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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 24, 1943
Page
8
German claims of downed British bombers contrasted with eyewitness reports of unprecedented fires in Berlin. Observers note 10 to 12 block infernos, cyclonic fire waves, and limited German defenses as RAF raids on Monday heighten the city’s spiral of destruction.
A Berlin military spokesman disclosed at a foreign press conference that Germany will employ a reprisal weapon in response to rising terror attacks on Berlin and other towns. The exact nature of the weapon was not disclosed.
The Fourth Regional War Labor Board denied proposed wage increases for workers in 22 southeastern cotton mills in Alabama Georgia Virginia and the Carolinas. Board chair Van Hecke said raises covered only portions of employees and could not be granted where current rates matched or exceeded sound and tested rates. Mills named include North Carolina Schottland in Rocky Mount Beaunit Lilly Shelby Dora Yarn Cherryville Barber Icard Cross Glen Raven Jennings Lumberton Quaker Meadows Hildebran.
French radio reports a likely meeting among President Roosevelt Prime Minister Churchill and Marshal Stalin. Vichy domestic news cites Churchill replacement by Attlee during Commons session. Washington conferences occur without Roosevelt. Stalin issues unlisted Soviet communiques. Swedish paper joins in predicting a Churchill Stalin accord.
In a wartime briefing the piece notes Himmlers executions for defeatism and the impact of harsh weather in western Germany. It recalls Allied bomber limits due to climate and questions German morale as winter begins while Goering vows no bomb shall fall on German soil. It adds that Britain began clothes rationing with seven hundred thousand people seeking replacements in the first year.
The article recounts Patton's public admonishment after the Sicily incident with a shell-shocked private. It notes the debate over discipline versus mercy, the general's apology to the private and to his troops, and Eisenhower's decision to keep Patton in command for his battlefield success and leadership.
Winchell notes Lechner of the 55th Street synagogue has been signed to a three year contract with the Metropolitan Opera. The signing followed a radio broadcast where listeners heard him. John B. Hughes, West Coast commentator, says CBS will not reveal that disputed rap.
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