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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1942
Page
2
North Carolina and South Carolina remain largely colder with continued cool conditions. Tonight temperatures ease slightly but stay near the low to mid forties in the Piedmont and near coastal areas.
Staff Sergeant Joseph L. Leckard, who warned of planes at Hawaii on December 7 but saw no action, returned home to Newbury Pennsylvania with his family and sweetheart meeting his train. He plans to rest before reporting to Fort Monmouth, NJ, as his heroics earned him the Distinguished Service Cross and a promotion. He chats with his family about the unheeded alert and explains he could not draw pay yet.
The text notes anti-aircraft guns in civilian plants and arsenals vary from .50 caliber machine guns to the Navy 5 inch gun. By year end 1942, 15 million workers will be engaged in war production, up from 3 million in December 1941.
North Carolina WPA officials report that private employment has priority over WPA projects even when a worker is offered a defense job. From July 1, 1941 to January 24, 1942, 126 workers left WPA. average WPA employment was 24,670 with 97 percent turnover. In January, 963 WPA workers were placed in private jobs through the Division of Training and Reemployment, which now includes a farm placement section coordinated with the U. S. Employment Service.
The text reports a Soviet Premier Stalin communication urging drastic action to impede German production and noting new tanks and aircraft engines seen on the Russo German front from French factories. It suggests the British war council chose to wipe out those factories despite potential political costs, hoping French understanding would follow.
The report says Yukhnov was reinforced by troop-carrying mines and German wounded were abandoned as the retreat was rapid, with ammunition dumps captured intact. A German parachute division, famed in Belgium and the Ingrad front, was used as infantry on the Len front and lost 85 percent of its strength in winter trench fighting after arriving last October.
The piece notes U S Navy operations in the central Pacific intensifying as Allied production surges. Experts fear Java defense may fail and predict a major spring Japanese offensive aimed at Australia to secure supply lines from the Dutch East Indies and to block Allied advances from southern Australia and New Zealand.
The report notes native resentment toward the Japanese and a feared uprising. It also details a March 4 air strike by General MacArthur’s forces against Subic Bay, sinking over 30,000 tons of ships, destroying vessels and ammo, with thousands believed drowned.
Danube floods leave thousands homeless in Bulgaria and Hungary as the river rises after thaws. Vidin reports 10,000 marooned while Szabolka records 2,000 without homes. The widespread crisis is described as the worst in years.
A congressional committee highlighted large federal projects on the Mississippi and its tributaries and major dam expenditures including 3,210,000 for Sacramento works, 1,300,000 for Fort Peck hydroelectric power, 4,166,000 for Bonneville Dam, and 967,531 for the U S Soldiers Home. It warned floods could halt rail and highway routes, disrupt water transport, flood munitions plants, and inundate industrial approaches, underscoring that cemeterial expenses reflect peacetime needs and will rise for war burials.
Report states a night assault by a special attack flotilla caused the instantaneous sinking of an Arizona class battleship after slipping through guardless channels. Japanese naval observers reported the destruction from a force distant from Pearl Harbor.
Rockingham March 6 Sheriff B Morse on trial in Federal Court with seven others on charges of conspiracy to violate internal revenue laws relating to liquor told a jury he never failed to investigate any report about liquor business in Richmond County He offered to cooperate with the federal alcohol tax unit investigator saying he never had been asked for any help Morse said he had given away liquor to those in need and added that ignorance does not excuse a man but he never realized the breach.
Reports from Bandoeng place Japanese forces within 31 miles of Soerabaja as Dutch defenders withdraw to the interior amid heavy artillery and parachute assaults. Burma's Rangoon and Pegu remain in British hands as Allied troops fight a grim rear-guard action. Curtin moves to mobilize men to age 60.
Portland, March 6. William J Powers, 30, was sentenced to 90 days in jail after admitting he placed his six year old son Anthonys hands on a hot stove as punishment for taking sugar. The judge called it barbarous and the boy’s condition at a hospital was described as good.
The War Production Board announced a new branch mining office in Raleigh to serve North and South Carolina, Georgia and Florida, highlighting mineral resources' role in the war program. The move aims to support regional needs amid ongoing production priorities.
The article argues backlighting is essential for dramatic pictures and variety in snapshots. It explains practical use, including silhouette requires short exposure while detail in shadows needs double exposure. Emphasizes shading the lens, simple composition, and shooting with light from behind the subject.
Anyone can create a window box garden whether in a suburban home or a high rise. Boxes can be built in winter for spring planting with cypress lasting long and costing under a dollar. For shade only foliage plants work. for sun, begonias and impatiens thrive. Use rich potting soil and regular feeding to keep flowers healthy.
London reports that German pressure on Egypt has eased due to the British Cirenaica campaign. Oliver Lyttleton cites capturing 50,000 to 100,000 tons of German ammunition and a desert barrier, leaving Britain in a stronger defensive position. He notes American aid and US forces at Matrea, praising close cooperation with Allied planners.
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