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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1943
Page
6
The North Carolina forecast calls for continued warmth this afternoon and tonight with a chance of showers near the southeast coast. South Carolina expects little temperature change and scattered showers possible, mainly later today and tonight.
The walkout shut Harmarville and Indianola mines and halted 1000 workers at Pittsburgh Coal No. 10. About 20,000 miners joined the strike, many in Pennsylvania where 142000 of 200000 idle. Union leaders predicted over half would return Monday after opposing War Labor Board demands.
The speaker argues the Axis fights a full-time war and Americans must match effort. He warns against luxury and urges acceptance of food scarcity, noting comfort is relative and all should endure restrictions.
An official account describes heavy bombing of Messina with Fortresses striking two merchant vessels and a large number of buildings while RAF and Italian communiques offer differing details. NBC and AP notes claim 20 enemy planes destroyed and three Allied planes missing after the operation.
New York June 26 AP final stock list shows close readings across major companies including Adams Express Alaska June 5% Hem & Dye Albemarle Dow Chemical Amco Penn Penn RR PepsiCo Phillips Pet Pitt Scr & B Pub Soc New Jersey Pullman Pure Oil Reynolds Sears Shell Socony Vac Sou Pac Studebaker Swift Texaco Timken Transamerica Union Carbide United Fruit Unit Corp US Steel Warner and Woolworth among others with mixed percentages and final sales totals. The report notes total final stock sales at 553 500.
American Liberators struck south Burma at Thanbyuzaya targeting barracks and a train while medium bombers raided Mandalay to destroy river shipping facilities. Railway facilities were also bombed at Ywataung as monsoon weather allowed air operations.
Enshi h, On the Upper Yangtze Front, China, Gen Chen Cheng says the Japanese, defeated in the Upper Yangtze battle, cannot renew attacks without reinforcements. Chen, recalled from Yunnan by Chaing Kai-Shek, notes Japan lacks enough troops to start another offensive and would need reinforcements from Burma or the Pacific.
William Green of the American Federation of Labor tells President Roosevelt he will do everything to render anti strike law unnecessary. He commends the veto of the Connally Smith bill and criticizes Congress for overriding it as rash and improvident.
FBI Director J Edgar Hoover said agents are searching the nation for Ralph Livingston Baldwin 43 linked to a car theft ring that stole vehicles in California Michigan Ohio Pennsylvania Kentucky Virginia Tennessee and the Carolinas Four alleged ring members have been arrested for violating the national motor vehicle theft act One man Enoch W Wilson died by his own action after agents searched his farm near Goldsboro NC
J. F. Dalton of Norfolk Southern Railway says the potato crop is maturing about three weeks later than in 1942. For the first 25 days of June the company moved 1,416 carloads versus 3,475 in the prior year, with no transport delays expected.
The East Coast faces a fresh gasoline shortage as July rationing grows uncertain. An Office of Price Administration spokesman warned suspension of A coupons is a possible last resort while civilian allotments rise slightly to 328 000 barrels daily for July through September.
Axis invasion anxiety shifts to the Balkans after American bombers hit an airbase near Salonika Greece and reports say the British forces are ready in Syria. Vichy radio claims signs of an allied Balkans attack while Bulgaria tightens security and arrests espionage suspects.
In Thomasville two Black residents faced fines after a blackout drill. Leroy Greeson refused to extinguish his cigarette. Winfred Huntley did extinguish then lit another down the street. Judge Carl Wilson imposed a $5 fine on Greeson and $10 on Huntley.
Navy communique reports Aleutians bomber raids on Kiska Island three times Thursday and Attu anti Japanese patrols killing 15 enemy soldiers. In the South Pacific American and Japanese air units clashed with minor Allied injuries and damage to installations during an enemy raid near Russell Islands.
A federal grand jury in Indianapolis indicted six men including a lieutenant colonel in the engineering corps on conspiring to overcharge the government by about 600000 for rental and related charges tied to equipment used at the Hoosier ordnance plant near Charlestown Indiana. The overcharges totaled about 335000 in rentals and recapture charges versus 145000 if other contractors had been used.
About 500 workers at Buffalo Forge Company stage an unauthorized walkout within hours of Congress passing an anti strike bill. The firm mainly supplies military contracts and most work goes to the army and navy. CIO official McNichols urges return to work and notes the case was sent to the War Labor Board. He links the strike to union renegotiation disputes over a one year contract renewed after expiry.
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