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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1945
Page
1
London report says about 2,500 heavy bombers from Italy and Britain attacked German and Austrian targets on the Rhine including vital sites. German defenses engaged in battles as losses mounted, with several enemy planes shot down and a prior two month high of 186 German aircraft reported.
In Raleigh on March 2 the $129 million revenue bill returned to second reading after an amendment by Stone of Rockingham added a $1 per gallon wine tax estimated to raise about $2 million annually. Opponents argued it would harm small wine firms while supporters noted revenue gains. The bill’s passage was deferred as amendments shifted to exclude insecticides from the general sales tax for poultry and livestock use.
Allied forces push through Neuss and other Ruhr towns as the Ninth Army advances toward the Rhine. Canadian and British units report gains in the northern Rhine plain while Trier and the Moselle valley fall to American troops. Venlo and Roermond are captured as the Rhineland loosens and German resistance crumbles.
RAF Mustangs of the Balkan air force attacked a German convoy of 800 vehicles moving north through Yugoslavia toward Maribor yesterday. Six vehicles were set afire 30 more severely damaged and another damaged. U S 15th Airforce Lightning fighters destroyed 30 locomotives in Austrian rail strikes and heavy bombers hit Maribor freight yards. Major Paul B Ash of Southeast St Fort Lauderdale Florida scored three locomotive hits.
The RAF led a heavy air assault on Cologne with 750 to 1 000 planes while 1 200 Fortresses and Liberators targeted Dresden Chemnitz and Linz area under Russian advance in Silesia. Mustang and Lightning escorts supported strikes on Linz Austria and several rail and oil targets across Germany. Strong formations from Britain attacked freight yards at Dresden and Chemnitz and major industrial sites including Krupp Magdeburg oil works Bohlen and Rositz refinery near Leipzig. Fighters and light bombers continued to pressure German forces in the battle.
Taylorville reports Sgt. Edgar M. Halyburton of Alexander county who was captured by Germans in World War I died February 26 in Long Beach California from spinal meningitis. He was the first enlisted man to receive the Distinguished Service Medal and was commended by General Pershing. He endured captivity in Germany tied to wagons at Tuchel camp and was paraded before civilians in humiliation.
British and American dispatches report Marshal Rokossovsky’s second Russian army pushing toward the Stettin Danzy highway, cutting Danzig off from Germany and threatening Stargard fortress while Konev launches a large Ukrainian army offensive near Prague.
Field Marshal Sir Harold Alexander visited Belgrade and Tolbukhin in Hungary for conferences with Marshal Tito. Staffs participated as Allied headquarters said the talks concluded with agreement on all points under discussion.
A German radio commentator reported that Soviet General Ivan Konev was launching an attack east of Schweidnitz, about 30 miles to the south, describing a wartime frontline development.
Henry Agard Wallace is named secretary of commerce at a $15,000 yearly salary after a 40 day political wander. The Senate confirmed him 56 to 32 and he will take the oath from Justice Hugo L. Black today. He will not oversee federal lending agencies, unlike his predecessor Jesse Jones.
Senator Maybank of South Carolina introduced a bill to require the War or Navy secretaries to issue death certificates for service members. The act would send certificates to county vital statistics offices, listing name, rank, age, race, service entry date and death details.
U S Marines press the attack on Iwo Jima pushing the Japanese into the island’s northern tip. Maj. Gen. Erskine’s 3rd division moves on Motoyama airfield No 3 while Maj. Gen. Rockey’s 5th division drives west to clear hill fortifications and Hill 362 nears the northeast shoreline. President Roosevelt says the situation is well in hand.
The article notes General Eisenhower’s push west of the Rhine amid a broad offensive. It claims Allied forces have captured over 30,000 prisoners and describes the Canadian First Army and American Ninth Army driving toward the Rhine, forming a potential pocket.
Eastern Front 32 miles from Zerlin Western Front 291 miles from west of Cologne Italian Front 544 miles from Reno River.
The report describes Allied forces driving toward the Rhine clearing western defenses. If Rundstedt withdraws in good order, a large prisoner haul could be possible as Ninth Army reaches Neuss near Dusseldorf. The northern sector bears the heaviest fighting and threat to Nazi positions.
Augusta Templeton alias Peggy Templeton, recently given 18 months for abandoning her four month old in Greensboro, will face Forsyth Superior Court forgery charges next week. She allegedly signed the names of T. C. Pepper and J. M. Taylor to a $168 note to defraud Hood System Industrial Bank.
DETROIT March 2-4 Six war plants in the Detroit area were closed and operations at 14 others affected as strikes spread. About 29,000 workers were idle with closures at the Chrysler Dodge main and Dodge truck plants and four Briggs units. The strikes expanded to three more Briggs plants after CIO back-to-work pleas were voted down. Roughly 6,250 workers across Briggs Milwaukee avenue Vernor highway and Hamtramck plants were affected.
Fifth Army troops mounted a large scale raid east of the Castiglione to Sas Bolognese corridor silencing several German machineguns after a two hour fight. Allied headquarters said overall activity was patrol oriented. Eighth army skirmishes occurred along the Senio with prisoners taken and a German raiding party dispersed southeast of Biancango at an Eighth army strongpoint.
Hickory Emergency Infantile Paralysis hospital prepares to relocate to Charlotte Memorial hospital. A 55 mile convoy of 70 automobiles 12 ambulances and several trucks will transport patients nurses and equipment under police highway patrol and fire department assistance.
Senator McBryde of Hoke introduced a bill dividing the state into eight educational districts with a State Board of Education representative from each district. Provisions take effect April 1, listing Fifth Alamance Caswell Chatham Davidson Forsyth Guilford Orange Person Randolph Rockingham Stokes.
The first high tenacity rayon shipment from the American Enka Corporation plant in Asheville will depart today after a 11 day strike halted production last month. Col. Curtis G. Priatt, War Department operations representative, announced the plan.
Washington reports higher blue point values for canned fruits starting Sunday. No. 2% cans move from 60 to 80 points. tomatoes rise 20 to 30 points. apple sauce drops from 30 to 10 points. 6 pound No. 16 apple cans fall from 120 to 80 points. New stamps N2 P2 O2 R2 and S2, each worth 10 points, valid through June 30.
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