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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1941
Page
10
A man living near High Point walked into the local draft board claiming ignorance of registration rules. His story described poverty and illiteracy after moving from a country home, and officials confirmed he was born in 1912 and should have registered. He was classified III-A after filing a questionnaire.
Police identified Robert S Bolton of High Point as the injured driver in a late afternoon crash with a Georgia potato truck near the Guilford County Sanatorium. Bolton suffered severe bruises and a deep shoulder gash. the truck driver Gordon Connell and his wife were shaken but uninjured. State Patrolman R I Barr drove the speeding oncoming vehicle. Bolton faces reckless driving charges once recovered.
An unusually large delinquent list is reported by J D Ross clerk of local draft board four. Nine whites and nine colored are named for failure to return questionnaires or report for physicals. Delinquents must comply with Selective Service Act orders or face disposition by the United States District Attorney. Names include Jasper Gurney Causey Ellis Cornelius Ideal Montgomery Lisie Jones Joe Ben Turner Edgar Herman Harris Horace Earl Pickens Jr John Sherbert Miles Paul Dee Mounce Doug Surratt Edgar Johnson Ernest Lee White James Russell Eis Willie Smith Theodore Roosevelt Smith Willie Countee Thomas McRae Clarence LeRoy Cole.
Expecting Rocky Mount reports a local father writing to the milkman with a demand for eight or nine quarts of milk daily for the forthcoming baby. The note, dated around the due date, reflects a humorous yet practical request.
The document lists individuals by rows: Norman Ingold W. C. Mangum Calvin Cashatt Eloral Hennis Louise LaPrade Floram Richardson Wray Hutchins Mary Weatherly Tilden Hilda Hethcox Annilea Osborne Wilma Cashatt Junie Hester Evelyn Caudle Elizabeth Cashatt. Ernest Ingold Lewis Waynick Hebron Coble Gilbert Clark Robert Winslow Basil Meredith O D Leach Guy Osborne Wray Ward Romulus Modlin. Joe Morton George McHinney James Russell Carl Cox Raymond Vincannon.
The Defense Savings Bonds and Postal Savings Stamps go on sale at opening time Thursday May 1 in post offices nationwide as part of a broad effort to strengthen national defense. Postmaster S C Clark says plans are complete and civic leaders will be among the first buyers.
Stewart P. Free, 35, of 332 Con ner Street, High Point, was jailed in Asheboro on a drunken driving charge after a five mile chase on the Asheboro road. State Trooper R. L Barr said he hooked bumpers with Free and forced him into a ditch to stop the fleeing car. Barr reported Free was driving on the wrong side of the road before the pursuit began.
Piedmont Camp No 62 Woodmen of the World will host an oyster supper at 8 o clock Tuesday night at the W O W hall. Delegates will be named to the district meeting in Harmony on Saturday May 3. Edgar O Johnson of High Point is vice president of the district organization. Officers will be elected for the ensuing term at the district gathering.
Reports from Paris say German occupation authorities seek young Frenchmen for work in Germany under the Todt labor organization. Paris region alone counts 200,000 jobless as of April 26.
Reorganization of the High Point Sock Boarders Committee occurred at a mass meeting in front of Grimes Street School. Spokesmen said the local group seeks wage negotiations with hosiery mills’ management and plans two more meetings next week. The article notes rising living costs and taxes as factors behind wage demands. The piece adds that the south magnetic pole in Antarctica has never been reached.
The six district camporees of the Uwharrie Council were postponed due to weather and will be held May 3 and 4. About 78 patrols and 624 Scouts were registered. the Salisbury China Grove Liberty Thomasville Lexington and High Point events shift dates but Camp Sapona remains May 16 to 18. An expected 750 Scouts may attend. district patrols are named to qualify for advanced camping. Sea Scout Ships will demonstrate at Camp Sapona May 17 with parents invited May 18.
NBC CBS and MBS networks will carry Prime Minister Winston Churchill's London address on the war situation at 3 p m Sunday. He is expected to speak about 15 minutes.
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