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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1943
Page
2
North Carolina sees Sunday showers with warmth fading as mountains turn colder by Sunday afternoon. South Carolina remains warm with showers, then cools in the extreme northwest late Sunday. Georgia stays warm with showers, turning colder by Sunday afternoon in the north and west-central areas.
The Senate debates propose a single board of education controlling the public school system and a 1942 amendment favoring business trained members. Governors and committees advance revenue and appropriations bills totaling over 161 million for the next biennium from general and highway funds. A revenue bill aims to raise 104 million, with a stay on major changes like county sole control of the intangibles tax. Libby Ward calls for lowering license taxes for small businesses as the week opens.
The legislature debated replacing the electric chair with the gas chamber and considered bills to reduce capital punishment for rape and first degree murder to life imprisonment when jury recommends. Other proposals included appointing justices of the peace, shifting income tax payments, and enabling local reserve funds. The week included a barbecue supper at North Carolina State College hosted by state agricultural agencies.
A quartet of budget actions seeks 105 million dollars in current expenditures plus 9.2 million for a state teacher bonus. Legislation would authorize investment of surplus cash in securities and two income tax proposals seek tax relief and quarterly payments. Several bills target drunkenness penalties, fireworks, highway patrol raises, and higher pay for labor and agriculture officials. The House also passed a poll tax repeal for military services and Merchant Marine members, while a reform commission submitted its report to Governor Broughton.
A proposal urged forming a Mecklenburg County only judicial district due to population size and high annual case load. The report went to the committee on courts and judicial districts. A joint labor and commerce panel heard metallurgist Herman A Brassert claim the state has ample iron ore and coal to produce sponge iron. The House Appropriations Committee blocked action on a Senate bill for a $22 million postwar reserve fund, favoring study of the appropriations measure. Revenue Commissioner Edwin Gills testified budgets cover personnel but not salaries to prevent embezzlements. Adjutant General J Van Metts hinted at possible supplemental funds for a state guard summer camp.
The Finance Committee urged filing 1942 tax returns by March 15 and paying at least the first installment. Rep Carlson says the Rum Plan bill could skip a year of taxes without removing filing duties. Capitol Hill split on how to reach a current payment basis with March 1 uncertain.
Allied reports indicate daylight raids on Tunisian air fields with seven Axis planes shot down as the front grows muddier. Tunisian activity limited to patrols as German strength is pegged at about 70,000 in Tunisia and Rommel’s forces similar in Libya. German air power remains robust with around 200 planes in Tunisia and 700 aircraft in nearby areas from Pantelleria and Sardinia.
A Soviet communique details a new offensive from Voronezh toward Kharkov aimed at encircled German forces. In seven days of fighting 25,000 officers and men are said dead or captured, with 317 planes and 514 tanks seized, while epidemics and shortages worsen conditions for the encircled troops.
The writer describes a harsh winter front near Stalingrad with German counterattacks and heavy losses. He notes no U S or British tanks in the drive, mentions U S trucks, and cites Malinovsky's pledge to continue the offensive. He observes thousands of encircled Germans and shattered equipment across the flat steppe.
Frank Prist recalls the Buna assault with American troops advancing through swampy jungles under heavy ack ack and aerial bombing. Native workers aid unloading while Japanese Zeros and dive bombers strike, but patrols press forward and slit trenches prove vital for protection amid relentless shelling and wet, cramped conditions.
The dispute centers on dues changes and pay, with UMW leaders citing a contract until April 30 and vowing a wage rise via bargaining. Andrew Yevchak calls for settlement through the labor board, while WLB orders miners back to work. A unemployment ruling denies benefits for the strike period. About 2,800 miners at Prospect Henry and Dorrance collieries stopped work.
American airmen were credited with multiple enemy aircraft during daily operations. Maj. Harley C. Vaughn of Sapula Oklahoma, a P-38 pilot, shot down one MB-109 and damaged another. Gunners on B-25s included Sergt Lester Kitzerow of Detroit Michigan who downed a Focke Wulf 190, Sergt Joseph Rabinowitz of Lyons Georgia who downed two Junkers 52s, and Sergt Clayton Lea of New Mexico who downed a JU-52. Two P-38 pilots Lieut Fred J Wolfe of Hammond Indiana and Lieut Edmund Anderson of Royal Oak Michigan damaged enemy planes. Wolfe reported firing 600 rounds into an MB-190 and watching it go down.
The National Mediation Board agreed to arbitrate wage increase demands and a 70 cent hourly minimum, but refused to arbitrate the closed shop issue. NMB argued such action would violate the Railway Labor Act prohibition on interfering with or coercing employees regarding union membership.
Chicago January 16 members of the Democratic National Committee traveled to Chicago for a meeting to select a new chairman to succeed Edward J Flynn of the Bronx.
Flying Fortresses will operate daily as Allied forces cut German incoming military shipments from 50 to 76 percent. The Nazis now use tank carrying barges able to beach and unload when cranes have been destroyed by bombing, to overcome unloading difficulties.
Soldiers describe Huggins Block on the Sananda front as a semi cleared, fox post dotted area with gun emplacements. They endure constant rain filling dugouts with water while men sleep on improvised rafts and guard against Japanese grenade attacks.
Police investigated a suspected earlier theft at Kress’s dime store where about $65 was missing when the cash register was counted at closing. No arrests have been made, and officials believe the money was stolen earlier by the person who found the drawer short.
A baby at Atlas Rhew, 304 Green Street, reportedly drank kerosene. At Guilford General Hospital last night, care was given and doctors said injuries were not serious. Authorities described the incident as a accident and stated the child’s condition improved after treatment.
Lieutenant General Joseph W. Stilwell chief of staff of the Allied forces in China received the Distinguished Service Cross in a surprise ceremony at his Chungking home with his son pinning the decoration on his breast.
Fragmentary notes mention Castrict 1 and 3,300 locals in multiple wards including district 7. The unreadable text hints at displacement concerns and turnout questions across several neighborhoods. Officials have yet to provide full details or confirmed figures.
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