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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1942
Page
2
Little temperature change tonight with scattered showers and thundershowers east and south central portions through this afternoon and in the southeast tonight. In South Carolina little change in conditions with thunderstorms today and in the east and south portions tonight.
The article discusses the war’s impact on unity among sovereign states and potential future outcomes. It also reports the arrest of Theotey Smith, 23, of 512 Fairview Street for drunken driving, with bond set at $500 for a High Point Municipal Court appearance. Henry Ford is noted as being born on a farm near Dearborn, Michigan.
The court sentenced Max Stephan to a term just over three months to live for treason after aiding an escaped pilot. Judge Tuttle said no sentence could teach him a lesson and noted Stephan had done all he could to help Hans Peter Krug return to Germany. Governor Wagoner of Michigan refused to intervene, stating Michigan is not different if Stephan must die.
Paul Sams a 27 year old James town man was taken into custody this morning and jailed on a $750 bond for stealing $100 worth of meat from Ed Armfield and J S Kennon. Bernard Paschal was arrested yesterday on a similar charge for breaking into the meat house on Armfield s property last May 10 and carting off the meat.
A High Point committee formed to organize furniture manufacturers and wood working plants to pool facilities and present plans to the War Production Board. W. T. Powell presided and J. T. Ryan spoke on leveraging local assets for war work, with many local leaders in attendance at the Elwood Hotel last night.
Dorothy Ti Royals, eight, struck her head on pavement after running into a bicycle ridden by Mrs. Robert Montgomery on Centennial Avenue near East Lexington Avenue around 4:30 PM yesterday. She was taken by her father to a doctor for treatment.
The Business Men's Civic Club will meet Thursday night at W. E. Merritt's home 1329 East Washington Street. All members are asked to be present.
The Willing Workers Club of Mount Vernon Baptist Church schedules a 7:45 p.m. meeting at Mrs. Dollie Marshall’s 33 Woodbury Street with Mrs. Mattie Lou Baldwin as hostess. All members are urged to attend for a very important business session. A call meeting is set for Friday at 8 p.m. at Mrs. Emma Addison’s Washington Street home for Gladys Gannaway and Lille Williamson and their attendants.
The Beautician's Club will hold a call meeting at Mrs. Hattie Leach's home on Underhill Avenue Sunday at 4 PM. Plans will be made for the Penny March sponsored by the club.
Rain forced the postponement of the Penny March sponsored by the Beautician's Club. The event, initially planned for Monday evening in Henley's town, will now take place on Monday evening August 10.
The Cherry Street Presbyterian Church will hold vesper services Sunday afternoon at six. The topic is Conserving the Race's Most Valuable Asset. Music will be provided by the Cherry Street Junior Choir.
Mrs Olivia Johnson now resident in Philadelphia visits her mother Mrs Cora Evans at 1207 Kivett Drive with friend Miss Florence Smith also of Philadelphia. Mrs Marie of 622 Colonial Drive is ill in Columbia South Carolina. Misses Whynolia Elmora and Johnnie Mae Lilly of Salisbury return home after three weeks with aunt Mrs Jay Doster of 708 Evans Street. Willard Brown and son Ronald travel to Philadelphia to join wife and mother, expecting to make Philadelphia their home.
Funeral services for Jule E. Carter 56 killed Monday night in an electrical storm will be held tomorrow at 2 PM at Goodwill Baptist Church Blues Creek. Born Forsyth County July 25 1866 he is survived by wife Rose Pegram Carter and two sons Lorainne W. Carter Blues Creek and Charles J. Carter at Fort Benning Ga. Rev Jap Preston of Stokesdale will lead with Dr D J Bowden of Guilford College assisting. Interment in church cemetery.
The American Federation of Labor Furniture Workers Council will hold a 2 PM meeting Sunday at the union hall 10844 East Washington Street High Point with delegates from three new Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners locals attending After the session delegates and all Carpenters Union field reps will proceed to Asheville for the state convention opening Monday Joe Boyd regional director reports 25 local unions formed in the past year and 13 collective bargaining agreements reached Frank Dallas Hibriten Furniture Co Lenoir who was alleged to be discharged for union activity was reinstated with two weeks back pay per National Labor Relations Board action
Lieut Albert Hutchinson of Scooba Mississippi and Sergt W H Rohler of Ohio shared credit for two Zeros shot down. Sergt H G Davis of West Virginia shot the other. A third bomber was seen damaged as Hutchinson hopped from cloud to cloud to evade the Zeros while four American planes stayed in cloud cover. Kane described glimpsing fighters in every cloud as he maneuvered through the skies.
Gandhi appeals to Britain and the United Nations to withdraw forces while not urging Allied armies to leave India. A new draft working committee urges a mass nonviolent struggle led by Gandhi to vindicate India's inalienable right to freedom, with Congress as the political instrument of 240 million Hindus and about 1.5 million members.
The council revised revenue estimates up from street assessments and city revenues, reinstated cut-off fees, and raised rights and privileges. Municipal court costs were boosted and state intangible tax income added. A $6,000 transfer from Southern Railway funds moved to the general fund. Expenditures total $1,692,150 with contingency bringing to about $1,705,000 and assessed value at $45 million on 90 percent collection plus $3,000 poll taxes yielding roughly $493,000.
The United Auto Workers called for legal and moral justification to reject any contract clause that relinquishes premium pay. They urged President Roosevelt to order renegotiation of war contracts to ensure the nation benefits from savings rather than employers.
President Roosevelt argues against creating a separate agency to prioritize rubber production. He says breaking WPB control would disrupt a unified war production program and notes synthetic rubber will continue under current plans. He warns a civilian focused Rubber agency could delay essential military materiel and fuels further.
Ruth Marie Brown infant daughter of Mr and Mrs A W Brown died at the parents home 1302 South Main Street at 5 oclock Wednesday afternoon. Born August 5 she was a daughter of A W and Molene McNeil Brown Surviving are the parents one sister Saundra Brown one brother John Wayne Brown grandparents Mr and Mrs J A Brown Wermersville route 1 and Mrs D W McNeil Brief funeral services were conducted from the graveside at 1030 Thursday morning Interment was at Nee Oakwood Cemetery
Funeral services for Thomas G. Elliott, 52, longtime resident of 401 Parkway, who died after a heart attack Tuesday afternoon, were held yesterday at 4 pm from his home. Dr A B Conrad officiated. A quartet sang Abide With Me and Face to Face. Pallbearers were C T Ingram Sr, Robert Hubbard, C T Ingram Jr, Dixie Griffith, H D Sears, and Robert Walker. Interment in Oakwood Memorial Park Cemetery.
Funeral services for Mary Frances Lowe 13 daughter of Mr and Mrs Charles F Lowe were held at Allen Jay Baptist Church with Rev C M Floyd presiding. A trio sang religious hymns and pallbearers included John McDowell Grayson Mickey Dudley Brewer Roy White Arnold Ray Jones and Norman Hester. Interment followed at Prospect Cemetery.
Funeral services were held Wednesday at 2 pm at the Pentecostal Holiness Church on Highland Avenue for Mrs. Jewell Elizabeth King 28 wife of Glen ard King who died after a brief illness in a local hospital. Rev. T. YT. Lindsay officiated with hymns Precious Memories Face To Face and No Tears in Heaven sung by soloists and choir. Interment followed in Lab arom cemetery with pallbearers named.
The regular meeting of the decontamination squad scheduled for tonight will not be held. The date of the next meeting will be announced later.
Nightly clashes across the Caucasus Bryansk and Stalingrad fronts continue as Soviet reports claim tanks destroyed, hundreds of Germans killed, and villages recaptured. Cossack night raids and rear-guard actions feature in updates from the front lines.
In High Point Municipal Court A and P Company had a non suit granted over a store injury claim by Leah Rhodes after a falling can. A divorce between Carl Trogden and Ada K Trogden was granted after two years separation. Fred W Reich Jr and Evelyn Poole entered an annulment. High Point Perpetual Building and Loan Association had a non suit due to plaintiff Lillian Hill’s absence. George Steffan of High Point sought 33000 actual and 83000 exemplary damages from H B Meiselman over alleged faulty plumbing and cafe damage in Fayetteville.
Russian defenses hold in one sector while frontline dispatches claim enemy units were quickly encircled and exterminated. The German advance toward Katelinikovski risks the railroad from Stalingrad to Novorossiysk, already severed at Belaya Glina, with potential strike from Kotelnikovski toward Astrakhan on the Caspian Sea to seize the oil port and threaten the Caucasus by land.
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