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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1943
Page
5
Washington discussant observers a 10 percent retail sales tax could raise about 6 billion for war financing. Lawmakers from New York and Byrd join talks, while many question how constituents will react to higher levies. The idea targets income, luxuries, and corporate taxes as part of a broader revenue plan.
A Senate subcommittee report on New York harbor finds rival agencies war shipping offices and private operators bidding for piers tugboats and heavy lift gear. It cites underutilized berths and lack of central allocation prompting delays and calls for unified wartime port management in New York and other east coast hubs.
York board of trade official M L Seidman urged a ten percent Victory sales tax on all goods to fund postwar needs. Opponents led by Fred M Vinson and Randolph Paul warned of higher living costs and inflation threatening wartime price controls and wage policy.
Washington reports a surprise Argentine move as Felipe A. Espil leaves his post in the United States after seven decades of service. Adrian C. Escobar will replace him, part of a broader diplomatic reshuffle that also retires envoys to Mexico and Vatican City.
Ten years ago in October 1933 locals discuss a county wide repeal ticket with R. B. Terry as High Point candidate for the November 7 election. The re employment office reports 117 jobs found. Police focus on lottery betting and vagrancy. Chief E. K. Ingram appoints every citizen fire inspector. Miss Andrea Andrews travels to Ozark Alabama for her grandmother's funeral. Bill Smith and wife return from Canada. NRA criticism from President Roosevelt. Supreme Court curtails NRA. Giants beat Senators. World Series ends with bonds recovered.
Hull announced Ambassador Armour would return to Buenos Aires after consultations, signaling Argentina could join the Allied side by breaking with the Axis. Espil has shown friendliness to the United States and plans to travel to Buenos Aires with him next month.
Commander Henry H. Keasler notes in Military Surgeon that cineplastic surgery links stump muscles to an artificial arm, enabling near natural hand movements. In over 100 cases, about half achieved high success, letting patients perform tasks as clerks, lithographers, drivers, inspectors, and machinists.
George Way, manager of the Carolina Playmakers of Chapel Hill, arrives to arrange a local appearance for October 25. Mrs. Robert Jefferson Walker announces the marriage of her daughter Alice Gertrude Walker to Spark Spotswood Dillard on Wednesday, October 3, in Charlotte.
Richard Royer returned from a week visit to New York. Archie Myatt, UNC student, spent the weekend with his mother Mrs. A. R. Myatt. Miss Ida Owens returned home in Elizabeth City after a weekend with Miss Elizabeth Fox.
A man at a High Point parade unlawfully demanded attention, removed a shoe, presented $800, and departed. Also, notices announce a Pageant of Progress attendance in October and a public sale of land on November 1 1943 by Wachovia Bank & Trust Co. as trustee for Roy M Gum and Ruby Walters Gum.
A rural county sheriff a special deputy and a former Newton Ga policeman were sentenced to three years in prison and $1000 fines after a federal jury found them guilty of violating civil liberties statutes in the fatal beating of Robert Hall. Judge Bascom Deaver imposed one year and $1000 on deprivation of civil rights and two years on the conspiracy count with a total plan to appeal noted by defense counsel.
Roosevelt’s remarks at a press conference frame Japanese setbacks in the South Pacific as proof that U S forces are capable with current aid, while critics demand more material for MacArthur’s drive in the New Guinea Solomons area. He notes Allied progress and calls Japanese actions barbaric after a captured Allied airman. The briefing also covers Italy where Allied and British armies push forward through difficult terrain.
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Report states U S and Britain plan to move more tankers into Iran’s oil region to ease American oil shortages. The measure could ease burdens on U S fields and reserve supplies, potentially easing costs for U S consumers.
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