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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 24, 1946
Page
3
Walter Winchell surveys wartime politics and press freedom with quips about denials by officials, Roosevelt, Churchill, and Eisenhower. He cites Pulitzer quotes promoting publicity, mocks political double talk, and notes Rankin committee drama in a brisk period-tone column.
In St Petersburg a 27 year old man who said his name was John Wright McDowell Jr is held on two charges of attempted kidnaping of seven year old girls. Detective Chief John S Siers said McDowell claims to be the adopted son of a Peoria banker who died ten years ago. Foster mother Mrs Pearl McDowell reportedly lives in Peoria. Magistrate John T Fischer set a 50,000 bond. preliminary hearing scheduled for Tuesday.
University of British Columbia naturalists report a new fur bearing rat on Vancouver Island. Trappers along the Koksilah river and Someno creek districts found specimens of Siberian origin, likely arriving in North America via a Russian lumber ship at Cowichan Bay. A note adds that the word Tammany refers to an Indian chief who welcomed William Penn.
Radio program listings reflect network corrections made too late for inclusion. The schedule runs from 12:30 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. with a mix of concerts, forums, dramas, comedies, and news commentary featuring CBS ABC NBC and local hosts across multiple time blocks including Stars Concert, America United, Edward Murrow, The Shadow, and Sunday night variety shows.
A nineteen year-old Polish war victim Ted Herka, once of Warsaw, joins the U S Army for three years, pledging allegiance as a Yankee doughboy after fleeing Poland, surviving Nazi capture, and fighting with the 151st Field Artillery. He came to the United States late last year and is en route to the Caribbean theater. efforts proceed to grant him American citizenship.
The history notes that peanuts were first cultivated in the United States in the states of Virginia and North Carolina, marking the crop's early American origins.
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