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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1944
Page
10
Allied forces push toward the Gothic Line near Italy's west anchor at Pisa while British troops move inland toward Florence as Gen. Clark’s 5th Army advances. The press frames the line as a critical last stand before the Po River.
State authorities pressed search for Walter Otto Jones 28 of High Point Gurney Lee York 27 of Charlotte and David Stephenson 75 after they overpowered a guard at a Chatham county prison camp road gang and seized a car. The trio faced long sentences for burglary larceny and related crimes and were described as dangerous.
Emergency rationing in eastern North Carolina aims to prevent transport breakdown amid a major truck tire shortage. District OPS Director T. B. Johnson said civilian quotas for large truck and bus tires drop to under half July allotments, with August likely the lowest since rationing began due to rising military demand. Ration boards may not receive August quotas to avoid shortages.
Gov. M. B. Broughton ordered a one week delay in opening Charleston markets to align with Georgia and South Carolina actions. The border belt moves from August 1 to August 8, eastern belt from August 7 to August 14, middle belt from September 1 to September 18, and the old belt from September 18 to September 25.
Dr. William A. Morgan, serving as dean of Asheville College since 1941, was elected dean of Biltmore College succeeding Dean Stevenson Jr. who resigned to lead Brevard College. Eight polio cases were reported, total 390 since June 1, with cases in Ashe Buncombe Guilford Haywood New Hanover Union and Yadkin as health officials warn of a peak this month.
Georgia Farm Bureau Federation leader H. L. Wingate said flue cured growers and warehousemen would press for higher ceilings after Fed Vinson upheld 39 cents a pound for loose tobacco and 43 cents for graded. He planned appeals to Governor Broughton of North Carolina and other officials to back farm demands, while warning that delays in markets could damage stock.
In Washington on July 27, Senate seats 32 and 33 see defeats for E. D. Cotton Ed Smith of South Carolina and Mrs. Hattie Caraway, the longtime incumbent from Arkansas. Smith, a staunch New Deal critic, and Caraway both exit after long tenures, boosting the 1944 turnover to about 10 percent with nine of 96 senators not returning next January.
Spartanburg South Carolina July 27 James F Byrnes War Mobilization Director urged Congress to rapidly consider demobilization legislation He pressed for two bills one to dispose of surplus government property and another to create conversion from war to peacetime production Byrnes and Mrs Byrnes voted in their home precinct in the Democratic primary Soap is used in processing wool cotton and other textiles.
A Senate investigation led by Senator Bankhead will scrutinize rayon’s push into cotton territory. The inquiry will cover production costs, government support, and rayon’s economic impact as cotton producers fear widespread displacement and farmers’ livelihoods.
In Hammonton New Jersey on July 27 Mrs Maud Kell found a four foot blacksnake with a bulge in its middle used as a decoy egg to trick chickens. A neighbor killed the snake and investigators found the bulge to be a wooden egg.
In White Plains on July 27 Michael F. Morissey of Indianapolis told the New York State Association of Chiefs of Police that khaki wacky pickup girls account for about 92 percent of venereal disease infections among service men. He said campaigns against brothels reduced professional prostitutes to eight percent, making the promiscuous girl the new focus of concern.
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