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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1945
Page
1
The World Today argues that the Big Three must maintain unity and mutual confidence at the Berlin conference to win the peace after World War II. It notes limits on American resources for European rehabilitation and warns against overestimating U S aid as Santa Claus.
Washington reports bread prices may rise if the admin is unable to supply enough sugar. The OPA cut butter points from 24 to 16 to stabilize supplies amid a planned slaughtering program and expects a ten million pound rise in civilian butter next month.
Some 24 250 workers returned to jobs over the weekend easing a national strike height to 29 750. Akron Firestone and Spicer Toledo plants led the resumption while 1250 United Mine Workers ended a Protracted walkout at Solvay Process Syracuse. Conciliation talks were set to address a jurisdictional dispute affecting 874 AFL Bay cities metal trades workers in San Francisco.
The OPA freed new 1942 model passenger cars from rationing effective Wednesday, aiming to clear 6,000 unsold units. About 520,000 cars remain under rationing at March 1942 prices plus storage charges, with older stock likely hard to move as new models enter market and rationing shifts to essential users for months.
A 11 man crew bailed out from a pilotless B 29 after fumes from a leaking line threatened explosion. Lt Edward J Szycher reported the aircraft at 9500 feet on a round robin from Pyote Texas to Duluth Minnesota and onward when the order to jump was given. Lt Keith Hudson was thrown from the plane after being secured in a parachute and revived by the air rush. Forest rangers aided in the search near Link Lake under Sid Rommel's direction.
London police hunt a mysterious intruder dubbed a Dracula man who sneaks into northwest London bedrooms at night. He grips women by the throat, blinds victims with a flashlight, and has entered a dozen homes without serious injuries reported.
GUAM July 16. Dealing a devastating succession of U S and S sea and air might virtually erased three Japanese cities, struck heavily at 13 others and sank or destroyed 152 surface craft cover the weekend. The powerful third fleet leveled two oil centers in northern Japan while its carrier planes burned another and knocked off 100000 tons of shipping. American land based aircraft bombed and strafed 13 additional Nipponese towns and cities. Japanese Domei news agency said the fleet withdrew, possibly due to bad weather, but warned it could return any time.
New York reports B 29s have destroyed three fourths of Gifu city, located 18 miles northwest of Nagoya on Honshu, in a latest air strike by the NBC 20th Air Force.
Domei reported 2,500 carrier planes took part in strikes on northern Honshu and Hokkaido with 1,500 on Sunday and 1,000 on Saturday, citing early agency reports.
Chinese high command reports mopping up Japanese remnants in Kanhsien and capturing former American air base sites in Kiangsi and Kwangsi provinces. Columns advance toward Kweilin and Liuchow while regaining Chenghsien Chekiang and Limkong to disrupt Japanese lines.
Lt. Gen. Barney M. Giles says American land based air can hurl 3000 planes in a single day against Japan by realigning tactical and strategic forces for preinvasion assaults. Doolittle's B 29s will arrive by mid August, under a new USASTAF designation consolidating units.
President Truman submitted the nominations of Fred M. Vinson to be secretary of the treasury and Theron Lamar Caudle to be assistant attorney general. Vinson, war mobilization chief, would replace Henry Morgenthau Jr. Caudle, 41, is the U S attorney for the western district of North Carolina and a Wake Forest graduate.
Senator Taft of Ohio proposed that Congress write a tax reduction law this year to ease the tax burden in 1947. He outlined a plan during a Washington briefing, indicating support from Republicans but offering few specifics on rates or structure.
Gen Maurice-Gustave Gamelin argues that France could have continued resistance against Germany if rearming had begun earlier. He recalls Riom trials and his removal on May 19 1940, detailing command decisions and Allied coordination before the fall of Paris.
Manila July 16 Jap resistance is thinning as Australian troops near Sambodja oil field center pushing five miles in two days, Gen Douglas MacArthur reports. Allied forces target Samarinda 36 miles northwest with heavy artillery, air support, and coast patrols after Japanese sabotage fears on Balikpapan refineries and pipelines.
President Truman toured the ruined heart of Potsdam with Churchill and viewed the Reichstag Tiergarten and derelict chancellery as talks with Stalin and Molotov loom. He conferred with Byrnes and Leahy and awarded a citation to Company E of the 17th armored engineers. Washington reports say opening sessions for the big three at the conference may begin tomorrow.
Brussels reports the Belgian cabinet met in emergency session after Prime Minister van Acker announced King Leopold would not abdicate but would not return to Belgium immediately. Rumors of a message to the people about awaiting a general election circulated without confirmation.
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