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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1944
Page
3
Dr. Logan Clendening discusses Christmas fare and advises on turkey plum pudding cigars and digestion. He jokes about shortages overseas and notes plum pudding origins and a basic boil method while urging simple pleasures and holiday cheer.
The War Food Administration reports the 1944 tobacco crop from the Eastern North Carolina belt set a new record with 391,245 pounds sold across 14 markets. Average price $42.80 per hundred, up $2.65 from 1943, market sales spanned Aug 28 to Dec 20 with varied grade changes and improvements noted.
Colonel Dave Schilling commands an European fighter group and becomes the ace by downing five German planes. Total claimed is 34 1/4, with 24 in the air and 10 on the ground. The report notes his leadership in a major dogfight against Luftwaffe Focke-Wulf foes. A separate notice details a real estate auction in High Point North Carolina on January 2, 1945.
Washington crowd outlines a national peacetime compulsory service bill for all American youth. Aimed at ages 17 to 25, it could enroll about 1,000,000 annually, costing billions and disrupting education or work. Three proposals exist, with the main clash over purely military training.
Rep. Brooks of Louisiana says the House Military Committee will investigate what he calls a blackout of news for American troops abroad after a four week inspection of European battlefront areas. He cites the French edition of Stripes lacking home news and notes troops crave U S coverage to boost morale. The report also mentions Michael Arlen born Dikran Kuyurnjian in Rustehuk Bulgaria to Armenian parents.
Story recounts George Stanwall a prosperous Shakerag merchant who turns to moonshine running after accepting a revenue job. He drinks heavily during tours to stills and grog shops, ends up in a snowbound fall and is carried home after a Christmas drunken episode. Bud and I witness his collapse and rush for aid.
Moscow reports a Soviet state commission says 700000 people including an undetermined number of Americans and Britons were killed by Germans in three camps in Lwow province Poland. The victims included civilians and prisoners of war with several groups subjected to brutal acts.
Democratic presidential electors announce a January 19 reception in honor of President Roosevelt and Vice President elect Truman. Philadelphia's Michael Francis Doyle, chairman of the Electoral College, says a White House reception will follow the inauguration eve event. Supreme Court and high Navy officers were invited.
London reports the Reverse Lend Lease program funded and supplied American troops in Britain before D-day. Britain erected buildings, shipped millions of matches and shoe polish, millions of rounds of ammunition, fuel, and vehicles, while transferring hospital trains and prisoners. The article notes substantial British aid including steel, rails, rations, pianos, pool tables, boots, boxing gloves and whiskey to bolster morale.
United States airmen forced down on missions to Germany were interned in Switzerland up to last October. Swiss authorities reported that about 95,000 refugees had entered Switzerland, including 16,000 military internees and 48,500 civilians from war zones. Other groups included 18,500 former Italian emigrants and 3,300 escaped POWs.
Federal authorities restrict flaxseed shipments abroad as Argentina faces severe fuel shortages amid wartime pressures. A sale notice from High Point North Carolina lists property assets and bidding procedures for public auction, citing local deeds and county records.
CIO President Philip Murray urges labor to back a wartime coalition of United States Britain and Russia to secure a postwar peace. He writes in War and the Working Classes and promotes a unified labor voice in international affairs ahead of the February conference called by the British Trades Union Congress. The conference was postponed by the European invasion.
Dr W R White editor of the Baptist Sunday board resigns as executive secretary to accept the pastorate of First Baptist Church in Austin Texas. Board meetings scheduled to select a successor around January 20 as stated in the notice.
Public auction offered for cash with at least 3 percent down. Parcels 1 through 6 of Will-O-Heights plat, Guilford County Register of Deeds, North Carolina. Mayor Arnold J. Koonce signs, dated December 13 1964, terms reject all bids.
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