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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 16, 1945
Page
2
Washington reports on rival views about sabotage of the low cost clothing program. Price Administrator Bowles says no sabotage, cites a lobbyist campaign to raise cotton textile prices. War Production Board chief Krug expresses shock at sabotage reports as the program rolls out.
Bowles says reports of external pressure on wage settlements are false. He notes a conference with Jacobs in which Jacobs admitted cotton textile industry representation in Washington has been poor. Bowles adds that Jacobs’ letter suggests industry representation has not improved as hoped.
John L. Lewis remained outside the American Federation of Labor as the AFL executive council ended its winter sessions in Miami. President William Green announced that talks to bring the United Mine Workers back to the federation had stalled for now. The council agreed to readmit the miners with full rights but warned that re affiliation would require Lewis to wait his turn for council seating.
The piece notes most veterans are in their nineties with the oldest listed as 119 in Louisiana. Reunions survive mainly in name as the elder members grow too old to attend. The veterans' executive council meets with the Sons of Confederate Veterans to discuss affairs.
Police questioned a woman tied to the death of 26 year old school teacher Mary Lee Epes as Lt. S C Epes, her army lieutenant husband, faces murder charges. Autopsy says she was drugged and bludgeoned to death.
A joint Senate-House committee studied the separation of game and inland fisheries from the Department of Conservation and Development. They concluded the division should remain within the department, with reforms to strengthen wardens, board oversight, and professional guidance. The panel emphasized closer interrelation with forestry and commercial fisheries and urged a six-year board term with five members. Separately, the House approved a Senate bill to create a North Carolina Aeronautics Commission with a five-member board and per diem pay, reporting to the governor.
Officials project a postwar period surplus in the US merchant marine totaling no less than 30 million tons as activity winds down. Analysts cite wartime tonnage and shipping capacity as the basis for the estimate.
American carriers and battleships massed near Tokyo, mounting a vast air assault. The operation, described by Admiral Nimitz, aims to cripple Japan's home air force and factory output, with Mitscher leading carrier strikes from Pearl Harbor toward the Japanese coast.
J P Jackson of Hendersonville North Carolina died when the civilian plane he piloted caught fire mid air and crashed on a farm near Darlington South Carolina. Coroner J H Kistler reported he was a commercial pilot and instructor operating the Martin and Mattox owned craft.
Newton February 16. The annual State Jersey club meeting will be held here February 22 instead of at Hickory as originally planned.
Thomas A. Yawkey owner of the Boston Red Sox donates 100000 toward a 300000 county hospital fund in Georgetown D C announced by Ralph M. Ford hospital steering committee chairman yesterday.
David Strickland 28 a Tide Water Power lineman was electrocuted yesterday while repairing a pole near Lenoxville a short distance from Morehead City authorities said.
Washington Feb 16 A union of two Senate groups backing stronger War Manpower Commission authority casts a shadow over work-or-jail bills. Kilgore Wagner and Ferguson lead one measure to empower WMC to assign employment at plants and bar workers, while Taft and Levercomb spearhead a similar proposal. If merged, they could push a WMC-strengthener as a Senate substitute to the House approved bill.
High Point Township notices list transfers: L Flynns and wife to E E Ellington and wife a Rankin street lot. Nettie Davis and husband to B L Nichols and wife a Johnson street lot.
Mostly cloudy and mild with scattered showers and thunderstorms today into tonight. Cooler tonight over the north and extreme west portions. Saturday brings mostly cloudy, colder conditions with showers mainly in the south.
The war brief notes a renewed assault on Iwo Jima in the Volcano group about 700 miles south of Tokyo. After 69 days of fighting, observers see signs of a potential landing as the island’s air base poses a threat to the Mariana Islands and could allow a future strike on the Japanese mainland.
U S air activity from Italy and Britain strikes Obertraubling airdrome near Regensburg in southern Germany where jet planes are based. Simultaneous raids hit Benzol plants at Dortmund and Gelsenkirchen, oil refineries at Dortmund and Salsbergen, and freight yards at Hamm Osnabruck Rheine after a night lull in a broad offensive.
German forces deliver rapid thrust from Silesia destroying Oder defenses and halting a direct march toward Berlin by Marshal Zhukov's First White Russian army, signaling a major setback for the Soviet forces.
Report says Mitsubishi aircraft plant at Nagoya was hit yesterday by a B 29 raid echoing a previous blow that gutted about 755 900 square feet at the Nakajima plant near Tokyo. Tokyo announced B 29s also struck Yokohama and Tokyo port.
Admiral Land told the House Foreign Affairs committee that 3 447 000 tons of lend lease cargo to Russia in the last six months of 1944 boosted food, munitions, and equipment for Soviet war industries. He urged extending the program beyond June 30, arguing the steady flow strengthened the Soviet war effort and their combat power.
Ground mists cover sodden battlefields as Canadian troops push toward the Rhine, with a Scots column advancing 1,000 yards into German defenses near Kleve. Allied forces report firm Rhine crossings and light German resistance aided by floodwaters and river width. Maj. Gen. Irwin and Maj. Gen. Maloney lead divisions to strategic river line gains around Echternach Bollendorf and Luxembourg area.
The announcement praises the reconnaissance troop of the 349th Infantry Regiment for their skill as the battalion lands. Eight men are reported killed in action in the engagement.
A wartime report describes German forces killing numerous enemy soldiers and capturing a large number of prisoners in a sudden raid.
After weeks of delay the Governor issued a 60 day respite for William J Dunheen who was to be executed for killing Laura Beth Riley last May 9. The decision followed questions about new evidence and questions raised by officials and the public about the reasons for reprieve rather than legal rights.
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