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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1943
Page
8
The service man cannot come immediately due to rationed tires and trucks and many colleagues being in uniform. Still he works daily to repair, patch, and assist, while urging customers to call only when needed and to maintain equipment to avoid mending.
Chicago artist Jake Kasper describes tattoo work as money in the pocket though not a big business. He notes gas sailors visit daily for body art, often in uniform, with many requests repetitive. A burlesque queen asked a Christmas tree design to cover a scar from an appendicitis operation.
Allied fronts report fierce German resistance as the Fifth and Eighth armies push forward with heavy demolitions and minefields in place. General Clark came under fire during a battle tour as P-40 and A-36 bombers launched 300 sorties, dropping over 100 tons of ordnance along a 20 mile front. Air attacks from Marseille to the Yugoslav coast aimed at U boat pens and rail hubs, with Fortress bombers and P-38 escorts contesting German fighters. a railway bridge near Chieti and a rail center near Arezzo were attacked by medium bombers at night.
British and American air forces conducted devastating raids across Nazi targets with Berlin enduring renewed heavy bombardments. Swedish dispatches confirm fires in multiple city areas while Marseille faced a Mediterranean strike from American Fortresses. The U S Eighth Air Force reported a record November with 7 670 tons dropped and 257 enemy planes down, at the cost of dozens of bombers and fighters.
A youth jumped into Mrs. S. E. Vaughan's car and drove off with 17 month old Deanna Sue Vaughn in the back seat. He returned the car to the original parking place and was arrested by police with the child’s mother present. Soap is used in the molding of tires and other rubber articles.
North Carolina stays mild with partly to mostly cloudy skies and light rain in the mountains and north central areas tonight and Saturday. South Carolina sees similar mild, partly cloudy to cloudy conditions tonight and Saturday without major changes.
Moscow reports show Roosevelt Chiang Kai-shek and Churchill holding meetings with declarations against Japan. No word yet on Connally’s claims of Stalin meeting them. Cairo conference details appeared on Moscow radio and in newspapers today.
Reporter Dick Tregaskis of the International News Service was cut down by mortar fire near his 27th birthday. He suffered a brain injury in Italy and faces weeks or months in bed with partial paralysis. His shoes, a running joke on the front, proved his enduring concern as he recovered.
Soviet communique reports Dmitrovka and Fedorki taken near Znamenka with 400 German soldiers killed and 27 enemy tanks destroyed. Znamenka itself is within Red Army artillery range.
On November 30 a navy Liberator shot down a Zero near Mili. In the American-non Gilberts three Japanese planes were shot down during an attack on two American destroyers on November 29. Halsey’s force dominated the northern Solomons with 175 sorties on November 30 and no enemy aircraft sighted. On December 1 Mitchells bombed Bergen Bay barges and shore installations while continuing to pound western New Britain ahead of MacArthur’s New Guinea advance.
The Irish Cumhuriet cites surrender terms to Germans and urges a Big Three declaration to assure Germans they won’t be enslaved and to promise a future democratic government after the Nazi regime ends. Stalin’s 1941 claim on not forcing regimes is reprinted in the Soviet War News Weekly.
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