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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 26, 1943
Page
8
A weather bulletin notes showers in the western portion this afternoon and continuing into the interior tonight. It calls for slightly warmer conditions later tonight in western and interior sectors.
The report outlines ongoing air and naval activity in the Pacific. Wake is described as limited in usefulness but still contested, with renewed speculation on its strategic value. At the northern Pacific front, Japanese forces hold Kiska after a harsh winter, absorbing recent bombardments.
The United States government faces inflation pressure as workers accuse wartime rewards to industry of fueling prices while the administration argues higher employment in war industry keeps wages rising. Witnesses warn of rising absenteeism among workers, linking it to wages, housing, diet, and health. AFL leader John Lewis notes absenteeism varies and jokes about Congress. Frey defends CIO actions amid inflation fight and criticizes wartime wage cuts.
Allied air forces bombarded Tunisian harbors and fields while ground battles raged along the Mareth Line. Western Desert fighters downed enemy aircraft and captured tanks as Axis communiques claimed local gains and heavy losses for the Allies in a bitter exchange.
The article notes Allied strategists want to push Japanese warplane bases farther from the air supply line from India to China. The route crosses a mountainous region with deadly risks and is subject to Japanese raids and attempts to fortify positions. Time favors the Japanese as they deepen their hold in Burma.
New York March 26 2 p m stocks show mixed to higher movement with Bly var advancing 14 to 17 percent and several key issues climbing as traders digest early afternoon results.
In Moscow on March 26 the Soviet press reported U S fliers raided Germany and Italy and claimed eighty enemy planes were shot down in two days. The dispatch notes continued coverage of Allied air actions and Soviet propaganda frames the raids as ongoing events.
Salisbury hosts the Patriotic Order Sons of America state camp meeting planning committee to choose the venue and organize the 33rd annual event on May 20. Regional meetings will run April 1 to 10 with six camps Belmont Statesville Concord Salisbury Thomasville and Durham co sponsoring.
Carbon paper and inked typewriter ribbons totaling 25 million dollars are consumed yearly in the United States during normal times, according to Census Bureau figures.
A deer named Queenie, kept by Coke Cecil in Honduras, escapes from a penned yard at Rockford Road and Chestnut. Cecil fears harm from hunters or dogs and hopes someone returns the animal after twenty years with the family.
At the Senior High School Community Concert cards were distributed to association members for signatures binding them to next year’s membership. Vice president J Gurney Briggs urged members who missed the signing opportunity to mail cards to Mrs R T Amos Emerywood to aid the May 10 membership campaign kickoff.
Red Star reports a renewed German defense line west of the waterway with extensive firepoints and fortifications built by forced labor. Behind these works, Germans allegedly sought to create desert areas by driving residents from their homes and burning buildings as they retreated.
New York March 26 United Mine Workers of America and Southern Appalachian Coal operators clash over contract renewal. Talks adjourned without a decision as wage conferences pause to compile more precise union demand data and living costs figures for retroactive negotiations.
Navy announces a new identification tag carrying the bearer blood group and the date of tetanus treatment to aid field recognition. For logistics, chemists show potatoes grown in 15 square miles could feed the United States using growth solutions instead of soil. Mount Kilauea’s lava output in a year exceeds Vesuvius’s combined output for two centuries, and French Panama Canal plans faltered due to malaria and mosquitoes.
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