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Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1946-11-16
Winter Wreath Laid
Al Memcria! Plaque

y now wreath @. winter flowers
has been placed a. }hc memorial! pla-
que al the UIucrpusS ~ honor of
Vance county men who los: then.
lives in World War y Tie wreath
was provided by the Henderson Lions
club. which erected and maintains the
plaque.
The plaque bears the name, of 80
ODD service n"n rom tins county
who gave their lives ~ The war.
The new wreath IS OF grCCncry and
was so constructed as 10 withstand
a.! kinds of weather
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1946-11-16
Navy ErIiSImenIs
A7s Now Limited

i WAS announced today by the /.
: Navy recruiting station IN Ra-
leigh. that an unlimited number OF
mon may be accepted Tor immediate
enlistment III the L. S. Navy. pro-
Tideu they meet the physical and
educational requirements.
En.lStmcHtS can be made for either
."ir or SIX years. except for men
under IA. who mus; enlist To serve
until their 2!st birthday.
All applicants Tor a first enlist
mCnt IN the navy must furnish :.
birth certificate. and all applicants
under ~ must furnish? tho consent
o! their parents. :; was SAID.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-01
c SEPTEMBER

2-V-J Day. Premier Higashi- Kuni, HirOhitO's cousin, heads Jap delegation signing surrender dOcu- mentS aboard USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay. General Wainwright witnesses surrender.
 8-Anti-French riots in Saigon, Indo-C China, kill seven, injure 100.
 11-TOjO tries and fails to commit suicide with gun when Americans arrive to arrest him.
 i3-Lt.-Col. James P. s. Dever- eaux, who commanded Marines at Wake Island, found in good condi- tion at prison camp in northern Hokkaido.
 14-Ford Motor Go. shuts down, hitting at unauthorized" strikes in- terferring with supplies.
 18-War Secretary Stimson re- signs; Patterson succeeds him.
 19-Lord Flaw Flaw sentenced to hang for treason.
 25-Eisenhower orders Patton to remove all Nazis from managerial or supervisory jobs in Germany. Gen. eral Rawson and other Argentine military leaders arrested after at tempted revolution.
 30-War time ends,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-01
. NOVEMBER

1-GrOwing unrest in Germany is close to point of organized resist ance, Eisenhower reports. New cute breaks in Palestine result in six deaths.
 5-Labor- Management conference opens in Washington, warned by Truman to establish foundation for industrial peace or face legislation.
 British jet plane establishes new speed record of 606 mph.
 9-Truman signs bill cutting inc dividual and corporate income taxes
 l3-DeGauile elected president of French government. Navy men in Honolulu riot following attacks by civilians.
 14-Truman, Attlee agree secret OG atomic energy should be turned over to UNO provided other member na- tions pool military secret pOtentials and clarify postwar aspirations.
 l7-Josef Kramer, Beast of Bel- sen" prison camp, Irma Grese, two other women and seven more men sentenced to hang as war criminals in Lueneberg, Germany, trials; lS others get prison terms.
 le-Iranian troops rushed to bor- der province of Azerbajian 10 halt armed members of Separatist Demo- cratic Party reported marching on | Tehran.
 2O-TriaI of top Nazis opens at Nuremberg. General Eisenhower be- comes chief of staff of U. $. Army succeeding General Marshall! Ad- miraI Nimitz replaces Admiral King as chief of naval operations.
 2l-United Auto Workers union calls strike in all General Motors plants. Truman orders ODT to seize Washington transit system in strike.
 23-Four U. s. Army men killed others injured in rioting by lncAan mobs raging through streets oL Calcutta. All rationing of meats fats and butter ends at midnight. .
 27-General Marshall appOintea ambassador to China succeeding Mai.-Gen. Patrick J. Hurley who resigned declaring weakness ana confusion of Americas ''professl0n- al" diplomats in Far East would leao to third world war.
 2s-CIO United Steel Workera vote to strike if $2-a-day wage m crease throughout industry IS noe granted. Senator Connally demanaa investigation of General Hurieya charges. ..,..u
 3O-Rudolf Hess admits faKinS amnesia to escape trial.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-01
. APRIL

i-U. s. Tenth Army lands on OIinawa, 36O miles south of Japan.
 5-IRussia denounces neutrality pact with Japan. Jap Koiso cabinet resigns, Suzuki becomes premier
 7-U. S. Third Army seizes gold cache value at more than $l00, ,OO0,- 900 in hidden salt mine southeast of Berlin, finds hoard of stolen art treasures. ..,..
 ll-Rep0rt reaches London that Hitler Is dying and Himmler has seized power. Red Army captures Vienna.
 l2-President Roosevelt dies of cerebral hemorrhage at Little White House in Warm Springs, Ga.y while sitting for portrait. Harry $. Tru- man sworn in at Washington calls cabinet meeting to declare ROOse- veIt's policies will be continued.
 l8-Ernie Pyle, war correspondent, killed on Ie, small island of Okin- ava, by Jap sniper while moving forward with U. S. troops.
 2l-Russian army enters Berlin; city three-fourths encircled.
 22-German navy district head" quarters on North Sea surrenders.
 23-Blackout ends in England.
 25-San Francisco Conference Of
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ed for army's atrocities.
 e-U. s. troops unload Queen Ell2, abeth in New York longshoremez'N strike. Argentine army forces Col Juan Peron to resign.
 ll-Southern Okinawa hit by tp phoon.
 i2-General Dostler, first GernaR general to be tried before America& military commission, sentenced to death at Rome.
 l5-Pierre Laval executed by ilr- ing squad after attempt at suicide fails.
 lS-Seventy-four German individ' uals, seven Nazi organizations i'm dicted by Allied Military Tribunal in Berlin on charges of conspiracy to wage war of aggression. Peron forces regain control of Argentine cabinet, rampage through Buenos Aires streets.
 l9-Revolt in Venezuela unseats President Medina Angarita kills ct least 300 and wounds 1000.
 23-Truman asks one year of mili- tary training for all youths between l7 and 20.
 25-Dr Robert Ley, Nazi labor front chief, avoids trial as war crim- lnal by hanging himself in Nuern- berg jail
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tain, Russia, China. YsnEs Cele- brate all night on Guam, in Chung king, Paris.
 12-False radio flash over U, S.. networks sets of premature victory celebrations. Tokyo delays answer.
 l3--Japs in Chexiang, south of Shanghai, negotiate for surrender. OPA halts printing of new ration books.
 14-President Truman announces at p. m. receipt of Jap reply, deems 1t full acceptance of PotsGam Proc lamatiOn. General MacArthur will receive surrender. Allied military commanders ordered to stop fight ing, but V-J Day proclamation will await formal signing. Unrestrained celebrations begin. Washington and London reveal secret details of ra- dar's role in war.
 15-MacArthur instructS JapS to send delegation for instructions on surrender. Reds will continue war until Japs lay down arms. OPA ends rationing of gasoline, fuel oil, can ned goods.
 16-Contract cancellations an d cutbacks sweep nations war indus tries.
 17-American bombers on photo graphic mission over Tokyo attack ed by Jap planes. DeGaulle com mutes Petain's death sentence to life Imprisonment.
 19-General Wainwright found alive and well in Manchurian pri- son camp.
 21-Truman terminates len l. lease.
 22-Two atomic bombs killed TO- 900 persons, wounded 10000, made 290, 0,000 homeless, Japs say.
 29-Truman releases Army-Navy boards Pearl Harbor findings; Navy finds mo offenses" by its personnel; Truman, StimSon defend Hull and Marshall against Army censure.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-01
Comnunist Party Line Reverts to Pre-var
 Doctrine Of Pacifisn1 and Non-interUentio

training would give teeth to world security organization. On Decem- Der 3, 1945, with Russia out of dan ger, universal training proposals are part and parcel of an imperialist program that threatens to rush America headlong into imperialist adventures, worldwide armament race and ultimately into World War III" Such proposals are to be con- sidered as a step toward war with the Soviet Union)
 9. Abandon President Truman's "imperialistic" policies, which, among other things, are ''sabotag- ing" Big Three unity in favor of an Anglo American alliance directed against the Soviet Union and other people" not named.
 Since all of these Communist doc trines revolve about the welfare of the Soviet Union, it can be assumed that none of them will be abandoned soon. They are, of course, in addi- tion to the traditional Communist goal ofs creating class warfare by every possible stratagem.
 CAUTION NEEDED
 The yardstick thus described has to be used with discretion.
 First, a man or woman may be Communist and not talk about all nine items all the time.
 Second Each of these points is advocated firmly by many per- sons who are not Communists, including some who abhore Com munism. This is particularly true of millions who want our boys home immediately; but their object is af- fection, while the Communist party is interested in removing possible restraints from Russia's imperialis- tic activities. and exploits this con- cern for our men as propaganda weapon.
 ] Thifd-The Communists. consist
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-01
Q AUGUST

6-Truman announces first atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan; describes harnesSing of atomic power, warns Japs of more bOmb- ings, explosion of jet plane in test kills Major Bong, U. s. war ace.
 7-Flyers report Hiroshima dis appeared in cloud of smoke, flame and dust; Tokyo admits consider able damage, cabinet holds special session.
 8-RuSsia declares war on Japan. MoIotov reveals Tokyo asked Soviet to mediate for peace, But proposal "lost all foundation" when Japan rejected POtsdam Ultimaturn. Tokyo reports practically "all living things" in Hiroshima destroyed.
 9-Flight of three specially built SuperfOrtreSses drops atomic bomb on NagaSaki.
 1O-Japan offers to surrender If emperor's sovereignty is left un- impaired. White House cOnsults Bri-
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Germany surrender to Marshal Montgomery. Admiral Mountbatten proclaims Burma campaign ended.
 5-Three more German armies surrender. Soviet Foreign Commis- car Molotov reveals at San Fran cisco that Is Polish underground leaders were arrested.
 7-War ends in Europe with sign- ing of surrender by Col. Gen. Gus tav J0dl at 6:41 p. m, May 6, New York time, at Rheims, Germany. Fighting still going on in CzechO- slOvakia. London begins celebration; only scrap paper showers and spOra- die OutburSts in New York; Wash ingtOn is calm in absence of off, cial confirmation. AP service from Europe is banned six hours, 20 min uteS by SHAEF as result of censor ship violation in release of eye witness story of surrender.
 8EV-E Day. Germany's uncondi- tional surrender is ratified in Ber- lin. Truman announces news, calls upon Japan to surrender to escape destruction. Capitol lights turned on; 250000 celebrants take over New York's Times Square.
 9-Goering and Kesselring held by U. S. 7th Army. Vinson orders curfew ended, ban on racing lifted.
 15-Truman declares tax reduc- tiOns are out until V-J Day. Bodies of G0ebbels, wife and children found in underground radio station.
 22-War Department reveals Jap balloon-bomb attacks on U. S., says they constituted no military threat"
 23-Churchill and his government resign; will organize election July 5.
 24-Himmler commits suicide by swallowing poison hidden in vial in his mouth while being searched at British Second Army headquarters.
 31-Churchill tells DeGaulle Bri- tish forces will intervene in Levan- tine crisis to end bloodshed and threat to Allied lines to Pacific.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-01
English Prof
 Went in Style

Greeley, Colo, Jan. l-(UP)- George c. Gates, professor of English, arrived in a boxcar from Cedar Falls, Ia, with his cat and two horses.
 He will join the faculty of Col orado State College of Educa- ton.
 Even the animals seemed to enjoy the trip" Gates said.
 The two horses provided enough heat to lend "a rather cozy atmosphere to the other wise unheated car," Gates said. He took his meals with the train crew and set up a small Christ Mas tree in the car.
 He read three books on the trip-an anthology of English philosophers, volume of poetry and Modern Man is Obsolete. |"
 Gates wife came in a Pullman car.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-01
compIsts Chr0noI0gicaI Rec0ra:
JANUARY

i-Americans counter-attack Ger man bulge in Belgium and Luxem- hourR. Hitler breaks slx-month si- lenco to broadcast boast of millions of new soldiers and artillery corps" and declare Germany never will sur- render
 6Moscow recognizes Polish Com mittee of National Liberation in Luhiin as provisional government. Roosevelt calls for national service act.
 e-U. s. troops, led personally by General nTacAfthur, land on Luxon, main island Of Philippines, at Lln- gmyen Gulf 100 miles north of Manila.
 i4--Russia's new winter offen- sive in Poland's sweeps more than 2,0O0 towns in initial advance. Ger mans abandon Belgian-Luxembourg bulge"
 i5--U. s. Third Fleet launches air attacks on China ports after sink ing q Jap ships, destroying ll2 planes i'd French Indo-China area. Krug orders national "brownout" to save coal.
 i7-warsaw captured by Russians and Poles. Sailor charges Col. El- liott Roosevelt's dog Blaze" bumped him from plane with high priority.
 2O-Roosevelt takes oath for fourth term in "back porch" inaug- ural.
 2l-Hungary surrenders uncondi- tionally, declares war on Reich.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-01

This radiation he explained, affects the blood forming tissues in the bone marrow, and the whole function of the blood is impaired.
 "The blood does not coagulate, but oozes in many spots through the unbroken skin, and internally steps into the cavities of the body. The white corpuscles which fight intec- ton disappear.
 Infection prospers and the pa tient dies, usually two or three days after the exposure"
 The atomic bomb. he said, made it possible for a single B-29 to do the work of a l,000- bomber raid by ord mary explosives. But the difference he added, is that the atomic bomb works even more thoroughly and with even less chance Of resistance or escape.p
 City Made Helpless
 Morrison told the committee of a luncheon he attended in Hiroshima where Japanese officials described the first atomic bombing. They told this story:
 Ogf the 300 registered physicians 260 were unable to aid the injured
 Of 2.400 nurses, orderlies and firsi aid workers, more than 1900 werI casualties in a single instant.
 Of B modern fire stations in thu city, 26 were useless after the bias and three-fourths of the firemeI were killed or missing.
 The military organization was de stroyed; the commanding genera and his staff were killed. along witf 5000 of the garrison Of 5000. No a single hospital was left in condi ton to shelter patients.
 Tn. Nagasaki. the Mitsusis'li tor. pedO works collapsed in a twiste. tumble of steel onto the heads o
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United Nations opens.
 N-Allied and Russian armies meet at Torgau, on Elbe River
 2S-High American official reports Germany has surrendered uncOndi- tionally to Allied governments. Himmler reported to have declared Hitler is dying and he (Himmler) offered to surrender to U. S., Bri- tain. Offer rejected, unconditional surrender to three powers demand ed,
 29-Americans enter Munich and Milan, MuSsolini, his mistress, Clara Petacchi, and l6 Fascist henchmen executed by Partisans at Dongo on Lake Como, their bodies taken to Milan in moving van and thrown into street to be kicked and spat upon by mobs, then bodies hung by heels for public exhibition. U. s. Navy hospital ship attacked of Oxinawa by Jap plane; % killed.
 30-German army in Italy broken, Bavarian redoubt torn apart.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-01
Q JUNE

15--VOn Ribbent trop trapped in Hamburg boarding house by British troops. ODT seizes entire Chicago trucking industry in strike.
 18-Lt.-Gen. Simon Bolivar, conl- manding general of U. s. Tenth Army and Ryukyus Forces, who offered trapped Japs on Okinawa a chance to surrender, killed by Jap shell in final hours of Okinawa cam paign.
 2l-Okinawa campaign ends. Most costly campaign of Pacific war cost U. s. more than 11,26O killed and missing, 33,769 wounded; enemy lost 90,4O1 killed and 400 prisoners up to June 20.
 26-United Nations Conference at San Francisco closes, 50 nations sign Charter.
 27-MacArthur declares conquest of Luzon completed five months, 19 days after initial landings. Stettin- jus resigns as secretary of state; James Byrnes named his successor.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-01
Eye-WitneSS
Physicist Warns SoLonS
 About Atom Death Rays

Washington, Jan. 1.-(UP)-A man who saw the atom bombs work in Hiroshima and Nagasaki warned today that the world faces night marish destruction under death- dealing rays unless it finds immed- fate ways to control atomic energy,
 Phillip Morrison. a nuclear phyc sicist who served on an inspection mission to the atomized Japanese cities. said the atomic bomb was a revolution in war" which made 1t imperative to prevent another armed conflict.
 War can now destroy not cities, but nations" he told the Senate's Special Committee on atomic ener- gy." We have a chance to build a working peace on the novelty and the terror of the atomic bomb"
 Wants Working Policy
 To that end Morrison advocated A working and realistic" policy ot immediate atomic energy control based on "functioning, material agreements among the great and smaller powers"
 Morrison, who worked at the Los Alamos bomb plant and helped as- semble the final weapons in the Marianas, described for the commit tee the devastation he saw in Hiro- shima and Nagasaki. He gave stark account of human beings dying un' der lethal "radium-like rays"
 He said only about five or 10 per cent of the people within 1000 yards of the blast escaped death from blast or burn.
 Many people, he said, escaped death from the immediate blast oi managed to crawl from the rubble oi their demolished homes. Many ol these, he added, were relatively un' injured but later they died anyway from the deadly radiation.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-01

ently and skillfully for many years, including the war period when Rus sia's heroism made us over-tolerant, made a cult of 'liberalism.' They have insidiously trained the naive and the emotional to respond to their propaganda stimulation. Therefore many are victims of emo- tional response to dogma that they have been indoctrinated into re- garding. falsely, as liberal.
 This is done, in part. by front or- ganizations, in which innocent non- Communists have been deceived in- to lending their prestige, while party members run the show under cover. One of the most important of these. because 1t catches youth at it's most sympathetic and impression able stage, is the campus organiza- ton American Youth for Democ- raCy." Robert Minor, in the Daily Worker. unguardedly admitted that this is merely a new name for the Young Communist League.
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icari" Communist party's activities professionally, and who have full knowledge of both the party's overt activities and its secret plans in this country, say that there are nine ma jor tests by which to identify the Communist, the fellow traveller and the dupe. These are vociferous de- mands to:
 1. Get the boys home from Eu- rope and the Pacific-but, above all get them out of China, where the Communists are trying to overthrow the Nationalist government.
 2. Fire Secretary of State Byrnes, who supported Ambassador Hurley's attempts to achieve Chinese unity by compromise.
 3. Give Russia, which came in just as Japan heaved a final death sigh, complete parity in the ad- ministration of Japanese disarma- ment and reconstruction. But
 4. Give Russia free hand in the Balkans (where we were the ones to enter just ahead of the enemy's 1S4lAA 3dbbACJ aAhA obkP 1oAbAAA5 Moscow by asking for democratic processes in the Balkans.
 5. Try to force Great Britain to quit the Dutch East Indies.
 6. Give Russia full partnership in all that we have learned about the atomic bomb. without asking any world peace commitments in return.
 T. Stop insisting that no UNRRA relief shall go into regions from which American neWspapermen are barred, so that they can not see and tell the world what is being done, under Soviet control, with the re- lief supplies.
 8. Abandon the Idea of univer- sal military traihing. tOn January Si, 1945, when Russia still was en- dangered by Germany and poten- tially by Japan. postwar military
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-01
. MARCH

2--MacArthur lands on Corregi- dor, sees U. s. flag raised.
 7---U. s. First Army crosses Rhine at Remagen.
 9Three hundred SuperfortreSses drop more than 1000 tons of bombs on l0-miie-square area near center of Tokyo.
 I4-U. s. flag raised over Two JinAa.
 l6-Britain reveals Germans have beer hurling mammoth rockets against London and southern Eng land.
 16--Earl David Lloyd George dies of influenza at home in Wales.
 95-Argentina declares war on Japan and Germany. Eisenhower says German army on Western Front has been broken and whipped. False victory rumOrs sweep Q. S. when radio announcement misin- terprcts Washington dispatch. Third Army takes Frankfort.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-01
Q JULY

3-Ford auto, first civilian car since 1942, rolls off line. Harry Hop kins retires from government.
 ACTS in day coaches protest war prisoners in pullmans.
 5-Treasury Secretary Morgen- thau resigns.
 9-Third Fleet sails close to Japan, launches plane attack against Tokyo area.
 12-B-29's carry on continuous as- sault on Tokyo.
 13-Third Fleet planes pound Japan again. Spanish ministers sub init resignations; crisis sees.
 16-British Pacific fleet units join continuing air attack on Tokyo
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-01
By S. BURTON HEATH
 NEA Staff Correspondent

New York, Jan. l- The Con- munist party line has changed again. It is back, now, at the level of June 20, 1941-the day before the Nazis invaded Russia. It is, once more. diametrically the opposite of the party line for June 22, 194l, the day after Hitler hurled his StukaS and panzers at his beloved ally, Marshal Stalin.
 The party line on June 20 was isolationism, pacifism, anti-rearm- ament, anti-draft, "the Tanks aren't coming" 'imperialist war" The party line as of June 22 became in- ternationalism, intervention, down with Fascism," rearmament at full speed at any cost. get the Tanks to Europe and into the battles.
 Now, the cycle completed, 1t Is isoIationism, paciism, bring the boys home from Europe and Asia, no peace-time military training. mind our own business except where we should intervene against imper- ialist interference with Communist activities.
 When Russia was facing defeat unless we sent armament and estab- lished second front" on the Con- tinent-the party front was demo- cratic unity to promote full produc- Eaon. The line was recognition that capitalism and free enterprise are basic. integral parts of American life, which American Communist" Gh0uld accept and with which they should cooperate.
 { SABOTAGE CAPITALISM Now the line is that any collabora- tion with capitalism constitutes t-eachery to the wnrking class and tinat lt S the Communists sacred duty to sabotage capitalism and free
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-01
Vermont City
 Puts in Bid

Burlington, vt., Jan. i-(UPl-- Mayor John J. Burns said today he stood ready to offer the City Hall and Memorial Auditorium to the United Nations Organization if Bur- lington were selected as its head quarters.
 He said that several tracts of land bordering Lake Champlain also were available. Burlington is one of many eastern cities bidding for the UNO headquarters.