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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1944
Page
10
A 1942 executive order and Form Ten rule create wage and worker category requirements. Small merchants fear costly audits and penalties while larger firms hire auditors to manage compliance, leaving many in uncertainty and potential bankruptcy.
Allied observers denounce a wave of false Berlin propaganda and faux second front chatter that misleads Russians and occupied countries. Such reports risk dampening resolve and leaving Americans unprepared for a major offensive known as the great push.
Reports from wartime sources describe Nazi attempts to sow confusion about Allied invasion plans. German diplomats, field officers, and press abroad allegedly hint at weak Allied defenses and boost Swiss, Swedish, and Lisbon audiences with fear and denial tactics as Allied troops prepare to land on the Bay of Biscay.
Washington May 6 War Manpower Commission region four reports a 23 percent rise in war job placements in the first quarter of 1944 over 1943. The 130 offices in Maryland Virginia West Virginia NC and DC placed 170 141 workers compared with 137 547 a year earlier. State totals include Maryland 35 135 North Carolina 55 425 Virginia 42 573 West Virginia 25 031 and the District of Columbia 11 878. Treide called results encouraging but still below regional manpower needs. Marine Corp. Freeman Hoisington of Plymouth Meeting Pa. returned home on furlough with two presidential citations for repairing planes after campaigns in the Southwest Pacific including Guadalcanal New Georgia Bougainville.
The army opens its most comprehensive study of rheumatism at the historic Army and Navy General Hospital in Hot Springs Arkansas. Brigadier General Ralph H Goldthwaite leads a program to restore soldiers to duty reduce hospitalization length educate disabled patients advance drug tests including sulfa and penicillin investigate pregnancy related remission and curb rheumatic fever through field studies with Camp Carson Colorado.
New York reports the American jewelry industry offers a diamond ring to couples married 75 years and celebrating a diamond anniversary in 1944. It notes 46,114 men over 85 have wives living and 10,304 widowed or living on farms with husbands over 85.
The FBI announced the arrest of three escaped Virginia convicts who allegedly kidnapped and robbed Beverly D. Tyree, a farmer, after forcing him to drive them to Greensboro. The suspects, Robert Daughtrey 19 Lacy Hinton 26 Alphonso Johnson 23, were captured near Washington North Carolina. Hinton was wounded. They face federal kidnapping charges and await hearings for return to Virginia.
Brig. Gen. Donald W. Brann received the Distinguished Service Medal for exceptionally meritorious service in planning the Salerno landings with the Fifth Army in Italy on May 6.
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