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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 08, 1945
Page
2
Cloudy and cool with showers in the east and mountains today. Interior lows 26 to 32, coast 32 to 36. Tonight clearing and slightly cooler. Friday will be fair and warmer.
The 12th Army Group under Lt Gen Omar Bradley presses toward the Rhine while Montgomery’s 9th and the British Second Armies await the Roer attack signal. British air blasts in Holland and Germany indicate possible north Siegfried line operations. Kleve and Goch suffered heavy bombing and 400 aircraft targeted Nijmegen area amid poor weather.
Washington reports through Jan 28 end of December into January details U S air casualties and counts. 865000 Germans taken prisoner on the western front since invasion last June. Weekly figures show killed wounded missing and prisoners with adjustments.
A German woman in Warsaw protected by wrapped cloth flees as an August danger unfolds. She carries forbidden papers hidden in a bag and is pursued after a violent encounter. Evacuated on a stretcher, she endures threats while delivering a child, amid a tense wartime escape.
The article notes Red forces pressing in the Kuestrin Frankfurt sector and threatens Berlin as Allied efforts on both Eastern and Western fronts continue. It claims German weakness from the Bulge losses and Reich turmoil, urging no pause in Allied pressure toward a decisive breakthrough possibly led by Eisenhower and air power pending weather.
German V weapon attacks on southern England caused additional casualties and damage in the 24 hours ending at dawn, according to the air ministry.
Charles G. Philip forecast rocket war a decade ago and warned militarists worldwide about rockets as a weapon of war. He cited Hermann Oberth and Reichswehr tests in Meppen Stolp and Berlin, arguing England underestimated rocket potential and a future conflict could rage across oceans with deadly missiles.
Law measures propose motor vehicle license revocation for nonpayment fines up to 500 dollars and 60 days imprisonment. Bills cover for hire plate transfers, motorcycle license fees, farm truck plates, and weights limits. Other items include vehicle papers on pleadings, state salary policy for teachers, and starting pay scales for beginning teachers and experienced teachers.
A Washington draft outlines plans for a world body to preserve peace and for Allied powers to confer regularly. It mentions policing Germany, European oversight, periodic foreign minister conferences, trusted commissions in contested territories, and rapid restoration of industry and relief in liberated areas to secure lasting peace.
New York based S Arthur Newman demonstrates his cat Puff y a cream Persian eight months old trained to induce perfect relaxation. He has taught war workers GI's and executives to relax in three steps and even produced a five minute relaxation record. The effort aims to ease nervous tension amid wartime strain and has seen trials at Atlantic City and in service barracks.
London dispatch reports that the wartime conference involving Roosevelt Churchill and Stalin doomed any Nazi hopes for delaying the Reich's defeat. Berlin propagandists claimed a defensive zone nine hours after the official announcement of the talks in the Black Sea area.
Etheridge defended division enforcement as two bills to ease divorce restrictions face defeat. He cited 1,144 arrests in 1942-43 and 1,200 in 1943-44 for game and fish violations to rebut neglect charges, while noting a quail shortage across states. Supporters included Clyde Council and Walter Lambeth.
German reports say Zhukov widened his east bank wedge from Fuerstenberg to a 50 mile stretch and moved heavy artillery into a bridgehead between Kuestrin and Frankfurt with the Kuestrin Berlin railway under fire. Aurith nine miles below Frankfurt fell as Soviet across river threat grows.
Pasig fires started by an enemy force north of the Pasig river Monday night and seven more fires erupted south of the river area known to tourists. The south sector includes the Manila hotel Army and Navy Club and the high commissioner’s residence. Enemy shells cratered Santo Tomas campus during a visit by Gen Douglas MacArthur, landing about 100 feet from the general and tearing into the main building after he left.
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