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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1944
Page
2
The government plans to learn the strike leaders' intentions and aims for a quick return to work. The South Wales council will meet Friday to decide on a strong recommendation for workers to resume duty immediately.
Rayburn announces support for a service vote bill in a session noting the house and senate work on a states plan. He says he will back Worley and the house committee, with the bill advancing despite his nonparticipation as presiding officer.
A military dispatch says German anti aircraft defenses shot down 125 Allied bombers and fighters in a large raid on Berlin. It notes 301 enemy planes down in two major assaults, with 38 American bombers lost and 15 fighters. VKF ball bearing and torpedo parts factories in Erkner were heavily damaged by bombing.
Karl Winterton asks if great world influencing statements should be issued simultaneously by the leaders of the United Kingdom and United States. Churchill says rules cannot be laid down due to varying circum stances and global governance.
Pittsfield Mass. jurors failed to reach a verdict in the murder case of John F. Noxon Jr. charged in the electrocution death of his six month old mentally deficient child. The trial ended in a mistrial due to a juror's illness.
Howard and Harvey Doering, 24, LA brothers nicknamed Wright brothers as boys, run a department at Consolidated-Vultee Downey plant making scale metal aircraft models. Their eight person team crafts Valiant Vanguard Vengeance and Liberator models for Army and Navy pilots, using scrap materials and precise dies. Both are 1-A for the draft and plan future full size designs.
The essay argues Berlin is a vast military target due to its railways and broad industries. It warns that bombing seeks military objectives only, even if civilians or historic monuments lie in the way, asserting Berlin is central to Nazi control and the war effort.
Algiers March 9 a strong German air force attacked an allied convoy off North Africa but allied airmen shot down five German aircraft and damaged two more French P 39 pilots destroyed one Junkers 88 in the first wave and RAF Beaufighters later claimed four more Two allied planes were lost Algiers sounded alerts and a heavy AA barrage was fired about 60 German planes took part but did not damage convoy ships for ships remained intact
Secretary of War Stimson said Allied air raids on Berlin prove no target is safe from day or night raids. He noted flak, fighter defenses, and weather have not stopped attacks and that removal of this barrier exposes Germany’s industries and capital.
Washington March 9 The FBI and armed forces tapped wires from Pearl Harbor before the Japanese attack to test congressional investigators claims about national security. FCC Chairman Jas L Fly said the act was forbidden by law though the Justice Department deemed it justified under the circumstances. Republican lawmakers blamed the commission for leaks from Hawaii to the mainland amid hearings. The Marshall Islands lie about 700 miles north of the equator.
United States forces under Brigadier General Frank Merrill report 650 Japanese killed since entering the Burma campaign with seven Americans killed and 37 wounded. The Hukawng valley casualties total 2,309. Night of March 6 saw heavy Japanese losses as they attempted to break through north and east of Walawbum.
The forecast calls for continued cold with frost tonight, milder conditions further west. Partly cloudy skies are expected Friday with a rise in temperatures across the region.
General Thomas Holcomb recently retired as commandant of the Marine Corps was nominated by President Roosevelt to be American minister to the Union of South Africa. The nomination accompanies several other diplomatic posts sent to the Senate.
Election of officers and business discussions closed the North Carolina Fire Chiefs Association gathering in Salisbury after a two day session that opened yesterday.
About 100 chiefs on nd. Chief W Hendrix Palmer serves as the association's president in Charlotte.
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