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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1944
Page
15
The Peace at Home Committee studies postwar needs led by industry leaders to prevent mass unemployment. It seeks private investment, job transfers, and funded programs to absorb returning servicemen, expand consumer demand, and stabilize markets amid uncertain postwar production.
Tech Sergeant Harvey R. Morgan sent a New York newspaper a short poem he wrote to capture GI sentiment. The humorous verse imagines turning into a little egg in a tree to avoid a mean sergeant’s shouts and spattering down.
New York dispatch says the coastal collier Mau rice Tracy sank after a collision with a Liberty ship about seven miles off Barnegat at 3:45 a.m. All crew members were saved. The damaged freighter produced 35,000,000 pounds of wool last year.
The North Carolina Federation of Women's Clubs raises its Fifth War Loan bond quota by one million dollars. Affiliates the Federation of Home Demonstration Clubs and the State Nurses Association join, pledging forty thousand dollars and individual members to buy one hundred dollars in bonds. Home Demonstration clubs report to home agents by July 10, agents to state chair Karl Bishopric by July 15. Leaders express confidence the goal will be reached.
Ration news lists price and stamp updates for foods and fuels including sugar stamps, canning sugar, and airplane shoes stamps valid dates. Also notices renewed fuel oil, gasoline coupons and new requirement to write license numbers on gas coupons. D.S. Coltrane states 2,500 carloads Argentine corn and 446 carloads Argentine barley for south and east states within 60 days with North Carolina to receive its share.
The piece advises sending practical items tailored to theater needs, noting rationing and supply differences. It highlights candy, cigarettes, and snacks in some theaters, but warns against bulky or nonessential items like pillows, undergarments, and unnecessary clothing. Letters, photos, books, magazines, and home-town papers are valued. avoid fragile perishables and unneeded gear.
Eight airmen adrift in dinghies after their Liberator was shot down endured 44 hours at sea. Staff Sergeant Wilfred Haschke guarded the group and prayed aloud as prayers from his Catholic manual guided them. A landing craft and a fishing boat The Three Brothers finally spotted them, delivering hope and rescue.
Sgt. James Clark of Tullahoma Tennessee reports heavy bombers struck five oil refineries near Vienna yesterday, with crews confirming smoke from the Bratislava Apollo refinery raid still visible 150 miles away. Hosiery mills in Uruguay run 24 hours daily.
Public exhortation urges readers to defend Americanism through sacrifice and struggle. The author stresses liberty equality and unity do not come easy and that comfort must be sacrificed to safeguard freedom. Reading emphasizes hard work prayer blood and perseverance as essential to maintaining national values.
The Norwegian legation reported 6000 to 8000 German troops were withdrawn from Norway to bolster forces in Denmark after the Allied invasion of France. Police ordered evacuation of Oslo's civilian administration from Norway in case of emergency.
Raleigh reports June 1 state penal system held 6139 prisoners as of June 1. Separately American dolls were sold in 90 foreign countries last year.
The navy revised casualty classifications for the May 21 ammunition explosion at Pearl Harbor, keeping totals at 27 killed, 100 missing, and 380 wounded. The update changes navy personnel counts and assigns deaths among services, noting shifts in branch designations.
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