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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1942
Page
4
Local voices critique blackout compliance amid a trial alarm, warn of potential loss of life and property. Bicycle dealers face a renewed twenty five dollar tax with ten percent penalty, while locals discuss racial tensions and Georgia politics, recalling Ku Klux Klan risks.
War era unions promise to waive the right to strike while workers seek to support the war effort. They argue dues-paying members want stability and prosperity to defeat Hitler, while critics condemn strike actions and question leadership ignorance of the changed public mood.
Opinion argues modern workers favor wartime production over union shop debates and praises AFL and CIO unity. Criticizes former South Carolina prospects and Senator Burnet Maybank over Senator Blease and white supremacy. Notes NC meat price refunds and WPA scrap collection in NC.
The Enterprise lauds a 98 per cent blackout in High Point praising war effort compliance and police restraint. It singles out Detective Sergeant J. W. McMahon for keeping the irate crowd from vandalism while urging unity in defense production and condemning obstruction by union elements as harmful to labor gains.
After four months of failed district committee wrangles for the 13th Judicial District solicitor post, Governor Broughton named Edward H. Gibson of Scotland County. The move, aided by Revenue Commissioner Edwin Gill, marks a political maneuver amid a bid to purge the Revenue Department of politics, with Scotland County officials including Hinton James and Ben Prince also noted for public roles.
Walter Winchell reports Helen Hayes recounts her role as chairwoman of the Russian War Relief Committee in Rockland County New York. She details organizing Rockland Riot, a county-wide fundraiser with Ben Hecht, J. P. McEvoy, Maxwell Anderson, and Kurt Weill, plus efforts with the American Theatre Wing and OPA price regulations. Hayes outlines theatre folk aiding troops, canvassing shops, hosting canteen duties at Stage Door Canteen, meeting stars, and balancing shows with war work.
Local news notes Dr Henry Louis Smills president emeritus of Washington and Lee University will preach at an open air union service on Sunday evening at six. Dr Joseph Rennie, interim Presbyterian pastor, elected to serve next 18 months. Other briefs mention a High Point Overall Company picnic at Ritter’s Lake, visits from H A Cecil and a Salisbury guest, hospital recuperation, and the death of Dr George Tayloe Winston.
Brief notes reference a Florida rule barring cats from a private beach with no sandy claws. An Illinois jury valued a girl's lost love at $1, likely leaving her feeling like 30 cents. Other lines touch on tires turning endlessly and young girls singing a song about secrets they outgrow.
A devotional note quotes Psalms 18 20 praising rewards for righteousness and cleanness of hands while weaving in a proverb about sowing and reaping attributed to Butles. The brief reflects on moral cause and effect in a contemplative, perhaps sermonlike, tone.
A noisy roundup from Raleigh on Young Democrats, governor, and state issues. It notes Broughton’s stance, county meetings, risk of a convention, finances, and upcoming campaigns. Indications point to Democratic struggles in the 6th district and Burke County while steering toward a potential statewide amendment vote.
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