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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 22, 1944
Page
10
The President criticizes the bill for exemptions and windfall profit provisions. He cites bankruptcy loopholes allowing high excess profits credits for bondholders and rateable depletion allowances expanded to more minerals. He notes timber income treated as capital gains and argues natural gas pipelines are unfairly exempted, urging tighter controls.
Chicago author and lecturer Elizabeth Dilling is shown outside the District Courthouse in Washington, D C, facing sedition charges. The same charges are leveled against 26 others. International Soundphoto. Ment for pipelines. Commercial airlines receive an unjustifiable extension on airmail tax subsidies.
Mrs. C S Payne 78 of Thomasville route one died Tuesday morning after an extended illness. She was born to Solomon and Mary Ann Burton Payne and wed November 25 1886. Surviving are five daughters three sons and one sister plus 21 grandchildren. Funeral arrangements are pending with J C Greene and Sons Funeral Home. Interment will be in Zion Reformed church cemetery.
The Thomasville Lions Club meeting featured Major H. M. White speaking on mortgage loans and money. He argued gold as the best exchange medium and discussed postwar money stabilization, inflation comparisons, and shifts in real estate lending with emphasis on character in loans. Attendees included Lieut. Frank File, Julius Green, Dr. Yelton, Walter Kearns, and Roy Padgett. Elmer Sink, Dr. S. W. Taylor, and Romulus Skaggs received Lions pins.
New Delhi reports Allied troops recaptured a high point overlooking the western exit of the Ngakyedauk pass in Burma. Casualties were heavy as the Japanese were driven from the area and most of the enemy cleared from Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten's southeast Asia command. The communique notes continued Japanese resistance at positions still held in the pass on the Arakan front.
Churchill told the house Britain backs Poland’s independence and Russia-Soviet relations remain unsettled. He stressed Allied resolve to continue the war, noting 14 of 20 German divisions faced Tito’s Yugoslav partisans, and acknowledged Allied cooperation after Hitler’s defeat.
Eighteen year old George Speer faces two more larceny warrants sworn last night, bringing his total bonds to 1400 dollars after earlier forgery and theft charges. Eugene Belton 44 was arrested on operating a lottery with 300 dollar bond. Abernathy sues Farabee in Davidson county for 1000 dollars personal injuries and 600 dollars car damages from a February 4 wreck at Cedrow and Gordon streets. Churchill comments on Poland Russia border questions and postwar settlement.
Funeral services for Mrs J S Loflin of High Point route four who died Sunday morning were conducted yesterday at Mitchells Grove Methodist church. Rev J W Phillips officiated with interment in the church cemetery. Pallbearers were John O Loflin Oscar Leonard Leeton Loflin Herbert Loflin James Loflin and Jesse Loflin.
Funeral services were held in Thomasville for infant John Lee Prather eight days old and for John Carl Bouldin 60 who died at his sister’s home. Interments followed at Floral Garden cemetery and the church cemetery. Additional services were set for Robert L. Hill of Fairfield Road at Springfield Friends Church with burial in the church cemetery.
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