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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 24, 1943
Page
8
North Carolina faces colder tonight and early Thursday with possible light showers in the mountains this afternoon. South Carolina warms near the coast then turns slightly colder inland tonight and again early Thursday.
Allied air power pounds retreating Germans along the Thala to Kasserine line as Rommel suffers heavy losses in Tunisia. In the Soviet theater, Red Army advances west of Rostov and near Kursk push back Germans with sizable tank and infantry losses and capture key towns.
A public alarm links India’s food shortage to hoarding, price rises, bad distribution, imports cessation, and rice from Japanese-occupied areas. It notes vast rural poverty, ancient farming methods, and lacking sanitation, as well as refugee needs from Burma and troops abroad. In the war theater, Soviet and German forces clash near Orel and Kursk, with air raids and a 105 mm American battery holding firm.
AP reports cautious pursuit by British and American troops and Arabs to collect souvenirs from damaged Allied and Axis vehicles in a valley. Arabs finish poorly as donkey-riding muscles lag. First Americans fail to ride a German motorcycle. British tanks claim ten Mark IVs destroyed in one day after Rommel’s tactic of following light tanks into a minefield.
A U S plane bomb hits a barge off Choiseul Island while fighters strafed enemy positions at Rekata Santa Isabella. An enemy plane bombed Guadalcanal airfield the morning of February 23. Liberator bombers hit Vila and Munda in New Georgia on February 24 with all U S planes returning.
A committee argues that states communities and workers should cover rising wartime costs. It says mothers should avoid wartime work that neglects children unless self support is impossible or defense labor is unavailable without using them.
In Tunisia the air war pounded German convoys and positions as Allied bombers and fighters blasted trucks along Feriana and roads near Kasserine and Sbeitla. Rommel pressed near Kasserine Pass but was repulsed, with Allied strength concentrating against his tank units and the Mareth buildup.
Pilot Lucien recalls flying over Rabaul harbor in a dangerous mission as anti aircraft fire and tracer shells erupted around his plane. He describes being in searchlights and narrowly avoiding capture while Captain Williams maneuvered through heavy fire over the beehive docks.
House Rules Committee chair Sabath says he found Roosevelt not eager to run again after discussing a fourth term. Sabath reports the President would help draft the peace program and prefers avoiding a confrontation with Congress while commenting on Chicago politics and the administration’s program. Also notes U S Liberator bombers hit Messina harbor and ferry slips in Sicily by daylight.
City police Lieut Albert Hanssen said a war worker reported his wife took his shoes to be mended and never returned. He was told to go to the missing persons bureau, but demanded his shoes.
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