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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1944
Page
3
Dr. Log an Clendening reviews penicillin and sulfa drugs, noting public fascination with penicillin, its absorption and dosing limits, and comparing its effectiveness to sulfa drugs. Sulfa drugs absorb orally and build high tissue concentrations, while penicillin often requires injections and rapid excretion. newer sulfa drugs show improved safety and potency.
The article argues Congress must carefully craft any peacetime compulsory training plan, weighing length and age brackets, and stresses the human element in Pacific amphibious warfare as essential to success. It discusses future mobilization, balance of forces, and the need for integrated ships, aircraft, and ground troops to overcome Japan.
War Department releases list of wounded soldiers. Included are Pvt. Thomas Z. Adams Jr. of Winston-Salem. Pvt. James H. Beane of Asheboro. Pfc. Frederick W. Carroll of Winston-Salem. Pvt. Robe R. Flyne Jr. of Winston-Salem. Pvt. Howard C. Kirkman of Thomasville. Pvt. Clayton D. Spencer. Pvt. Clifford F. Todd of Winston-Salem. Each entry cites next of kin and address.
Hearings begin in Greensboro over a weavers strike at the WLEB plant. M. T. Van Hecke reports the stoppage cost armed services 200000 yards of fabric and sparked debate over a new loom system. Plant officials Herman Cone and Clarence Cone will testify at the session.
The Browning Automatic Rifle No. 42222 nicknamed Bloody Mary serves with the Americas Infantry Division in the Southwest Pacific. Countless Japanese are killed by the weapon during Henderson Field operations. Soldiers Palmer Ross, Victor Arana, and Sgt. Robert Gutierrez owned the rifle before Jack A. Whitt. Whitt praises the rifle's reliability and plans to make more.
J Hutcheson reports U S 77th Division soldiers near Palompon Leyte held a late Christmas service amid battle front conditions. Carols, hot turkey and an impromptu piano concert followed by Japanese bombs, as troops moved 40 miles from Ormoc to secure the port.
Representatives from 17 cotton states will gather in Memphis January 22 to 24 for the sixth annual National Cotton Council meeting. Oscar Johnston will deliver the council president's annual report, and a forum on the commodity’s competition will be led by Ransom Aldrich, president of the Mis Cashed Farm Bureau Federation.
Old Canal Street in New Orleans resumes prewar lighting levels after two years of blackout. The resumption marks a return to normalcy as the city restores lights along the famed thoroughfare.
The AP reports Akron Ohio based researchers at Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co say rodents including rats mice and porcupines chew rubber both natural and synthetic. They prefer synthetic rubber and have gnawed wire insulation and cables though bait is often available.
Officials limited lights at the war’s start to reduce submarine risk in the Gulf of Mexico and conserve energy. The measure aimed to lower visibility to enemy subs while preserving essential power supplies for wartime needs.
After destroying the Jap garrison on an island, the 41st Division uncovered 30,000 yen paid to a Japanese paymaster before the stronghold fell. Soldiers dig for buried caches in caves, hoping to convert yen to dollars later, with value estimated around five thousand dollars at prewar rates.
Eurice Shimnick of Madison Wisconsin and Leemon of Maylene Alabama, 19 year old sailors, were executed in the portable electric chair in Wayne County Mississippi after being found guilty of the murder of former Thomas Boykin in November 1943. Shimnick initially survived a first shock and died at 1 17 a m after a second.
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