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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1943
Page
2
In a dramatic account a Navy submarine commander describes escape from destroyers and a vast Japanese fleet. After silent undersea maneuvers a destroyer screen pursues, triggering a tense surface encounter and a failed attack as the submarine hides until the fleet departs.
The article sketches Stalin's offspring in Moscow society. Wassily is seen at times with friends, and Mikhail Frunze, son of a former war commissar, died in combat. Svetlana keeps a low profile, while Nadya Alliluieva died in 1932. Stalin's focus remains anti German aims.
Axis forces, including the rebuilt 21st Panzer division and the 15th Panzer Division, push toward Pichon and Sidi Bou Zid while Von Arnim’s Tenth Panzer Division positions for defence. Rommel’s gamble aims to cripple Montgomery’s 8th Army and buy time for Axis in Africa.
Berlin reports 486 killed and 377 seriously injured in the March 1 raid. Glass shortages persist with shops receiving only ordinary window glass until the war ends. Only bombed out areas and hospitals may buy light bulbs. others must conserve by storing bulbs.
Davis outlined overseas propaganda under the Office of War Information noting available periodicals Victory USA En Guardia and one shot leaflets. He said large leaflets were dropped on France and that German and Japanese measures show propaganda impact while OWI spends about 33 million yearly with a 45 million request for 1943-44.
Movements across the front intensify as mud and thawing snow slow and fuel new pushes. From the Black Sea to Leningrad the Red Army presses on despite weather, with Maikop oil back in production and renewed offensives targeting key German positions.
DETROIT MARCH 6 A manpower utilization committee of the automotive council was announced by Alvin Macauley to optimize workers in war plants. Led by C E Wilson of General Motors the group will share methods on absenteeism training transport health safety and women workers to prevent future shortages as armed forces expand. The auto industry has not yet faced acute personnel shortages but expects strain as war demand grows.
The measure would force war contractors to report employees absent without authorization to the War Manpower Commission, which would pass the names to local draft boards to reassess deferments. Supporters include Lyndon Johnson and cabinet members. Knox and Patterson seek narrowing to eligible servicemen. The committee plans to hear union and War Manpower Commission officials next week.
The memorandum states a registrant regularly engaged in an essential wartime agricultural occupation leaves the local board no discretion and must be deferred. It notes calls for manpower should not influence decisions and unfilled calls should remain. The Selective Service reports nearly 500,000 farm workers moved to 2-C and 3-C recently, about 171,600 in January alone, with over half likely to have been inducted if not transferred.
A raid over Brest Fortress ended with minimal enemy contact and scarce firing opportunities. Crew members praised the mission as easy, with tales of quick returns and a christening flight for the fortress named Patches after prior battle damage.
British Eighth Army patrols probe German strength before Mareth Line while Gen. Giraud’s French forces advance east along the Chott Djerid toward Tozeur. American forces seize Pichon at 4:30 pm, advancing 55 miles from Sousse as Rommel’s forces retreat to defend Tunis. Cairo says bombers hit Naples. 2,500 prisoners reported.
The selective service projects over 3,000,000 farm workers will gain agricultural deferment by year end. About 6,500 workers are reclassified daily, as hearings on the Agriculture Department's recruitment program proceed, aided by the Farm Security Administration.
In a dramatic morning rescue, 38 crewmen of the 319 foot Hartwelson leaped into the Atlantic as the vessel broke apart on Ban tam Rock five miles south of New agen. Coast guardsmen saved all aboard with one hospitalized for exposure after about four hours of effort.
The War Department listed the Army plane with five missing as definitely lost. The craft disappeared over the Caribbean after departing San Juan Puerto Rico. Among the crew were Col. Walter S. Smith and Maj. Lewin Barringer, senior officers in Air Transport and Glider Production units respectively.
The National Association of Manufacturers urged industry to carefully manage expenses on cost-plus war contracts to preempt postwar claims of waste. It called for meticulous cost records, balanced labor against urgency, and advance authorizations for unusual expenditures.
Mrs. Edward W. Clarke mourns as her husband Sgt. Edward W. Clarke and her mother Mrs. S. R. Patterson are killed when their car veers off an embankment near Commerce Georgia while en route to the burial of her three weeks old baby. Sister Ruth Patterson of Bryson City North Carolina suffers serious injuries.
A CBS radio report quotes a British Eighth Army correspondent saying Rommel's forces suffered their heaviest pounding since Alamein. The 90 minute bombardment stunned German forward defenses and struck their mountain batteries in Southern Tunisia.
Greensboro dispatch reports Ray T. Giles a 38 year old merchant of 84 Montgomery Street Reidsville was fatally injured when his car failed to negotiate a curve on Highway 29 ten miles northeast of Greensboro crashed into a tree about 4 p m He died en route to a Greensboro hospital after the crash and had been honorably discharged from the army at Fort Bragg on November 14 1942.
Tomlinson's announces receipt of a large government contract for furnishings and equipment destined for U S Naval Training Stations, signaling expanded readiness and support for naval training facilities.
Charlotte March 6. Police Chief Walter Anderson announced a department reorganization with nine demotions including veterans, and multiple other changes described as neither demotions nor promotions. Anderson said orders aim to improve discipline and efficiency and that progress of all officers will be recognized while ensuring top positions go to the best qualified men.
Henry J. Kaiser announced that Kaiser Company has acquired Fleetwing Inc and will pursue more and more production in aircraft alongside ships. Fleetwing, with plants in Bristol, Pennsylvania, has produced aircraft for the Army Air Corps for 15 years, and will continue operations under Kaiser.
Senate leaders criticize the wartime price agency overprice rules and advocate limiting price controls to about 40 basic living cost commodities. Lawmakers urge replacing subordinates, curbing profit ceilings, and reversing the interpretation of farm subsidies in price ceilings.
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