06 Nov 1943
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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 06, 1943
Page
1
Allied forces drive toward Kiev as Soviet juggernaut advances. American airmen lie in wait for five Japanese convoys in the southwest Pacific theater. Allied leadership reports new stakes in the Solomons with movements from Truk toward Rabaul.
The column warns of a greater East Asian bloc led by Japan with Thailand Burma and Manchukuo forming a new axis. It calls for defeating Japan and removing its militarist leadership while addressing distrust in the west and supporting allied actions in the Pacific campaigns including attacks on Bougainville and Rabaul.
Allied forces push toward the mountains as they take Venafro and advance in the upper Volturno valley. In Italy the 5th Army drives into the mountains after Venafro while British patrols cross the Garigliano. The Berat Kucov airfield in Albania is hit by U S Mitchell bombers and P 38 escorts, with German air forces still active in the region. The 305th Infantry Division is thrown in to save the Vasto line but is routed.
Dr. William J. Kerr reports that many men rejected for heart or circulatory issues are being cleared for duty after reexamination. In San Francisco 275 of 983 tested were salvageable, with 130 show no heart trouble and 31 once diagnosed with high blood pressure found normal after isolation from stressful home environments. Col. Bert Thomas notes nationwide potential to add two army divisions.
War Labor Board approves Ickes-Lewis wage plan for soft coal miners raising daily pay from 7 to 8.50 with longer hours and travel time. UMW endorsement follows after seven months of strikes costing millions in coal output. anthracite provisions also approved with 70 cent daily rise. Board vote 11 to 1, Morse dissenting.
American and British air forces pummeled Akyab in Burma with Liberators and Mitchells in a 36 hour campaign. RAF bombers hit the city at night while Allied planes dropped 250 tons of bombs on occupied buildings and the jetty area. Night raids left great fires as attacks spread to other Burma targets.
Chungking dispatch reports thirty thousand Japanese along a 90 mile front from Hangtze to Tungting lake advancing into the rice bowl. They seized towns as reinforcements poured in, threatening Sangtze on the Yangtze and pressing near Shasi and Lihsien while suffering some losses south of Nanhsien. On the east China front Japanese forces retook Tipu but were repelled elsewhere in a mopping up battle.
First Sergeant Bill Rowe angrily orders all members of the organization to fall out for 6 a.m. morning drill with no exceptions. An hour later a humorous note appears protesting that 6 a.m. is an inopportune time to play ball and asking for cooperation.
Betty Roberts testified in the Bahamas Supreme Court describing the night Sir Harry Oakes was killed at Westbourne. Cerreta recalled a dinner, brandy, and De Marigny lighting a cigar over a hurricane lamp, then driving two ladies home before returning to his cottage.
Kiev fallen to Soviet forces in a staged assault that breached river defenses and drove German troops from the Ukrainian capital. Stalin hailed the victory as a major outflanking maneuver and singled out eleven infantry divisions, nine air divisions, four artillery divisions, and a Czech brigade for honors.
At Tule Lake in Northern California, Army troops moved in with tanks, machineguns, and bayonets after a violent uprising at the internment camp. About 500 detainees were rounded up as tear gas dispersed a crowd estimated from 250 to 1,000. The confrontation followed a mass meeting and rising anti American sentiment led by new arrivals from Hawaii.
British Mosquito bombers followed a massive American daylight raid with a night attack on western Germany. The US strike involved up to 1 000 planes targeting Gelsenkirchen and Munster and other sites, aiming to disrupt Nazi fuel and rail facilities amid heavy anti aircraft fire and German defender efforts.
Premier Stalin, at a Moscow anniversary event, said Soviet arms in four months freed two thirds of territory lost to the enemy in two years. He estimated German losses on the eastern front at over 4 million men, with 149,200 buried at Stalingrad, and predicted stronger Red Army cadres as untrained troops were deployed. He claimed Germany stands at the edge of catastrophe and praised Soviet equipment and morale.
All consulates in the Azores including United States British and German have been closed by Portuguese authorities to protect Portugal's neutrality after granting licenses to Britain under the Anglo Portuguese alliance. The action appears to precede or accompany the establishment of bases by Britain.
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