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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1944
Page
10
The government prohibits exporting historic books to protect dwindling 14th and 15th century manuscripts. A strong U.S. market for old Spanish texts fueled the flood of sales, and collectors with money offered high prices, causing Mexico to lose many irreplaceable works.
An ad promotes core relief for painful corns promising relief without filing or cutting and offering a money back satisfaction guarantee. It touts easy, late simple use and references a drug store location for purchase.
HAL BOYLE reports in Chartres on 30 women who submit to hair shaving amid mob anger over collaboration. Some say such justice is barbaric and should be handled by trials, while others defend harsh street punishment as retribution for French resistance casualties. Jacqueline Frelat, freed from German prison, condemns the act as emotional rather than lawful.
Memphis August 24 American Cotton Manufacturers Association head Harrison Hightower criticizes postwar schemes to rebuild foreign mills with modern machinery. He warns such lend lease plans would leave U S mills antiquated and unable to compete with Japanese goods, urging tariffs to protect domestic industry. Potatoes and tomatoes noted as nightshade family members.
Buenos Aires and other cities saw public demonstrations after news of Paris’s liberation. Crowds sang Viva Francia and Viva Democracia as governments offered no official comment. Dispatches from South American capitals report demonstrations unmatched since World War I armistice.
Wellington, New Zealand August 24—The house of representatives adopted resolutions congratulating the armed and civilian forces of the United Nations for liberating Paris and the capitulation of Romania. The French consulate received hundreds of messages of congratulations in observance.
A Swiss broadcast quoting Bucharest dispatches claimed Marshal Ion Antonescu, Romania's deposed premier, had fled to Germany. The report also said Romanian troops last night advanced into a border province, according to the broadcast.
A wartime report hints Antonescu may have fled and been stalled by German authorities. A Berlin broadcast had claimed a puppet national government was formed to save Romania from Bolshevik influence as Transylvania remains contested after being ceded to Hungary early in the conflict.
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