Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: WEDNESDAY, July 19, 1995 TAG: 9507190084
SECTION: EXTRA PAGE: 3 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: GREG EDWARDS
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
War production and some civilian services suffered as work stoppages in more than a score of cities kept approximately 48,000 workers idle, even as 16,000 Firestone Tire and Rubber Co. workers voted to return to work.
The Navy shifted commands in its carrier air arm in the Pacific in preparation for the showdown phase of the war with Japan. Rear Admiral Frederick C. Sherman was named to succeed Vice Admiral Marc Mitscher as commander of the first carrier task force and Vice Admiral John H. Towers would replace Vice Admiral John S. McCain as commander of the second carrier task force. Mitscher was to return to Washington as deputy chief of naval operations for air.
A nonfraternization policy was relaxed to allow American, British and Canadian occupation troops in Germany and Austria to talk with adults in the streets and in public places. Meanwhile, Gen. Eisenhower announced that 700 people a day were being arrested in Germany as part of a de-Nazification program.
Sugar joined the list of scarce commodities in Roanoke.
President Truman and British Prime Minister Winson Churchill joined Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin in Berlin for a conference in suburban Potsdam that might shorten the war in the Pacific and decide the world's fate for years to come.
Byron Nelson rallied from behind to beat Sammy Byrd for the PGA championship, 4 and 3.
The greatest naval force ever assembled in the Pacific, comprising Admiral Halsey's 3rd fleet and powerful units of the British navy, hurled as many as 1,500 carrier planes against the Tokyo area.
The State Department said it was going to check out a report that Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun were hiding out in Argentina. A Chicago Times story said the pair had found refuge in Patagonia.
The counsel of a House subcommittee released the names of 16 commissioned and non-commissioned Army officers that he said had backgrounds that reflected communism. The War Department responded that the men had proved their loyalty to America.
Australian troops in a five mile thrust seized the rich Sambodja oil fields and refining center on Borneo.
Speaking at the raising of the Stars and Stripes over Berlin, President Truman told the world that the United States was not in World War II for territorial or monetary gain.
by CNB