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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 26, 1945
Page
2
L Proctor age 57 died in a Hickory hospital from injuries after a bus stop accident Saturday when struck by a cat near Vale. He passed away Sunday as a result of the crash and sustained injuries in the incident.
Fourteen prisoners escaped from Craggy Prison camp by sawing window bars and dropping 15 feet to the ground. Edward Roberson said most were Buncombe County or Durham inmates with sentences ranging from months to years. one, Fred Chatham of Asheville, later surrendered.
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A misprint in an earlier release listed Hobart Burleson of Avery county among those charged. Prison officials announced he had already served his sentence and been discharged, removing him from the list.
Funeral services for Rev Joel B Trogden 71 Methodist minister who died in a local accident were held at Giles Chapel Randolph County. Officiating ministers included S W Taylor Thomasville C H Hill High Point A D Shelton Stokesdale and J S Pritchard Ramseur. More than 3000 attended. burial followed in the church cemetery.
W C Murphy 79 a Stanley merchant was killed when struck by a northbound Seaboard freight train while crossing downtown tracks. The incident occurred February 26 and the death is the sole reported detail in the dispatch.
War Department reports over 200 B 29s took part in a two hour bombing of Tokyo dropping incendiaries through heavy snowfall. Fires were sparked but largely quelled by nightfall. Japanese radio cited damage near Omiya palace as Koiso sought Hirohito's apology. US forces advanced within 10 miles of Tokyo harbor.
Augusta L. Parkinson, 19, of 1410 West Street, Ineton-Balen, was sentenced to 18 months in the state women's prison after admitting abandoning her five month old baby in a rest room at the Southern Railway terminal. The infant, seriously ill for days, was later placed in the custody of Parkinson’s stepfather and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Rhodes of Madison Route 1.
In Kandy Ceylon on February 26 the Southeast command reported heavy fighting as Japanese troops failed to dislodge Indian units from Irrawaddy bridgeheads southwest of Mandalay. Allied forces cleared the east bank below the bridgehead and push southward toward Mandalay.
Increased allowances with pay have been granted to more than 800000 railroad workers in a labor management approved agreement subject to government review under the stabilization program. The deal followed six months of talks among a carriers conference committee of 15 major eastern western and southeastern railroads and 14 railway brotherhoods. Spokesmen for the railroads confirmed it was signed after mediation by the National Mediation Board.
Rudolf Hess remains under guard at a West Country hospital after parachuting into Britain in 1941 on a peace mission. Letters accuse the treatment of a war criminal as excessive, with protests about guards, rationed food, and Hess’s sunlit excursions amid calls to return him to Germany.
Soviet forces scout German lines along the Oder and Spree as they push toward Breslau and Koenigsberg. Reports say Nazis massed artillery and armor behind minefields while Red Army units strike and probe for breakthroughs.
Mar shal Constantin Rokossovsky's Second White Russian Army pushes toward the Baltic, reaching Hammerstein 51 miles from the sea and threatening to sever the Stettin to Elbing coastal corridor. Russians also push back German forces from Arnswalde toward the Ihna river as Neustettin area falls.
Sergeant James B. Shaw of Thomasville North Carolina received the Air Medal at a 13th AAF Liberator base in the Moluccas for meritorious achievement on sustained operations. As a B 24 gunner he completed over 30 missions against alau Balikpapan and the Philippines while overseas since May 24 1944. He enlisted November 30 1942 and trained in Chicago and Kingman Arizona.
A detailed Monday February 20 radio guide lists programs across networks including CBS NBC and Mutual. It covers serials news reports sports music variety shows dramas and talk features with times from 6:46 PM to 1:16 AM and repeats across west east and blue networks.
A passing truck dumped a sack of mule feed as a patrolman crossed near the county building. The feed spilled onto the street and was carried into the county building where the officer awaited the owner to claim it.
Mrs. Carrie Dalton Danbury, 60, died after a lingering illness in a Stuart Virginia hospital. Funeral services will be Tuesday at 2 p.m. at Snow Creek Primitive Baptist Church, Lawsonville, with Elders D. O Brian and G. W. Hill officiating. Burial in the church cemetery. Survived by husband W Dalton of Stuart, four daughters Mrs D Clark of High Point, Mrs W Rogers of Stanleytown, Mrs E G Lawson of Lawson, Mrs J E Helms of Stuart. sons M E Dalton of Mullins, C W Dalton of Martins, Cpl Paul H Dalton and Cpl Ben E Dalton, both in Virginia and Texas. N T Dalton of an unspecified location. three sisters Mrs D Dawson of Mattox, Va., Mrs Dawson of Greensboro. numerous grandchildren.
Road distances list key front lines with miles from Zellin on the Eastern Front 32 miles and from the west bank Rhine at Emmerich 296 miles on the Western Front plus 544 miles from the Reno River on the Italian Front.
Early production of barbed wire in the British Isles and America faced strong opposition on human grounds. The debate centered on humane treatment and potential harm, shaping early attitudes toward its adoption and regulation.
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