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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1943
Page
2
North Carolina faces a much colder night with a hard freeze likely across counties. South Carolina also grows much colder with freezing temperatures extending to the coast, prompting expected frost and safety advisories across coastal communities.
The text notes Japanese pressure to convene a high seas conference facing delays and warnings of a delicate position. Japan sends peace envoy Sabura Kurusu to Washington while Nomura and others maintain outreach as planes near Pearl Harbor. Roosevelt avoids being aboard a Japanese warship when the attack occurs.
The account cites Ambassador Nomura and Hull discussing a possible high seas summit with Prime Minister Konoye aboard a Japanese warship. The talks cover a potential epochal shift in relations, army and navy stakes, and the risk of an unstable government if the plan falters.
Dr Ambedkar explains a plan to move untouchables to separate settlements with land and government aid within 20 years. He argues this would remove caste stigma, ensure police and judiciary representation, and end untouchability, while noting historical enlistment widened opportunities.
The Californian criticizes both left and right for labeling conservatives and liberals as fascists or communists, while Dies of Texas is expected to seek renewed life for the committee with a new appropriation. Opponents may use Voorhis’s remarks to challenge renewed action.
Workmen digging for iron ore in a central Virginia bog century ago uncovered a skeleton that had become ironbound from prolonged exposure to iron bearing waters. The remains remained remarkably intact, offering a striking example of mineral absorption preserving a human form.
Allied troops cut off about 100 Japanese by sea after bottling the Buna government station Giropa point area. American and Australian forces reported heavy Japanese casualties, with estimates of 800 dead in earlier sieges and 450 killed around Giropa point.
Allied ground gunners claimed 10 Allied planes shot down while American fliers topped the Axis tally with 23 of 32 destroyed. Fortresses accounted for 17 of the Allied total as P-38s and Spitfires pursued the Tunis harbor raid and surrounding targets.
A Reuters dispatch from the British First Army in Tunisia notes a 90 minute raid east of Medjez El Bab and reconnaissance on German strength. French forces west of Kairouan gain an important position while Leclerc’s units in equatorial Africa push hundreds of miles into Southern Libya. The Cairo communique cites no new air activity or land details.
Annam natives use an official titled Sorrows to drive away spirits in the house of the dead and to utter curses at weddings. The role centers on ritual control and protection during rites and ceremonies.
Pravda and Red Star report intense fighting as Red Army infantrymen attack from the southeast and northwest, capture a village on the middle Don, and cut the Nazi line to retreat. Nazi counterattacks falter, hundreds killed, tanks and guns destroyed, with additional gains near Stalingrad and the Don front.
Ickes told a special committee that military demands for oil are rising and could keep increasing. The War Production Board weighs an additional Texas to East Coast pipeline with a possible third line. Eastern demand may reach 1.5 million barrels daily versus about 1 million now.
Discussion in Congress centers on potential changes to the price control act and a national manpower service act. War costs push for new levies from a national lottery to a sales tax while Ways and Means backs pay‑as‑you‑go tax collections. Debates also begin on future foreign policy as June approaches.
The United States Navy announced that a medium sized British merchant vessel was torpedoed and sunk by an enemy submarine in the Atlantic off the northern coast of South America. Survivors have been landed at an East Coast port.
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