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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 24, 1945
Page
3
In the Mariana Islands Pyle recalls small Japanese acts of sabotage and peculiar behavior as U S troops fight on. He notes Japs hide in hills and caves and occasionally surface for food or to taunt soldiers. The piece highlights odd incidents and stubborn enemy tenacity.
Washington reports note pro Allied entries push for belligerent status to join future United Nations peace talks. Ankara signals intent to sit at the conference table, as Moscow marks the Red Army's 27th anniversary with calls to hasten victory and establish a lasting peace foundation.
Hollywood gossip notes Nora Eddington and her baby staying in Mexico City for months while Flynn works on a film. Smiley Burnette's son fainted but recovery was aided by swift first aid. Walter Slezak is praised as a new father recording his baby's cries. Eleanor Parker’s guest Maidy Maxwell works as a log roller.
Louise Allbritton will lend her apartment to Marian Clark and Col. Roy Murray for their honeymoon. Clark is a news writer at C. B. 8 and Murray serves with the Fourth Rangers. Louise will move into the bride’s Studio Club room, a space not suitable for a honeymoon due to no men in the building after nightfall.
The column notes Georgia Gibbs seen with Dane Clark at his wife’s request while he studies for the New York bar exam. Loretta Young’s mother owns a West Los Angeles apartment house but can’t yet secure an apartment for herself. Gossip touches on Ingrid Bergman in Bells of Saint Marys, Deanna Durbin films, and a burglary at Robin Revrond’s home.
The next Abbott and Costello comedy for MGM mocks movie agents as the duo plot a gag where their friend Eddie Sherman must become an actor in a scene.
Tom Neal endures a rough assignment with four hours in Jap makeup. During a scene he was bitten on the leg by a police dog and needed hospital treatment. Leading woman Barbara Hale also injured her ankle in a trench mob moment.
George Dolenz limped home after a pepper tree fell on his foot while he was clearing space for a nursery on his house. On the same lot Peter Coe had a separate pepper tree collapse onto his roof the prior night, causing property damage.
Seventeen degrees were conferred on navy and civilian students and 71 NORTC unit graduates received commissions as ensigns in the naval reserve at Duke university spring commencement. Captain Arthur S. Adams urged a better public attitude toward education despite its private value. Notable graduates include Edgar Bennett magna cum laude in science and top NORTC student, Evelyn Vail magna cum laude in science, and Rosalind Smith with arts honors. Banks Join Commission for NC Small Business Credit nearly doubles membership to 72 banks supporting postwar lending.
Raleigh reports eighty persons died on state highways last December an increase of seventeen from December 1943 reflecting rising highway fatalities.
Durham report says P-Ed cotton mills will let employees living in company-owned houses buy their homes using low cost financing. Company officials announced the plan yesterday in the Durham area.
All Camp Butner military organizations have been incorporated into a single service command unit under Colonel Herbert M. Pool, fourth service command headquarters in Atlanta announced yesterday.
In Durham on February 14, several Murphy school students suffered minor injuries when a school bus overturned. Driver Victor Griffin was exonerated. officials blamed slippery road conditions for the accident.
On the eve of wage talks 70 seized bituminous mines in western Pennsylvania Kentucky and West Virginia will be returned to their operators. A spokesman said the move has no direct bearing on the pay negotiations as John L. Lewis UMW president and union leaders prepare for new demands ahead of the March 31 contract expiry.
The article recounts Marine Corps Motor Transport units in the Solomons and Pacific battles. It highlights Cory Gillard driving an ambulance under Japanese fire, MTs delivering ammunition under flood and shellfire, and salvaging parts to keep vehicles running. It notes MTs' readiness, front lines support, and perilous, mobile logistics duties.
War time worries have increased forgetfulness among locker renters in Philadelphia. Earle Smith of the American Locker Company notes 2,700 lockers in transit stations with attendants removing about 300 overdue items daily. A separate note mentions a new aluminum foil food cover that extends perishable food life.
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