18 May 1945
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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1945
Page
1
A wartime travelogue details Rhineland ruins near Juelich and Dueren, noting churches and statues repurposed by allies, shattered towns, and displaced German civilians. It contrasts Belgian towns with return of peace, busy markets, and new cars amid postwar adjustment and suspicion. The piece shifts to a separate report on a May meeting of North Carolina Masons and a violent murder case in Hialeah involving Joe Munn and Coretta Zenke.
In Miami on May 18 a district justice ordered four bull pit terriers to be killed in a gas chamber after they killed a 39 year old woman. The owner, 43 year old Joe Munn of Hialeah, requested the autopsy to check for fabric particles in the dogs' stomachs.
Dr. Milton J. Rosenau, dean of UNC School of Public Health, told the Public Health Association of New York that Americans could afford to spend millions to fight deadly diseases. He urged $100 million yearly for research into mental illness cancer tuberculosis and related diseases.
At a San Francisco UN session, major powers debate veto reforms and peacekeeping limits. The United States Britain may accept changes, Russia could block, while debates on regional defense, colonial independence, and a new world court shape the effort to prevent future wars.
Washington reports that Larry MacPhail, president of the New York Yankees, may attend horse races with his wife Jean Wanamaker at Pimlico. Senator Happy Chandler, baseball commissioner elect, says race tracks should be off limits to ball players though club officials' actions are their own concern unless harming baseball.
The British cruiser HMS Curacao was cut in half by the liner Queen Mary while fleeing a German submarine and sank in the Atlantic on October 1, 1942. Admiralty reports 338 officers and men lost.
The piece discusses Japanese diplomacy seeking peace without unconditional surrender, warning it signals weakness and urging a strong Allied response. It highlights Okinawa as a costly battle with 34,000 of 180,000 troops remaining and notes the strategic impact on bombing Tokyo. It also reports Moscow declaring the Soviet Union hosts the world’s most powerful radio station, built 1941 43 with ingrad parts during 41 42.
Washington reports former German American band leader Fritz Kuhn has been ordered deported as an undesirable alien by the board of immigration appeals. Kuhn, 49, a Munich native, previously faced larceny and forgery convictions tied to German American bond funds. After parole from Dannemora, he was interned as an enemy alien and moved through camps in Crystal City Texas Kennedy Texas and Fort Stanton New Mexico before the deportation order. He arrived in the United States in 1928, became naturalized in 1934, then was denaturalized eight years later for fraudulent citizenship taking the oath with mental reservations. He is to be returned to Germany on a repatriation ship and turned over to American military authorities for disposition.
Washington reports detail a Chungking gold scandal where Chinese speculators profited from a premature leak of March government price changes. Dr. T. V. Soong warned of drastic punishment for those involved as censorship tightened on coverage.
The aircraft carrier Franklin arrives at the Brooklyn navy yard under its own power after a horrific air attack that killed 832 and wounded 270. The Essex class ship, heavily damaged by two direct bomb hits, begins repairs as it resumes its role against Japan.
New Yorkers greeted meatless Friday with cynicism, as Meatless May seemed more likely. Vegetables and canned goods filled diets while fish ran scarce in some stores and egg baskets stayed empty.
The jury in former Mayor Arnold Koonce’s $50,000 libel suit against ex-City Councilman John Kalte remained out this afternoon. Judge John H. Clement refused lunch, after two hours and 35 minutes since deliberations began, as jurors requested a letter Kalte wrote to Miss Mary Baker of the Rainbow Girls. The letter discussed inviting Koonce to speak to the girls at High Point College, a key element of the libel claim. Judge Clement had delivered a charge lasting about ninety minutes earlier, with attorney Clifford Frazier of Greensboro presenting a 45 minute argument.
San Francisco May 18 The Tokyo radio acknowledged a powerful Allied fleet moving from the Marianas and requiring strict vigilance at home. The broadcast said American forces were fighting near Shuri Okinawa and that the fleet left the Marianas about a week ago, urging greater aircraft production and homeland defense against possible attacks.
Lieut. T. H. Wingate formerly edited the Kannapolis Independent was liberated by Russian forces from a German prison camp on April 23. His wife received the news in a letter. the Wingates and their three children now reside in Charlotte. Wingate is a Charlotte native and Presbyterian College alumnus. He was captured in the Italian theater.
A revival meeting starts Sunday at Pisgah Baptist Church with Rev. H. P. Caulden of Brightwood Baptist Church delivering the sermon. A picnic dinner will be served on the grounds after services.
President Truman told French Foreign Minister George Bidault that the United States is willing to cede part of the American occupation zone in Germany to France. He said details have been conveyed to Paris and are being formalized, and he hopes to meet General Charles de Gaulle. The statement promises U S help to France and its recovery despite shortages, but the exact zones to be turned over were not specified.
Moscow papers publish a Sakhalin island message to Marshal Stalin proclaiming the northern portion Russian and pledging to strengthen the defense of their homeland. The letter asserts Sakhalin as an immemorial Russian land despite Japan’s control of the southern part.
Guam dispatch reports the Okinawa campaign entering a decisive phase with the Sixth Marine Division widening a bridgehead in Naha while three divisions close on Shuri from three sides. About 34,000 defenders remain, including Okinawan home guards, amid sustained American pressure and mounting losses.
Paris sources quoted British diplomatic circles saying Russia could enter the war by addressing an ultimatum to Japan demanding acceptance of total surrender terms to the Allies and abandonment of all Japanese continental conquests. The broadcast was recorded by CBS.
The report notes Okinawa terrain favors southern sector operations below Naha and Shuri as bombers prepare for the final air neutralization campaign. In Guam on May 18 US B-29s hammered Japan's oil storage complexes, with recon photos showing extensive destruction of fuel depots from the May 10 raid on southeastern Honshu.
Irene Lawson 20, a resident of 1317 Furlough, was arrested for larceny after a missing wrist watch belonging to Hazel Smith of 714 Grace was found in her possession. Gordon 38, of Thomasville, was jailed on a $500 bond for operating a car while intoxicated on South Main Street around 8 p.m.
Three hundred Frenchmen liberated from German slave labor paraded on the Champs Elysees shouting Down with the black market. The report notes inflated prices for meals cigarettes butter and chocolate with some items costing up to 25 dollars for a meal 250 dollars for a pack of cigarettes 160 for a bar of chocolate and four dollars per pound of butter.
Allied headquarters disclosed a planned assassination of General Eisenhower by a unit led by Otto Skorzeny, the Gestapo chief Heinrich Himmler’s operative. The capture of Skorzeny followed Italy’s Mussolini rescue, with war crimes actions and a broad Nazi hunt discussed for a May 31 commission conference.
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