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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1943
Page
2
Private detectives are being used by major railroads to curb a growing ticket and reservation market seen as irregular but not fully a black market. Railroads blame high demand and troop movements for scarce seats, noting cooperation from hotels and agencies to keep tickets away from scalpers.
I thank my friends and neighbors for kindness and sympathy shown during the death of my father in Charlotte North Carolina. I also appreciate the beautiful floral offerings. Mrs Walter L Caton.
Washington officials say overworking children as sales help during the holiday rush violates the spirit of Christmas and legal fair labor standards. Katherine F. Lenroot, chief of the Children's Bureau, notes widespread violations of age limits hours and working conditions in the season.
Lt. Louis Frank of Louisville Kentucky describes being shot down over Yugoslavia and rescued by partisans who risked shells to pull him to their Adriatic island. He details medical care, a warm drink, a dance with Yugoslav girls, and the partisan brigadier Tito’s follower inspiring gratitude.
A soldier recalls reading habit in a desert camp and a bar in Bari where goat milk cocktails and vermouth amuse companions. Interludes include Greenwich Village dreams and chatter about city streets, followed by a second item: Major Seaman’s unit accepts native reports of Japanese deaths after natives brought in ears as proof.
Miss Lenroot urged stores to curtail sales hours instead of employing children at the cost of their health and education. She criticized growing pressure on schools to release pupils for holiday jobs.
Stabilization Director Vinson approved retroactive wage increases and concessions for about 500 Atlanta drivers one day after a 16 day truck strike. Regional chairman Van Hecke said rates for 19 operators are being referred to the Interstate Commerce Commission.
A group of 25 House lawmakers denounces a Senate passed bill to keep soldier voting under state rather than federal control next November. They call the substitute an insult and push for a federal guarantee of veterans voting rights, arguing it preserves national liberties against state interference. Opponents cite states rights and possible benefits to a fourth term for Roosevelt.
A live millimeter shell found by boys in a Brooklyn vacant lot near the arsenal exploded when thrown on a bonfire, killing Frank Gully and Hugh McKinney and wounding four others. Injured: Jack Pinko 8 Robert Edenson 7 serious Thomas Anderson 12 serious John Conroy 5 minor. Police noted a 191 date on the shell.
Testimony details brutality against Russians during the occupation describing hair pulling and pin torture of women. He said he helped run a carbon monoxide gas driven death vehicle. Estimated 30 000 killed in Kharkov region with about 5 000 to 8 000 executions at Zhitomir Kiev and Lubin.
Peggy O'Neill, right wing for the Hershey Bears, began playing ice hockey at age eight in his hometown Saskatoon Saskatchewan where Canadian training starts.
The destroyer Bannon, back in the south Pacific after 14 months, earned the moniker Little Helena for its five major engagements including sinking a Japanese battleship and cruiser. It has bombarded, rescued survivors, and sunk multiple enemy ships while supporting landings and convoy runs. Commander Donald J. MacDonald leads the ship, praised for resilience amid air attacks.
Moscow reports dwindling fighting with a Red Army defense victory near Nevel and gaps along the Dnieper front. Berlin cites attacks in four sectors including Kherson and the Smolensk to Orsha corridor as German lines clamp down. Moscow hints at Teterev River reinforcements as a major Kiev thrust pause ensues.
The forecast calls for partly cloudy skies across North and South Carolina and Georgia on Sunday with a slight rise in temperatures. Highs approach seasonal norms as lighter winds remain in place across the region.
In New Delhi on December 18 R H Hutchings secretary of the India Government Food department said famine no longer exists in Bengal and that the province has passed out of acute food shortage. He noted malnutrition and disease persist but Bengal now has ample food to mid January and a bumper rice crop is expected to reach the market under government control.
In Akron Ohio workers at the Goodyear plant defy stereotypes by crocheting large nets for Navy sub patrol airships. Each massive veil requires about 275000 knots to secure the helium blimp envelope to the control car.
A strip of territory on the south bank of the Dnieper opposite Emerson is reported as the Russians began attacks Thursday with heavy artillery and large formations of planes but were repulsed so far.
Allied forces widened their Bougainville assault from Empress Augusta Bay and advanced toward Torokina headwaters while at Arawe Japanese supply routes were hit. Air operations over the Solomons dropped 135 tons of bombs and damaged or destroyed multiple Japanese aircraft with sightings of 14 downed planes. Australian troops extended western flank by capturing Lakona on the Huon peninsula.
Barcelona correspondent for La Vanguardia reports that the Italian Fascist movement has divided into three sections. The first is led by Roberto Farinacci in Cremona advocating purges and anti Catholic program. The second is led by Alessandro Pavolini in Turin.
Washington reports warn of higher wartime travel demands as rail and bus use rise. Office of War Information cites 15 percent increase in train travel and a 44.1 percent bus rise, with intercity buses and domestic airlines expanding passenger miles amid equipment and manpower shortages.
In a continued editorial note the piece argues that Allied air supremacy targets German industry to cripple production. It contends Germany cannot sustain ground operations without munition and vehicle supplies and notes retreat from the Franco-Polish front signals growing Western strength.
Reports describe a derailment involving trains near the Tamiami route with drivers recalling glare from headlights and alarms failing. Relatives of the dead gather in Lumberton as Red Cross officials coordinate identification and financial aid for burials. A Scranton man voices support from the home front while urging wartime fundraising.
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