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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1943
Page
4
The city council and Municipal Judge Don MacRae are at an impasse over appointing the court clerk. Judge MacRae backs Steve Ingram. the council chose Julian Franklin. The dispute risks a protracted, harmful fight between city branches and possible state intervention.
The piece ponders which Republican may gain payroll jobs if the council brokers favors and which Democrat is most at risk. It notes party lines could limit spoils while anticipating some backroom trade. It also discusses the draft deferment issue and defends a woman who alleged dodging, asserting limited knowledge about the man involved.
The piece notes Calvin Zimmerman, long a Republican candidate for state offices, pursuing the governor nomination as an electoral strategy. It argues a strong GOP showing could win the presidency and Congress for Republicans if Democrats slug it out and leave wounds. It cites past examples where a defeated candidate later gained a federal judgeship, suggesting Zimmerman’s plan hinges on future appointments.
Prosecutor Harris Jarrell praises successor Tom Sprinkle as capable. A bondswoman explains Catherine Cobb’s absence in court due to execution in New York. A World War veteran criticizes mining and labor photography as propaganda.
Exchanges from High Point and other locales reveal wartime concerns and opinions. Military police demands, relief aid critique, WAACs experience, and civilian views on Europe, justice, and urban life shape the home front mood.
The Enterprise congratulates Tom Sprinkle on his selection as prose cutting attorney of the municipal court. The piece praises the role as vital, demanding a vigorous, detectivelike, conscientious public servant, and asserts Sprinkle meets those high standards.
A New Orleans widow admits sending six postcards deemed scurrilous and defamatory to a college engineering student deferred for studies while her brothers and sons faced military draft. The case raises issues of wartime propaganda and personal defiance.
A column notes King George granting Eisenhower and MacArthur honorary Knights of the Bath. It jokes that neither would seek the title, and suggests the desire for real Bath rank, while poking fun at fashion, radios, and married life with a string of quips.
Peter Edson recounts how a Great Prince, amid war and council, sends a priceless letter to Muscovy's Great Prince by a stamp free envoy. The airborne Stratoliner postman delivers a historic seal, enriching the prince’s philatelic album with a cover no other album will possess.
A garbled OCR fragment cites Ezekiel 28 15 and quotes Charles Wagner on thinness Yet the text ends with an odd line about a complete set of silverware with no spoon missing and a stray 02 pie
A cluttered column surveys Broadway nightlife with Mrs Roosevelt and guests on E 86th St visit to Doctors Hospital, dancers like Tilly Losch guided by John Gunther, Vera Zorina seeking citizenship, and chatter about Oku movements. Celebrity buzz includes Marianne OBrien, Sid Skolsky quips, and Jack Gleason quips.
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