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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 21, 1943
Page
2
Ray Tucker reports that small grocers and independent merchants say OPW WPB rules favor large firms. They allege policy choices liquidate smaller traders, delay deliveries and credit, and push customers to cash-and-carry chains, risking long term prejudice against independents.
The article reports a second Allied defeat in Burma with British and American forces failing to reconquer the province. It notes morale damage among Chinese and calls for reinforcements as Japanese shift troops to Australia. It mentions field conditions, supply difficulties, and the uncertain outlook for Rangoon and the Burma Road.
The tale centers on Colonel Wesley Merriwether and his daughter Cynthia at a Long Island estate. Vaughan Dunbar visits with Bill Stewart’s letter, drawing Cynthia into talk of Bill while old tensions and dangers simmer. The scene blends aristocratic gossip with military dispatches as preparations hint at darker aims.
A prison lot will be run by convict labor and a home farmer will pay toll by turning in raw produce. The wheat grower who cannot store grain will take it to the mill and receive a quota of canned goods, with small overhead and container costs deducted.
Greensboro date line reports a meeting of the calendar committee at the courthouse Saturday at 10 AM to set the Guilford Superior Court civil term calendar starting May 10 1943.
Eastern War Time broadcasts list phased hour changes and a packed lineup featuring dramatic serials Captain Midnight and Johnny Apollo style thrillers, music from Jazz bands in Chicago and St. Louis, news by Gabriel Heatter, Mr. District Attorney, and Kay Kyser, plus children’s serials, prayers, and wartime commentaries. The two hour adjustments reflect network corrections and include varied programs through late evening.
A wartime guide to cleaning and dressing minor wounds. Emphasizes washing hands and wound, using rubbing alcohol, and adopting sulfanilimide powder as a preferred antiseptic. Notes infection mortality drop in battles, home use adoption, and cautions on oral sulfonamide use with physician oversight. Ends with Pare quotation and a hypothetical caveat.
CHAPEL HILL April 21 Track fans here see Duke and Virginia Military Institute as the strongest contenders for the University of North Carolina title in the Southern Conference meet set for Friday and Saturday. Eight teams compete due to wartime limits with preliminaries Friday and finals Saturday. Other entrants include N C State Davidson Clemson William and Mary and South Carolina. Duke won in 1941 but lost last year 64 61 to North Carolina. The Blue Devils recently lost a dual meet to the Tar Heels by about 20 points, blamed on the absence of Moffatt Storer injured leg.
Asheville April 21 The county clerk is authorized to turn over to the Board of Education the 10000 forfeited by bondsmen for William Dudley Pelley for failing to appear in superior court. Carrie Thrash Dorsett’s $7500 part was paid with a Marion B. Haynes signed check for Mrs. Dorsett’s real estate. Co-signer George H. Fisher posted his $2500 in cash. The State Supreme Court ruled the bond should be forfeited after Pelley’s capias and related federal sentence tied to the prior judgment.
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