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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 15, 1945
Page
10
A certificate of incorporation was filed with the secretary of state to form the Boston store of Thomasville a general mercantile business with authorized capital of 50000 and subscribed stock 300 by B Harris Isabel B Harris and Maie Snell all residents of Thomasville.
Negotiations between the China Tea Corporation and Soviet representatives on 1945 tea brick export prices should conclude soon. It is reported 800000 bricks in three kinds will be sent to the Soviet Union this year worth about 3600000 dollars at roughly four dollars per brick.
Funeral services for Mrs Edith Adamson Brown 76 longtime church and civic leader and wife of Dr George R Brown retired Methodist minister were held Wednesday at the First Methodist Church. The service was led by Rev Wilson O Weldon with the assistance of district and church leaders. Music by a mixed quartet plus organ accompanied the hymns How Firm A Foundation and Sunset And Evening Star. Flower bearers were from the Woman's Society of Christian Service and Aunt Lizzie Welch Bible Class. Pallbearers included S P Montgomery J H Pritchard J Halker Jr Brooks Reitzel J B Spencer and F R Allman. Interment followed at Oakwood Memorial Park Cemetery.
The J. W. Greer company in Cambridge expands to meet Navy needs and postwar demand for automatic chocolate coating and band oven baking equipment. Don Greer, Fred Greer, and J. W. Greer built a global candy machinery business starting from a Fort Worth shop with 75 cents. The plant now employs nearly 500, with Navy contracts and a renewed 1943 Army Navy E award reflecting strong quality and no rejection records.
Ivey L. Pierce, local bus station and cafe operator, died at home Saturday night. His funeral was held at Fair Grove Methodist church Wednesday at 3 p.m. The service was led by Rev. A James Clemmer with support from Rev. T R York and Rev. H L Powell. Active pallbearers included Luther Hepler and Carl Harris among others. honorary pallbearers listed. quartet provided music. Interment followed in the church cemetery.
Washington reports total American combat losses at 782 180 as of February. Army ground forces on the western front show 394 874 losses with 63 410 killed 273 997 wounded and 57 467 missing since D Day through February. Navy losses bring the all theater total to 88 838.
Over 17 million incendiaries were dropped by the 8th and 9th Air Forces in 1944 in Germany. Col. Harold J. Baum, chief of the Air Service Command chemical warfare service, says incendiaries had greater destructive value than the same weight of high explosives on industrial targets.
James Robert Heater and Robert James Heater, 17 year old twins from 6042 Liebig Avenue Bronx, were sworn into the Coast Guard as Apprentice Seamen and will spend their eighteenth birthday at Manhattan Beach Training Station. They have a brother George a Chief Yeoman in the Coast Guard and another brother in the Army.
Billy Rivers a longtime janitor at the University of Oregon art and architecture school has had his head sculpted and presented to the school by a professor through Dean Ellis E Lawrence. Rivers known for 25 years among students and faculty is celebrated by the campus.
Former North Carolina Governor J. M. Broughton urged American business to act with public aims at the Montgomery chamber of commerce meeting, warning monopolistic leadership harms world peace. Lt. Col. Horace B. Frederick took command at Camp Butner’s ground and service forces redistribution station. State Highway Commission Chairman Charles Ross said the National Wage Adjustment board lacks jurisdiction over state highway employees and noted current rates meet the steel formula limits despite AFL claims of too-low wages.
Morganton on February 15 Mrs Alice Mull 44 mother of nine is jailed awaiting a preliminary hearing on murder charges in the rifle slaying of her husband Carra Alexander Mull. Police found Mull in a field near the Laurel home after she turned herself in claiming he chased her with a shotgun as she tried to set fire to the house. Evidence included two chest hits and a back wound. slight fire damage noted.
Capt. Robin Olds of Beverly Hills California claimed the best individual score among Eighth Air Force fighter pilots yesterday with three German planes shot down for a total of 19 enemy aircraft in scattered dogfights over the Reich. Six additional pilots were credited with six kills each.
Maj. Donal Strait of Montclair New Jersey Lt. Melvin Baylor Richardson Saskatchewan Canada Lt. James Bowers of Shelby North Carolina and Lt. Eugene Wendt Horicon Wisconsin appear in a plain officers roster listing with their home cities and states or provinces.
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