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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1943
Page
10
The region remains cool with slightly lower temperatures tonight in North Carolina and South Carolina. NWS advisories warn of chilly winds and overnight lows dipping near the 40s in some areas.
Reports detail continued Allied air and naval pressure on Tunisia with heavy strikes on Tunis docks and rail yards and night attacks on La Marsa and Spezia. German and Italian forces fight to hold the Tunisian bridgehead as ships, aircraft, and troops face sustained bombardment across the region.
The article lists check points for pilots and basic training at Fort Benning and nearby Page and Craig Fields, with April dates. It notes April 15 and 16 in Warm Springs where Mr Roosevelt visited friends and toured an infantile paralysis foundation he helped establish, and April 17 at Fort Oglethorpe Georgia.
President Roosevelt tours WAAC and Army training sites in Georgia Alabama and Arkansas. He praises troop improvements discipline and health gains while noting reduced industrial activity in the southeast and predicting strong war effort readiness. Governors visit and crowds cheer as he reviews military readiness and educational programs.
The Office of War Information reports illegal butcher actions deprive soldiers of surgical supplies and essential by products. By-products like gut threads for sutures adrenaline and insulin are destroyed, along with gelatin for film hides and fats for glycerine and nitro glycerine. Consumers can curb this by refusing illicit meat and by cutting waste that hinders feeding Allies.
British light bombers and fighters struck at the creaking German transport system last night. RAF fighter ships ranged against Nazi rail lines and roads from Brittany through northern France and Holland into northwestern Germany, targeting critical supply routes.
War Department announced awards of medals to 302 members of the Eighth Air Force in England. Decorations include the Silver Star, Distinguished Flying Crosses, Oak Leaf clusters to the Air Medal, Air Medals, and Soldier's Medals for bomber and escort missions against German territory and forces. Names include Robert K. Morgan of Black Mountain, William A. Poole of Fayetteville, Claiborne W. Wilson of Allentown, William E. Baker of Pinesville, Rogers D. Little of Greenville, and Grover L. Robson of Mt. Airy, with posthumous recognition for Poole.
A powerful ghost voice interrupted Berlin radio's birthday tribute to Hitler, declaring that the German nation curses the day man was born. It urged the people to wake up, finish with the Nazi gang, and said the war would end on Hitler's downfall day. The voice matched Berlin radio, and the Nazis could not silence it.
The Senate Banking Committee backed a bill to create a civilian supply agency to ensure production and distribution of essential civilian goods. It would authorize a civilian supply administrator to decide rationing needs, drawing support from James F. Byrnes while drawing opposition from Donald M. Nelson and Paul V. McNutt.
A government source, who requested anonymity, said in Charlotte that prostitution is not the sole cause of disease spread. He attributed part of the rise to party girls and other women, and warned that men also share responsibility for not taking precautions. Peru expands its highway construction program.
The news service said two aircraft were missing from night missions while big bombers stayed at base. Britain reportedly had a raidless night as Royal Air Force operations continued in the channel area with efforts focused on naval targets.
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