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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1943
Page
6
Moderate temperatures expected this afternoon tonight and Sunday forenoon in North Carolina with showers along the southeast coast this afternoon. South Carolina remains warm through tonight and Sunday afternoon with scattered thundershowers along coastal areas.
Dispatch from war correspondent William Hipple cites over 1,600 Japanese dead and ongoing repairs at Munda airdrome. Allied engineers move to seize Vila air field on Kolombangara as Bougainville air action at Buin Faisi yields seven enemy planes down and one lost.
German defenders yielded under a 24 hour Allied push across a 175 mile Sicilian front. Troina’s capture marked a critical breakthrough as Allied forces hoped to trap retreating Axis units near Randazzo. Allied bombers hit Messina and the San Giovanni ferries with no losses reported.
London radio via CBS says several fliers who took part in the Ploesti raid are in Ankara to be interned. The crews of eight Liberators forced down in Turkey have arrived, with sixty crew members interned in Ankara according to the broadcast.
German communique reports stronger Soviet incursions southeast of Belgorod toward Kharkov with fighting described as hard and fluctuating. Soviets claim 12,418 prisoners and 621 tanks captured, with advance beyond Belgorod reaching 44 miles along a 150 village sweep including Zolochev, as forces drive toward Bryansk from the north.
Reports from Reuters and international wires describe Berlin authorities struggling to control fear and civilian unrest as Germany faces possible military upheaval. Berlin workers protest, Goebbels confirms partial evacuation, and plans to move ministries to Dresden Leipzig Munich and Prague are discussed.
W A Bivins treats calendars, self sufficiency, and wartime reflections with brisk columns. He notes August starting on Sunday, lauds U S production strides in rayon and synthetic rubber, cites Rhodes scholarships, urges personal responsibility, and warns against isolationism while probing future peace and civic virtue.
J F Dalton aged 31 and Worth Church aged 24 posted 300 bond each after city state and county officers raided a Greensboro road service station last night and seized 69 pints of tax paid whiskey. Army witnesses Sgt John J Nodorek Sgt Mathew Dujack and Pfc Early C Brown from the 1209 military police company were present. Also cited were William T Lawson charged with oil truck on city streets and T K Lambeth free on bond after forcibly trespassing Marie Hendrix home by breaking a glass door.
Elevators transport more New York City residents than the combined use of surface transit and rail lines, including elevated trains, taxis, buses, and subways.
WFA official figures show South Carolina sold 1,708,344 pounds at 41.27 cents and North Carolina 1,401,446 at 41.28 cents. In Georgia and Florida belts prices dipped to 38.11 cents with 6,610,038 pounds offered. Georgia markets moved 5,779,712 pounds at 37.98 cents and Florida two markets 810,326 pounds at 39.95 cents. Through Thursday gross sales reached 53,995,216 pounds with an average price of 40.47 cents.
A St Marys Hospital attache said this morning that C Bascom Slemp, White House secretary to President Calvin Coolidge, was dying. His condition grew grave yesterday at the hospital where he had been admitted ten days ago for treatment of a cardiac ailment.
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