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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1943
Page
2
The forecast calls for rain along the North Carolina coast with light freezing rain or snow inland this afternoon and tonight. In North Carolina the system brings continued cold temperatures tonight. In South Carolina expect rain and drizzle this afternoon and tonight with a chance of freezing rain in the extreme north, and a cooler contrast between the north and south tonight.
The sole U S Forest Products Laboratory in the country is situated in Madison Wisconsin asserting national research focus in wood science and forestry technology.
Congressional figures and Wendell Willkie react to Roosevelt Churchill talks. May calls North Africa progress a UN victory while Rayburn notes possible unity among Fighting French. Willkie laments absence of a grand military strategy board and wider recognition of Russia and China.
Reports from Casablanca disclose plans to maintain Allied initiative in all theaters in 1943. Roosevelt and Churchill agreed on broader aid for Russia and China, a French army and air forces under Giraud and De Gaulle, and opening the Mediterranean to Allied shipping to shorten supply routes and accelerate action against Germany Italy and Japan.
The British Ministry of Information described the Casablanca conference where President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill valued freedom of speech and prioritized work over protocol. Churchill arrived aboard a plane piloted by Capt. William Vanderkloot of Sarasota Florida, who ferried him to Moscow for a Stalin meeting.
Rome reported in a broadcast that Naples was bombed last night and Messina in Sicily was hit by four engined bombers yesterday morning and again last night.
The record notes American dive bombing experiments by U S Marines in Haiti in 1920, when the Marine aviation group contained 42 pilots. It also mentions the opening of the first successful glass factory in America in 1787 in Boston.
Military observers in Casablanca say the Roosevelt Churchill communique foreshadows new, coordinated Allied actions in Africa and a forthcoming European offensive. Eisenhower may retain Tunisia command with Montgomery, while a joint aerial campaign is organized from Tunisia Malta and Tripolitania. Efforts also continue to reconcile De Gaulle and Giraud factions to avoid an open split hindering the Tunisian campaign.
A high level Allied meeting in Casablanca reports agreement on a 1943 plan to demand unconditional surrender from Germany, Japan, and Italy. Leaders Roosevelt Churchill Giraud and de Gaulle set the war on an expanded theater-wide push with full Russian and Chinese aid and secrecy surrounding the talks.
John J. Pelley, president of the American Association of Railroads, told a Senate committee that fuel oil and gasoline deliveries to the eastern states would rise 15 percent within a month. Daily output would grow from 770000 to 900000 barrels aided by steel drums, unloading facilities, more tank cars, and a Texas to Norris City pipeline start February 10. De Golyer warned rationing may be needed this summer.
A late night blaze on East Martin Street wiped out the R. E. Quinn Furniture Company store. General manager D. A. Sandlin estimated damage at 100000 dollars, partly insured, the city’s costliest fire since 1935. Vermont’s first marble quarry opened in Dorset in 1785.
The Chinese high command charged that the Japanese army used poison gas in an attack northwest of Hangtung on Jan 6. The communique said several hundred Japanese soldiers died after wind shifted toward their positions. The charge follows US and British threats of retaliation if gas use continued.
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