High Point Urges Cooperation With War Work Rules
An editorial urges High Point employers and workers to read and understand the new War Manpower Commission and Employment Service rules, despite their confusion and changes. It cautions against hostility toward local staff, notes a house-to-house recruitment drive, and stresses cooperation to avoid harming the war effort.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
War Manpower Commission
United States Employment Service
High Heaven
High Point
Dinner Welcomes New City Manager Roy Braden
Representatives from over a score organizations joined Braden at a town dinner. The event showcased support for the new city manager and offered many residents a first chance to meet him. The mood was favorable and confident about his tenure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roy S. Braden
Braden
Blanche Mann
Harry Sherman
Riverside Drive
Philip Jordan
Russ Smith
Cliff Smith
Blogg
Engine Co
W. 58Th Street
Perry Como
Midwest
Joel Kupperman
Republic Pictures
Universal
Moss Mart
War duration and ruin predicted in daily press
Readers see two dominant views: the war may endure for years in Europe while predictions of imminent collapse of Germany and rapid defeat of Japan surface as air and naval power is marshaled. The passage reflects public expectation shaped by military power and strategic impact.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Goterprins
Ite
Membem
Associated Press
Locm News
Igh Point
N. C
Europe
Germany
Japan
Burma
Indias
India
Stork
Ernie Holst
Casablanca
54Th Street
N. Y
Universal Training Debate Flares Across War Time
Opinion notes support for universal compulsory military training for American boys to avoid wartime unpreparedness. It cites Arthur Hays Sulzberger and questions future attitudes after peace, while contrasting Nazi bases and radar with public sentiment and wartime anxieties. The piece also touches on postwar booms, home life shifts, and odd trivia about piano designs and birds’ temperatures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arthur Hays Sulzberger
New York Times
Chattanooga
Public Opinions on War, Leaves, and Local Life
Citizens comment on Grover Jones and Braden, local leaf disposal rules, and city engineers. Congress wartime powers, WAC recruitment, and news censorship are debated by Lodge and others. High Point war job canvass and future rationing plans accompany questions about governor’s work or fight campaign.
Deferred railroad maintenance and tax rules spurs signal review
The ICC allows deferral of maintenance funds as operating reserves for war related work. The Treasury taxes these reserves as profits, while the AAR notes that saving $1 net often costs $5.26 set aside, with $4.26 going to taxes. The piece ends with a call for crews to check signal systems as they appear crossed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Interstate Commerce Commission
The
Treasury
Association of American Railroads
Civil court power over War Department shocks U S attorney
An assistant United States attorney in Seattle voices shock at Judge John C Bowen ruling that civil courts outrank the War Department in non martial law areas. Prosecutor Norman M Littell calls the decision unparalleled in U S courts and warns of living under a military dictatorship.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Seattle
John C. Bowen
War Department
Norman M. Littell
Littell
Mr. Littell
Hitler Strength in Italy and Russian Fronts Report
The report notes a large Nazi buildup in northern Italy with about 375,000 troops, plus a potential 30 divisions, while most reserves stay north of Florence. It cites Italy airfield gains in Naples and Foggia, forecasted Allied air power, and possible German collapse on the Russian front near Kiev and Melitopol.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Hitler
Italy
Sicily
Rome
Florence
Hiller
Naples
Dnieper
Kremechung
Kiev
Black Sea
Crimea
Odessa
Melitopol
Black Seat
Tunisia
Broadway gossip column vents wartime chatter and steals
A sprawling, mixed column notes Frank Sinatra related imagery, wartime fund bets, ship christenings, thefts in midtown hotels, celebrity sightings, and industry jokes. It mentions Amos and Andy, Dan Galenpaul, Louis Bromfield, the Liberty ships, and theater news from Shubert Theatre to Halloran Hospital, ending with a teaser for Page 8.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Sinatra
Amos
Amos & Andy
The
Freeman Goldens
Ewald
Crossley
Louis Bromfield
Dan Galenpaul
National War Fund
Maritime Commission
Shubert Theatre
Margaret Webster
Shakespeare
Dramatists’ Guild
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High Point Enterprise
J. P. Rawley
D. A. Rawley
Robert Thompson
Wre
National Native Sohn Budd CO
Lesington Ave
BN. Y. City
Audit Bureau OF Circulations
Azores
Grover H. Jones
Dick Young
City Hall
Frank 4. Sizemore
T. C. Kirkman
Emerywood
Congress
Rep
Joseph W. Martin
Massachusetts
WAC
Gussie Heiffner
Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr
Reich
Rachel Shiplette
U. S. Army
J. F. Jones
John W. Myers
T. F. Pierce
Gussif Heiffner
Maine
Ty Paul Mallon
Marshal Badoglio
Foggia
Bari
Private
Breger Abroad
By Lt
Dave Breger
Winchell
Broadway
Goils
Janie New
Buiglers
Gretchen Houser
Commodore
Dorothy Keller
Lima
Peru
Larry Allen
Col. T. McInerny
Boston Post
Archbishop Spellman
Errol Flynn
Clare Luce
Roosevelt
Woman's Home Companion
Durham
Peter Arno
Society of Flustrators
Widge
OPA
Council On Books In Wartime, Inc
Ezra Stone
Irving Berlin
Scribine’s
Churchill
Halloran
Albert Spalding
Williston
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