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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1945
Page
13
Washington reports OPA predicts most rationing ends this year with meats and shoes unrationed by 1945 end. Tire rationing may extend to year end. rent controls to continue in many areas. Eight regions decontrolled already. further shifts likely.
The Dominion of Canada is served by two large railway systems and 34 smaller railroads and switching and terminal companies.
Paris INS Two Pasteur Institute doctors Dr Vital Chorine and Dr Bernard Sureau develop a Vitamin PP based therapy for tuberculosis. After a dramatic case cure in a girl, they report 20 more patients treated with excellent results though caution remains about generalizing the method and long term outcomes.
London reports admiralty confirmation that four phantom battleships existed only on paper. Authorized before the war, two were never started and all were halted years ago, yet foreign accounts claimed they were completed.
Wake Island prisoners were killed after a two week feast for survivors as Japanese officers pressed for military secrets. Marines and civilians described 14 days of questioning with breaded veal and other wartime rarities amid the captors’ brutal regimen in Yokohama.
Royal M. Gerhardt of Pennsylvania State College says postwar housing will change gradually not dramatically. He expects evolution in building styles rather than sudden, sweeping innovations.
Raleigh hosts a dinner in honor of Willis Smith Raleigh president nominee of the American Bar Association as part of the North Carolina Bar Association annual meeting. Governor Jim Cherry and other dignitaries will attend while earlier sessions covered war contract termination taxation and postwar conversion issues.
Calcutta news reports the navy released names of additional Houston survivors from a Japanese prison camp. The group was flown in from Rangoon after liberation and includes H. R. Clark of Waynesville among others.
Report says after a period of feasting the enticement failed to the Nipponese and prisoners were shipped to a prison camp. Guards allegedly beat them without provocation according to the account.
Sim Delapp of Lexington proposes outright repeal of North Carolina's absentee ballot law except for servicemen. He calls for open county hearings by the state elections board and promises merciless publicity to offenders to end election fraud.
At a war department news conference, Capt. Robert L. Hite Capt. Chase J. Neilsen and Sgt. Jacob D. Deshazer spoke about mistreatment by Japanese interrogators after Lt. Gen. James Doolittle’s Tokyo raid. They recounted clubbing slaps threats to behead and long periods in solitary confinement during about 40 months of imprisonment.
Thomasville JayCees announce a paper drive starting at one o'clock the next afternoon. The group will canvass every street and collect scrap paper. Trucks will be used and local Boy Scouts will assist in the effort.
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