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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 15, 1945
Page
7
A Senate appraisal by James M. Tunnell lauds Harry S. Truman for integrity and leadership. The liberal Democrat credits Truman’s war era Truman Committee with honest investigations, bipartisan cooperation, and prudent governance. He predicts Truman will meet American expectations and steer peacetime and international justice outcomes with steady resolve.
A nostalgic look at Franklin D. Roosevelt’s early career as assistant secretary of the navy and his rise to leadership, mentioning his work with Josephus Daniels, his 1913 duties, and later political path. The piece also includes light humor sketches about regional dialect jokes and anecdotes from the era.
High Point chapter of the American Red Cross will sew 275 children wool capes with hoods for distribution to liberated areas by the army and navy. Volunteers are asked to begin Monday morning, with fabric cut and sewing directions provided. The effort follows large wartime clothing drives that supplied millions of garments to Europe and Asia.
High Point native Sidney E Bailey, a Navy veteran awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for action in the Pacific, trains as an aviation machinist mate first class in the Navy Preflight program. Bailey served aboard the Lexington and USS Card, participated in a submarine attack, and hopes to earn pilot wings after training in Middletown Connecticut and Hickory North Carolina.
Center-S Sgt Tommy Moran now serves in the south Pacific with the air force. Before overseas duty he spent two years at Great Bend Kansas with the 19th bombardment group. PhM Melvin B Stroupe Jr recently ended a leave with wife and parents at 509 West Ray Street. Stroupe has 17 months in the Pacific, 14 in continuous combat. he and his wife Elizabeth McGhee now reside in California where he is stationed.
New York April 14. P Hugh Denning a 13 year old polio victim at Bellevue hospital waited seven months for an autograph from Franklin D Roosevelt. He received the signature but an hour later news broke of the President's death. Hugh said FDR did a lot for polio kids and will be missed by the world. He plans to frame the autograph and keep it as long as he lives.
Pvt Ellen Robertson of High Point Rt 4 will complete the statistical control procedure course at the AAF tactical center in Orlando on April 13. After graduation she will be assigned to a statistical control unit nationwide. A Allen Jay High School graduate, she completed basic training.
The write up notes a woman serving in the WAC at Ft. Oglethorpe Georgia after working as a clerk for W D A G O D P B E before joining the WAC. It lists a sister and a brother in service with Ruth a Corporal at Hamilton Field California and Lyman a Petty Officer first class in the Navy overseas.
Generals and GI’s, Admirals and Gobs bowed in memorials for Franklin D. Roosevelt as U S and British forces gathered in churches and bases from Grosvenor Chapel to St Marks and St James London to remember the late president. Clergy and officers led services with involvement from Ambassador Winant and royal and Allied officials.
In heavy rain 1st Lieut. Robert E. Ertmer of the 4th Infantry Division led a supply convoy with Private Charles W. Kerr as guide. Kerr vanished briefly but was found unharmed after stepping into a road dip. The note adds that William Rittenhouse established the first paper mill near Philadelphia in 1690.
Paris reports France plans to resume trade with America by licensing exports of champagne and cognac as U S channels reopen. Foreign commerce office urges exporters to contact U S agents to assess markets. Also notes Sgt John Ivan Mabe, a veteran B 25 group member, as anniversary observer. wife Mary at 216 Steele St High Point NC.
John Ivan Made served with the 321st B 25 Group of the 12th Air Force in the Mediterranean theater as the unit recently announced two full years of completion for a bomber mission program.
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