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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1944
Page
3
A compact page features quick quiz questions on clocks and Mercury, a Shakespearean quote on repentance, etiquette advice about colored ink and greeting cards, and a December horoscope predicting traits for someone born today with emphasis on originality caution and loyalty.
The text gives health and temperament guidance for a birth date noting caution against mental and physical strain and quarrels. It predicts a child born then will show fine traits but face reversals and worry. It also includes brief answers: minute hand makes 24 revolutions per day, hour hand twice. mercury is liquid. a fluid ounce equals 1 16 pint. Marines served by Navy Medical Corps.
Paris radio reports Gen. De Gaulle in Moscow discussing a Rhine boundary after the war with Premier Stalin. It says Stalin likely won’t oppose the frontier plan and continued French-Soviet collaboration on Germany’s occupation. Dispatches note De Gaulle’s second Stalin luncheon reinforcing a growing understanding.
Across the eastern and middle belt flue cured markets prices firm to higher on Monday but activity lagged. Old belt markets showed more declines with common leaf down from 82 to 3 while eastern and middle belts posted small gains and light sales.
A motion to quash subpoenas demanding records from nine mica companies in North Carolina Virginia and New York will be heard December 13 at 10 30 a m in U S district court Shelby Judge FE Yeates Webb will hear the motion the companies argue production now is burdensome costly and would interfere with the war effort.
FE M Early of Chocowinity elected president of the North Carolina branch of the National Star Route mail carriers association. He succeeds Frank Harrison of Granite Falls who retired. Officers include George W. Benson vice president and Myrick Fireman treasurer. Executive committee members are Griffin Rich Square Barnes Rocky Mount and Tew Kinston. Delegates heard John Kerr Jr Warrenton. District meetings set for March 4 in Goldsboro and March 18 in Salisbury.
Miss Alice Kahn representing the fair employment practice committee arrived in Charlotte to investigate discrimination complaints in North Carolina defense industries. She did not name complainants or industries, and said she previously investigated in Raleigh and Durham and would proceed to Asheville after Charlotte.
The 80th anniversary of the William G. Hill Lodge, ancient free and accepted Masons, will be celebrated in Raleigh with Eastern North Carolina Masons gathering. The lodge started with 17 members and now has 450, including 50 in the armed services. Dr. Edward W. Timberlake of Wake Forest, past grand master of the North Carolina Grand Lodge, will give the feature address.
A Raleigh conference tonight sponsored by the State Building and Loan League will discuss plans to assist veterans in obtaining homes. It is the first of six meetings planned to address this objective.
CHICAGO December 5 Elaine Noble 17 of Deep Run North Carolina earns a 200 scholarship as a winner in the 4 H food preparation contest sponsored by Ser vel Inc The award highlights youth achievement in home economics and nutrition.
In Italy, 75 percent of Fifth Army transport has been refitted or rebuilt by army ordnance troops from damaged vehicles or salvage. Col Urban Niblo notes captured enemy gear like 88mm guns are now integral to artillery. Even vehicles reduced to a spring and wheel are rebuilt around them. The group saves millions in material and frees cargo space. They also handle track extensions for mud stalled tanks and other emergency heavy apparatus.
A recorded FCC broadcast quotes Tokyo Jade telling listeners not to fear enemy planes. He says to shoot them down and extinguish any fires, reflecting a provocative stance amid Tokyo’s air raid warnings.
First Lieutenant William J. Bennett Jr. broke his leg in two places and suffered chest injuries after parachuting from a bomber that crashed in Colorado, killing ten. He landed in a graveyard and crawled to a farmhouse for an ambulance as four other parachutists were taken to hospital. Lt Kennedy was the only seriously injured among the five who jumped to safety.
The individual is now in a base hospital at Salina Kansas and is recuperating satisfactorily.
Washington reports 1,250,000 places sell soft drinks and 18 billion drinks sold last year. The industry runs 5,700 plants nationwide with average annual business of 381,212. Domestic Commerce notes most firms are small, but 1941 peak output reached 554 million dollars. The sector grew from 64 plants and 750,500 dollars in 1850.
Mrs. Fulmer, widow of Rep Hampe n Fulmer, places three bills in the hopper marking her first official legislative action. One bill classifies cotton for producers another standardizes cotton bale coverings and the third authorizes a $10000 payment to Mrs Glenn T Boylston of North Charleston for her husband’s death in Charleston on July 2 1944.
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