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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 19, 1945
Page
2
Partly cloudy Friday with slightly warmer conditions and mild daytime temperatures. Some frost possible tonight in interior regions as conditions remain cool and calm.
The account recalls a night of confusion with bullets, laughter, and rough Allied camp life. Bradshaw describes a dawn wakeup to borrow a pistol while two carbines and a .45 lie nearby. The narrator mentions exhaustion, mosquitoes, and the unusual mix of danger and humor in a combat night.
Germans face severe fuel and gas shortages as official pressure cuts spark blackouts. Housewives cannot cook with electricity and gas is shut off, forcing citizens to gather fuel from ruined buildings. Bread lines grow as shopkeepers post sold out signs to cope with demand.
American forces report 200 German prisoners in a mountain sector as the 91st division advances 2300 yards to overrun Monte Dei Frati and take Badolo near highway 64. British Eighth Army storms Arenta gap and Boccaleone as Fifth Army pushes toward Pianoro on highway 65. A live oak near Hahnville, Louisiana, measures 170 feet.
Reports from Berlin said Russian forces breached defenses south of Cottbus and advanced toward Spremberg and Finsterwalde, while bridgeheads formed near the Spree. Berlin also noted 800 German tanks knocked out in four days and Moscow claims of a large western and eastern army front joining.
Allied forces advance into central Germany capturing Leipzig outskirts and major cities. American Third and Ninth Armies seize Fuerth Luneberg and Zwickau while British drive toward Hamburg. Refugees flee as Ruhr and Bavarian Alps fronts tighten. Osnabrück and I G Farben plant reach perilously exposed.
A former Colombian tax collector finally received a pension of 45 dollars a month for occupational leprosy, after filing 18 documents. He attached certificates proving not in receipt of a pension, no income tax owed, prior job details, current leprosy status, and proof of service in a leprosy district among other records.
A large Allied air assault with RAF heavy bombers and American planes struck rail junctions in southern Germany near Komotau eighty miles southeast of Chemnitz. The raid targeted Nazi traffic into the south German mountains, with eight railheads attacked in the area. The air ministry reported four RAF bombers and one other plane missing from a force of 1,250, as two more German planes were shot down yesterday and in the prior 11 days Allied air action totaled 2,950 aircraft downed or destroyed.
Georgii Alexandrov states the Soviet government rejects extermination of Germans and supports unconditional surrender, occupation, and reparations. He asserts the Allied approach aims to reform the German people under prolonged tutelage, contrasting with extreme methods and noting the UN sees value in the experiment.
The report details Allied and Axis positions around Dessau and Chemnitz with civilian defense near Dessau. It notes Patton’s forces in Saxony marching toward Prague and proximity to Prague's Skoda arsenal, while English officers in 19th century Canada spread steeplechase and a note on Norway and Sweden in the year 1000.
Reports detail naval and army casualties across the Pacific, with U S casualties numbering in the thousands and ships sunk or damaged amid kamikaze attacks. The Marianas invasion inflicted large tolls, while Mindanao saw a new American landing and lines advancing toward Davo city as Japanese forces defend the island.
An advertisement offers GASTRIC TABLETS to ease acid stomach distress including poor digestion heartburn sour stomach gassiness and bloating. Clip and bring to Mann's Cut Rate Drug Store for 25 cents on first purchase.
The 66th armored regiment fitted tanks with litters carrying five wounded men from battle. Brig. Gen. Aga E. Reismer, chief of the New York ordnance district, says tank ambulances enter the fight. Medical coupon, rescue team, and rapid aid accompany the operation, a technique used since Normandy.
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