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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 26, 1945
Page
2
Mostly cloudy conditions prevail with a warm day and night in the east while the west faces rain showers and thunderstorms starting today. Tuesday brings further cloudiness and mild temperatures with showers in the east portion.
WPB compliance officials enforce the ban on horse racing under priority regulation 26. It gives the agency power to impose priority sanctions on violators of manpower regulations. A Brooklyn manufacturer lost army and navy contracts and priority rights for violating War Labor Board rulings under a presidential executive order.
Washington reports Jonathan Daniels replaces Steve Early as Presidential press relations secretary. Early will move to appointment secretary to Roosevelt and may take private work after June. Daniels and aide Eben Ayers express eagerness to continue early staff functions and his hot seat role.
Allied troops under Patton crossed the Rhine at seven points and pushed into the Palatinate as Eisenhower’s offensive widened. Montgomery’s advance squeezed German positions near Essen Duisburg Dortmund and Muenster while Frankfurt reportedly fell and the east Rhine banks fell under Allied control.
Allied reports show the Third Army over 40 miles beyond the Rhine and within 235 miles of Berlin, with German casualties rising. Some 248,883 Germans had surrendered since March 1 and more than 60,000 killed or wounded. Essen near Krupp works lies within ten miles of Ninth Army advances.
A wartime clash looms between power players Fred T. Ley Henry Kaiser U S Steel and others over postwar plastic building techs. Banks insurers and mortgage holders fear modern houses and factories will erode existing value unless RFC funding or federal backing clarifies the path. The dispute spans Wall Street lenders western aluminum and Reynolds interests with potential bids on light building holdings. The fight signals a broader east west Capitol Hill power struggle as housing policy and industry shifts unfold.
The report notes German forces using bogs to reach positions across riverine terrain toward the Bra tislava Gap as Vienna lies within 77 miles of Russian forces, indicating a widening standoff and strategic maneuvering.
Marshal Stalin said a new offensive would open north of the Danube in Slovakia and reported the capture of Banska Bystrica, former Czechoslovak underground uprising headquarters.
The article notes heavy Soviet pressure on the Austrian capital with three offensives in development from Malinovsky Tolbukhin and Konev aimed at breaking defenses around Austria. Stalin announces Heiligenbeil fell as the northern flank is cleared. The winter mud period looms but a major spring push is expected, with tensely maintained communications lines across Europe.
A historic snapshot shows 17 percent of the U.S. population was aged 45 or older in 1900. This reflects the era's demographics with fewer older residents compared to later years and highlights shifts in life expectancy and aging trends captured by early census data.
The text outlines a clash between Entrenchers and established unions led by William Green and the CIO, as plastics and ready made homes threaten traditional brick and lumber jobs. District Fifty on UMW tie threatens jurisdiction over coal by products synthetics, shaping a broad political fight.
Staunton Virginia March 26 Sheriff Glenn Hammer of Highland County reports Rev T Newton Ryder a 63 year old retired minister killed a 14 year old boy with three bullets on the road then burned the house and killed himself The boy Wallace Duncan was with his 10 year old brother James when Ryder opened fire without warning The Highland County Coroner ruled murder and death by self infliction There were no known troubles between Ryder and the youths More than 800 Army flight nurses are assigned to air evacuation duties.
Lt Gen Ira C Eaker declared the German air force virtually grounded citing fuel shortages and bombardment of oil refineries. He noted Luftwaffe aircraft parked on airdromes while Allied pilots flew about 20 daily missions and 15th Air Force losses tallied over a year with 2 057 bombers and 20 000 men killed or wounded.
A narrator recalls a perilous frontline night as British and American troops bombard German positions near Hamminkein and Rangenburg. Luftwaffe fire, cannon blasts, and a retreating escape through fields culminate in meeting American engineers at 6:25 a.m. while a liberated farm area is pictured.
British Liberators strike three buried oil storage dumps between Hamburg and Brunswick as Allied bombers hammer German underground facilities. Mosquito, American night fighters and daytime air forces continue raids across Germany linked to Montgomery’s Ruhr drive. About 800000 Allied sick and wounded have been evacuated in two and a half years of operations. First mass air evacuation used American planes in Burma and Java in 1942.
Admiral Nimitz says Minami Daito was shelled as Tokyo claims landings at Tokashima and Aka Jima west of Okinawa. U S carriers and battleships mass southwest of Okinawa to support the invasion while Nagoya and Formosa suffer air raids and power plant destruction by B 29s and Liberators.
The article reports a Russian drive toward Austria with two Red Armies advancing on Vienna and the Third Ukrainian Army approaching Hungary within twenty miles of the Austrian border. It notes potential consequences for Hitler’s defenses and references Patton’s looming operations as part of the strategic scenario.
A field fire started by Bert Childer grew out of control and consumed his home last week. Firemen could not save the structure and Bert says the blaze cured him of swearing, urging readers to stay vigilant and not ease up on war bond drives and blood donations.
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