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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 24, 1945
Page
4
A mood of jitters and optimistic hopes sweeps the public as war reports unfold and stock markets react. McNutt proposes delaying Philippine independence to aid recovery, drawing criticism that Washington pressures undermine trust and aid propaganda.
The Senate voted 52 to 36 against Aubrey Williams for Rural Electrification Administrator. The editorial sees the rejection as a check on New Deal extremism and a sign of healthier government, noting cross party opposition and that war should not shield non war matters.
Gossip suggests private money may back a four year medical college and teaching hospital with potential bids from philanthropists. Amendments shifted site studies from Chapel Hill to consider statewide advantages and possible Rockefeller or similar independent surveys. Reynolds and other Greensboro-Winston leaders are linked to campus influence and benefactions.
Wake county liquor sales show a small rise of three thousand dollars from February 1944 to this year while the state total climbs about thirty thousand dollars more. New Hanover leads ABC counties with Durham, Cumberland, and Wake following. Four counties account for about 40 percent of the 1,386,662.95 total across 25 counties. Industrial and Morris Plan banks push for broader checking accounts signaling a trend toward unified banking. About 1,800 bills were drafted for the 1945 Assembly, with 1,156 ratified and 1,103 acts in the Session Laws, far above the 1943 volume. Printing delays plague the law publication process as adjournment awaits lines of type and department reports.
Census data show Washington District of Columbia population rising to over 926,000 since 1940, a 35 percent gain, plus sharp food price increases reported by district purchasing agent Brennan. For municipal cafeterias, hospitals, and institutions, food costs climbed 48 percent in three years, with clam prices up 159 percent and oysters 130 percent, leading to menu changes.
Jack Stinnett reports Brennan notes celery up 21 percent at 16 places, apples near Byrd in Virginia and West Virginia. Potatoes up 173 percent, corn 181, carrots 169, meat up 34 while fragile in quality limits impact. Fish up 120 percent. fresh fruit and veg average 98 percent. butter 20, oats 34, flour 72, coffee 33, bread 10, lard 57, poultry 60, sugar 20.
A Green Bay Press Gazette column argues the U S system binds government by law, not people, with the Bill of Rights shielding individual freedoms. Citing European war tyranny, the author warns Americans must avoid dictatorship during any future conflict.
By George Sokolsky argues against dictatorship, praises voluntary wartime norms from Wilson era, and critiques New York curfew enforcement. He notes black markets, local issues, and the burden on night workers and the city’s soldiers. He urges trust-based voluntary compliance over government coercion.
Article surveys wartime manpower trends with claims that Germany filled vacancies through a mix of new troops from several nations, reclassifications, and Volkssturm mobilization. It notes Mussolini’s eight hundred thousand Italians conscripted, plus massive shifts from labor to combat roles as Allied bombing disrupts industry.
An analysis notes a labor surplus in Germany due to the blitz which helps generals, while foreigners, including prisoners of war, were forced to work in munitions plants and fortifications. French officers report liberated troops returning home after Russian aid, and Czech informants describe widespread conscription into fortification work, revealing Nazi use of forced labor to free German troops for the front.
The column blends Broadway notes with wartime chatter and public figures. It recalls Lowell Mellett praising FDR's drive, jokes about Nazi POWs and curfews, and vivid anecdotes from studio and stage life including Patton and Lena Horne.
A wartime curfew controversy stirs tension among John L. Lewis Sewell Avery and Fiorello LaGuardia. A Miami Beach telegram claims the city cooperated with curfew since 1941 but accuses the mayor of violating it. The mayor quips that when he makes a mistake it’s a beaut.
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