11 Mar 1943
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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1943
Page
1
The House overwhelmingly approved extending Lend-Lease for another year and sent the measure to the Senate. A Stettinius report places total Allied aid at 9.632 billion dollars, with 1.977 billion in goods transferred in the quarter ending March 1.
Across Kharkov and North Africa two major offensives unfold as Hitler hurls fresh divisions toward Kharkov while Montgomery drives to crush Axis forces along the Mareth Line. The war’s wider context shows interdependence of theaters as both sides race to gain leverage before a French front opens. Reports note Luftwaffe divisions and lend lease aid shaping the broader conflict and congressional actions on wartime policy.
Berlin radio broadcast a German communique via the Associated Press claiming thirteen Allied ships totaling 73,000 tons were sunk by U-boats in a North Atlantic to Britain convoy, with three more damaged. No Allied confirmation available. A prior bulletin said 23 ships totaling 134,000 tons were sunk and six damaged. The Italian high command claimed 1,000,000 tons sunk overall since the war began.
Charlotte reports strict enforcement of a new national plan to regulate livestock slaughter. C Hillman Moody of Raleigh, state supervisor for the federal food administration, says all private slaughterers must register and record animal purchases and sales starting April 1. Farm war boards will issue slaughtering permits beginning March 22.
The House Republican steering committee backs Beardsley Rumi's plan to abate a year's income taxes and shift 14 million taxpayers to a pay as you go system. Leader Martin predicts a solid GOP vote to pass the plan, with a caucus set to mobilize for the floor fight, while Ways and Means opposes canceling tax obligations in transition.
Jacksonville March 11 President Frank Graham of the University of North Carolina told the Florida Federation of Labor that unions can render a national service by holding prices down so wages stay real to living costs. As War Labor Board member he urged stabilization to focus on winning the war. He praised Negro servicemen and workers and AFL equal rights policy.
London report says the RAF has destroyed more than 2,000 German factories and left over a million homeless as bombings exceed 10 000 tons monthly. Essen raid described as heaviest blow to German industry this bomber offensive, with 4 000 tons dropped this month and Ruhr steel capacity sharply cut.
The House considers a bill to raise the national debt limit to 210 million and nullify the White House order capping net salaries at 25 000 annually. Disney led a bloc of Republicans and anti-New Deal Democrats challenging presidential authority under the 1942 price control act, amid party divisions and a push against government-directed salary limits.
Price Administrator Prentiss Brown announces coffee rations return to one pound per person for five weeks from March 22, with stamp No. 26 valid March 22 to April 25. Imports in February surpassed estimates by over 20 percent, bolstering January inventories around 145 million pounds.
Moscow dispatch notes Red Army encircling Vyazma and pushing west toward Smolensk. Isa kov an advance south of Vyazma tightens the pincer while Red Star reports gains against German defenses and several fortified settlements falling. Berlin cites German communiqué claiming Soviet forces near Kharkov and heavy air and tank support for counterattacks in multiple sectors.
A Denton coroner's jury ruled Mrs James M Owens was accidentally shot by an officer while in duty. The death followed a February 20 encounter when officers went to serve war warrants on her sons Carl and Ellis Owens for desertion from the army. Witnesses included deputy sheriff T C Kimel deputy Anderson Gregg and Owens husband.
Allied air forces blasted three Japanese bases in the Central Solomons and repelled a 22 plane attack near Guadalcanal. Four U S warplanes were downed, with no U S losses reported. Additional strikes hit Japanese ships in the southwest Pacific and targets in Burma.
London reports the Bremen Germany radio went off air at 12 43 pm amid a political review with no reason given. Interruption often signals approaching enemy planes while other German stations kept broadcasting. Stockholm dispatches cite anti aircraft fire at Copenhagen and two British planes shot down in Denmark. Vichy claims 250 killed in the Rennes raid. No enemy planes over Britain last night.
In Statesville dated March 11 sheriff Walter D. Morrison reports a man contacted him offering to compensate for a chicken allegedly stolen from the sheriff's mother four decades past.
Secretary of War Stimson said Allied forces had the better of fighting in Tunisia last week but losses on both sides were substantial. He cited over 1,000 German and Italian prisoners and well over 100 Axis tanks destroyed, with 2,007 American missing in the February 14–20 period.
Allied reports say Rommel and Von Arnim faced a potential fate like Stalingrad as the British Eighth Army probed the Mareth Line in a dramatic North Africa campaign amid high intensity and strategic pressure.
secretary of war Stimson said Fighting French troops linked with other French legions in a southern flank around the Mareth Line in Tunisia, closing a ring on 250,000 Axis troops led by Erwin Rommel. Gen Le Clerc’s columns had advanced over 1200 miles from Lake Chad and met Gen Giraud’s forces to complete the encirclement.
Military observers close to African fighting conclude Rommel failed to cripple the Eighth Army in weekend attacks. They say Axis losses indicate a peak reached in Tunisia and a downhill path, with supply and naval control favoring the Allies and preparations underway to finish in Africa.
London dated March 11 report from Fighting French says 250 German officers and men were killed with hundreds wounded in large scale partisan activity near Chalons. The communique also notes 300 attacks against German forces in France since December 20, 1942 and January 20, 1943.
Washington March 11 the Senate voted 49 to 32 against Senator O Mahoney proposal for draft deferment of farm workers. The defeat appears to clear the way for an alternative deferment measure covering workers employed substantially full time on farms.
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