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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 26, 1944
Page
10
Nine month reports from all city departments will be presented at 7 30 pm as the city council meets in the county courthouse. The agenda includes ordinances regulating taxi operation and keeping hogs in the city with rules on driver investigations insurance limits and penalties for violations. Public attendance is invited.
Eighteen members of the junior class were inducted into the Senior Hi Y club in the Y lobby last night. President Eddie Knox presided. Ritual committee included Eddie Knox Broadus Leonard Clarence Siderton Bill Guyer and adviser Edgar Hartley. Officer elections will be held at the Hi Y picnic in May. On Thursday at 6 30 the Senior Girl Reserves will host the Senior Hi Y club at the Y with tea to be served.
Joe Fambrough 41 an auditor for the Carolina Upholstery company died in a fire at a Ward Tourist cabin on the Greensboro highway. Police ruled the death accidental after finding his charred body on a partially burned mattress. He had a history of setting inflammable objects on fire while asleep after drinking heavily. He faced prior charges and had been in court for drunkenness when notified of his death. Funeral arrangements are pending with Forbis and Murray in Greensboro.
Wallace R. Devel former Berlin correspondent of the Chicago Daily News speaks at Point College auditorium next Monday on The Germans and Hyde. The free lecture recounts his years in Europe and dispatches from Berlin and Rome and his book People Under Hitler.
W A Morgan of route four was sentenced to eight months on the county roads for violating prohibition law at High Point Municipal court. His second offense, last year he was banned from the county for a year. He claimed illness limited work and asked to return home. His wife sat nearby. A P Matthews of route 1 got six months on the roads for larceny of clothes valued at $35.
Repiton Lodge 1.O.C.F. celebrated the 125th anniversary of the order in the United States at its regular meeting Tuesday night. Bruce Wagoner recounted origins in Baltimore on April 6, 1819, when five English newcomers formed the first lodge. He noted early leaders and growth to over 2 million members with 66 homes and contributions to war relief and civic causes. The Grand Lodge meeting is slated for May 14-16 in Winston-Salem, with Al M. Lane of Greensboro as grand master and G. C. Howard as local delegate.
Dr. Eugene E. Pfaff, executive secretary of the Southern Council on International Relations, told the American Business Club at the Sheraton that after the war two great powers will dominate, the United States and Russia. He warned that without world law and order prosperity cannot exist and predicted U S leadership now followed by Soviet ascendancy in twenty years.
Police report no arrests in the brutal slaying of 19 year old Alice Wicker May whose body was found in woods near Green street extension. Acting Chief C C Stoker says several questioned but no conclusive proof. Mrs May left home for a urgent meeting with a friend, Ruth Kennedy, who denies knowledge of the meeting. Walter May, her husband, is serving with the armed forces and has been notified.
The funeral service for L. E. Teague, Thomasville citizen, who died in a local hospital, was held Tuesday at First Baptist Church. The service, led by Rev. M. O. Alexander and others, drew many relatives and Rotary members as pallbearers. Interment was in the City cemetery.
At a school board meeting Charles F. Carroll was authorized to apply for federal funds to start summer nursery schools for children aged six to thirteen. About 75 children have registered with plans for two schools in the north and south city sections. Registration remains open and may be done at Carroll’s office or the schools. Classes aim to begin May 29 on a six day weekly schedule with a low fee expected.
Mrs. R R Johnson died at her High Point route two home Saturday afternoon. The funeral was led by Rev C O Plyler Tuesday at Prospect Methodist with pallbearers Johnnie Nance Paul Greenway Carl Byrd Marvin Stutts Everett Causey and Fred Bundy. Music by the church choir and a Vera Jones and Jon Frazier duet. Interment followed in the churchyard. The WPB issued an order allowing manufacturers to make 2 000 000 electric irons for civilian use.
S/Sgt. D H Cornette husband of former Miss Jessie Mae McConkey of 1006 Park Street is listed missing in action after a B 24 bomber he crewed went down over Germany Easter Sunday April 9. He sent a London visit note on furlough and was awarded the air medal with oak leaf cluster on April 1. He enlisted in October 1942 and had three months in England. His parents are Mr and Mrs R A Cornette of 427 Willowbrook Street.
Mr and Mrs W S Tomlinson of Archdale now Columbia S C report their son First Lieutenant Che Allen Tomlinson was killed in action over the Bay of Biscay February 26 1943 after prior notice of missing in action He piloted a B 17 Flying Fortress and had been stationed in England prior to his last mission Chile is second only to the United States in copper production.
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