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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1943
Page
8
North Carolina and South Carolina see little temperature change overnight. Scattered thundershowers are expected in the mountains late tonight or early tomorrow, bringing isolated showers to higher elevations.
In Tunisia and Sicily the Allied push relies on heavy artillery and air power to weaken Axis anti tank guns and air fields. Infantry clears high ground before tanks advance, mirroring blitzkrieg but tuned to exploit enemy strength and maximize weapon use.
War discussion notes likely reconfiguring strategic points along the Black Sea coast and other key areas, suggesting readjustments to secure Allied safety. The piece references the Japanese islands and the need to prevent their possession by Tokyo in pursuit of peace and justice. Local notices include Chicago produce prices and a Thomasville drunken driving arrest of Loy C. Gaddy.
New York stock report notes Du Pont at 148 and related items for Penn R R Pepsi Cola Phillips Petroleum and Pullman during May 4 trading. The brief lists company names and prices with scattered figures in a compact market snapshot.
Allied air and naval forces press through Tunisia as 80,000 Axis troops face the Cap Bon trap. Prisoners include 3,000 German air force members while French British and Italian forces push near Zaghouan and Tunis.
Frontline dispatch reports the Soviet blitz striking more than nineteen railway junctions disrupting German communications. Germans rushed reserves and new armor to the Kuban sector while battles extend from Azov marshes to Novorossisk and Donets artillery duels continue near Chuguev Balakleya Rostov. The Black Sea sees 13 small craft with troops and one transport sunk in 24 hours.
London reporting Axis losses in Africa reach about 750000 personnel including 280000 in East Africa and 426000 in North Africa. Casualties include 200000 Negroes among East Africa losses and 50,000 around Bizerte and Tunis. Material losses exceed 2000 tanks and 5000 aircraft.
The Supreme Court rules in a 5 to 2 decision that the Communications Commission restrictions on chain broadcasting are constitutional. Justice Frankfurter delivers the opinion for the court. NBC and CBS challenged the rules claiming they block network options and exclusive contracts with affiliates would cause drastic damage.
American P-47 Thunderbolt fighters, flying with the Eighth Air Force, have entered combat over Europe. The 400 mile per hour monoplanes provide heavy escort for B-17 raids, with eight .50 caliber guns and operations up to 35,000 feet. Several Thunderbolts were lost in recent sorties.
White Plains New York May 10 A delay in the divorce suits filed by former heavyweight champion Jack Dempsey and his wife Hannah Williams was decided by mutual consent. The joint trial set for May 17 before Supreme Court Referee J Addison Young was postponed with no reason given. Dempsey, a coast guard lieutenant commander on active duty, and the couple previously resided in Scarsdale New York and have two children. Also mentioned: 17 young men were fined 400 dollars each in Dublin for flour smuggling from Northern Ireland.
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