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i i -« iaflij Star (FOUNDED ISM) Published Every Afternoon Except Sunday Entered as Second Class Matter at the U S Post Office Shelby N C., By STAR PUBLISHING COMPANY 217-219 East Warren Street, Shelby. N. C. LEE B. WEATHERS. President and Publisher BOLT McPHERSON. Mng. Editor - H. L. WEATHERS. Secy.-Treaa. SUBSCRIPTION RATES (Payable On Order) ■ V CARRIER BV MAIL One Year _#10.40 #7.00 Six Months__ 5.20 3.75 Three Months ....... 2 60 2.00 Pour Weeks_ -80 .75 One Week _ -20 2Q ALL TELEPHONES - 110# FRIDAY, DEC, 14, 1945 AN EXPLANATION NEEDED Announcement is made this week that the huge hos pital at Camp Butner is being closed and report has it that a number of other government owned and operated hospitals are being abandoned. A new veterans’ hospital has just been announced for Duriiam. Camp Butner is a few miles out from Durham and the hospital there is a brick building, sufficient to ac commodate over a thousand service men. It is said to be modern in every particular. Why the government will abandon a hospital, so new, so modern and spend the money to build another six miles away is more than taxpayers can understand. The citizenry wants to see the veterans who need hospitalization amply provided for, but hospitals cost big money and why the need less shift is ordered merits an explanation. This seetns altogether too typical of what is going on in many pkrces-Chroughout the nation. There might be some justification for abandoning camp hospitals far removed from qities and placing new ones in more accessible centers, but Butner and Durham are so close together, we are unable on the basis of what is apparent to see justification and wisdom of such a step. The government may not feel required to give explana tion for such procedure. To this we disagree. The govern ment belongs to the people and when moves of such apparent waste are made, the taxpayers are entitled to some reason able explanation if there be such. WHERE IS THEIR CONSCIENCE? While Americans will never cease to cringe in horror and tremble in rage when lurid accounts of nazi concentra- j tion camp atrocities are read, it will be noted that German people are indifferent to broadcasts of the big-wig trials at Nuernberg. In an attempt to carry the monstrosity of, crimes to the.German populace, the American army set up! sound trucks in the streets which were ignored by passers- j by. As long as such an attitude is maintained, what is the hope of stamping indelibly upon the German mind the crimes upon God and humanity that it had tolerated? True, we must suppose that among a civilized people there cannot be a bestial majority. We would believe in listening to gradu-1 ates of Heidelberg whose family roots lie deep in the history j of both Catholicism and Protestantism that these are in-1 capable of wanton murder. But where are these when some ] reciprocation is expected among the decent in re-educating their people toward a democratic life? At least one that will respect human life in a world family? Yesterday, with the conviction of six war criminals, the Dauchau court heard and read undisputed testimony of whole villages burned in order to force its citizenry into slave labor and of babies, born on slave trains, being thrown out of train windows. An order of the SS was read which stated: "As a general rulet no more children will be shot.” An order by Herman Goering directed that Russian laborers provide such food for themselves as could be found, including stray dogs, cats, old horses, etc. Forty others, sentenced at Dachau, were found guilty of similar crimes and showed no emotion ex cept to blush when sentenced. Dr. Luc Durtain, Parisian author and friend of Prof, i Phillips Russell of U. N. C., tells of a German author-ac quaintance who arrived in Paris and later became famous; for his ability to make hundreds of Jewish children "disap pear” from their families in a single day. Of such was Germany made and somewhere there is a solution, a method by which the elephantine skin of the! German conscience can be pierced. Is indifference and j lethargy born of fear of still-active, blood-thirsty Nazis?! Is it the fault of our approach ? Is it that the German people j believe the details of these crimes a figment of the American ! imagination ? Is it that eight years of aggression have drag ged from Germany the precepts of Christianity? These are questions which will be answered only after a long Aliled occupation. BACK TO BURKE One of the damning indictments brought by mankind against the nazi system was the contribution it has made and is making to prostitution and immorality. Allied mili tary authorities estimate that the war stricken city of Berlin, alone, now contains at least 250,000 women of “easy virtue.” What troubles us, however, is what is happening in our own land along this line. Close observation during the war years has proved that prostitution is on the rise all over the United States. There has been no nazi party over here to advocate marriageless matches. What then is the cause? I To get the answer we go all the way back to Edmund Burke who said: “War suspends the rules of moral obligation; and what i& loot' suspended is in danger of being totally abrogated.” There, we think, is the answer. GIVE IT TOP BILLING I ADEQUATE HOVS/MG a win. ! THE EVERYDAY l COUNSELOR I The most impressive testimonial you can offer to the value of Chris tianity is the way others see it work in your life. People are more impressed by ac tion than by talk. The world des perately needs Christ. It is going to be Christian ity or Chao*. The Christmas season should remind us of this. Soon throughout the world we will be celebrating a hol iday which com _ memorates the 8PAOGH birth of Jesus Christ. The celebration for many will have little of Christ in it, but the world-wide observance of the day is a tribute to HIM who gave us the Christian gospel. No other birthday is celebrated so universally. Would that our ob servance this year might lead us to put Christ in our Christmas. These are days when the stirring words of the old Prophet need to be re-echoed, “Let the redeemed of the Lord say so.” The ways in which we ‘‘say so” are many; Christian living at home and in business, Church attendance, par ticipation in the work of the Church, Christian speech, Chris tian cheerfulness and sympathy. The ways multiply, but those which are most impressive are the ways of action. A Christian worker in New York once handed a tract to a drunk he saw on the street. The drunk said, “If you really want to help me, you will give me your coat and not just a piece of paper.” Quick as a flash, the man peeled off his coat and gave it to the drunk, who was so impressed that he followed his benefactor to a Christian service in a nearby mis sion. He had take nail of the liquor cures without any effect. In this service he gave his heart to his Lord and was gloriously converted. That man was Jerry McAuley, fam ous religious leader and reformer of the last generation. When the Power of God gets hold of a mans heart, it changes all of his ways of thinking and act ing. Oh, how I wish I could shout in the ears of the thousands of men and women enslaved by drink today, “The power of God is the only thing that can save you from this habit when it once gets hold of you." Letters continue to come to my desk telling of the awful misery brought on by the curse of drink. When the habit gets hold of a man or woman, it becomes a disease, which all the so-called “cures” seems to but little affect. This Christmas will find many using alcohol as a means of cele bration. Christmas drunks will fill our jails and hospitals. What a strange way to celebrate the birth of the Prince of Peace! Imagine the Lord Jesus coming intp some of our Christmas celebrations. If you claim to be a Christian, talk like it and act like it. Christ mas season will be a testing time for our Christian faith and dispo sition EDITORS NOTE—Dr. Spaueh's new book “The Pathway to Con tentment” will come from the press oCit erary, Guidepost _d?i U’(; - MR. PETUNIA, by Oliver St. John Gogarty (Creative Age; $2.50 >. Petunia is the name of a watch maker, though it may not sound like it . . . any more than it sounds like the title of a very appealing novel. He had a niece whom he kept un der his thumb and with whom he had relations which she con fesses are prudent but repugnant. He had a friend. LaTouche Pla.n tagenet. over whom for a time he lorded it. But when Ann Lord, at his Invitation, entered his life, though without entering it as far as he would have liked, he got his eome-uppance. He was a man little in spirit, skillful with anything as small as the inside of a watch but baffled by a full - grown, independent woman. It's true he wasn’t the only one Ann baffled, but the re pulse affected him more pre foundly. The only large and am ple thing in him was the revenge he plotted. Though this novel, Gqgarty’s first on an American theme, is laid in Virginia a century and a quarter ago. it has a strangely convincing atmosphere of contem poraneity. It's an odd mixture of horsehair and grandfather’s clock and Freud and psychiatry. Admitting it has its faults, such as a slow start and a few too many of the semi-philosophical cracks of which the witty Goharty is noted. I still think it builds up into a story you might like. FRENCH. FAIRY TALES, by Char les errault, retold, with fore word, by Louis Untermeyer. illus trated by Gustave Dore (Didier; *1.75). Here are five stories age-old and popular: ’Puss in Boots,” ■Sleeping Beauty.” "Little Red Riding Hood,” "Hop - o’ - my Thumb” and "The Fairy,” embel lished with 15 pictures by Core You'll like reading them again, and the children will be glad to hear them. THE AMERICAN JEWISH YEAR BOOK 5706, 1945-46. by American Jewish Committee unci r editorship of Harry Schneiderman and Jul ius B. Mailer (Jewish Publica tion Society; *3.) W. C. George Dies In Greenville Hospital LOWELL.—W. C. George died at 5:30 this afternoon in a hospital in Greenville. The funeral will be held Saturday at 3 o’clock at the First Baptist church in Lowell. Mr. George was born in Green ville, S. C., October 5, 1893. He had lived in Gaston county for the last 25 years and had been con nected with textile mills, including the Rhyne-Houser mill at Chprry ville, the Osceola mill in Gastonia and the Peerless mill in Cherry ville, where he was assistant su perintendent at the time of his death. shortly. It is being published in re sponse to the many readers, and contains material which has ap peared in this column. The price Is $1.00 post-paid Orders may be sent to THE EVERYDAY COUN SELOR, Box 4145. Charlotte, N. C. Advance orders will be autograph ed. McPherson Named To Journalism Schools Committee By SNPA Holt McPherson, managing editor of The Star who teaches the jour nalism course at Gardner-Webt Junior College, has been namec North Carolina representative to the Schools of Journalism com mittee of the Southern Newspapei Publishers Association, it was an nounced today by President Carl B Shore- of Roanoke, Va.-* Richard P'Carter,' of Roanoke, i: chairman of the committee whict includes also Reese T. Anus, of the Huntsville, Ala., Times; Sam E Gearhart of the Fayetteville, Ark. Times; James L. Knight of the Miami, Fla., Herald; Willis S. Mor ris of the Augusta. Ga., Chronicle Torn Underwood of the Lexington Ky . Herald-Leader; T. M. Callahar of the LaFayette, La.. Advertiser Hcdding Carter of the Greenville Miss.. Democrat-Times; Fred E Tarman, of the Norman, Okla Transcript; J. I. Simms of the Orangeburg, S. C., Times-Demo crat; Roy McDonald, of the Chat tanooga, Tenn, News-Free Press J. H. Butler of the Houston, Tex Chronicle; Tom Hanes of the Nor folk, Va., Virginian-Pilot; H. C Greer of the Morgantown, W. Va. Post and Dominion News. Earl B. Ruth New Recreation Head In Kings Mountain KINGS MOUNTAIN — Earl B Ruth, of Charlotte, former basket ball star at the University ol North Carolina, and recently re ‘ leased from active duty in the navy, has been employed as city recreation supervisor and will as sume his duties on January 1, it was announced Wednesday by Mrs E. A. Shenk, secretary of the city recreation commission. Mrs. Shenk stated that Mr. Ruth comes to Kings Mountain highly recommended for the position which the commission has been endeavoring to fill since last i spring. The program will be financed through funds raised last May in a community campaign. Lt. Walter C. Miller Presumed To Be Dead FOREST CITY—The War de partment has notified Mrs. Ollie J. Miller that her son, 2nd Lt Walter C. Miller, USAAF, is now assumed to be dead, since a full year has passed without proof ol 1 his survival. He was reported miss j ing in action December 3, 1944 . when the B-29 Superfortress o! ! which he was a crew-member fail ed to return from a bombing mis I sion over Japan. It was known tc ; have been damaged by enemy air craft. Lieut. Miller, who entered the service in January, 1942, was [sent, overseas in September, 1944 | as a bombardier. He was a teller in Union Trust 1 company here before joining th( army. Besides his mother, hi leaves three brothers, Pfc. Chas Roger Miller, a former prisoner ol the Germans, and G. B. Miller , both of Forest City, and Ernest Miller of Asheville; and one sis ter, Mrs. Paul Daniel. The price of West African cocoa is determined in New York be cause the United States is the L largest buyerv Merry-Go-Round Jap Files Now Tell Story Of Douglas Deal By DREW PEARSON Lt. Col. Robert S. Allen Now On Active Service With The Army ! WASHINGTON — On July 10, 1938, ^his column sent out to its subscribing newspapers a sensa tional disclosure .that “the Doug las Aircraft company has recently sold its latest flying fortress, the DC-4, to Japan, together with certain blueprints whereby Japan can duplicate the plane. Carrying four motors, this is one of the fin est bombers ever constructed.” The column also pointed out that this sale was being made de spite Secretary of State Hull’s "appeal to American airplane manufacturers to cease selling planes to Japan.” But during the time which elap sed between the date the column was distributed to newspapers and the date of publication, Donald Douglas, head of Douglas Aircraft, made an emphatic denial, and on advice of attorneys, the story was killed. Since then, like so many other denials, it has become a matter of official record that Douglas ! did sell the DC-4, plus blueprints, to Japan. Since then, also, a war has been fought with Japan, during which thousands of American lives were lost and during which the DC-4 built by the Japs on the basis of blueprints sold them by Douglas, played a pau in the loss of those lives. Since then, finally, Jap files in the USA have been seized and lt is now possible to give more de tails of the cooperation between Douglas Aircraft and Japan dur ing the years before Pearl Har LXJI . ULTRA SECRECY WANTED This writer now has before him the original bill of sale, the cable gram between Tokyo, New York and Los Angeles, and other cor I respondence regarding the ship- j ' ment of the DC-4 by Douglas to Japan — despite Donald Douglas’ earlier emphatic denial. The deal was handled largely by ' V. E. Bertrandias, then vice-presi dent of Douglas, later made a ma- j jor general m the U. S: army. It ' was obvious, not only from Don ald Douglas’ denial, but from other precautions that neither the Japs nor Douglas wanted this sale to be published in the American press. In the first place, the sale was camouflaged as one made to "Ja pan Airways Ltd." This gave it the outward appearance of a copn mercial transaction, though, of course. Japan Airways Ltd. was controlled by the Japanese gov ernment and commercial planes later can be adapted lor military purposes. Doubtless also, Douglas didn't want to be in the public- position of selling an important brand new bomber to a potential enemy of the USA, especially at a time when the Japs had been unmerci fully bombing innocent civilians in China, and when Cordell Hull had appealed to American plane manufacturers not to sell to Ja pan. Most tell-tale evidence of how II anxious the Japs and Douglas ! were to camouflage the sale is ! illustrated by a letter addressed to Douglas Vice President Bert randias from S. Akabane, New ' York representative of Nakajima Aircraft, which, with <Mitsui, were interested in the deal. The let ' ter was dated Aug. 14, 1939, just after the Douglas people, follow ing one year of absolute secrecy, finally decided that with the ob ! taining of an export license the news had to leak out. Here is the ; letter showing how pleased the Japs were at the skillful way . Douglas handled the news leak; i "Major V. E. Bertrandias, Douglas Aircraft Co., Santa Monica, Cal. i "Dear Mr. Bertrandias: "Looking over the Saturday edi tion of the New York Times, I could not help but write this let ter to compliment you for the most excellent way of disclosing the sale. Those 'in the know' will not object to the transaction as they are limited to those in our trade, while laymen probably don't know what the ship is anyway when mentioned singly by your de signation as in the paper. Since I the State department's announce j ment is so casual and incidental, I doubt that anybody would take sufficient notice and single out your company. "I have purposely waited until today to scrutinize the papers for any possible reaction, but so far nothing has been mentioned of the sale. “It was an excellent way of handling the difficult matter in a delicate situation and I wish to share the feeling of relief if you ever felt one. Hope you had si milar luck with your local pa “Sincerely yours, “S. AKABANE. “Nakajima Aircraft Company.” ARMY-DOUGLAS COOPERATION Douglas could not, of course, have sold the DC-4 without per mission from the U. S. army or ! navy. Not only was this permis sion given, but relations between Douglas and the air forces were such that Donald Douglas' daugh 1 ter later married the son of Gen. j “Hap” Arnold, chief of the air forces, while, the air forces pro moted V. E. Rertrandias to be a major general. When Bertrandias’ name camq before the senate military affairs | committee for promotion, the jus ' tice department showed senators i part of the secret file on his pre Pearl Harbor activities In an ef fort to bloc his nomination. But I Behind The FRONT PAGE By BOLT McPHERSON Managing Editor IF CLEVELAND COUNTY’S COURT HOUSE CAN BE EXTENDED 40 to 50 feet north and south without detracting materially from Sym metry and charm of that presently well-integrated structure, as the architect says can be done, it seems to point a clear course for our county commissioners to undertake it and gather therein county functions now scattered less satisfactorily in various rented quarters over the city. The need for additional space for county offices has been evident for years; repeated insistence of grand juries that public toilets be provided has accentuated need for more adequate building. The courthouse has been outgrown and the makeshift arrangements which thus far have served that growth are so outgrown and expensive that they direct action looking toward effective relief. If that can be accomplished within an enlarged courthouse, one that would sacrifice none of its architectural attractiveness while enhancing its utility, there seems every reason for the county to proceed with the proposition. The commissioners have diligently canvassed other alternatives and find it unlikely they can purchase and build sufficiently close by the square to effect as economical and satisfactory correction of the quarters short age as would result from adding the two wings proposed. The county, having just borrowed money at interest rates as low as one per cent, ought to find the operation economical as well as convenient and the time seems opportune to make necessary arrangements now. TOO, IT SEEMS THAT THE COUNTY WOULD BE SERVED WELL by engaging now borrowing authorized under the hospital bond issues so that advantage may be taken of present favorable money markets. The hospital building program is going to need that money for construction in the next few months, it can be had now at an Interest rate unlikely, to get any lower, and county officials and hospital trustees are wisel.f^ canvassing that situation looking to early sale of those bonds. WITH 10 DAYS TO GO TILL CHRISTMAS EVE, A WHITE Christmas has plenty of snow at the present writing bnt white shirts won’t be a sign of it—the stores report them as soarce as new automobiles. THE ONLY COVERED BRIDGE TURNED UP IN THAT RECENT quest is one pictured on a Christmas card from Hughlan Smith, for which I am duly appreciative, BILL PENDLETON SENDS ME LAWSON WOOD’S HILAR ous “Marking Time with Gran'pep" calendar far 1M«. Waad draws upon a broad experience, keen Insight into human nature and animal nature and an Inborn genlns for invention, to torn out his monkeyshines that delight millions. I’ve bean a Weed en thusiastic fan for many years; the Pendletons have a great number in that calendar. DR FRANCIS BRADSHAW S DECISION TO QUIT HIS 35-YEftR post as dean of students at the University of North Carolina to engagpin private work in industrial psychology in New York takes one of Carolina's devoted faculty members at a crucial time in life of that Institution mov ing into post-war problems where his experience and steadying influence will be needed. That he will make a great deal more money in his new work goes without saying, but it's unlikely his place in the life and ad ministration of the University will be filled by anyone who will give himself as relentlessly to the work as he has done. CORP M B RUPPE, HOMESICK IN ITALY, SO 8TRAIN6 EVERT rule of versification to pack such pathos and humor into his lines on low pcrtnt score that I think you'll feel me justified in violating a standing rule against printing such to let you know his feeling: God made man and man made war And here I am with a low point score. On December the seventh of forty-one This war of ours had first begun. It happened so fast that it shocked us all And left us behind the old eight balL Draftees here and draftees there. They combed the cities everywhere. Four months of basic, one week at homa And then they shipped us to parts unknown Where far from what I used to know I didn't care, I didn't mind For it was peace I sought to And. It finally came, they ended the war And here I am with that low-point score. < I wait and wait, I feel so blue But what is there for me to do. While sweating the shells, I couldn't tell That sweating the ship is more like hell. Replacements are coming, I'm glad to hear. But so is Santa and a brand New Year! army pressure was too strong. He was made a major general any way. This columnist's disclosure of July 10, '38, made one error. The price which the Jape were sup posed to have paid for the DC-4 was given as *1,000,000. This was a mistake. Douglas gave them a much better bargain, namely *706,720, FAS. San Pedro. (This later was increased by the addi tion of spare parts.) JAPS EXULT OVER BARGAIN The Japs boasted gleefully about this bargain price. A Jap paper of Nov. 14, 1939, carries a picture of the DC-4 under the caption "formerly America’s biggest, now Japan's.’* "Built more than a year ago at a cost of *40,000,000,” the paper continued, "the giant plane was sold to Japan Airways for *750,000, complete with plans for its assem bly.” Another Japanese newspaper account significantly stated: "Ja pan Airways has not yet decided what to do with its flying bar gain.” However, it didn't take them long to decide. It was con verted to one of the mo6t useful planes the Japs had in the entire war. The newspaper also stated: "Transactions for purchase of the plane were completed last summer before the ‘moral embargo’ on air craft shipments to Japan was an nounced by Secretary of State Hull.” “Last summer” meant the sum mer of 1938. It was in that same summer, July 10. 1938, that this columnist attempted to reveal the TO-NIGHT sale of the DC-4, but «u lied lb by Donald Douglas. It was an June, 1938, that Cordell Hull ask ed U. S. aircraft manufacturers to stop shipments to Japan — a plea that he repeated on July 1. In the year that passed before the DC-4 actually was shipped, any airplane manufacturer who really wanted to could hare called off the deal. Note: The State department had no legal power to prevent the sale of airplanes, only moral suasion. Therefore, when Douglas applied for an 4^ export license for the DC-4, it was granted. Mrs. Dan Moore Suffers Broken Leg In Accident An odd family co-incidence re sulted in an auto accident pear Bolling Springs late yesterday aft ernoon, leaving Mrs. Dan Mpore with a broken leg. Mrs. Moore is a patient at the Shelby hospital where her condition is said to be satisfactory. < Mrs. E. V. Moore had been at the Dan Moore home most of the da# and late yesterday she was taken to her home by Mr. and Mrs. Dan Moore. Returning from that trip, the car driven by Dan Moore col lided with Dr. E. V. Moore’s auto mobile which had been left parked on the highway while he was mak ing a call. Icy condition of the highway was blamed for the ac cident. - 6 6 6 COLD PREPARATIONS Liquid. Tablets. Ralvf. Nose Deeps Use Only As Directed Caution use only aa directed. *L
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