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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1945
Page
2
The weather section notes partly cloudy conditions in Carolina with warmer today and Saturday showers in the north. In London, April 20, Home Secretary Morrison reports Britain’s war casualties at 60,585 dead or missing and 86,175 severely injured, figures likely final as no German bombs have been heard or seen in three weeks.
Funeral services for Mrs Allie A Chappell 71 who died at a local hospital Tuesday were conducted Thursday at First Baptist church with Rev W W Hutchins Dr A B Conrad and Rev S S of Highland Methodist officiating. Interment followed in Oakwood Memorial Park. Pallbearers were members of her Sunday school class and floral duties were handled by Highland Mill homemakers. Music included duets and solos by Mrs Marvin L Slate and Miss Nell Welling and a mixed quartette.
Pfc. William G. Gilliam was killed in action according to a telegram from the war department. Born June 17, 1924 in Thomasville, he was a son of Mr. and Mrs. Willie Gilliam and a member of the Carolina Baptist church. He attended Thomasville High School and Appalachian State Teachers College, entered service July 18, 1944, and went overseas January 1945 with the Ninth Army 84th Division, survived by his parents two sisters Vernelle and Pauline and two brothers Paul Edwin and David.
The piece recalls a veteran who earned wealth from a second book but kept writing to honor the doughboys. He traveled to the Pacific zone and shared homesickness for the First Army. Though presumed dead by some, Army lore suggests he was merely transferred to another unit.
Raleigh reports Attorney General Harry McMullan issued opinions on school resignations and other topics. He said principals and teachers must give 30 days written notice before school openings under the school machinery act, with potential loss of teaching rights for a year for violations. He also noted notaries may serve as solicitor of a municipal police court and other rulings on schooling, taxation, and warrants.
The text outlines plans for handling millions of released laborers and prisoners of war with scarce food and clothing. It describes dire conditions on the roads and in camps, widespread disease, and anonymous deaths. It notes women workers forming gangs to survive and plunder for food.
A columnist recalls Hitler’s early acts and annexations, labeling him a top war criminal. Secretary Stimson defends American troops’ duty if Hitler is captured. Public worry centers on red tape allowing Nazi leaders to evade justice, with some calling for immediate execution or hanging.
Allied forces push across southern Okinawa with three U S divisions engaging strong Japanese defenses near Naha as naval and artillery bombardment continues. Reports estimate 50 000 Japanese on Mindanao while Nimitz notes one of the largest bombardments in support of amphibious assault.
Berlin broke through the Spree river defenses and the Neisse line further east, outflanking the Spree Wald region of lakes and forests that defended the capital in that sector.
The raid over Honshu rises to 132 planes down, including losses on B-29 escort runs. Japanese observers, some at a tennis match, witnessed 21 planes shot down by low-flying P-51s. Two enemy planes were listed as probably destroyed while 26 were destroyed or probably destroyed on the ground, and another 35 damaged.
A proposal suggests placing the offender in solitary confinement and forcing continuous listening to phonograph records of his own raucous speeches to punish and reform his behavior.
In the North Sea theater the siege of Bremen tightens from three sides as the Third Army advances toward Chemnitz and Dessau. Ninth Army reports heavy resistance with 20 000 Nazis still fighting to the death near a collapsed front while civilians aid with improvised weapons. Rainbow Thunder bird and Third divisions close in.
British and Italian units push forward from Argenta toward the Bologna canal area. The Eighth Army advances on a wide front reaching the Canale Diversivo and Porto Lemaggiorre vicinity while driving through Portoverrara. Other units move along highway 16 toward Ferrara near the Po river.
The advisory board chairs from Gastonia Eden ton Morganton Caswell Goldsboro and Raleigh will rotate visiting four institutions with unannounced checks. The Morganton group names Palmer as chair and Whiteside Goode and Mrs Blair. The board notes Dr Saunders resignation had been accepted and a 15 member advisory committee will be selected after Governor Cherry’s luncheon address.
Ernest Ray Mond Setzer a former Fort Smith Arkansas bus driver was convicted of bigamy for marrying six times without divorce and received a 24 month road sentence. The case involved his marriage to Lois Setzer and their three children.
A drive by smaller nations to secure boundary guarantees in a future peace-keeping body surfaces. The proposal, to be debated in San Francisco, may come from a Latin American nation or a British Dominion, likely New Zealand. The plan would define aggression and align with US aims to empower the peace body to review treaties.
H. Clay Briggs, 84, retired farmer, donated a handmade quilt to a city clothing drive. Briggs, who salvaged an old sewing machine, has produced many quilts from scraps for relatives and friends. He lives with his daughter at 801 East Green Street and urges support for bedclothing needs in the drive.
War Mobilization Director Fred M. Vinson will address an informal North Carolina Senate meeting in the second week of August. The four day session aims to clarify federal state relations and is authorized at no expense to the state. Two NC state senators attended the discussion.
The note recalls India’s linguistic variety with more than 200 languages spoken. It also references Elizabeth as the first pair of silk stockings ever knit, and mentions 1940 state death rates under nine per 1,000. The context includes an American effort in Washington to set up a program for an August meeting.
Advertised drug called Kleeves is claimed to dry pimples overnight with promises of rapid, dramatic skin results. The lax blurbs urge consumer trust and suggest refunds via Eckerd Drug Co located at 140 South Main Street.
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