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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 05, 1945
Page
2
Considerable cloudiness gives way to clearing and a colder afternoon. Nightfall brings clear skies with light frost in the northwest and north central portions. Friday expects fair skies and a warm afternoon.
A Domei bulletin reports Premier Koiso and his entire cabinet resigning to yield to a stronger administration. The move is confirmed by the Domei notice and picked up by the German DNB as an important development in wartime leadership changes.
The white house says Eisenhower did not write in response to a prior letter. The general predicts no clean military surrender on the western front and warns that even disrupted units may keep fighting until defeated. He discusses the need to accept prolonged resistance and possible guerilla activity, with ongoing propaganda and future operations planned.
A correspondent in Aachen reports surprising friendliness from locals after three months of Allied occupation. People offer directions, share cigarettes, and try to help, though officers must enforce no fraternizing rules. Local Germans, including ten thousand who stayed behind, may not become allies but show cooperative behavior as civilians and workers.
Allied forces report 55,000 troops in action with German efforts to surrender at Minden followed by British tanks striking the city from the north. American and British units push toward the Weser and Elbe as German pockets around Muenster Osnabrueck and Hamelin are cleared. Armies claim hundreds of prisoners and rapid advances toward Plauen Leipzig and Berlin outskirts amid ongoing rain and withdrawal cautions from HQ.
Gordon Lindley son of Mr and Mrs F B Lindley Archdale has passed the Eddy test and begins training at the U S naval training station Great Lakes Ill He was a freshman at High Point college and formerly employed by Sears Roebuck.
Four major Hollywood film producers served notice to striking workers that employment is terminated and informed unions that their collective bargaining contracts are rescinded. The producers cited breach of options under the contract and members' failure to perform services as the reason.
A Pacific communique from Fleet Admiral Nimitz notes Japanese troops and vehicles in southern Okinawa as US ships and planes bombard the island. In the Philippines Masbate is liberated as MacArthur says Japan’s lifeline to the East Indies is severed by American air bases from Luzon to Tawitawi.
Miss Lillian Temperence Hamiter of Columbia South Carolina is engaged to Lt. John Nicholas Dimling Jr a Winston Salem North Carolina native and POW who escaped a German camp after capture in February 1944. The wedding is planned for April 14 in Columbia and the couple met on a blind date years ago while Dimling served at Fort Jackson. He fought with the Fifth U S Army in Italy and returned home after escaping a Polish concentration camp and hitchhiking to Moscow.
The report recounts shifts in wartime diplomacy as Stalin signals changes with Tokyo and China, while the Soviet Union repudiates recent neutrality pacts and explores new relations with Turkey. It notes Stalin’s stance at Cairo and Yalta and confirms denuclearized moves in the Pacific diplomacy.
Park Street left Wednesday for Norfolk Virginia to begin new duties at the naval yard after a 30 day leave. He arrived in the States March 2 following seven months overseas with the Fifth Division of Marines in the South Pacific and had not taken a leave since enlisting over three years ago.
PFC James W. Steed of Denton North Carolina has switched from infantry to the Air Force under the reconversion program. He serves at AAF Service Command Headquarters Italy controlling materiel flows and has earned the European African Middle East ribbon with three campaign stars. His parents Mr and Mrs F R Steed reside in Denton. two brothers also serve overseas.
Extension home economists advise using molasses for table use and in home cooking to extend limited sugar supplies.
One day only stage show Cavalcade of Fun at Paramount Theatre High Point on Monday April 9 features four performances from 12 30 matinee to 8 20 evening. Notable stars include Kay Ballard Martha Ray Betty Hutton Joan Davis Joe Gallagher and Del Lucas Quintet with Abbott and Costello comparisons and positive crowds. Indicates strong pricing incentives and public endorsements from readers and publications.
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