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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1947
Page
5
Tokyo reports Japanese officials plan to dedicate a Christian church on the Atsugi airfield site where General Douglas MacArthur first landed in Japan. The move acknowledges MacArthur's role as supreme commander for Allied powers in Japan and his place in wartime history.
Magistrate Milton J. Hull asks the defendant if he understands intoxication charges. The prisoner replies that he was drunk, highlighting a likely miscommunication in a Maryville, Missouri court.
The Rio Grande valley in Texas has produced ribbed oranges with skins like that of a cantaloupe. Poland's population in 1931 increased twice as much as that of Great Britain.
Theaters present a packed week with Gary Cooper and Lilli Palmer in Cloak and Dagger, Lady Said No, Undercurrent, and The Beast with Five Fingers. Also showings include San Francisco and Loco Lobo in color, plus Son of Zorro serials and Night shows featuring Sinbad the Sailor.
Cherbourg regains prewar bustle as Havre loses importance. Eight or more large American ships frequent the deep water quays in Meilles bay unloading supplies for U S occupation troops in Europe. Dock space fills quickly due to rapid unloading and increased traffic.
The army plans a new cook training program at the quartermaster school in Camp Lee Virginia. The course will run 12 weeks, up from eight, to improve military chow.
In Paris on August 29, 1944 the 28th Infantry Division swept down the Champs Elysees. Col. Theodore A. Seely, commander of the 110th Infantry Regiment, gathered autographs from colleagues on mounted copies of a U.S. badge depicting the parade.
A major motion picture featuring Katherine Hepburn and Robert Taylor opens this week for four days at the Center. The plot centers on a marital breakup fueled by jealousy as Taylor’s mysterious brother enters the frame. Robert Mitchum stars as Taylor’s brother with Irene providing Hepburn’s extensive 32 costume changes.
Production and employment in the furniture sector climbed to new peacetime highs. February 1947 orders rose 5 percent over 1946, shipments up 46 percent from February 1946, and unfilled orders up 43 percent from a year earlier, signaling strong demand amid rising payrolls and backlogs.
J W Perry custodian of a large impounded fund notified to release over 25 million dollars held under a United States court order. The $25,355,779 stemmed from Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line resistance to a 1942 Federal Power Commission order lowering distributor gas rates by more than 5 million dollars. Beneficiaries include more than 2.5 million people across Texas Kansas Missouri Illinois Indiana Ohio and Michigan.
The FBI says its San Francisco storage is full of diapers and other items including cosmetics and women's garments. U S Attorney Frank J Hennessey asked Judge Michael J Roche to set a deadline. June 7 is the final date for owners to claim the articles, otherwise they will be sold. Most items were reported stolen from interstate shipments.
Gary Cooper stars in Cloak and Dagger arriving today at the Center for a three day engagement. The film features Robert Alda and marks Lilli Palmer's American screen debut as Cooper's love interest.
Las Vegas records show 6,054 divorces in 1945 and 3,595 in 1945. Marriage licenses totaled 21,07 in 1946 versus 11,190 in 1945. The 1946 divorce rate set an all time high, while 1941 remained the peak for marriages with 21,308 licenses.
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