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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1943
Page
2
No major temperature change expected tonight across North and South Carolina. In Georgia a slight upward trend in temperatures is anticipated with no decisive shift overnight.
Flynn's notes the Dies Committee delays a voluminous Axis-front activity report awaiting a possible Roosevelt administration compliment. Tax policy dominates as lawmakers discuss a restraining tax with a $500 annual exemption and coupons for tax free purchases, while non coupon purchases face standard taxation.
Bridges urged 31 witnesses including Flynn to testify while Flynn dismisses charges as political and demands full investigation. Connally says hearings decide charges and evidence. Barkley pushes public hearings. The session also moves to budget talks and proposed pay raises for state officials.
The article notes liaison across African wastes between American and British forces and rising French participation in the anti Axis effort. It cites Bracken and MacMillan signaling unity behind Eisenhower, with supplies and Red Cross aid easing civilian hardship and milk stations for children expanding.
A submarine under Lieut H B Turner torpedoed a large supply ship near Naples and damaged a railway bridge on the southern Italian coast. The forward section of the ship blew away and it is presumed sunk. A signal box and power cables were also crippled. Communique complete. Spain has long chess games and players sometimes leave continuances to their wills.
The article notes Governor Broughton proposing 21 solicitor districts for four years and a senatorial redistricting bill cutting to 16 districts effective January 1, 1947. It also covers Senator Ballentine's measure to convey a 50 by 50 foot lot near Appomattox courthouse to the federal government for a National Historical Monument addition and Rep Arch Allen's minimum pay bill.
The 58th Allied raid on Lorient demonstrated resolve to destroy Hitler's U-boat base. The air ministry noted Lorient’s facilities are devoted to the submarine campaign with protected pens at Keroman sheltering 20 U-boats and extensive military infrastructure. Canadian bombers in Halifax and Wellington expeditions participated, adding to prior daylight US attacks on Lorient.
After the Hazleton session Carl Kratz president of Local 1407 said he would recommend that his local return to work Monday. We've got what we wanted he said I am sure that now that the government has taken a hand we'll get some action. The walkout has cut production by 30000 tons daily and created a hard coal shortage throughout the fuel rationed northeast. Natives still practice a systematized exchange of wives in Tahiti largely of the French Society Islands.
The report notes Maj. Philip G. Cochran and his P-40 unit tallying six victories in three days near Kairouan, with Lieuts. Thomas, Scholl, Radden, Bounds, and Bent also credited for downed enemy aircraft. Allied air forces claim dominance over Tunisian front as RAF Spitfires observe four-to-one sweeps. Also mentioned are arrests linked to Admiral Darlan’s assassination and comments by British minister Harold MacMillan on potential Franco Allied arrangements.
The War Production Board froze manufacturers inventories of pails buckets and wash tubs with no civilian release. As stocks run dry these articles will not be available to the general public when dealers run out. The order aims to control supply during wartime.
Betty Hansen, 17, testifies she was seduced by film star Errol Flynn at a Bel Air party on Sept 27. She says Flynn undressed her and herself while she believed she was being put to bed, denying any incentive of a movie career. The hearing also involves charges related to another accuser, Peggy Lauine Saterlee.
Funeral services for furniture maker and civic leader John S. Pickett were conducted at his home in High Point with Rev. Wilson Weldon and doctors officiating. Interment followed at Oakwood Memorial Park. Survived by widow Pearl Sams Pickett, son John S. Pickett Jr., daughter Frances, mother Mrs. W. P. Pickett, and three sisters with several out of town relatives attending.
The Red Army claims six more populated places captured on the Lower Don and several villages near Suvorovskaya and Grazhdansky-Pervy, with about 1 000 enemy dead and 22 tanks knocked out in one sector. Nine German planes were burned in a battle near a town as counterattacks across the front were repulsed.
Senate and House tax leaders George and Coughton warned that the first quarter 1942 income tax payment and the March 15, 1943 filing deadline remain in force. They said taxpayers should not expect changes that would drop the March 15 return requirement, though early filings won’t incur penalties. They noted possible future legislation should not alter 1942 filing obligations.
Seventeen years after a Fort Worth contest they reunite on a Lady in the Dark set. Billy Daniels and Ginger Rogers share a remembered promise from a 3 week old baby as their paths from Fort Worth to Broadway to Hollywood unfold. The tale traces how a stage actor and his wife part in Hollywood and London amid world events and career pivots. Hold clear memories of a baby's promise that bridged years.
Wendell Willkie spoke at Duke University urging preservation of liberal education as essential to victory and democracy. He warned against overreliance on prominent leaders and stressed the need for a broadly educated citizenry to uphold freedom and resist autocratic rise.
Berlin radio report from Tokyo says Japan is building bamboo rafts with a surface area of 10 000 square meters to transport army materiel. Supplied under Japanese military supervision, the floats, claimed unsinkable, would be ready for service in February.
London based actor struggles to fund Hollywood work while a new RKO movie This Land Is Mine casts a 9 year old boy named John Donat at a three figure salary. Friends Charles Laught and Robert Donat are noted in connection with the project.
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