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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1945
Page
1
Readers are shown a sweeping wartime panorama from Okinawa to Prague. The piece contrasts American progress against Japan with German routs in Europe, depicting refugees, starving children, and sobering scenes as SS troops surrender under Allied power.
Washington May 11 Harris D Arkansas urged lifting the mid curfew and racing ban by restoring the nation to its standard time. He will introduce a resolution to revert the country one hour, repealing a law passed in January.
Chinese troops on the 78 mile Hunan front push back Japanese in a prel ude to a general counter offensive. American air power supports the move, surrounding Japanese near Chihkiang and reporting heavy casualties. The drive aimed at Chihkiang faced Chinese pincers from north and south.
Washington report says the House approved a 2500 dollar annual, tax free expense supplement for each member as part of a 50 million dollar appropriation. Senate action could erase or preserve the raise as lawmakers weigh public perception and expense debates.
Konrad Henlein Gauleiter of the Sudetenland killed himself in a prisoner cage by slashing his wrists with a razor while in custody. He and Karl Frank were captured fleeing Prague toward American lines as German troops and Nazi authorities retreated toward Allied forces.
President Truman reviewed the postwar tax outlook with top revenue authorities in Washington. He met for thirty minutes with Senate Finance Chairman George and House Ways and Means Chairman Dough ton to discuss a five point tax revision proposal from treasury and government experts.
Sixth Marine Division advances toward Naha Okinawa as Maj. Gen Lemuel Sherman leads a fresh push to cross the Asa river in darkness despite two Japanese attempts to blow the ramp. Allied gains reported along the southern front with casualties rising for both sides as Superfortress raids strike Kyushu targets.
Washington May 11 A special intelligence section to detect and ruthlessly suppress Nazi underground activity will be part of the American military government in the German occupation zone. The unit will form the U S administration within the four power control council with 12 divisions aligned to German ministries. Eisenhower chairs the council. Lucius Clay serves as deputy military governor. The program aims to impose stern military governance and implement Yalta agreed policies.
Nazi fanatics who fought on a vakia against surrender were reported in headlong flight toward American lines. Three Soviet armies moved in four broad pincers, threatened to envelop them as Field Marshal Ferdinand Schoerner and Col. Woehler led forces despite surrender.
Allied forces disclosed that some American units are departing European ports for the Pacific theater under the redeployment plan. Service troops will move first to prepare the way for combat veterans who helped defeat Germany, with six months likely before frontline units reach the Pacific. Brig. Gen. Ga. B. Eyster announced the alert and movement.
The Soviet high command reported 209000 German officers and men captured in preliminary checks along the front. In La Rochelle French sailors took over the German Atlantic fleet units anchored there, while remnants of the German surface and underwater fleet remained in Allied hands, including cruisers Prinz Eugene and Neumberg shelled Copenhagen over the weekend under Royal Navy guard in Copenhagen harbor.
The report highlights Allied efforts to capture Hermann Goering Franz von Papen and Heinrich Himmler while noting Joseph Goebbels death and the ongoing hunt for Nazi war criminals. It frames Goering as dangerous and Himmler as particularly brutal with Himmler in hiding from justice.
In San Francisco on May 11 the United Nations conference shows small nations uniting to gain greater authority over the proposed use of force to prevent future wars. Committees work on Dumbarton Oaks amendments, with Prime Minister Mackenzie King of Canada pressing for expanded security council powers.
Price Administrator Chester Bowles vowed 1942 retail prices for most reconversion commodities and urged policies to boost civilian output. He warned against inflation and said only minimal increases beyond 1942 levels would be necessary, stressing stable supply and wages.
Milton H. Fries of the Southern Research Institute told Chapel Hill audiences the nation faces dwindling metal and mineral supplies and that the southern states must expand industrial research. He cited 34 years for copper and 18 for petroleum remaining, urging concentration of low grade ores and greater southward research presence. The Birmingham institute aims to open a science lab this summer as a hub linking industry and universities.
Lt Gen James H Doolittle announced that 2 000 plane raids against Japan were being prepared as airfields, routes, and communications expand. He said the Eighth Air Force in England numbers about 200 000 personnel with 100 000 rotating, and that many bombers would shift to the Pacific while some crews and planes return to the United States or stay with allied occupation forces.
The month of May brings a weather binge with heavy snow in New England and upper New York, freezing temps in the Midwest, and rain elsewhere. Northern New England reports up to six inches, Albany and Fort Plain New York record five inches, while Montpelier Vermont sees six inches as snow shifts to rain along the coast.
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