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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1944
Page
8
The article describes German forces retreating before Soviet advances, aiming for a new defensive line along the Visla river. It notes potential armor shortages for a stand there and highlights Soviet mobility relying on motor transport and large units of cavalry ripping through German lines.
Allied forces pressed toward Caen, advancing to May Sur Orne and Verrieres amid ground mist. They also reached Tilly La Campagne as weather briefly lifted, while RAF bombers hit German concentrations a mile ahead of lines, marking a partial offensive surge after a four day lull.
Navy Secretary Forrestal released figures showing Saipan combat losses in the western Pacific totaling 16,463 American casualties, with 3,049 killed in action, 13,049 wounded and 365 missing, while dispatches from Washington cite Hull stating U S views toward allied and separate causes across Latin America.
Officials of the waste paper drive admitted today that Spaugh Paper Co was not listed among firms donating the use of a truck and driver for the effort. The oversight was acknowledged as a lapse in the drive's organization.
Call Baker's Esso at phone 2271 to be included in the next waste paper drive notice. For the next few days only, collection is scheduled for September 3rd.
Civitan Club luncheon at the Sheraton Hotel featured a psychoanalysis test led by Dr. Harry Brockman. Members were analyzed by partners using Reader's Digest questions as H. Severn Regar presided and visitors Philip Burton and Stanley McGary attended. W. R. Peters was welcomed as a new member and Guy Leonard’s team won the attendance prize.
German 278th division suffered 3000 to 4000 casualties in the Pescara to Ancona fighting as Allied units in the vicinity of Sansepolcro and Ancona press the Adriatic line. Polish troops move tanks for an assault on Ostra, 18 miles west of Ancona as port repairs continue despite shelling of Ancona Port.
War Department documentary "The Liberation of Rome" screens today at the Center Theatre under the War Activities Committee. Joint US British production, 20 minutes, uses animated maps to explain Rome’s liberation from 21 years of Fascist rule.
James Claude Smith a High Point truck driver was found guilty of driving a truck while intoxicated at a Thomasville hearing before Judge Carl Wilson. He received a six month suspended sentence plus a $50 fine and court costs and a 12 month no driving period. Harold Miller a Negro was sentenced to eight months after larceny of an automobile wheel tire and tube from Allen Bingham. Bud Chandler of High Point was fined $10 plus court costs for assault on a female.
Russia announced it would conclude an agreement with the Polish Committee of National Liberation rather than the exile government in London. The accord would cover relations between the advancing Red Army and the Civil Administration of Liberated Polish territory.
Ed Trivett and Morgan Trivett brothers were held in city jail in default of bonds. Ed is charged with assault with a knife on Ira Welch and Morgan with disorderly conduct. Welch suffered a diagonal chest wound and a severed rib after a bus incident near Allen Jay school.
A wartime dispatch notes Nazi leadership remains firmly in control despite turmoil across the Reich. It cites a marshal model figure as a midland figure within the officer corps and asserts veterans’ readiness for action alongside calls for faith in eventual success.
The Community War Fund board meets at 4 PM on College Street to discuss a new monthly budgeting system that would replace the current annual budget. If adopted, allocations could rise or fall each month based on organizational needs, with Horace S. Hayworth presiding and agenda including the central office budget and High Point’s United Way quota. Palestine exports about $800 000 of pharmaceuticals annually.
Partly cloudy and rather hot today and tonight with a few thundershowers in the mountains this afternoon. Tomorrow will be fair and mild with continued heat.
The 63-year-old retired general Nishio was installed in a ceremony at the imperial palace as Home Affairs Minister in Gen. Kuniaki Koiso's cabinet. He succeeds Shigeo Odachi and holds posts including chief of the Yokohama Greater East Asia Transportation Bureau and chief of the Yokohama admiralty court amid Allied air attacks on Japanese shipping.
The Tokyo radio quoting naval analyst Masanori Ito said forcefully that even with powerful carrier groups near the Marianas about 1,500 miles from Tokyo the time to strike the enemy has not arrived. He warned that Japan’s combined fleet is weaker in aircraft and that losing air command spells defeat and retreat.
As German forces retreat toward bridges on the Wisla and Soviet units push west, Poland’s new national committee travels with the Red Army toward War saw battle lines redraw across 9,000 square miles of former German Poland. Soviet seven army groups press an Baltic corridor near Narva and Tallinn while laksi and Ploesti are cited as eastern operations.
The official German News agency DNB reports a broad reorganization with Hermann Goering to supervise railways, the postal service, and all public institutions and industries to focus on the war effort. He may issue directives to top Reich authorities. A separate note mentions a Bengal practice of tree binding during nuptials.
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