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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1944
Page
7
A traveler recalls visiting the Taj Mahal with beggars and Khadims pressing for bakhshish. A Khadim unexpectedly returns a small coin, revealing a con before the narrator notes the need for caution toward travelers and locals alike.
Weekly OPA price and rationing notes appear with sugar and fuel stamps updates. Background essays on Franklin and printers add historic context to the page.
WASHINGTON July 22 4 Price Administrator Chester Bowles ordered the ration value of creamery butter increased to 16 points a pound from 12 points effective at 12 01 a m He said the hike was needed because more creamery butter is sought with red stamps than allocated to civilians by the War Food Administration Farm and processed butter stay at eight and four red points a pound Gin down Washington July 22 Most wartime domestic gin will retail for ten to fifteen cents a fifth below current prices and vodka will cost about thirty five cents less under new price ceilings to permit August beverage alcohol holiday plans.
Clifton Mathews, 28, held in city jail on two counts of forgery with bonds totaling 1500 dollars. He allegedly forged D. W. Miller’s name on checks for 22 dollars on July 15 and 326 dollars on July 17. Joe Foster, 21, held on a 300 dollar bond for larceny after allegedly stealing a radio from Louise Welch.
A small black and white dog named Suzzie becomes a foster mother to four baby mallards in Portland. The ducks, initially wary, grow comfortable and swim in an old rowboat before waddling to Suzzie to snuggle under her wing.
The Navy reports a Catelina flying boat made an improvised sea landing in the Central Pacific after a gasoline leak. Lt. J. G. William A. Price of Birmingham piloted the plane and, with machinist’s mate James C. Lawler of Hamilton, Alabama, improvised a pencil eraser plug to seal a broken line and restore flight.
Johnstown pastor Rev. J. J. Hanon urged parents to focus less on business success and more on good parenting. He blamed parental apathy for juvenile issues and called it one of the era's greatest dangers.
Army classification officers worked with a sense of humor at Reynolds Army camp. Pvt Wolf supervised the cleaning detail in the quarters used by Army nurses at Station Hospital and the WAC area.
At Camp Lejeune a Marine hobby club holds a candy auction among members and uses profits to donate more candy to hospital patients. The event demonstrates a community service effort within the Navy Marine Corps.
The column explains migraine features age of onset aura nausea and family history. It reviews treatments including ergotamine tartrate benzedrine and desensitization, with cautions on medical guidance and variable effectiveness.
Pfe Joseph Lakata wrote home from France about finding a copy of the Lansford Evening in the field. Arch bishop Spellman of New York arrived in Rome and planned Mass at Saint Peter’s and to visit Italian war fronts and American cemeteries at Salerno Cassino and Anzio.
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