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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1943
Page
8
The document compares conventional keyboard typing with a new layout. It shows left hand usage at 57 percent and right at 43 percent originally, versus 44 percent left and 56 percent right with the new keyboard. The source emphasizes the division of labor between hands.
Allied forces press the Volturno line with bomber strikes on German gun positions near Capua and Terracina while infantry patrols push westward. Air reports note raids along the Volturno and at Rhodes Calato Crete and Rhodes. Northeast Benevento area Britsh and Fifth Army advances yield footholds and captures at San Mario Gambatesa Colletorto Larino and Guglionesi.
Across the Dnieper front a lull is noted while Red forces press the Smolensk sector drive toward the Baltic states. The offensive aims to sever the German northern army, trap Baltic troops, and compel retreat of Germany’s eastern line, with a possible Nazi evacuation toward Sweden this month.
The penal department reports the capture of Robert Griffin and Waddell Fillingame who escaped Pitt county camp last Friday in a breakout during which fellow prisoner Charles Whitmore was killed. Whitmore, from Buncombe, faced five years for highway robbery. Griffin, from Lee county, had a 10 year sentence for assault and larceny. Fillingame, from Carteret, had a 10 year term for aiding and abetting manslaughter.
Betty MacAtee recalls serving as a wartime trolley car conductor beside her husband Ray. She admits she became unusually nervous watching him work, to the point of neglecting her own duties while on the car.
At HO KEARNS FIELD Utah a group of newly arrived fliers inspecting their quarters uncovered iron ing boards wash basins drying racks and curtained showers The facility shows signs of recent evacuation by a larger contingent indicating rapid turnover and possible camp readiness measures.
Francis Kilgore's car hit an obstruction and overturned injuring no one. Kilgore sold the damaged vehicle to a wrecking company on the spot for ten dollars.
The advance lines report Clark’s troops holding positions at Benevento on the Calore river and the Volturno confluence. The Fifth Army stands 30 miles inland from the west coast, ready to push up the valley toward Rome along the northwest Volturno branch.
Wright Field engineers praise the .50 caliber gun as the finest arm of its kind for aircraft noting a rate of fire 850 rounds per minute and a 3000 foot per second muzzle velocity. Tests showed armor penetration through bomber skin boxes a Longeron pine and 7/16 inch armor. Remote turrets chute feeders and increased ammunition carrying capacity are also highlighted.
American fighter pilots in Italy faced dust and swarms, constant German raids, and crowded bivouacs as they sheltered in slit trenches and endured limited meals. Lt. Dean H. Schuyler recalls near airfield overrun, while crews fought to support troops and press the advance against Nazi forces.
An official forecast warns 1944 pulp and paper shortages may force a 32 percent reduction in newsprint and wrapping paper use unless 38 500 more pulp wood cutters are found in the United States and Canada. The ANPA urged tariff act revisions to permit duty free importation of newsprint.
Continued mild conditions prevail this afternoon tonight and Tuesday forenoon across North Carolina and South Carolina with slightly lower temperatures shifting to the east and central portions.
Late in the afternoon a squadron of land-based navy four engined Liberators possibly from Midway Island joined the party. By the time they arrived Admiral Nimitz said enemy defenses were neutralized so the heavy bombers met only weak, ineffective anti-aircraft fire and no air opposition.
Soviet forces pushed toward Orsha near the German bastion and advanced from Nevel as the Red Army reported capturing about 40 villages. The drive aimed to cut the Vitebsk Riga line near Polotsk while reports said German crossings at Dnieper near Viev were repelled and Debrush fell east of Gomel amid sodden ground.
The Ministry of Information said American planes dropped bombs in central Muenster yesterday causing substantial civilian casualties and damage to homes churches and public buildings. Muenster hosts chemical plants war machinery and surgical instrument factories and has endured multiple night raids, with 260 acres reported devastated at one point and a major raid last occurred June 11.
Frankie Crosetti and Bill Johnson set up a scoring sequence as Danny Litwhiler rifled two hits. Crosetti’s eighth inning stop on Walker Cooper’s grounder kept Stan Musial at second and preserved a potential tying run. The miscue altered the momentum and kept the series on its familiar track with daily breaks.
Chicago officials report the American Association of Newspaper Representatives debated voluntary advertising rationing at its annual meeting. William T. Cresmer of Chicago, the newly installed president, said ads should be apportioned by amount, frequency and regularity of past insertions.
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