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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 05, 1943
Page
2
North Carolina sees occasional rain and showers this afternoon and tonight with little temperature change. South Carolina experiences occasional showers in the north and scattered showers in the south this afternoon and tonight with minimal temperature change.
The article outlines hiring rules in shortage areas under WMC oversight and clarifies exemptions. Small establishments under 25 workers and manufacturing firms under eight are excluded. Domestic servants, casual workers, and governments unless they request WMC regulation are also exempt.
A frontline report describes American artillery replying to Axis shelling near the Faid plains. A liaison officer nicknamed the fighting dentist reflects on German activity from a hilltop while American guns open fire, shells rising like parachutes.
A reporter details brutal shelling and bombardment around Faid as German and American forces clash. Artillery music, tanks, and evasive maneuvers punctuate a day of fierce fighting, with A-20 Havoc bombers blasting a German munitions dump 14 miles behind the front.
RAF and U S forces pressed major assaults across Europe with raids on Lorient Spezia and German targets in the Ruhr and northwest Germany. Coastal Britain saw light enemy activity with minor damage while the RAF resumed channel crossings and Spitfire escorts.
Allied forces report raids on Rabaul wide bay and Gasmata airfields with bombers and fires. Bases raided with sudden incidents. airstrikes hit Sala maua and Aroe Islands while ground actions press toward Salamaua and Wau. Burma front shows Field Marshal Wavell driving back Japanese toward Burma from India.
The Enterprise will publish a special edition titled High Point at War for local service members. Families are asked to submit current addresses for soldiers sailors marines WAACS WAVES SPARS stationed in the country so free copies can be mailed to them.
A wartime safety drive led by the War Production Fund to Conserve Manpower aims to reduce the half billion man-days lost to accidents in 1942. Officials tour 14 cities, enlisting citizens to pledge safe work, with emphasis on industry, farms, homes, schools, and traffic safety.
Tobas Stone of New York tops the 1942 bridge list with 141 Master Points and wins the national open pair championship. He placed second in the world championship Masters pairs and won the Eastern States team event, reaching Vanderbilt finals and finishing second in the national mixed team and Metropolitan Open team. Stone serves in the Signal Corps Reserve and will wear uniform after training.
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Front line reports say British forces repelled two heavy Japanese counterattacks in the Dondaik sector with heavy losses and pressure on the enemy. Gen Wavell’s troops reached within about 25 miles of the main Japanese base at Akyab while American built Liberator bombers of the RAF bombed Rangoon and attacked targets at Rathedaung and Magwe.
Governor General Boisson announced French West Africa would supply 100 000 trained Senegalese troops to the Allies now with a 200 000 man reserve if equipment and white officers are provided. He said Giraud would lead 100 000 immediately and 200 000 more with proper gear and leadership.
The narrator praises Stone of the South with an 1942 hand showing defensive ruffs and a long heart play. New East leads trump. Stone ruffs clubs and saves all hearts in dummy. He wins the final tricks by careful carding and last-trump management.
Both players should keep score to avoid errors from tallying three games at once. Keeping scores helps track rounds and prevent miscounts during play.
Gertrude Ederle, famed first woman to swim the English Channel in 1926, inspects instruments on American Export Airlines trans Atlantic flying boats in the LaGuardia Field shop. The visit highlights her continued involvement with aviation.
Anne Adams offers Pattern 4329 a tailored front button dress with waist insets and yoke shaping. Available in size 12 to 40 with size 16 needing four yards of fabric. Order by mail with size name address and style number from The High Point Pattern Department New York.
The budget bureau outlined allocations including transportation 494.968 million medicine and surgery 67 million yards and docks 800 million aviation 562 million and armor and ammunition 417 million. Funds were needed to provide for additional requirements for the prosecution of the war and to cover contingencies since the 1943 budget transmission.
Allied observers note heavy air battles over Gabes with the Flying Fortresses claiming 24 German planes before dumping ordnance. Montgomery’s Eighth Army drills rumors of a deep southern flank toward the Mareth line as Tunisia’s front shifts.
A veteran writer urges visible patriotism from the home front during wartime. He cites Washington Irving and urges readers to serve through constructive acts at home, not only on battlelines, while recalling 1933 despair and the coming global conflict.
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