29 Jul 1943
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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1943
Page
1
The president outlined wartime aims including hunting down Axis leaders and punishing war guilt. He pressed for continued Allied pressure and announced forthcoming policies to aid returning military personnel such as mustering out pay and unemployment insurance.
President Roosevelt outlines unconditional surrender stance for Italy and Japan while praising Russian progress and urging Italian reconstruction in Sicily. Eisenhower stresses allied policy, food production and war bond drive as ships and sugar rise. He vows punishment for Mussolini and fascist remnants. The president links home front effort with combat front and predicts Japanese setbacks across Asia and Pacific theaters.
Allied forces push across northeastern Sicily with American and Canadian units seizing Leonforte and towns Pollina Castelbuono and Gangi as they close on Messina. Reports say Leonforte cut the north south highway, with heavy Axis casualties and Nazi bodies found near one city.
Moscow reports say the Russian column advancing on Orel from the south carved through about 1,500 German troops to tighten the pincers around the city. Advances of 2 to 4 miles battered outer defenses as the north and east axes pressed forward. Station Stanovoy Kolodets fell, while flooding slowed the northern push and new German reserves were sent into the fight.
The War Manpower Commission issued additions and changes to the essential occupations list. It remains nonbinding on local boards, which still decide who is drafted or deferred. New items include pulpwood production, railroad equipment work, and agricultural engineering among others, with limits and clarifications for industry and schooling.
General Eisenhower told Italians in a broadcast that German troops in Italy are the only obstacle to peace. He outlined five conditions for honorble peace including return of Italian and Allied prisoners, immediate cessation of hostilities, and a mild, beneficent occupation. He commended the house of Savoy for ousting Mussolini and said Italians will regain liberties and traditions.
German radio said axis troops left Nicosia Sicily about seven miles north of Leonforte after Leonforte’s fall was announced by allied North Africa headquarters. The report, broadcast via the international information bureau, cited by AP, used propaganda channels.
Floyd P. Collis age 29 of Little Falls New York was arrested on an extortion charge tied to a letter to the Mexican embassy threatening to blow up the building unless paid 1009 and granted a free trip to Mexico. He also wrote threats to the Russian embassy and the Mexican consul demanding large sums and travel.
Allied air forces mounted a daylight raid within 80 miles of Berlin targeting the Oschersleben Nazi aircraft plant. The operation showcased bold U S air power as bombers operated unescorted over enemy territory.
Reports from Europe depict Italy nearing chaos with anti fascist unrest in Fiume and Trieste and questionable peace talks at Vatican. Allied air and ground actions target Axis lines from Messina to Kassel as Russian and Balkan fronts adjust and German forces bolster Greece.
Reports from Bern and Chiasso describe Milan strikes and communist attacks on the monarchy amid Badoglio’s censorship. Inscriptions declare Mussolini liquidated and demand war liquidation while the premier fights to prevent chaos.
Allied aircraft and surface units scored heavy damage on Japanese shipping in the southwest Pacific. A destroyer and a transport were set afire off Cape Gloucester while a 2500 ton freighter took near misses near Manokwari. PT boats and Mitchell bombers destroyed multiple barges in the Solomon Islands and near New Guinea.
The Chamber of Fasci and Corporations was dissolved by order of Marshal Pietro Badoglio's government, replacing the Italian Chamber of Deputies which had been dissolved on December 14, 1938. The body consisted of 150 members of the National Fascist Council led by Mussolini and 500 members of the National Council of Corporations.
Interior Secretary Ickes said more gasoline will reach eastern drivers in the coming weeks while supplies in the midwest and southwest decline to create an approximately equal share for all regions. He noted added eastern supply remains after routing fuel for public transportation and heating oil stocks.
International dispatches say Italy faces upheaval that could oust Premier Badoglio and push him to seek an immediate peace. Reports claim German troops may exit the Balkans and Italian forces regroup before an armistice talks with the Allies.
A CBS recording from abroad reports fascist officials families arriving in Berlin and Swiss sources claim hundreds killed in riots. Rome signals mass peace protests, factory strikes, and anti fascist demonstrations across Milan Turin and Genoa amid Badoglio moves to stabilize a new regime. Berlin hints at a Rome govt before week end with Crown Prince Umberto as possible rallying point.
Berlin radio reports Field Marshal Erwin Rommel has arrived in Salonika as Nazi forces seize Italian command in Greece. Mussolini’s resignation triggers shift of Italian police and military control while Allied air strikes target Greece and Crete amid mounting Balkan tensions.
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