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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 20, 1942
Page
5
War briefing notes a plan to strike at Japan and Hitler simultaneously, with King’s naval expertise highlighted for Pacific operations. It discusses mail service flaws and morale, plus a surge in patriotic music and songs inspired by the war effort.
Exiles and prisoners from the Spanish Civil War stir debate at Hull's table as Eisenhower weighs consequences of freeing defeated Republican veterans. Roosevelt orders liberation of others, while Navy and Army achievements roll in from Pacific and Africa, including heavy tanks and long range artillery. Local air raid frays and Goering jibes provoke Civil Defense debates, and Japan's Solomons defeat prompts a chilling forecast of economic control and forced camps in a future Pacific war.
Radio schedule fragment lists Eastern and Pacific time blocks with multiple programs. Highlights include The Jack Armstrong Serial, Captain Midnight repeats, Amos and Andy, Tomm y Riggs and Betty, Lone Ranger, The Cisco Kid, and end with News and Dance segments.
Erskine Johnson reports on a Warner film set for Thank Your Lucky Stars with 150 dancers in Harlem inspired scene, Hattie McDaniel in vivid costume, and Bette Davis seen ghosting on a staircase linked to Jezebel Dark Victory and Now Voyager roles. RKO mock Caribbean set features a schooner and a floating anchor gag on the same studio lot.
The Journal De Geneve says General Maxime Weygand, former Allied generalissimo, was arrested after declining the Vichy post and is now reported held in Germany. Diplomats confirm the report. conflicting accounts say he was briefly detained by the Gestapo before release, with Rome broadcasts noting his arrest in Germany.
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