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Newspaper
Dothan Eagle
Location
Dothan, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1945
Page
5
The report notes that by fall the United States Army faces a reduction in available 17-year-olds as Selective Service moves to cut overall numbers. Officials indicate progress toward meeting manpower needs while ensuring permanency of certain positions. The discussion highlights concerns over recruitment, training, and the potential impact on future military capacity.
Allied troops arrested the Flensburg government leaders including Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz and top German officers. About 300 officers and many civilians were captured as the German general staff faced potential sentences of 10 to 15 years, with SHAEF and Russian commands coordinating the action. Col. Gen. Gustav Jodl and Admiral von Friedeburg were also taken away under guard after signing the Reims capitulation.
AP dispatch notes the Alabama Legislature debated a large appropriations bill funding departments and agencies with over 14 million dollars. The treasure provision to fund schools with nine million was approved while a tax on beer sales and severance tax plans drew focus amid a broader dispute over education and social programs.
U.S. civilians face shrinking reserves of meat and fats as eggs milk and butter become primary substitutes. Government reports warn of shortages in butter cheese evaporated milk and eggs for fall and winter, with diet quality likely to slip to a vegetable focus by August. Officials note expected meat supply improvement only in September as cattle slaughter increases.
Fragmentary World Today dispatch notes elements of the 1st Army moving south to seize a supply road near Shuri as heavy fighting continues. Report mentions airfield targets and Japanese and Chinese forces resisting near Tong area, with slight advances and ongoing operations across central sectors.
AP reports Julius Streicher, a notorious anti Semite, captured in Bavaria by the 101st Airborne. The seizure follows previous captures of other Nazi leaders, including Heinrich Himmler and Joachim von Ribbentrop, in the same region near Munich. General Franz von Epp, once defender of Munich, reportedly in custody.
The Justice Department filed a civil anti-trust suit in Toledo charging Pittsburgh Plate Glass and Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Co along with seven other firms and officers with conspiring to monopolize flat glass production and distribution. The suit seeks divestiture of warehouses and stores and dissolution of restrictive agreements, plus royalty-free patents for current and future technologies.
Washington AP report says Attorney General Francis Biddle plans to retire from the Truman cabinet. A 4 p.m. White House news conference is set as President Truman likely announces Biddle's resignation and a successor, with Schwelenbach named as a possible replacement or top contender.
Prime Minister Churchill resigned and King George VI accepted the move, dissolving Parliament on June 14 and signaling a general election likely July 5. The wartime coalition ends, Labor ministers resigning, a caretaker government expected with figures such as Anderson and Grigg stepping into new roles.
Mobile Alabama AP1 reports Vice Admiral Emory S Land outlines postwar use of merchant shipping during Maritime Day. Admiral Lead notes US shipyards built about 58 million deadweight tons to replace losses and support 74.5 million tons of wartime freight. he proposes allocations including 1.5 million tons for end of war, 8.9 million tons to military service, 7 million tons for scrap, and 16 million tons for foreign buyers, among others. He emphasizes maintaining a strong merchant fleet alongside the Navy and keeping a substantial share of foreign trade on US ships.
Allied forces report weakening Japanese opposition in Mindanao as U S Army divisions close in on Malaybalay and surrounding areas. The 38th Division liberates Malaybalay while others advance toward Licanan airfield and Infanta coast, with heavy fighting near Wawa Dam and Nang Town. thousands of Japanese dead and trapped units noted.
Rep Albert Rains told the Alabama legislature that the United Nations must curtail and strangle all attentive research and development among the German people to preserve future world peace. He warned dismantling German industry would not suffice and called for action after a tour of forced labor and murder factories near Weimar.
In Elensburg Germany AP reports Russians claim Hitler died in mercy death after five days of torture and pain. A Supreme Headquarters official quoted a Russian General saying a physician gave an injection to put him to sleep forever.
A Pacific theater report details how supply ships and barges like Provider Witco and Roger and even odd names such as Have Got made naval air operations possible. A gunner's success with a Jop fighter at Leyte Gulf spurred new gunnery training and fueled the relentless air assault on Japan by Navy and Marine forces from carrier and land bases.
American forces, led by the Seventh Infantry Division under Maj. Gen. Archibald V. Arnold, forced into Yonabaru and pushed a southern flank that enlarged the Okinawa front by nearly 4,000 yards. The push, aimed at supply roads to Shuri and Neha, yielded the town of Yonabaru and established ridgeline positions, with Marine and Army units continuing to press toward key routes and rail lines.
An aged German Catholic became the highest civil official in the occupied Rhine today and voiced a plea for the German people to relearn the primal plea of brotherly love. Dr Hang Fuchs, 72, re entered public life as Rhein military district head under U.S. supervision, urging a new Christian spirit among youth and collaboration between Catholic and Protestant churches. He argued German language newspapers from the Allied Psychological Warfare Department inform but do not change attitudes, calling on churches to lead reconstruction and rid Nazi thoughts from the populace. He proposed using German war prisoners skilled in farming and trades to aid rebuilding.
A brief AP dispatch reports five British delegates to the United Nations Conference in San Francisco submitted resignations from the Churchill government. The resignations are said to be in line with parliamentary practice and are not expected to disrupt the conference, as Ambassador to Washington Lord Halifax and others may continue representing Britain until London formally acts.
Ralph Goodwin, superintendent of the water and light plant, said four planned electrical power interruptions were moved from Sunday morning to Monday morning to minimize disruption. The outages, for necessary repairs to the main switchboard, will run from 1 am to 5 am.
Dothan moves housing program forward with rapid construction plans for rental housing. Chamber of Commerce secretary-manager Arthur Johnson says most owner occupant applications are exhausted and effort shifts to building for rent. Reconversion applications to repair or remodel homes have been approved, with remodeling already underway.
The Mighty Seventh War Loan drive in Dothan and Houston County shows E bond sales around 381 428 toward a county quota of 1 817 00. Sales through July 7 credit the county’s total, with June 30 start and reports from Dothan banks and the post office. The drive’s progress mirrors yesterday, with notable gains in E bonds.
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