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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1942
Page
2
Continued hot for Worth Carolina South Carolina and Georgia. North Carolina: warm and sultry Sunday rising showers possible on Sunday and July weekend, not quite so warm on the northeast coast.
Women at High Point work are producing dressings averaging 92 per person per month. Supervisors will receive training from Mrs. Odish next Thursday and Friday. Materials come from the War Department and will be shipped with other supplies. The YMCA is making dressings and planning to open additional quarters at High Point College library and the High Point hamasville and Denton Railroad area.
Brief items from High Point discuss a proposal for a nationwide wooden salvage drive urged by Rudolph Binder, a stop sign incident involving Municipal Court Prosecutor Harriss Jarrell, and ongoing overtime as the city untangles its books. Additional blurbs cover council interest, tire-related anecdotes, a labor election result favoring anti union drivers, and pressure from union opponents amid regional operator ties.
A legislative discussion centers on raising revenue with broader taxes as the Ways and Means Committee resists an immediate sales tax. Rep Carlson urges urgency, while Rep McKeough warns of injustice to low income groups and challenges lowering the personal exemption from 750 to 500. The plan would tax corporate excess profits at 1245 percent under the committee’s action.
Fourteen passengers and 41 crewmen survived a torpedoed ship that sank in 30 seconds after a 20 minute abandonment order by Captain A C Hunt of New York. A third American merchantman was torpedoed and shelled in the Caribbean on June 28, with eight crew lost. Survivors, rescued 45 hours later, described a young submarine commander and a crew of boys. Chief Engineer M W Walter of Houston noted the raider surfaced nearby before sinking the vessel.
Prosecution wrapped its case against a New York group and began presenting evidence against a Florida group. Secrecy shrouding the proceedings left the defense’s timetable and whether defendants would testify unknown. Eight defendants face articles of war charges with possible death penalties. The trial resumes at 10 a.m. Monday.
A historic note on human flight highlighting the ability to travel across countries in weather that restricts birds to short, local flights, showcasing progress beyond avian limits.
Headquarters were notified that one firm had been placed on the union’s unfair list. The union claimed further that drivers on other lines would be barred from transferring pickups or discharges of goods from the unfair line to the unionized line.
A fierce critique of an allegedly coercive trucking line campaign to force driver union membership follows a fair election in which drivers voted against joining the union. The operators, barred by law from coercive pressure, faced a jab at their methods and questions about legal avenues to counteract the tactics.
Representatives met with the Defense Transportation Czar Joseph East Man in Washington to hear that current law offers no remedy for the tactics cited. Despite warnings, the big green trucks continue to operate freely under the existing framework.
About 125 young men reported Friday morning at the post office to say goodbye to High Point and enter the Army. Three hours later, after standing in sweltering sun, they were loaded onto buses and sent on their way.
Private citizens and veteran police at the scene voiced complaints as dozens of young men, ordered to stay and report at one, faced a brutal wait under the sun with buses arriving at any moment. Draft boards offered no relief, forcing these youths to spend their last hours away from home in heat and uncertainty.
Funeral services for Mrs. Millie C Eldridge 39 who died Saturday morning will be held Monday at 1 30 pm. The body will be moved to the late residence route one old Winston road Sunday at 10 30 am. Services will be conducted by Rev R Ward and Rev O L Easter. Interment in Oakwood Cemetery.
In the Moscow Rostov sector the Red Army makes stubborn stands in wheatfields while Germans commit vast reserves to seize the breadbasket and sever the Persian Gulf supply route. Front is set about Rostov and Stalingrad with Don and Caucasus aims near the Volga elbow.
Allied air forces report heavy Axis losses as American bombers pound Mediterranean shipping. In Egypt Australians and South Africans push along Tel el Eisa ridge but counterattacks force partial withdrawals. Brereton credits RAF cooperation and manpower while Air Vice Marschal Park assumes Malta command.
An extended analysis outlines a possible Allied invasion of France with 450000 troops, 200 merchant ships and 1500 landing craft. It discusses seizure of Cherbourg or Brest, supply chain needs, and the need for a unified commander including MacArthur Marshall or Wavell.
Tests for 25 local applicants for the Aviation Cadet Training program will be held Tuesday at 7 30 PM in City Hall council chamber. Sponsored by the Veterans of Foreign Wars with J W McMahon as committee chairman the event aims to identify weak subjects and arrange free coaching.
Helsingin Sanomat urged that a consular break with the United States may be technical and not diplomatic in nature and could be resolved. The paper noted American consular staff will stay at Helsinki as secretaries while Lewis E. Gleeck Jr. will assume third secretary in Sweden. It cited Finnish press mourning the crisis and claimed Russians have shifted to attack while Finland defends territory.
The seventh union service in the uptown High Point summer series is tonight at 8 at First Presbyterian Church. Dr. O G Williamson announces Wesley Memorial’s Dr. C Excelle Rozzelle will preach on The Higher Tolerance. The choir directed by Prof Dan Smith will sing Christ Whose Glory Fills the Skies as anthem and O God of Love as offertory. Church officials invite the public.
Greensbor0 July 18 The plant disease black shank is spreading rapidly in Guilford County tobacco fields. Farm Agent J J Wagoner says despite a 10 percent rise in the season's allotment the crop may not exceed last year's. Some growers report up to 75 percent loss and in some instances fields are total losses. Also noted is U S peppermint oil exports of 193 849 pounds for the first six months of 1940.
Considerable interest is shown in Evans Gardens at 308 Centennial Avenue as the canvas display opens to the public. The gardens feature a wide array of canvas artworks inviting visitors to view the collection.
The New York Public Library now allows patrons to borrow pictures in addition to books. The library maintains a collection of one million pictures in its file for lending to readers and researchers.
Private Walter Ray Fowler, son of Mr and Mrs R D Fowler of Greensboro Road, broadcast greetings to his parents from London on the Mutual Broadcasting System. He appeared on the American Eagle program between 8 and 8 30 Eastern War Time last night.
Lieut. Gen. Hugh Drum announced a vital defense area within the eastern defense zone stretching from Maine to the Carolina capes. Civilian and military training flying and miscellaneous flying are barred within the zone.
A 30 000 ton sandstone slab toppled near Chaco National Monument ending a thousand years of Native worry. Prehistoric Indians once braced the rock with crude masonry buttresses to prevent it from falling. The report links the event to New Mexico history and the monument’s enduring significance. Shoppers urged to unwrap items to save paper. Department of Commerce advises. Young male seals drive fur trade demand for seats.
A fragment notes that Mander’s influence or decisions would hinge more on his combat record than on the size of forces he directly commanded. No other context available.
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