23 Apr 1945
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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 1945
Page
1
In Okinawa a First Division Marine company digs in at a bombed village. The town resembles Sicily and Italy with wooden houses and walls. many buildings are burnt. Civilians flee to caves but later emerge as MPs guard a captured Japanese soldier amid atrocity stories.
Allied forces push toward Bavaria as Patton's Third Army drives 28 miles toward Hitler's redoubt joining a southern offensive. Dessau falls with 21,373 prisoners. Danube river-line breached. Sixth Army Group captures Stuttgart and Friedberg. Seventh Army nears Munich.
A fleet of about 250 Lancasters and Mosquitos bombed Bremen dock areas and Kiel naval base with heavy 12 000 pound and 2000 pound bombs. Two bombers and one fighter were lost. Britain drops 100 000 leaflets urging surrender before final assault. Weather and dwindling targets kept activity low over the weekend.
A company moves into a light, clean house on a rise at town edge. Two platoons dig in for perimeter defense while others improvise shelters, tend fires, and forage. Men keep commandeered horses, build doghouses from panels, and rest in the afternoon as they settle into a temporary outpost.
An old order banned wearing Japanese clothing and eating local foods, but before it spread Marines rummaged through damaged houses and wore kimonos. Pvt. Raymond Adams of Fleason Tenn is spotted lounging in a pink and white kimono with a helmet kettle over a fire and a makeshift dugout on a river bluff. A friend arrives with a bike missing a pedal as Adams attempts to ride.
The piece depicts Berlin’s collapse as the Nazi regime fractures under Allied pressure. It notes a shift to guerrilla warfare, the east and west fronts disintegrating, and calls the city’s doom imminent as Soviet and Western forces close in.
The last two of three federal prisoners who fled custody near Cartersville Ga were recaptured near an old mine after FBI agents and state officers scoured hills by plane car and bloodhounds. The trio were being moved to Atlanta federal prison from Birmingham Ala and were sentenced Friday to 16% years each for theft of government property impersonating an army officer and violating the national motor vehicle theft act. The first capture was Jesse Foster Ferrell 19 of Gastonia NC near Cartersville at noon Saturday. The other two were Louis Edwards Christakos 19 of Chicago and Robert Stanley Woolard 25 of Ransomville NC, captured Saturday night.
Donnell Gilliam of Tarboro North Carolina has been nominated to fill the United States district judge seat for the eastern district of North Carolina. Senators Bailey and Hoey urged the appointment to replace Judge I M Meekins who retired in February. The nomination follows prior delays including a rejected appointment by Lindsay Warren and the death of President Roosevelt.
President Truman spoke with 38 Democratic senators at the White House to secure all-out party support. Senator Hill of Alabama said every Democratic senator in the capital attended the 15 minute session and presented conference resolutions pledging good will and cooperation.
Stockholm Tidningen reports from Berlin that Adolf Hitler tore shoulder boards from Field Marshal Von Rundstedt and degraded him to a private in a rage over the Remagen bridge capture. The paper claims German panic over the war situation and Hitler's madness.
Reports from Guam on April 23 detail Japanese losses in southern Okinawa reaching 11,738 since April 1 as U S forces recapture Kakazu town and press a heavy assault with naval air and artillery support. Maj Gen John R Hodge notes 11,728 Japanese killed and 27 prisoners since D-Day. American casualties total 478.
Stockholm report from April 23 describes Germany as a whipped, hopeless nation facing catastrophe. The writer reports bomb damaged Berlin and a people dazed by fear and pessimism while leaders urge resistance. Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop is noted as aware of the looming crisis.
In San Francisco on April 23 officials reported a trusteeship plan for postwar Pacific bases, aiming to keep strategic control under a UN conference presentation. The report discussed a broader community proposal and related topics under study.
Eight U S congressmen toured Buchenwald Germany after Eisenhower invited them for first hand exposure to Nazi atrocities. They described emaciated prisoners, stacked bodies, hung victims, crematory ashes, and room where none survived. They noted improvements since arrival but called the scene utterly indescribable.
Soviet forces claimed to hold up to a quarter of greater Berlin and pressed toward central districts. Stalin announced fall of Berlin suburbs and noted advances from 83 to 62 miles from launch points with Beelitz and Teltow contested.
Paris report by Christian Ozanne and Maurice Negre says Princess Mafalda of Hesse died in a Buchenwald camp area used as a brothel after a bomb injury. They estimate 150,000 to 200,000 total deaths at Buchenwald, with deaths often occurring from severe malnutrition and harsh conditions.
London reports a Berlin radio broadcast declaring Adolf Hitler remains in Berlin to direct defense from the front. Goebbels is in the capital, and the speech warns that Berlin and Prague are inviolable bastions. The broadcast asserts German lines hold and Hitler directs the battle on the front.
U S Fifth Army troops pushed 35 miles north and northwest from Bologna toward the Po River as British and American forces closed in on positions near Ferrara and Bologna. Allied air forces destroyed hundreds of enemy vehicles in daylong attacks while German forces reportedly raced northward to form a defense line near the Po.
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