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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 01, 1945
Page
2
Partly cloudy and mild on Sunday in Carolina with a chance of showers. Continued mild conditions expected Monday as unsettled weather moves through the region.
Allied columns drive toward Kassel and Munich as German resistance collapses. First Army reports 11,206 prisoners yesterday, Third 10,000, Seventh 1,800, British Second 1,500. Patton’s Fourth and Sixth Armored divisions race toward Berlin while Ninth Army clears Bottrop. Arnhem and Muenster fronts advance as Dutch and French units press toward Rhine crossings.
Allied reports describe Nipponese aims to turn homeland into a battlefield as seventy one generals receive new assignments and a plan to halt Allied advances in central Burma. British and Indian forces press the Mandalay area while French sources claim actions in Indo China to delay the main Japanese strike.
Judge E Yates We day granted the Justice Department authority to issue subpoenas duces tecum to examine records of several mica firms. The English mica company in Spruce Pine must produce 1937 to 1941 core transactions within 30 days. Asheville mica, Richmond mica, and A O Schoonmaker isolation faced 45 day deadlines for 1937 to 1939 records. New subpoenas were approved for MacAllen and Huse Liberty of Rosston for 1941 to date records. Subpoenas target holding companies affiliated with Asheville firm including Land and Mineral and Western Carolina mica.
North Carolina members of Congress were recorded as voting on recent roll calls in Washington. The senate opposed Aubrey Williams' nomination for rural electrification administrator by 36 to 52 with Hoey for and Bailey against. The house passed measures including post war immigration study 182 to 113 with some members not voting. Other roll calls covered meat supply investigations, 1946 agriculture appropriations, veterans administration inquiry, school lunch programs, and the 1940 selective training and service conference report, detailing which NC delegates voted yes or did not vote.
Eastern front report places the advance 32 miles from Zellin while the Western front tracks 170 miles from Kassel and Lautenhaus en. Italian front shows 144 miles from the Reno river as part of the ongoing war movement.
ERNIE PYLE recounts a shipboard moment where a photo lab captured Bill across the deck near a plane in a near crash land. Ensign Kal Porter assists. Pyle stands with pilots during a tense landing as he contemplates navy life and the risk of planes touching down in the water.
Chapel Hill March 31 Authorities from many groups will attend the biennial human relations institute program opening Tuesday at the University of North Carolina. The event runs through April 10 with speakers from academia government and religion addressing topics on war economics prejudice cartels and peace moral dynamics and world organization. Notable participants include Dr Eduard vince from New York City Morris Ernst Rex Winslow Senator James William Fulbright and Dr W T Stace among others with a slate of lectures and seminars.
The article notes tensions over Polish representation in the San Francisco conference. It cites Moscow urging Warsaw to receive an invitation if a unified Polish government cannot be formed in time. Britain and the United States weigh how to handle exiled and official Polish authorities amid ongoing Moscow consultations.
In a quarterly report to President Roosevelt and Congress, James Byrnes argues for unifying the army navy and air force into a single postwar department of national defense. He outlines reconversion goals including releasing 13 billion dollars in hard goods within nine months of Germany’s collapse, reducing war spending, and preserving stabilization controls. He also calls for continued manpower controls and improvements in gasoline and truck allotments. He remains confident in the economy’s resilience and the nation’s path to higher living standards after the war.
Russian and Ukrainian formations drive toward Vienna and Prague from multiple axes. Malinovsky and Tolbukhin push across Hungary and toward the Austrian frontier while Konev presses from the Moravian gap, capturing Ratibor and key rail junctions as other units seize towns along the Danube and Drava. The surge includes captures of Nitra, Szentgotthard, Kormend, Vasvar, and Bieskau amid heavy tank actions and rapid advances.
The coal board offered a 30 day retroactive extension with no guarantee fund, while Lewis and the UMW pressed for higher retroactive pay and a $15 million guarantee. Negotiations stretched over a month with no agreement, and tensions flared into near hostilities as officials debated costs and responsibility.
The latest figures show Nazi forces holding 1,369,268 prisoners. Brit ish War Secretary Sir James Grigg cited 1,800,000 Germans captured by the Allies since September 1939, excluding Russia, with Russian losses exceeding 12,000,000 killed or captured. Patton's Third Army reports a 224,450 count since December 16, plus other Western Allied totals 123,389 First Army, 40,553 Ninth Army, 96,933 Seventh Army, 25,061 Canadian First, 23,783 British Second, 11,092 French First, and 7,000 Allied First Airborne.
Wartime bulletin reports Eisenhower command eroded across numerous German units. The message warns of captive workers and hints at shifting control amid ongoing Allied operations.
An order directed Germans to shelter away from railroads and factories and stay off main highways. It urged civilians to remain in refuges until allied forces arrive to finish mopping up German units.
Allied air forces report heavy bombings from Brunswick to Hamburg and Würzburg with jet propelled aircraft on German targets. Troops advance on the western front while Austrian and Italian targets face sustained strikes. March totals set records for U S Eighth and Fifteenth air forces.
Arthur P. Dickens of 305 Teeth Street High Point promoted to master sergeant in the Transportation Corps at Camp Shanks New York embarkation. He is son of Mrs A P Dickens attended High Point High School and College was a Continental Life Insurance superintendent in civilian life. He joined the army in December 1942 and was stationed at Fort Bragg prior to Camp Shanks. He is married to Dorothy Sherrill of Statesville.
Paris report says after five years under occupation French children were trained to lie and steal to aid Nazi enforcement. Informants describe scouts alert for prowlers and stealing cycles and car papers, with printing and looting schemes used to undermine German controls. Authorities face a difficult task erasing these wartime habits.
Pre Easter retail business in North Carolina set a new record for volume as Tar Heel merchants closed books after a peak 30 day buying surge. Durham reported the largest Easter trade in history though war time scarcity limited some items while Raleigh florists halted orders early in the week.
As Soviet forces push toward Berlin and western armies advance on Germany, Hitler reinforces the southeast and mounts counterattacks on the Hungarian plain. Allied air power and mobile ground forces close gaps from Munich to Berchtesgaden, with censorship keeping Ike's postwar plans off the record.
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