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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 13, 1942
Page
2
Weather summary notes warmer conditions across North Carolina South Carolina Lima and Georgia with scattered showers and thunderstorms tonight. Strong storms possible with brief downpours and gusty winds in affected areas.
In Thomasville on March 13 officials of the Classroom Teachers Association announce an oil portrait of J. N. Hauss, long time school superintendent, retiring this term. The 30 by 36 inch painting by Henry Roe Jr. of Greensboro will hang in the high school, funded by students, friends, and faculty.
The text notes that the official tax deadline does not fall on March 15 this year because that date is a Sunday. Citizens lose an extra day for filing, as returns will be accepted without penalty up to midnight Monday, March 16.
OPA officials consider direct subsidies from the U.S. Treasury or financial pooling to aid weak railroads if wartime rate increases are canceled. They also plan to study possible price relief by reducing rates on costly food items. Ten items under scrutiny include cement, ores, lumber, pig iron, rubber scrap, sulfur, and petroleum products.
Butter receipts 730,097 firm market unchanged. Eyes receipts 17,922 steady. Dirties 2642, dicks 26, other prices unchanged. Peru orders 10,000,000 banks of matches from the United States. The Rat Club of Hinysford England killed 234 rats in a recent month.
The High Point branch of Bundles for America, Inc. reports a second War Production Board grant to purchase wool yarn for army and navy requisitions. Distribution is delayed awaiting a March April priorities number. National expansion is approved by the President's Committee on War Relief Agencies. Personal comfort kits will continue. a Salvage for Defense Campaign to clothe families of servicemen is launched from New York.
The latest reports describe continued Soviet advances in various sectors with towns reoccupied in some areas. Berlin claims German air forces damaged Russian concentrations while Soviet Tass notes several German planes destroyed.
London dispatch reports Marshal Semeon Timoshenko leading a massive southern front assault with up to 1.56 million Red Army troops aimed at breaking German lines in the Donets Basin and reaching the Dnieper Bend in Ukraine. German communiques admit a defensive stance as Soviet forces push within 30 to 40 miles of the bend northeast of Dnieperopetrovsk.
The Navy said U S forces sunk enemy ships near Japan and damaged or destroyed 149 vessels overall in the western Pacific. Fighters from Midway Island shot down one of two large Japanese four engine seaplanes, while the other evaded. One U S pilot wounded but returned to base. Earlier reports noted Japanese submarines driven off January 29. A medium U S tanker was torpedoed in the Caribbean. A Grand Coulee dam note compares effort to move concrete by railway car.
A gun battle in Abingdon left Treacy dead and Tignor wounded after soldiers in army uniforms tried to hijack a car and two more vehicles. The escape led to a statewide search in southwest Virginia as state troopers and 65 local officers joined the FBI pursuit from Bristol toward Lebanon. Fort Oglethorpe sentry Sergeant Clifton Hall was critically injured after a beating. Lovett and Testerman are identified as the soldiers from Philadelphia and Lynchburg respectively.
Names of defendants and associates tied to espionage and secret writing for German agents surface as trial unfolds. Paul Borchardt, 56, ex-major. Helen Mayer, 26, accused housewife. Karl Mueller, 36, ex-machinist. Hans Pagel, 20, pleaded guilty. Frederick Schlosser, 19, once youth movement leader. Suspected network included transmitting ship names to submarines.
In Guilford Superior Court Judge Wilson Warick sentenced Wes ley Grant Jr a 16 year old High Point white boy to five to seven years for an attempted rape of an eleven year old Negro girl. The judge urged Governor Broughton to transfer him from prison to a reform school. Greensboro youths Lee McCanless Earle Rayle and Gray Shakleford were convicted of robbing W T Hilliard of High Point. McCanless got twelve months on the roads, Shakleford six months and Rayle four months, per jury mercy.
Reports say Japanese forces trained for jungle routes must move along the northeast coast to Papuan shores, making land invasion to Port Moresby via sea difficult. Air attacks wrecked at least seven ships at Salamaua, with both Australian and Washington communiques noting the raid and some attribution disputes. A separate note says Lomita inc. cabinet agreed to enforce a national security statute requiring workers to stay on the job at normal wages.
Mrs. J. D. Bragg of St. Louis Missouri general president of the Women s Division, Christian Service, Methodist Church, spoke at Wesley Memorial Church on the second annual session of the Women s Society of Christian Service Western North Carolina Conference. She urged unity of the three divisions and emphasized vision, spiritual poise, and defense of social laws while condemning hate and urging firm stand against liquor near camps and indecencies luring soldiers.
Louis J. Fisher, local attorney and secretary of the county board of elections, was nominated by the Democratic executive committee of High Point to serve another term on the board. The committee plans to present his name at tomorrow's Greensboro county executive meeting. The group also briefly discussed appointing new registrars and anticipates Hudgins and Fisher will be approved.
Prof D B Carrick spoke at the Elwood Hotel to the Kiwanis Club on The Origin of Surnames. Lawton Dutton led the program and introduced Carrick, who traced surname roots to occupations, Bible, temperament and heritage using club members as examples. Visitors included H C Sprinkle Rev J E Rink Mayor O A Kirkman and Arch K Schock. Joseph D Doggett was welcomed as a new member.
City of High Point North Carolina announces sale of 349000 in judgment funding notes. Notes mature quarterly with 6 percent annual interest, payable in lawful money. No auction. bidders submit bids with certified checks and specify interest rate. Notes are general obligations of the city with payments guaranteed by the city’s authority and funds.
Despite the Savage label, the article notes that early North American Indians practiced refined hospitality customs, highlighting cultural sophistication and social etiquette within their communities.
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