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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1944
Page
3
One sailor was hospitalized and another detained after a morning clash on a northbound passenger train. The dispute began in Lexington and Thomasville officials summoned an ambulance to City Hospital to tend Albert G. Brad who suffered severe injuries.
Staff Sgt. Robert Moyer of Somerset is identified as the sole survivor of an American bomber crew shot down over Italy. He reports only a sprained ankle from bailout while others suffered cuts. Local officers describe Bradley injured by a glass door, and Jack Dale arrested on a train for transfer to military police in Greensboro.
British port crowds move troops and supplies toward France despite distant explosions. Blue uniforms and police keep docks calm as ships await to ferry soldiers. civilians go about daily life while troops train and wait for orders.
Soldiers march past ruined docks and old Norman arches as Allied columns move toward Cherbourg. At a city theater, children queue for a matinee as Britons and two or three soldiers observe Old Mother Riley Overseas. Two American sailors recount their first sea voyage steering a landing craft into France.
After the Hi-Pic Club regular business meeting at the YWCA members swam in the Y pool as a substitute for the volley session. Guy Kinney presided, with Harry G. Bell as advisor. Next week’s rescue will include a visit to Tomlinson’s showrooms and a swimming party.
In McKeesport Pennsylvania a police lieutenant and a patrolman failed to extract a whining puppy from a sewer drop delaying neighbors sleep. They called the street department who arrived with crowbars and drills but the dog had already been rescued by a passerby and was gone.
Historical lore links Montezuma, the Aztec emperor of Mexico, to an extreme vanilla drink habit. He supposedly consumed up to fifty pitchers daily, reflecting early colonial era curiosity about spices and court life.
The account notes seasickness aboard the voyage and mentions 17 year old Charles Nivin, a Jersey City seaman gunner, who comments with bravado about submarines while patting the ship's gun.
In Thomasville on Monday Judge Howard Steed handed down sentences and fines. Gilbert Lee Frazier of Trinity was fined 50 dollars and court costs for drunken driving and banned from driving for a year. Tommy Jarrett received eight months for assault on a minor and soliciting arms. Sherrod Gray of High Point paid five dollars and costs for violating prohibition. Wayne Crawford, found guilty of larceny and receiving a bicycle, got a 12 month suspended sentence with cost payment and a demand to reimburse Turner. Myrtle Strickland, held for immoral vagrancy, was turned over to county welfare officers. Other cases included Charles Craver for reckless driving, Sian Point and related charges, Clem Tate, Mebane, Allen Crutchfield, Snow Camp for reckless driving, with costs, Odell Atwood for assault, and Wallace Dunlap of High Point for drunkenness with costs.
Chile possesses about two thirds of the mineral resources of South America, underscoring its vast mining wealth and strategic economic position in the region.
The United Kingdom has purchased 3,000,400 yards of a new canvas developed in India. Due to manpower shortages, women in Eire are serving as stretcher hearers to assist.
An old health ad urges improving digestion by increasing liver bile flow with Carter's Little Liver Pills. It claims Nature produces about two pints of bile daily and that the product works quickly, offering relief and promising better well being for 25 cents.
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