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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1943
Page
8
Moderate temperatures across North Carolina with a slight fall in east and north central areas. Scattered thunderstorms possible this afternoon into tonight. In South Carolina little change in temperatures with a few widely scattered storms mainly inland.
Churchill told the commons that heavy fighting lay ahead before final victory, outlining Washington plans for an intense allied assault in Europe and North Africa. He praised North African commanders as resolute and warned Hitler overstretched as U-boats loom in the crucial phase of the war.
North Africa serves as a vast training ground for American troops as resistance is wiped out in Tunisia. The Fifth Army drills hard in realistic, tough instruction to prepare for an Allied offensive from southern Mediterranean springboards. Combat veterans return to camps to share hard-won lessons with other divisions.
Funeral services were held for John T Dickens at Yows Funeral Home with Rev G Cashen and Rev A C Lovelace officiating. Burial followed in Floral Garden cemetery. Effie F Beeson died at 65 in Cedar Square Randleman and was honored at Ebenezer Methodist Church with interment in Ebenezer cemetery. A mixed quartet performed during both services.
At Kansas penitentiary in Lansing guards shot and killed one convict and wounded two others as they tried to use knives to force pit boss Steve Atkinson to the mine shaft top. Warden Milton F. Amrine identified the dead man as Max Landreth burglary term Shawnee County. Atkinson suffered minor knife wounds.
Military observers report limited air se Aris operations near the island with beaches targeted for advance while the coast remains protected by high cliffs. The island is sparsely mentioned in war coverage but regarded as a waypoint for potential operations.
The article discusses Chiang Kai-shek's position in China as a large land and air force operation presses Chiang's defenses. It notes the need to defend Chungking and northern Hunan to secure food and delay collapse until Allied invasion from India can occur in autumn. It highlights the hope that Chinese resistance can endure until major Allied aid arrives.
United States fighters downed 19 Japanese Zero fighters and damaged six more near the Russell Islands in the Solomons. Seven American planes were lost, with three pilots saved. North Pacific fighters also report eight Japanese killed on Attu and enemy dead rising to 1,826 by June 7.
In Annapolis Maryland on June 8 4 the Navy selects Marilyn Sandquist a Chicago 18-year old as color girl for June Week ceremonies. She is the sweetheart of the midshipman who led the prize winning 16th company in the regiment. The choice was announced by Midshipman George Frederick Jubb Corpus Christi Texas after hours of secrecy.
Gen. George C. Marshall, Army chief of staff, met with President Roosevelt to discuss his North Africa trip and overseas talks with Prime Minister Churchill. Details were scarce but plans to advance the European theater were implied.
Allied forces report heavy German and Italian losses as six of eleven enemy planes fall to interceptors and fighter groups. RAF Coastal Air Force in the Gulf of Oristano claims a twin engined float plane down near Sardinia.
In a House of Commons war review, Prime Minister Churchill honors the United States, President Roosevelt, Congress, and General Marshall. He calls the U S "the most powerful community in the world" and labels Roosevelt "illustrious" while praising Marshall as a man of eminent mind and character.
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