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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1942
Page
3
An obituary note records the death of Miss Beatrice Cobb in Morganton on Monday due to a heart attack. The piece lauds her education, social ties, and work ethic, and offers condolences to her family and the newspaper staff. It reflects on newsroom life and the pressure to publish despite loss.
A fragment reflecting poetic thought on bells and angelic music. It muses that the sound invites timely arrival and spiritual attendance, tying music to heavenly observation. The line hints at literary allusion rather than a full event.
Bastille Day observed amid occupation and violence in France with riots in Marseille and fatalities while British bombers broadcast liberation messages. In the U S, leaders urge unity with Allies and pledge full support. at home, commentary on duty and sacrifice contrasts celebration with wartime hardship. The piece also notes the death of Lucille Obb, Morganton News Herald treasurer and society chief.
The article notes the Midway air and sea battle of June 4 6 with heavy Japanese losses of 20 warships and about 4800 men, calling it one of history’s most decisive battles. It cites American navy superiority, Japan’s recovery efforts, and hints at broader implications for postwar world order and future European front readiness. It also references Wendell Willkie and wartime U S military training developments in the War Office area.
A Raleigh era column warns that a Senate final say on emergency job appointments paying 4500 or more could flood war agencies with political patronage. It questions Bailey and Reynolds choices, OPA leaders, and Governor Broughton influence, while noting Thad Eure’s duties as North Carolina secretary of state. It highlights OPA offices, a search for new quarters, and an advertising push for salvage and scrap drives.
Witty clippings mix Broadway chatter with wartime banter and showbiz jabs. Notes on Walter Winchell, FDR intimates enlisting, John Kieran, Goodman Ace, and a New Yorker cartoonist clash appear with comic asides and social satire from the era.
A collage of remarks and quips: a widow resists gambler labels calling her husband a wagerer, a Minnesotan mocks iso lationists, the Digest praised for perpetual emotion, Heydrich memories from Alfredo Antonini, and a Richmond editorial warning about the Bund. Also a jab at voters and a Marriner Eccles quote on provided goods.
Dowdy, a local druggist, was elected president of the High Point Merchants Association at yesterday's board meeting. Taxpayers praise salary slashes for city workers as concrete pours begin at the new post office. Frances Du Rant visits Mrs Holt McPherson. Louise Moore of Washington DC stays with relatives. Blanche Hassel visiting in Charlotte. Hoover discusses debt revision and salary cuts. NC Press Association meeting closes at Linville. Torrid southern heat tops 125 in Marion. Local furniture show week ends. firemen prep for state meet in Morehead City. Trinity College president W P Few announces Rev A W Plyler will donate $100 to an ideal student of rising senior class. A E Futrell on business in Badin and Albemarle. Edwina Lovelace visits Wilson relatives. O R Cox visits here. Rail strike shifts mail to trucks. Japanese merchants seek Western prints for homes. raid seizes a still on Roanoke River near Littleton.
Peter Edson reports on the War Department’s new Pentagon complex in Arlington across the Potomac, a five sided four story compound covering 320 acres. It will house 13 000 workers at peak and includes 4 million square feet of space, 80 000 parking spots, 21 bridges, six cafeterias, air conditioning, and its own power and sewage plants.
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