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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1942
Page
2
The forecast calls for showers and thunderstorms this afternoon and into tonight across the region. Temperatures will see little change, with scattered thundershowers expected from noon onward and into early tonight across the eastern areas.
Unsourced British chatter questions whether General Sir Claude Auchinleck, famed for leading forces to Parvik in 1940 and later succeeding Wavell in North Africa, will retire. Silence over his replacement may be a tactic to keep German enemy guessing as el Alamein drive stalls under his direct command of the Eighth Army.
Allied forces led by United States Army Air Force Flying Fortresses and Canadian commandos assault a German fighter station at Abbeville near Dieppe. The raid marks a large, daylight operation with tanks, heavy bombardment, and ongoing combat as British, American and Canadian units seek to probe German defenses and signal potential future actions.
A New Zealand report says US forces won sea successes to reinforce assault troops for weeks of bitter fighting in the Pacific. Japanese units in the Solomons have likely fallen back or been sunk while Ghormley’s fleet and MacArthur’s air forces sweep thousands of miles, with a showdown feared for vital sea lanes and air patrols extending toward New Ireland.
The Soviet Information Bureau reported renewed German pressure along both arms of the Khopyor-Volga corridor near Stalingrad and in the Caucasus. Soviet forces claimed to have destroyed hundreds of German tanks and thousands of troops, pushed back offensives near Kotelnikovski, and held off assaults in the Kuban region while defending Grozny oil fields. The release gave casualty and equipment losses for both sides and noted a slower German offensive tempo.
Government actions seize private plants for war needs as labor unrest spreads. Bayonne General Cable plant taken over after workers protested a wage ruling. employees pledge no production interruptions. calls to return plant to private control. CIO unions in Aluminum and shipping sectors threaten strikes and negotiations with federal boards amid wage and hour demands and potential elections. Dutch seamen seek wage boosts and eight hour day after months of talks with government.
The North Carolina Tobacco Festival in Wilson is cancelled for the year because of war demands and tire and gasoline shortages. Funds already set aside will be redirected to entertain armed forces in eastern North Carolina. The 1941 rail mix shows 44,333 locomotives in the U S, with 42,410 steam, 967 oil, 900 electric and 36 gasoline.
Committees were named yesterday at a Greensboro meeting to organize the statewide Association of Non-Essential Spending. Julius C. Smith chairs the Constitution and By Laws panel with Greensboro members, while Winston-Salem and other cities provide Finance and Office Location committees. The board includes R. L. Pope of Thomasville as president and F. J. Sizemore of High Point as secretary, among others from multiple NC cities.
The article recounts US Rangers under British instructors in a harsh training regime in Britain. It details close-quarters combat, live fire drills, absailing from a castle, and a dangerous hand grenade incident aboard a Ranger boat. It also profiles Maj. William O. Darby and Capt. Stephen J. Meade guiding volunteers including Chico Fernandez Sampson Hontamer Corp. Haines and two mortars- bearer brothers Othel and Dick Greene. Less than 10 percent dropped out.
Sophia North Carolina Aug 19 The Southern Quarterly Meeting of Friends will be held at Marlboro Church on Saturday The morning session covers ministry and oversight followed by a business session in the afternoon
New York dispatch reports Dr. Gustav Egloff of Universal Oil Products says Germany would need about a year under peacetime norms to restore the Caucasus oil fields after Russian devastation, with six months as a rough target for initial production and longer to reach full capacity. He cites 560,000 barrels daily potential and outlines hurdles in design, fabrication, transport, and operation of pipelines and refineries, plus the challenges of drilling in the Caucasus region and transporting oil to existing refineries in Russia, Romania, France, Italy, Czechoslovakia, or Germany.
A fragment notes estimates that Germany can return to production in probably six months. It mentions 500000 barrels of oil production in the Caucasus and characterizes restoring this output as a more difficult undertaking as assessed by Egloff.
Amos n Andy will appear as Treasury Star Parade guests on WMFR at 7 30 as Harlem reports on wartime efforts. The broadcast features a light hearted sketch showing the American Negro contributing to the war, with social music by David Broekman and his orchestra.
Company 2 of the High Point Civilian Guard will meet at 7 30 tonight at the armory. All members are urged to attend as guns will be issued at that time.
Lieut Douglas Fairbanks U S Navy, in Britain for weeks, has been assigned to the staff of Lord Louis Mountbatten, head of the British Commandos, according to the United States headquarters in London.
The text states that producing steel requires blending at least fifty percent scrap in the mix and an equal amount of pig iron using the open-hearth method. This summarizes an old metallurgical principle cited in the fragment.
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