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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1945
Page
8
Clearing weather in most sections with colder readings today. Mountains remain considerably cloudy with a fair and colder night forecast. Thursday will bring drier air and continued cold conditions, near freezing in the western portion tonight.
The article discusses potential Pacific invasion options including Ryukus Kuriles Formosa or China, with emphasis on naval versus land campaigns. It reports U S Pacific Fleet HQ at Guam noting an all out push on Iwo Jima and ground gains despite fierce Japanese defense. Manila Luzon campaign moves toward final phase as Parachute Regiment clears caves at Corregidor.
Chief W H Crane announces reopening of the combat air crew quota restricted to 17 year old boys. Interested youths must report to the local post office then proceed to Atlanta for a qualification test.
First Army Ninth division fights at Alfter as Fourth armored division under Maj. Gen. Hugh Gaffney advances to the middle Rhine. American troops seize vast German stores and capture Lt. Gen. Graf von Rothkirch. Censors withhold exact towns yet to be announced.
Allied reports say the American 10th Mountain Division with Brazilian support advanced after Monte Belvedere and Monte Cassoldo, covering more than eight miles in gains. The drive stalled near Bologna with minor actions surrounding the central zone while the 92nd Division faced a halt on the Ligurian coast. Thunderbolt aircraft and allied bombers struck enemy positions and the Brenner Pass rail line in the south.
The article argues that the world will rely on a cooperative bloc led by America Britain and Russia as the Big Three with potential expansion to France and China. It notes small nations resist but may accept the three powers to achieve a peaceful transition and warns the coming period will be critical. It mentions the Pan American conference favoring peace and realism.
Judge Oscar O. Efird in Winston-Salem named rent director attorney for the district yesterday. Paul G. Minnish of Winston-Salem was named examiner for the office which is tentatively set to open Thursday.
A bus collided with a log cart near the Roanoke River bridge and plunged into the water injuring 26 people. Among the injured were J B Harrison of Norfolk driver and several residents from Norfolk, Brooklyn, Greenville, Windsor, Oriental and other towns, with one child unharmed.
London March 7 The Home Secretary Herbert Morrison granted a reprieve to Elizabeth Jones an 18 year old British strip tease dancer sentenced to die for the robbery slaying of a taxi driver Morrison commuted her death sentence to life imprisonment after an appeal by her lawyers The reprieve came amid a rival death sentence for her accomplice Pvt Karl Gustav Hulton who is to be executed at Pentonville prison at dawn barring a last minute development Morrison ruled the grounds did not justify interfering with Hulton's sentence The article notes Morrison's recommendation to the king regarding the royal prerogative
The RAF sent a large force of heavy bombers to Sassnitz on the Ruegen island off Pomerania and to Wesel on the Rhine. Lancasters joined a 15th straight Berlin attack as German troops retreat toward the east. Russian forces near Stettin Bay are noted nearby.
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