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Newspaper
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Location
Lubbock, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1945
Page
6
General Dwight D. Eisenhower and Lt. Gen. Lucius D. Clay were named to head the American portion of the postwar German occupation. Eisenhower as military commander and Clay as deputy will supervise denazification and the purge of Nazi influences across American zones.
The White House prepared for Martha Truman, 92, to fly from Independence Missouri to celebrate Mother’s Day with President Truman. The item listing notes a 20 piece china breakfast set priced at six dollars.
The United States launches a broad redeployment starting with A Day as Germany’s war effort wanes. About 1.3 million soldiers will be released within a year under a new point rating plan, with combat troops moving toward the Pacific and others remaining in Europe for occupation duties. General Eisenhower declares a caution against sending veterans who fought in North Africa and Europe to the Pacific.
At the United Nations conference small and middle powers push a no vote no fight rule so any use of forces would require a ballot. Delegates seek expanded world security council membership and regional authority to curb war threats as Secretary Stettinius works on a compromise plan.
World War I veterans from Lubbock urge a severe peace with Germany after this war. They say Nazis must face harsh punishment and occupy a lasting consequence for crimes against humanity, arguing the German people should remember the atrocities and endure consequences.
Yugoslav partisans moving into southern Carinthia and Styria set up a roadblock on the Klagenfurt Graz highway below Voelkermarkt. They halted traffic to press claims for Marshal Tito and warned Volkermarkt to evacuate within 30 minutes while promising municipal rule.
Lt. Gerald W. Whisler 40 of Lompoch California was pilot for Brig. Gen. A. O. Gorder. Cpl. R. V. Blackburn of Temple was the crew chief. The wreck occurred during a routine ordered flight near Troy.
In Merano Italy on May 10 a group of Nazi agents were rounded up, including Baron von Kremeny the Hungarian foreign minister who led the overthrow of the Worthy regime and aligned Hungary with Nazi Germany last October.
Konrad Henlein, the Sudetenland leader who aided Nazi annexation, died in a war prison camp after slashing his wrists with a blade hidden in a cigarette case. He had been sentenced to death in absentia by the Czechoslovak government in 1938 and reportedly took his own life to avoid execution.
A provisional agreement on use and rehabilitation of western Europe’s war wrecked inland transportation was signed by the United States and six other nations. Signed in London May 8 by representatives of the United States United Kingdom France Belgium Luxembourg the Netherlands and Norway the accord aims to coordinate traffic and rehabilitate rails roads and waterways while facilitating withdrawal of American troops and supplies and provisioning occupation forces.
U S forces land on Mindanao north coast in Bukidnon, the third Mindanao landing, trapping Japanese troops between two Yank columns. The operation, announced by Gen Douglas MacArthur, also isolates Davao as the 24th division advances. In the Philippines Luzon and Tarakan broader actions continue with air and sea bombardments.
Official casualty releases list killed, wounded and missing service members. Pvt James Ferguson of Plainview is dead in Europe. Wounded include Cpl Billy Waldrep of Slaton and Pvt J M Bowman of Levelland. Also wounded are Pfe Henry Holmes of 506 Ave. E and T/8 J O Sheid Jr. Missing is T/Sgt Bunyan West of Snyder in Europe.
About 60,000 American soldiers overseas sent prepared Mother's Day greetings to New York. The messages express gratitude and affection, reflecting wartime morale and the home front connection during May 11.
Lt. Gen. James H. Doolittle says Allied air and land forces will crush Japan using Superfortresses Liberators and Flying Fortresses as medium bombers. He notes 2,400 plus Fortresses and Liberators in Britain and plans to move part of the force to the Pacific for sustained air action.
The U S Seventh Army seized Japanese Ambassador Hiroshi Oshima and 130 diplomatic staff along with nearly 200 German officials including Walther Funk and Wilhelm Ohnesorge. The roundup, location not disclosed, included Oshima’s wife and several top military and press figures.
London May 12 The Soviet communique reports 560000 Russian troops taken prisoner from May 9 to 11 including 45 generals and states the Courland peninsula in Latvia is completely occupied.
In a World War II exclusive, Captains Frank M. Brandstetter and Joseph L. Hoelzl recount a German plan to invade England from within on Christmas Eve 1944. The scheme aimed to seize London via a prison break at Devizes, seize arsenals, block roads, and seize airfields before airborne and seaborne reinforcements could respond.
San Francisco May 11 Tokyo radio warned that Japan faces a tremendously difficult future and that Allied psychological warfare is effective. The broadcast claimed Japan could marshal tenfold strength when fighting alone and stressed keeping friendly ties with Soviet Russia while fighting Britain and the United States. It noted Japan started the war for its own reasons and not to prompt German support.
Field Marshal Ernst Busch announced over Flensburg radio that he now commands German forces in Schleswig Holstein and northern Germany to maintain order and ensure army and civilian supplies.
Trud reports German SS troops flooded Moscow subways after learning of the capitulation. Hundreds of civilians and wounded soldiers were drowned as water filled the tunnels in the chaotic aftermath.
American Superforts began a three pronged attack from the Marianas to lay mines in the inland sea and major harbors including Tokyo Nagoya and Kobe area to disrupt Nippon shipping while B 29s bombed homeland factories and air fields. Maj Gen Curtis E Lemay led the effort started March 27 under Brig Gen John H Davies with Navy support to seal off Japan by aerial mining and strike military targets.
Partly cloudy Saturday and Sunday across West Texas and New Mexico. Cooler readings noted with little temperature change expected. widely scattered showers possible in northern New Mexico Saturday afternoon. Readings from West Texas company show varied temperatures through the night and early morning.
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