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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1942
Page
2
The article analyzes Hitler's aims as the Stalingrad offensive stalls and Russian counteroffensives grow. It notes potential shifts as a successful westward Russian advance threatens Leningrad's siege, the Caucasus oil focus, and the ultimate German grip on 1942 gains, with Finland possibly seeking terms.
Reports from Barcelona quote French naval sources saying Admiral Jean De La Borde ordered scuttling of about 60 ships at Toulon after preparations months prior. Captains reportedly did not go down with ships, harbor tugs included, as German forces demanded surrender.
Casablanca, safe in Algiers, recalls the first warning of the German assault as shore batteries fired on German ground troops. The captain said planes appeared later and he waited for orders to fight all day Friday, which never came before his submarine moved mines out of the harbor at night. Vichy radio said Toulon gates were ordered closed amid rioting over resuming work.
London reports Sir William Beveridge’s commission proposing a new ministry for social security and nearly doubling annual spending on unemployment health insurance and pensions. The program would cover welfare from cradle to grave including public funds for births unmarried mothers marriages and funeral costs up to eighty dollars.
Norris asserts that censoring a letter from Alaska to another state violates American principles. He argues the activity is not yet serious but outside the law. The passage notes U S dependence on gin seng from China as a curative drug.
Soviet dispatches report German advances from three to six miles near Stalingrad with unclear direction while Red Army units move southwest from Stalingrad along the Tikhoretsk railway towards Tatennikovski. The struggle around Vyazma and Rzhev grows as Red Star notes German supply lines and fortified approaches. Soviet pilots claim about 300 German infantry killed in two days. Maj. Gen. Tarasov and Maj. Gen. Povetkin lead Red troops in breaking enemy lines on the central front amid scouting near Bryansk 220 miles southwest of Moscow.
North and South Carolina and Georgia forecast occasional rain with warmer air in parts and cooler mountain zones tonight. The dispatch then details Soviet counterattacks near Stalingrad, German losses and tank battles west of Moscow, with a siege in Stalingrad and heavy fighting described across the central front and Don loop areas.
Allied and Axis forces clash across Tunisia as British and American units near Tunis and Bizerte. The Fascist bulletin claims prisoners. Allied air raids pound Sicily targets including Palermo Gela and Trapani. German reinforcements to Greece rise to 10000 15000 weekly while Rommel’s Africa corps receives fresh heavy arms at El Agheila.
The Civitan Club at the Sheraton Hotel voted to send a Christmas gift to each armed forces member and donated 325 to the Empty Stacking Fund. Blake Thompson presided as W. B. Hall reported Collins Festival results. A moving pictures presentation on synthetic rubber is planned for next week, plus a Charlotte District Council meeting on Dec. 2. A Civitan gathering with wives at the Robert E. Lee hotel in Winston-Salem on Dec. 8 will feature the international president as guest speaker.
In Greensboro, December 1, the U S District Court heard additional testimony from E C Gwaltney of Boston as the Royalties suit against Saco Lowell Shops continued. W G Reynolds, E A Terrell, and the Terrell Machine Co of Charlotte seek ten percent royalties on model J-1 and J-3 textile devices claiming they were perfected to evade a royalties contract.
A Japanese river steamer was severely damaged yesterday as RAF fighters and bombers continued attacking targets in Japanese occupied Burma. Sweeps were made over various drivers with no other results announced.
Chapel Hill announces a wartime contest by the Carolina Dramatic Association offering prizes of 25 dollars for first, 10 dollars for second, for one act plays by Army Navy Marines and Coast Guard members in North Carolina. Deadline March 1 1943 with entries to Professor Samuel Selden UNC. The best entries will be featured at the State Drama Festival in spring.
The State Bureau of Investigation estimates stolen gasoline coupons valued at over 500000 dollars in NC. About 20000 coupon books from Kenansville Windsor and Raeford were stolen, with few recovered. Books sold for 4 to 7 dollars per sheet. most books have six sheets, some twelve. Authorities call the racket large and hard to trace due to no numbers and removed covers. Some coupons were imported and thefts extend beyond the state.
Five officers form vanguard of Women to be assigned to duty with the U S Army in London. Mattie A Pinette Fort Kent Maine Ruth M Briggs Westerly Rhode Island Martha E Rogers Jackson Mississippi Alene Drezmalle St Paul Minnesota Louise Anderson Denver Colorado lead the advance unit.
In Oxford a motorcycle and a truck collided near town injuring three soldiers from Camp Buiner. The injured were Lloya E. Gryans of Re raly N and two others.
In Murphy Idaho a barnyard auction raised over $5,000 for the U S war bond campaign. A pig calf chickens eight cakes a blanket and a sack of potatoes were sold as part of a bond social.
Senator McCarran testified before the senate banking committee that his life had been threatened after criticizing the Senate Silver bloc. He cited a Secret Service letter to President Roosevelt from an “ill-advised person” promising to kill him if certain events occurred, as background to his opposition to a bill directing release of government held silver for manufacturing silverware and other items.
The battleship New Jersey, touted as the heaviest ever built, will be launched at the Philadelphia Navy Yard next Monday on the Pearl Harbor anniversary. Designed for 48,000 tons, its size was increased to reflect wartime lessons. current tonnage remains classified. The Iowa sister ship was launched at Brooklyn Navy Yard last August.
Canberra reports a planned surge in Australia food output after U S and Australian officials agree on wartime shipping rules. All ships from the United States must carry munitions and war supplies, delaying food shipments as Australia must feed troops in the war zone. Minister John Beasley and U S officials are negotiating the plan.
James Claybourn Dodson, 73, civic and religious leader formerly with R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co, died in a local hospital after a two week illness.
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