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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1944
Page
2
Increasing cloudiness brings mild rain to southeast North Carolina today spreading to east and central portions by tonight and Friday. Winds rise from the east today and tonight with stronger gusts in the eastern portion by Friday.
Fifth Army units pushed toward Bologna from Florence with advances on highway 65 and captures at Monte Pezza and Mount Casti Cone. Advances toward Castel Vecchio and Castel San Pietro continued as heavy fighting persisted on Monte Bes te slopes along the main road.
Major action at the conference was adoption of a resolution urging an international tribunal to settle disputes and prevent war. The plan was proposed by Dr. Gideon I. Humphreys and Rev. E. M. Avett. New trustees were elected including J. B. Ivey and Dr. C. C. Weaver. Clyde R. Hoey spoke briefly at the afternoon session.
T W Bingham Jr and Mrs Florence appeared before Pat Kimsey of the North Carolina Industrial Commission seeking compensation for the nine children of T W Bingham Sr who was killed in a July 5 accident between Marion and Conway South Carolina. The case explores whether the Binghams were employed by Ar Snyder or acted as independent contractors amid a possible Thomas Bingham Product Company link. The hearing was paused for more evidence and may resume in Marion South Carolina. Also to be heard today is W A Warner alleging a hernia from lifting a piano about March 30.
Leyte Bay lies on Leyte island's north coast in the Philippines near Mindanao. The nearby village of Ve has a population of about.
Reports from Chungking say Japan may not open an overland supply route in time for advantage. Chinese high command notes Japanese forces have reached within 70 miles north of Kweilin, near Kwangi province, Kwangi city referenced as Kdwel lin.
The Tokyo broadcasts claim Japanese army and naval forces attacked ships near Suluan and Leyte Bay with beachheads possibly established. They tout an Oct 20 victory celebration while Allied reports deny a decisive Japanese victory as fleets maneuver near Formosa.
Allied reports say fighting rages east and northeast of Helmond with evacuation acknowledged. The Berlin radio claims Americans reached Aachen main station while Hodges’ forces clear pill boxes and push through defences toward the city core.
The James brothers and Booker T. Washington are seen together at Wright Aeronautical Corporation’s cyclone engine plant in Hearbs Lockland, with Washington and Jesse and Frank James appearing in the same scene as they work alongside others.
A U S dispatch details U S air strikes on the Philippines focusing on Mindanao and Luzon. Attacks destroyed transports and damaged airfields at Cagayan Davao Aparri and Laoag. Nimitz says Yap outflanked after Ngulu seizure and Ulithi atoll landings extend US line from Guam to Palau.
A pure bred Chester White sow owned by Clark Shawell of Walla Walla has given birth to 52 pigs since April 10, 1943. Her litters include first and second settlers, her third 13, and her fourth litter continues to grow.
London reports heavy casualties as a southern England town endured one of its worst wartime blows. An entire row of houses was destroyed when a robot bomb crashed after anti aircraft fire. Rescue workers pursued the injured as flying bombs continued elsewhere.
The army paper CBI Roundup replies to Ann Sheridan Joe E Brown and Paulette Goddard who criticized touring in overseas theaters. It defends tours in the C B I theater noting food rations and assignments and highlights Brown and Goddard travel routes and the writer’s familiarity with Brown.
London officials and the British press avoid any overt interference in the American presidential race. Most editors refrain from endorsing Roosevelt or Dewey, but the Daily Mail columnist Don Id don sharply critiques campaign tactics and warns of difficult outcomes regardless of the winner.
Berlin radio reports savage fighting along a 30 mile front from Schirwindt to Kalvarija with Russians transferring forces from Finland and Estonia to break German lines. Soviet tactics include massed artillery and bomber strikes as 257 tanks are claimed destroyed. Germany warns East Prussia is at risk while Danzig remains a strategic aim. A second item notes the 1943 US tuberculosis death rate at 42 per 100,000 versus 47 in 1940.
Hollywood gossip column notes a feature on Holly Boobies by Harrison Carroll, detailing Ring Features Syndicate coverage and backstage intrigue surrounding a celebrity circle.
The relatives report an uncle who disinherited Geraldine Fitzgerald 14 years ago has died at 79 leaving her a fifteenth century castle in County Waterford Ireland. Fitzgerald already owns a sixteenth century house and plans a trip to Ireland after finishing No Body Lives Forever.
A collage of entertainment items: parrot disputes at Linda Darnell’s home, Harry James’ Meadowbrook date upsetting Betty Grable, Cora Collins and Ivan Stauffer’s wavering romance, Dan Duryee’s son bitten by a dog needing fourteen stitches, Xavier Cugat’s lost cherished violin worth two hundred dollars, Alan Curtis selling a northern California ranch, Crooner Andy Russell’s big Paramount contract, Tom Neal doubting a secretary applicant, Helen Forrest’s blonde look spurring fans to dye hair, Pine-Thomas crew ex-press agents, Republic courting Woody Herman, Simone Simon with Jimmy Ritz, Ginger Rogers nightclub sighting, Roumanian restaurant buzz with backers, Rosemary Planche’s train birthday en route to Dallas, Bobby Worth’s new song, John Brahm’s directing itch, and a street named for Jean Hersholt in Belleflower California.
Louise Allbritton watched the San Francisco premiere of Univers al’s musical San Diego I Love You. The Top of the Mark barred her entry at first, suspecting underage status before learning she is 24.
Virginia Mayo's hometown of St Louis designates November 3 as her day. Students will get holidays to join the festivities. The Princess and the Pirate with Bob Hope may open then. Mayo began as a dancer at the Chase hotel before joining the Andy Mayo act. her real name is Jones.
Miss Ruth Berkau, 19, met her brother Fred, 39, for the first time at a Portage Township family reunion in Detroit. The Berkau clan of 10 children gathered after a 21 year separation. Department of Agriculture begins experiments with date palm planting in the southwest.
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