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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 02, 1943
Page
8
Weather forecast for the region shows colder conditions tonight. Scattered light frost is expected in extreme west and north central portions of North Carolina. South Carolina also turns colder tonight.
The editorial argues for a strong air force to strike Italian territory and for ships and equipment to be ferried from Britain. It contends an invasion of France is essential to defeat Hitler, with dropping the long war as a secondary but important victory after Italy.
The article quotes Chairman Vinson urging Congress to curb high profits of agents while service members face danger at sea and on land. He argues agents should be paid fairly and suggests swift congressional action if conscience fails to restrain excess earnings.
President Roosevelt argues the Bankhead measure risks inflation and harms consumers and war costs. He cites potential 5 percent price rises and billions in higher food and military expenses, urging Congress to bear their fair share and stabilize the economy for wartime needs.
Reports from Bern indicate Hitler has ordered Rommel to hold to the last man and may appoint him commander chief along the Southern European coast from the Italian shore to Spain. The move would mark a shift from past policy of not using defeated generals.
Allied air forces and Tunisian units claim success across central and southern Tunisia as Mareth Line pressure eases. RAF crews celebrate 25th anniversary with chicken dinners. American and British columns converge near Gabes, closing the southern gap as Rommel retreats east of Gafsa.
Lieut. Col. Paul F. Russell of the Army Medical Department warned at the New York Academy of Medicine that malaria, with no sure cure, poses a greater menace to American armed forces than the enemy in some regions. He spoke at a New York venue describing global malaria risk to troops.
Reports detail further Soviet gains north of Novorossisk and near Anastasevskaya while air battles claim nine enemy planes shot down. Battles continue along the Donets, Kharkov arc, and near Sevsk as Red Army troops press German positions amid winter flood and mud.
Speedy RAF Mosquito bombers flew over Trier and Ehrang in western Germany, dropping delayed action bombs from about 50 feet and fleeing before crowds reacted. They struck a railway workshop roof and a power plant, with a gasoline dump possibly hit at Ehrang. None of the British aircraft were lost, but four planes went missing over Belgium and France and another did not return from a daylight recon over northwest Germany. No enemy air activity over England occurred that night.
On the northern Tunisian front April 1 British medical orderlies Private Joe King and Private Robert Spencer, aiding wounded near Djebel Abiod to Sedjenane, saved wounded goumiers and escorted 12 stretcher bearers when a column of Italian troops appeared and surrendered. They returned with over 90 Italian prisoners including a major and several officers. One prisoner told King to tell his wife he was well.
A force of F4U Corsairs and Lightning fighters battled sixty Japanese planes northwest of Guadalcanal. Sixteen Zeros were shot down while six U S aircraft were lost but two pilots were rescued. A SBD dive bomber group supported by fighters hit Japanese positions at Suavanau plantation near Rekata Bay. Results from that strike were not reported.
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