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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1944
Page
10
High Point mayor Arnold J. Koonce proclaims May 27 Poppy Day urging citizens to wear memorial poppies for servicemen who gave their lives in defense of the United States. Proclamation emphasizes national defense and honoring veterans.
Curtis Smithdeal will head the Fifth War Loan drive beginning June 12 and running to July 8. The campaign follows a community fund for a Farm Family Center and a curb market project with regional business support and a payroll savings plan briefing by Treasury officials in a county meeting.
Beulah LeGrande, a 21 year old Negro woman, testified she fired a pistol at her husband Spencer LeGrande to scare him after he came home late. The judge ruled the act a felony and set bond at 300 dollars as attorney Silas Casey seeks to prepare for trial.
Mayor Arnold J. Koonce proclaims Saturday May 27 1944 as Poppy Day in High Point urging citizens to wear the memorial poppy to honor those who died in World War I and World War II in service of America.
Democratic candidate Gregg Cherry will speak at 8 o clock Wednesday evening in the County Building High Point. Arrangements were finalized after a conference with Earl Phillips and former Congressman William Umstead, highlighting his campaign visit amid other state office seekers.
More than thirty High Point producers representing about 5000 gallons daily pledged maximum wartime production and will receive the top wholesale price allowed by the OPA. The pledge came after a weekend meeting at the Sheraton hotel chaired by H N Williard. Distributors also guaranteed the maximum price. cooperation aims to extend into the postwar era. Local consumption runs about two gallons per household per day with the rest sent to cities, army camps, and nearby towns.
Jessie Cruthes aged 52 of Rt. 3 was fined $50 plus court costs in High Point Municipal Court for drunken driving and ordered not to operate a vehicle for 12 months. Charlie Elmore of Rt. 4 and Dr. C F Ridge of 609 Colonial requested jury trials. both are under $000 bond.
Justice Edward Cover denied defense motions for a mistrial in the mass sedition conspiracy case. The sixth week proceeds after prosecutors argued opening statements were within permissible bounds and did not poison the jury.
Washington reports a House Judiciary subcommittee postponed hearings on a wartime anti liquor bill amid opposition from prohibitionists and uncertainty about the measure’s fate.
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