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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 24, 1942
Page
5
Color trends dominate this season with Star Gray and Brownstone leading the palette. Sweaters take center stage with Argyle patterns and pastel-like shades while jackets grow longer and shoulders slim. Gabardine and covert fabrics rise in popularity with blue tones, stripes, plaids, and heather blends shaping new town and country silhouettes.
A verse by Frances Boal Mehler ponders divine recall at April's start. Readers ask about balancing limited fertilizer use with humus. The column argues fertilizers cannot replace humus and bacteria, and warns gardeners to maintain humus via manure or decayed leaves.
Radio schedule lists programs across networks with time blocks from evening to late night. Highlights include The Three Suns Trio, Captain Midnight repeats, Denver Strings, Easy Aces, Amos and Andy sketches, Fibber McGee and Molly, Bob Hope, Red Skelton, and Fred Waring repeats, plus news, sports, and dance music interludes across CBS NBC and mutual networks with multiple serials and variety acts.
An East Coast port report says a new Canadian force including air force personnel, World War I veterans, a field hospital unit and about 50 army nurses landed safely in Britain. The item mixes troop details with gardening notes and fertilizer cautions about weeds, gladioli care, and pest control.
A survey of spring headwear notes a shift from all purpose hats to sport and leisure lines with upturned brims and flanged options. Browns and grays dominate palettes, with novelty trims and two tone woven effects shaping a growing national trend toward stylish, varied hats.
NEA Service staff report Charlie Chaplin is working on a new modern picture in which he will not act. No reissue of Shoulder Arms. he notes 24 frame per second modern film makes that film jerky. He also plans to bring The Circus back with sound but will debut a new project first with a new personality. The piece notes Gone With the Wind earnings, Powell’s career, wartime shortages, and Orson Welles editing The Magnificent Ambersons from Brazil.
The Shaw University Choir of Raleigh will present a recital at William Penn High School this evening at 7 o clock. The Bethel Holiness Church of God revival, led by Bishop K Minge, continues this week with Elder G L Hawkins of Asheboro directing evening services at 7 o clock.
A Chungking government spokesman declares Japan has reached the peak of military glory and fortunes of war now turn to the Allies. Chinese optimism grows from Pacific developments last week. A second item notes the Master Singers perform at Friendship Baptist Church Friday at 7 30 p.m. and a church group meeting at Miss Edna Carver house tonight.
An outline of key Allied moves in the Pacific and Asia during WWII includes General Douglas MacArthur's transfer to Australia the smooth voyage of U S convoys to Australia liaison between Chinese and British troops in Bursia and the arrival of Sir Stafford Cripps in India to ease political differences.
Leonardtown poker club members vow to draw inside straights and use winnings for defense stamps if lucky. If they lose, they must buy stamps equal to twice their losses. Chinese government branches are referred to as yuans.
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