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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1945
Page
2
A sunny to fair pattern continues through today tonight and Thursday with light winds and mild temperatures. No precipitation is expected as high pressure dominates the region and coastal areas stay dry. Overnight lows dip into the 50s with daytime highs near 70.
Allied forces report Nazi assaults in the St Vith area were beaten back as the Third Army pushes inside Vianden and French forces advance north of Strasbourg near the Colmar pocket. Snowbound fronts slow air attacks while five inches of snow blankets the front and a German division shifts to the Polish front amid Soviet reporting on the Oder line.
AP dispatch reports limited withdrawals by American forces near the Ardennes as the Allied pursuit progresses toward the original front. French troops advance north of Colmar crossing the Ill river while German pockets are mopped up. Shelling near Haguenau and Brumath signals continued threat to northern Alsace with sizable German movements noted in the Bitche salient.
Questioning whether Napoleon suffered stomach ulcers that contributed to his downfall. An advertisement touts Udga as a remedy for stomach discomfort including indigestion gas heartburn and related pains with a money back guarantee available at Mann's and Drug Stores.
Ira M. Bailey 79 a longtime Thomasville resident died at his home Tuesday night after a brief illness He was born in Davidson County son of the late Wiley Bailey and Martha Jane Elliott Bailey He leaves wife Lucinda Cook Bailey three sons Eugene and Ervin Bailey of Thomasville and C G Bailey of Morganton a daughter Mrs C R Smith of Thomasville one sister Mrs Priscilla Nance of Denton eight grandchildren and four great grandchildren Funeral services will be Thursday at 2 pm at his residence conducted by Rev John A Cox and Rev Harold Simpson with interment at Denton City Cemetery
The Price Administrator Bowles announced a program to curb rising clothing costs. About 75 percent of fabric will be channeled to low and medium priced goods, with priority on children's clothing, shirts, dresses, and suits. Quality standards will target shoddy merchandise and restore lower-priced goods by August or September. The ceiling will base on the first half of 1943 prices.
A wartime ruin north of a cemetery shows a barbed wire enclosure of about thirty acres with worn helmets canteens and flashlights among ashes and smoldering relics. Civilians say the garrison fled January 21 toward foothills leaving death and desolation in their wake.
Ezell Roberts a 26 year old Black resident of High Point was sentenced in Guilford Court by Judge Henry A Grady to serve three to five years in the state prison after pleading guilty to unlawfully burning a dwelling owned by Carrie Belle Bo Roberts originally charged with arson.
London January 24 reports Prime Minister Churchill will face a Commons question tomorrow about whether the allies would have enough gas handling machines to flood Germany with poison gas if Germany uses it first. The remark reflects wartime tensions over chemical warfare and deterrence.
News notes a colored community ministerial council gathering at Bethel Church Sunday with events at 2 PM and 3:30 PM featuring Rev. L. B. Laws of Greensboro and a large Kannapolis group. Bishop Mingo hosts and asks members to bring lunch for Sunday. Evening services include a Jehovah Witness event in Winston-Salem with a planned continuation.
The Junior Womens Club of the First Baptist church will meet tonight with Miss Ruth Pinnix at 1303 Rivett Drive at 6 30 p m. Members are urged to attend with Mrs Juanita Byers as hostess.
The Missionary Circle Number 3 of ypue Baptist meets Thursday night at the home of Mrs. Helen Anthony 1104 Kivett Drive. All members are asked to attend this special meeting of importance.
The Daughters of Dorcas met at Mrs. E. V. Baldwin’s home to hear a course in Stewardship in the Life of Women led by Mrs. Baldwin with assistive guidance from Mrs. W. F. Elliott and Mrs. Sylvia Alford. Rev. W. F. Elliott spoke on plans for a Family Relationship course next month. the next meeting is at Mrs. Alford’s home.
Soviet forces belt the Oder front with heavy shelling as Rokossovsky and Zhukov hammer East Prussia and central Poland. Konev outflanks Silesia toward Breslau while Makow and Krakow areas fall under heavy attack, with Berlin looming and German lines collapsing along multiple fronts.
American troops discover deserted Capas Camp overrun by waist high grass and fires. Gruesome graves of at least 4 000 Filipinos and many Americans lie in ruins as former prisoners of war allegedly removed by Japanese before fleeing. Reports note mass transfers to Japan and ongoing Lingayen Gulf operations with air force strikes on Marikina and Zablan airfields.
A new Scout troop organized by the church has enrolled several boys in Thomasville. Leadership includes Scoutmaster Charlie Black with Rev. A. J. Clemmer and Floyd J. Money as assistant scoutmasters and other local helpers Coo Fed Lite tae ene age Jessey K. A. and C. R. Holton.
W A Davis of the Davis Milling company on South Hamilton street praised the fire department after a January 1 fire that destroyed his plant. He commended Fire Chief Eli Ingram and the firefighters for confining the blaze to a small area and saving the rest of the block.
Washington January 24 The Wallace Jones cabinet feud faced a public airing before a senate committee sharply divided in sympathies. Jesse H Jones the 70 year old Houston banker and former commerce secretary accepted the committee’s offer to attend an afternoon hearing at 2 30 in the Senate office building. Former Vice President Henry A Wallace invited to testify tomorrow as campaign reward for the Jones nomination.
Reports say German forces threw reinforcements into Silesia to strengthen the Oder river line, aiming to bolster defenses and slow Allied advances along the front.
The war dispatch notes German withdrawals believed to follow established plans despite heavy losses. Russians push toward Breslau with advances into Silesia along the Oder front, threatening the industrial heartland and forcing potential German resistance to defend Breslau and the Rhine flank.
Sergeant Russell E. Brewer of the 491st Heavy Bomb Group in England earned the Distinguished Flying Cross. He has flown 35 combat missions over Germany including Hannover Hamm Saarbrucken and Munich and completed training in Wendover Tucson Blythe and Pueblo. His mother Mrs Berthanie C Brewer resides in Jamestown North Carolina.
Lawmakers consider a measure to protect state employees on military leave by ensuring they receive the same raise on return. A separate bill would create a joint Raleigh Durham board of control with civil aeronautics powers after two years. Junk dealers face mandatory 10 day holds and detailed records under threat of misdemeanor for failure to file weekly with sheriffs.
The Local Division Embargo No. 36 blocks all carload and less than carload freight and all consignees destined for or routed to destinations east of Lake Michigan and the specified switching districts. The measure covers routes from Chicago through Springfield to St. Louis and extends north to Hunt ington West Virginia, Potomac Yards Virginia, and Hampton Roads. The Army has developed a special gas mask to protect men with head wounds.
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