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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1943
Page
1
Soviet forces press forward aggressively as Allied leaders prepare for a pivotal meeting with Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill. The advance toward the Italian mainland tightens the strategic options for the conference and signals a major shift in Allied operations.
Soviet sources report unchecked Red Army advances in twin drives toward Kharkov and Bryansk with villagers falling, Sumy 14 miles from Kharkov, and Orel rail corridor aiding pressure. Berlin cites Vyazma attack claims while German communique says Soviet assaults south of Vyazma persist but front largely German-held.
Staff Sergeant Clifford R. Wherley aged 16, discharged after 22 combat missions in the Mediterranean theater. Enlisted on April Fool’s Day 1942 claiming to be 18, later found to be 14. Father Roy Wherley of Elmwood Illinois and mother initially sought discharge. Wherley wears the air medal with three oak leaf clusters and is credited with shooting down one German ME109 and sharing 15 others with his unit. He expects to move to Chicago and then Elmwood for discharge, with a job offer from Glenn L. Martin Company until his 17th birthday. He plans to enlist in the air corps reserves afterward. Also noted, Soviet Premier Stalin promotes Zigmund Berling to major general.
RALEIGH August 11. Agriculture Commissioner W Kerr Scott predicted an increase in the ceiling price for flue cured tobacco as farmers debate raising the OPA ceiling. He argued Carolina Virginia ceilings should rise about seven cents above 41 cents per pound due to higher costs and lower foreign matter. A move to discontinue grading if no increase is seen was noted. A big yield boost was reported with 795 047 000 pounds projected, while auction prices stayed steady in the Georgia Florida belt. Continued coverage on Page Eight.
Dr. C Sylvester Green president of Coker College Hartsville S C for seven years has been granted a leave of absence for the 1943 44 session to pursue further graduate study at Duke University.
Bern dispatches report Italy and Germany drawing nearer as Stalin’s absence from a Roosevelt Churchill conference looms. Badoglio’s Italy seeks time, while Italian press attacks Allied air raids and rumors of Stalin orders circulate amid Mussolini and Badoglio divide.
New Delhi reports U S 10th air force B 25 bombers roamed Burma from the Arakan coast to Mandalay blasting Akyab and Pyawbwe and destroying enemy transport on the Irrawaddy river. Eighteen tons dropped on Akyab with heavy damage to military buildings and an ammunition dump. American planes suffered no losses.
Secretary of State Hull denied rumors that Undersecretary Sumner Welles would receive a roving assignment or be replaced by Norman Armour, the U S ambassador to Argentina. He said he knows no more about current reports than about earlier stories and dismissed them as the same category of rumors.
Bern report says Marine Ministry building and central Paris streets turned into a fortress with cement block houses and tunnels. Many streets forbidden to civilians and numerous evacuations noted. Kleber Avenue described as fortifications network. A quarter of the city formed a defense line with a four story underground tunnel and a small gauge underground railway linking defenses.
Two former flying sergeants of the 19th bombardment group in Australia, Joe C. Corley Jr of Edgefield South Carolina and Maurice A. Thomas of Kingston North Carolina, were awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross in ceremonies at the aviation cadet center in San Antonio Texas on August 11. They served as gunners on flying fortresses during the bombardment operations.
British Prime Minister Churchill and Canada’s W L Mackenzie King inspected Allied advances at Quebec fortress. Talks with Canadian and British chiefs of staff discussed wartime strategy ahead of Churchill Roosevelt meetings, with press conferences possible but details kept secret as Axis forces retreat.
Nominations for officers of the North Carolina state federation of labor were open from the floor as the annual convention continued in Winston Salem Aug 11. Re-nominations of principal officers were expected when the vote is taken. Gov J M Broughton urged cooperation of management and labor after the war to sustain progress and delegates adopted a resolution to protest unfair labor conditions on North Carolina military projects with army and navy aide. A three man committee will go to Washington to present the federation's protest to government officials.
Allied forces complete encirclement of Japanese on New Georgia near Bairoko harbor and Enogai inlet as U S troops tighten the noose along a six mile front in a jungle conflict. Marine and army units advance from Munda airfield with food and ammo running low for the enemy.
British air raids on Nürnberg, a key Nazi rallying point and railway hub in southern Germany, dropped over 1,500 tons of bombs. The attack targeted large factories producing diesel engines for submarines and aircraft parts, with sixteen bombers lost and enemy fighters shot down.
A Tokyo broadcast claimed the Japanese navy had sunk 152 allied naval units and damaged 48 in the south Pacific since the war began. It listed six battleships four aircraft carriers 44 cruisers 37 destroyers 40 submarines and one special unit as sunk. The broadcast also claimed 2 580 Allied planes shot down and 305 destroyed or damaged on the ground.
Big German guns on the French coast opened fire across Dover strait shortly after 11 a.m. today and shelled warnings were sounded in all English towns in the Dover area. Single shells struck the strait at frequent intervals.
Gen Douglas MacArthur reports Salamaua in New Guinea is being blazed by heavy Allied air power. Tuesday's raid dropped 85 tons, raising total tonnage since June 30 to 892. Bombing has intensified with Fortresses and Liberators delivering mass strikes, making the isolated outpost a major strategic target in the Pacific campaign.
Allied forces push seven miles along Sicily’s east coast toward Guardia and Taormina while British warships bombard Castellammare and Cape Vaticano near Naples. Montgomery’s Seven Days advance leaves troops about 30 miles from Italy as Patton’s Seventh Army holds and pushes near Randazzo and the Rosmarino River.
A Southern passenger train collided with a freight on a siding near Allendale S C at 1 29 am killing engineer P L Helms 64 of Columbia and injuring three other crew members on the passenger train Fireman J J Royster and conductor J A Humphries were hurt and Charles Morgan of Charleston sustained minor injuries Several others were examined no hospitalizations were needed Surviving include Helms widow and two sons servicemen helped free him from the wreckage after the engine overturned
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