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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 10, 1943
Page
6
North Carolina faces a cold night and early Sunday with a chance of drizzle and scattered showers this afternoon and tonight. South Carolina stays mild today then turns colder in the north tonight into Sunday with scattered showers possible north.
Congressional debate centers on a bill aiming to bar benefit payments from affecting price ceilings for corn wheat and sugar. Farm bloc argues only these three would be materially hit, while administration efforts to veto are blocked by Senate support. The measure moves to the agriculture committee amid a bitter fight over parity and stabilization act constraints.
Allied forces push through central Tunisia chasing Rommel after the fall of Mahares and Sfax as Montgomery’s units engage with tanks and air support. German defenses collapse south of Sfax while Stuka losses rise and morale appears to deteriorate among Luftwaffe crews.
British and American forces press a new thrust against Axis flanks in central sectors as Rome reports orderly prearranged moves. Nearly 12 000 prisoners taken recently, raising Rommel’s force estimate by a quarter. Algiers notes Rommel retreating northward with minimal minefield prep amid poor weather limiting air activity. Chicago market reports butter and eggs prices steady with large receipts.
J Edgar Hoover, head of the FBI, calls for a counter offensive by law enforcement after a surge in crime. He cites rising youth involvement in murders robberies car thefts and burglaries and notes a 76 percent rise in arrests of girls under 21 for common offenses. He urges swift action to protect the home front.
Washington April 10. Legislation to raise the debt limit to 210 billion dollars and rescind the 25 thousand dollar salary cap may become law at midnight with or without the President's signature. Press Secretary Stephen Early indicated an explanatory statement might be issued today. The Treasury reported public debt already exceeds 120 billion dollars while the current limit stands at 125 billion.
London reports veiled hints of a Balkan power struggle as Hitler and Mussolini may use the region as a pawn. Romanian Marshal Antonescu plans to visit Mussolini in Rome after meeting Hungary's premier Kallay, signaling a shifting balance in Transylvania tensions. Italy’s jitters prompt Mussolini to seek steadying steps while Germany stabilizes satellite regimes.
General Charles De Gaulle sent a message to General Dwight D. Eisenhower pledging the ardent good wishes of the French people to him and the Allied armies in North Africa. The note aimed to ease perceived rifts between De Gaulle and Eisenhower amid Tunisia battle tensions. Churchill had earlier endorsed Eisenhower’s request that De Gaulle delay his visit during the crisis.
Picatinny Arsenal in Dover New Jersey discharged over 200 loading department employees for absenteeism after investigators checked homes of workers absent without permission. Officials said more than half lacked legitimate excuses and former workers would not receive releases to seek other war plant jobs. Lieut. Col. J H White called stealing from the government any worker using sick leave pay without sickness.
The Agriculture Department reported a light peach crop this year in the ten southern states. As of April 1 the crop condition stood at 48 percent of normal, down from 77 percent a year earlier. February and March freezes damaged peach buds in the Carolinas and Georgia, with South Carolina and Georgia hit hardest.
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