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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1943
Page
7
Wartime health guidance discusses cough types and advises home care for mild cases while urging medical attention for persistent or severe coughs. It promotes avoiding throat irritants, increasing fluids, humid environments, and simple remedies like benzo in steam and sodium citrate hot lemonade, with codeine elixir for stubborn cases.
The article outlines wartime efforts to grow pet food from waste and byproducts as OPA rationing limits meat for animals. Proposals include using discarded fish canneries and poultry byproducts to create meat-based pet food, with some plans even considering recycling homeless dogs and cats from city pounds. It also notes salvage tips, strawberry canning sugar allowances in the South, Sanforized rayon, hosiery improvements, and other wartime conserving items.
Three men hobbling on crutches describe Guadalcanal combat experiences. P L Sequestri from Eureka, California lost a leg after Monssen battle and was rescued by a Higgins boat. Marine Sgt Dean B Kinzer of Chicago recalls being blown from a foxhole and saving buddies. Corporal Guarasce recounts leg burns and mud during closures near the beach.
A bridge analysis explains the rare smother play or trump coup. West opens diamonds, South ruffs, clubs guide entries, then the trump finesse is won. South then cashes two heart tricks, forces dummy and East into a position where declarer can claim the remaining tricks and fulfill the contract.
In cutting for deal, the player who cuts the king of spades and the other cuts the king of hearts does not deal. The low cut holder deals first. suits rank downward from spades to hearts to diamonds to clubs.
North Carolina has purchased more than 49 million dollars in war bonds since April 12, surpassing the 62 million dollar state quota. John Paul Lucas Jr, director of information for the drive, cited a report from Hugh Leach, president of the Fifth Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond. District sales total 262.8 million, with 14.6 million in South Carolina.
An official communique states Turkey and Germany signed a one year trade pact exchanging goods worth about 20 million dollars. Turkey will provide raw materials Germany values, while Germany will send industrial goods important to Turkey. The agreement runs to March 31, 1944 and was signed by Turkish foreign minister Numan Menemenioglu and German ambassador Franz Von Pape. General Maitland Wilson met Turkish military leaders as a US-UK representative.
Allied headquarters in North Africa reports Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Cunningham congratulated Air Vice Marshal Harry Broadhurst today. The ceremony marks leadership recognition for the desert air forces amid ongoing operations in the region.
The western desert air force yesterday downed 74 planes off the Tunisian coast. The commander predicted air traffic insurance rates over the Sicilian strait are rising astronomically. Meanwhile Miss B A Burke of Henley on Thames England sustains damages of 5700 after a street accident and nearly lost her sense of smell.
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