Weather Outlook for North and South Carolina
Continued warm tonight with scattered thundershowers this afternoon and early tonight across North and South Carolina.
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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1943
Page
8
Continued warm tonight with scattered thundershowers this afternoon and early tonight across North and South Carolina.
The Pravda correspondent cites a German attack with 250 tanks repelled by Soviet defenses as air supremacy fails. Russians claim 110 German planes shot down in 81 dogfights as heavy fighting continues near Belgorod and Kursk. Berlin says Russians lose hundreds more tanks and planes while Red Star urges holding all lines.
Partial stock market note from New York appears fragmentary with cryptic figures like 18 M's 18 and 197 31. Missing context obscures company names indices and date. further text needed for a proper summary.
Philadelphia July 9 a man with a hunting knife said he had killed a woman at a nearby hotel Nine stab wounds were found on the body Hopkins 29 a father of five and former hosiery mill worker led police to the hotel where the woman lay he was jailed on a homicide charge Costello quoted the suspect saying he felt an urge to kill and was relieved not sorry now he met the woman in a taproom and went to the hotel after drinking
Survivor accounts describe a naval clash near Kolombangara in the Kula gulf. The scene included flashing lights, destroyers, and a cruiser exchange at dawn, with a whaleboat hero staying behind to rescue others and two destroyers continuing rescue efforts after dark.
The article lists congressional topics from anti strike measures to debt and policy shifts including NYA NRBP abolition and OWI curtailments while committees review renegotiation laws FCC actions and wartime oil plans. It also notes Pluto’s orbit period of 90,470 days.
Reports say Japanese air efforts near Salamaua were the weakest since the new Pacific drive began. Ten Zeros raided Bena Bena. four P-38s shot down two Zeros with no losses to Americans. In Rendova, shells hit Munda air base and a Japanese barge raid failed. 20 troops were repelled. Also, wage scales approved for 474 Duke Power bus operators in the Carolinas retroactive to raise starting pay.
The RAF resumed heavy raids on Cologne last night after a four night lull, with eight bombers lost. Mines were laid in enemy waters as British fighters targeted airfields and railroads in France and northwest Germany. Three German minesweepers were damaged. daylight attacks across the Channel followed the night raid.
Londoners were sent to air raid shelters as an alert triggered cannon and anti aircraft fire but an all clear was sounded 18 minutes later. Anti aircraft batteries opened fire in one sector while cannon fire appeared in the skies. No bombs were immediately reported. This was London s 630th wartime alert. The prior daylight warning was June 27 when sirens sounded at the passage of an unidentified plane later deemed friendly.
President Roosevelt stated at a press conference that the United States cannot recognize the French Committee for National Liberation or any governing body of France while the country remains under German domination. He indicated the recognition issue had not yet arisen and noted that only about five percent of France is outside occupied territories.
President Roosevelt said the eight cent wage increase for about a million non operating railroad workers remains under discussion with no expectation of a decision until early next week. The emergency board backed the raise, but economic stabilization director Fred M. Vinson rejected it and proposed drastic changes.
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