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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1943
Page
1
Roosevelt and Churchill announced that over 90 German U boats were sunk during heavy fighting in May through July. The Rome open city order was declared and Allied operations intensified in the theater.
American Liberator bombers based in Africa flew a 2500 mile round trip to Wiener Neustadt near Vienna and dropped 330000 pounds of explosives on a German aircraft factory. The attack, described by the 9th Air Force, hit the building and 400 fighter aircraft rows, with no more than 15 enemy planes challenging. The mission marked the longest into Axis Europe by Middle East–based bombers, and one Me 109 was downed.
The Italian government announced Rome would be declared an open city due to ongoing bombings. Britain soon signaled demilitarization steps needed before lifting Rome from Allied target lists, with officials stressing the declaration does not bind Eisenhower’s freedom of action.
Allied air and naval forces ringed the Strait of Messina as German troops began a wholesale withdrawal from Sicily. American and British forces advanced on crossroads such as Randazzo and key towns, though stiff rear-guard resistance and heavy fighting continued as the retreat accelerated toward Italy.
The War Manpower Commission tightens transfer rules to stop workers from moving towns for new jobs without approval. Embargo applies to new hires unless the worker has lived or worked locally for 30 days and is approved by the U S Employment Service. Higher pay changes are allowed if wage standards are unmet or meet WLB going rates.
Clarence Seip, chair of Macon County gas panel, said residents complained that John L. Lewis used gasoline for a trip from his Alexandria Virginia home to his Springfield Illinois mother’s home. The complaints were referred to the Springfield district OPA office for investigation and later to Lewis’ Virginia local board.
The weather bureau logged a 102 degree high at Henderson on Aug 14, the hottest in about a decade. Crops, notably tobacco, suffer from dry conditions with little rainfall reported.
Treasury honors an advertising program as a war effort. The citation backs a drive to secure public support for war bonds and federal publicity, led by a local committee of prominent citizens with about forty full page ads supporting defense measures and rationing.
Soviet troops fought in Kharkov and attacked near Karachev in the Bryansk drive. Front reports say about 10 000 Germans killed on the Russian front, with 80 or more villages seized and two dozen rail cars and locomotives captured. The advance includes Spas Demensk where 8 000 Germans were killed over three days, with heavy tank and fortification losses.
Roosevelt and Churchill held a preliminary meeting in the United States ahead of the Quebec war council. Eden and Hull or Welles may attend, with focus on military strategy and political implications of invasions of Europe and possible Allied governance in liberated areas.
The Navy announced the destruction of seven Japanese merchant ships by American submarines with five more damaged. The tally since the war began reaches 309 ships blasted, including 217 sunk, 29 probably sunk, and 63 damaged. The shipping weakness affects distant bases from Paramushiro to New Guinea and may influence Japanese reinforcements if an Aleutian attack on Kiska proceeds. No new details on Kiska were released.
Reports from Chioso on the Swiss Italian frontier indicate heavy RAF bombing of Turin Milan in the pre dawn raids. Travel accounts describe crowded Milan departing crowds, food and water shortages, fires, collapsed department store and widespread damage to homes, apartments, factories and transit facilities.
The Office of Price Administration announced soon all old gasoline ration books will be recalled for reissuance with mileage ration B or C stamps. Old books may be exchanged after August 23, and new coupons go into effect after September 1 to curb invalid and counterfeit coupons. Enforcement of the pleasure driving ban in the northeast remains strict until September 1.
Reuters reports an early Sunday air raid alert across western Switzerland suggesting Royal Air Force activity in Italy. Zurich Milan Turin Zurich were targets of a heavy British air attack early Friday cited by Reuters.
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