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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1942
Page
4
The piece discusses how local and national audiences view tariffs and federal taxes as essential to wages and living standards. It notes growing awareness of Washington's proximity to citizens and the need to monitor tax assessment centers, with references to wartime rhetoric and potential court martial for saboteurs. It mentions Attorney General Biddle in this context.
A short religious reflection contrasts Psalm 34 11 with a Lowell line about God standing behind the disunknown and keeping watch over his own. The tone is devotional and solemn.
A wartime survey shows 18 to 20 year olds registered, men 18 to 65 on call, and women increasingly volunteering for war duties. Paul V. McNutt predicts ten million in armed services, 20 million in defense industries, and 12 million in essential agriculture, totaling 42 million in necessary war work. The farm wife role returns as women join the armed services.
The piece contrasts American and English tax loads, noting overlapping local, state, and federal levies. It discusses talk in Washington of private debt moratoriums to fund public spending, including militarization and lend lease, and warns such moves could pressure homeowners and shift payments from private mortgages to government obligations. It then shifts to a historical reflection linking Napoleon and Hitler, arguing that enduring human conscience and the will for freedom outlast tyrants despite imperial ambitions.
The episode of Mr. Ickes rolling a rubber mat from the White House door stresses that the rubber shortage is more serious than believed. Observers note little salvage value in the mat and anticipate further figures as the drive for scrap rubber continues toward July 10.
The Durham Herald cites eight Nazi saboteurs, four in New York and four in Florida, as proof that FBI Chief Hoover is vigilant. It emphasizes a preventive approach, noting that early identification and surveillance by Uncle Sam helped avert greater danger.
In July the Office of Price Administration faces a funding squeeze from Congress and a rough path in North Carolina. State Director Ted Johnson could be ousted or reprimanded if results falter in 30 to 60 days. Allegations include lack of inspectors and enforcement staff as rent ceilings take effect and price controls tighten. New state officials assume five titles today, reshuffling the Department of Revenue and related offices, with Gill under pressure to deliver reforms and appointments.
A caustic 1940s style note attacking the German American Bund. It claims eight saboteurs linked to the Bund were arrested, exposing Nazi ties and questioning Bund supporters. The writer mocks American supporters, cites Dorothy Thompson, and hints at FBI and Hoover actions against Bundists.
In a fiery broadcast style monologue the speaker derides Hitler and Nazism condemning their tactics and loyalty programs. The piece notes German leaders and agents failing under pressure and mocks Nazi propaganda. By late March about 41 000 new passenger cars had been released by local rationing boards with a 72 percent approval rate.
A city survey shows 2,360 jobs found through June 30 and 436 vacant dwellings with 316 in good condition nine in fair or poor shape. In tomorrow's run off primary voters choose governor US senator and labor commissioner._NOTABLE: Miss Pauline Snider visiting White Lake and Lake Waccamaw. Bud Pickett to Virginia Beach. Hazel Harris at Myrtle Beach. The Democratic convention in Chicago faces deadlock though Roosevelt leads. Rev Herman T Stevens to Green Street Baptist Church. United Bank of Greensboro reopens with capital release.
Twenty years ago traffic trains ran normally as repairmen struck across High Point in a general walkout. Girl Reserves from High Point returned from Sweet Briar with top honors and a second place as a group. Octavia Ball of High Point married Elmer Hedrick in Irvington Virginia on June 28. Adele Wineskie visited from a trip to California. Scott and Edward Fitzgerald visited their mother, Mrs J R Fitzgerald on English Street. Beverly Thurman Jr stayed with the Walter Moores in Gastonia. Rail shopmen walkout noted as general. President Harding spoke on strikes and freedoms for labor capital and public safety. High Point Elks Band planned Fourth of July music. Tiny’s okay but ice cream in sun adds fun.
Peter Edson reports that wartime sugar stockpile plans stumble on practical storage. Refined sugar cakes in damp warehouses, complicating rationing and prompting calls for government subsidies and private stockpiling limits. Debate spans stores, producers, and policy as WPB trims imports and canning, with broader shortages echoed by industry leaders and officials.
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