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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1944
Page
18
War conditions are not responsible for the high divorce total of 3 259 in the county last year. Judge McBride and Justice Benjamin J. look to low mood and marital strain as the cause, saying homes were caving in and the war gave the extra kick.
New York University with the Institute of the Crippled and Disabled launches a broad campaign to help war veterans and other physically handicapped persons find jobs in war industries. Government agencies private philanthropy and insurers back the effort studying safety in employing women juveniles and the disabled and including licensing of handicapped drivers.
Staff Sergeant Charles F. Thorburn son of Mr and Mrs R J Thorburn of Greensboro has been reported missing over Germany on a raid February 21 He is married to Evelyn Sechrest of High Point and is listed as missing.
Two soldiers at Alexandria Army Air Base reported hearing for a “post al detail” and expecting easy duties. They soon learned the task meant digging post holes, a shift from the imagined soft assignments.
Paramushiro, a northern Pacific outpost, sits in fog and sea cliffs. The mile high mountains descend to the water, making daily life difficult and isolating residents on this remote island outpost.
Washington lists seven North Carolinians among U S soldiers killed in action. The names span European and Mediterranean theaters and include ranks from second lieutenant to private. Families are identified with mothers and addresses in Charlotte Troutmans Kannapolis McAdenville Raleigh and other towns.
Aboard a U.S. flagship off Eniwetok Marshall Islands on February 19 the war unfolds in a flat, panoramic view. Soldiers, sailors and planes execute familiar tactics as amphibious assaults press the Japanese garrison. The writer notes the eerie sameness of Pacific battlefronts and watches a mortar squad be spotted and eliminated, while ships, tanks and foxholes map the front.
The piece asks and answers quick questions about a mastodon a chalk fossil and vampire bats. It notes that mastodons are huge extinct animals chalk is formed from shells and that vampire bats are real but rarely suck blood.
In Knoxville, the dog Wolf owned by W. L. Nicholson hops into a taxi at the nearest station and rides home, with Nicholson paying the fare. The story notes Knoxville taxi drivers' familiarity with the dog.
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