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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1945
Page
2
Herbert Mitchell announced the JayCee scrap drive collected 65 000 pounds of paper Sunday. He noted some streets were missed due to truck shortages and urged residents to use nearby waste paper bins. Officials said paper supplies remain tight and war efforts may raise need for more. A second drive is planned around June 1.
San Francisco May 1 The Japanese Domei news agency reported Admiral Soemu Toyoda has been named commander in chief of all Japanese naval forces. Toyoda previously led the Combined Fleet.
The High Point Tuberculosis Association names Mrs. Shepard as full-time executive secretary after training at Emory University. She will help establish rural coverage and set up permanent offices while collaborating with Guilford County doctors and local associations.
The article describes a heated U S debate at a conference where Molotov pressed for delaying inviting Argentina while Secretary Stettinius urged immediate action, highlighting heightened postwar international tensions and deteriorating relations among Allied powers.
Reports say Foreign Commissar Molotov may depart the United Nations conference soon due to wartime developments. It is unclear if Eden and other chiefs will also quit by mid May while Stettinius plans to stay to push the talks forward.
Conference votes show 28 to 7 against delaying invitation and 31 to 4 for immediate extension. Russia blocks extending on second vote. Norway New Zealand ingium Czechoslovakia Ukvia Greece split. Molotov defends Argentina and praises Poland, calling for unity amid early bloc formation.
A grand parade in Red Square featured Stalin and militia vehicles while overhead Russian planes roared. A 1,200 piece band performed as dignitaries observed the celebration including Edouard Herriot former French president recently liberated from a German camp and the Japanese ambassador to Moscow with his staff.
A speech urged that the state be treated as a single unit with the well of the state taking priority. The discussion referenced a commission hearing and called for unified governance amidst broader state concerns.
Mrs Clara Jane McDowell Morgan 38 wife of Albert S Morgan of 1118 Grace Street died in a local hospital this morning at 10 o clock. Born High Point February 24 1907 she was daughter of W Atlas and Mary Proctor McDowell and had lived in High Point all her life. Survived by husband four daughters Betty Mariless Ann Virginia Mc Daniels four sons Roger Darrell Adam all of High Point and Albert S Morgan Jr of Carolina Beach. Body remains at Koonce Funeral home pending funeral arrangements.
Allied forces describe heavy Japanese resistance on Okinawa with early direct fire on Shuri and several airfields captured including Machinato and Ie. In the Philippines MacArthur reports Talikud island seizure near Davao City as U S infantry push toward Mindanao port amid booby trapped roads. Luzon operations also advance with Baguio Trinidad and Loacan airfield taken, road open from Manila north.
Reports on May Day note hints of Himmler's possible surrender and U S Britain involvement. Newspapers show banner headlines while radio in London predicts tremendous news on the war's progress. While negotiations may continue, there is no clear final outcome as rival German factions seek unity.
The March report of a Sgt. Robert Holt killed in action caused confusion as Mrs. Robert Holt of Dublin Ga and former High Point resident clarified the fallen is the Albany Holt’s son. The High Point Holt, once a local carrier, remains alive in the Pacific and has sent church papers after baptism on New Year’s Day.
Registration for home canning sugar opens tomorrow at city and county schools. White schools run 1 to 6 pm, Negro schools 1 to 3:30 pm and 5 to 9 pm. Applicants must bring No 4 family ration books and answer questions about prior sugar use. The program is sized down due to sugar shortages. Guilford county quotas are lower this year.
A wartime letter argues that only intensive education can reform the Reich, noting Hitler’s success in shaping German youth and proposing that allied educators or sympathetic German instructors might ultimately guide the country toward reform rather than bayonet power.
Allied forces sweep across southern Germany as the Seventh Army reaches Baierbrunn Kochel and Munich with divisions moving along the Isar and Danube gateways. Munich falls amid limited resistance while Dachau camp’s liberation adds grim context as Lt. Gen. Patch leads the capture.
The funeral service for Wanda Faye Hughes, daughter of Mr and Mrs C C, who died Friday afternoon, was conducted from the home at 806 Blair Street Sunday at 3 oclock. Rev D A Oakley and Rev J Oakley led the service.
Two divorce actions have been filed with the municipal court on grounds of two years\' nen. Evelyn Hairstone seeks divorce from Louis C. ley and William Lawrence ady seeks divorce from garet Lambeth Hornady. Wilma Carthers sues N. H. Carithers claiming surrender of a large radio small radio electric tor two pairs of curtains a lamp bed and bed slats a movie rack and two chairs rightfully hers. She values the city at 175 dollars and seeks recovery of the property\'s reasonable value.
In Raleigh court notes several locals faced charges. Louise Joyner pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct and vagrancy, receiving two years in state prison plus related terms. Others, including Alvin Hobby and Will Morgan, were sentenced for larceny to four years on the roads with fines. Catherine Randle faced probation violation, and Lester Manuel Wilson was ruled guilty on forged name charges. Fannie Butler and Willie Lee LeGrand awaited trials as midday proceedings continued.
Funeral services for John Warren Jr. will be held Wednesday at 3:30 PM at the Pentecostal Holiness church with Rev. T. T. Lindsay and Rev. C. F. Noble officiating. Interment follows in Floral Garden Cemetery. Warren, born December 31, 1900 in Alabama, recently lived in Harriman, Tennessee, employed by the U. S. government.
Carpenter by trade, Donald Ross Warren died Sunday in Iman Tennessee after a brief illness. Surviving family includes his wife Annie Ruth Easley, daughter Josephine Gray, three sisters Mrs Virgil Dean and Mrs Buster Dean of Payne Alabama and Mrs W Franklin of Crean Arthur Fort four brothers Lott Travis Warren of Alabama and Joseph Warren of Kingston. The body was taken to Archdale for burial after services.
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