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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1945
Page
6
The week features multiple cinema lineups including Greer Garson and Gregory Peck in Valley of Decision at Valley theaters and Thunderhead at Paramount. A note notes Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf, bound in oak boards, captured by U.S. troops, on display at Huntington library as a gift to General Patton.
Moscow dispatch reports Soviet war plants shifting to civilian production. A major fighter factory that built 5,000 planes now makes 100,000 bicycles. The Stalin Ordnance works turns from guns to oil equipment. A tank plant producing 30,000 machines now fabricates wheels for railroad cars.
MGM musical Thousands Cheer plays at the Carolina theatre today and Monday. Gene Kelly and Kathryn Grayson lead a starry cast with Judy Garland, Mary Astor, John Boles, and Jose Iturbi in a fast paced musical featuring operatic numbers, U S O camp sequence, and lavish costumes by Irene.
H. H. Pierce of 609 Davidson Street displays a beet weighing one and a half pounds and measuring fifteen and a half inches around. He credits transplanting as the key to his success and offers advice to neighbors.
Kenneth FE Price of Freewater Oregon was an acting platoon sergeant on Guam when he left a foxhole during an artillery barrage to calm panic stricken men. He received the Silver Star for heroism in action and was later commissioned a second lieutenant. The article also notes a Virginia plan attributed to Thomas Jefferson for the University of Virginia layout.
Laurel and Hardy debut in Bull fighters at the Broadhurst theatre opening today. Stan poses as a Spanish toreador Don Sebastian while Oliver as a feisty detective chase a curvaceous crook. Cast features Margo Woode Richard Lane Carol A Diosa Costello.
An unusual windpipe adaptation allows the whooping crane to produce its distinctive whoop, enhancing its vocal performance and species signaling.
Easton Pennsylvania reports Leater Kelehner unearthed a crest once on German helmets from 1848 to 1871 while digging his Victory garden. The discovery coincides with reports of diamonds and gold found in Africa in 1870.
Bus company officials investigated Max Sterbutze who led in selling books of bus tickets by serenading riders with songs along his entire route.
Fred MacMurray stars in Murder He Says at the Center theatre arriving today. Marjorie Main, Helen Walker, Peter Whitney, Alan Ladd and others add to a zany farce with quick quips and wild capers. The Fleagle family harasses MacMurray as Mayhem and laughs abound in this Paramount comedy.
The United States Coast Guard has served in every major conflict since 1790, reflecting its long-standing participation in national defense.
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer presents The Valley of Decision starring Greer Garson and Gregory Peck. A romance drama about Mary Rafferty an Irish servant girl and the Pittsburgh steel heir amid class divides with a stellar cast including Donald Crisp Lionel Barrymore Jessica Tandy and Dan Duryea.
J F. foams said yesterday that several committee chairmen at local plants have not returned their plant transportation information cards to the War and Rationing Board. The national office requires a quarterly report on ride share pool activities, due July 15, and cards should be mailed immediately with the names of both labor and management committee members.
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