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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1943
Page
1
Japanese premier Hideki Tojo warned the Diet that the war situation was increasingly tense and that mounting signs indicate a large scale British American offensive may be near.
War Today reports Henri Bonnet urging unity for France as De Gaulle and Giraud clash over leadership. Algiers rumors say a private meeting strengthened De Gaulle. Giraud's supplies and funds complicate the alliance amid wartime strain.
Twenty three graduates in pharmacy and three assistant pharmacists passed examinations held in Chapel Hill June 3 and 4 by the state board of pharmacy.
Allied headquarters report large formations of Flying Fortresses escorted by Lightnings bombed Axis airfields at Bocca Di Falco Castelvetrano and others in Sicily after Wellington raids. Mitchells Marauders and Lightnings struck Sciassa Borizzo and Marsala while Axis claims of Allied losses and Pantelleria damage are unconfirmed.
The omnibus appropriation bill totaling 2 921 441 504 covers 18 war agencies including OPA WPB Censorship OWI and WSA with extensive testimonies from top officials. House Appropriations praised war agencies while noting mistakes and needed improvements and previewed potential new rationing programs tied to OPA.
Algiers reports Gen Charles De Gaulle's forces showing new strength in the dispute with Gen Henri Giraud over French Army reorganization and command. De Gaulle and Gen George Catroux, liaison officer, brought the two leaders together for the French Committee of National Liberation and conferred with Giraud, with belief of concessions from Giraud.
Buckingham Palace announces King George VI has arrived in North Africa to visit Allied armies after a secrecy-shrouded trip from Britain. He travels aboard a service plane led by Edward Hedley Fielden and is welcomed with Eisenhower to receive the Knight of the Bath.
U S planes attacked Japanese positions in the central and northwestern Solomon Islands during Sunday and Monday, with a counterattack on Guadalcanal early Tuesday. Navy said no personnel or material damage reported from the Japanese assault, detailing bombings of Kahili, Shortland Island, Vila and Kolombangara airfield targets.
London reports RAF bombers ranged the continent from Denmark to France in a fifth straight night of renewed Allied air attacks. Berlin claimed an alert lasting over half an hour with no major damage and no casualties.
Washington June 16 A House appropriations committee printed hearings on a War Agencies supply bill reveal a hint that besides six submarine born saboteurs electrocuted last August other enemy agents have been executed by the government since the war began. Byron Price director of the Office of Censorship testified that censorship aided other agencies in forestalling plots leading to arrests and executions, though he did not elaborate.
Spartanburg Herald reports the South Carolina Democratic executive committee unanimously refused to fund the 1944 national Democratic campaign. It cites policy disagreements and opposition to the national committee's push for Negro voters, directing state chairman Winchester Smith to notify the national committee of the stance. The committee said treasury limits and policy discord prevented any contribution.
Price Administrator Prentiss Brown told the Senate banking committee that rolling back food prices without subsidies is impossible. He argued subsidies are needed to reach 1942 price levels, citing act limitations and a meat shortage in many communities. Senator Taft pressed that the rollback is unworkable and disrupts purchases by packers.
Britain trains youth and London workers to man amphibious landing craft for a planned invasion. Coast bases prepare crews in four to ten man teams to assault shores, with craft from Britain and the United States and support from Wrens.
Russian planes raided a German tank concentration near Sevsk in the Orel sector of the Soviet front. Direct hits were reported on tanks and four German planes were shot down in the ensuing battles. Four German planes were also brought down northwest of Mtsensk. Soviet scouts operated in Sevsk, taking prisoners and killing several scores of Germans.
Washington June 16 War Labor Board expected to issue a decision late today or tomorrow on underground travel time pay for soft coal miners. A small awarded sum is anticipated with UMW leaders in Washington awaiting the outcome.
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