23 Feb 1943
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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 23, 1943
Page
1
Mahatma Gandhi’s hunger strike has intensified India’s fight for independence, shifting from a family dispute to a global matter affecting Allied support. The dispute touches key Allied bases and United Nations objectives, highlighting hunger as a political instrument in postwar reconstruction.
Mohandas Gandhi remains in a 21 day fast as Delhi talks intensify on his release. Nehru and All-India Congress leaders urge British action while observers warn Gandhi's death could shift Indian nationalist leverage. Separately, in Washington, soldiers in Arizona are authorized to assist harvest crews to relieve farm labor shortages amid wartime production pressures.
A bill to create a labor conciliator office and define unfair labor practice procedures was indefinitely sent by the case committee on manufacture labor and commerce. The action likely ends the measure as it faced general opposition from organized labor groups.
Soviet Ambassador Ivan Maisky told an audience in London that Moscow expects an early realization of the military decisions made at Casablanca. He urged that Anglo American forces strike Nazi Germany to hasten victory and reduce Russian sacrifices, while warning against optimistic illusions from Red Army gains.
Washington February 23 Sumner Welles Under Secretary of State reiterated the U S hope that Finland would withdraw from the war against Russia He said the United States has made its position clear and noted the friendship between Finland and the United States while urging Finland to stop aiding Germany and its allies against the United Nations.
An Allied convoy of transports and destroyers repelled a night torpedo attack near Guadalcanal on February 17, shooting down five of eight attacking Japanese torpedo planes and taking no damage. Recon planes tracked the enemy, flares lit the sea, and the action echoed earlier battles while Tokyo claimed losses near San Cristobal Island.
A Yankee clipper flying boat crashed into the Tagus River at Lisbon after a flight from New York. Twenty four are dead or missing, with 15 survivors in hospital. Jane Froman among the saved. Crew names and survivor details released by the U S legation conflict with a Civil Aeronautics Authority count.
Allied forces report a coordinated air raid across New Guinea and surrounding areas. Fifteen tons of bombs including 1 000 pounders struck Malahang airdrome and nearby villages near Lae, with large fires and extensive destruction noted.
Soviet forces advance from Krasnodar through Kholmskaya into Akhtyrskaya 25 miles from the sea as they press west of Rostov and near Kursk. Communiques note heavy losses to Germans, air action, and new town captures in Kuban and Donets regions amid a broader Dnieper-focused campaign.
Secretary of Agriculture Wickard suspended AAA marketing quotas on wheat to ensure adequate wartime food and feed supplies. The order affects quotas for the 1942 crop and those set for the 1943 crop.
In Raleigh on February 23 the Senate by 22 to 18 tabled a bill and all amendments to create a state wine control division to legalize 20 percent alcohol wine sales. Amendments would have raised taxes, shifted authority to the revenue department, and altered salaries. Senator Benton of Johnston led the tabling motion amid limited debate.
Navy communique reports Liberator B-24s and B-25s with P-38 escorts bombing Japanese bases in the North and South Pacific on February 22. Fires started at Munda on New Georgia. Vila on Kolombangara sighted fires, with all U S planes returning safely. Munda cited as the most bombed Solomons target, attacked at least 74 times since November.
Washington reports the Navy sank a German U-boat in the Atlantic and a Japanese sub in the Pacific. Secretary Knox said all available weapons are used to curb the sea menace. He noted ongoing losses of Allied ships but stressed the danger remains grave and requires continued build up of destroyers and escort vessels. The German submarine fell to a destroyer in combat, while the Japanese sub was destroyed by the armed guards of a captured American merchant ship after torpedoing it.
Allied forces pinned Rommel’s thrust north of Kasserine Pass near Thala with American air support and heavy shelling. A German column of 46 tanks and infantry met fierce counterfire on the Diebel Hamma road as US Twelfth Air Force and Boston bombers struck targets across the bottleneck. The bridge near the gap was attacked but observer records were unclear.
The United States records its nation's worst sea loss of the war with more than 850 dead or missing after two American ships carrying military personnel and civilian workers were torpedoed in the North Atlantic over a four day span. Navy officials withheld ship names and voyage details as survivors and the search continued.
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