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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 26, 1944
Page
15
The article recalls Frances Perkins, long secretary of labor, facing criticism over labor statistics and agency coordination. Roosevelt’s management, opposition from labor groups, and her resilience amid calls for reform are discussed. Red Cross campaigns and local contributions are noted, including Greek restaurant workers and High Point College efforts.
The article details enormous paper usage for military supplies including 700000 item types, K ration packaging, shells and charges, and fiber containers. It highlights Miss Perkins's welfare reforms and long tenure in New York state labor administration, plus donor firms aiding the collection effort.
Our Baby Album highlights birthdays of Asheboro children. Robert Lee Nance Jr. turns two on March 17. Nancy Iretta Borland marks three on March 25. Gale Hill celebrates her first birthday on March 31. Howard Ray York observes his first birthday on March 24.
Chamber of Commerce agricultural committee reports four action groups to aid rural residents and townspeople. Selections include curb market and locker/freezer committees and a farm family room, with Noble T. Praigg naming personnel. A temporary home demonstration agent plan extends through summer and fall conning season at least.
More than a thousand residents attended concerts by violinist Benno Rabinof and pianist Sylvia Smith at Thomasville High School auditorium. Rabinof earned praise as a master violinist with pieces like Ave Maria and Flight of the Bumble Bee, while Smith performed Ritzy Blue and Turum Straw variations. Proceeds from ticket sales funded the Red Cross, with the first 50 dollars donated.
Soldiers recovered about 340 in cash after a search of the men. The vehicle held a metal ammunition case, an army rifle, paratrooper shoes, and other army gear. A follow up showed the car was stolen.
Governor Homer M Adkins declared his intent to run for the United States Senate in the upcoming Democratic primaries. The announcement was made in Little Rock as part of his campaign for next summer elections.
Leslie Abbott of Greensboro was elected chairman of Guilford County elections board to replace C. C. Wimbish. Fellow members are Louis J. Fisher of High Point and Martin Douglas of Greensboro. Abbott, a Democrat, serves his first term. Fisher is a ten year veteran Democrat. Douglas is a Republican.
Mrs. Jones describes life in Alaska after the war and her husband’s service on Aleutian bases. She notes poor sanitation and starkly different gear for Japanese prisoners, while praising residents and saying they may return to Alaska after duty ends. Jones heads to Fort Bragg for reassignment, with his wife planning to accompany him.
A voluntary home and building cleanup campaign gains momentum as ten permits totaling 2240 dollars are issued by the building and plumbing inspector. Permits include painting, reroofing, repairs, and a new porch plus a flue installation on properties across Edgedale Drive North Street South Main Street East Commerce Street Coltrane Street and 111 West Commerce Street.
The High Point Humane Society announces the Be Kind to Dumb Animals contest closes Tuesday night April 4 in city schools. Prizes for best scrapbook and best essay. judges are Mrs. W. A. Bivins Mrs. Nancy Posten and Miss Ruth Carter. Winners and ten top scrapbooks displayed at the public library. Committee members are Mrs. Thomas Sprinkle Mrs. Paulette Lindsey Mrs. L. F. Voorhees Miss Ruth Bowne Mrs. Valette J. Harris and W. A. Bivins.
The notice lists ration changes including processed foods Blue A8 through E8 and Blue F8 through K8, red meat and fats books, sugar stamps 30 31 and canning sugar stamp 40, shoe and airplane stamps, Furl oil coupons in southern states, and A- gasoline coupons now valid in southern states with expiry dates through June 20 1945.
Washington March 25 A heated complaint by Secretary Hull that garbled accounts of his talk with 24 Republican Congressmen capped a bid for clearer foreign policy understanding. Lawmakers left dissatisfied, saying Hull offered no definite disclosures on Polish border, Germany postwar plans, or Atlantic Charter progress.
W V March Senate Majority Leader Alben W Barkley issues a cryptic remark on leadership continuity in war and future peace. He gives no clear stance on supporting Roosevelt for a fourth term, leaving questions about his re election position.
The War Department announced temporary promotions for North Carolina officers. Warren Osborne Cochran from major to lieutenant colonel and Warren Coons Corwin from captain to major. Also elevated were Joan Anderson Leonard Harry Brevard Kendrick Thomas Brevard Nisbet William Bolton Walker Jr and James Sidney Beane Jr from second lieutenants to first lieutenants.
The twenty fifth annual convention of the North Carolina Congress of Parents and Teachers will be held in Durham on April 18 and 19. It will celebrate the silver anniversary with a review of accomplishments and a forecast for the future under the theme Retrospect and Prospect. Curfew was introduced in England about 1068.
At Chapel Hill the Carolina Dramatic Association held its annual meeting after three days of drama festival and finals. Florence Busby of Catawba College was elected president and Paul Neal of Belmont Abbey Junior College as vice president. Ruth Goodman and others were named to the executive committee.
ATLANTA March 25 A strike vote among 26 000 Southern Bell phone employees will be taken early in May unless recognition is granted the Southern Federation of Telephone Workers as sole bargaining agent J J Senet field organizer of the federation announced here today The federation would file strike notices April 5 due to failure to receive recognition from the company and the National Labor Relations Board as bargaining agent for eligible employees in nine southern states
Five persons were injured when eleven cars of the Pennsylvania Railroad Spirit of St. Louis passenger train derailed about 20 miles west of Richmond Indiana. The Pullman train was en route from St. Louis to New York and the incident was announced by the railroad. Theatre in Raleigh and C R Sumner from Biltmore College Asheville were mentioned in the report.
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