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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1943
Page
7
The North Carolina Presbyterian Synod Religious Education committee names women to war emergency assignments. Mrs M R Thompson Shelby to Wilmington Miss Louis Maxwell Davidson to Wilmington Miss Elizabeth Jones Wilmingon to that area Miss Sarah Little Charlotte to Eden ton Miss Margaret Grier Huntersville to Southern Pines Miss Mary Winston Crockett Richmond VA to Durham Miss Sarah DuBose to Fayetteville.
Special to The Enterprise lists local families hosting and visiting relatives over a weekend in Denton. Vestel Cook and Paul Chandler hosts are noted with additional visits by Edward Burns and the Russell family, including travels to Asheboro and Georgia.
Pauline V. Clapp daughter of Mr and Mrs Henry Clapp of 315 Oakland Street has entered active duty with the WAAC. The column also lists multiple service updates including Lieut Russell G Walker and Aviation Cadet Harry W Wagner students officers, and various sailors and soldiers with furloughs graduations and station postings across the United States during wartime.
London reports 58 attacks on British hospital ships since the war began. First Lord of the Admiralty V. Alexander told the House of Commons 19 ships were involved and four were sunk. A separate note from Windsor records the recovery of Thurston Horseman, 17, of near Windsor, from the Cashie River after an explosion aboard the schooner Maine last Sunday.
In Rockingham Judge Jeff D. Johnson sentenced Marvin Norton 33 to 30 years in state prison after his guilty plea to second degree murder in the shotgun slaying of T. J. Flake at a beer parlor near here last April 27. Norton's wife Belle Harris Norton received five to seven years for accessory after the fact. Margaret Harris Brown, daughter of Mrs. Norton, was indicted on murder charges and probably to be tried in July.
Chimney swifts avoid chimneys as homes and prefer caves and hollow trees. only in regions with few caves or trees do they settle in chimneys and buildings.
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