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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1944
Page
8
In May 1944 the Allied air chief visited the Marauders unit at P-8 Enterprise in High Point to inspect aircraft, personnel, and readiness amid ongoing wartime patrols. The visit underscored coordination between Allied air commands and bomber groups during operations.
Roosevelt doctors advise he stay at his southern retreat until fully rested. Mrs. Roosevelt said the president looks well and may stay another week or so before returning to Washington as part of his recuperation after flu and bronchial issues. A plug in microscope can magnify objects up to 100000 times and footballs to about 40 times diameter. H C Tuttle of Westcliff England reports seven sons in the army and Stanley, 19, entering the Royal Air Force. Twenty five Boer War Long Tom shells were unearthed after 40 years at a farm in Paardekraal Transvaal.
Allied air raids over Italy and France target rail hubs including Milan Livorno Monfalcone Somain and multiple rail yards across Northern and Central France as part of a broader anti invasion campaign. By March 1944 American Marauders and Havocs and RAF bombers had flown over 100 continental missions in 122 days with 60 attacks noted in March and April.
Philadelphia May 1 The American Federation of Labor will draft labor planks for the Republican and Democratic platforms at executive council sessions opening today. The spring meeting will also consider John L Lewis United Mine Workers readmission. Proposals will cover postwar social and economic issues, including servicemen needs and a health insurance provision.
In Chicago on May 1 today Attorney General Francis Biddle urged federal court that President Roosevelt must seize Montgomery Ward properties to halt labor trouble during the war. He argued seizure authority rests on preventing labor disputes not goods types and cited the war labor disputes act.
Partly cloudy and continued mild conditions persist today tonight and Tuesday with slightly higher afternoon temperatures across the region.
Soviet reports say a lull on the Russian front may end with a fresh offensive the government newspaper predicts. The bulletin notes counterattacks near Lasi and Stanislawow, naval losses at Sevastopol, and bomber strikes near the Idrista rail junction. May Day rallies marked by UN colors occurred in England and Naples with calls for victory.
A Chinese announcement says Japanese forces began a new push from Anhwei toward Shang and Hankow, widening the offensive near the Peiping Han Kow railroad. U S Army says American planes back Chinese troops as the clash stretches along the line east of the railway.
The Fifth Army in Italy marks Lt. Gen. Mark W. Clark's 48th birthday at dawn as about 200 officers and men, including eight generals, surround his billet. Clark appears in slippers and a trenchcoat while a band plays Happy Birthday.
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