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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 31, 1945
Page
6
Considerable cloudiness today and tonight with a few widely scattered showers west portion today and east portion tonight. Cooler tonight except east portion. Sunday partly cloudy and cooler.
The article discusses Hitler and his inner circle assembling forces in the Berchtesgaden Alpine fortress to direct an underground Nazi movement. It cites the U.S. State Department on documented postwar Nazi plans and recalls Nazi terror against locals, including the execution of Aachen mayor Franz Opff. Veritas predicts a future Nazi collapse and a burned or buried Nazi plan, with years ahead for any revival.
U S forces landed near the mouth of the Bago river and pushed along the coast to seize an airstrip at the capital of an unnamed province. A southern advance captured two locations and met guerrilla forces as naval gunfire and 13th air force support aided the operations.
The March 27 28 night saw carrier task forces attack Kyushu and Ryukyus. Communiques claim 47 Japanese ships sunk or damaged and 86 planes and a glider destroyed. Okinawa heavily pounded. minesweepers active, no landings yet. Imperial HQ disputes U.S. losses, citing 20 ships sunk and 20 damaged.
Allied forces push near Muenster and Hamm as British Second Army reportedly crosses the Dortmund Ems canal and establishes a bridgehead. U S Ninth Army eyes further Ruhr advances while American First Army tanks move toward Kassel and Fritzlar as Hodges slows columns to consolidate gains.
O'Neill urged a speedy WLB termination of issues in the dispute with John L. Lewis and the United Mine Workers. Negotiations nearly collapsed after an eleventh hour push by Secretary Perkins to draft a new contract. Operators ask the board to help implement their March 16 offer to Lewis.
Moscow urged Britain and the United States to grant the provisional Polish government representation at the upcoming United Nations meeting in San Francisco. The Kremlin argued Warsaw should be included despite the London Polish regime, while noting a reorganization at Yalta cannot yet be completed.
In a wide Allied offensive the Third army closes toward Kassel with the Sixth armored column within 10 miles and another town south of Kassel. Fourth Isrand pushes northeast from Lauterbach toward Herzfels and near Herzfels. Seventh army claims Heidelberg and fights across the Main toward Aschaffenburg as British Canadian forces retreat toward Holland. Allied forces press with over 11 armored divisions, taking thousands of prisoners.
Reinforced defenses near Bratislava faced mines and heavy shelling as Austrian and German lines clashed. Tolbukhin’s Third Ukrainian Army reportedly invaded Austria north of Koszeg, threatening Vienna. Simultaneous Soviet advances along Hungary and Yugoslavia reached within 134 miles of Italy, while Polish state flag rose amid siege losses.
Washington March 31 Congress faces a surplus property dispute involving former senators James F. Byrnes and Guy M. Gillette. The Senate amended a treasury bill to grant Gillette’s board final say on sales, tying $14.99 million in funds to board oversight while debate swirls over independence and potential expansion.
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