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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1945
Page
1
The article argues Potsdam yields no solid peace for Japan and predicts no immediate Russian entry into the war. It notes German surrender lessons, Japan’s fear of occupation, and the likelihood that Soviet involvement would affect only timing, not ultimate outcome, while stressing pressure on Japan’s morale.
Blueprints drawn by American and British chiefs of staff for conquering Japan were sent home aboard the USS Augusta with President Truman. The plan, discussed during the Berlin Big Three talks, directs British forces to engage Japan and reallocates allied command. Louis Mountbatten may lead a Southeast Asia area from the Solomon Islands to just south of the Philippines, leaving MacArthur and Nimitz to redeploy elsewhere.
Wartime labor disputes push total idle workers past 60,000 across 46 industries. About 25,000 are in metalworking. A 1,500 CIO United Steelworkers at Republic Steel in Cleveland ended a four day strike. In Louisville 3,500 Reynolds Metal workers will return to work Monday as negotiations continue.
U S 11th armored division headquarters announced the arrest of Victor von Karolyi in Mundnen Austria for the 1934 assassination of Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss. He is described as Baldur von Schirach’s ally and right hand in Vienna’s Nazi command.
President Truman steered the Potsdam conference with genial humor guiding three hours sessions. He drafted an agenda with Byrnes to keep Big Three talks productive and suggested a Council of Foreign Ministers with the United States, Russia, Britain, China and France. He left Potsdam with goodwill from Stalin and Churchill and proposed another Big Three meeting in Washington if needed.
Governor Cherry reappoints most of the State planning board and names D. Hiden Ramsey of Asheville as chairman. Felix A. Grissette of Chapel Hill is managing director. Members include R. Bruce Etheridge Howard Odum George Kane Capus Waynick Irving Hall W. F. Carr and Robert M. Haynes, representing state departments and the public.
A temporary release from rationing of shoes priced at $3.50 or less will run August 27 to October 13 for men and women. Children’s sizes are excluded due to stock limits. A War Production Board official projects rationing to end altogether in early 1946, depending on Japan’s surrender and military needs.
Manfred Rommel says his father Field Marshal Erwin Rommel killed himself to avoid a death sentence tied to the July 20 1944 plot against Hitler. He cites Allied and German reports of wounds and a Paris hospital recovery before Rommel’s death announcement in October 1944.
A 59-year-old clothing merchant in New York died from an alleged sleeping pill overdose after being sentenced to a year in prison for unpaid state taxes on a 120000 dollar income. He left a note calling the case a mockery of justice and naming Justice Aurelio as a political target.
Guam reports that Allied air forces have damaged or sunk massive Japanese shipping, with rail lines and yards in Kyushu and Honshu targeted. In Tokyo area, 97 Mustang interceptors fought 10 enemy aircraft, destroying several planes and causing further damage to locomotives and railroad cars.
Berlin readers study the Potsdam communique as the Big Three meet. German reactions show relief Germany won’t be dismembered yet disappointment at indefinite reparations and hard hits in territory shipping and aviation feared, with Poland gains seen as hardest.
In Georgensmund residents now stroll along Oklahomastrasse replacing Adolf Hit lerstrasse and in Schwabach Horst Wesselstrasse has been renamed as part of denazification of German place names.
Pierre Laval told how he explained his 1942 radio talk praising a German victory to Admiral William D. Leahy during testimony at the Petain trial. He described the discussion as part of his defense on charges tied to wartime actions and Vichy policy.
Laval testified that Germans ordered him and Marshal Petain to speak against the Allied 1942 landings in North Africa. He claimed both men were forced to obey and that Petain was not free, being instructed to publicly comment on the subject.
A few days after a broadcast Admiral Leahy and S Pinkney Tuck visited me. I explained the reason behind the statement and its practical effects. Laval did not relate the reaction.
Western borders of a diminished Germany remain to be settled by the Big Five. Netherlands and France propose shifts to Oldenburg and the Rhineland while Dutch officials weigh popular reaction. The Potsdam accord splits East Prussia with Poland and Russia, shrinking Germany to an agriculture and peaceful industry nation, with imports needed to meet demand.
The body found at the confluence of the East River and Long Island Sound was identified as Maj William B. Southworth Jr., pilot of a B 29 that crashed in February. His father, Billy Southworth, manager of the St Louis Cardinals, traveled to New York to claim the body for burial. Southworth was the last of five victims to be identified.
President Truman signed three major postwar economic bills establishing an international bank and fund, expanding Export-Import loan authority, and joining the UN Food and Agriculture Organization. The Bretton Woods pact commits the U.S. to about 6 billion dollars to stabilize world markets, pending ratification by others representing 65 percent of the fund. The bank and fund require broad international approval before activation. United States to provide large shares of both, with completion anticipated in 12 to 18 months.
Chinese high command reports progress in a drive to cut the Hunan Kwangsi railroad and block Japanese withdrawal. After recapturing Sinning, Chinese forces push toward Tungan about 90 miles northeast of Kweilin as they close on the Tun gan rail town midway between Kweilin and Hengyang. A Japanese hospital ship carrying contraband arms is seized north of Timor with 1500 listed patients aboard.
General MacArthur announced he has taken command of American occupied Ryukyu islands including Okinawa to serve as bases for a planned large invasion of Japan. Nimitz led conquest of Okinawa and about a dozen western islets while MacArthur's air forces raid Kyushu's fortress island area. The Japanese still hold Sakishima Amami Tokara and Osumi groups between Okinawa and Kyushu.
Domei news agency in Tokyo rejects U S charges that war camps exist to shield military sites. It says no area in Japan is safe from American bombs and even a camp on Mount Fuji would become a target. Earlier reports of prisoners killed in a Kawasaki B 29 raid provoked protests from the state department.
General MacArthur said the change in command took effect at midnight Tuesday and that the 13th Air Force, now the main U.S. air arm in the southern Philippines New Guinea and the Indies, will be moved to the Ryukyus. Liberators Mitchell bombers and fighters numbering up to 500 intensively bombard Okinawa as U S forces press assaults toward the Japanese home islands.
Fort Worth Texas August reports the death of Cpl James E Newman 25 after three years in Japanese prison camps and a 31 day home battle He died at 6 30 p m from exhaustion following an asthmatic spasm Funeral planned Monday at Riverside Assembly of God Church with military rites His family faced immense grief as doctors on two hemispheres had given up hope Remembered as a gallant soldier who endured beri beri starvation tuberculosis and war time hardship Journal indicates the nation mourns his sacrifice and homecoming ordeal
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