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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1943
Page
2
North Carolina shows scattered showers in extreme east early Sunday then cooler Sunday. South Carolina reports scattered showers, cooler Sunday. Georgia cooler Sunday.
Senator Guffey argues for clear postwar US stance and responsibilities, urging action to reveal how America will shape peace in a world still wary of Axis defeat. He condemns “undiplomatic” broadcasts and says winning the peace is necessary to avoid future global conflicts.
In the north Pacific three attacks on Kiska were carried out Thursday by Liberator heavy bombers and Mitchell medium planes with Lightning escorts. Bombs hit a runway hangar and camp area while fighters strafed. The raid raised Kiska sorties to 28 in 25 days. A March 25 search plane over Attu bombed Abraham Harbor, marking the first Attu action in weeks and a sign of renewed Japanese activity on the island.
The speaker argues a proposed bill would shift tax revenues from about 10 billion to 13 billion dollars in three years. He contends the treasury’s analogy is false and that individuals would pay the same amount in 1943 unless their taxes were reduced.
The report traces four dozen months of wartime rationing with steps to loosen limits on tires and recapping for B C and T card holders, while urging drivers to conserve as rubber stocks remain critical. It notes tire shortages and a March 2 1942 rationing of automobiles with business restrictions and sugar rationing beginning May 5.
The report outlines changes in sugar, fuel, and other rationing across regions, detailing stamp validity dates, coupon reductions, and new rules for driving, tires, and license numbers. It also notes shifts in meat and shoe allocations, upcoming blue stamp validity, and broader food supply comparisons with Britain amid ongoing wartime disruptions.
RAF strikes continue over France and Belgium with Duisburg as a focal point. German losses on previous nocturnal raids totaled eight of 25 bombers, and they did not mount a second night attack. Duisburg’s railway center, linked to North Sea ports by canals, targets power stations blasts furnaces and airdromes as part of disrupting Hitler’s transport system. The city has about 440 000 residents and lies roughly 300 air miles from England.
Moscow dispatches say fighting in the Western Caucasus and near Staraya Russa slowed by thaws with a temporary lull. Red Army advances stretch toward Smolensk and Donets positions while Kharkov and Belgorod remain contested and Novorossiysk tightens German perimeter near the Kerch Straits.
The War Manpower Commission details broad job categories including manufacturing wholesale and retail trade and service roles with 35 specific occupations. Fathers with child dependents remain protected against induction unless their work is deemed non deferable, with officials hinting the non deferable list will grow and that induction could start later this year.
Five medium bomber crew members died when their craft crashed and burned on a Red River sand-bar ten miles north of Shreveport Louisiana. Authorities recovered five bodies and searched for a sixth crewman who may have parachuted. Stephen C Foster birthplace noted. Napoleon died May 5, 1821.
The Navy details its Glenview primary aviation station now training about 1,000 cadets every three months for fleet combat. The base expanded to 1,200 acres with 350 planes, 3,500 enlisted, 300 officers, and rapid construction led by Com. G. A. T. Washburn.
Dr Lillien Jane Martin noted psychologist who pioneered rehabilitation of the aged and argued no one must grow old died last night at age 92 in San Francisco. She had been regularly in her office until less than a week ago.
NEA correspondent Betty MacDonald reports on Hawaii as a war effort model with strict civilian duties. Women register for work, day care supports working mothers, mass immunization and finger printing aid defense, and rationing reshapes daily life with gas masks, blackout rules, and local surplus.
Vice President Henry A. Wallace told Chilean Congress that global poverty can be ended and frontier barriers erased as a united Americas emerges after the war. He hailed O Higgins and San Martin as continental founders and praised Chile as a model in a Spanish address.
Madame Chiang Kai-shek urged the Allies to avoid postwar factionalism after victory. In a mass address she warned that unity against a common foe must be followed by continued cooperation and global understanding, citing the Hussites as a cautionary example. She argued that material progress must align with spiritual development and humanitarian aims.
Allied forces pressed in southern Tunisia as fighting continued into a seventh day near Maknassy El Guetar with Patton’s units probing hills to the Mediterranean. Air power destroyed 80 to 100 Axis vehicles as heavy attacks raged against German Italian troop concentrations and air fields.
General Montgomery has not yet deployed most of his force. In a single night raid Allied light bombers dropped nearly 200 tons of explosives on enemy camps and troop concentrations. The blasts triggered 15 large fires that burned through the night and caused extensive damage to storage tanks.
A bill to raise postal workers wages was sent to the White House after the House adopted a Senate amendment. The measure allows non straight salary workers to earn up to 25 dollars extra per month, with a 300 dollar annual bonus for regular staff, and runs May next until June 30 1945 unless Congress acts.
Eight month old Rebecca Mac Pherson of Asheboro Road was in critical condition after falling into a small tub of boiling water. Doctors report second degree burns over a large area including one eye and a leg with significant fluid loss.
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