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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1945
Page
1
In the Western Pacific mid morning patrol, pilot Lieut Jimmy Van Fleet crash landed after a gear failure. He escaped a water landing, cut his radio cord underwater, torn his Mae West, and was retrieved by a destroyer crew in seven minutes with a swimmer lowered to him.
The Duisburg sector evacuees move their personal effects by wagon, bicycle, pushcart, baby carriage and on their backs as Lt Gen Simpson’s Ninth U. S. Army prepares to cross the Rhine. The area lies opposite Essen, home to Krupp armament works, signaling rising Allied momentum toward a Rhine crossing.
New York celebrates Mayor La Guardia as bars and nightclubs stay open past 1 a.m. despite federal pressure. Byrnes says federal enforcement is impossible without local support and urges nationwide uniformity. City nightlife boosts entertainment trade by 20 to 25 percent amid closing hour controversy.
British heavy bombers hit Hamm freight yards and a Recklinghausen junction on the Ruhr fringe as Allied air fleets massed over Germany for a major day of operations. The U S Ninth Air Force logged over 2300 sorties with 4292 vehicles destroyed or knocked out and rail lines cut in 200 places.
Moscow reports German forces in a shrinking pocket on the East Prussian coast near Braunsberg and Heiligenbeil have opened coastal dikes turning lowlands into a lake to halt a Russian drive. Red Star says the pocket is about 18 by 7 miles, with Braunsberg and Heiligenbeil under attack and Russians advancing along a 25 mile front.
North Carolina expands tobacco programs by growing Turkish type tobacco. Twenty one Piedmont farmers join a cooperative project with State College extension and Duke University. John Wilkins leaves Cleveland county farm agent post to lead Turkish tobacco efforts aboard starting April 1.
U S Pacific Fleet reports carrier planes bombed Japan for a third day as Admiral Mitscher’s force pressed the home islands. Nimitz said carriers moved north to strike Kobe and Kure while Tokyo claimed raids on Kyushu and Honshu with enemy broadcasts noting task force 58.
Paris dispatch reports the U S Army’s First and Seventh Armies now field Negro and white troops together in the same outfits. About 2 500 volunteers were accepted from thousands who answered the appeal by Lt Gen John H Lee to service troops. Two platoons accompanied an advance to cross the Roer and aid in taking Dueren.
Raleigh, March 20. The House refused to concur in Senate amendments to the State Hospital and Medical Care bill sending the measure to a conference committee. Also reported favorably a 48 hour waiting period for marriage licenses with nonresident scope. Rep. Hatch announced for speakership in 1947.
Bonn dispatch details a 1945 AP report claiming Colonel Count Claus von Stauffenberg planted the bomb under Adolf Hitler’s chair during the July 20 plot. It cites Himmler’s alleged role, Popitz’s involvement, and Beck’s leadership while noting Hitler’s escape with injuries.
US Army reports Patton and Patch advancing toward Kaiserslautern Mainz and Ludwigshafen as 7th and 34th Armies drive through Siegfried line and near Saarbruecken. A pocket around Saarbruecken and Saar steel mills narrows, with German forces estimated above fifty thousand.
The Associated Press reports Lt. Gen. George 8. Patton's Third Army, last American unit to reach the Rhine, has advanced deeper into Germany near Berlin. Canadian and French forces are also active in the region with ongoing operations and strategic positions being established in Coblenz and surrounding areas.
In seven days Patton’s forces inflicted heavy losses on about 80 000 German troops in the Rhine-Moselle Saar pocket with at least 45 000 casualties. Prisoners in the pw included some 20 000, and the 7th Army added 4 000 more. Allied units closed on Kaiserslautern while Alzey fell near Mainz Mannheim Ludwigshafen. The 3rd Army neared Kaiserslautern as Siegfried line flanks suggested a Rhine meeting.
The Moscow radio said a brisk slave market operated in Koenigsberg with adults sold for about 10 marks and children for five to six marks. A captured German, Erich Zwemmer, claimed 250000 foreigners passed through the camp last year and he sold 75000 Russians annually. One Smolensk farmer said a Prussian landowner bought his family and more than 50 other slaves.
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