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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 01, 1945
Page
1
Ernie Pyle reports from the western Pacific on the crucial work of the landing signal officer. The LSO guides pilots with paddles and signals from a high platform, correcting missteps in a split second as jets try to land aboard the carrier.
Soviet forces drive 11 miles into Austria near Kirschlag and Wiener Neustadt as part of a 300 mile front from Germany to the Yugoslav border. Troops seize Ratibor, Bieskeau, Zauditz, and advance toward Prague and the Moravian gap, threatening Vienna from south and west.
News from the Pacific fronts reports Allied naval and air power at the Asiatic mainland approaches. American forces land at Bacolod on Negros and seize the port in a swift advance while bombers pound Ryukyus and targets across Honshu and Kyushu.
Paris reports Allied forces close a steel ring around the Ruhr basin trapping remnants of three German armies. German troops fight stubbornly as Berlin lies about 170 miles away. Eisenhower urges surrender while Allied divisions push from Paderborn toward Weser defenses.
London march 31 five thousand allied planes attacked priority targets from the Austrian alps to the baltics coast in a record month estimate 165000 tons of bombs on the Reich. Eighth air force flying fortresses and Liberators escorted by mustangs and thunderbolts bombed Halle Brunswick and Zeitz synthetic oil plant near Leipzig. Six bombers and three fighters were lost. American fighters shot down six.
The United States and Britain refused Russia's demand to invite Poland's present Warsaw government to the San Francisco United Nations conference. Diplomats see the move as Moscow pressuring allies to back the regime, widening gaps with Britain and the U S ahead of the April 25 conference.
The War Labor Board ordered indefinite maintenance of soft coal production under the current contract terms. President John L. Lewis said the United Mine Workers would accede to the WLB order, and operators accepted it without qualification. The negotiation sought limits on retroactive pay in a future contract.
War mobilizer James F. Byrnes told civilians that food shortages would not derail the government’s plan to share with hungry allies and maintain army rations. He warned Americans to tighten belts this year as 1945 food supplies lag 5 to 10 percent from last year while demand rises.
Allied war dispatches report German troop dispositions converging toward a last mountain holdout in the Bavarian Alps. Observers say Hitler and top leaders may have moved to Berchtesgaden as U S and Soviet forces close in from Austria and Italy. General Eisenhower warns the move buys little time for war criminals.
Paris dispatch reports General Eisenhower ordering German troops to quit and avoid further bloodshed. He warned that Allied forces were penetrating deeper into Germany and called on Wehrmacht soldiers to surrender under the laws of war. The note cites loss of control by the German government over large areas.
Captured German Maj. Gen. Hans Boehlsen told U S Fourth Armored Division reporters Hitler would seek a final death by suicide to become a martyr. He argued the Nazi hierarchy and SS would prolong the regime while the Wehrmacht stays out, and noted German troops could not be redirected from Italy to the Western Front. Boehlsen also compared Allied armored tactics to German methods and praised Patton's approach.
The OPA cancelled a planned cut in the beef subsidy for non processing packers after a court found current ceilings fair. A study on pork subsidies was announced with a possible interim 40 cent per hundredweight adjustment if not completed by May 10.
Allied forces on both fronts have taken at least 1,142,224 German prisoners since the Rundstedt counteroffensive began on December 16. Western front captures total 552,261 while Russian fronts report 589 in the same period as Allied forces pressed the Rhine line and Normandy landings continued.
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