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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 04, 1945
Page
1
American veterans freed from Japanese camps recount starvation torture and abuse to Lt Gen Robert Lichhelberger as war crime lists expand. Navy evacuates hundreds more from Tokyo area and Niigata while Allies track prisoners across Japan and former colonies.
The author compares Marines with earlier Allied fighters, noting their cockiness, clannishness, rapid camaraderie, and scrappy, aggressive mindset. Maj. E. F. Carney, 24, from Churchland Virginia, led aboard the transport to Japan, describing men who fought back from hospitals to join the campaign.
The Chungking talks between Chinese communists and Chiang Kai-shek's government are described as in a preliminary stage with no agreement yet. Chiang signals constitutional democracy, promises equal legal status for all parties, and hints at possible inclusion of communist delegates in the national assembly, a drastic shift from a one party system in a dictatorship affecting hundreds of millions.
North Carolina bank resources climbed to 1.6195 billion dollars as of June 30, up from 1.2604 billion a year earlier. State commercial banks held 1.1720 billion in resources, with 155 banks and 140 branches totals, while 27 state industrial banks contributed additional resources as of June 30.
Charlotte story: Leo Finkelstein of Asheville NC learns from Harry Murdock in the service that the Pacific archipelagos are not as vast as imagined. Murdock’s letter from Los Negros in the Mariannas described tropical moonlit bays. Finkelstein, honorably discharged at Fort Bragg, met him in Charlotte before heading home.
Chairman Sabath of the house rules committee urged immediate discharge from the armed forces for nearly all married men with families. In letters to War Secretary Stimson and Navy Secretary Forrestal he listed five groups to be returned to civilian life at once including men with families who served abroad or in uniform for at least two years and students under 20 who will resume schooling.
Governor R. Gregg Cherry will address the North Carolina Press Association in Raleigh for the opening session of the fall meeting on September 20. Separate meetings for weekly and daily papers are set for September 21, followed by a joint session and dinner at the Sir Walter hotel.
North Carolina internal revenue collections for August totaled 7 33 419.69 dollars, rising by 17 133 634.59 over August 1944. For the first two months of the 1945 fiscal year, receipts reached 145 195 256 33 dollars, up 22 231 172 42 from the prior year.
The central council of 17 national resistance members and 21 regional leaders announced it will appeal to the public to denounce Gen. de Gaulle’s proposed referendum and the plan for elections on October 21. It said it opposes altering the Third Republic’s constitution or creating a new charter.
Three Doolittle group members Lt Chase Nielsen Lt Robert Hite and Staff Sergeant Jacob Deshazar return to the United States after 41 months. They were rescued from a Japanese camp near Peiping and flown from Karachi to Washington arriving at National airport. They were taken to Walter Hospital for a checkup and spoke to reporters.
Washington reports postwar changes in the Truman administration may include Gen George C Marshall stepping down as chief of staff within months and Gen Dwight D Eisenhower being considered as successor. Secretary of War Henry L Stimson also may retire to allow a younger leader.
Schwellenbach and Ickes urged workers to take a heavy postwar role in economic reorganization. Vinson called tax reform to spur investment, Green pressed for labor management accord, and Schwellenbach warned government may assume responsibility if common good is not pursued. Ickes spoke at Baltimore rally urging workers to root out drones and grafters.
America's first peacetime holiday since 1941 saw tragedy with 352 deaths recorded as Labor Day ended. Auto accidents caused much of the rise. 204 killed in traffic, 58 drownings, 90 from other causes. Illinois led states with 36 deaths.
Chicago worker Charles Gibbs admitted to police he killed Henry F. Smith a 66 year old machinery firm owner in a downtown Chicago hotel. Gibbs is charged with murder after his daughter Virginia 21 led police to him as he tried to board a bus. Gibbs claimed Smith broke up his home and paid his daughter weekly and gave her two houses.
Washington September 4 An economist for the United States Chamber of Commerce predicted a great boom is pending based on stored up purchasing power. Dr Emerson Schmidt director of the chamber's economic research department told the Senate Finance Committee that Americans held 194 billion dollars in liquid assets last December. He cautioned the boom may not continue indefinitely and warned against unwise reconversion and labor policies.
American reporters tour Hiroshima months after the atomic blast, describing crumbled blocks, a lone bank building functioning, and 80 000 deaths feared. The city of 400 000 is reduced to ruins with streetcars, rubble, and wary civilians amidst intense postwar shock.
American forces tighten control around Tokyo with General MacArthur authorizing requisition powers across Japan. First occupation of Tokyo slated Friday. 3,350 troops to secure the city while police maintain order. Other landings target Hamamatsu Takusu Kanoya and Kyushu areas as occupation plans unfold from Yokohama.
Four people traveling from Santa to Baltimore were injured when their car left the highway north of Greensboro and struck a tree after the driver fell asleep. The most seriously hurt were Kepner 21 and William Yax 44, both hospitalized with back, jaw and leg injuries. Dorothy Kepner and Harry Gamber also injured. Gamber reported dozing off around 4 a.m.
Forty two carloads of salt meat are allotted to North Carolina towns hit by shortages. Deliveries begin after September 11 to Greensboro Salisbury Asheville Charlotte Fayetteville Durham Wilmington Laurinburg Gastonia Greensville Elizabeth City Winston Salem Henderson Rocky Mount Raleigh High Point Goldsboro and Wilson.
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