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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1943
Page
14
North Carolina remains warm today and tonight with scattered thunderstorms in the west this afternoon and early tonight. South Carolina stays warm with widely scattered afternoon thundershowers in the northwest portion.
Dispatches report fascist militia resist regulars while Badoglio moves to outlaw the fascist party. Republican newspapers are suppressed after two decades under a fascist ban amid reports of editor killings and arrests. Communists demonstrate as Badoglio pledges a positive democratic shift. The strategic crux cites arsenals and Brenner traffic aiding the war against the Allies.
The piece notes Mussolini’s fall and Italy seeking a slowing action against the Allies in Sicily. Badoglio reportedly aims for favorable terms short of occupation, while Vatican talks hint at an armistice. Reports describe sabotage in Nazi-occupied areas and anti Nazi movements in Hungary and Romania amid rising tensions.
Allied headquarters in North Africa reports that Sicily operations have captured about 75,000 prisoners, with the majority taken by American troops. The announcement emphasizes a substantial Allied victory in the island campaign.
RAF pilots report Tuesday night’s Hamburg raid lasted 45 minutes and caused heavy destruction. They claim 69 German planes were downed across four major sweeps in five days, with fires visible across the city and smoke rising near five miles.
Russians report 2,500 Germans killed and 29 tanks knocked out in the Orel sector while claiming to overrun 30 occupied places. Berlin radio acknowledges German retreat from Bolkhov near Orel as part of elastic defense. Russians also note 164 German tanks destroyed and six German planes downed in Leningrad area.
At Bridgeville Pennsylvania a group of relatives hoped six trapped miners could survive after a torrent flooded a coal shaft. U S Bureau of Mines official E E Quenon said air might reach them if they stayed near the regular work area, but lower near the bottom would doom the rescue. Names given include George Reinstadtler and crew members Frank Albertina Cesare Rua Peter Carroll John Bonassi and Albert Long. The mine is about 12 miles from Pittsburgh. Fossils were known to Greeks in the sixth century B C when earth is farthest from the sun, aphelion.
The passage discusses Allied occupation effects in Italy, the impact of Eisenhower’s demand for a full prisoner exchange, and the risk of post fascist chaos. It notes Italian casualties and longing for missing husbands and brothers, while weighing Mussolini era figures and Vittorio Emanuele's potential fate.
Roosevelt warned against optimism about quick victory and urged a sustained all-out effort on fighting fronts and at home. He cited attacks on Kiska, Munda, and Salamaua to emphasize the need for total victory and said the war would not end this year, with further talks on manpower and food for Congress.
Allied communique reports steady progress in Messina foothills and mountains. Fierce fighting on the Canadian front inflicts heavy enemy casualties as the towns of Polinna Castelbuono and Gangi fall to American Seventh Army. Air forces strike enemy defenses destroying vehicles.
The War Food Administration reports that most flue cured tobacco grades on 15 Georgia and two Florida markets fell about one cent per pound from Tuesday's opening. Total gross sales reached 5,836,609 pounds at an average of 32.74 cents. Prices ranged from 20 to 50 cents with light volume and some warehouses clearing floors in Waycross.
Tokyo radio urged the Japanese people that it is absolutely essential to concentrate on shipbuilding to exploit conquered areas. The broadcast warned that lack of shipping determined Germany's fate in World War I and cited transportation limits from Java India Burma and other occupied regions to Japan.
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