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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1942
Page
4
A High Point plan to honor 110 young men leaving for military service on Good Friday moves forward under a woman’s leadership. The High School band may greet the post office sendoff, while debates about women in wartime roles reflect a shifting world war effort and potential military front line participation.
Cecil Brown arriving in San Francisco says the next three months will decide the war and many will die in all theatres. He notes bombing exposure hardens the public, urges material preparedness, and contrasts Allied resolve with a pledge to advance north until Japanese surrender. The Durham Herald cites highway funding anxieties totaling 6 million dollars.
A column blends war politics, oil industry fears, and social commentary. It notes tanker sinks off the North Carolina coast threatening fuel supply, links public distrust to the gas industry, and critiques press agents while urging a Moravian Easter service visit. It closes with a patriotic note from Pvt. Kenneth F. Rhyne in the Canal Zone.
The British propose full Dominion Status for India after the war via Sir Stafford Cripps, linked to prompt enlistment. The plan would grant independence to withdraw from the commonwealth, but India is split with a 7.35 million Muslim minority and princely rulers unlikely to embrace broad nationalism, potentially leading to prolonged hesitation.
The United States has set a censor in Washington but lacks a minister of propaganda. Every department ships publicity, flooding newspaper offices. The Anderson Daily Mail laments wasted white paper as government bulletins clutter desks, most unread, while editors bear the burden of the waste.
The state will access about $2,000,000 to maintain highway repair as Washington limits new construction spending. Despite a federal stance, the state plans to use funds now for upkeep while anticipating heavy spring and summer rains this year.
Walter Winchell surveys theater and cinema in a brisk wartime column. He notes shifts in box office fortunes, upcoming Broadway acts, and mixed reviews while lampooning Pulitzers, Goebbels spoofs, and press clashes. The item hints at broadcasts, naval coverage, and cultural sniping amid the war news.
A collage of World War II era clippings mentions pilots in China, air forces over Corregidor, and a sharp critique of newspaper ads. It notes Jonathan M. Wainwright’s dispatches, a Japanese ultimatum to MacArthur’s successor, and Raymond Clapper’s Far East line. Includes literary blurbs and opinions from Meyer Berger, Henry Morgenstern, and Edith Wharton.
Funeral services for Ebwood Cox late banker industrialist and highway commissioner were held at his Emerywood home this afternoon with many relatives friends and business associates in attendance Judge Johnson J. Hayes will address the local bar tomorrow evening Dr Fréd Brown of Knoxville addressed a Piedmont Association gathering at First Baptist Church urging an every member canvass followed by revival Mrs Venable wed William P. Frazier in Danville Va and the Sprye family spent Easter in Washington D C Local institutions received 681230 from the Duke endowment fund Roosevelt gains support and anti knock gasoline can be made from cottonseed oil at 35 to 40 cents a gallon Arthur B Harrison plans to run for Guilford County representative Several baseball clubs form locally Newark beat Moline 3-1 Lea gue Girt Reserves practice for Elks Minstrel Half a million miners may quit Tomorrow flood fears along the Mississippi rose and the Siamese twins Josefa and Rosa Blazek died in Chicago born in Czechoslovakia Rose once married to Herr Devorak a German captain End note hints at future higher living standards after peace and Berle named as assistant secretary of state
Peter Edson reports from Washington that the four page Occupational Questionnaire will begin mailing April 1 to nine billion men aged 20 to 44 who registered for selective service. Data from the cards will take weeks to process and months to complete for all 40 million registrants. Local boards and the Employment Service will aid filling, with interviews and testing to ensure correct classifications and deferment options based on war production needs.
The article describes a selective service occupational roster listing 35 professions from architects to veterinarians. A few registrants will fill the stub. qualified entries move to a National Roster of Scientific and Specialized Personnel in Washington. The Census will tabulate cards to target future government posts. Generals MacArthur and Nelson are quoted on resolve and government controls.
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