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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1944
Page
8
Textile workers at the Senior High School perform a comedy skit as part of a varied program presented Sunday evening. The event showcases local talent and school activities in a community entertainment scene.
The Army show at Point is limited to workers in textile material plants per a Camp Butner military communique. The films Life Line and The Nazis Strike, described as dramatic World War I footage, will be shown only to eligible industrial workers.
Nazi forces are depicted pillaging Warsaw, Austria, and Czechoslovakia to demonstrate German progress and threaten conquered nations. Authorities restrict showings to select audiences while Army officials promote wartime participation. A Sunday night screening at the Senior High School features a varied program by Camp Butner troops and the 225th Army Band under Warrant Officer C V Kelley.
A. J. Hudson 48 longtime Thomasville Chair Co employee died at his home at 10 this morning after two months of declining health. He moved to Thomasville in 1921 from Hickory and was born April 18, 1896. Survivors include his widow Katie Bost, three children Ina Pierce A J Hudson Jr and Lou Lee Hudson, two sisters and four brothers. Interment in Thomasville city cemetery planned. body at J C Green and Funeral home until 8 pm tonight.
Allied air forces attacked Japanese air dromes and installations across the Moluccas Halmahera Amboina Ceram Boeroe and Mindanao Davao Gulf sinking a supply vessel and setting a coastal ship afire. Over 14 enemy planes were destroyed as U S and Allied units struck Truk Pagan Rota and volcano islands. In China Japan rushed two divisions into northern Hunan as forces threaten Hengchow rail area. movements hint at a westward push toward Kewilin.
Funeral services for Mrs. Verner Dennis Easom wife of D E Easom of 177 Textile Street were held Friday afternoon at the Church of God on E Commerce Street with Rev J T Stallings and Rev T T Lindsay officiating. The church choir provided music and pallbearers included Walter Brooks Robert Davis Lloyd Tucker Delmar Byerly Clarence McDonald and Boyd Shives. Interment followed at the Country Holiness Church Cemetery.
Three Kannapolis boys Vernon Howard Johnny Weaver and Donald Harris aged 11 were struck and killed by a north bound freight train near the town center as they walked along the track toward a theater. Engineer D W Westmoreland said he blew whistle three times and found Harris hit with Weavers body dragged about 140 feet and Howards about 850 feet from the crossing. Coroner W P Mitchell investigated. The OPA began an Eastern North Carolina sugar distribution probe to gauge illegal practices and coupon misuse with Raleigh and Philadelphia offices chosen to survey and model nationwide.
Dr Frederick H Koch director of the Carolina Playmakers at UNC died in Miami Florida from a heart attack Funeral arrangements awaited family arrival from Miami cremation performed and brief services held yesterday
Pfc Norman F Vuncannon lies in a U S Army hospital in France where he has been awarded the Purple Heart for wounds sustained in line of duty. He volunteered in November 1940 and has been overseas since October 1943. The census depicts the typical American father as 44, married with one or two children, living in a city of 2 500 population and employed in private or non emergency work.
Mrs. M. DaLee Luckenbach 52 of Philadelphia dies suddenly at brother Louis C. Purdey’s Greensboro home. Survived by husband Robert H. Luckenbach and son Frank E. Luckenbach in Italy. mother Esther Purdey and brother Louis Purdey. Funeral arrangements set in Philadelphia with services Wednesday at A Mercer Quimby chapel.
Sir Henry Wood, renowned conductor of the Royal Albert Hall promenade concerts, died today at age 75 after a jaundice illness. The news notes his 50th anniversary as conductor and his long association with London’s音乐 scene.
In a Roosevelt era debate, General Douglas MacArthur and Admiral Chester Nimitz advocated different paths to Japan’s defeat. MacArthur favored a ground campaign culminating after a broader Allied push. Nimitz urged naval blockade and air power to force surrender without a full invasion. Roosevelt avoided committing to a date.
The seventeenth summer school at High Point College closed with graduation in the auditorium. President Gideon Lifesay delivered the address. degrees were conferred including Bachelor of Arts to Kathleen Cook Kathryn Cross Grace Frazier Daisy Northcutt Gunn Dorothy Koontz Joan Maides Mildred Maxwell Helen Meredith Mary Self Vera Hedgecock Smith and Bachelor of Science to Frank Minnis Jr. and Charles Pate.
Aviation Chief William E. Swanson and Aviation Petty Officer Harry P. Hensley return home to North Carolina after ten months of combat in the Marianas with air group 25. The unit, part of task force 58, claimed 120 Japanese planes destroyed and sunk a light cruiser and a 4,000-ton cargo ship while damaging multiple destroyers and ships.
Firemen from Station No. 5 halted a blaze that started in the rear wheel of an Associated Transport tractor trailer driven by J. W. Fawcett on the No. 10 highway extension to Chestnut Street. He attempted to extinguish it, but cargo was destroyed and a nearby dwelling at 610 Lake Street sustained minor damage from the fire believed caused by a defective flue.
The city public works department bought a used 1 1/2 ton army truck from Camp Butner after a thorough search for a suitable chassis. Carlton Kirkman, city engineer, announced the purchase. The truck will be towed to High Point and undergo extensive renovation before it can operate.
The ration chief denies hunting deer or bear, saying gossip misidentified him as the hunter. He notes he has neither held a shotgun recently nor engaged in such hunts since the last war, suggesting another Jones is the culprit. A separate line recalls a 1943 bronze inscription found in Palestine.
Larry Sloop, young son of Mr and Mrs H E Sloop of 209 Alfred Street, was slightly injured when bitten by a dog this morning. A dog warden said he would observe the animal for a few weeks but believed the dog was in normal condition.
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