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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1943
Page
10
North Carolina continues cool this afternoon tonight and Saturday forenoon with slightly lower temperatures in the east and central portion tonight. South Carolina remains mild through this afternoon tonight and Saturday forenoon, except partly cooler tonight.
The article notes that Romania Hungary and Bulgaria may lead future European changes or that Yugoslavia and Greece could gain momentum against Nazi rule. Gen Sir Henry Maitland Wilson urged both nations to await an Allied signal for a general uprising, stressing the need to time and stage guerrilla efforts with Allied troops. The Allied strategy aims to prevent the revolution from consuming resources before full support lands, and warns that premature surrender offers could let Germany seize control if troops cannot be ferried in.
Allied and British forces push inland from Salerno toward Naples as Lt Gen Mark Clark’s Fifth Army repels five German counterattacks near Salerno and establishes bridgeheads. Ventotene seized while Italy’s armistice spurs air raids and fears of a Rome coup grow. German and Italian actions near Genoa, Rome, and the islands of Corsica and Sardinia unfold amid the Mediterranean theater turmoil.
Ephraim Lee Carter 71 brother of Mrs. Joe F. Hoffman of Albemarle died in Winston-Salem Thursday at 1 30 PM after several months illness. Born September 8, 1872 in Albemarle, he worked in Wadesboro, Monroe, Concord and Pittsburgh where he lived about 40 years. He married Mary Jane Henry of Pittsburgh in 1923 who survives along with Mrs. Hoffman and several Albemarle relatives. Funeral services will be held at the Underwood home in Albemarle this afternoon at 5 o clock with burial in the family plot of the old Albemarle Cemetery.
At Altoona Pennsylvania on the main line two freight trains and a train of empty passenger cars derailed two miles east of Horse Shoe Curve. Engineer J B Welshans 61 of Pitcairn was killed when an engine overturned. Three cars derailed first then a passenger train struck a derailed car and a second freight train hit the wreckage. Cause unknown.
An Ontario fire marshal warns against stroking a cat near exposed gasoline due to reports that sparks from a cat’s fur can ignite gasoline. The advisory emphasizes caution to prevent fuel vapors from igniting.
A compact listing of horizontal and vertical crossword clues featuring a veteran baseball manager theme plus miscellaneous terms. Includes sports titles, names, abbreviations, and common words spanning baseball, geography, chemistry, and general vocabulary.
Mrs John Peacock presented Ray street school with a Treasury Department Schools at War flag for 90 percent student participation in stamp and bond sales for September. Bay street school showed strong Third War Loan support with upper grades buying over 200 in bonds and stamps. Speakers urged maintaining flag status as pupils sang patriotic songs led by Dorothy Hoskins with Sylvia Gilbert as council president.
Edward Lindsey aged 49 was sentenced in High Point court to two months for willfully escaping guards at Sandy Ridge Prison Camp. He was serving 50 days for larceny and fled Sept 7 with other inmates on Prospect Road, then arrested in Greensboro on a vagrancy charge and returned to resume the sentence after his larceny term.
The rationing board unveils amendments to the tire inspector manual with changes including a rule that tires worn to the breaker strip must be recapped before signing the inspection record. Emergency tires may be driven beyond the breaker strip and are not considered recapable. Regular town tire inspectors no longer inspect truck tires. an OPA official will handle that work.
John A Breeze 203 Lindsay Street died in Fayetteville Veterans Hospital. Funeral at Walker Funeral Home Hillsboro with Rev S F Nicks officiating. Interment at Eno Presbyterian Cemetery Orange County. Survived by five brothers and four sisters. He was born September 6 1891 and was a World War I veteran.
The High Point amateur magicians held a call meeting at Uwharrie Council headquarters to reorganize. R. E. Betts was elected president with H. F. Richardson as secretary treasurer and Major Vernon Carter as vice president. Members named. next meeting set for September 23 to finalize the charter and adopt a name. affiliation with the national organization planned and invitations to perform at social events expected.
Dr. Dempsey Barnes of Asheboro died last night at Duke Hospital in Durham after months of illness. He was 67? 17? years old, born in Roberson County, studied at Wake Forest and Virginia Medical Colleges, moved to Asheboro in 1926 and started Barnes Griffin Clinic in 1938. He served as deacon at First Baptist Church and is survived by wife Dorothy Neagle and two sons James and Charles, plus his father Haynes Barnes and a brother. Funeral at Four o clock Saturday at First Baptist Church with Rev Bruce H Price.
Thirteen speeding cases were heard in High Point Municipal Court this morning with all but one defendant ordered to pay half the court costs. The docket includes Eddie Hatcher age 16, Stoker Henry Alridge age 26, Frank Tate Whitmore 44, George John Witcher 35, Janus W. Hill 17, Gilbert R. Marsh 17, Bernard J. Pratt, Frank Snyder 46, Williard King 26, Charles G. Stevenson 1109 Johnson Street, Grover H. Brinkle 24, and Grover H. Brinkle also named. Cliff Baldwin, 48, was ordered to pay all court costs. Eight minor traffic violations were heard in addition to the speeding cases.
Brentwood school's sale of war stamps and bonds raised 84.85 to open the Third War Loan Drive, reported by Miss Herdon in charge. She also announced that summer student activities totalled 957.65.
Funeral services for James C. Denton who died suddenly at his home 402 Barker street will be conducted Saturday at 2 p m at the Gospel Tabernacle by Rev H P Williams. The body will lie at Yow's Funeral Home until the service and burial will be in Oakwood cemetery family plot. Pallbearers: F C Moorehead Herman Best J E Wagner W S Hunsucker Jodie Bull and Mr Miller.
Thomasville chairman John R. Perry announced the first day of the Third War Loan sale was very encouraging. A local organization led by Perry is coordinating a city wide campaign with team reports expected within two to three days.
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