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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 30, 1943
Page
2
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The report says inbound and outbound shipping lines are strained by shortages of steel and machinery for ships. It notes Japan’s attempts to salvage ships and labor shortages while warning that enemy raids could target inland industrial hubs to disrupt production and transport.
Economist columns discuss wartime retail trends with mixed signals. Strong consumer buying power lifts February sales to 4.5 billion while inventory shortages persist. Some stores close for better wartime incomes, and weather damages reduce goods for sale. Dislocations include rising restaurant traffic and increased shoe repair demand amid rationing.
Radio listings adjusted for network corrections with time shifts and program changes. Highlights include Portia Faces Life and The Jack Armstrong Serial, Fifty-five minute news blocks, and war commentary segments featuring Fred Waring, Captain Midnight repeats, and Rex Stout’s Our Secret Weapon.
The article traces wartime packaging shifts from tin to glass and plastics as metal became scarce. It notes paper caps now seal packs, with grocers facing labor shortages, reliance on women and even schoolchildren, and fears of local dislocations despite optimism about merchants keeping costs down. It also covers Don Juan de Cardenas being recalled to Madrid and diplomatic chatter about Franco and Roosevelt amid Africa and Mediterranean affairs.
Ava Gardner Rooney plans to file for divorce from Mickey Rooney in Los Angeles court. The complaint cites cruelty and seeks division of community property valued at about 200000 dollars. no alimony is requested. The couple, married in Ballard California in January 1942, separated, reconciled, then separated again.
A late yesterday fire at the Broadway Roller Mills on Broadway damaged the four story plant, owned by G. T. Cathers and R. G. Farlow, with losses estimated at $40,000 and not yet determined in origin.
Local brief notes include minor cases in municipal court, May 14 set as Bundle Day for Near East relief, Rev R G McLees to open a ten day meeting at First Presbyterian Arch next week, and evangelist's home in Chat ham Va The Pointers vs Bulls in their home pasture at Durham today Personal news reports Nellie Muse in Greensboro J C Hill in New York Dorothy O Neil visiting NCWC Josiah William Bailey speaks in Greensboro against the Ku Klux Klan Russia protests ostracism at the peace conference American ships gain whiskey selling rights.
Norfolk April 30 Five dining car crew members were slightly injured when the second section of Seaboard train No 9 collided with a light engine near Monroe North Carolina. The crash occurred at 3 10 am as the train stopped for the station. Speed was very slow and damage slight. Investigation is underway to determine the cause.
Cynthia recounts her life to Vaughan Dunbar while socializing with Henry Prentiss Fred West and Mitchell Grace at a club and a moonlit lawn scene. The group discusses love deception and a looming polo match as the story foreshadows tension amid flirtation and cocktails.
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