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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1945
Page
2
War casualties total 823 632 with breakdown by service
Washington reports total war casualties to date 823 632 with 732 922 army and 90 710 navy deaths. The army rise is 10 600 from last week, with killed 142 285 wounded 438 734 prisoners 60 666 missing 91 237. Stimson notes 221 155 wounded have returned to duty.
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Washington
Navy
Secretary of War
Stimson Reed
Army
Stimson
Improvements Noted On Italian Front
The U S tenth mountain division pushed five miles toward Bologna along the Bologna Pistoia highway amid heavy German fire while securing new positions. Allied communiques say peaks near Bologna were captured in a limited objective drive as Fifth Army trops seized Vergato and nearby villages, with light resistance reported.
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Rome
Theu. S
Bologna Pistoia Highway
Fifth Army
Bologna
Bologlia-Pistoia
Vergata
Vergato
Willkie Memoir Sells a Million Copies Fast
The late Wendell Willkie's One World moved one million copies quickly, surpassing sales speed of any other book by an American author.
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Wendell Willkie
Five Catch Bulls By Tails Escape Flood Train
Five persons escaped a flood trapped train in northern Queensland between Ayr and Home Hill by clinging to bulls tails as cattle were released from stock cars. The group was towed to safety after the frightened animals plunged into flood waters.
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Brisbane
Australia
Queensland
Ayr
Home
Fifth Division advances as Iwo Jima battle flows on
Allied forces push across Iwo Jima’s NW and central sectors with the Fifth division gaining 500 yards on the left and the Third division advancing about the same in the center. The Fourth division adds 100 to 200 yards, while Japanese defenses fight to block coastal approaches at Motoyama and Mt Suribachi. A recon patrol tallies 30 to 40 Japanese corpses at the island’s southern tip.
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Motoyama
Mt. Suribachi
Stroupe Commissioned in U S Naval Reserve Ensign Class
In New York City on March 9 1135 men were commissioned as Ensigns United States Naval Reserve at the Cathedral of John the Divine. The twenty second class graduated from the Naval Reserve Officer Training School bringing total graduates to about 20000.
Indies Rich in Oil and Resources as War Disrupts Lanes
AP News features writer Thomas A. Boynton describes the Dutch East Indies as a vast, resource rich empire. He notes oil rubber quinine gold and iron among key assets, Java as political and economic heart with Batavia and Soerabaia as hubs, and strategic bases and ports across Sumatra Celebes and Timor. The piece details geography population and prewar scope as Allied bombers cut shipping and threaten Japanese access.
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Thomas A. Boynton
Netherlands East Indies
Indies
Holland
East Indian Equatorial
New Guinea
Australia
Borneo
Great Britain
Timor
Asia
Netherlands Indies
Celebes
New York State
Manado
Akassar
Sumatra
Dutch East Indies
Law measures advance in North Carolina legislature
The House and Senate committees moved on several bills. A lease law exemption limits oyster leaseable acres to 5 000. a ports authority bill would oversee ports and water traffic with seven governors appointees. An arbitration service bill was amended to five members. The Senate insurance committee backed state self insurance and a bill correcting retirement benefits for those entering service after September 16, 1940. A domestic relations study commission was authorized by the State Welfare Department.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mecklenburg County
Bost
Cabarrus
Rutledge
House
Cnemittee
State Labor Department
Ports Authority
Goor
Cartret
New Hanover Brunswick
Labor Department
Senate Insurance Committee
Eagles of
Wilson
Senate ‘Judiciary Two
Weathers
Cleveland
Armed Services
National Guard
High Point court library bill draws opposition
Walter Crissman of High Point says he has a copy of a bill to create a law library for the High Point court funded by a $1 court cost add on. Attorneys in High Point oppose it, arguing it gives the Municipal Court judge too much power by chairing the library commission and objects include librarian employment and no location designated. The bill would have the judge appoint a majority of the commission and the commission answerable only to him.
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Raleigh
Walter Crissman
High Point
High Point Court
Library Commission
Lawmakers Seek Expanded Absentee Ballot Authority and Fireworks Regulation
Representatives Crissman Caveness and Stoney push a bill to let county election boards accept absentee applications and issue ballots, citing access for Guilford and High Point residents. Rep Sellars proposes intergovernmental cooperation on recreation. A birth certificate bill targets legitimate births with a 90 day issuance rule. The House Judiciary Two panel edits a fireworks control bill to apply to Mecklenburg County, with mixed votes and debate over local reform versus statewide risk.
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Crissman
Caveness
Guilford
Stoney
Burke
State Board of Elections
Alamance
Rockin
House
Judiciary Two
Mecklenburg County
Goodman and Vogler
Mecklenburg
Paul Grady
Kenly
A. C. Kerman
Wilmington
A. V. Medlin
Zebulon
C. C. Braswell
C. R. Brown
Charlotte
Worthington
Pitt and
Policy change on presidential visits revealed by Daniels
Daniels says security rules may relax for non security driven trips as war progresses and experience reduces risk but the policy of not announcing presidential travels in advance will continue.
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Daniels
Soviet Offensive Seizes Key Port Area Near Stettin
Marshal Zhukov's Oder front advances neutralize Stettin's harbor area as Stalin proclaims victory. Troops capture Stephenitz Gollnow and Massow within twenty miles of Stettin while a separate push near Schirmenin in Pomerania annihilates nearly 7,000 Nazi troops attempting to retreat westward.
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Zhukov
Oder
Pomerania
Stettin
Stalin
Stephenitz
Gollnow
Massow
Schir Jbein
Hickory Lieutenant Dies in Plane Crash
A Hickory native, Second Lieutenant Sidney Vreek of Hickory, dies in a plane crash near Wrightsville Beach while on a flight from his unit base at Ong Field Goldsboro. The crash also involves remarks about his family and home address in Hickory.
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Hickory
Wilmington
March
Sidney Vreek
Wrighteville Beach
Aller Westerton
Ber
Roth V. Alley
15Th Street
Ong Field
Goldsro
Yank Americans unrest over mount a n g
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Wake Island raid and B 29s over Japan reported by Tokyo radio
Tokyo radio said four B 20s raided Wake Island but caused no damage. Snooperforts spotted over Honshu by daylight with three over Tokyo and one scouting Nagoya, a fifth circling Osaka Kobe region.
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Associated Press
Wake Island
Japan
Tokyo Radio Today
Federal Communications Commission
Wake
Honshu
FCC
Tokyo
Nagoya
Osaka-Kobe
Local counterattacks hinder uniform advance
Japanese sotnery ol Tired from concealed cave mouths, sociated Press Corresponden Fred Hampson reported, said local counterattacks made it difficult to maintain a uniform advance.
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Fred Hampson
Rhine Crossing Echoes Hope for End of War
Officers and soldiers cheered as they prepared to hold the Rhine bridgehead, with Lt. Col. Robert Evans of Davenport Iowa saying the river barrier could shorten the war by months. Generals eye a decisive push after Cologne’s capture and Ike’s six armies poised on the west bank.
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Robert Evans
Davenport
Iowa
Whitehead
Normandy
Eisenhower
Rhine
Rhineland
Cologne
Berlin area hit by RAF heavy bombers and Mosquitos
RAF heavy bombers struck central German industrial cities and targets near Harburg and Heide. Mosquitos dropped two ton bombs on Berlin while weather delayed Allied air operations until late afternoon. Five German planes were reported shot down over the front as raids continued on rail traffic north of the Ruhr.
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Germany
Harburg
Hamburg
Heiden Generatihs Newnan
Iel
Berlin
Ruhr
Haworth Commissioned Ensign in Naval Reserve
Horace S. Haworth Jr son of Mr and Mrs Horace S Haworth 411 Edgedale Drive High Point was among 1135 men commissioned as Ensigns in ceremonies at the Cathedral of St John the Divine New York City The 22nd class graduates from the Naval Reserve Officer Training School bring total graduates to about 20000.
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Haworth
New York
Horace S. Haworth, Jr
Horace S. Haworth
Edgedale Drive
High Point
United States Naval Reserve
Cathedral of St. John the Divine
New York City
Naval Reserve Officer Training School
Rescue 150 Airmen From The Pacific
More than 150 American airmen are alive in the Pacific thanks to air-sea rescue efforts. Lieut James B Adam of Westchester Pa directs missions using long range flying boats and Liberators scanning a million square miles daily between the Mariana Islands and Japan. Planes drop food and water to liferafts and await warships, with crews locating most survivors within 12 to 18 hours but sometimes mistaking orange crates for liferafts.
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Marianas
INS
Navy
James B. Adam
Westchester
Coronado
Rl Navy
Lanas
Japan
Pacific
Adam
American paratrooper executed for robbery killing in London
Karl Gustav Hulten, 22, of Cambridge Massachusetts, an American paratrooper, was executed by British authorities at Pentonville Prison after being sentenced to death for the robbery killing of taxi driver Oct G. Hulten. The case marks the first wartime execution of an American in Britain.
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London
Karl Gustav Hulten
Cambridge
Mass
Pentonville
Slaff
Oct
G. Hulten
the Bailey
Pilot Rescue Effort Boosts Morale, Says Adam
De Seer te ee uding pilots and about 300 enlisted men are engaged in the rescue work. Military leaders say the expenditure of time, effort and manpower has been repaid by ed ficers and crews. Adam states the work has built morale among pilots and crews and assures them every effort is made to locate them if they are forced down.
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Adam
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