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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1943
Page
8
The forecast notes widely scattered afternoon thin overcast conditions in North Carolina and South Carolina with little temperature change through this afternoon and tonight.
Washington June 18 The House Ways and Means Committee debated fleeing Washington for the Allegheny mountains near Hot Springs Virginia to draft a larger tax bill. Rep Robertson urged the trip for better sleep and work, with members paying own expenses. no decision made. Treasury Secretary Morgenthau agreed with the committee that no tax on 1943 incomes should be levied and full revenue goals for the year seem unlikely.
Communiques broadcast by Rome radio say no Allied or Axis planes were lost. Italian raids targeted Naples area regions including Calabria and Pompei with limited damage. Reports note Pompei lies south of Naples on a railway line. German airmen reportedly bombed harbor installations near Djidpelli and a Spitfire was shot down near Comiso.
Cody Wyoming June 18 Guy Robertson director of the heart Mountain project denies that Japanese at the camp hid food in attics while testimony from Earl A Best alleges stored food and alcohol trading. Robertson cites War Relocation Authority investigation finding no evidence to support charges. At Florence Arizona six Japanese from relocation centers have been sentenced for crimes against fellow evacuees.
The Turkish Syrian border reopened at 6 am local time after a 48 hour halt in cross border traffic by the British. Allied personnel could move, while the measure aimed to shield troop movements and may relate to King George VI’s Africa tour.
Adelaide Kerr profiles Lillian Poses, regional attorney for the War Manpower Commission and Social Security Board in Region H, also social security area attorney for nine New England states. Her wartime role involves interpreting orders for staff and answering questions on hours, essential industry, and wage issues while guiding 34 field offices on old age insurance determinations and interagency relations.
Lillian Shapiro Poses credits her father as a moral guide and her mother for humanity as she built a path from Hunter College economics to NYU Law. She held roles with the NRA regional office, the WPA Appeals Board, and the Social Security Administration before becoming regional attorney, while balancing a home life with her husband Jack L. Poses in the cosmetics industry.
Dispatches report three United States destroyers joining a British fleet already at Gibraltar's harbor, consisting of two aircraft carriers, two battleships and 12 destroyers. Nearby, a home-safety tip notes testing lamp sockets by pressing the bulb to check for a loose socket. Arkansas lists 55,085 miles of highways.
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