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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 12, 1944
Page
6
The article describes Nazi tactics to disrupt RAF and US Army Air Force bombers. A belt of searchlights stretched from near Denmark to Berlin, followed by the Kammluft line radar detectors and fighter packs assigned to routes. Luftwaffe flak employed decoy barrages and mobile ground guns to scatter and threaten returning formations.
A World War II dispatch discusses how the Reich uses limited anti aircraft and shifted cannons to factory targets in Italy and Ukraine. It notes frostbitten flyers and high altitude risks, Nazi manganese and tungsten imports, and Soviet efforts to open the Baltic and supply fronts. A tour of British factories praises labor efficiency and unity against communism.
Allied forces report continued progress in Italy with about one division worth of Nazi losses and subdued German counterattacks near Cassino as reinforcements flow to the beachhead. In North Carolina, a special term of court is sought to try three murder defendants in the Dean case, while TVA discloses 1943 war production including power, ammonia and carbide outputs.
North Carolina tonight will be fair and colder with lows of 8 to 12 in the north and west and 18 to 25 in the southeast portion. Sunday remains fair and cold. South Carolina tonight is fair and colder with lows 18 to 22 in the north and 22 to 25 in the south portion. Sunday will be fair and continue cold.
The article notes the German forces on the offensive while Nazis seek rest from action. It questions whether the current weather will slow the Russians with a wet spring or accelerate Red troops if summer comes early, shaping their battlefield tempo.
Lancaster police officer Charlie Caskey was critically wounded in a North Main street shooting Thursday night. Fellow officer Eugene Honeycutt said the suspect Hegler opened fire after a traffic stop. police arrested Pierceler, a barber, and a woman, Mrs Lucille Reeves, in connection. The assailants were not hit by return fire.
On a U S Destroyer in the North Pacific Lt Comdr H Cotten says he was born in Karuizawa near Tokyo. He lived in Japan as a child and returned after the navy bombardment of Paramushiro. He calls Japan beautiful and looks forward to further visits.
The OPA orders a maximum price ceiling on bulk fluid milk sales by companies effective February 16. Regional administrator Daniel P. Woolley states the rule covers all milk bought from handlers in New York New Jersey Pennsylvania Maryland Delaware and the District of Columbia with potential effects extending to Ohio and Florida due to interstate shipments.
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