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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1943
Page
4
Local notice from High Point North Carolina states copyright and distribution rights for AP dispatches and local news as recorded at the post office under the act of March 1.
The Enterprise comments that Roosevelt was justified in sending Army control of railroads during wartime but warns the move risks calamitous consequences. It criticizes labor leadership and predicts durable government operation unless constrained, urging a quick return of railroads to private companies.
The piece discusses a forged 1943 Harry Hopkins letter claiming Roosevelt might back Willkie as a 1944 ticket. It frames Willkie and Roosevelt as aligned on foreign policy and hints at a joint world council role, with questions about domestic support. It also randomizes holiday quips and a remark about Rommel’s fit for winter fronts.
Nelson C. Sparks, former Akron mayor, claims a photostatic copy shows Harry Hopkins wrote to Dr Umphrey Lee predicting Wendell Willkie as next presidential candidate. Sparks alleges the New Deal panics over the Hopkins letter exposing political connivance. Hopkins denies authorship and says he was in Quebec at an Allied leaders conference on the letter’s date.
Local officials urge parents to sign up children for two new High Point youth centers with an election planned for February. Dues are 50 cents monthly, with options to earn the first month’s dues via work through center boards.
Washington notes 1944 reality of war effort with only about 100 000 to 200 000 troops in action in Europe and the Pacific while mass mobilization continues. Analysts expect Europe to crack in early 1944 and Japan to fall within a year, despite ongoing token combat on many fronts.
Winchell reviews current Broadway plays and films noting big profits for Arsenic and Old Lace and Kiss and Tell, strong performances by Helen Hayes in Harriet, Othello and Tomorrow the World as hits, flops for Pillar to Post, and ongoing success for What’s Up and Follies. Movies ride high with The Gang’s All Here and A Guy Named Joe, while The Courageous Mr Penn and Pistol Packin’ Mama face mixed reception.
A kaleidoscope of media critique and cultural glimpses from wartime journalism. Jabs at MacArthur coverage, radio reporting, and the label diet around Allied forces mix with theatre gossip, magazine takes, and a quip about a Soviet anthem shift. Presidents and Congress receive satirical treatment amid war news chatter.
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