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.
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MAUREEN O'HARA
PAUL HENREID
VOL XLII1— 295
ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWS
SHELBY, N. C.
MONDAY, DEC. 10, 1945
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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
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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 —<JP)— British
troops were reported today to be
preparing to withdraw from Indo
China and turn over to the French
the job of restoring order there as
soon as all Japanese troops have
been disarmed and marched to
Cap St. Jacques to embark for Ja
pan.
Plan Proposed To Enlarge
Cleveland Court House
t^ievemuu county commissioners
are now investigating the feasi
bility of adding two wings to the
courthouse, one on the north and
one on the south side, and have
authorized their county attorney,
Henry Edwards, to sound out pub
lic opinion on the matter. He has
already conferred with the presi
dent of the Shelby Chamber of
Commerce and Merchants asso
ciation and will shortly appear
before the directors of that or
ganization to explain the move. He
will confer also with other civic
groups in the county on the prop
osition.
BALKANS WILL
BE DISCUSSED
Ethridge Says No Democ
racy At Present, But
Agreement Possible
By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER
WASHINGTON, Dec. 10. — (/P)—
A special Investigation made for
Secretary of State Byrnes of poli
tical conditions in Romania and
Bulgaria may hold one of the keys
to success of the approaching Big
Three foreign ministers meeting in
Moscow.
Results of the survey, made
by Mark Ethridge, Louisville,
Ky., publisher, are due to be
released before Byrnes leaves
for the Russian capital on
Wednesday. He will make the
trip by plane in order to arrive
for the Saturday opening ses
sion.
According to reports of diploma
tic officials, Ethridge’s findings
make two main points: (1) That
democracy and political freedom do
not at the moment exist in Russian
dominated Romania and Bulgaria,
(2) that there are no insurmoun
table blocks in the way of a settle
ment with Russia of the Balkans
issue.
This latter point particularly is
tied in direotly with the plans for
the Big Three Moscow gathering.
It was Russian disagreement with
the United States and Britain over
Romania and Bulgaria and how to
write peace treaties for them which
blasted the London foreign minis
ters council into failure last Sep
tember.
It now proves possible to come
to some agreement on how Rus
* See BALKANS Page 2
Back To White House
WASHINGTON, Dec. 10 — (&)—
President Truman returned to the
White House this morning after a
week-end Potomac cruise aboard
the Presidential yacht Williams
burg.
The President tarried on board
the ship for breakfast after she had
docked, and then drove to the
White House through drizzling rain.
1/uc i.v/u*ibjr aii'Uiiicj e wao
authorized to sound out public
opinion on the matter, the coi -
missioners held a conference with
V. W. Breeze, local architect, on
the practicability of the move.
The architect said that wings
could be added to the north and
south sides of the courthouse and
leave the architectural attractive
ness of the east and west fronts
undisturbed. So far no plans
have been authorized, however,
and will not be authorized until
reaction of the public is obtained.
See FLAN Page 8
COED SETTLE
STRIKE IN 10
DAYS, HE SAYS
Blast Made While Testf
tying Against Truman's
Proposal
PRICE INCREASES
WASHINGTON, Dec. 10.—
(fP)—John L. Lewis delivered
a triple blast today against
the government, the General
Motors company and the CIO
United Automobile Workers
in connection with the cur
rent automobile strike.
The United Mine Workers Chief
told the House Labor Committee
that the government could settle
the strike In 10 days if It would
allow the manufacturers a price
which would permit a fair profit.
He termed the company’s position
in the dispute “dishonest” and
characterized the UAW’s explana
tion of its strike as stupid.”
Lewis voiced his criticism while
testifying against legislation pro
posed by President Truman to set
up fact-finding boards to recom
mend solution of major industrial
disputes.
He referred to the President’s
proposal as an "evil, vHe-smell
ing mess x x x full of dozens of
loopholes that would make it
unworkable,” and said it was
designed only to "appease and
protect a few millionaires who
find themselves frightened by
the growing strength of labor.”
Then turning to the General
Motors strike, he declared:
“The world knows and Congress
ought to know it would be set
tled in 10 days if the government
would give to General Motors a
price for cars where they can make
and sell them for a fair profit.
TAX INFLUENCE
“They are making more money
now not making cars than if they
were producing them full blast, be
cause of the present tax laws.
“And the poor blundering lead
ers of the UAW picked this time
of all times to shut down General
Motors, when it would make more
money not operating than produc
ing.
“The dishonesty on one side by
the company is equal only to the
stupidity on the other side for
that labor organization.
“I hope Congress won’t equal
that stupidity by enacting this
proposed legislation for fact-find
ing boards.
“I don’t think Congress wants
to bring about the turmoil that
this bill would produce.
“If you take away my liberty, I
See COULD Page %
PLANES SEE
MISSING MEN
MIAMI, FLA., Dec. 10—UP)—Air
rescue squadrons droned seaward
for the fifth successive day today,
eager to scan more closely the
area where floating objects yes
terday raised—then dashed—hopes
that survivors among 27 missing
navy airmen had been sighted.
At dawn 193 navy planes from
Jacksonville and 24 long range
patrol bombers from Pensacola
were flung into the renewed
search for the crews of five tor
pedo bombers that winged out
over the Atlantic Wednesday into
total silence.
‘We haven't given up hope yet,"
a navy spokesman said. “If those
men anf still alive we’ll do every
thing possible to find them.”
Navy air and surface craft were
joined in the hunt by scores of
army planes based in the state.
Gates Resigns
i4s Undersecretary
WASHINGTON, Dev. 10 -^-Pi
President Truman today named
Judge Joseph C. Hutcheson of
Texas, the United States chairman
of a 12-member Anglo-American
committee to make recommenda
tions for handling Jewish immigra
tion into Palestine.
Other American members in
clude O. Max Gardner, former
North Carolina governor.
In a brief statement, issued sim
ultaneously with a similar an
nouncement in London, President
Truman urged the committee to
make its report within 120 days af
ter it begins its inquiry.