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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1943
Page
8
Ration details update stamp validity for Meats Fats and processed foods through late October and November 1943. Sugar stamps cover five pounds. shoes and airplane sheet stamps extend indefinitely. Gasoline and fuel oil coupons specify regional limits and expiration dates through January 1944.
Yugoslav liberation forces claim captures at Kopriva Visnyorh Novi Grad and Gradisce in southwest Slovenia. The communique also notes heavy fighting around Mount Chakor on the Montenegro Albania frontier and continued attacks on German units along rail lines in eastern Croatia.
City police held George Morgan a 30 year old white man of 822 ndolph street in jail on $500 bond on charges of attempted breaking and entering after they found him last night in front of the Malpass Pay Cash Grocery with two screwdrivers and a broken front door lock. A second man fled as officers arrived and Morgan refused to identify him.
James Melton opened with a weak first act but quickly won over about 1,000 local listeners at the High Point senior high school auditorium. After a stiff start the tenor energized the crowd with Irish and Negro dialect songs and two encores following each group.
Police search for a soldier and two civilians who allegedly robbed E. D. Kennedy on the airfield road near his home after a night shift. A car described as a damaged black Chevrolet carried the suspects, a soldier in a winter uniform produced a pistol, and two civilians took money totaling 36 dollars and two pennies.
Navy records show hostile submarines operating between Hawaii and the Pacific coast with a potential new effort to cut war supplies to New Guinea and the Solomons. Freighter crews along the west coast recount brushes with long range submarines, one tanker surviving two torpedo attacks. Pacific fleet says an unidentified submarine launched a plane to scout Pearl Harbor defenses Sunday before fleeing. Submarine activity on the west coast has been quiet since June 1942 when two attacks occurred in Massachusetts and Ohio.
The USO schedules its Saturday dance for servicemen tonight at 8 15 in the YMCA gym. Mrs Paul ette Lindsay directs the informal event with junior hostesses reporting at 8 sharp. A B T C no 10 band provides the music and senior hostesses with husbands listed will chaperone. A separate USO club party starts at 8 30 for men who do not dance.
A Swedish airliner en route from London to Stockholm was shot down near Halle on Sweden's west coast killing 13 people including an American. The DC-3 crew member Grupp survived to tell of cannon and machine gun fire from an unidentified military aircraft at about 10 35 p.m. The passengers included a Swedish sailor Olson, a woman, two Swedes, and two women from the Russian legation in Stockholm.
Leaders of five railroad unions with about 350000 members backed a strike vote while coal wildcat strikes idle more than 35000 miners. Four of five unions rejected a four cent an hour raise as joint talks convene. Wildcat actions spread to Pennsylvania Illinois and Kentucky with 4000 additional workers idle. Alabama miners began the walkout Oct 13 as the War Labor Board orders a return to work and John L. Lewis urges resumption.
Funeral services for Henderson Essick will be held Sunday at 3 p.m. at Beulah Reformed Church with burial in the church cemetery. Essick, 82, died Friday at his Route 4 home. He is survived by wife Molly Sowers Essick and a large family including Mrs. F.C. Weaver, High Point. John H.. Thomas. Harvey Essick, Lexington. thirty grandchildren and three great grandchildren.
Funeral services for James Ran som Powell 80 year old farmer were to be held at 3 00 o clock Sunday at Center Methodist church four miles west of Mocksville He died at his home near Mocksville Friday night Survivors include wife former Mary Catherine ins two daughters Frances yell of the home and Mrs James B Wilson Mocksville Route 4 three sons W M Powell Route 1 S T Powell Mocksville and J C Powell High Point Route 3 one sister Mrs J S Rattedge and one brother R S Powell Mocksville Route 1
Funeral services for Grady Baxley 42 who died at a Bar hospital Friday morning will be conducted from his father C. C. Baxley 210 Lindsay Street at four o'clock Sunday afternoon. Rev. Julian S. Hopkins pastor Green Street Baptist church will lead. Pallbearers will be selected from the Washington Camp P O S of A. Interment in Floral Garden cemetery.
A congressional move seeks to strip Paul V. McNutt of all authority over administrative functions of the selective service system. The House Military Committee reported a section to delegate this authority to the director of selective service, bypassing McNutt who oversees Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey.
A late edition radio guide lists program changes for Eastern War Time with shifts in hour blocks for networks and stations. Highlights include Victory Ore, Roy Shield Orchestra, football game slots, Maritime Seamen Show, Grand Old Opry, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Truth or Consequence, and National Barn Dance with various hosts and ensembles.
Members of the club honored Merrilees at a standing dinner as he prepares to leave November 1 for work at Hillandale Country Club in Durham. Paul Casey served as toastmaster while Henry A. Foscue praised his wartime service and lasting impact on golf. tributes came from Tom Marlow Tom Gold Jr and Silas Casey with a watch presented by Clark Dilson.
Everett D. Matthews, president of the belt warehouse association, urged increasing tobacco allocations to lift sagging prices at a Raleigh meeting called by Gov. J. Meek. He argued some companies have exhausted allocations and favor only top grades, prompting a temporary sales holiday discussion.
The friendly Boston Terrier Jiggs died last week at Burrus Memorial Hospital after a 16 year life. He had greeted visitors for four years with Mrs. Kathleen Tate in the hospital office, starting from nine months old. A photo and brief biography accompany the hospital's annual.
Walder Palmer, 30, of 801 South Hamilton Street, was arrested by local police last night and placed on a $550 bond on charges of operating a car while intoxicated and disorderly conduct.
High Point division reports strong progress in the United War Chest campaign with the woodworking and furniture unit at the forefront. Textile and hosiery show lagging performance with only five reports, all at or near quota, out of 27 plants.
Corporal Harold W. Hoover has returned to his Marianna Florida base after a fifteen day furlough with his parents Mr and Mrs C W Hoover of 1319 Grace street. Hoover enlisted in the air corps on October 27 1942.
Pvt. George England Jr. of 120 Johnston Street Omasville has arrived at the field artillery replacement training center at Fort Bragg for reassignment and training.
Margaret Hayworth of High Point was elected district president of the Rebekahs at the assembly hosted by Magdalene Re lodge. Other new officers include Nettie Hunsucker Mooresville vice president Irene Dunman Greensboro rotary Josie Whitting High Point treasurer and Brandon Winston-Salem warden. Mae Jennings Elizabeth City state president gave the principal address and received an emblem pin.
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