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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1943
Page
10
In Sausalito the Marin Shipbuilding yard loses three hours daily to early quitting and late starts at lunch and shift changes. A wattmeter records show power dips before quitting, with recovery after shifts. Management offers $1000 in war bonds for ideas to fix the practice. Workers cite transportation, lunch lines, and peer behavior as reasons.
Four British motor torpedo boats attacked a German convoy off the Dutch coast early today. Several German escort vessels were slightly damaged in the ensuing battle. One British craft was sunk, according to Berlin radio reports recorded by AP.
In Guilford County North Carolina a municipal court action is filed by A P Brown and others against George Wilson and relatives to enforce a street assessment lien on real estate titled in the name of George F Wilson. Defendants must answer within thirty days from August 20 1948 or face default.
George Rector explains breakfast portions to prevent early hunger, advises using Wilson's Clear Brook eggs butter and bacon for a nutritious start. He urges economy of fat drippings, noting every wasted tablespoon equals five bullets, and encourages selling fat after collecting a pound.
Eddie Rickenbacker told reporters that Chinese forces aided by the 14th U.S. Air Force could retake the Canton Hong Kong area at will and use it as a springboard to attack Formosa. He noted many sorties against Japanese convoys and praised American pilots.
North Wilkesboro report says Lieut. W. B. Lentz and Guy Scott posted $500 bonds each after indictments for larceny receiving and prohibition violations tied to the disappearance of about 90 cases of liquor. The cases stem from a raid on July 1 involving 700 seized cases valued at $3,000. Captain Fisher questioned why the two officers faced charges while others implicated were not singled out.
Stockholm reports King Christian invited German Ambassador Werner Best to discuss Denmark in crisis over Nazi plans to punish saboteurs. Germans reportedly postponed a move to try Danes in German courts. Prime Minister De Gea ve n ius warned resignations if trials shifted. Sabotage continues to hinder war material output.
A piece by James Marlow and George Zielke presents two soldiers on a crowded Washington bus headed toward Virginia. They discuss wives, work disrupted by war, and plans after the fighting ends, including a possible candy shop in California, as the bus nears its terminal.
Alumni association will meet Sunday at 8 p.m. at 708 E High St. Birth announcement for Reginald Sylvester Spencer born Aug 16 1943 at Burrus Memorial Hospital. Willing Workers club of Mt Vernon Baptist meets Aug 18 at 7 45 p.m. Heavenly Gospel Singers perform Sunday at 3 p.m. Temple Memorial Baptist Church. Church of God in Christ Apostolic assembly in session at Kings Chapel through Aug 22. Cubs meet Friday at 7 30 p.m. Underhill Ave. Birthday party for Yvonne and Billy Parker at 1107 Downing St with games and treats. Women’s Consecration Union convenes in Greensboro district at Church of God in Christ Fri–Sun. dinner served Sunday.
A sugar plantation uses as much water in a year as a city of 500000 people to produce 18000 tons of sugar from cane.
Thomas Brennan 45 of Long Island City faces endangering the health of a minor after his 13 year old stepdaughter Catherine Fitzpatrick was found confined for 18 days in a concrete floored shed behind the Brennan home. She said she was fed and allowed to wash but kept as punishment. Mrs Brennan claimed she could not watch all children. The magistrate compared the shed to a Dickens scene.
Sicily will receive from 50 000 to 60 000 tons of coal a week in 1944 from British coal bins.
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