Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: WEDNESDAY, February 15, 1995 TAG: 9502150046
SECTION: EXTRA PAGE: 6 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: GREG EDWARDS
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
B-29 Superfortresses, flying in perfect daylight bombing weather, heavily pounded Tokyo less than an hour after an earthquake shook the main Japanese Island of Honshu and Hokkaido Island to the north.
Lt. Gen. Courtney H. Hodges' American 1st Army won a bitter week-old battle for the Roer River dams by capturing Schwammenauel while the Canadian 1st Army gained three miles, reaching the Rhine River at Milligen.
Moscow radio claimed that German sailors at the port of Bremen had revolted against attempts to send them to the front as foot soldiers in the German Army. The sailors were battling German SS troops that had been sent to put down the revolt, the report said.
Meats might virtually disappear from civilian markets by mid-summer, U.S. government food officials predicted. New steps were being taken to divert meat into war stocks.
A Gallup poll provided some encouragement to post-war job planners. It revealed that substantially fewer women planned to work after the war than were currently working.
Two Lee County miners were believed to have died from drinking poison moonshine whiskey. A third victim was recovering. The three had gone 'coon hunting and had stopped to get drinks.
Brigadier Gen. Guy B. Denit of Salem had been put in charge of the care of more than 3,700 liberated prisoners of war at Manila in the Philippines.
The Soviet Red Army in an explosive smash across southern Germany had almost encircled Breslau and had captured the big industrial city of Liegnitz. The Soviets were only 32 miles from Berlin, and Adolf Hitler had ordered the city defended to the last even if it should be completely destroyed.
Jimmy Foxx, 37, was attempting a comeback with the Philadelphia Phillies, saying the broken ribs that had plagued him a year ago had healed.
Street fighting American soldiers had compressed the trap on the Japanese in South Manila, and other Yank columns had cut Luzon Island in half.
Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin wound up an eight-day conference at the Black Sea resort of Yalta by announcing their plans for an unconditional Nazi surrender that would guarantee that Germany would never again threaten the peace of the world.
The Polish government in exile in London decried the Yalta agreement as violating the Atlantic Charter and guaranteeing Soviet interference in Polish affairs after the war.
The Soviet Red Army completed the conquest of Budapest, Hungary, completing a 50-day siege.
The Norfolk & Western Railway reported 1944 had been its busiest year on record with a 48 percent jump in freight traffic above 1939 and passenger traffic at four times pre-war levels.
William C. Clolepaugh and Eric Gimpel, Nazi saboteurs who landed on the coast of Maine from a submarine, were found guilty by a court martial and sentenced to be hanged.
A U.S. Navy task force steaming to within 300 miles of the Japanese coastline had attacked Tokyo and other Japanese cities with 1,200 carrier-based planes. To the south, warships of the 5th Fleet had shelled Iwo Island in the Volcano Islands.
U.S. and British planes dropped 4,000 tons of bombs on Dresden in southern Germany as Soviet troops moved closer to the city on the ground.
by CNB