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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1945
Page
7
The Navy cutting discharge point scores for most personnel aims to release over 1.4 million by New Year. Enlisted totals drop from 44 to 41 effective November 1 with further cuts to 39 and 38 in December and January. Officers, WAVEs, nurses, and aviators see varied reductions, with 3300 doctors and all married nurses slated for release soon.
Thomasville JayCees and Boy Scouts will run a scrap paper drive starting at one o clock Sunday afternoon. Eight trucks will cover all city streets, rain or shine, with volunteers meeting at the High Point Thomasville and Denton Railway station at one. New member Bill Crews was inducted. visitors Earl Sullivan Arnie Deaton and Fred Veach attended. meeting led by Joe Swicegood.
The United States boosted aluminum production sixfold during the war from 327,000,000 pounds in 1937 to 2,000,000 pounds, reflecting rapid wartime industrial expansion and resource mobilization.
Young Belgian and French girls under 25 travel into Russian occupied Germany to repatriate displaced persons including Americans and British subjects. Members of Team Number One of the combined Red Cross in Germany operate with Russian officers guiding convoys while driving ambulances and tending the sick on rough eastern German roads.
A rubber army of fake tanks and guns, built by United States Rubber Company with Army Engineers, fooled German airmen by drawing them to decoy positions while real forces regrouped elsewhere. The decoys were collapsible and inflatable, using large pneumatic tubing to resemble 90 mm anti aircraft and 155 mm guns, with rapid production increasing to five miles of tubing daily.
Dorris H Cornette of High Point has been transferred to a separation center for an honorable discharge after service as an aerial engineer gunner. He enlisted on October 24 1942 and served overseas from February 22 1944 returning May 30. He earned the Air Medal with two oak leaf clusters the Purple Heart and the European Theater ribbon with a battle star. John P Cagle of Trinity has landed in Tokyo as a radar operator after 30 months in the service including 20 months in the Pacific with training at Drew Field. His brother Sgt Clifford Cagle Jr is in Germany with a medical unit and visiting Switzerland.
Cpl. William W. Couzens, son of Mrs. Mary E. Couzens of Trinity North Carolina, is honorably discharged from the Army Air Forces. He enlisted in 1935, was inducted in 1941 at Fort Bragg, and served in the canal zone from 1942 to 1944. He holds the American Defense Ribbon, American Theater Ribbon, and Bronze Star. He previously operated a service station in High Point.
Four manslaughter charges involve Jim Nelson Marie Nelson Willie Phifer and John Archie linked to denatured alcohol deaths known as white mule. Trials begin next Monday with Judge Felix E. Alley presiding.
In High Point North Carolina the report lists suspects in a burglary and a series of assaults with deadly weapon with intent to kill including Lillie Mayfield Doggett Freddie Lee Jones and Tafton Strange Rabon with the case set for trial next Wednesday Also named are William M Nowell Jad Lane Lester Fred Pope Lawrence Jordan John Howard Ijames Marion Weaver charged with larceny or receiving stolen property The piece closes with a rustic remark about porcupines being slow and stupid and useful to hunters in dire need
A group of young women begin two hour weekly roles at the Washington street office of the High Point Tuberculosis association to prepare for the 1946 Christmas Seal sale. The sale opens November 19 and runs through Christmas. volunteers address envelopes and type messages for prospective purchasers under executive secretary Mrs Karl M Shepard.
Thomasville officials announce new store hours after a Merchants association meeting led by president Luther F. Sink. Beginning Saturday October 20 grocery stores open 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday and 7 p.m. on Saturday. All other stores open 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily including Saturday.
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