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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1943
Page
5
War Manpower Commission expands occupational deferments for 18 to 38 year olds. A list of 149 critical occupations grants super-deferrable status, with 23 added non-deferrable jobs. Transfers prioritized to maximize war production and military needs while preserving essential labor.
Washington outlines war manpower rules that force all fathers and childless married men into war related work or face early induction. It explains non-deferrable jobs and twilight zone occupations, and how local draft boards decide deferments with agency guidance to protect essential production.
Chicago August 16 Geo P McNeer president of the Toledo Peoria and Western railroad says Joseph B Eastman director of the office of defense transportation cannot operate satisfactorily under featherbed rules. The interim report accuses Fastman of misusing interstate commerce commission statistics to claim increased efficiency under government management.
The OWI reports gifts range from coins and dimes to a seven dog team and many other items as patriotism drives donations to Roosevelt and the treasury. Cash gifts total nearly 4.5 million with some donors mailing in small coins monthly while others send autos, rifles, planes, and medical equipment.
The War Food Administration announced new controls on bright leaf tobacco purchases for cigaret manufacture as auction centers in the Georgia Florida belt enter the third week of the 1943 season. The 1943 crop of about 800 million pounds is allocated with 58 percent to buyers based on past purchases, with domestic and foreign portions set for distribution and emergency reserves. Dealers and growers face proportional limits, and last week’s Georgia Florida belt sales totaled 16.37 million pounds at an average of 36.7 cents per pound.
Mrs. J. E. Britton found a sleeping wolf on her front porch in Dallas. An animal shelter worker said the wolf was likely chased there by dogs before being captured.
The Berlin Radio asserts a German submarine sank a United States Brooklyn class cruiser off the North Coast of Sicily. Allied reports have not confirmed the loss, though a U S Navy note yesterday acknowledged two warships lost in Sicilian waters.
The article lists the nine Brooklyn class destroyers led by the Maddox as the largest at 1,700 tons and includes the vessels Brooklyn Philadelphia Savannah Nashville Phoenix Boise Honolulu Helena and St Louis detailing their range from 9 700 to 19 000 tons.
Lieut James Mc Ateer tells how belly gunner Sergt Claude Ray from Coffeeville Kansas, after a harrowing New Guinea raid, asked for a cigarette and decided to smoke. Mc Ateer praises his gunners and notes 32 missions and 220 combat hours earning the Army Air Medal and Distinguished Service Cross.
Walter Winchell recounts a travel episode ending in Palermo with the hunchback Gobbo staying in Portinico. The party departs via streetcar after paying their paso and planning to resume Winchell’s column in September while Jack Lait contributes thrice weekly. A Kilburn memorial in London honors 783,000 World War I horses.
Washington reports the Republican Postwar Advisory Council will meet September 6 and 7 at Mackinac Island to draft postwar policy. Leaders expect a unified position on foreign policy and demobilization, shaping the 1944 platform and ending isolationist currents. Senator Vandenberg may push the resolution to the floor.
The notice outlines current ration book validity for Red and Blue Stamps through August and September and details expired and new stamps for sugar coffee gas fuel oil and fuel allotments. It also notes coffee stamps are no longer required and provides regional gasoline coupon values across zones. The document is a wartime ration update from the Associated Press.
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