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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 12, 1944
Page
2
North Carolina remains cloudy with moderate temperatures expected Sunday. South Carolina sees cloudy skies with rain and similar mild temperatures for the day.
Field in an address to the Cleveland City Club denounces voices sowing hatred of the Union and Great Britain. He warns that venom and belittling England threaten American resolve and national unity amid wartime challenges.
The article describes a political shift where a resignation allows Far to become titular and acting chief executive. Far takes the presidency as the Ramirez administration falters amid tensions with axis powers. International powers withhold full diplomatic ties while examining hemisphere defense stakes.
A wartime dispatch notes 2000 Japanese killed, 800 to American infantry, 500 wiped out by Col Brown’s tank column, with 700 others accounted for by the Chinese 22nd division. Mountbatten reports British advances toward Akyab as Stilwell outlines Hu valley operations.
Allied air and ground forces report successful raids on Florence freight yards with bomb hits to locomotives and rolling stock as Lt General Mark Clark lauds crews. Despite heavy German resistance near Cassino and beachhead, crews avoided cultural treasures in Florence and achieved targeted damage across multiple fronts.
Detroit faced a milkless weekend as CIO unionists of United Dairy Workers Local 83 halted about 90 percent of deliveries to hospitals homes and businesses in protest at wartime overtime pay delays. A meeting to restore service broke up amid boos and no violence was reported while the National War Labor Board urged workers to return to their jobs and noted the dispute clashes with national policy.
Plans announced for a Boy Scout Trainers Institute in High Point on March 31 to April 2 led by Charles Smith of the national Boy Scouts staff. D P Whitley council leader will direct with Leigh Rodenbough and C E Yokley assisting, with attendees from Concord Charlotte Winston Salem Greensboro Durham and Reidsville. The three section program runs 2 to 10 p m each evening, covering trainers for scoutmasters cubmasters and Negro scoutmasters. Reservations and enrollments available at scout headquarters 800 sor ties. Five were lost and one German downed.
Training at the WA typing Specialist School prepares men and women for army posts. Dorothy P. Poole of High Point completed September 1943 training and serves as typist and file clerk at Fort Myer Virginia with a promotion. Pauline V. Clapp, daughter of Henry and, listed in the WAC, finished basic at Fort Oglethorpe and specialist training at Camp Crowder and Fort Des Moines and now works in Washington, D C.
Pfc. Helen Brewer Hill of Route listed in the WAC in August. She trained at Daytona Beach Florida and was assigned to communications work in Washington, D C. She is now doing office work at Fort Myers Virginia.
Sgt. Carl B. Byrd Jr., son of Mr and Mrs C Byrd of High Point, finished the final phase of combat training as a flexible gunnery operator on a heavy bomber at Fort Myers Florida. A Trinity High School graduate, he prepares for overseas duty.
George E. Harbinson son of Charles E. Harbinson of 311 West Bay Street has reported to the Bainbridge army air field as an aviation trainee. He served with the infantry for a year before transferring to the air forces in July 1943.
Sgt. James C. McLean USMC has completed a five day furlough with his parents Mr and Mrs A C McLean at 1407 West Green Street and has reported for duty at Camp Lejeune.
Minnie L. Davis daughter of Mr and Mrs J T Davis 1204 Green St High Point promoted in the Women's Army Corps as 1st cook in the WAC mess at Army Air Forces Tactical Center in Orlando Fla Davis enlisted January 1943 trained at Iona Beach and Daytona Beach before reporting to AAFTAC in April She has two brothers in service Sgt Jack D Davis with the army in India and Billie D Davis a seaman second class in the navy
Bluejacket Martin N Gallion Jr age 19 son of Mr and Mrs M B Gallion Route 2 Point Minnesota received recognition as eligible to qualify for the petty officer rate of machinist mate third class at the Naval Training School machinist on the University of Minnesota campus Minneapolis.
Willard A. Hussey a 23 year old Marine Corps Reserve member from 701 Hines Street High Point has been promoted from sergeant to staff sergeant at the Air Station Cherry Point He enlisted September 30 1942 trained at Parris Island and is now a construction foreman Previously he worked as a mechanic for the High Point Overall Company and graduated High Point High in 1937.
Dublin and London press comment on Britain's neutrality stance and U S involvement. Irish Daily Telegraph warns of danger from Allied information in Dublin, while Irish public opinion favors neutrality and calls for cooperation with the United States on neutrals like Sweden and Turkey. Berlin praises Ireland's stance as defensive.
Sir Bertram Ramsay, famed Allied naval commander, steered Dunkirk evacuation and sea-borne invasion designs. A Knight Commander of the Bath, he shaped operations from Dover Straits to North Africa, Sicily, and the anticipated European invasion.
A Wilmington report details a farm study at Invershiel in Pender County where 80 milch cows graze crops day and night with no supplemental fodder. An investigative panel including A R Howard R W Galphin C R Dillard and R R Pender county agents found the system workable reducing dairy costs.
In Thomasville on March 11 Ella Mae Hilton and Nina Minton Hall were each sentenced to six months on immoral vagrancy charges after a Friday hearing before Judge Carl Wilson. Both filed notices of appeal for May term. bonds set at 300 dollars. A separate case saw Mrs. W D Holdaway receive a suspended 30 day sentence for failing to send children to school, conditional on paying a 10 dollar fine and court costs and keeping children in school except under a physician's care. the children's father faced the same charge with judgment suspended.
In Dublin on March 11 anxious mood grows despite U S assurances that it would not move against Ireland. The Irish and American notes calm fears yet concern remains over maintaining good relations with Europe and avoiding actions that could imperil ties. The Irish press debunked claims of diplomatic pouches allegedly carrying sensitive bags to Germany and Japan noting such rumors are false since the war began.
Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau, like Einstein and others, had help preparing his income tax return. An associate said the Treasury head works with a personal bookkeeper, while Roosevelt reportedly handles his own. Senator Ran Instead commented that he finished his by hand but won’t criticize others who get help.
The Office of Price Administration cut ration point costs for many sausages effective Sunday. Semi dry and common sausages see a two point reduction from March values while others drop one point. adjustments appear on the March consumer-value table.
Ireland defends its stance as a note from the U S outlines that two Irish flag ships sunk harmed the United Nations war effort. The State Department refused to back a sale due to hazards on Irish vessels. Irish Minister Brennen responds, citing insufficient evidence of German torpedoing and a British plane misattribution in another incident.
Tokyo radio reports Allied forces regrouping on Northeast New Guinea near the fortified Madang area. American ships and Australian inland troops form a pincer with U S forces on Los Negros as bombers strike Hollandia. Liberators hit Hong Kong docks and ships near Ponape and Kusaie in Caroline Islands. Nipponese atolls in the Marshall Islands were raided. no American losses or enemy fighters reported.
RAF notes Thunderbolts converted from high altitude fighters to fighter bombers with a 500 pound bomb under the belly. They demonstrate low level ground attack capability as heavy traffic moves through railyards in the Ruhr during invasion planning.
A map shows Soviet forces cutting the Odesa to Lwow line as S. K. Timoshenko, born in Bessarabia, eyes a return home to lead Russians. He is pictured with his brother Efrim amid village villagers as Stalin faces his appeal. Nazis may set next stand at Nautii.
The Coast Guard mobilizes to halt illicit booze shipments as the WPB cuts cane liquor imports to conserve molasses for industrial alcohol. Patrols scope includes seaborne routes and overland gaps with customs help, amid uncertainties about the extent of the reduced imports.
Soviet forces drive through Tarnopol and Proskurov regions capturing dozens of towns and villages. Advancing fronts under Konev and Malinovsky threaten Kherson Nikolaev and Uman while pushing toward Romania and Odessa. Germans report withdrawals and heavy pressure as Red Army massed to break German lines along the Dnieper and surrounding rail hubs.
About 500 delegates are expected to attend the 55th convention of the North Carolina Congress of Parents and Teachers in Durham on April 18 19. Local officials held a cenfer here last week to discuss plans for the event.
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