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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1944
Page
10
Raleigh January 13 farmers are urged to speed up fertilizer orders. D S Coltrane says about 1,300,000 tons must be ordered and delivered between now and May 10 to meet this year’s needs, but only 218,000 tons have been ordered so far.
Hollywood dispatch reports 37 year old film singer Phil Regan 1-A in the draft learned yesterday he is a grandfather perhaps the youngest in movies. Regan says his son Joseph 18 became a father last November. Regan notes his family includes Phil Jr 16 Joan 14 and Marilyn 13.
The text provides a dessert recipe mixing flour baker salt and sugar to a fine cornmeal texture. It describes beating eggs with other ingredients and combining them with water, then pouring into a pan and baking at 375 F for about 20 minutes. Signed Sincerely yours George Rector.
Advanced Allied Headquarters reports swift US patrol torpedo boats and aircraft sinking many Japanese barges along the Huon peninsula coast New Guinea. Nine barges sunk and 11 others damaged in darkness between Saidor and Sio. fiercest fighting near Bergen Bay on New Britain.
The notice describes a product rotation in 1944 covering aircraft and air equipment. It highlights supply priorities, production lines, and defense-related allocations, naming relevant facilities and units involved in the initiative.
Moscow radio devoted its morning news to a 20 minute summary of President Roosevelt, broadcast from London on January 13. The report covered the president's speech and referenced the daily Soviet communique.
The Transport Command of the Air Forces operated in September handling key movements and logistics. Details on units and routes are limited in the fragment.
Allied air forces in the southwest Pacific shift bases forward to strike enemy supply routes. Lt. Gen. George C. Kenney directs seven bombing raids along 225 miles of coast from new forward fields as the Fifth Air Force targets northeastern New Guinea and ports from Bogadjim to Uligan harbor.
Five postings yielded by the report show Sio and Alexishsafen hit four times each followed by Wewak three, Madang twice and Hansa bay once. Destruction includes supply dumps revetments dispersal areas and anti aircraft positions. Barge staging areas pounded by Liberator heavies and Mitchell mediums, finished off with machine gun strafings. Also notes a shortage of insecticides urged by Ohio Agricultural Services in Columbus with limited materials due to manpower transport and raw material shortages. A scientist in a stratosphere balloon reports hearing special cosmic rays while in the cabin.
About 175000000 bare feet of pierced steel air landing mats have been shipped from the United States to combat zones since Pearl Harbor, supporting Allied military operations and base fortifications across multiple theaters.
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