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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1944
Page
2
Horizontal clues list answers for a classic crossword puzzle by Eugene Sheffer with multiple themes and entries across and down including musical notes, rivers, birds, and geographic terms. The vertical clues provide additional intersecting terms that complete the grid and reflect standard syndicated puzzle structure.
Allied forces press across a heavily defended stretch near Carpiquet with German units packed to near three miles of front. Hand to hand combat erupts around the airfield as tanks and infantry clash and hangars burn on the Normandy frontline.
Hollywood gossip notes from Lana Turner to Martha Raye and Condensed items on Roddy McDowall Myrna Loy June Allyson and John Hodiak. Includes marriage plans cancelation Eddie Norris Norma Hall and Roddy McDowall mother on location. Also mentions Lieut Aumont meeting brother in Italy and other studio tidbits.
Hollywood gossip notes from Irving Mills party with Artie Shaw and Buddy Rich while Leopold Stokowski listens. Bill Saroyan becomes a PFC and a lamp injures Phyllis Loughton on the Kitty set. Ginger Rogers linked to Marine Corps Auxiliary trustees. Dinah Shore Frances Langford praise Andy Russell taking over Bob Crosby show. Andy Clyde to stay as troop master after son’s death. Loretta Young reports 12 baby shower thermometers. Bill Gargan buys 100 cattle for a ranch starter. Jack Diamond splits time with Dorothy Ford and Jane Ball. A burglar steals an electric clock from Ramsay Ames’ apartment.
Prime Minister Churchill spoke amid wartime fears of V-1 raids and Allied bombings in France and Germany. He said about 50,000 tons of Allied bombs have fallen on flying bomb targets, with much of Britain’s air power redirected from other offensives. He noted German manufacturing losses and vowed to do everything in human power, recalling London’s blitz and vowing London will never be conquered. Between 100 and 150 flying bombs reach Britain daily, though many fail to cross the Channel or are shot down.
Chinese forces attack on multiple fronts in Hunan and Kwangtung, defending Hengyang railway town to hinder the Canton Hankow line. The high command reports over 6,000 Japanese killed in 10 days, plus a senior officer, with defeats near Feikiang Leiyang Huantuling and Liangjiang and many enemy casualties around Yungfeng and Liangjiang.
A Royal Navy sailor Thomas Hart visited McKeesport Pennsylvania after a door knock from Mrs. George Stephenson's home. He said James Jordan, her brother, who lives in Newcastle upon Tyne England, sent the greeting. Hart, assigned to an East coast port, will serve on an American built fighting ship.
The article notes centuries of maritime communication between ships and shore using flags and lights. It cites scientists who trace copper use back to about 3500 B.C. by the Egyptians.
North Carolina must sell $39 million in War Bonds in the Fifth War Loan over 72 days with a daily target of more than $1 million. Clarence T. Leinbach, state war finance chairman, said only about $16.4 million in "Fr" bonds had been reported toward the quota while overall sales reached roughly $847 million. the objective is $71 million per county.
May employment across 1,814 firms totaled 756,855, down 1.1 percent from April with payrolls at 7,391,895. May hours worked reached 10,888,553 as Asheboro led small towns in building construction with 77,130 spent, while Elizabeth City and Winston-Salem followed in authorized projects. In Hickory, six month old Charles Swink died of infantile paralysis amid a polio outbreak prompting a medical society meeting led by Dr. Trommer and therapist Miss Rosen. In Wilson, Clovis Wilson, 44, was killed by a train while possibly sleeping on tracks. he left a wife and five children.
Dr John L Lavan of the National Foundation cites southern states with above normal infantile paralysis prevalence Kentucky Tennessee Virginia South Carolina Florida Louisiana Mississippi North Carolina and Alabama Health officers from Tennessee Florida Louisiana and Alabama will attend a conference Acceptances from the others are awaited today The York office of the National Foundation Biota and some North Carolina units referenced.
Tokyo reported a combined US air and naval assault on Guam with about 120 planes and cruiser bombardment. Rota and Pagan were also attacked by multiple waves of aircraft, while the Bonin Islands grow sugar cane, pineapples, and bananas.
Army court martial figure Swancutt, who was convicted at Camp Anza of killing two young women, his commanding officer, and a policeman, hanged himself with a bed sheet today while hospitalized at the army hospital after being wounded and captured.
Harry Hopkins resumes duties as special assistant to President Roosevelt after a six month illness. Stephen Early confirms Hopkins is back on the job. Hopkins’ illness began in January with time at the Mayo Clinic and recovery in a West Virginia government hospital.
State school board approves steps to place frequency modulation radio stations into North Carolina’s educational system. Dr Clyde A Erwin authorized to coordinate with the U S Department of Education and the Federal Communications Commission to obtain FM wavelengths for future use. Potential stations could be in Elizabeth City Raleigh Greensboro and two western cities with possible ties to highway patrol stations.
Raleigh July 6 The state agriculture department announces Dean Colvard superintendent of Ashe county mountain test farm will oversee the new 3000 acre test farm near Waynesville. Purchased for 45000 it replaces the Swannanoa test farm taken over by the War Department for Moore General Hospital. The farm will focus on horticulture and mountain dairy cattle experiments.
Pen al Superintendent Oscar Pitts disclosed no prior knowledge of a marriage at a Newton area prison camp. He sent Chaplain L A Watts to verify facts as District Supervisor Fred Lee Ally cited permission for the union. Pitts warned supervisors that such marriages violate rules unless approved by his office. Watts will investigate prior to any granted permission.
Worth D. Henderson of Guilford County, Republican candidate for Congress in the sixth district, reported to the secretary of state that he received no campaign contributions and spent $100. He ran unopposed for the nomination.
Six bottles of pitcher plant mosquitoes are being sent by the Agriculture Department to medical authorities in the Panama Canal Zone for experiments. Officials say the mosquitoes are harmless where they are but may carry germs in the zone.
A note on railway signaling describes stock signal systems as a modern modification of early semaphore methods.
London observers report a deepened resentment toward Hitler and the Nazis after three weeks of bombardment. Despite disrupted life and fewer crowds, Londoners show resolve, with many sleeping in improvised shelters and a renewed sense of camaraderie as the buzz bomb maintains fear and determination to endure the war.
The report notes 1,000 aircraft including Flying Fortresses and Liberators attacking targets in daylight and around the clock. Churchill warns portions of air forces diverted to robot bomb platforms in Pas-De-Calais France while ancient Rome is cited for using homing pigeons to relay messages.
The Stanton family expresses gratitude to friends and neighbors for kindness and sympathy during Henry James Stanton Jr’s illness and death. They also thank contributors for floral offerings. Mr. and Mrs. Henry J. Stanton.
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