16 Nov 1943
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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 16, 1943
Page
1
American bombers hit targets in Norway as they pressed attacks in both Norway and Italy. The dispatch notes a heavy blow at Athens airfields and German offensives shifting northward. The report cites Gladwin Hill reporting from London dated November 16.
The Red armies push toward the old front along a broad 800 mile front from Krivoi Rog to Nevel. Stalin’s wartime industrial buildup in the Urals powers the surge while Allied lend-lease and captured German materiel bolster Russia.
German lines near Gomel are cut as the Red Army pushes through to sever the Gomel Kalinkovich rail axis. Soviet forces capture Kaganovichi and Bazar as they by pass Korosten and threaten a rail junction with Zhytomyr. The Berlin radio cites 500000 Russians advancing toward Krivoi Rog while Moscow silent on southern moves. In Naples area 537 Fascist officials are removed or fled as AMG extends control southward.
Interior Secretary Ickes protests to Stabilization Director Vinson that coal price increases approved by the OPA do not cover higher production costs. Drafts prepared with the solid fuel administration set 60 cents per ton for hard coal and about 15 cents for soft coal, but Ickes seeks more.
The Missouri state penitentiary in Jefferson City violated rationing regulations for food by reporting incomplete holdings and using excess points. From Feb 28 to Aug 31, the prison reportedly consumed 486,606 meat points and 337,489 processed food points beyond required amounts.
Allied bombers have sunk or damaged more than 40 enemy cruisers and destroyers since the October 12 raid on Rabaul and Kavieng areas. Three cruisers and multiple destroyers were sunk or damaged, with additional ships probably hit. Navy and army statements credit heavy air blows for impairing Japan's cruiser capabilities and note repair difficulties in Rabaul Kavieng.
Refugees report fierce Greek Andarts landing on Leros last Friday reversing a Nazi advance. About 500 German parachutists and 600 infantrymen were driven back after the Greek force stormed ashore, attacked from the rear, and secured beachheads as British defenders held parish lines.
Secretary Hull will become the first cabinet member to speak to a joint session in Washington, outlining unified U S interests in foreign affairs and an allied commission to govern liberated nations until plebiscites can be held. He affirmed free elections for all nations including the Baltic states, a stance echoing Atlantic Charter principles.
Russell Brines, returning on the Gripsholm after two years in captivity, argues Japan can be defeated by crippling its war industries. He weighs European and Pacific campaigns, the value of air power, bases, and blockades, and notes potential armistice pressures within Japan.
An explosion at the naval mine depot in Yorktown Virginia killed six to eight civilian employees and injured 20 to 30, two seriously. The blast at 12:25 a m affected Norfolk Portsmouth and Newport News residents, with fires quickly controlled. Captain R D Kirkpatrick said damage appeared extensive but no precise estimate was available.
Chinese high command says forces along the Yangtze valley breached Japanese lines at multiple points south of the river advancing to Ichang and Tangyaung outskirts. Fighting rages near Ichang Tangyang Hokow Shimen Lingyang Sintien and other points with reports of railway town Linyang attack and Ningpien capture in Burma.
Bertrand Russell, 70, English philosopher and mathematician, won a $20,000 judgment today in a $24,000 breach of contract suit against his former friend Dr. Albert C. Barnes, millionaire art collector and head of the Barnes Foundation at Merion, Pennsylvania.
Allied report states Fifth Army was driven from high ground north of Venafro by two Nazi counterattacks while the Eighth Army seized new hilltops east of the Adriatic.weather, mud, and strong German positions impede progress as Montazzoli and the Sangro area see patrols and limited land actions. Two Allied planes lost. air activity hindered by bad weather.
A Tokyo radio broadcast reported that Japanese repatriates aboard the Teia Maru will address meetings in Tokyo to foster hostility toward the enemy. The speeches, recorded by U S Government monitors, will be broadcast nationwide and relay detailed reports about America.
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