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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1943
Page
5
West Coast cattle rustling resurges as meat shortages and rationing drive thieves to steal and butcher cattle at night. Ranchers issue “traffic tickets” to trespassers while officials probe quota enforcement and price violations.
North Carolina delegates debate voting units for liquor sales as Halifax Currituck and other counties clash over county township and city models. Kerr Scott cites hog cholera losses in Chowan and Albemarle, urging funding for control efforts as veterinarians report widespread damage and improper injections.
A new institute of religion begins in Raleigh at the United Church featuring a lecture series and nightly discussions. Dr L E M Freeman of Meredith College will direct The Bible Throughout the Centuries with sessions each evening. Opening speaker will be Irina Skariatina Russian novelist and war correspondent.
NEA Service correspondent warns on January 25 that households must learn to add and manage points for War Ration Book No 2. Early, high value purchases, avoiding wasted points, and shopping early in the week are urged to ease grocer bookkeeping and avoid shortages.
Rev Lee F. Tuttle of Thomasville announces Dr. R. T. Henry, freshly returned from Japan, will address the Main Street Methodist Church on Sunday February 14 at five o'clock. All Thomasville Methodist churches will join in the service, with Dr. Henry sharing first hand Japan conditions and noting his recent invitation to preach at Riverside Church in New York City. Bradford Vermont marked the site of the first globe factory in 1813.
An overview of who owes federal income tax, what counts as income, and how exemptions deductions and credits affect liability. It outlines voluntary returns penalties for incorrect filings and the March 15 deadline with filing at the local collector of internal revenue. It notes filing thresholds: singles and married couples with total income above specified amounts must file.
In Los Angeles on January 25 a seaman from Errol Flynn's yacht Sirroco testified as Flynn began his defense against three counts of statutory assault. Attorney Jerry Giesler indicated Flynn will deny all charges and may testify next Tuesday or Wednesday after the trial paused with prosecution finished earlier.
Babe Ruth, former Boston Red Sox star, doubts baseball will complete its regular season this year. In Hackensack New Jersey he said the sport faces many disruptions and arms and legs may suffer from northern training.
Local news notes include the formation of an alumni organization for High Point College with Charles Robbins Jr. as president. Also announced are Law and Order Day observances, and Guilford lawmakers urged to pursue economy and oppose new taxes.
Three white men, two former soldiers, face Superior Court today on charges tied to the death of Brunswick County merchant Ira L. Godwin during an April holdup. F. C. Bonner, Junior Fowler, and Lonnie Melton Todd were convicted of first degree murder last May and sentenced to die, but Bonner and Fowler won new trials while Todd was freed. Todd now faces accessory to murder charges.
Rescue teams pressed toward the wreckage of a Pan American Grace Airways airliner that went down about 350 miles south of Lima while en route from Santiago to Lima with 11 passengers and a four crew. The craft, found damaged by a search plane, carried 15 aboard. land routes were blocked by bad roads, complicating access. Among the passengers were three U. S. citizens including two Navy yeomen and two British officials.
Plans for Alexander Woollcott 36 author critic and raconteur are to be finalized today after his death from a heart attack during a Columbia network broadcast. His brother William arrives from Catonville Md to arrange services. Woollcott born January 19 1887 in Phalanx New Jersey authored The Story of Living Berlin and Mrs Fiske Her Views on Acting and the Problems of the Stage and starred as Sheridan Whiteside in The Man Who Came to Dinner.
Greensboro January 25 Gaines Kelley of Greensboro was elected president of the North Carolina Credit Union League at its eighth annual convention. A B Pritchard was named vice president Ben B Humphries secretary treasurer B L Webster managing director and H E Lathan named national director.
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