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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1944
Page
1
British forces push into Greece by sea and air as Red Army units press toward Belgrade and Nazi defenses along the Danube face pressure. Russian spearheads move toward Pančevo and Belgrade while scattered German rail targets are reported to be under attack by Partisans.
Allied planes report sinking or damaging 11 Japanese ships within the first three days of October as Pacific air campaigns advance toward Tokyo. Gen MacArthur and Adm Nimitz share stern briefings while strikes reach to 615 miles from Tokyo and near Chichi Jima in the Bonins.
Chungking reports no contact with defendants of the vital right flank near Kweilin while Japanese reinforcements push toward Changning and Liuchow. A Japanese broadcast claims air base strikes as Chinese forces fend off assaults along the Mangshin and Wanting corridors in Yunnan and Pukien.
About 8,000 maintenance workers in 33 Detroit area plants voted to return to afternoon shifts after a strike tied up war production. The UAW CIO said officials of the executive board and local unions reached the decision following a council meeting. The strike had slowed plant operations and idle more than 50,000 workers earlier.
American submarines damaged Japanese supply lines by destroying 11 ships, including three warships. The fleet loss featured a destroyer, an escort vessel, and a seaplane tender likely aiding convoys, along with six cargo ships and a large fuel tanker as Japan’s fuel fleet dwindles.
Monday night and Tuesday saw ships sunk or damaged near Amboina and off Celebes as MacArthur's planes hit Makassar oil tanks. Nimitz reported raids on Chichi Jima with further air strikes across Kuriles, Marianas, Marshalls and Marcus Island. Mopping in Peleliu Angaur continued with Japanese dead toll reaching 10,987. Tokyo acknowledged shipping shortages amid broader food crisis.
Charlotte report says $175,370,000 is needed to improve the state highway system to meet current and future traffic. Raleigh highway engineer W Vance Baise spoke at the Carolina Motor Club meeting. South Carolina official J S Williamson estimated $170,000,000 required there. Coleman W Roberts of Charlotte was reelected motor club president and W W Neal of Marion chairman of the board.
London October 5. American armor and infantry pushed into a wide gap in the Siegfried Line near Aachen. Masses of artillery including 10 inch guns tore many Germans from defenses as they rushed reinforcements to stem the crumbling line. The original west wall had been pierced and Americans pressed renewed attacks on tank traps earthworks and pillboxes behind it.
With the First U S Army, American tanks advanced over a mile and captured Beggendorf today. Reggendorf lies three miles inside German territory near the Dutch border, placing forces across the Aa chen Geilenkirchen highway and within a mile of the Gladbach highway. Fierce battles followed as the tank column withstood a heavy German artillery barrage and then fanned out to exploit the breakthrough.
Reported heavy fighting to the north as British units advance along the Nijmegen Arnhem corridor and American forces under St. Gen. Patton fight a grim battle atop Fort d’A.Mont southwest of Metz. Germans resist in an underground fortress as Allied armor and infantry press through the Siegfried Line gap.
Mit suru Toyama, 90, head of the Black Dragon Society, died at his summer home after a long illness. FCC monitors call him a powerful political boss behind Tojo and a key figure in wartime espionage and German and Asian security concerns. The group's activity tied to espionage cases in the United States during World War II.
North Carolina faces a key postwar challenge to dispose of industrial surpluses without hurting farm prices. Rep. Thomas Pearsall outlines farm issues from production to markets at a farm and industry conference. James G. Hanes praises wartime gains but calls for removing restrictive policy to rebuild postwar America.
Dr. Milton Rosenau, 75, dean of the University of North Carolina School of Public Health, was elected president of the American Public Health Association. A noted author and public health pioneer, he has studied in Berlin Paris Vienna and Boston and received the 1912 American Medicine gold medal and 1934 Sedgwick memorial medal.
Stockholm news reports Finnish troops pushing Germans back along a line north of the Finnish waist capturing Rannu and Sima and nearing Livojaervi. East of Kemi German reinforcements halt further Finnish advance near the Gulf of Bothnia port. Livojaervi sits about 100 miles east of Kemi. Rannu lies 55 miles northeast of Kemi.
US Fifth Army troops pushed one mile forward under heavy fire from reinforced Germans on the Bologna road front. Doughboys seized a ridge north of La Selva and gained positions near Monte Moro sin o on the Imola road, three miles north of Castel Del Rio, advancing toward strategic targets.
The article discusses General de Gaulle's plan for a state-led economy in France and signals a broader leftward shift. It cites observations of Communist influence, notes de Gaulle's noncommittal stance, and highlights similar trends in eastern Europe, the Balkans, Italy, Spain, Germany, and Finland as World War II winds down.
British forces have landed in Western Greece near Patras and seized airfields aiding RAF Spitfires. Allied dispatches say contacts with German forces occurred in Greece and Southern Albania where troops went ashore ten days earlier. The invasion signals a potential swift end to German rule in the Balkans amid reports of three divisions in Greece and evacuations from Crete.
Allied forces with Paratroops and sea borne units enter Patras on the Peloponnesus as Greek civilians greet advancing troops. Mustangs from the U S 15th Air Force bomb airfields near Athens while reporting a widening push against German garrisons and disrupted supply lines in the Balkans.
Secretary of War Stimson reported army casualties to 351 293 through September 21 and navy deaths to 65 792, bringing total armed service losses to 417 085. The Italy campaign caused 82 111 ground force casualties with detailed killed, wounded, missing and prisoners breakdowns.
More than 1,000 U S Flying Fortresses and Liberators hit Cologne Rheine Handorf Lippstadt Paderborn and Munster in clear weather. RAF Mosquitos attacked 18 trains in Germany and Holland in a lengthy night effort. German rail and air assets faced heavy Allied pressure with multiple bombings and losses reported.
Berlin reports that General Tadeusz Komorowski and his entire staff were taken prisoner after Warsaw capitulation. The German agency says Komorowski, once commander of Warsaw rebels, was captured with several other Polish generals. Dispute over his presence in Warsaw during the uprising remains.
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