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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1946
Page
9
In a dim Berlin bar on a May evening, Irma, an American girl, drifts between a dart-playing captain and a sly dart player. The trio share drinks and half doughnuts while Irma hides memories of a killed mother, tightening her grip as a newspaper-wrapped gift hints at hidden tragedy.
JOHANNESBURG, S. Africa. The Premier mine, where the 2.5 pound Cullinan crown diamond was found in 1905, prepares to reopen after the 1932 depression. New shafts, water pumped away, and renewed mining aim for over a million carats yearly. The Iranian flag features pale green white and red in symbolic stripes.
A Marion South Carolina woman rushed to Red Cross headquarters with two letters from her sons in service. Executive secretary Adelaide Monroe explains the letters are for the woman personally and stamps them, noting the reader can read. Audiences jeered Giacomo Puccini's Madame Butterfly at its 1904 premiere, now famed.
Former pilots Frank J. Sweeney Jr and John J. Pacura, once missing during a Burma jungle search in 1944, met again in Pittsburgh at a new gasoline station. Sweeney, found from a red dot in the jungle, still wore his cap. The report notes Iranians calling themselves Irani.
New York report notes Western Union will halt singing telegrams as postwar demand fades. Officials say the service required singing messengers and was unpopular even before the war, with revival tied to birthday, Mother's Day and holiday greetings only if suitable singers are available.
Frank Wilcox of Grand Island Nebraska after 34 years with a creamery finally ate his first ice cream cone and liked it so well he ate four more in quick succession. Andorra, a tiny Pyrenees principality, was first granted independence by Charlemagne for aiding in Moorish battles.
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