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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1942
Page
5
National Whirlins discusses parliaments reform and splits within leadership. It notes the Army’s officer selection failures wow observers, with two illustrative cases of qualified candidates denied commissions despite strong records. It also covers wives of soldiers seeking overseas service, WAACs and SPARS gender debates, and U.S. policy toward Vichy France and Darlan.
A vintage advertisement touts Carter's Little Liver Pills promising to wake up the liver and induce two pints of bile flow daily. It claims improved digestion, relief from gas and constipation, and urges purchase at 10¢ or 2 shillings 6p. The tone mimics early 20th century patent medicine pitches.
A wartime column argues against the belief that German reverses on the Russian front stem from a major Mediterranean push. It contends most Allied troops stay in the U.S. and notes logistics and wintering moves, with discussions of tactics, armored mobility, and the evolving role of infantry in modern campaigns.
Governor Lehman is named director of Foreign Relief and Rehabilitation, tasked with coordinating global hunger relief, medical aid, and supplies to occupied and neutral nations. He faces battles with multiple federal agencies to secure meat, clothing, and transport, leveraging experience from New York governance and WWI service to organize postwar relief.
George HIESSLER hides in mud as searchlights sweep the embankment. The pursuit tightens with voices of Mannsfeld Meissner and others near the ditch. He recalls Wallan's escape plan and wonders if dawn fog will lift before he is found. Continued tomorrow.
The FRR director, a 64 year old former assistant secretary of war, once a textile maker and social mediator, is described as hard working and rarely social. He shares a love for deep sea fishing with President Roosevelt and his wife, and when time allows enjoys golf. His life is dominated by 16 hour workdays and relentless public service.
A 300 pound pig broke from its herd and led a six hour pursuit through Knoxville streets. The animal eluded pursuers, rammed a street car, and darted into a jewelry store, where it pinned an employee in the vault before fleeing toward a packing house.
Gas station attendant talks with a young female driver as gas rationing nears midnight. The attendant notes the tank would take four cents worth, about 2/11 of a gallon. Mention of the 180000 known beetle species and 20000 in America.
The Eve of St. Mark at the university theatre features Fort Bragg humor with a Private and Corporal Marion Hargrove characters. Russell Rogers of San Antonio Texas and Paul D Elia of Bridgeport Connecticut portray privates in Maxwell Anderson's play drawn from Fort Bragg life and the author See Here Private Hargrove.
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