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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1945
Page
2
North Carolina sees considerable warmth today with continued warmth into tonight and Friday. Showers arrive in the western mountains tonight and Friday. The note adds that since the 1880s the United States has imported millions of tons of palm oil annually.
Hollywood AFL technicians local 683 voted to return to work despite pickets, representing 900 of 17,000 striking studio workers. Leaders called the walkout a wildcat with no wage or hours basis, as returning technicians begin developing backlog of exposed film.
Japanese groups trapped inside Fort Dufferin Mandalay tried to slip out at night but were halted by an Allied artillery blockade. infantrymen crawled through a south wall gate and were cut down by artillery and mortar fire in the streets.
Baseball President Ford Frick and Will Harridge announce a plan to cancel spring training games that require special travel between camps. Clark Griffith and Col. J. Monroe Johnson support voluntary travel reductions allowing intra camp games on direct routes home with no extra travel.
Allied forces extended the Remagen bridgehead into the Ruhr valley area as aerial bombardment pounded Essen Duisburg Duesseldorf Maalheim and Oberhausen. German moves remained cautious with patrol crossings feared by the 21st Army Group and Omar Bradley's forces threatening southern approaches.
Churchill stresses victory through risk and enterprise to boost economy and household thrift. He notes over one million British homes damaged or destroyed and warns of a postwar food shortage lasting years, urging that increased production be turned from paper into action.
The Second White Russian Army tightens siege rings on Danzig and Gdynia as a likely isolation of a nazi strongpoint is anticipated. Red Army aircraft strike Wollin island north of the Berlin front in the Baltic channels as German resistance stiffens near Danzig. Black-eyed people see better in dim light, and falconry was a medieval aristocratic pastime.
A compact home kitchen item outlines a BASIC MEAT LOAF RECIPE for 8 servings using oats as a stretcher. It notes oats keep loaf firm and tender, adds flavor, and provides a simple method of mixing and baking at 375 F for one hour with optional variations.
As adjournment nears, factions sharpen lines for governor race. Speaker Oscar Richardson orders a public calendar Saturday to hasten local bills while two wine bills seek tighter control and higher taxes. One bill limits on premises sales to grade A hotels and cafes under ABC, another adds tax on synthetic and imitation wines, with pure wine tax rising to 30 cents per gallon.
Western Reserve University announces a new cancer research project led by Dr. Alexander A on a serum claimed to treat cancer high blood pressure and arthritis. The study stems from funds by Mrs. Harry Kirtz after her son Herbert Jules died, with Dr. Harry Goldblatt cautioning about no guaranteed cure and years needed to assess value.
Taxpayers in 1941 paid 97 953 675 000 in total taxes. The 1944 incomes are expected to push revenue for the war years above 100 000 000 000. Experts say this surpasses all prior taxes since the nation began. Individual incomes ~17 000 000 000, remainder from corporations and excise taxes. Before 1913 the liquor tax funded most of government revenue, yielding 80.6 percent in 1907.
Helen Cranford of Grace Street, once connected with a larceny charge in Superior Court, denies any relation to the defendant. The Grace Street woman says she knew nothing of the case and learned both share the same name.
Patrolmen Victor Cubellis and Harry Reese, nicknamed storm patrol, tried to stop a housewife from throwing china at her husband. They were hit by a kettle and drenched during the incident in New Castle Pennsylvania.
In Portland, the Chinese consul welcomed Col. C Y Liu, acting director of the Washington office of the Chinese commission of aeronautical affairs, whom he had not seen since their undergraduate days at the University of Michigan in 1922.
High Point Rotarians welcomed their Civic League basketball players at a regular meeting. The undefeated team from North Carolina won the Red Shield tournament in Charlotte, coached by Rotarian Wray Ward with his son assisting. Captain Collins of the Salvation Army joined the players.
The report notes New York stock figures expressing doubt that civilization can endure another global conflict and urging safeguards against war. The piece adds a historical remark that Leonardo da Vinci believed an image is created in the eye.
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