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over east portion late afternoon.
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VOL XLII1— 299
ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWS SHELBY, N. C. FRIDAY, DEC. 14, 1945
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Commons Ratifies Bretton Woods Monetary Stabilization Pact
Pearl Harbor Probe Hits
Snags As Committee And
Chairman Plan To Quit
> _
WASHINGTON, Dec. 14.—(tP)—The Pearl Harbor in
vestigation hit two big anags today which threatened its
future.
First the entire legal staff of the joint senate-house
probe committee asked to withdraw from the case.
Then the committee’s chairman,
Senator Barkley <D-Ky) said he
was thinking of resigning his post
In the inquiry.
Both cited the widening scope
of the investigation and the pros
pects of a prolonged sitting as a
factor.
Tis pair of completely unexpect
ed developments posed the question
of how the investigation would con
tinue. It had been planned to con
clude it by January 3, but William
D. Mitchell, chief counsel of the
committee, said there were at least
60 more witnesses. Months would be
required to examine them, he es
timated.
Republican members of the
committee sat in silence as their
Democratic colleagues discussed
the problem without reaching any
immediate solution.
EARLY IN JANUARY
The legal staff offered to help any
new counsel the committee might
secure, but Mitchell said that he and
his aides could not remain longer
than the early part of January.
Barkley called the staffs re*
quest to withdraw a “tragic”
development and said he had
“no idea” who might be willing
to take over its work.
In discussing the possibility that
he, too, might withdraw from the
Investigation by resigning as chair
man, Barkley informed his collea
gues that he expected to reach a
final decision in the next few days.
Before making it, he said, he would
weigh his “relative obligations” to
the committee and to the senate
where he is majority leader.
“If I conclude that my obligations
are greater to the senate, I shall
resign as a member of the com
mittee,” he added.
Previously William D. Mitchell,
committee counsel and his entire
staff asked to be relieved of duty.
THROUGH THIS MONTH
Barkley called this move by the
stag a "tragic development.”
Mitchel said he and his aides
would continue to present testimony
I See PEARL HARBOR Page t
I
Fall Of Tabriz Is
Believed Imminent
Rebellious Tribesmen Attacking Largest City In Iran's
Province Of Azerbaijan
TEHRAN, Dec. 14.—(/P)—A high government source
said today that the fall of Tabriz, largest city in Iran’s north
western province of Azerbaijan, to rebellious tribesmen was
PATTON OUT
OF DANGER
General Past Critical
Stage But Paralysis
Unimproved
HEIDELBERG, Germany, Dec.
14—UP)—Col. R. Glen Spurting,
chief specialist attending Gen. Geo.
8. Patton, jr., said today the
American commander was “out of
danger of death, but there was a
possibility that he never would be
able to command his troops again."
He described Patton’s condition
as a touch and go affair.
. He said the general might re
cover fully from the broken neck
| received In an automobile crash
' last Sunday, but again that he
might be partly paralysed for life.
Spurting said It would be Im
possible to forecast the effects of
Patton’s Injuries for at least three
or four weeks.
This morning’s medical bulletin
said Patton’s condition was excel
lent. It stated:
“Temperature 99, pulse 64, re
spiration 34," said the announce
ment. “The patient had a com
fortable night, alert and cheerful.
Scalp wounds are healing normal
ly. Condition excellent. Neurologi
cal status unchanged."
Carr Resigns As
District Attorney,
Succeeded By Rouse
WASHINGTON, Dec. 14 —(AV
Presldent Truman accepted to
day the resignation of James O,
Carr as United States attorney for
the Eastern District of North
Carolina, a post to which C. F
Rouse of Kinston, N. C., was con
firmed last Monday.
The White House announcement
said Carr asked to be relieved be
cause of ill health.
CHRISTMAS BONUSES
GREENSBORO- (A>) —The Bur
lington Mills Corporation will pay
\ Christmas bonuses amounting to
$500,000 this year to all Its plant
employees and those still ‘in the
armed forces, L. A. Stadler, vice
~ announced.
imminent.
The announcement came as provin
cial governor Byatt arrived In Teh
ran after a flight from the besieged
city. Byatt said he had been forced
to leave Tabriz by leaders of the
movement for local autonomy.
The Iranian garrison at Tabriz
was surrounded by Insurgent forces,
a government official said, and was
awaiting orders from Tehran to
fight or surrender.
Official reports earlier In the week
from the turbulent northwest pro
vince told of small skirmishes tak
ing place there, although Informa
tion has been scarce even since Ira
nian troops were turned back by a
Russian commander southeast of
Zenjan. .
The official Russian explanation
for not permitting government
troops to enter the Soviet-occupied
territory was that such a move
might cause unnecessary bloodshed.
HELP NEEDED
A prominent member of the Ira
nian parliament, who would not
permit the use of his name, said
Tuesday that the government garri
son at Tabriz could not hold the
city more than two weeks without
assistance.
Meanwhile, Premier Ibrahim
Hakimi prepared to leave for Mos
cow for discussions with the Soviet
government, and the ministry ol
foreign affairs appealed to Russia,
Great Britain and the United States
to withdraw their troops from Iran
Immediately.
A foreign ministry statement said
the question of evacuating foreign
troops from Iran could be brought
to the attention of the Russian,
British and American foreign min
isters during their forthcoming
meeting In Moscow.
Administration Determined
To Guard Against Inflation
WASHINGTON, Dec. 14— (JP) —
Signs multiplied today that the
administration sees trouble ahead
—mainly Inflation trouble—unless
It braces some of Its wartime con
trols.
The government prepared to
celebrate the fifth month of peace
starting tomorrow by putting back
to work part of its discarded
priority machinery.
The decision to restore priority
control over building materials In
an effort to boost the construc
tion of sorely needed houses Is the
latest in a series of moves token
ing a firmer government grip on
ACTS WITHOUT
DISSENT ON
THIRD READING
One Of Conditions Laid
Down By U. S. For Loan
To Britain
TO HOUSEOF LORDS
LONDON, Dec. 14.—(JP)—
The house of commons today
gave final ratification to the
Bretton Woods monetary sta
bilization pact, approval of
which was one of the condi
tions laid down by the United
States for a loan of $4,400,
; 000,000 to Britain.
| The measure was passed with
out dissent on its third and last
reading and went at once to the
house of lords. The action came
barely 14 hours after Commons
i had approved the terms of the loan
‘ by a vote of 345 to 98.
The Bretton Woods bill was
rushed through its second reading
last night by a vote of 314 to 50
Under British parliamentary pro
cedure the second reading gen
erally determines whether a bil
will pass. The third reading ii
committed to the conslderatioi
on possible amendments prepara
tory to sending the measure U
the lords.
A sharp debate, punctuated bj
personal clashes between labor anc
conservative leaders, preceded th<
vote on tb£ loan terms.
Led by former Prime Miniates
Winston Churchill, many conser
vatives abstained from voting anc
drew caustic criticism from For
eign Secretary Ernest Bevin, whc
headed the government’s fight fci
loan approval.
PARTY DUEL
Bevin and Churchill dueled or
the Commons floor in debate ovei
acceptance of the loan terms. The
war-time prime minister declared:
“I certainly am of the opinior
we (the conservatives) could have
got better terms."
Bevin termed Churchill’s asser
tion a "libel on the administra
tion of the United States.”
Churchill asked his conserva
tive adherents to refrain front
voting, warning that a heavy op
See ACTS Page 2
MAIN HIGHWAYS
CLEAR OF SNOW,
GROUND CRUSTED
With the mercury constants
below freezing last night, snov
fell in such soft drifts here yes
terday crusted over and appearec
as if it might be a permanent
winter fixture. The main high
ways were practically cleared o;
ice in this area however and mo
torists could proceed with caution
The State Highway and Publii
Works commission’s malntenanc*
department was on the Job witl
road machines soon after the snov
began falling and its feat of keep
ing the highways in this area pas
sable was the admiration of al
those who were forced to travel.
Telephone traffic which rose U
such a high peak yesterday morn
ing had settled nearly back t<
normalcy today as folk began t<
take the weather as a matter o
course.
The thermometer never regis
tered above freezing all day yes
terday and dropped to a low of 24
A light freezing drizzle was pre
dieted for today followed by clear
ing weather this afternoon anc
tonight. The forecast indicate
continually modeartely cold wea
ther with slightly higher temper
atures hy Saturday afternoon.
some parts oi me economy wmcn
appear to be headed for pitfalls.
The moves all are aimed at
familiar wartime problems: prices,
scarce materials and work stop
pages.
SOME PROBLEMS
President Truman mentioned
these problems only briefly in his
recent optimistic report on the first
100 days of reconversion. But since
then the administration has:
1. Asked for immediate fact
finding and compulsory cool
off legislation to prevent
See ADMINISTRATION Pago *
RECEIVES COVETED AWARD—Chancellor J. W. Harrelson of N. G
State College, left, native of Cleveland county, Is pictured as he presented
the college’s 1945 Alumni Award for Meritorious Service to R. D. Beam,
Df Raleigh, director of foundations at State College and former trust
officer of the Wachovia Bank and Trust Company. Beam, also a native
of Shelby and a 1926 honor graduate of State College, was selected by
the Alumni Association’s Executive Committee to receive the honor be
i oause of his work in bringing about an increase in the lifetime member
ships in the association from 20 to 77, for securing a number of annual
memberships, for obtaining a considerable amount of advertisements for
i rhe State College News, monthly alumni magazine, and for aiding in
,he formation of the State College Foundation, Inc.
License Granted For
Radio Station Here
250 Watt Stotion To Be Operated By Locally Owned
Company Organized Two Years Ago
A radio license was granted this morning in Washington
by the Federal Communications Commission for a 250 watt
radio station to be operated on 730 KC (clear channel) by
the Western Carolina Radio Corporation, a locally owned
company organized two years ago.
PROBE DEATHS,
CREMATIONS
Striking Similarity Be
tween Deaths Of Four
Elderly Women
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 14—(/P)—
District Attorney Edmund Browi
today spearheaded a natlon-widi
Investigation of the strikingly-si
milar deaths and cremations o:
four elderly women, whose namei
have been linked with that of Al
fred Leonard Cline, ex-convict un
der arrest here.
Brown asked police in Macon
Ga.t Portland, Los Angeles, Jack
sonville, Fla., and Dallas to sent
officers here to confer on th<
widely-separated aspects of thi
i case.
Three of the four women lef
' property exceeding $300,000 ii
value. One — Mrs. Eva Delon
1 Krebs of Chicago—left her entiri
> estate to Cline, Attorney Franl
' Ward said at Columbus, O. Cast
and securities totaling more thai
$200,000 were recovered Wednes
day from her safety deDOsit bo:
there.
ALL CREMATED
Cline has stated Mrs. Krebs diet
i as his wife in Portland in No
L vember, 1944, and was cremated.
Cline is held here on a charge
of suspected forgery of paper)
See PROBE Page 2
Undetermined
Number Lose Lives
In Hotel Fire
GLENWOOD SPRINGS, COLO.
Dec. 14—(JP)—Police Chief Charle;
Wells said there may be “possible
10 to 15" bodies in the ruins of the
Glenwood hotel, a 59-year-olc
brick structure which burst sud
denly into flames about mldnighl
and was quickly destroyed.
Wells emphasized, however, tha
no definite check was possible sc
far. The fire was brought unde:
control after the four story hote
building had been gutted and the
front wall had collapsed intc
Main street.
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The application for license has
been pending before the commis
sion for 14 months. All applica
tions were held up because of a
shortage in materials and a
“freeze” order was lifted two
months ago and now the commis
sion has resumed granting fran
chises.
An eight-acre site for a 300 foot
tower has been purchase from
Oren Hamrick on the edge of the
city limits on West Warren street
and it is planned to erect the
. studio on this site, where the tow
( er and transmitter will be located.
The next step by the commis
sion will be the assignment of call
letters
EQUIPMENT ON HAND
Much of the equipment was pur
chased and delivered months age
and the local company will pro
ceed now with having studio plans
drawn with the hope to get the
' station on the air in the early
spring.
Lee B. Weathers is president ol
, the local radio corporation and
says that every effort will be put
. forth to secure the necessary build
| ing materials for the studio and
to select a trained staff to operate
! entirely independent of any other
business organization. A radio net
[ work hook-up will be made when
, the station goes on the air.
, OFFICERS
Other officers are Jean W
Schenck, vice president; Holt Mc
Pherson, secretary and treasurer
L These officers with J. L. Suttle
constitute the four member board
of directors.
, The company has about twelve
. stockholders and a paid-in capital
of $30,000.
Another application is in pro
cess of preparation by the com
pany’s attorneys Dow, Lohnes and
Albertson and by Radio Engineei
George Davis of Washington for
an FM franchise to operate in
conjunction with the standard AM
station.
Many new radios will be equip
ped to receive both AM and FM,
, the FM invention being free from
i static and station interference, af
fording the listeners clearer radio
reception.
EXTENDED FORECAST
Extended forecast for Carolina!
from 7:30 p.m. today to 7:30 Wed
■ nesday—continued rather cold ovei
' the weekend with slightly lowei
night temperatures followed by ris
ing trend Monday through Wed
nesday; moderate rain over easi
' Carolines ending Friday night; lighi
rain Tuesday or Wednesday,
EECTRICAL
WORKERS VOTE
FOR WALKOUT
General Electric, Westing
house, General Motors
Affected
AFTER JANUARY 1
By The Associated Press
A threat of another huge
country-wide strike, involv
ing some 200,000 CIO elec
trical workers employed in i
plants of three big corpora
tions, darkened the nation’s
already-gloomy labor picture
today.
Following the pattern set by
CIO workers in the steel and au
tomotive industries, CIO employes
in plants of General Electric, Wes
tinghouse and the Electrical divi
sion of General Motors yesterday
voted almost five to one in favor |
of a work stoppage to enforce de
mands for a $2 a day wage in
crease.
. The strike of the union work
ers in the plants of the coun
try’s three largest manufac
turers of electrical equipment
in 75 industrial centers in 16
states, said a union spokesman,
would not be called until after
Jan. L Returns of yesterday’s
vote, reported by the National
Labor Relations Board, showed
to date 86,794 workers in favor
of a walkout and 18,216 against.
Complete returns were expect
ed later today.
The CIO United Auto Workers,
currently ■ engaged in wage nego
tiations with the automotive in
dustry’s “Big Three” have about
175.000 workers on strike at Gen
eral Motors plants in support of a
demand for a 30 per cent wage
rate hike. The CIO United Steel
Workers Union, seeking a $2 a day
pay boost for about 700,000 mem
bers, has called a strike for Jan.
14. Officials of the CIO United
Electrical, Radio and Machine
Workers estimated that yesterday’s
strike vote would mean a walkout
of 200,000 workers.
400.000 IDLE
Current labor disputes continued
to idle some 400,000 workers.
Meanwhile, in Detroit, the CIO
UAW prepared to resume wage ne
gotiations with Ford Motor com
pany officials as a General Motors
company official predicted the 24
day old strike at its plants might
continue for six weeks longer.
Harry W. Anderson, GM vice
president, said the corporation does
not contemplate any increase in
its twice rejected offer of a 10 per
cent wage hike of 13 1-2 cents an
hour.
At the same time GM disclosed
it was seeking court injunctions
against strikers in Cleveland and
La Grange, 111., charging them with
using “threats and personal abuse”
to prevent non-striking employes
from entering company plants.
DECRIES INJUNCTIONS
Walter P. Reuther, UAW vice
president, said the injunctions “will
only breed bitterness, and good will
is what is needed.” He reiterated
his charge that the corporation
was refusing to bargain in good
faith.
Also in Detroit the Kaiser-Fra
zer Corporation, which has leased
the giant Willow Run bomber plant
for car production, was reportedly
preparing an “entirely novel” com
pany-union security plan. Details
of the plan were expected to be
disclosed before the company’s first
negotiations with the union next
Monday.
Federal conciliators in Washing
See ELECTRICAL Page 2
‘Beast Of Belsen’ And
Ten Of His Gang Hanged
Yesterday For Crimes
HAMBURG, GERMANY, Dec. 14.—(/P)—Field Marshal
Montgomery’s headquarters announced today that Josef
Kramer, the “Beast of Belsen,” and ten others of the Belsen
gang, including blonde Irma Grese, were hanged yesterday
for committing crimes at the notorious concentration camp.
Foreigners In
China To Be
Repatriated
By SPENCER MOOSA
CHUNGKING, Dec. 14—<£>)—All
Germans and Austrians in China,
including Jews, will be repatriat
ed unless they obtain permission
of the ministries of foreign af
fairs and interior to remain in the
country, it was announced offi
cially today. Pending repatriation,
they will be interned unless they
produce “valuable guarantees,”
either Chinese or foreign.
All such nationals who were sus
pected of spying, sabotage, or col
laboration with the Japanese dur
ing the war will be punished ac
cording to Chinese law, the gov
ernment statement added.
The decisions, which affect ap
proximately 20,000 European Jews
in Shanghai alone, were drawn up
by the ministry of foreign affairs
and approved by the executive
Yuan Nov. 27, the announcement
explained.
REPORT ARMS
German nationals must report
possession of arms or other arti
cles of military value.
Germans and Austrians—includ
ing Jews—who have proved “re
liable technicians,” however, may
be given employment in China by
government or private organiza
tions, the announcement said, if
the ministers of foreign affairs
and interior approve.
Regulations provide that Ger
man missionaries not suspected of
spying or sabotage may carry on
missionary activities in areas where
they formerly worked, or in areas
designated by the Chinese govern
ment — provided the missionaries
are “guaranteed” by responsible of
ficials of their churches.
Byrnes Expected To
Reach Moscow Today
FRANKFURT, Germany, Dec.
14—(JP)—U. S. Secretary of State
James F. Byrnes, enroute to Mos
cow for a conference with Soviet
Foreign Commissar V. M. Molo
tox and British Foreign Secre
tary Ernest Bevin, made a brief
stop in Frankfurt today.
Shortly after arriving here from
Paris, his plane took off for Ber
lin, where Byrnes will make an
other stop before going on to Mos
cow.
MOSCOW, Dec. 14 —(&)— A
spokesman for the U. S. embassy
here said Secretary of State James
F. Byrnes’ plane was expected to
arrive in Moscow today unless the
weather changed.
WHAT’S D01NG~
TODAY
7:00 p.m. — Executives club
meets at Hotel Charles.
8:00 p.m.—Company K re
union at armory.
AT NUERNBERG TRIAL:
6,000,000 European Jews
Said Ruthlessly Wiped Out
dj uanicii ue Lite
NUERNBERG, Dec. 14—(TP)—Six
million European Jews were ruth
lessly slaughtered in the Nazi
campaign of extermination, said
German secret police estimates
placed today before the interna
tional military tribunal trying 21
of Hitler’s top leaders on war
crimes charges. j
American prosecutors filed an e
affidavit by Dr. Wilhelm Hoettl, j
right hand man to defendant Ernst j
Kaltenbrunner in the secret po- v
lice giving the estimate.
“Approximately 4,000,000 Jews
had been killed In the various
t
extermination camps while an
additional 2,000,000 met death
in other ways, the major part
of which were shot by opera
tional squads of security police
during the campaign against
Russia,” Hoettl said in his af
fidavit.
Hoettl attributed his figure tc
idolf Eichman, chief ‘“Jew catch
r" in the secret police. He said
Lehman confessed it to him ir
lUgust 1944 in expressing the con
iction that he would have to pay
or “the millions of Jewish lives
See 6,000,000 Page 2
me executions were carried out
at the Hamelin by Pierrepont, of
ficial British hangman.
The 11 condemned to death were
moved from Lueneburg’s jail to
the ancient prison on the banks
of the Wesser river at Hamelin
five days ago. The gallows were
built by the Royal engineers.
Marshal Montgomery denied
all appeals Saturday. The eight
men and three women hanged
were condemned to death by
a British military court No. 17
for atrocities committed at the
Belsen and Oswiecim concen
tration camps. Nineteen other
persons drew prison terms.
Three of the condemned accept
ed the court’s verdict without ap
peal. They were Elizabeth Volken
rath, 26, head women’s supervisor
for the S. S. (elite guard), Juana
Borman, 42, a fanatic who gave up
missionary work to join the S. S.,
and Franz Hoezler, 34-year-old 3.
S. member who helped pick vic
tims for the gas chamber.
KRAMER, GRESE
Kramer, 39, was camp command
ant. Irma Grese, was the pistol
packing “queen" of the Belsen
gang.
Others who died were Dr. Fritz
Klein, 58, who chose inmates for
the gas chamber, Peter Weingart
ner, 32: Karl Francioh, 33; Ansr
gar Pichen, 32: Franz Starfle, 30;
and Wilhelm Dorr, 24.
Montgomery’s terse announce
ment said:
“All 11 of the Belsen criminal*
who were sentenced to death at
Lueneburg were executed by hang
ing at Hamelin yesterday, Dec.
13.
“The executions were carried out
at the following times:
“9:34 a.m., Elizabeth Volkenrath.
“10.03 a.m., Irma Grese.
“10.38 a.m., Juana Borman.
“12:11 p.m., Josef Kramer and
Dr. Fritz Klein.
“12:46 p.m., Karl Francioh and
Peter Weingaxtner.
“3:37 p.m., Ansgar Pichen and
Franz Hoezler.
“4:16 p.m., Wilhelm Dorr and
Franz Starfle.”
Two gallows were used, permit
ting the eight men to be hanged
See BEAST Page 2
STAFF SET FOR
HOMMAJtUL
MANILA, Dec. 14—(JP)—A six
man staff, headed by Lt. CoL
Frank E. Meek, Caldwell, Ida,
was named today by the war
crimes branch of U. S. army for
ces in the Pacific to prosecute Lt.
Gen. Masaharu Homma on charg
es of condoning atrocities Includ
ing the death of six men.
Homma’s indictment probably
will be returned Dec. 18 and his
trial will begin about Jan. 7.
TOKO, Dec. 14 —(jp>— Allied
headquarters today ordered the
Japanese government to answer
these questions:
“Was Lt. Gen. Masaharu Hom
ma the supreme commander of
all Japanese forces, of whatever
branch, whenever those forces
were on the land In the Philip
pines?”
“Did Homma have supreme com
mand over the Japanese air forcej
in the Philippines?”
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