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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 12, 1945
Page
1
A Navy correspondent recalls the first Okinawa night with Marines, describing distant fronts, jagged flares, shelling, and the eerie, familiar rhythms of combat. He notes stars overhead, a captain beside him, and the unsettling continuity of war’s nightly pattern.
Soviet units closed in on Vienna as armor pressed toward the Danube bend and Berchtesgaden. Moscow reports said the encirclement near Berlin tightened with German forces warned of a last stand as Zhukov’s First White Russian Army edged closer to Vienna and Linz.
Durham April 12 The army announced termination of a contract with Wright's Automatic Machinery company for artillery fuses. Production at the local plant was to begin in 30 days but cancellation will not affect Wright's employment as no personnel had been added for the fuse job. Wright's assembles and produces precision instruments for the army and navy.
GUAM April 12 Tokyo and industrial Koriyama on Honshu joined a 3800 mile roundtrip mission to the Marianas. B 29s escorted by Iwo Jima fighters struck industrial targets with visual bombing from 8000 feet. Crews reported a large fire at Koriyama and no B 29 losses.
London papers skeptical of Hitler illness rumors as propaganda from Goebbels and Himmler. Editors warn against credulity and note potential plan for peace talks. Some assume Allies will soon depose the Nazi regime. while others doubt the significance of Hitler's fate.
London reports of Hitler being assassinated lack confirmation while claims of a Nazi party split surface. A British spokesman says Hitler may still control and Himmler directs defense, with Goebbels and propaganda acting under Hitler. The author argues Hitler is the mainspring of Nazism and his death could collapse the regime. Allied success hinges on Hitler's fate. Continued in Page 2-Sec, A.
Allied reports say the British Eighth Army crossed a second German barrier at the Santerno river after heavy opposition. American troops with Italian partisans captured Carrara, four miles north of Massa, signaling progress on the western coast front. General Clark urged Italian patriots in northern Italy to persevere in the liberation effort.
Guam April 12 The navy reports 2695 American casualties for the first nine days of the Okinawa campaign as 24th corps under Maj. Gen. John R. Hodge faces sustained Japanese counterattacks near the little Siegfried line north of Naha.
Heinrich Himmler issued a decree stating no German city will be an open town and that every town and house must be defended. He warned that any defender who does not follow the order loses honor and life, saying surrender would invite destruction.
The southern synod of the Evangelical and Reformed church approved merging with the Congregational Christian church. Rev. Joshua Levens of Greensboro was named president of the synod. The plan involves a June meeting of leaders to approve the merger with final action in 1946 at Grinnell College Iowa.
The United States charged Germany with deliberate neglect and cruelty toward American prisoners of war. Secretary of War Stimson and Secretary of State Stettinius announced a joint statement noting deplorable conditions and ongoing atrocities, with about 70,000 Americans held in Germany. The report cites failure to meet Geneva convention standards and vows justice for perpetrators.
Paris dispatch reports Allied parachute troops dropped at Brandenburg about 20 miles west of Berlin. American Ninth Army tanks crossed the Elbe and rolled toward Berlin while Third Army near Jena and Naumburg advanced. British units moved toward Hamburg as German forces remained disorganized on the western front.
A spokesman for livestock producers told Senate food investigators that a one dollar rise per hundred pounds in cattle prices would secure beef for the nation. P C Wilson of the National Livestock Producers Association argued the higher ceiling would not cost consumers more than current prices when black market costs are considered. He noted cattle prices based on two years ago costs while corn and feeds rose, causing lighter weights and slaughter of calves that could have reached steer weight, costing the country in potential meat yield.
Senator Ferguson blocks a war secrets bill in the senate after it passed. He seeks reconsideration and amendment, arguing the measure could curb information for Congress and threaten press access to coded government messages related to Pearl Harbor and Japanese attack planning.
North Carolina authorities seek custody of Ernest Setzer a 28 year old bus driver amid claims by four women that he married them. Prosecutors join in alleging bigamy child abandonment and non support while linking marriages to women in New York London England and Arkansas.
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