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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1945
Page
5
Partly cloudy today and tonight with scattered showers and thunderstorms in the mountains. Temperatures not quite as warm in the extreme north this afternoon. Friday brings considerable cloudiness and cooler conditions with more showers in the extreme west portion.
A column discusses the American ideal of religious freedom and the limits of coercive power abroad. It notes Japan’s Shinto tradition, Ataturk’s reforms, and the challenge of imposing Western norms, arguing that presenting western ideas may win Japan over without force. The piece reflects on historical prejudices and the pace of cultural change.
The proposed measure would allow the government to issue regulations to control prices and services across the dominions and abroad in distress from the war. Parliament could annul executive orders within 404 days. The bill would bar wartime detentions and use of special courts for such cases.
Secy Anderson says income could hit about 9 billion dollars in 1950 if unemployment stays near two million. He warns with seven million unemployed the agricultural sector would see net income around 6.5 billion and farm prices fall, stressing need for jobs for rural youth.
A wartime broadcast reports large but incomplete figures from air raids including 2.2 million houses demolished or burned and 90 000 partially damaged. It says almost the entire Japanese mainland suffered heavy damage and cites 146 760 affected people in Britain from air incidents with tens of thousands dead or injured and many homeless.
Prosecutors call state witnesses in a Norway case detailing embezzlement and collaboration. Testimony includes Quisling adherents, German officers, and Scheidt allegedly negotiating with Quisling to form a new government on the invasion day. Reports say Quisling influenced Hitler about invading Norway.
Funeral services for J Kent Greer 49 who died at his home 341 South Fourth Street Philadelphia Pa were held Wednesday afternoon at 4 from Koonce Funeral Home chapel. Rev Hoy L Ferperman led the service with a quartet singing This is My Father's World Sunrise and My Faith Looks Up to Thee with Miss Jewel Myers at piano. Flowers were carried by church and missionary society members and Richardson's Department Store ladies. Pallbearers included Will Jones Garland Bright Noah Garner Gene Jester Earl Bowman Carl Myers Walter Trivett S B Newnam and John Kennedy. Interment followed at Mechanicsville Primitive Baptist cemetery.
Allied forces plan to release about 32 000 prisoners of war in Japan and aid 7 000 Americans 14 000 British 5 000 to 8 000 Australians 5 000 Dutch and 1 000 Canadians in POW camps. In the Marshalls and Carolines surrender talks concluded aboard USS Levy with Japanese representatives signing capitulation aboard the destroyer escort Levy.
Case workers from 11 county welfare departments including Alamance Ashe Duplin Durham Graham Granville Haywood Onslow Stokes and Wilkes wrap up a two day conference in Raleigh. The sessions addressed welfare assignments and coordination across counties.
Washington reports the eighth and final war loan will begin October 29 as a victory loan worth 11 billion dollars with four billion for individuals, half in E bonds. Secretary Vinson says the cost of settlements for veterans events will be large and needs planning now.
In Lewiston Maine Richard Bouthout 41 and his new wife 22 testified in Municipal Court seeking state wards for four of their 13 to 7 year old children Joan Teresea Donald and Lucille after a house fire killed his wife and four children. The petition by Police Matron Irma Michaud and two daughters prompted the court appearance.
Garfield Suttlemyre, 67, a retired school teacher and former legislator, died near his Granite Falls home yesterday. He is survived by his widow and two children.
AP Newsfeatures reports that on July 14 1945 American warships steamed off northern Honshu and shelled the Iron and Steel Works at Kamaishi 275 miles north of Tokyo. The next day Halsey’s Third Fleet bombarded Muroran and later hit Sukegawa Hitachi and Mito as British ships joined. Coastal guns were silent and aircraft scarce.
About 1 000 fighters and torpedo bombers filled the skies over task force 38 in an air show staged from the Admiral McCain's flagship off Japan. Vice Admiral McCain watched as Corsair formations passed overhead led by Cmdr. Hubert B. Harden of Nebraska.
Okinawa hosts about four hundred thousand new wards under Lt. Col. John Underwood and Lt. Arthur Moore. They gather natives into a camp near Jinuza and assign 40 per tent for four days to build homes with SeaBees framing. Rations of rice fish and soy oil exceed prior meals, water remains scarce, and 20 camps are planned across a 67 mile by 20 mile area.
The army expands its tropical skin disease treatment program to six more centers. New sites include Butner near Durham, joining Moore General Hospital at Swannanoa, North Carolina, and Harmon General Hospital at Longview, Texas.
Soviet airborne units that seized Shumushu moved south toward Hokkai Do in the Kurile chain with no opposition reported. Moscow dispatches said the advance continued today as Red Army forces pressed toward Japan's northern islands.
The article notes large refugee and orphan populations, Moore operates an orphanage housing about 2000 children from six months to ten years old, plus a Home for the Aged with around one thousand residents and a 100 inmate insane asylum. The navy runs eight small native hospital facilities with 1600 patients. A school staffed by native teachers enrolls 1700 pupils.
A Black Widow night fighter will be dedicated to memory of 32 war correspondents killed covering battles in Pacific and Europe. Maj. Gen. Willis H. Hale will christen the plane "The Fourth Estate" near Hammerfield with citations for each fallen reporter and five others missing or prisoners of war.
The five pounds of sugar every four months ration remains in place for 1945. Sugar stamp 38 becomes valid September 1 and stays valid through December 31. Stamp 36 expires August 31 and stamp 37 is not validated due to past misuse by recipients.
Alamance Broadcasting Company Inc seeks FCC approval to install a new FM station. The Burlington North Carolina licensee of WBBB requests authority to proceed with the station’s setup and operation.
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