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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1944
Page
8
Clarence T. Leinbach announced that North Carolina counties will receive their quotas next week for the fourth war loan drive starting January 18. The state’s quota is $126,000,000.
Soviet forces moved toward Vinnitsa and Zhmerinka in southwestern Ukraine while German positions in the Dnieper Bend crumble. Vatutin’s troops captured Tarascha and nearby towns as progress threatened the German Sixth Army and narrowed escape routes to the west amid high casualties.
Reports from Switzerland claim Berlin is half ruined with 25 percent more damaged after RAF night raids. The January operation marks the RAFs third big raid in five days, as bombers targeted Kiel airfields and western German industries including Bordeaux and Tours.
Miss Ida Minerva Tarbell, renowned American writer, died today at Bridgeport hospital from pneumonia at age 86. She was a leading figure among American women writers and contributed to journalism and history.
North Carolina sees cooler tonight with lows 25 to 30 in the north and west and 28 to 32 in the southeast. Friday brings fair, warmer conditions. South Carolina reports cooler tonight with lows around 26 to 32. Friday remains fair and warmer.
Federal Bureau of Investigation bank expert Edward J. Armbruster was expected to be examined further today in a U S district court trial of seven men over a alleged conspiracy to defraud Black Mountain Bank of about 232000. The defendants include Saluda River Lumber officials Pace Rogers Borcherevink and Bank of Black Mountain officials Honeycutt Powlas Free Miles. Armbruster’s testimony covered bank records and his findings from examining them with much focus on Saluda River Lumber company checks.
Allied operations press toward Cassino in western Italy despite rain and sleet. American Lancasters bomb near San Vittore and Cassino airfield to break German defenses as Canadians and British forces engage along the Adriatic coast and in the Monte Cassino area.
The piece outlines how Red forces are seen as part of the Soviet Union and notes a Soviet bulletin claiming 1939 Polish areas were liberated from Polish rulers. It discusses the Polish underground’s potential role in aiding Russians, and London’s stance on cooperation only if diplomatic ties with Russia are restored. It traces the 1939 division of Poland between Germany and Russia and the resulting territorial changes.
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