Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: WEDNESDAY, March 1, 1995 TAG: 9503010048
SECTION: EXTRA PAGE: 8 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: GREG EDWARDS
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
Adolf Hitler told the old guard of the Nazi party that Germany had taken such a terrible beating that now there was no greater terror in store and he called upon every man, woman and child in the Reich to fight until the last breath. He threatened shirkers with death.
Tank-led shock troops from two Marine divisions opened a general assault on Iwo Jima's central airfield under cover of a gigantic land, sea and air bombardment. They moved forward yard by yard in the face of heavy Japanese resistance.
Russian troops drove to within three miles of the heart of burning Breslau and hurled the Germans out of 15 more blocks in the Silesian capital. Other Soviet forces had moved to within 33 miles of Danzig and elsewhere were threatening the rail center of Cottbus, 47 miles from Berlin.
Manila, strewn with the bodies of 12,000 Japanese was completely liberated three weeks to the day from when U.S. troops first entered the city.
Nazi broadcasters said the greatest mass of men assembled since the Normandy invasion was forcing open the historic passage between the Maas River and the Eifel mountains. They said Eisenhower had thrown not fewer than 40 divisions against the sector.
Meanwhile, Allied reports indicated Eisenhower's two army offensives had rolled nearly five miles across the Cologne plain beyond the Roer River line without a sign the enemy was ready to make another stand.
The first butter-colored margarine was making its way to Roanoke restaurants, where many patrons were reportedly unable to tell the difference between margarine and the real thing. The restaurants explained that after meat and butter ration points went so high they had to choose between serving meat or butter.
Weather and a manpower shortage combined in January to set back the drive for an all-time record war production by mid-year, the War Production Board said. Production was 1 percent behind December and 2 percent behind schedule.
John L. Lewis warned that a strike by the nation's 400,000 coal miners might be just around the corner. Lewis charged that mine operators and government officials were involved in a conspiracy against the UMW, which was seeking higher wages for its members.
British Prime Minister Churchill told the House of Commons that plans were in place for Germany's surrender and that Germany would be rendered unable to wage war for generations to come.
Hollywood actor John O'Malley and two young women were killed when an expensive convertible hurled over a 50-foot cliff. They were on their way to the cabin of Vincent Price where they were to join actor Henry Morgan and a young woman for dinner.
The front page of the Roanoke Times carried a picture of 29th Division privates Thomas Snyder of New York and Paul Mattox of Washington with a banner welcoming the troops to Julich, Germany.
Six thousand allied bombers and fighters continued their 16-day victory blitz of German cities. British mosquito bombers dropped two-ton bombs on Berlin for the ninth consecutive night.
Manila Bay had been opened to allied shipping after the fall of Corregidor Island.
Sam Snead scored a six under par 66 in a warm-up round for the Jacksonville Open.
In a 55-minute speech, President Roosevelt explained to Congress the decision that had been reached at the Yalta conference and appealed for Senate ratification of an international security organization to be set up by the United Nations conference in San Francisco in the coming month.
The great Ruhr industrial center of Muenchen Gladbach fell to the U.S. 9th Army.
The first American troops crossed the Rhine River at Neuss.
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