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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1945
Page
1
Bernard Baruch favors dismembering German industry yet warns against crippling its economy. He envisions Germany kept occupied and quarantined for years while Europe pools its economic interests. Germany would export minimally to meet immediate needs as it rebuilds with local power and machinery.
The Associated Press reports ongoing labor disputes disrupt a weekend with over 85 000 workers idled nationwide. In the Detroit area the heavy industry sector contributed to the blurred scene as numerous controversies kept workers off the job.
Washington dispatch reports Hickory lawyers will ask President Truman for clemency for Pvt Albert B Ritchie of Catawba North Carolina. Ritchie was sentenced to death by court martial for the slaying of Cpl Peter De Rep Ervin with a 30 day stay arranged to secure a White House audience and allow family travel to Fort Leavenworth Kansas. Attorneys John C Stroupe and R H Shuford will meet Cal Vaughan in Washington on July 2 to press the appeal as Col Aseeenen is traveling with the president.
The Federation of British Industries in London says chief responsibility for Bretton Woods success rests with the United States due to veto power and the fact the IMF and World Bank would be in America. It voiced misgivings but generally supported the plan and urged immediate approval in its present form if changes were demanded.
Washington reports the army will sharply reduce meat purchases for the next 60 days to free civilian supplies. Officials say military buying will be trimmed briefly to ease civilian shortages, following earlier plans to suspend lend-lease meat shipments in the July to September quarter.
San Francisco dispatch reports Hirohito stating Japan’s crisis is unprecedented and might see him assume personal rule amid the voluntary military service act. War Minister Anami says the act creates a volunteer corps capable of victory. A Melbourne radio broadcast adds Australian forces have neutralized Japanese resistance on Labuan Tarakan and surrounding borneo coasts.
Tokyo radio said over 100 fighter planes attacked northern Tokyo airfields in Ibaraki and nearby areas while 75 mustangs with three B 29s hit fields north of Tokyo for more than an hour and a half. A raid on Kure was claimed to fail as four air plants endured heavy anti aircraft fire.
Moscow reports a Polish national unity cabinet is planned in Warsaw early next week after rival factions agreed on the regime structure. The three man Crimea commission said Warsaw government, exiled London leaders, and democratic Poles will form the administration with figures including Mikolajczyk, Witos, Bernik, Grabski, Stanczyk, and Thugut invited.
Raleigh June 23 Governor Cherry announced the reappointment of Allen J Maxwell as director of the department of tax research and Wilmer Z Betts as director of the division of purchase and contract both for unspecified terms Justice M W Barnhill of the state supreme court administered the oath of office to the appointees.
Hollandia New Guinea June 21 Those tribesmen in the hidden valley are described as docile toward Miss Hastings of Owego and two army airmen awaiting rescue after a May 13 plane crash killed 20. Capt Cecil Walters says Miss Hastings is the sharpest trader among them. The natives prefer trading with her.
Governor Cherry reorganizes the North Carolina motor vehicle department naming Walter H. Anderson as major of the state highway patrol and director of the safety division. Anderson, 42, previously Charlotte chief of police since 1942, will report by July 15. T. Boddie Ward remains commissioner since 1941.
A British source said Britain would accept the United States plan to hold a collective trial of Germanys war criminals before a high military tribunal. France and Russia were believed likely to agree, though their position remained undetermined.
In Guilford superior court Judge John H. Clement sentenced six of seven men indicted in the murder of blind bootlegger R. L. Beck during a June 9 1944 holdup near Greensboro. Defendants Lacy Salmon Herbert Carroll Henry Hadie Agner Clarence Norris Sam Thompson and Rand Bennett received 25 to 30 year terms in Central Prison. Hugh Gibson had charges not pressed.
The Treasury urged organizations and bond sellers to maintain a full drive tempo as the Seventh War Loan nears its end. As of now total sales reach 18.441 billion against a 14 billion quota, with corporations at 12.076 billion and individuals at 6.265 billion. A Chicago event featured Kenneth Brown presenting a bronze plaque valued at 715 million to Admiral Hewitt on behalf of President Truman, symbolizing school-year war bond purchases.
The article notes a massive aerial troop movement aiding North Carolina veterans, detailing a record pace of repatriation with 50,000 personnel monthly flown back from overseas by air transport. The effort marks a historic logistical achievement in the wartime mobilization.
Governors of thirteen northeastern states urge red points be used for meat only and call for a single national agency to run all phases of the OPA food program. They favor enforcement focus on food, local quota checks, and removal of new slaughterers to stabilize meat distribution.
President Truman reportedly has counted fewer than a dozen potential votes against the peace charter he plans to submit to the Senate on July 2. Sources say he has personally spoken with nearly all senators and remains optimistic about ratification, aiming for a swift approval well above two thirds before meeting Stalin and Churchill in mid July. The White House visit in Washington state with Gov. Mon Wallgren is described as a brief vacation as he reviews the senator list and leans on longstanding relationships.
Tokyo radio reports claim US losses as kamikaze strikes sink two American ships and damage three others off Okinawa. The day after American forces seized the island, at least 20 vessels were sunk or damaged in ongoing air raids. Admiral Nimitz said two light naval units and an auxiliary vessel were sunk and others damaged across Thursday night to Friday noon.
A United Nations conference commission schedules public hearings on the UN charter membership amendments and secretariat. Senators Connally and Vandenberg plan to report on conference progress. ratification appears likely with a two thirds majority, possibly by September, as Stettinius prepares hearings before Truman travels to Germany.
Chinese forces aided by aircraft recaptured two key hill positions north of Sichuan in southwestern Henan, after Japanese troops seized them earlier Friday. About 2,000 Japanese from Sichuan were killed or captured as the Chinese regained the points, and Liuchow near the southwest remains a focal point with ongoing five column attacks.
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