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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 11, 1945
Page
7
Local citizen's committee led by W. G. Herring Jr. drafted plans for a Goldsboro country club. A Durham interracial committee chaired by Jd. C. Cobb adopted principles and invited constructive ideas to improve city race relations.
Governor and Mrs. Cherry will host Vice President Truman and prominent Democrats at a lunch April 18 prior to his Jefferson Day dinner speech. Guests include Robert Hannegan Leslie Biffle Col Wade Vaughan Senators Bailey and Hoey and others. dinner limited to 300 guests.
War Food Administration official Marvin Jones warns 18.5 million gardens from 1944 must be matched in 1945 as government use of foods climbs. Roosevelt urges citizens to continue gardening to boost home supplies, with profits and canning data highlighted.
Notes from Philippines bases recount heroism and air combat. Pfc. Ral Frantz of the 24th division swung a rifle to end a Japanese grenade threat in three seconds. The 24th division claimed 86 Japanese at Bantayan mountain with 21 Harakiri deaths. Lieutenant Colonel Gerald Johnson of Eugene Oregon credited with 23 planes in P-39, F-40, and P-38 missions over Leyte. Maj. Richard Bong and Maj. Thomas Maguire are cited for high scores amid October to December air battles. Johnson expresses desire for another chance at Nips but not to have a base named after him.
The text questions Adam's ability to eat the apple amid stomach ulcer pains and promotes Udga Tablets as a cure for ulcers indigestion and related symptoms with a double your money back offer. It cites Mann's and drug stores as retailers.
The Thomasville Order of the Eastern Star chapter will be organized Thursday at four o'clock at the Woman's club on Elliott drive. Eighty candidates will be initiated by High Point chapter number 106. Mrs. Robert Jones and Rev. Karl Koestline will be installed as worthy patrons in a public service.
The proposed merger of the Evangelical and Reformed church with the Christian church, each about 700000 members, will be a key issue at the Southern Synod meeting at Trinity Church in Conover. The biennial session opened yesterday with sessions through Thursday and an officer election to follow. About 100 delegates are expected.
Wage negotiators end six weeks of talks with broad concessions to bituminous miners while the government takes over 235 strike closed pits in seven states. The pact offers a basic $10 daily wage, a $75 vacation payment, and changes in seniority and shifts, pending review by the War Labor Board.
The meeting heard Rev George Fritz presiding and Dr L Gobel of Chicago, president of the Evangelical and Reformed church, urge support for war-torn country rehabilitation. He cited a $1 200 000 World Service fund and warned of declining Sunday school enrollment as veterans return home and reintegration proceeds.
The report notes an agreement for a seven hour day with time and a half for all extra underground work, excluding a 15 minute lunch. Overtime begins after the eighth productive hour daily and the 40th in a week. Workers currently log a nine hour day, 54 hour week during the war.
Washington April 11 The War Production Board sees relief as munitions cutbacks ease the emergency since Pearl Harbor. A 10 percent shell production cut and stop orders halt 12 new tank plants not entering full production until fall. Existing plants must stay on schedules. heavy artillery cuts affect 60 plants and funding for shells and expansions.
Flight officers James William Schuster 25 of Pittsburgh and Edward Elton Wyatt Jr. 24 of Chicago were killed when their L-5 trainer crashed five and a half miles north of Dillon South Carolina early last night. Public relations office announced the deaths today.
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