JAPS SURRENDER TO BE SIGNED AUGUST 31
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Ceremony Will Be On
FWttleship Missouri
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Battleship Will Steam Up Tokyo Bay And
Anchor Near Enemy Capital For
Historic Ritual.
MANILA, Thursday, Aug. 23.—Japan’s surrender will
be signed aboard the battleship Missouri in Tokyo bay
August 31, General MacArthur announced today.
It was the first official wora
on the site of the signing. The
45,000-ton battleship participated
with Admiral Halsey’s Third fleet
last month in bombarding Japan, i
Earlier MacArthur had con
firmed Tokyo reports that he
would arrive by plane in Japan
next Tuesday, weather permit
ting, with powerful Allied sea
and air forces.
The Supreme Allied comman
der of occupation forces also an
nounced details of the precise in
structions sent the Japanese for
evacuating key areas, disarming
ships and coastal defenses and
providing direct assistance to the
landing forces.
In his midnight announcement
to correspondents, MacArthur said ,
that members of the Japanese Im
perial general staff had been
alerted to be on hand from 6 a.
m. “D” Day (5 p. m. Monday, U.
S. eastern war time) to meet the!
Allied commander for immediate
settlement of occupation prob
lems.
LAND AT ATSUGI.
MacArthur will accompany air
borne forces which will land at
4tsugi airdrome, 10 miles south
west of Tokyo, in a vast convoy'
of transport planes covered by j
fighters and bombers. 1 he exact
landing time was not announctd. i
Simultaneously, landing crafi!
such as have put thousands oi;
fighting Americans ashore on ma-'
ny Pacific islands will land Marin
es and Bluejackets at the famous
Yokosuka naval base, on Tokyo
bay approximately*15 miles soutn-l
east of Atsugi airfield.
MacArthur (aid the Ameri
can forces latter will utilize
this vital Japanese base,
which the enemy has always
closely guarded.
(Oomei, Japanese semioffi
cial news agency, said in a
Tokyo broadcast the first oc
cupational troops probably
would number 50,000 or 60,
fOO.
(The agyncy reiterated a prev
ious claim that the first Allied
.airborne landings, at Atsugi air
drome would be made Sunday, as
.announced in Tuesday’s Japanese
Imperial headquarters communi
que.
(Lomei said tht all local civil
administration in the occupation
area would remain in Japanese
hands, and urged the Nipponese
to remain calm. The agency signi
ficantly warntd that the people
must bear in mind the fact thai
the Allied force “will occupy mu
mainland fully equipped and
armed.”)
FLEET POISED.
Great Allied fleet units wil
;Stand ir. Japanese waters bulwark
ing the landings while disarmed
Nipponese ships remain immobil
ized, except for piloting or other
guide craft.
Tile entire landing area will be
cleared of all Japanese military
personnel and the great coasti.^
defense guns will be made harm
less by having their breechlocks
removed.
Nipponese civil police and
gendarmerie remaining in the area
will be equipped only with small
arms and wil! be on duty to act
in case of sniping or possible dem
onstrations by recalcitrant fanat
ics.
The American landing for- I
ces will be in full combat
equipment and will be ready
for any eventuality. That op
eration will be handled as a
regular combat show.
Entry into Tokyo was not
mentioned in the instructions.
Atsugi, a former military air
base, is believed to be far infer
ior to usual American standards.
It may require considerable pilot
skill, therefore, to safely con
clude such daring and large op
eration.
All day and for some time there
after planes will drone over At
sugi bringing landing forces and
supplies.
The Army will swing into the
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Dora Playground
Group Enjoy Outing
The children of the Dora Mill
community spent a most enjoya
ble afternoon hriday, August 17
at Suttle’s Swimming . Pool and
Play ground near Charlotte. The
trip was made In the Dover Mill
bus. There were fifty-one chil
dren making up the two groups,
six to ten years and ten through
seventeen years these boys and
girls make up the groups of those
attending the play ground activi
ties for the summer months.
Boys and girls making the trip
were:
Jo Ann Craine, Herman McGin
nis, Howard Crane, C. A. McUin
nis, Mary Joyce Dellinger, Shir
ley Beam, Charles Kistler, Kay
Belle Leonhardt, Earline Eaker
Quy Eaker, Bessie McGinnis, Bet
ty Hartman, Peggy Upton, Jimmie
Upton, Betty Howell, Billy How
ell, Howard Williams, Lillian Aber
nethy, Doris Abernethy, Jane
Abernethy, Pudd Lynn, Vivian
Humphries, Buddy Williams, Ben
Dale Carolyn Kidd, Barbara Kidd;
Nova Wallace, Betty Jbne McGin
nis, Annie Mae Huss, Dale Hen- (
drick, Bennie Hendrick, Buly|
Kistler, Fred Reynolds, Ned Rey-.j
nolds, Bobby Lott, C. A. McGm-1
nis, Colon Wa ren, Wilburn War 1
ten, Billy >3 Warren, E1 vard
Schronce, Joe Billy Fourshee, Den
nis Humphries, Joyce Brackett,
Louise Bumgarner, Jerry Dellin
ger, Alean Costner, Olivia Carpen
ter, Jackie Huss.
Councilors for the Outing were
Misses Olivia Carpenter, Jackiej
Huss, Betty Jean McGinnis, Mrs.
George G. Moore, Mrs. Hunter
Carroll and Mr. Guss Reynolds.
The bus arrived at Suttle’s ear
ly in the afternoon. After swim
ming and play ground activities
a picnic lunch was served and
greatly enjoyed by the group.
By seven o’clock the group was
ready to return home, a tired but
a happy group of boys and girls.
unvers License win
"Be Issued at City Hall
Beginning the first of Septem
ber, each Saturday morning, a
State Inspector will be at the City
Hall for the purpose of issuing
drivers license, and learners per
mits. . One-half day only in the
forenoon.
PAUL D. TIMMONS,
Chief-of-Police
Legion To Meet
Friday Night
Tryon Post 100 American Le
gion will hold a regular meeting
Friday night at 8:30 P. M. All
discharged service men and any
boys home on leave are welcome.
CARPENTER RETURNED
TO THE STATES
Pvt. William T. Carpenter, hus
band of Willie C. Carpenter has
retuined from overseas. He serv
ed nine months with the 7th.
Army 12th Division. Pvt. Car
penter received the Purple Heart
while over there. He is expected
home soon. He is now stationed
in a hospital in New York. Pvt.
Carpenter is the son of the late,
Fitzhugh Carpenter.
BEAM GIVES US NICE MELON
Mr. Jack W. Beam, painti con
tractor here gave us a fine deli
licious watermelon Monday which
was enjoyed very much.
Delious Creech of Garner in
Wake County marketed about
$150 worth of okra per acre from
13 acres to the crop during the
first 3 weeks of July, says Assis
tant County Agent Bruce Butler, j
- Japan's Surrender Announcement
Fx-Serretarv of State Cordell Hull congratulates President Trunu
.''■'ter the President had made the announcement of Japan’s snrreiuli
Lett to right: Secretary of State James F. Byrnes, Cordell Hull ai
Picsident Harry S. Truman.
JAPS SAY 480,000 DEAD, INJURED,
HOMELESS FROM 2 ATOMIC BOMBS
The Tokyo radio said today the
latest checkup on damage done by
atomic bombs dropped on Hirosh-j
ima and Nagasaki showed that
480.000 persons were killed, in
jured or made homeless in the two
Japanese cities.
The broadcast, recorded in New
York, said the bomb which fell on I
Hiroshima on Aug. 6 killed or in-1
jured 160,000 persons and left j
200.000 homeless. The bomb which
hit Nagasaki on Aug. 9 left 120,-J
000 casualties, the radio report
said.
The broadcast said “further
more many persons are dying da^
ly from burns sustained during the
course of the raids. Since the r
on Hiroshima took place during
working hours in the morning and
the atomic bomb hit the central
part of the city, casualties were
tremendous, with more than 60,
000 killed according to latest fi
gures available.
“The number of dead is mount
ing, as many of those who receiv
ed burns cannot survive their
wounds because of the uncanny
effects the atomic bomb produces
on the human body. Kven those
who received minor burns looked
quite healthy at first only to weak
en after a few days from some un
known reason and frequently died.
“Since the explosion of the
atomic bomb affected an area of
30 kilometers in diameter and
practically all houses in this area
were either biown up, Knocked
down or reduced by fire, it is dif
ficult to count ail of the bodies
many of which are burned under
col.apsed buildings. The sight of
women ana children wounded by
t'te exn.tfion defies desc-"}/.:cn.
The radio report said the bomb
hit a factory area on tile no inerr
side of the Nagasaki station and
although topographically parts oi
that city did not receive a direct
concussion from the explosion all
windows and doors in these more
remote parts were siin 'ered 01
blasted, “wi- b the results that at
most the entire city was affecteu
by the raid.”
The explosion of the atomic
bomb apparently continues to
build up increased pressure aftet
the first impact of the explosion
Sutezo Toni, Japanese defenst
headquarters technician, said to
day in a report on a detailed stucij
of the first atomic explosion ifi
Hiroshima.
“The sound of the explosion*
said Torii’s report as broadcast by
the Japanese Domei news agency,
“seemed to have been heard at the
same time as the pressure of the
conclussion. Flash and pressure
concussion are extremely power
ful. However, the effect is com
paratively slow. Thus, if it were
an ordinary bomb, flash and ex
plosive pressure would be most
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A MESSAGE FROM US TO THE PUBLIC
PEACE, At Last:
that lone sought, hard won peace is here.
True it will be an armed peace, but probably
that is the only wav to have permanent peace.
There will still be many problems.
This Message,
though, is a thank you message—a message
to thank you for your patience and patronage
during the stress of WAR.
Now, that our labor
problems are being solved, we have the pleas
ure to announce to you we have been very
fortunate in securing the services of Mr. Bruce
H. Phipps. of Columbia. South Carolina, an
expert printer with twenty-five years of ex
perience. Mr. Phipps has worked in some of
the largest Printing Houses in the South and
with his experience is one of the best design
ers in ads and job lay-outs. We will now be
able to give you first class work and on a much
prompter basis than ever before.
We Recently
added more eauimneni in our Shop, and with
an expert Printer in charge, we promise lo
give you the best printing to be found in any
town or city much larger than Cherryville.
All that is necessary
Telephone 2101 and a Representative from
THE EAGLE will cal' to get your order and
we oromise to give you much better Service.
Now, with the war
behind us, we look forward to the days ahead
of us, and with a heartfelt and sincere thanks
for your business. We pledge our best efforts
to continue serving you, in a wav that we hope
will merit your continued confidence, approv
al, and more business from you.
AGREED TO TAKE
PART IN COTTON
POSTWAR FUND
Memphis, Tenn., Aug. 16.—
(Special*—All of the 33 com
presses in the Cotton Belt’s five
state Southeastern section have
signed agreements to take part in
cotton’s $2,000,000 postwar “fight
ing fund” to prepare for compe
tition from synthetics, paper anu
foreign growths, the National Cot
ton Council disclosed today.
The 33 compresses are divideu
as follows: Alabama, 10; Florida,
one; Georgia, 15; North Carolina,
six; and Socth Caroline, one.
Compresses and other cotto’
interests also are getting enthu
siastic support from Southeastern
textile mills. Two weeks after ti*
.spinners were called on to aid i
protecting the South’s No. 1 crop
35.1 per cent of the 720 mills had
agreed to contribute to the fund.
Mills signed also represent 37.H
per cent of the 17,324,402 spin
dles now operated in the South
east.
Georgia leads in the number of
textile mills taking part with 45.2,
per cent signed. South Carolina
and North Carolna follow with
36.1 and 33.9 per cent respective
ly North Carolina is ahead in
the number of spindles represent
ed with 5,606,672 signed.
Cottonseed crushers of the Tar
heel state also are relping to give
King Cotton a big hand. More than
50 per cent of the state’s 33
crushers already have been en
listed in the program, in which
farmers, ginners and cotton mer
chants also will participate.
The campaign calls tor pay
ment of 20 cents on each bale ot
cotton produced to finance scien
tific research, sales promotion am
other projects. Half of the tun*
will come from cotton producers
and half from handlers and pro
cessors.
Oscar Johnston, Council presi
dent, says any extensive loss ol
cotton markets in postwar busi
ness v.ould seriously disrupt tlis
economy of all Southern states,
since cotton means $2,552,000,
000 in annual income. More than
15,000,000 people are affected
by .his income, he adds.
Western Carolina
Teachers College
To Open Sept. 11.
CULLOWHEE—Western Caro
lina Teachers College, according
to an announcement by Dr. H. 1'.
Hunter, president of the teachers
college, will open for its fifty
sixth year of work on the after
noon of September 11. All fresh
men are asked to assemble at the
Hoey auditorium on Tuesday af
ternoon at two o’clock to begin a
program of orientation, which is
held annually at the College for
new students. Registration for
freshmen and transfer students
will be held on Thursday, .Septem
ber 13th.
Former students will register
for classes on Friday, September
14.
The College dining room will be
opened for meals at six o’clock on
Monday evening, September 10.
Classwork for all students be
gins Saturday, September 15.
Mad-Dog Killed In
Town Monday Night
A ntad-dog was chased through
town Monday night and killed
ifcar the Rhyne-Houser No. 2
'till by the Police force, after it
oas reported to have bitten two
pedestrians. The head was cut
>ff, packed and carried to Ral
eigh, where it was announced the
dog was affected with hydropho
i he victims were the small son
of Mr. and Mrs Than Ur y who
lives just off East Main Street and
a Mrs. Schrum who lives on the
Dallas road. Evidently the dog
ame up through the Carlton Vil
lage and it is surprising that oth
ers were not victims.
It is not known how many dogs
came in contact with this niad
dog and the town of Cherryville
is issuing strong warnings that all
dogs running loose without vacei
nation tags and city license tags
will be shot by the police force..
VISITS MOUNTAINS SUNDAY
Msses Lorcre Seller. Mary
Ann Ross, and Dorothy Dellinger
iand Mr. Jack W. Beam visited
Blowing Rock, Linville City and
I Linv lie Caverns Sunday.
School Will Open
Wednesday, Sept. 5th
Pupils Urged To Enroll First Day And Re
port To Their Respective Building*
At 9:00 A. M.; Sept. 5
Widow Requests
Discontinuing Of
Pyle Memorial
ALBUQUERQUE, N. AL, Aug
21.—Mrs. Ernie Pyle, widow Oi
the famed war correspondent,
asked today that promotion of a
multimillion-dollar park and cem
etery memorial at Dana and Terri*
U nite, Ind., be ahandonei, ano
; asserted she would never consent
! !o having Pyle s oody remove"
front Ie Shima.
It was proposed that the wai
correspondent, killed on le Slnma
be i 1.1 ie< m the memorai ceme
teiy.
“Ernie is lying .where he would
wish t( lie. with the men n lor
ed.” Mrs. I^le said. “I will ncvei
consent to having his body inov
I *«*•”
! Mrs. Pyle, who still lives in the
little white cottage to which Ernie
so often referred in his stories
j said she thought the small library
proposed by his friends and neigh
bors at Lana was uselul, and that
she approved the journalism schol
arship offered by Indiana univer
sity.
But she said in a statement that
an expensive memorial “violates
eveiything that Ernie was” ana
U.t feeling ihat existed between
I Ernie and in. people who loveu
“Certainly I am unalterably op
posed to this project or campaign.
I earnestly request that the pro
moters abandon it entirely and
immediately.”
News From First
Methodist Church
Last Sunday morning1, August
19, Mr. Barnett preached on the
topic, ‘What Think Ye of Christ?'
Following the sermon, the pastor
gave an opportunity for all who
wished to do so to come to the
altar and into the aisles for pray
er. There were between 225 amt
■<150 peisons present and almost
everyone responded. Mr. B. C.
Hicks led in a wonderful prayer.
| On Tuesday evening the mem
i bers of Mrs. H. C. Harrelson’s
i Church (School class gave a Water
I melon Feast at the home ot Mrs.
! l’loyu Dellinger. The husbands ot
these young ladies were given a
special invitation.
I The Church is happy to wel
come into its midst Ho'.don M.
Smith, son of Mr. and Mrs. H. M^
, Smith of Cherryville. Hotdon was
' recently discnarged from the ar
my.
William E. Costner
Home From Eurone
I WITH THE U., S. FORCES IN
I FRANCE—-After two years over
seas in Great Britain, France ana
| Luxembourg, with the 398th En
gineer General Service Regiment
William E. Costner, son of Mi'
and Mrs. J. Earl Costner, has re
turned home.
Engaged in camp construction
in E glEsr.il before Ii'-Day. his unit
was rushed to France when Cher
bourg was captured and stayed
Worl :ng on the 1 econstruction ol
tile harbor during the summer ana
fall of 1:144. It later moved into
combat position with infantry
units il-.uig the Moselle River on
the German holder when Von
Runstedt attacked. After the Nazi
drive was reversed the engineers
, returned to construction work am
1 rebuilt several hospitals.
Chan ere In Recorders
Court On Mondays
Beginning Monday. August 27
there will he a change in the time
court will be held at the City
Hall. Heretofore it has been held
each Monday morning at 9 o’
1 clock. Beginning Monday it will
be held at 7:30 o’clock Monday
I evening, instead of 9:00 in the
' morning.
I STEVE STROUP, Recorder
The Cherryville Schools WiU
open Wednesday, September 6th.
All pupils are requested to report
to their respective buildings at
9 A. M.
A general teacher’s meeting WiU
be held at the high school on
Tuesday, September 4, at 3 P. M.
All teachers are expected to at
tend.
Beginning first grade children
who will be six years of age by
October 2nd, will be admitted.
Effective with this years open
ing the new compulsory atten
dance law will be in force. The
compulsory period has been at
tended to include all children fif
teen years of age. Now that the
war is over and the labor shor
tage is rapidly being met, chil
dren fourteen and fifteen years ef
age are no longer needed in in
dustry and they are expected and
required by law to attend school.
Parents are urged to see to it that
they enter at the beginning and
thus avoid loss of time from their
studies.
The teachers ars:
HIGH SCHOOL
L>. 0. RudiSill
?\ /£. E. E. McLowell
Mrs. Vera B. Hoyla
Julia Renfro
Mary K.. Sharpe
Mary Prances Herd
Erskine W. Carson
Henson Quinn
Katherine Stanley
R. C. Sharpe
Minnie Coleman
ELEMENTARY NO. 1
John L. Beach
Sara Workman
Fannie Farris
Cora White
Mrs. Marian W. Houser
Mrs. Maude K. Carter
Altonia Beam
Mrs. Hunter R. Carroll
Mrs. Ruth D. Sherrill
Kate Whitworth
Mrs. Grace B. Crocker
ELEMENTARY NO.
Mattie Irene Sox
Mrs. Ruth C. Porter
Carolyn Allen
Mrs. J. Ralph Beam
Mrs. Yates Horaesley
Janet L. Hobbs
Mrs. Heman Hall
Miss Ruth Black
Mrs. Milton Gold
Miss Mary Mosteller
Other announcements will be
carried in next weeks issue of tne
Eagle.
Home Coming Day
At St. Mark’s Sunday
Home Coming Sei’vice at St.
Mark’s Lutheran Church, Gaston
County, Sunday, August 26th at
10:45 A. M. All former members
and friends are invited to come
and enjoy the day together. The
Rev. L. Summie Miller, is pastor
of the congregation.
The sermon at 10:45 A. M., will
be delivered by the Rev. Dorus
P. Rudisill, PhD., a grandson o
the congregation. Dr. Rudis
is the Lutheran Student Pastor ...
the University of North Carolina.
Chapel Hill.
There will be only one servicl
for the day. The afternoon will be
a time for happy reunion, th*t
meeting of old friends and a„s
quaintances. Dinner will be c»
the beautiful church grounds.
St. Mark’s i» one of the older
churches in Ga ton county.
was organized in 1317. It is still
an active congregation. Many
members have gone from St.
Mark's to strengthen other church
es in this section of the State.
I On Thursday and Friday even
ings before Home Coming, there
will be services at St Mark’s at
8:00 P. M. On Thursday even
ing at 8:00 o’clock Rev. Charles
Ridenhour, of Dallas will bring
Ihe message.
On Friday evening at 8:00 O'
clock, the Rev. Albert H. Keck
of Lincolnton will Wring the on!
sage.
. A cordial welcome is given to
1 the public to attend all the aer
vices.