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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 28, 1945
Page
6
Considerable cloudiness with little temperature change. Scattered showers and thunderstorms this afternoon and evening and again Sunday afternoon.
Medley results show Ethel Laughlin leading Carolina Swimming Club in first place with a 5 29.4 time. Snooky Proctor of UNC wins the men’s 1500 free with 23 37.8, Frances Kenney of Carolina tops the women’s 800 free in 13 23.8, and UNC swimmers place in the 200 free and 300 medley relay events with Goldsboro and Lejeune clubs also scoring.
Blunt speaking Er nest Bevin, 64, becomes foreign secretary and will accompany Attlee to Potsdam. Cabinet picks include Hugh Dalton, Herbert Morrison, Arthur Greenwood, Sir Stafford Cripps, Sir William Allen Jowitt, plus Bevin’s rise from union leader to top diplomat.
A soldiers' picnic at Holyoke ended with one man dead and three rescued. Pvt. Theodore R. Speights of Bath, North Carolina, was identified as the deceased. his body was recovered. An unrelated note mentions sugar substitutes for baking.
The crash of a B 25 bomber struck the Empire State Building, killing at least 15 people including Paul Dearing of Buffalo. Flames and smoke roared through floors 78 to 80 and elevators failed. Mayor LaGuardia and responders described a chaotic scene as hundreds fled and firefighting continued for hours.
In a courtroom guarded by 80 Vichy gendarmes, a juror pressed Marshal Petain to answer why Mandel was turned over to the Nazis. Petain declined, saying he would not answer an unclear question. Clemenceau recalled clashes with Petain over the 1940 armistice and Africa policy, while Gen Doyen testified he was ordered to continue cooperation with Germany after Laval’s arrest.
SGT Raymond E Miles stationed at the 137th General Hospital England is home on a 30 day furlough before heading to the civic theater He is the son of Mrs Charles Beach 302 Willowbrook Street He has two brothers in service one in the Panama zone and another in the Pacific
Senator Taft argues unity on avoiding a third world war while a new peace keeping body grows from the San Francisco agreement. Morse, Morse hints at full discussion before a roll call as Barkley promises broad floor time. Johnson, ill, is absent as the senate drift toward a near unanimous vote on the charter.
Allied reports say Japanese waves of 80 to 300 planes attacked Honshu and Kure from dawn until noon with 560 carrier planes striking a wide area. US pilots claimed 238 ships sunk or damaged in recent days while more than 800 enemy planes were destroyed or damaged in 19 days of operations.
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