in courtesy and repeated, referring to Hurley’s assertions about Iran: “Who was it?* HAS DOCUMENTS “All right,” Hurley answered grimly. "It was Dean Acheson.” "What did he do?” Connally ask See GEN. HURLEY Page 2 THEATERS SPUR SALE E BONDS Free Tickets )With Each Bond Bougfgt Friday; Sale Lagging No county has reached its quota unless and until it has sold its quota of E bonds, the State War Finance office today advised George Blanton, Cleveland War Finance chairman, in a directive to all workers in the Eighth War Loan. Unless Cleveland gets to buying Victory Bonds at^H much faster clip than has beffi the case thus far, the county will c:ome up short of victory in this fm&l drive, Mr. Blanton said as he urged the giv ing of Victory Bonds as Christmas presents by individuals and as Christmas remembrances by indus trial organizations and business houses to their employees instead of the usual gift of money or seas onal merchandise. On the basis of* current reports the county is $200,000 short of its quota but both Mr. Blanton and Jack Dover, campaign chairman, are hopeful that Friday will see some stimulus to the bond buying as free tickets good at any local theatre will be given out with each bond sold .n __ First Wage Bargaining Of 16-Day Walkout Set To Begin Today, 2P.M. DETROIT, Dec. 6.—(iT*)—Hopes for settlement of the General Motors strike raised today as the corporation and the CIO United Auto Workers headed toward their first wage negotiations in the 16 days of the walkout. ESTIMATE ON LIVING COST RISE BOOSTED Administration Action Opens Way For Wage Negotiations i - WASHINGTON. Dec. 6 —(>P) The administration provided e j possible wedge today for reopen ing some deadlocked wage disputes by boosting its estimate of how much living costs have increase* since 1941. Stabilization Administrator Johr C. Collet announced that the cosl of living rise is closer to 33 pel cent than the previously accepted 29.5 or 30 percent. And he addec that employers who raised paj scales accordingly could use tha factor as a basis for seeking prici increases. Collet was elaborating on Pres ident Truman’s * announced wake price policy. In that declaratior J of October 30, Mr. Truman listec cost of living raises among the few classes of pay boosts whict: could be considered by OPA u passing on price increases. NO GUARANTEE Neither Mr. Truman then, noi Collet last night, offered am guarantee that OPA would hik< ceilings as a result. Even before Collet’s announce ment was made General Motori corporation and the CIO-Autc Workers scheduled resumption oi negotiations today over the union’s 30 percent wage increase demand Earlier in the day these talks hac been postponed indefinitely. The corporation earlier had countered the union’s demand with an offer of an average 10 percenl pay raise. This, GM said, would raise the pay of its employes tc a level 30 percent above January 1941. The union refused, and the company withdrew its proposal. NEW FIGURE Collet directed govemmenl agencies dealing with various phases of the wage-price policy tc use the new 33 percent figure ir comparing the increase in average straight time hourly earnings ol a worker with the advance in liv ing costs since January, 1941. He said he was advised by the labor department that 33 percenl “most accurately reflects the in crease in the cost of living be tween those dates." A special presidential cost-of living committee headed by Wil liam H. Davis reported last spring that 3 or 4 percent should be ad ded to the then estimated 29.S percent advance to take accounl of poorer quality merchandise and the disappearance of low-cosi goods from the market. UNEASY QUIET SETTLES DOWN OVER JAVA BATAVIA, Java, Dec. 6 — UP)— Food shortages plagued Europeans at Bandoeng today as an uneasy quiet settled over the troubled is land of Java. The Europeans residents in the summer capital have been boycot ted by native merchants for two weeks and have been unable to buy fresh vegetables, eggs or milk during that time. Dutch spokesmen complained that in the southern sections of Bandoeng Indonesians still car ried on a program of kidnaping and intimidation of Europeans and Eu rasians, and have asked permission for the British to carry arms. The British have given no r.nswrer. There were no new reports of fighting in such troubled areas as Bandoeng, Semarang and Ambar awa, where sporadic outbreaks had been reported as late as yesterday. iicii/uci Biue m iue wage ngnc which has idled 213,000 workers offered a formal statement, but definite signs of optimism were appearing for the first time. One report said there might be peace within ten days. Today’s bargaining session, called for 2 p.m. (EST), was ar ranged at yesterday’s meeting of union and General Motors officials at Pittsburgh, attended by CIO President Philip Murray. A citizens committee invited by the UAW-CIO to study the dis pute said in its report today that the “full possibilities” of collect ive bargaining had not been ex hausted. The 14-member group, which perused the transcript of the GM UAW negotiations, said that if President Truman and his advisors had had access to this record “we believe they would have been in a position to insist more firmly on the full use of the collective bar gaining process before suggesting intervention by the government.” NO STRINGS ATTACHED President Murray of the CIO said “all points in dispute” would be considered at today’s UAW-GM , meeting and Walter P. Reuther, Auto Workers vice president, de clared that GM had agreed there would be “no strings attached this time.” General Motors previously had refused to negotiate other issues until what it termed “illegal pick eting” had been stopped. Such a practice, the management con tended, prevented some 40,000 of fice workers, in addition to 175,000 strikers, from entering the struck plants. On what terms a settlement might be reached remained the question, especially in view of the union’s demand for the 30 percent increase above present wage lev els and within the present price structure. 1 33 PERCENT The new government policy, an nounced by Stabilization Admin istrator John C. Collet, permits manufacturers to seek price in See FIRST Page S hakSnot TO RESIGN Iranian Premier Seeks To Settle Problem Of Azerbaijan TEHRAN, Dec. 6—(IP)— Iranian Premier Ibrahim Makimt denied today he had any intention of re signing and asserted his intentio of continuing attempts to sett! the problem of Azerbaijan pro vince; where the government charges separatists are agitating for independence. Reports were widespread during the past week that the premier would resign because of the situa tion in the northwest province, and that he would be succeeded by a government which would fa vor the views of the Soviet union, whose frontier borders Azerbaijan. “The so-called Azerbaijan as sembly (created following a recent insurgent rising in the province) is completely illegal, and the gov ernment will issue a statement shortly about it,” the premier told a press conference. GENUINE REBELS “To understand the real situa tion in northern Persia,” he con tinued, “The world should know there are only about 200 genuine rebels. My government wants free dom of movement for the redress of the grievances of the people. There are difficulties all over the country, especially in Azerbaijan, where there has been no #>ver nor general during the past sev en months.” The Russians, who have been occupying the province since 1941, when troops were sent to guard the lend-lease supply route, halted Iranian troops which had been on the march toward the province to put down the reported rising. The Russians claimed the order was justified on grounds that “fighting and bloodshed would break out” if Iran government troops entered the region.
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