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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1943
Page
6
North Carolina expecting showers this afternoon and tonight with a sharp drop in temperatures to near freezing and light to heavy frost in the mountains and northwest. South Carolina sees thundershowers this afternoon and showers tonight, turning colder late tonight into Sunday in the extreme northwest.
The report notes Gen Giraud present at Gafsa capture by American First Division, with Col Arnim's forces probing in the north. British First Army falls back near Tamera, while Guetar opens routes toward Gabes and the coastal highway. Eisenhower plans with Brazilian Gomez as Clark's Fifth Army faces continued Mareth line pressure.
The New York market closes with mixed results as Dow Jones components and industrials show varied gains and losses. Notable names such as Dow Chemical, Penn Central, Pepsi-Cola, and Phillips Petroleum appear with fractional changes amid fluctuating trading.
Funeral services were conducted for Lillian Loretta Turner six at her home at 401 Reed Street Thomasville. Rev Otis Lanning of Reed Street Baptist Church led the service with pallbearers Billy Ritchie Jimmy Cody Boyd Elliott and Marion Hiatt. The Reed Street church choir provided music and flowers were arranged by Mrs Fred Cody. Interment followed in City Cemetery.
Nathan Elkanie Davis 75 died at his home near Sophia on Friday at 8 30 am after months of declining health. Survived by five sons and two daughters, he was born January 23 1867, lived in Randolph County, and was married to Alice Coletrane Davis May 14 1891. Funeral set for Sunday 11 am at Marlboro Friends Church Sophia.
Frank Nitti, longtime Capone syndicate head known as The Enforcer, killed himself near a Riverside railroad embankment hours after learning of a nine man New York federal grand jury indictment on extortion charges. Police report two gunshot wounds to his head as railroad workers found him with a .32 revolver in his hand.
Soviet troops re formed their lines and counterattacked driving Nazis back in Chuguev area as two villages were lost to a numerically superior enemy force. Russian advances toward Smolensk crossed the Upper Dnieper with over 200 Germans killed and a battalion encircled and annihilated. Pravda reported grim conditions as mud and spring thaw hamper operations and the eastern bank of the Dnieper was cleared from Izdeshkovo toward the rail line. Census data cited US population at 131,669,275 on April 1, 1940. One of mankind's first inventions is said to have been a long bone toothpick.
Federal agencies note licensing meat handlers is established for public health and supply fairness. Starting next month all people slaughtering livestock for sale must obtain a license with local boards setting quotas and changes. Local boards may adjust limits. hardship possible for small dealers and farms. State War Information urges contacting the local board of agriculture for steps.
A customer in City Nebraska knocked a fire extinguisher from a shelf, dousing clerks and shoppers and causing about 500 dollars in merchandise damage. No injuries reported.
Chicago reports the Stevens Hotel equipment once costing 26 million dollars was dispersed to new owners after a five day sale. Earle L. Hart bought the main ballroom chandelier set for 12 250 and paid 25 dollars for the mounted head of a 1941 Hereford steer to display at his Greensboro stock farm as a warning to others.
Fighting French in London announced that French Guiana has pledged loyalty to General Charles De Gaulle, superseding earlier signals of support for General Henri Giraud. Maurice Bertaut will be governor and M Collat administrator of current affairs. Cayenne's mayor and the Guiana governor had already signaled allegiance to Giraud.
Berlin radio via DNB and AP report Nazi submarines sunk 32 cargo ships and a destroyer in a prolonged eastbound Allied convoy battle in the Atlantic. No Allied confirmation. The communique calls it the greatest and most successful U-boat action.
Detroit March 20 A strike averted as Consumers Power Company kept electricity and gas flowing to a large Southern Michigan region essential to wartime production. CIO utility workers had planned a midnight walkout but abandoned it after War Labor Board pressure following 19 hours of talks over contractual dues check-off.
About 200 British debutantes attend the Queen Charlotte's birthday ball in London, the wartime coming-out event. They wear homemade gowns and rayon stockings due to silk shortages, joking about worn silk and a debutante saving pairs for the occasion.
London dispatch reports the Polish government in exile stating German secret police killed at least 35,000 Jews in five towns Radomsk Ujazd Sobolew Radzymin and Szczerzec. Radomsk population of about 40,000 included half Jews.
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