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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1942
Page
2
Little change in temperature tonight with scattered showers and thunderstorms likely in the afternoon and tonight across North Carolina South Carolina and Georgia as reported by weather observers.
The article analyzes the neutrality treaty signed in Moscow in 1941 as Russia sticks to its terms amid a widening war. Questions arise about Japan’s future actions toward Vladivostok and whether a third front may force Japan into clearer engagement as the Solomon Islands battle intensifies.
Allied forces in the Solomons claim a night sea battle ended with the Japanese unable to reach their target. At least 36 Japanese planes were destroyed and US losses were limited. Other raids included Timor and Port Moresby, with mixed results and ongoing reconnaissance.
Soviet and German forces clash from the Don bend to Stalingrad with heavy fighting and probing offensives. Soviet reports claim repulsed attacks and heavy German losses including hundreds of officers and men, while Axis efforts aim for a Stalingrad corridor and Don region control amid air raids near Darwin.
Seattle report on Boeing Aircraft Company production chief H Oliver West criticizing many female workers as not suited for factory labor. He notes social distractions, improper attire, and unsafe hairstyles. West proposes segregating women into sub assembly work to separate them from male workers on the second floor balcony.
Hollywood critic Paul Harrison reports Charles Boyer argues genuine realism via untapped short story material and only two film types suit today war related or surreal fiction. The project Flesh and Fantasy is described as a notable experiment, with its title possibly changing.
Four short solo episodes linked by eerie themes, including palmistry dreams and nature’s protective forces. Principal creators Julien Duvivier and Boyer serve as director and star. The first episode adapts Oscar Wilde’s Lord Arthur Seville’s Crime with Thomas Mitchell as a fortuneteller whose prophecies disturb a regional oil-field conflict amid wartime dispatches.
Edward G. Robinson plays a determined skeptic who distrusts prophecies until Mitchell’s murder prediction nudges him into acting. He abandons plans to off older enemies and then kills the palmist to “get it over with” as the prophecy comes true.
The second episode features Mr Boyer and Barbara Stanwyck with a circus aerialist plot about dreams and fear. Stanwyck as a murderous figure eludes police as writers craft the fantasy sequence. Ann Lee joins Stanwyck as glamour leads with more casting planned.
Answers cover five questions from the look and learn column. United States land area is a little more than five per cent of the world. The Cincinnati Red Stockings of 1869 were the first paid baseball players. The human stomach capacity ranges from four to five pints. The chimney swift is noted for not alighting on the ground. Kipling’s The Vampire contains the line A rag and a bone and a hank of hair.
George Metzger, a Philadelphia blacksmith, has worked in the same factory 72 years and helped forge dies for the Spanish American War. Now at 85, he continues to work for the government.
Corporal Clark Gable reports to the Army Air Forces Officer Candidate School in Miami Beach. He learns facial hair regulations ban mustaches for pilots below first lieutenant and promptly gets a shave at a barbershop to comply.
New York market at 2 p.m. shows activity across major issues with traders watching early gains and losses. Day’s totals reflect mixed results as indices drift and notable shares move on standard session news.
Northern Indiana peppermint growers and Purdue chemists plan a USD 3 million harvest to seize control of the menthol market from Japan. They aim to raise menthol content from 50 to 75 percent by delaying harvest, expand acreage, and label containers with Indiana stickers next year.
Private Charles Vestal Morris departed yesterday for Smyrna Tennessee where he will serve with the Army Air Corps after a 15 day furlough spent with his wife at 634 Willowbrook Street. He visited his parents Mr and Mrs M A Morris of Denton and other relatives during the leave.
A census style snapshot shows ninety percent of New Zealanders tracing origins to Britain while four percent identify as native Maori. The figures reflect a dominant British lineage with a small Maori share within the population.
Dr W Gordon Smith, Thomasville physician, appointed acting coroner by Davidson County Board to fill the vacancy caused by Dr F J Lancaster leaving for military service. Smith is well known in Davidson County after years of practice in Thomasville.
Paul Green Jr., a 16 year old Black man, was jailed in Thomasville on forgery charges after police say he forged a 312 check made out to Paul Harris and cashed at Belk Hudson Department Store. He reportedly confessed and trial is set for Friday in city court.
Thomasville officials report the local USO drive raised 416.85 dollars with J Walter Lambeth announcing the total and Walter E Rapp thanking the public for cooperation in the campaign led by local business leaders.
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