WEATHER North Carolina: Cold wave west portion this afternoon and to night and east portion tonight. Lowest temperature 18 to 25 west and 25 to 32 east portions tonight. The Hhellly Baily Star CLEVELAND COUNTY’S NEWSPAPER SINCE 1894 TELEPHONE 1100 ' - State Theatre Today - “The Spanish Main” MAUREEN O'HARA PAUL HENREID VOL XLII1— 295 ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWS SHELBY, N. C. MONDAY, DEC. 10, 1945 n mi I — ii .i ■■■ ■ —. TELEMAT PICTURES SINGLE COPIES—5* LEWIS ASSAILS GOVERNMENT, GM AND CIO’S UAW Schwellenhach Calls On Both Sides to Settle Strike Quickly GOVERNMENT WILL NOT USE SEIZURE POWER Defends President's Fact Finding Plan To Settle Disputes FORD IN SPOTLIGHT DETROIT, Lee. 10.—(£>) Secretary of Labor Schwellen bach, declaring the govern ment has the power to seize the struck plants of Genera Motors Corp. but would noi exercise it, called on botti sides today to settle their dis pute “as soon as possible.” The secretary told a press con ference that It was - “extreme^ Important” to the "economic life’ of the nation that an early settle ment be achieved In the walkout which has Idled 213,000 Genera Motors workers since Nov. 21. Schwellenbach, In Detroit for s speech tonight, Included in hla comments on the CIO United Ante Workers strike at GM n defense of President Truman’s legislative proposals to help labor peace In general. Asserting there was no desire or the part of the President to “de stroy" labor unions, Schwellen bach defending hla chief against the attack on Mr. Truman by CIC President Philip Murray. The sec retary pointed to Mr. Truman’i “long record of friendship for la bor " SUPPORTS TRUMAN Schwellenbach said be wouk testify in Congress In support o: President Truman’s proposal foi the naming of fact-finding bodiei to act In major labor disputes. The President held up his ap pointment of a fact-finding grout for Oeneral Motors strike because the corporation and the aute workers returned to negotiation Schwellenbach said. On the subject of govemmen seizure under the wartime emer gency laws still existing, Schwel lenbach said ’’there la the powei but It won’t be exercised. Th« power of seizure should be usee most sparingly and in the past 11 has been used only when absolute ly necessary.” The Ford Motor company’s roll In the auto industry wage dispute shared the labor spotlight todaj See GOVERNMENT Page 2 WINTER DISH PROMISED BY WEATHER MAN After a comparatively mild week end, the weather man is threat ening to set out a real winter disk for tonight and tomorrow. Thi thermometer was dropping per ceptibly by noon and the forecast is for freezing temperatures to night accompanied by cloudy weather and rain. In the moun tains the mercury was scheduled to drop to 20 degrees while in the central portion It was scheduled to reach a low of 25 degrees Tuesday is expected to be fair and cold. On yesterday the thermometei reached a high of 62 degrees, al most balmy, and then fell to with in two degrees of freezing in the later afternoon. Rain started fall ing during the night and was still drizzling at daylight. More ralr was promised for the afternoon a< well as accompaniment for the cold wave expected on time to night. Henry C. Hastings Fatally Injured Henry Clint Hastings, native ol Cleveland county, who had lived for the past three years in Stanley where he was an employe of Stan ley mills, died Saturday morning in City hospital at Oatsonla from Injuries sustained Friday night at a grade crossing accident at Stan ley. Mrs. Lloyd Mauney was crit ically Injured in the same wreck. Mr. Hastings, Mrs. Mauney and Mrs. C. M. Brooks were on their way tb work in the mill when their car stalled on the tracks, Mrs. Brooks escaped before the train' struck. Funeral for Mr. Hastings was • held Monday afternoon at Clover Hill Methodist church near Casar. Interment took place in the church 4 si Mac Arthur Demands Immediate Changes In Japan’s Land System TOKYO, Dec. 10.—(IP)—A warning from influential farmers that rice riots are inevitable without stronger gov ernment agrarian policies coincided today with General Mac Arthur’s second blunt demand that Japan’s feudal land sys tern De altered immediately. Fifteen fanner representatives (from Akita province in northeas tern Japan declared muddled gov ernment policies have produced such lack of confidence that the rich Tohoku district may sell only 60 per cent of its rice crop to the government. Meanwhile, continuing his round up of war criminal suspects, Mac Arthur directed the arrest of 67 Japanese accused of committing atrocities against United Nations nationals held in the ill-famed Cabanatuan prison camp in the Philippines, in prisons, camps and hospitals in Japan proper, and on the prisoner of war ship Oryoku Maru during the vessel’s night marish voyage from the Philip pines to Japan. Also ordered arrested were three Japanese naval officers, including a repatriate from Wake Island. Two of the trio are being court martialed by the Japanese. The newest war criminal sus pects were considered "small fry” in comparison with some of the Japanese arrested recently, but to American and Allied prisoners of .war they ranked highest. Included was Lt. Col Banso Mari, who commanded the Ca natuan prison camp from 1942 to 1944, and Col. Gennosuke Noma, who directed Japanese gendarmerie In Hongkong from December 1942 to February 1945. Also named were a 2nd Lt. Toshlno and a civilian interpre ter known only as Wada, both were aboard the Oryku Maru be tween December 1944 and Janu ary 1945, when they were accus ed of atrocities. Three Japanese named on pre vious war criminal suspects lists surrendered today at Sugamo pri son. They were Gen. Jinzaburo See MacARTHUR Page 2 Patton Partially Paralyzed By Injury Completely Paralyzed Below Third Cervical Vertebra In Neck, Broken In Car Accident By James F. King MANNHEIM, Dee. 10.—(A*)—Nerve specialists were summoned from England and the United States today to treat Gen. George S. Patton lying partly paralyzed from a fractured vertebra in the neck which was broken in an auto IRREGULARS LEAVE MUKDEN Said Withdrawn On Com munist Orders; Na tionalists Near CHUNGKING, Dec. 10 —UP)— A Chinese dispatch said today that Irregular forces inside the Man churian city of Mukden had with drawn on Communist orders as Central government troops stood outside the city. Although troops of Gen. Chang Hsueh-Shih previously had been reported moving into the city to welcome the Chungking forces, this dispatch alleged they ' still were linked with Chinese Communists. The dispatch said the orders to withdraw were Issued by Gen. Chu Teh, Communist commander-in-chief, in order to conserve the strength of the Communist forces.” Communist headquarters at Yen an previously had denied that Chang was taking orders from the Communists, and he has been re ported variously as negotiating with Chungking to Join the government cause and as already Joining It. ORDERED TO EVACUATE Another government dispatch as serted that Communist troops rang ing near the Changchun railroad, which is the most important North South artery in Manchuria, had been "ordered to evacuate.” This dispatch said the rall See IRREGULARS Page 1 mobile accident yesterday. An army medical bulletin an nounced that Patton was com pletely paralyzed below the level of the fractured third cervical ver tebra in the neck and that dis location of the fourth servical was being closely observed because of the very serious nature of the in jury. The bulletin said an X-ray show ed the fourth cervical had been pushed back in place, however, and that Patton's general condition so far was satisfactory. He was completely rational, It was explained, and had spent a comfortable night at Heldelburg hospital. WIFE GOING TO HIM Hurrying to his side by trans Atlantic plane were his wife and a nuero-surgery specialist, Col. R. See PATTON Page t Truman Goes On With Fact Finding Plan WASHINGTON, Dec. 10 —(JPt— President Truman went ahead to day with plans for appointment of a fact-finding board in the Gen eral Motors strike case despite the workers’ refusal to heed his back to-work plea. White House Press Secretary Charles G. Ross said there was no comment available from the Presi dent on the decision of the CIO United Automobile Workers group, or on criticism by UAW officials of his labor program. Ross said, however, that the President would set up a fact finding board in the General Mo tors case very soon. He is now choosing the board, Ross added. Twenty Carolinians Meet Violent Death In Week End By The Associated Press Twenty Carolinians met violent death during the week-end, 18 in traffic accidents. Greatest loss of life occurred late Friday night when an auto mobile collided with a parked truck near Mebane, in Orange county, N. C. The dead: Nell Dix son, 18, Jack Finley, 38, Polly Sue Warren, 23, and two sisters, Jean George, 10, and Claudette George, 12. Miss Dixon’s brother, Dan Dixon, was critically. Injured in the same accident. Near Lenoir, N. C., three per sons were found dead Saturday t morning in a parked car, and Sheriff Felix Parlier listed death as probably due to carbon mono xide. The victims; James Scott, 41, Eva B. Chester, 16, and Mar tha Martin, 18. FOUND DEAD In a similar accident near Charleston, two men were found dead In their car early Saturday. They were Roy E. Smith, 34, and Charles H. Perrette, 20, both of Summerville. Coroner John P. De Veaux said their deaths apparent ly resulted from accidental carbon See TWENTY Page 9 JAP MOVE INTO THAILAND WAS WAR SIGNAL Marshall And Stark Had Urged Retaliation Before War Began WARNEDON NOV.6 By J. W. Davis WASHINGTON, Dec. 10.— (ff»)—(Jen. George C. Marshall testified today it was his per sonal opinion a month before Pearl Harbor that whenever the Japanese moved into Thailand, the United States and Britain would be forced into war. The five-starred former chief of staff, appearing before the sen ate-house Pearl Harbor Investi gating committee for the fourth day, answered questions put by Senator Ferguson (R-Mich). Ferguson noted that Marshall and Admiral Harold R. Stark, then chief of naval operations, had sent a memorandum to the late Presi dent Roosevelt on Nov. 5, 1941, saying that further Japanese ag gressive moves should bring retal iation If the Japs moved west of 100 degrees east, or south of 10 de grees north in Thailand. The Michigan senator brought out that on Nov. 6 Ambassador John G. Winant had messaged Washington from London that the Japanese were on the move. “That message that they were on the move meant War; didn’t it?'* Ferguson asked. “I was of the opinion at that time that the governments would be forced to accept a condition of hostilities,’’ the witness replied. He said that he thought that Admiral Stark concurred with him See JAP Page 2 Communists Want No Outside Interference YEN AN, Dec. 8—(Delayed)—(A5)— Gen. Pen Teh-Huei, vice com mander in chief of the Chinese communist armies, declared today the communists “definitely op pose” any country obtaining a sphere of influence in any part of China. Peng said be recognized there were elements and individuals in America — such as Patrick Hurley (recently resigned am bassador to China), former president Herbert Hoover Sa# Sen. Arthur Vandenberg — who feared the Chinese com munists would affiliate with Stalinist Russia, but asserted that their grounds for such an assumption “never have been made clear.” “The position of the Chinese communists remains still for a free-independent and Democratic China,” he told newsmen. "Regard the question objective ly and you will find that the Sov iet union does not want a sphere of influence in Manchuria. This she stated in the Sino-Soviet pact. However, there is a growing sus picion among the Chinese people that the policy represented by Hurley and Lt. Gen. Albert (C) Wedemeyer in China is mistakenly imperialist. We hope this is only a suspicion, not a reality.” (Wede meyer, commanding American forc es in China, has been accused by the communists of being partisan to the central government). AWAIT MARSHALL Peng said the communists an xiously awaited the arrival of Gen. George C. Marshall, recently nam See COMMUNISTS Page 2 GOVERNORS MEET AT NEW ORLEANS—Governors from the Southern States listening to a speech by Gov. Robert S. Kerr of Oklahoma (not seen in picture) at the annual governor’s conference, held this year at New Orleans, La. Shown above are (from left to right); Governors Caldwell (Florida), Cherry (N. C.) Sparks (Ala.), and Bailey (Miss.) (AP Wirephoto). Armed Indonesians Reported Mobilizing Around Batavia British Planes Blast At Natives At Tjibadak; New Uprising Scheduled BATAVIA, Dec. 10.—(JP)—Several thousand armed In donesians were reported mobilizing in villages around Batavia today, possibly for an attack on the city, while British planes blasted the mountain village of Tjibadak, 50 miles south of SHELBIANS PLAN THEIR HOLIDAYS Industrial Employes Will Observe Longest Christ mas Holiday Schedule Shelbians are planning now how to spend their Christmas holidays which will be observed in varying length. The longest workers’ vaca tion will be received by the em ployees of local industrial plants, most of them receiving at least four days, some more. The Dover mills and the Cleveland Cloth mills will be closed Saturday, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. On account of putting in new machinery, the Lily Mill will be closed from Monday, December 24 to Monday, December 31. Shelby Mill will be closed Monday, Tues day and Wednesday and it has not been definitely determined how much of Saturday will be given there. Consolidated Textile plants will take Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, and most of the other industrial plants are fol lowing these three- and four-day closing schedules. The Cleveland Mill and Power company, however, will be closed the entire week of December 24. STORE HOLIDAYS Stores in Shelby will remain clos ed only for Christmas day but will take another holiday New Year’s day, a week later. The postoffice will also remain closed only Christ mas day and on that day the Christmas gift truck will be kept running. Shelby schools will close down Friday of this week to remain closed until December 31. County schools will close December 21 to remain closed until December 31. Stores will start remaining open until 7 o’clock nights be ginning December 20 and will continue this practice through Christmas Eve. Monday and Tuesday, Christ mas eve and Christmas day, will be taken at the Shelby city hall. The Star will follow its annual custom of omitting publication on Christ mas Day only. Gardner-Webb college will close Friday, December 21 and reopen January 1. WHAT’S DOING TUESDAY 7 p.m.—Chamber of Com merce directors meet at Hotel Charles. the capital. . Large concentrations of natives were reported in Batavia’s suburbs, and British troops were on the alert. However, reports of any new advance on the city -itself were in definite. One rumor said a new up rising was scheduled for Dec. 14. Earlier it had been reported that the Indonesians had attempted to filter into the Pandjong Priok dock area and had also attempted to set fire to an RAF barracks in the suburb of Kramat. A British spokesman said the RAF strike against Tjibadak was the heaviest of the Javan ese hostilities and that the village had been left smashed and burning. Beauffghters, which preceded the raiding planes, dropped 1,000 warn ing leaflets. Then four rocket-firing mosquitos came into attack, fol lowed by six Thunderbolts which dropped 500-pound bombs. Two other villages neai\Tjibadak, Kampa and Tjimahi, were also tar gets for raiding RAF planes. CASAULTIES One British officer, one British enlisted man and 14 Indian en listed men were report |d killed Sunday night in an Indonesian at tack upon the Convoy route from Batavia to Bandoeng. In Bandoeng itself the situation was reported quite, with Gurkha troops continu ing to clear away street barricades erected by the Indonesians in the See ARMED Page 2 British Ready To Leave Indo China :■ ■■ . SAIGON, Dec. 10 —