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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1943
Page
3
OWI reports an enemy agent attempted to assist Japan five days before the December 7 strike. The disclosure links espionage efforts to the Pearl Harbor plan and notes U S military and intelligence reactions during the war buildup.
The Office of War Information says Nazi agent Bernard Julius Otto Kuehn helped the Japanese plan Pearl Harbor. Convicted Feb 21, 1942 by a Honolulu military commission, later commuted to 50 years hard labor. family interned.
Police reinforced in Inkster after clashes between whites and Negroes. A blockade was set around the Negro quarter and five taverns were padlocked. Dozens injured, police dispersed crowds of 200 to 300 soldiers and civilians amid daytime clashes starting in Inkster Park.
The senior ushers board of St Stephens A M E Zion Church sponsors a fathers day supper at the church Tuesday night June 15 at 10 o clock p m. Public invited. Tonight Monday usher board meets at 7 p m with important business. Girl Scouts Senior Troop 13 meet at Mrs EF P Wilsons on Kivett Drive Tuesday at 6 30 p m. Wesleyan Service Guild meets Tuesday at 8 p m with Mrs Lula Curry on East Washington Street. All members urged to attend. Lee White 32 died Sunday at Burrus Memorial Hospital. Funeral Tuesday 4 30 p m at Emmanuel Baptist Church. He was born in Monroe NC but lived here all his life. Survived by widow Catherine White of Philadelphia daughter Marie White son Lee White Jr mother Mrs Lillie Miller stepfather David Miller and brother Robert White. Burial in Greenhill Cemetery.
Special to The Enterprise reports infant El vie Dorsett Jr. son of Mr. and Mrs. Elzie Dorsett of near Denton died at City Memorial Hospital Saturday afternoon in Thomasville. Funeral held at Mount Zion Holiness church at 10 o clock this morning with interment in the church cemetery.
Twenty one inspection stations opened across Eastern North Carolina to enforce a federal state freeze on potato shipments until grading inspection and a PFA permit are obtained. Stations are at Elizabeth City Mount Olive Bayboro Aurora Columbia Pantego Bethel Grifton Tabor City Beaufort Wallace Clinton Faison Burgaw Goldsboro Washington New Bern Fairmont Edenton Ayden Chadbourne. Mussolini joined the war to share whatever Hitler got out for it.
Henry Cassidy notes June 22, 1943 marks the second anniversary of the German invasion of Russia and analyzes Hitler's eastward push. He argues German operations center on the Red Army, with southern and central fronts shaping the campaign as the Caucasus oil gamble fades.
At an advanced North Africa air base Pvt. Melvin Cain mortgaged his pup tent to Pvt. John M. Rogers for 29 francs after lacking any other security for a 25 franc loan. Cain risks foreclosure on his shelter, while Rogers jokes of legal action. Separately Sgt. Erland Moltke painted his helmet white to beat the sun, a nonregulation style catching on among air base crews. A B 26 crewman etched a challenge above his .50 caliber gun and, after a long North African tour, the pilot celebrated with a farewell dinner for his ground and flight crews before possible reassignment.
First Lt. Hugh A. Moffitt of High Point is awarded the Air Medal in a Miami ceremony by Col. Harry A. Halverson for over 200 hours of combat flying under adverse conditions. The citation notes his initiative, resourcefulness, and skill amid the threat of enemy ships and anti aircraft fire.
RALEIGH June 14 Steve Cromwell 29 one of two convicts who escaped Saturday from Central prison here was recaptured early today at Elizabethtown Warden Ralph McLean said Cromwells companion J H Massey 26 was captured Saturday night in Elizabethtown Cromwell escaped by fleeing into a woods The prisoners escaped from central prison by hiding under tin cans and other refuse on a prison truck after it had been inspected by a guard Near the city dump McLean said Cromwell and Massey threatened Guard Captain Henry Smith and a prisoner driver with an ice pick and a home made knife They then drove to the edge of the city and commandeered a car in which Miss Ruby Tatum was sitting talking to another woman standing by the car McLean said adding that the convicts forced Miss Tatum to accompany them and freed her near Dunn
Scientists assert the moon does not govern weather and that nothing in the past month did. The piece notes self centered drivers lose gas by refusing rides while college students drop studies and co ed bandits in Chicago have robbed a tobacco store thrice this year.
Allied air power has begun to topple Pantelleria and Lampedusa as part of a broader invasion plan. The piece outlines expected invasion patterns, routes, and the role of air and naval support, noting that many actions may unfold as limited objective raids before a decisive assault.
The funeral for Mrs. Julia Hunt Myers of 505 Randolph Street Thomasville was held at Clarksburg Methodist church Saturday at 4 pm. Rev. Vaughn and Rev. Flowe officiated with pallbearers Calvin Britt Clarence Barnes Charles Clodfelter Coley Myers Harry Brown Owen and James Owen. Memorial quartet sang with pianist Miss Clarice Bailey. granddaughters nieces and friends served as flower bearers. Interment was in the church cemetery.
London reports the Fascist directorate urged stricter regulation of Italians amid wartime gravity. It called for ruthless repression of subversive acts, minimum business activity, unified agricultural discipline, and tight control of supplies. Foreigners unable to justify stay to be expelled. Germans may be among them.
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