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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 09, 1944
Page
3
William Jacob Adams, 50, a World War I veteran, was killed when hit by a southbound Atlantic Coast Line passenger train near Four Oaks. Funeral services were held this afternoon.
New York reports a fifth straight year of a new low in small pox cases per Metropolitan Insurance statistics. Estimated 789 cases in 1943. a sharp decrease expected to continue into 1944. The note also mentions the long use of chekta in India and Persia for hunting game.
Dee and Jane Copper celebrated their Golden Wedding Anniversary last Saturday with many friends visiting. The note reflects on a long marriage marked by differing tastes and mutual tolerance and understanding.
William O Dwyer, former Brooklyn district attorney, serves with the Allied Control Commission in Rome as economic adviser with ministerial rank. Born in Ireland 1890, he rose from policeman to lawyer and judge, later leading the crackdown on Murder Inc. He enlists as a major in 1942 and advances to colonel, now on leave from Brooklyn D A duties and awaiting return.
In a repeated table bidding, the South wins 3NT after careful card play. The defense ducks diamonds and spades, while declarer times finesses and discards to force East’s downfall, securing the contract and a large top score.
The article explains the maquis name derives from Corsican underbrush used as cover by French resistance fighters. It notes maquis locations across Alps, Haute Savoie, and Pyrenees, with bases in forests and mountains aiding attacks on German lines and installations, per National Geographic Society context.
In northern Michigan, schoolchildren gather milkweed pods to supply floss for buoyant life jackets and suits for armed forces. The program, run by War Hemp Industries in Petoskey, pays 20 cents per air dried bag and 15 cents per freshly picked bag, with collections drying on schoolyard fences before shipment.
Mayor Horner dies at 60 after heart attack in Burlington. He led the city since 1919 and served as president of the North Carolina League of Municipalities last year. Survived by wife, son Earl B Jr in Navy, daughter Rebecca Ann Horner. Funeral plans incomplete.
S/Sgt. Robert L. Morris and Pvt. John L. Grant are at the Army Ground and Service Forces Redistribution Station in Miami Beach Florida. They will undergo physical and dental exams and be classified before reassignment while staying in a beach hotel during their downtime. A sergeant club formed at Pope Field honors Cpl. William A. Horney with brothers Howard and James serving overseas. William Horney writes for Runway camp magazine and is part of the High Point Chamber of Commerce. he is married to Norma Loflin of 244 South Main St.
Private Charles L. Holder, Private Billy F. Carroll, and Private Clarence H. Hunt serve with the 168th Infantry in Italy as they press to breach the Gothic Line. The unit’s first major battle began October 13, 1943, crossing the Volturno and taking Caiazzo and two other towns, with 168 casualties in the Volturno fighting.
The American Legion assigns four overseas emissaries to major theaters. Two are war correspondents and two are field service men. Boyd B. Stutler, editor of The American Legion Magazine, is among them and was reported in Hawaii while three others head to Europe and the Far Pacific.
Francisco about to depart by steamer Frank A Miles of Des Moines editor of The Iowa Legionnaire assigned as Legion war correspondent in Italy now en route Evra Lefferts Terre Haute national field director of the Legion in Europe awaiting passage in New York eoutiene Muilcaro San Francisco on temporary assignment in American Legion Field Service work in Honolulu All stories of Stutler and Miles cleared through National Headquarters for distribution to Legion units and press.
In Norristown on October 9 hospital listing shows patient sid Kathleen Boyle. She was treated after an injury to her tongue requiring five stitches.
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