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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 09, 1945
Page
2
A brief forecast covers today and tonight with light to moderate winds. Tuesday is expected to be cooler with a chance of scattered showers and highs in the mid 60s.
The War Today reports the collapse of German defense in northern Germany and a retreat by shattered armies toward Hitler's fortress in the Bavarian Alps. Russian offensive near Austria endangers a major mountain stand as Germany clings to a last-ditch defense with scattered forces and vast mine tunnels.
Clark named vice chairman with Mrs Blair as secretary as the Lineberger committee replaces separate boards for the institutions. Officers of the board elected for four year terms with some appointed by Governor Cherry for shorter terms. Some could be reappointed for four years. The executive committee serves for one year.
Crossword by Eugene Sheffer presents a grid of horizontal and vertical clues. The list includes terms such as slight Celtic butt agave combat between two large snake indecipherable ancient blind and a dip in water after Fr sun vehicle for conveying dead kind of massage.
Soviet forces crossed toward the Vienna area and neared St Poelten along the Vienna Linz railway as Koenigsberg faced city center fighting. Red Air raids hit Vienna and Breslau while the Soviet high command urged Viennese resistance to avert wider devastation of Europe’s cultural hub.
The Eighth armored division reported capture of a POW camp near Soest housing Russians who said they were marched from Essen, Duesseldorf and Dortmund for two days without food. Germans shelled the enclosure as American troops approached, leaving prisoners exposed to artillery, wounds, and severe malnutrition.
Lt Samuel C Epes 29 of Richmond Virginia was indicted for murder by Richland County Grand Jury. He is accused of poisoning and suffocating his wife Mary Lee Williams a former Jacksonville school teacher in January and burying her body in an abandoned foxhole after she took sedative tablets.
Buffalo Experiment Airport uses underground snow melting lines under runways to melt snow as it falls. Engineers estimate grids of hot water circuits could keep major airports open with lower long term costs than conventional snow removal.
Tokyo radio announced Baron Kiichiro Hiranuma as president of the privy council and Shigeno Togo as foreign minister and East Asia affairs minister. The moves form part of Admiral Kantaro Suzuki's effort to reshape his government amid a "momentous crisis" following Koiso's fallen cabinet.
U S troops report gains of 200 to 400 yards as heavy artillery fire rakes the area. Infantry advance 400 yards toward Yonabaru airfield on Nakagusuku bay in east central Okinawa amid continuing combat. In the west coast sector two villages fall and a 200 yard advance is noted as forces near Machinato and Naha.
Allied columns drove into Exsen, Dortmund, and Gelsenkirchen as German resistance weakened. American seventh and French first armies trapped German forces near Holland while Bremen defense stiffened. Third Army seized gold bullion, large currency as Reichs assets depleted, with Bayerno towns torched and major rail bridges secured.
Three High Point men Cpl Charles Delbert Cecil husband of Mrs Adrene Cecil 1208 E Russell St Pvt James R son of Mrs Jewelledge Lindsay St Pvt Glenn Steelman son of Mrs J C Steelman Rt 3 have arrived in the war theatre and received a brief ostentation course at this station to help adjust to a combat zone. They will soon be transferred to permanent stations from which American planes cover the advance into Germany prior to entering the Army Air.
Fragmentary OCR notes refer to a lodge called Diamond Full Foo end Company, a railway at Neen, and a Stee over Jackson Hosiery Stile and a high Pole in North Carolina. The readable text mentions Railwa y Neen and N. C. future context unclear.
Hugh Callan a 39 year old former soldier says he will petition the Supreme Court to review his conviction and 10 year sentence for sedition and making treasonous remarks about the president.
Finn leaders resign as Mannerheim requests members to stand by until a new government is formed.
Rainfall in Hawaii varies widely from under 20 inches to about 500 inches annually, highlighting diverse climate zones across the islands.
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