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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1943
Page
10
Pfc H M Black of the Army Force returns to Freeman Field Seymour Indiana after a three day leave with relatives accompanied by his wife the former Robbie Source Justice of 316 West Russell Street who remains in Indiana. James B Skinner seaman first class with the navy is home on a fifteen day leave with his parents at 725 Grimes street and plans to return to his base early next week.
Robert W. Surratt has returned to Arizona after spending a week with his parents Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Surratt of route four. He also visited his uncle and aunt Mr. and Mrs. Clay Bean of 66 Ridgecrest Drive.
S/Sgt. E L Stout son of Mr and Mrs J S Stout of 511 Cross Street has returned to Fort Bragg after a furlough. He has served in three major battles and will be sent to a Maryland government hospital for malaria and shrapnel wound treatment. He is married to former Miss Elvine Bodenheimer of Cherokee Oklahoma. Mrs Stout plans to join him early in the year.
Willard D. Setliff Jr visiting his parents and wife at 1601 Larkin street. He is stationed at Camp Edwards Massachusetts where he has received rifle and marksmanship honors and was awarded a good conduct medal.
Sergeant Clyde Hedrick in the U S Army Air Forces returns home on furlough to his parents Mr and Mrs E R Hedrick at 605 Chestnut street. He is stationed at Pendleton Field Oregon with the U S Army Air Forces. Lloyd H Taylor promoted to warrant officer in the 40th aerial gunnery training group at Tyndall Field Florida.
Local draft boards said they do not expect many registrants in the 4-F classification for induction unless manpower pools offset father inductions. Board five reports no instruction for a concentrated 4-F review, though periodic re ases of 4-F cases continue as regulations ease. Board four says 4-F files are combed yet inducts when regulation changes occur. A 4-F registrant with one eye was inducted and now a man with hearing in only one ear may be accepted for limited service. Signing of the bill delaying the father draft will not affect this month’s 4-F inductions.
All industrial and institutional food users must register Friday December 17 for sugar meats fats and processed foods the rationing board announced. No registration tomorrow and industrial users were asked to come to the board on Friday.
A Japanese prisoner of war, once a farm hand near Osaka, told visiting Allied military attaches and reporters in Northern Hunan Province that Japan is rushing preparations in Manchuria and that the final result will be war with Russia, with Chinese forces involved.
Taylor, a non commissioned officer equivalent to second lieutenant, holds the rank of first sergeant after 34 months in service. He previously served as a carrier boy for The Enterprise for four years.
Pvt. Ralph Stevenson returned on a fourteen day furlough to spend time with his parents Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Stevenson of 1109 Johnson Street. He entered service March 12, 1943.
White and Negro members of the recreation centers youth adult advisory council met for the first time as an organized group this morning. Rev. Wilson O Weldon was made chairman of the white group and Rev. W S McLeod head of the Negro committee. A fee of 50 cents per month for each boy or girl joining either recreation center was tentatively set. Next step will be the organization of youth committees from both groups for actual operation of the centers. Committees to be appointed with at least one adult member as an adviser include membership finance program house publicity and constitution and by laws. Nominating committees meeting yesterday appointed by the advisory council for both white and Negro groups. White members of the council which acts only in an advisory capacity to youth committees are Eldon chairman Brooks Reitzel Mrs Blake Thompson Mrs Kenneth Redman A J Simeon Edgar Hartley with Braudias Leonard Alice Cottom and Jimmy Bulla representing young people. The Negro committee includes McLeod chairman S E Burford C KE Yokley Mary H Blackburn Ethel Griffin Cobb William McDowell with Lamont Smith and Dorothy Ross and youth members. Organization of the centers is expected by January 1. City Manager Roy S Braden and J J Ellington boys' commissioner and Reese Snyder parks and playgrounds supervisor will handle city operation interests in the centers. Braden has asked Snyder and Ellington to secure a part of the Alderman Photo Service building for the white center and the store room of the Henley Hotel for the Negro center.
Lydia Corinna Anderson 82 a former High Point resident and widow of Daniel B. Anderson died Tuesday night at daughter Mary Gaither’s Winston Salem route three home after illness. Surviving are five sons four daughters 43 grandchildren eight great grandchildren and one sister. Funeral Thursday at Deep River Friends Church. Burial in family plot Deep River Cemetery. Body to be returned to Walter Anderson’s home today at five.
The 11 men who did not report for preliminary examinations Monday night have been placed in 1-A and will be ordered to report for induction soon. Delinquent registrants include Clarence Grey Southern George Edward McCain Charlie Melvin Roebuck James Edward Marley John Brown Nathan Sassafras Harvey Howard Pierce Vance Marion Willie John Grubb Princeton Holt Jones and Gurney Leo York. The note adds that radio receiving sets total 60 million in the United States.
The author argues the war shows the world split into power blocs and that only the big three nations United States Britain and Russia can maintain peace. They warn that without a united front the future organization cannot ensure global stability and that postwar readjustments will shift responsibility to these dominant powers.
North Carolina clears and becomes much colder tonight with lows ranging from five to twelve degrees in the far west to eighteen to twenty four in the east. Central areas drop into the mid to upper teens. Thursday brings fair skies but very cold conditions across the state. South Carolina follows with rain tonight and a sharp chill, temperatures from twelve to eighteen in the northwest and eighteen to twenty five in the south and east. Thursday continues fair but very cold.
Naples reports the Italian committee of national liberation, representing six non-Fascist parties, branding King Vittorio Emanuele as a major obstacle to Italy’s rebirth. Benedetto Croce countered editorials attacking him and urged abdication opponents to stop. The statement cites three crises: food and transport, industrial revival for the war effort, and government reconstruction.
Arnold J. Koonce spoke at a joint supper meeting of three local Junior Order United American Mechanics councils held at the council hall on North Main Street. The event opened a program of quarterly meetings by the three groups.
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