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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1945
Page
2
Philadelphia notes a fan club for Pennock with special membership cards and a reserved section in the Shibe Park grandstand for members. The piece also mentions a runaway phrase about 5,000 second guessers and a curious aside on doughnuts’ origin.
Partly cloudy and hot today and tonight with widely scattered thundershowers in east and central portions this afternoon and evening.
Senators from 39 members gathered for a summer get-together in Raleigh with plans for possible annual conferences. Sen. Hugh Mitchell noted the unique nature of the gathering, while visitors included wives and families. A barbecue and square dance were planned at Skybrook farm with daytime activities and entertainment available.
Nationwide labor turmoil reports 31,000 workers affected and 2,025,000 man hours lost. Detroit files show 50,000 idle, with Goodyear, glass workers in Akron and other plants involved. Several plants resume work. new strike at Continental Foundry in East Chicago prompts AFL protest.
A Chinese speaking American attendee relayed that at a foreign press conference the generalissimo described China ready to bear the land battle with American air support and ground help. He also urged an American landing on the China coast to open a supply port for Chinese forces.
President Truman discussed possible nominees, including a secretary of state choice to be announced soon, as he returned to Kansas City. Nelson Rockefeller remains a named candidate though no action has been taken, and Stettinius’ resignation looms in diplomacy and war reports.
L. L. Gravely of Rocky Mount told the Tobacco Association of the United States board that bond markets and war endings have not reduced tobacco problems. He noted slight gains in export prospects, but warned high prices and liberal-country purchasing power, plus monetary clarifications, keep major hurdles for reclaiming world markets.
Chinese troops bombed and strafed along a mile front from a northern province to an airdrome at Peiping where a Japanese plane was destroyed and the field pummeled for two days. Shipping and rail traffic around the Yellow river and Grand canal were disrupted. Linhai was taken as Japanese units retreated toward Ninghai, with Chinese forces 65 miles above Wenchow and 165 miles south of Shanghai.
The senate halted midday action on a war agencies appropriation while senator Bilbo blocks an FEPC funding amendment. He vows to keep the floor until Chavez’s proposed 250000 grant for six months is defeated, calling FEPC a fusion of white and Negro races and criticizing Roosevelt. Links to Conally Johnston and other colleagues surface as talks stall.
MacArthur signals stable gains in the Philippines with Leyte secured and Mindanao operations described as mop up. Japanese remnants of about 20 000 in the Cagayan valley retreat to forests cut off from supplies while Allied forces close a northern Beightler led advance and Swing’s 11th airborne push nears a juncture near a town. Australian forces pushing toward Seria oil fields report limited enemy resistance and early gains near Beaufort and Kuala Belait.
The report notes a record 451 registrations at institutes and a PTA round-up for screening new students. It covers community health resources, nutrition's role in state health, and calls by Mrs. J. A. Blair and Allison James to boost North Carolina’s seventh war loan quota through PTA efforts.
Millions of pounds of potatoes and grain are ruined in Holland due to German floodings with at least 3 million dollars worth of agricultural implements destroyed.
San Francisco dispatch reports Japanese talk of special attack weapons to deter invasion. Domei quotes a correspondent describing vast youth training and plans for a mainland strike to provoke worldwide astonishment, amid talk of death by own action weapons.
Senator Connally described the charter as a monumental performance and warned that mere documents and phrases reveal war aims. He outlined the developing organization and highlighted veto power held by the five permanent members of the Security Council.
Four more japanese aircraft plants and 3.45 more square miles of Nipponese cities were hit by B-29s in raids on June 18 20 and 22. More than 115 square miles of factory and urban areas burned or bombed. Nimitz reports four week naval losses: 637 killed or missing and 653 wounded. Maj. Gen. Curtis E. Lemay commands the bomber force.
Tokyo broadcasts report stepped up mine laying by superior presses. About 12 mines in Naruto Strait and eastern Inland Sea area Wednesday and today 13 more mined southern Honshu coast and seven mined approaches to Niigata. The notice cites Sky Fleet activity and Japanese statements. First private command performance under Queen Victoria at Windsor Castle on December 28, 1848 starred Mr and Mrs Charles Kean in The Merchant of Venice.
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