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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1945
Page
2
The forecast calls for cloudy skies with mild warmth. Expect overcast conditions today and tonight with light to moderate humidity and no significant precipitation.
Allied forces push toward the Rhine with armor and infantry crossing the Erft toward Cologne. Canadian and American armies near Wesel and Duisburg aim for a junction trapping Nazi forces as airpower watches the Rhine for mass withdrawals eastward.
First Army field officers told AP correspondent Don Whitehead they expected only a delay before a main push into Germany. American forces reached a line near Dueren and Modrath with a new bridgehead on the Rhine. Southward infantry captured Wissersheim northwest of Bonn and outflanked Zuelpich by taking Gladbach and reaching Ginnich near Zuelpich.
The piece argues Allies claim adherence to the Hague convention while bombing Tokyo and Berlin, acknowledging civilian casualties from strategic targets. It questions the paradox of protecting civilians amid total war and notes reactions to potential leadership impacts, including Hirohito and Hitler, with a brief line on U S technical training for 1 000 nationals from other republics.
President describes Big Three talks at Yalta as successful for peace and a universal world organization. He notes Congress will vote on U N participation and discusses Poland borders, German disarmament, and the aim of rapid Allied victory with lasting peace. He urges Congress to back decisions reached at Yalta for lasting results.
Allied air forces pressed daylight and night raids on Berlin and western Germany. Two thousand planes carried out six daylight attacks on rail and oil targets while U S Eighth Air Force suffered three bombers and four fighters shot down.
Cpl. William G. Hutchens receives two Bronze Stars while serving with an Anti Aircraft Division in Belgium. His mother was notified last week. Enlisted two years ago and trained at Camp Stewart. He fought in the Normandy battle and earned the medals for gallantry. Welborn Street.
Northern AP report describes Third Division penetration toward the center of Japanese defenses and Fifth and Fourth Divisions advancing along coasts. Admiral Nimitz notes stiff opposition in all sectors as 4,784 enemy dead are counted with many buried in pill boxes and fortifications. Only 10 prisoners captured.
Finance payments range from 15 to 20 dollars as a measure to extend protections to establishments with one or more employees faces defeat in committee. The present law covers firms with eight or more workers. House Judiciary One favors a bill allowing only Carolina Beach residents to vote in municipal elections and opposes a bill for nonresident freeholders to vote.
Major General Edwin M Watson secretary and military aide to President Roosevelt died on a ship in the eastern Atlantic February 20 while returning from the Yalta Big Three conference. He suffered a cerebral hemorrhage and was born in Eufaula Alabama with family ties to a southern plantation.
Letters from Sgt. Michael Ryan reveal adoption plans for a five year old war orphan with Red Cross coordination. Roddy McDowall gains U.S. citizenship papers, while Jungle Marines casts a teen boy as a young marine. Errol Flynn’s Frontiersman is out, Don Juan moves forward with a romance plot. Donald O’Connor’s mother suffers brain concussion, Universal had signed her before the accident. Susan Hayward’s labor pains occur during a scene with Joe Cotton. Mickey Rooney recalls long war-letter waits. Lady the hound disappears. Veronica Lake and Andre De Toth stay at the Arizona Biltmore. Clark Gable returns March 15 for This Strange Adventure. Betty Hutton’s Manila reception linked to And the Angels Sing. Claire James returns to act in George White’s Scandals of 1945, then plans dress design. Bonita Granville opening a beauty shop on Venture Boulevard.
Maureen O Hara reportedly receives a piece of Filipino guerrilla money bearing her image. Marsha Hunt’s sister Marjorie Broyles tends a baby and two girls while their mother is hospitalized. June Storey, famed for Gene Autry films, was thrown from a horse but suffered only bruises.
MacArthur reported Palawan installations pounded by strong bomber formations with escort, as Corregidor defenses of about 3,000 U S troops pressed an operation to open Manila Bay. A cargo ship reached the bay bringing supplies to Manila while Japanese deaths near Corregidor reached 4,215 with hundreds more in tunnels. Americans suffered 136 killed 531 wounded and eight missing.
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