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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1944
Page
3
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In Charlotte on May 12 Jonathan Daniels advisor to President Roosevelt defined bureaucracy as the human government machinery Americans build to accomplish their aims. Senator Ferguson countered that it is an enemy of freedom, expanding red tape and state power. The broadcast from America’s Town Meeting of the Air featured debate on whether bureaucracy threatens America.
Rep. Dewey Short proposes to impeach top cabinet officers if Army and Navy leaders at Pearl Harbor are not tried for alleged duty dereliction by June 7 1944. He seeks six month trials for Maj. Gen Walter Short and Rear Admiral Husband E. Kimmel with possible ambulatory court martial. Witness availability due to active combat fronts cited as obstacle.
LEXINGTON May 12. Allied Church League executive director L A Martin says he asked gubernatorial candidates Gregg Cherry and Dr Ralph McDonald if they would use office influence to push 1945 legislature to enact a liquor referendum. Telegrams were sent to U S Senate candidates Cameron Morrison and Clyde R Hoey asking whether they would back such a referendum.
Raleigh May 12 North Carolina's peach crop, despite April cold, is expected to reach the ten year average used for production basing. The state department of agriculture released the estimate noting the 1944 wheat crop may total 8,475,000 bushels, about 50 percent above 1943, as a wet spring pushed planting late across most counties.
Indio California May 12 California Arizona desert training center once a bustling war maneuver area faded to a ghost town as corps HQ moved to San Bernardino. A guard of Negro soldiers held the lone post while India California hosted up to 85 000 trainees amid heat up to 130 degrees and bombings reshaping adobe and ranch buildings.
Indio has emerged from two years of war and returns to calm daily life. Horse trailers and hay trucks move through the streets as a large surplus of overseas caps sits unsold in the dry goods store. Camp Young’s property will be moved away in sections, while a local obituary notes the sudden death of Mrs. Zellie Vie at 71 in Critz Virginia with funeral planned in Walnut Cove.
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