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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 14, 1944
Page
8
North Carolina sees a mild Tuesday with partly cloudy skies and a slight rise in temperature. Tuesday night remains partly cloudy with cooler conditions and Wednesday brings showers in the western portion. South Carolina reports a warm Tuesday with partly cloudy skies and slightly higher temperatures, followed by potential showers in the mountains.
About 65,000 of Britain's 100,000 coal miners had returned to work by early afternoon as Wales faces the worst of the strike in Monmouth and south Wales. Officials said the situation was improving and government leaders urged settlement without provoking further debate. Officials reported monthly output shortfalls near 200,000 long tons versus February last year.
The report notes Sir William Davison pressing the minister on whether the Ulster Eire border should close given IRA actions and alleged war declarations. Churchill replies he will keep statements general, cites complete unity of British wealth, and avoids pledging partition talks or broader action without further discussion.
The article notes a traditional notion where even numbers are deemed female and odd numbers male, reflecting historic gender associations with arithmetic principles.
Soviet forces under Malinovsky advance near Nikolaev and Kherson while claiming 320 towns retaken in 24 hours. Moscow says Germans flee Kherson in panic as red army drives toward Tarnopol Proskurov region and threats the Odessa Lwow rail route.
A World War II report states that massed units neutralized the enemy base at Rabaul New Britain and shelled Japanese positions in the Solomons. A Tokyo broadcast claimed Bougainville troops were taking over American positions and had captured two of three allied airfields in the area.
The Colombian Education Minister issued a circular to governors confirming a decree banning Germans in Colombia from operating schools and urging immediate closure of any remaining German schools. In Pacific theater, MacArthur reports 117 tons of bombs on Rabaul and Wewak attacks with other assaults on Manusal.
Pvt Emily Herring of the Women's Army Corps arrives for a brief furlough with her parents Dr and Mrs R A Herring at 807 East Lexington Avenue. She serves with the Medical Detachment at Lowell General Hospital in Devers Massachusetts near Boston and will be here through tomorrow.
Pvt Frank Garrett son of Mr and Mrs J W Garrett of Rowland Park is now stationed somewhere in the British Empire after arriving safely overseas. He has served since July with basic training at Fort Bragg and Fort Meade Md. Advanced William A Dillon promoted to staff sergeant in U S Bomber Command from sergeant. Dillon is the husband of Ann Lee Dillon and son of Mr and Mrs A W Dillon of 211 West Willis St. He was a Colonial Mills truck driver before enlisting and now serves as an armor gunner on a Liberator. Second Lieut Albert Dewey Ridge Jr of 401 Colonial Dr High Point has begun a nine week pilot training on four engine Liberator bombers at Maxwell Field Alabama. He was selected by Army Air Force experts for leadership potential and will train further in RAF command after completion.
Corporal Malloye Stanfield has been promoted to sergeant in the Air WAC. She is stationed at George Field Lawrenceville Illinois and has served about eleven months. The news comes to her parents Mr and Mrs W O Stanfield.
The body of Sgt W Lester Hicks missing since the March 8 1944 air crash arrived Monday night. Funeral services set for Wednesday at 2 pm at Mechanicsville Primitive Baptist Church with Elder W V Willard presiding. Interment follows in the church cemetery at Hicks Street home.
The North Carolina highway safety division revoked the licenses of four High Point men and one Lexington man after court convictions for drunken driving. Names listed: Curtis Edgar Slate Edward Thomas Robert Hanner S. H. Inman of High Point and Bill Metcalf of Lexington.
March 14 at Maxton North Carolina Tech Sergeant Delma H. Montgomery a glider mechanic receives the Soldier's Medal for heroism during a transport plane crash and fire at the Army Air Base.
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