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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1942
Page
13
Washington in wartime notes crowded days as 2,500 visiting service men are housed from factory produced beds. Weekends bring about 2,000 uniforms, not counting officers. Senators and guardships fill galleries during the poll tax filibuster as servicemen mingle in corridors and halls.
A witness recounts a heated gallery exchange about uniformed national defense groups and a crowded talk on whether a sales tax will be included in the 1943 tax bill. Labor Department figures show a family of four needs $1,731.88 for maintenance in the capital, the highest in the nation.
General Sir Archibald Wavell said bidding is strategy while play of the hand is tactics, noting that tactics can reflect a skilled player's judgment. The cited hand shows a mechanical contract that may or may not be made with the suit rivered by South.
Bridge notes describe North West Pass opening and a spade lead sequence. West rises with king of spades and returns a trump, East overcalls, South ruffs and cashes trumps to win. Mention of Mount Columbia as a geographic center of North America is included.
Sherman Montrose recalls daily life as a combat zone journalist on Guadalcanal in October 1942. He describes air raids, Marine and Navy crews, and the rough conditions at Henderson Field, including the tremors of Roscoe the Japanese barrage and the challenges of password checks at night. The piece blends humor and danger as reporters trade insults and endure shortages.
The Economic Stabilization Director Jimmy Byrnes and Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau may both have input on current policy. Morgenthau has struggled to gain congressional support for his ideas, while Byrnes is noted to have longstanding ties to the New Deal circle near the president.
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