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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 02, 1944
Page
7
Britain faces mounting strikes as March proves the worst wartime month for idle workers. Three major walkouts involve about 235,000 men and cost over 1,000,000 work days, despite unions urging mediation and work preservation for war production.
Seaman Powers returns to post after a 13 day leave at 710 West Willis Street and recently visited Russia. Lt Herbert Speas Jr has earned silver wings and serves after a recent assignment. 2nd Lt Edward Marion received his commission March 18 and is stationed at Dyersburg Tennessee. James Jones spent a 15 day furlough with his parents at 1138 Tryon Street. The article lists multiple service members with addresses and postings, including those in Spain, England, Virginia, and Florida, alongside wartime labor strikes and draft rulings affecting apprentices in Clyde and Tyne side.
A city writer, Hr. Severn Regar, presents an original poem linking the Four Horsemen of Revelation to World War and spiritual hope. It envisions a future peace with Christ’s followers ending violence and uniting nations in a thousand years of peace.
Fragmentary ad copy promotes Black and White Ointment for healing and uses Black and White Skin Soap. It reads as a brief directive to apply as directed, implying a skincare routine or remedy from a vintage advertisement.
The term turnpike comes from early American toll roads using intersecting poles or pikes to block passage. When tolls were paid the pikes were turned aside, allowing travel.
The death of Major General Iles Orde Wingate in Burma is linked to the Quebec conference the previous August. Wingate led a three month jungle harassment operation, planned air borne landings and Merrill’s Marauders, with goals to cut the Ledo road supply line, seize terrain, and set up air bases for Burma, then trained in a joint effort with Merrill’s Marauders and Marshall in Washington.
The first lighthouse in America was a tall masonry tower erected in 1716 by Massachusetts at the entrance to Boston harbor.
An apartment owner in WesleyvillePennsylvania denounces rent control and posts a notice declaring the unit will not be for rent for the duration. The message criticizes the rent control board and calls for public awareness.
Sergt. Helen Morris a Marine reserve recruiter persuades her mother Nina Morris of Portland to join the Army Air Forces Women’s Army Corps after the Marine age limit prevents her entry. The daughter, stationed in Raleigh, N C, uses air mail letters to enroll her mother.
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