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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1945
Page
1
Associated Press notes distances to the Berlin front from major theaters. Russian Front sits 282 miles from Rokitno, Western Front 301 miles from near Duren, Hungarian Front 364 miles from the Hron River, and Italian Front 544 miles from the Reno River.
War analyst DeWitt Mackenzie notes growing speculation that Allied forces may seek punishment for Nazi war crimes and the leaders who ordered them. Reports from London claim plans to try Hitler and Axis chiefs were abandoned, stirring UN anxiety as the war nears its end.
A joint resolution to create a special commission to study separating the Game and Inland Fisheries division from the Department of Conservation and Development passes both houses without debate. The plan, supported by Governor Cherry, awaits appointment of a commission to report by February 1.
TAMPA Fla January 17 A 22 year old war veteran Arley Arthur Morgan back to grade school says he may not stay in class after being admitted to the sixth grade. He entered school a week ago and shows interest but worries about being an oddity to peers. Morgan notes Army soldiers seek education and recalls peers with similar aims who did and did not complete grades. He left Shady Florida to join CCC before entering the Army.
Washington reports a National Planning Association proposal calls for a 15 000 per year increase in congressional pay to 25 000 plus a retirement plan. The plan aims to modernize Congress but lawmakers fear jeopardizing broader reform.
American heavy bombers and 350 fighters attacked Hamburg and Magdeburg oil plants and U-boat facilities while RAF bombers struck Magdeburg and refineries. Objectives included the Rhenania refinery at Hamburg and north western German transportation centers. Berlin raided as night attack alarms sounded.
Rep Bonner of North Carolina and Rep Peterson of Florida call for a middle of the road policy as the new House Un-American Activities Committee begins work. Rankin, meanwhile, labels Communists and minority groups as threats in a radio address. Bonner seeks fair hearings and FBI cooperation as the panel’s guardian.
Report from Paris describes Britons pushing toward Dieteren near the Roer in icy conditions as US First and Ninth Armies advance near St Vith. German opposition includes minefields and renewed attacks around Hatten as the Maginot Line front holds.
A Guilford County delegation led by Chairman Charles Hines met Governor Cherry to press for a Guilford representative on the State Highway and Public Works Commission. The two names offered were Andrew Joyner Jr. and Joe Bryan of Greensboro. Rep. Walter Crisman may back a Guilford candidate if High Point has a strong option.
Governor Cherry warned that a coal shortage may close many local schools across North Carolina and require curtailment of fuel use. He urged maintaining indoor temperatures at 68 degrees and limiting school activities until fuel supplies improve after talks with education and procurement officials.
Allied headquarters reported American patrols trying to reach San Antona west of the Florence Bologna highway were repelled by enemy small arms fire. Skirmishes continued in several sectors amid snow and rain with no changes to Fifth or Eighth Army forward positions. An Indian patrol south of Faenza overran an enemy outpost, killing and capturing ten Germans.
The B 29s of Major General Curtis E. Lemay raided Formosa for the third time since January 9 aiming at military installations. No Japanese interceptors rose to meet the attack, with results to be released by the War Department.
LAURINBURG MAXTON AR MY AIR BASE Jan 17 The Army today began converting all its glider pilot training at this air base and announced that after February 15 glider pilot training will be given only to officers who have earned their wings as airplane pilots and who are experienced in two engined planes The change was announced at Stout Field Indianapolis by Brig Gen William D Old commander of the TOC The decision to restrict training to twin engined qualified pilots was due to urgent combat theater requests for double threat pilots Pilots with single engined experience will receive transition training on twin engined craft before being sent to this base for glider work
U S Pacific Fleet planes pounded the South China coast sinking or damaging at least 30 Japanese ships. Hellcats Helldivers and Avengers hit Takao docks Formosa Hongkong and Canton areas over the weekend with no Japanese planes seen over Hongkong.
London January 17 The United States and Britain agreed to allocate ships to the French government between now and April 1 to meet France imports. Ships used will come from the Allied pool subject to military necessity with hope for continuing shipments beyond April. Jean Monnet helped secure the accord with Allied officials in London and Washington.
General MacArthur reports a limited Japanese counterattack slowed the Sixth Army's advance in central Luzon. American units push toward Manila, reaching Moncada and closing on Tarlac while tank spearheads move from Camiling toward the southern plain. Artillery harasses ridges guarding the last north south road.
William Wray Holt a 25 year old former soldier from Greensboro North Carolina was arrested by military police on a tip from a woman and held for the grand jury on charges of impersonating an army officer and attempted fraud. FBI agents said he wore a captain’s uniform with many medals and a Purple Heart. a signed confession described lavish living in Boston New York and Bangor Maine as he met women. Holt denied any fraud intent and said he paid his bills.
Warsaw, a city of 1,300,000, fell to Russian forces under Field Marshal Gregory Zhukov after two Vistula crossings. Stalin announced the victory in a strong day order marking the first European capital to fall to the Germans in this war.
Marshal Stalin announced a 63 mile advance on a 25 mile front north of Warsaw as Russian forces push forward. In a separate broadcast recorded by the FCC, the premier of the Lublin Polish government stated Krakow had fallen.
Soviet troops drove toward Krakow as Warsaw was liberated, with Ilan vanguards 10 miles away and Koniev’s group advancing from the Baltic region. Radom fell, Czestochowa nears the Silesia frontier, and Moscow reported a major eastern push by Zhukov and Stalin’s orders.
President Roosevelt weighing a plan to counter Russian calls for representation by proposing an American delegation of 48 seats, one per state. He prepares for discussions with Churchill and Stalin on world security assembly structure and voting rules, with talks also touching on four power pacts and a provisional European council.
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