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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 21, 1943
Page
2
Weather forecast notes warmer conditions this afternoon and tonight across North and South Carolina with rising temperatures in Georgia. North Carolina and Georgia expect elevated readings while the southern portion shows a gradual warming trend through today and into the night.
Striking miners vote meetings at Exeter Colliery Payne Coal 800 workers and Washington Colliery 400 scheduled this morning while Westmoreland Colliery Lehigh Valley Company stayed idle. President Roosevelt warned of necessary steps to reopen mines this afternoon if the 22 day unauthorized walkout ends. Rumors of troop use circulated as 23 000 strikers thinned further with three unions deciding to return.
In-flight hypoxia begins around 20 000 feet as flyers report tingling sensations followed by nail beds turning purple from insufficient oxygen.
The agreement was signed at Adolf Hitler's headquarters by German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop and Japanese Ambassador Hiroshi Oshikima. An identical pact was signed in Rome by Italian Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano and the Japanese charge d affaires Shunichi Kase. The Tokyo radio said negotiations began in spring 1941 under Helmuth Wohl and covered exchanging materials and mutual technical collaboration.
The session featured a dispute between Connally and Jon Bar on the Flynn paying block case as witnesses named by Flynn and Flynn himself denied wrongdoing. The grand jury cleared Flynn of blame in the paying block episode and Flynn said he knew nothing of city material or labor use before work was completed and paid about 750 dollars.
A Soviet communique broadcast from Moscow and recorded in London reports that Byelokurakina is about 50 miles inside Ukraine, Red Army forces moved into Bye lovodsk north of Voroshilovgrad, and Russian troops occupied four large settlements and Chebotovka station as part of a pincer toward the Sea of Azov.
Russian forces pressed toward Rostov from the Don Valley and the Caucasus as Proletarskaya fell after days of street fighting. The Communique outlined advances toward Salsk and Armavir while reporting gains in Nevinnomysskaya and other Near Rostov zones. The Leningrad front saw limited progress with Ostrogozhsk siege updates.
A Senate resolution seeks hearings by the Senate Appropriations Committee to reappraise the entire manpower program and fix the maximum number to be inducted into the Army. The measure targets reassessment of defense staffing and budget implications.
In Fairview Oklahoma Reverend C L Moser advertised in the lost and found column that his sheep had strayed and only 23 came for their feed in the morning. Soon his phone rang with a greeting of Baaa a a from the herd as weather sidelined attendance.
A volunteer at a Kansas City blood donor center who gave the name Buckmaster was later identified as Rear Admiral Eliot Buckmaster commander of the Yorktown carrier sunk in the Pacific. The insignia on his navy uniform went unnoticed at first.
The London school hit by a German bomb yesterday now reports forty four dead as rescue teams clear debris. Three teachers among the victims, fifty others injured. RAF aircraft pursue attacker, while raids across England bring four alarms in London with limited damage reported.
Patterson praised the siege of Leningrad as one of the war’s most remarkable events while noting the Red Army’s continued success and the likely fall of Tri Poli in Libya. He cited air superiority in Tunisia and near completion of the New Guinea campaign as Allied forces press the Pacific theater.
Funeral services for Seaton Shpiwash 42 who died in Morganton Monday were held at Cedar Street Church of God with pallbearers named and burial in Springhill cemetery. Dolly Vine Brown 66 wife of O Brown died at home Monday evening. services set at Southside Church with burial in Floral Garden Cemetery.
The FCC announced a rate reduction where overtime charges drop to one quarter of the first three minutes, saving long distance users about 22.8 million dollars annually. AT and T agreed to the change, keeping the first three minutes’ charge unchanged.
Joseph Deeb of Dearborn obtained a court eviction for a tenant. The constable failed to serve on the date, the tenant left voluntarily, then the constable entered by force and seized five rooms of new furniture. Deeb, the landlord and sole occupant, faced $25 in fees plus $7 to recover belongings.
A railroad roundhouse whistle warned residents as power plant troubles caused a city blackout in Wellington Kansas. Air raid wardens toured the streets urging everyone to extinguish lights while the outage spread and then gradually recovered.
In Leoti Kas a shop window displays a note on Estel Hayes door reading Out to a funeral Will be back later and a signature Private Estel Hayes NOT a mourner clarifying he is not attending as a mourner.
Allied air attacks pound Castel Benito and coastal routes as Fighting French report joining British forces in the Tripoli drive. German and Italian troops pull back in central Tunisia while Rommel’s forces retreat toward the Mareth line, with bombardment and road wreckage reported along the Tunisian coast.
Raleigh January 21 funds committees push bills toward floor action to speed adjournment. The joint spending panel heard 14 educational and agricultural requests while finance set 3 pm Tuesday to hear sales tax pros and cons. Presidents urged higher university appropriations for State College Woman's College and Chapel Hill with noted increases. Agriculture Commissioner Scott sought a 125 763 budget rise along with added requests for the Experiment Station and Extension Service.
Rear Admiral Jonas H. Ingram, commander of US Naval forces in the South Atlantic, says five Axis submarines have been sunk in the last month. He also reports a German surface raider intercepted and scuttled by its crew.
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