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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1944
Page
1
General MacArthur reports Japan's failed Leyte reinforcement runs, noting 26,000 troops lost at sea across seven convoys. The latest Thursday convoy carried about 5,000 men and heavy supplies. American pilots sank a 9,000 ton target in the action.
Saipan reports a third Japanese air raid in 24 hours with a small formation of high flying bombers. Tinian anti aircraft fire claimed at least one plane and possibly another. two bomb strings landed with no damage and one man was injured by flak. At least 13 Japanese planes were claimed shot down in prior raids.
Moscow reports 50 new communities opened west of the Danube as Russian forces push north toward Budapest within 78 miles and near Austria. Petrov forces seize villages on a 30 mile front, sever rail links into eastern Slovakia, while Malinovsky’s troops reach toward key Hungarian rail centers. The advance targets Budapest, Austria, and retreating Axis units in Yugoslavia. North Carolinians to attend Indianapolis conference.
Four American armies pierced German defenses along the Roer and Saar rivers in eastern France and along the Saar front. U S First Army broke toward the Rhine from the Duren area while the Seventh Army pushed through to Haguenau and toward the Karlsruhe region. Patton’s Third Army advanced up to the Saar with the 10th Armored Division crossing the river at Merzig. The Ninth Army expanded its gains around the Roer and Linnich capturing Welg Beeck and parts of Beeck as German dead lay in the streets.
The AP reports a Japanese communique alleging repeated Kamikaze strikes damaged or sunk Allied ships in Leyte Gulf. It cites five transports sunk or damaged this week, with additional vessels hit near Ormoc and off Masbate and Cebu. MacArthur notes Allied losses of ships and men in the engagements.
Fifth Army Indian division moves along the Florence Faenza road facing light resistance while German forces retreat from mountains toward the Po valley. Eighth Army fronts show no change as heavy fighting continues near Faenza Alberto and Lamone with multiple hill battles further west. De Gaulle arrives in Russia to discuss a Franco Soviet pact and postwar plans with Stalin.
A wartime briefing estimates Adolf Hitler commands about 6,000,000 troops with 1,250,000 fit for service aged 19 to 46. Under three commanders, Von Rundstedt, Von Molke, and Runstedt, Western Front divisions total around 70, Eastern 130 to 140, Italy 30, Balkans 20, Scandinavia 20, Reich 20. Reinforcements may shift by year end as fronts consolidate.
A sweeping cold wave blankets the nation from the Rocky Mountains to the eastern seaboard and toward the Gulf of Mexico. Snow totals reach up to nineteen inches in Syracuse while western and northern states report below zero readings and dozens of communities face early freezes and power outages. At least five deaths in upstate New York are linked to storm conditions as temperatures fall across North and South Dakota Nebraska Iowa and Minnesota with Atlanta Florida and Nashville Tennessee recording subfreezing lows.
Secretary Stimson explains Eisenhower postponed the big push until sufficient artillery ammunition isstockpiled. The Cologne plain battle looms as a brutal, decisive phase with heavy guns critical to breach the Siegfried Line and spare Allied lives.
Dewitt Mackenzie notes heavy Nazi fortifications along the Siegfried Line with concrete redoubts and concealed guns. General Eisenhower delays infantry assaults in favor of massive artillery bombardment regulated by Secretary Stimson, signaling a push toward the Cologne plain and the Ruhr industrial heart across the Rhine.
Allied air forces endured severe losses during a two day offensive as 11 000 planes struck targets in Germany. U S bombers suffered their worst losses since April 1956 with several four engine aircraft shot down and many fighters failed to return. RAF and US aircraft attacked Duisburg and other rail and industrial targets in a heavy counter air campaign.
Greensboro December 1. November internal revenue collections for North Carolina district show a $1 million drop from last year but rise over October intake. November total $58,020,727.54 exceeds October $57,357,799.18, amid a general downward trend in the first five months of the fiscal year starting July 1.
More than 750 pints of whole blood reach European battlefield areas daily from the United States via a regular air delivery service.
Los Angeles December reports describe actor Jon Hall testifying under cross examination in the case of Tommy Dorsey and Allen Smiley charged with felonious assault. Hall details a nose injury repaired by a plastic surgeon while the jury weighs who harmed him.
Governor Broughton may return to Washington soon to press revision of a WPB order that would halt most mica purchases starting Jan. 1. He argues the rule is discriminatory and would shut down about 90 percent of North Carolina mines. Senator Meade urged the WPB to suspend the order after a November 22 Washington conference.
A Transcontinental and Western Airlines passenger flight with 23 aboard crashed in heavy fog near Burbank while nearing its destination from San Francisco. At least nine were killed. Mayor Harley Knox of San Diego was injured and City Manager Walter Cooper unaccounted for.
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