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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1944
Page
8
Clear and cooler today and tonight with frost in western and central portions. Tuesday should be clear to partly cloudy with continuation of cool conditions.
In municipal court Leon Traynholm a 25 year old Negro driver was found guilty of reckless driving and received 60 days on the county farm with a 12 month driving ban except for farm use. Other defendants faced fines suspensions and various terms as judges pushed back against jury trial delays.
Berlin radio announced Field Marshal Erwin Rommel died of wounds and Hitler ordered a state funeral. Rommel the desert fox led Afrika Korps and commanded German forces in Normandy during the Allied invasion, after driving British forces toward Alexandria in 1942.
Allied forces renewed dawn assaults on Formosa for the third day and Luzon for the sixth, with Admiral Nimitz reporting minimal air opposition. The enemy losses included 91 planes, bringing total Formosa area aircraft down to 478 and ships sunk or damaged to 63.
Soviet communique reports 143 German tanks destroyed in a day, bringing a nine day total to 1,294 tanks. The toll is tied to battles that pressured Hungary, with Moscow bulletins indicating major losses for the German armored force.
Allied forces report momentum in the Sixth Army group advancing north of the Belfort gap with towns freed including Baccarat Glenville Fontenoy and Fremifontaine. German counterattacks near Aachen were stopped by American air and armor while bombers hit Wurselen. Paris radio claimed Schelde pocket resistance collapsed near Antwerp, though not confirmed.
John Dana Wise of Richmond Virginia, general manager of Richmond newspapers, told the Mid-Atlantic Circulation Managers association that circulation would stay limited after the war due to a continuing newsprint shortage. He predicted the shortage may last about ten months after Germany's fall and cited abnormal population shifts in major cities across Virginia and the Carolinas as additional circulation factors.
President Roosevelt received a first hand report from General George C. Marshall on his recent military trip to the liberated areas of France. The narrative focuses on Marshall's observations and strategic impressions from the visit, underscoring ongoing Allied operations and plans.
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