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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1943
Page
2
A cool night leads to slightly warmer conditions Sunday along the coast. In Georgia the pattern shows cooler tonight with a mild rise in temperature across the north and central portions on Sunday.
The article traces John L Lewis from his early labor days as a coal miner in Illinois and Colorado to his rise as national president of the United Mine Workers. It covers his fierce clashes with Presidents Wilson and Roosevelt, the 1922 coal strike and related violence, and his split from the CIO in 1940 to form a separate labor leadership with District 50.
The schedule lists hour by hour radio programs for May 2, starting 12 30 p m with Red Cross Dramatic Series and Stars From the Blue, through 11 p m with Late Variety and News. It notes corrections due to network changes and includes religious services, news commentaries, dramas, orchestras, and variety acts across CBS NBC and mutual networks. It features Charlie Hodges in commentary, Irving Caesar, Quince Howe, Irene Rich, Jack Benny, Edward R Murrow, and Bobbs Marion segments among others.
Allied forces pound German positions in Tunisia with long range bombardment near Mateur and Medjez E Bab as German resistance and losses rise. In Sicily, Mitchell bombers sink ships off Cap Bon while Beaufighters down five Junkers 52s and Libertas bombers strike Messina harbor. A New York suburb chicken lawsuit prompts debate on wartime food priorities.
Kansas City Star artist Harry Woods long shaped the legendary intellectual pup that led the paper’s early comic strips. After 35 years in readers’ minds, and decades guiding fledgling artists, Woods retires from his drawing desk signaling a pause as the pup vanishes from the Star’s pages.
In a noon communique Stalin urged tougher effort and warned of punishment for slackening. He praised the Red Army and predicted a second front soon, while reporting heavy aerial activity and river crossings near Izyum and Novorossisk. Dozens of enemy guns destroyed as rail hubs and fronts are targeted. Snipers on the Smolensk front reportedly killed about 1000 Germans in the past month.
The passage notes that point stamps in War Ration Book No 3 serve as replacements when existing books are used up. They are brown and differ slightly in design from the point stamps in War Ration Book No 2, with an OWI photo referenced.
Ickes orders immediate government take over of key mines and urges miners to return to their posts to support the war effort. The move aims to stabilize production as unions resist wage demands while the administration vows retroactive pay and fair handling via the War Labor Board.
British forces pulled back slightly in the Djebel Bou Aouk az region about 0 miles west of Tunis after three German counterattacks backed by tanks. The Nazis also reported minor gains against the Eighth Army on the southern end of the defense line, with no further Allied yard lost elsewhere.
Ickes called for turning off ornamental lights and theatre marquees to save coal. Preliminary April 1 coal on ground roughly matched March 1 at 76.627 million tons, about 43 days of supply. Officials expect full figures Monday. Anthracite not yet detailed, but production runs about 1.3 million tons weekly to meet a 65 million ton annual need.
In the Second Federal Reserve District total war bond pledges climbed to about 4.27 billion dollars as Max Hill led an all day Times Square rally. Hill, ex-AP Tokyo bureau chief and former prisoner of war, warned America will pay a heavy price if the Pacific war drags on and Japan fights to win for a century.
New red and blue coupon values take effect Sunday for ration book No 2 blue stamps G H J and red meat stamps. Canned apricots fruit cocktail pineapple and certain vegetables see decreased points while vacuum packed corn and tomato paste gain. Canned corn on the cob is removed from ration lists and several clam products are freed from canned soup listings. Officials anticipate further revisions through May.
The famous Soviet pilot Mikhail Gromov, who flew non stop from Moscow to California via the North Pole in 1937, was promoted to lieutenant general in the Red Army, according to a London radio broadcast heard by CBS. Gromov had become a major general a year earlier. A separate ancient Rome law prohibited nonofficial chariots from entering the central area.
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