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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1944
Page
2
Partly cloudy conditions expected in North and South Carolina Sunday and Monday. Temperatures will be moderate on Sunday with a slight cooling Sunday night, especially in western areas, and not quite as warm Monday.
The report details a low altitude landing support mission near Frosinone with RAF and Allied escort. Lt. John V. Budekiewicz and Staff Sgt. Floran Laone manned the gunner positions while Maj. J. Akers, Col. Green, and others coordinated air support. They encountered heavy flak earlier but returned safely with Allied air superiority, observing invasion craft at the beachhead and numerous Allied aircraft in the skies.
Reports describe a Magdeburg air raid by about 1000 planes with roughly five percent losses. German forces attacked Britain in two waves, only a portion reached London and several were shot down. The Berlin broadcast claimed unfamiliar bomber types and limited details on strategic aims. Observers in the RAF noted how Magdeburg appeared damaged, while German defenses were outmatched by speed and weight of the attack. Magdeburg, a 300000 resident city, houses iron works, Krupp tanks, and Junkers engine plants amid rail links to Leipzig Kassel and Hamburg, with further damage to its industrial districts and shortages looming.
Allied forces achieved rapid beachhead expansion north of Nettuno and pressed inland toward the Tiber, aiming to trap the German Tenth Army. Air bombardment crippled railways and air bases while Western, British, and American units advanced from the Tyrrhenian coast with close air support guiding the assault.
Powlas was sentenced to four years on one misapplication count and four more on another, with two counts suspended. Dotson received four years and one day, plus three years for a separate misapplication count. Poe got one year and one day on a conspiracy charge, to run after a three-year term. Several defendants pled nolo contendere or entered not guilty pleas as the trial unfolded.
Police say Theo re Smith 34 of Daniel Brooks Apartments drove south on Southern Street and collided with a mine operated by D B Johnson in High Point. Both drivers cited for reckless driving.
Local roster lists Sgt Jack Brown stationed overseas and his brother Bill training at Centre College Danville Ky. It notes Second Lt William Wagner at Fresno Calif, Pvt W C Loving in the Pacific, Sgt W Paul Loving at Camp Swift Texas, Cpl Samuel C Easter in England, Sgt Samuel A Hiatt Jr and Navy veteran J E Grubb Jr, Staff Sgt Edward Burroughs at Biggs Field El Paso, and several others with postings and furloughs across North Africa England and the U S, including Pensacola Maxwell Field Yuma and Ft Bragg.
Soviet dispatches report a major push below Leningrad threatening the German-held rail corridor from Kolpino to Volkhovo. Red Star says Mga fell to Soviet forces and siege of Leningrad ends as defenses crumble along the east west Moscow Leningrad line. German remnants retreat under heavy pressure as Red Army concentrates on fortifications and rail networks.
Allied forces pound Japanese targets across the Marshalls and Gilberts with raids on Mili Jaluit and Kwajalein atolls. Dives bombers hit ships while Southeast Asia Command planes sweep Burma. Japan faces budget strains amid war pressures and new economic measures in Tokyo.
Cpl Squire Sams on furlough after 22 months abroad visits friends in High Point and then with his parents at Liberty in a home leave.
A military communique notes rising Soviet pressure in the area between the Pripet and Berezina rivers west of Rechitsa. It adds Soviet offensives in the dense forests of Northern Finland were repulsed by Hessian and Thuringian grenadiers.
Police detectives catch Joshua Funderburk a 36 year old Negro escapee in a pawn session. He carries a security card draft card and credentials under the name ert Moore. Silas Cox 40 is held in city jail on 500 bond for operating a car intoxicated. B Harris 31 is held on 550 bond on three warrants including assault on Walter Cashion and Anne M and property damage to Cashion’s belongings.
The Army and Navy Register says American snipers in the war wearing camouflage suits are described as summarily executed spies when captured by Japan. It cites international law defining spies as those clandestinely or falsely obtaining information, noting soldiers not in disguise may not be spies.
Mrs Rosa Lec tor Proctor aged 19 dies in Belmont North Wilkesboro services set for Sunday at Center Baptist Church Attending family includes husband Charles W Proctor two stepfathers and three sisters and a brother with Elledge and Andrews listed among survivors
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