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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1943
Page
8
Damon Runyon muses on a 1944 wartime scenario where soldiers and sailors might cast ballots in the next presidential election. He weighs voting age reform, campaign access for candidates, and potential impact on morale and war effort, noting practical hurdles for field ballots and the brass hats mood.
Allied dispatch reports Naples area turned into a new battlefield with severe damage to the waterfront and rail communications. Decimated by 34 raids affecting the port, industry, and housing, the city’s population has fled to the hills or nearby towns as civilians leave vital work.
CHUNGKING Sept 10 The news of Italy's unconditional surrender was greeted with elation by the Chinese and optimism grew for Germany's early collapse. The Central Daily News called the surrender more worthy of excitement than any event since the war began in Europe. Mine sweepers swept more mines during 1919 than in the entire World War I period.
Naval experts say big ships are not sitting ducks for aviation as 13 capital ship losses by all beligerents exceed WWI totals. Six more heavies, four French and two Italian, badly damaged. Aircraft and surface forces have battered battleships in Sicily North Africa and the Pacific.
Secretary Wickard praised home front gardeners at Chicago Soldier Field for producing eight million tons of food in 1943 from about twenty million gardens across four million acres. He said the effort boosts war strength and supports allies, with plans for a 10 percent production increase in 1944.
In Durham on September 10, Lt. N. B. Nicholson of Burlington Civil Air Patrol received a 500 000 unit dose of penicillin at Duke hospital after transport from the Naval hospital in Norfolk Virginia. His physician said early results are unclear as he battles staphylococcus. Additional consignments of penicillin were expected by Army Air Forces fliers. Gold mines today employ 300 000 persons using 36 000 tons of dynamite yearly and blasting 60 000 000 tons of ore.
Washington reports Argentina's prestige as a major Latin American power is at stake after Foreign Minister Segundo Storni resigned following Hull's denial of lease lead aid. Officials consider two paths: a popular upheaval or military pressure, while Argentina's Axis relations and future influence in Latin America are debated amid questions over Storni's successor.
Italian Stefani agency reports Field Marshal Albert Kesselring narrowly survived an Allied raid on Nazi headquarters at Frascati near Rome when a bomb struck his house. The claim was heard by Reuters.
In Istanbul observers hailed the Italian surrender as a sign of Allied momentum in the war. Turkish commentary predicted the major military moves in northern Europe and the south would follow swiftly from the Axis collapse.
California citrus growers credit the ladybug with saving the fruit industry. Imported from Australia about a decade ago, the beetle proved effective against a deadly scale disease that threatened to ruin the entire crop.
The manufacture of a 2 ton Army truck requires about 11,000 pounds of steel and iron.
The first five months of 1943 saw shipbuilding quadruple the pace of 1941, with the Navy completing three times as many warships as during the entire prior year. The surge reflects wartime mobilization and accelerated shipyard output across major facilities.
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