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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 24, 1944
Page
7
Elsie Robinson questions the urge to reform others and the rights of individuals to reject uplift. A meddlers saint can be as harmful as a malicious sinner, and well meaning advice may backfire. The column ends with a caution to avoid performative philanthropy.
Snow may fall but fashion moves to spring hats. JANE COCHRAN outlines new hat trends including ribbon cockades, straw dominance with synthetic accents, bicorne and tricorne shapes, versatile bonnets, and the half hat. Forward placed hats stay, worn across the eyebrows.
Thomas M. Chambers, 19, jailed for the third time on charges of impersonating an army officer. First arrested last March he joined the army and dressed as an officer though he was only a private. He was expelled but continued the impersonation until military police nabbed him.
London sources say Princess Elizabeth will turn eighteen in April and may receive a private suite within Buckingham Palace or Windsor Castle. A lady in waiting could accompany her public duties as she gains a formal court, with future plans for a state wedding after the war.
War time shifts push Cornell women toward dining hall and cafeteria work while private home domestic work declines. Part time clerical roles shrink with NYA program cuts, altering enrollment and training plans as women pursue higher skilled, better paid jobs for the future.
In Berkshire superior court John F. Noxon Jr., a 47 year old Pittsfield lawyer, faces murder charges over the death of his six month old son Lawrence. Prosecutors say Noxon electrocuted the child by wiring a radio to the infant, while the defense argues accidental death from a live wire. Seven jurors were seated of the twelve needed. The case opens amid details of the home and the infant's condition.
Representative Coffee demands immediate U S break with Spain saying the nation must act on its own terms before Axis forces compel a break. He denounces Franco as Hitler's faithful puppet and warns of plentiful false promises.
A wartime study reports that each temporary injury at the plant results in an average absence of 17 days. The figure reflects the impact on production and worker availability during the period analyzed.
Workers at the Durham plant of American Tobacco Company vote to strike Monday unless a union shop contract is agreed. The mass meeting backed the action 1,866 to 321 under the Smith Connally anti strike law provisions.
One hundred members of the Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps unit in Chapel Hill will be commissioned as ensigns and 58 NROTC and V-12 trainees will receive degrees at a Special commencement at the University of North Carolina tomorrow.
AN ADVANCED SOUTH PACIFIC AIRBASE February 24. A paragraph from the Solomons where United Nations airmen live and fight against the Japanese stronghold of Rabaul. Navy Lt. William F E Maness of Raeford North Carolina has flown float planes and now fighters. He participated in a carrier and many land base strikes at Rabaul and Kavieng. He covered the Tarawa landing and shot down a Japanese torpedo plane over Kavieng, suffering injuries that required a water landing.
Senate farm committee members and four farm organizations push for changes to the revised draft rules. Senator Bankhead says the aim is not to shield farmers from the draft but to protect food production as about 1.7 million farm workers face possible induction under new selective service regulations. American industrial casualties on Pearl Harbor are 37,600.
Emma Taylor and E L Taylor filed for divorce at High Point Municipal Court clerk today. The complaint cites two years of separation as the ground.
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