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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1945
Page
2
Partly cloudy and warm conditions expected across the state. A few showers limited to the western portion today with mild overnight temperatures. Saturday outlook remains warm with continued showers possible in western areas.
At the ceremony in the Chinese theater the 2000 guests applauded as Daryl F. Zanuck received the Irving G. Thalberg award for producing high quality work including Wilson. Margaret O'Brien won the child star award and Ethel Barrymore shared top support honors with Fitzgerald for None But Lonely Heart.
Two waves of planes hit the Don Muang air base near Bangkok in the largest fighter raid of the war. The attack surprised enemy defenders as many aircraft were destroyed or damaged. The base location was not disclosed but was likely far from Bangkok, roughly a thousand miles from the Indian border and from the air field at Myitkyina, Burma.
President Roosevelt concluded eight separate meetings with Stalin and Churchill at Yalta and accompanying conferences with advisers. He then visited Egypt and Saudi Arabia aboard naval ships, met Farouk and Ibn Saud, donated gifts, and returned to address Congress about the Crimea talks and the forthcoming UN charter vote.
The House advanced bills raising compulsory school attendance to 15 next year and 16 thereafter with local suspension in farming seasons, and to require a father to support an illegitimate child until age 14. A commission may study auto inspections and Sunday hunting bans. A statewide wine control bill passed the Senate, with public sale oversight by the Alcohol Control Board and licensing caveats.
Long docket leads Judge MacRae to suspend Bill Harhey's sentence for public drunkenness and disorderly conduct after testimony of attempts to reform and a rescue by friends. Ordered to leave town and work on a Deep River farm if he returns to drink. Several other locals face sentences or trials for immoral vagrancy, larceny, and drunkenness as court proceedings continue.
Soviet forces push from St Fleide Waldburg and breach near Braunsberg as they press on Koenigsberg suburb defenses. Danzig Gdynia perimeter assaults intensify with Red Army infantry and tank teams. Kolberg capitulation looms as Zhukov’s First White Army tightens grip. United States remains top prewar cacao buyer.
The report notes B 29s returning from incendiary raids refueled at Iwo Jima for repairs and fuel as crews faced high risk. It cites 20 000 plus enemy dead and marine losses around 4 000 with Adm Turner asserting major fighting is finished. The London broadcast quoted a Tokyo dispatch on transports near Iwo suggesting a last stand at Kitano Point.
The War Today analyzes how Churchill emerges strengthened by wartime leadership. It notes Labour weakness, liberal support, and a potential Conservative majority after the general election, with the populace ready to back Winnie despite party friction. The Mosquito bomber is highlighted as a wood and glue craft.
A third party kept peace talks at the British legation in Stockholm unnamed, the informant said the feeler was flatly rejected. Reports note Madame Kollontay may travel to Moscow soon while Columbus took cacao beans from America to Spain as curios.
Washington dispatch reports North Carolina leaders including Governor Cherry pushing to hold the CAB Southeastern Feeder Lines hearings at Sedgefield Inn Guilford resort center starting May 1. Atlanta and Cincinnati also seeking the hearings with Washington as possible venue. Ross I. Newman to preside.
Home nursing by a household member is common, so learn basic care. The guide stresses strength and a soft voice over intellect, and explains bed making, patient positioning, and safe sheet changes with the patient in bed, noting foot comfort and proper anchoring of linens.
Diet guidance lists allowed items for a Lenters reducing diet including one slice whole wheat toast no butter or sugar coffee with no cream or sugar tea no cream or sugar and a dinner with meat tomato sauce corn and a dairy item.
American forces under Lt. Gen. Courtney H. attacked across the Rhine Front near Steinshardt and Reifert as they push a two to five mile advance beyond Linnz with the new U S 15th army aiding the drive through difficult terrain. In the village Hoevel near the broad concrete road Hitler built, fighting continued as the First Army presses the bridgehead and engages in Stradt and Breninscheid. Balinese rice growers noted in unrelated passage.
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