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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1943
Page
6
North Carolina sees little change in texture this afternoon and tonight. South Carolina experiences scattered late afternoon thundershowers with minimal temperature change through today and tonight.
Final stock quotations from New York on June 19 show broad activity with the ticker at 3914 and notable figures including 17 and 30. The report notes closing levels across major averages and shifts in several sectors.
The article notes Britain’s push for India’s total war effort against the Axis and hints at a British commander for the east Asia theater. It cites Sir Claude Auchinleck succeeding Archibald and suggests the top commander may come from the British army or air wing, with autumn rains in Burma as the first objective after groundwork is laid.
Reports from Europe describe Carlozza as a dominant figure in Mussolini's government while public unrest grows in Italy. War costs include loss of Africa and Mediterranean islands Pantelleria Lampedusa Lampione Linosa, amid martial law in Rimous and Reggio Calabria zones.
The Moscow broadcast reports over 2,000 German troops killed in the past week near Mtsensk. Russian forces destroyed 17 tanks 12 mortars and 18 more heavy guns as they pushed to a more advantageous position after night offensives northwest of Mtsensk, about 100 German deaths noted.
Lord Linlithgow's seven year stewardship gives way to Viscount Wavell as new ruler over vast Indian territory amid Gandhi's ongoing independence campaign. Wavell, a 60 year old veteran with World War I injuries, has a record of bold campaigns including North Africa and a 1941 wartime shift to India. He is tasked with smoothing domestic issues as he leads Allied forces in the Far East.
Alfred Edwin Perry of East Main Street Thomasville died at his home Thursday. Funeral from the homestead at 11 o clock tomorrow morning with interment in the city cemetery.
Unrest appeared after the War Labor Board ruled travel time disputes over wage hours would be decided in court. Mines in Alabama Pennsylvania Ohio reported stoppages as unions and operators weighed out of court settlements under the wage policy.
The bulletin details a heavy air offensive against Messina including ferry terminals and the Italian mainland. P 38 Lightning missions struck Milo airfield and Comiso while Marauder bombers hit Olbia and Golfo Aranci docks and rail yards. Lightning escorts backed the raids as eight Allied aircraft failed to return and 39 enemy fighters were destroyed.
In Bear Mountain New York on June 19 a pair of bear cubs escaped their cages at the Trailside Museum and damaged the animal house. They freed Butch the beaver and a rare albino woodchuck while other exhibits including Charlie the chipmunk and many white-foot mice went missing and a tank of bullfrogs was smashed.
New Delhi reports say American liberators dropped six tons of bombs on Yamethin railroad yards, causing great damage to rolling stock and tracks. Big fires erupted at Yenangyaung oil tank farm as Mitchell bombers struck. other raids hit storage buildings and rail facilities at Myingan.
More than 100 Ringling Brothers performers and crew were treated in hospitals after a food poisoning incident during last night’s performance. Officials planned to proceed with today’s show as substitutes filled in and the crowd remained unaware until ambulances ferried the gravely ill to Gallinger and Casualty hospitals.
Patterson blames May production drop on overconfidence and complacency after Tunisian and European bombings. He cites floods and intangible factors, warns a continued slip risks basic equipment shortages and lives, and notes May aircraft output rose 40 percent while other items lag.
Chinese forces pressed operations between Tungting Lake and the Yangtze River, reporting 200 more Japanese killed. Fighting continued near Swatow in Kwantung Province where a three columned Japanese drive was launched, and a raid near Canton killed or captured most of the garrison.
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