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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 14, 1944
Page
2
Partly cloudy with mild to moderate temperatures across the east and central portions. Winds remain breezy in the east with showers likely over the northeast. Overall conditions show partly cloudy skies and cooler readings in the northeast compared with central areas.
Raleigh dispatch reports five new poliomyelitis cases increasing the state total to 691 since June 1 and 703 for the year. Guilford County adds two cases while Buncombe Randolph and three other counties report one new case each.
World’s Largest Seller touts alka paste for dentures. Use a small amount on plates to prevent slipping and wobbling. Claims no souring and reduces plate odor. Available at drug stores.
More than 100 evacuees from North Carolina coastal areas arrived in Goldsboro seeking shelter as a hurricane roared northward offshore. Red Cross workers served breakfast at the community building while others stayed at local hotels near warnings from Atlantic Marine Station.
Report notes Mindanao and Panay raids by U S carrier planes and ground forces. Major aircraft losses for Japan include more than 50 shot down and over 150 destroyed on the ground, with ships sunk. Parallel item reports the death of German Communist leader Ernst Thälmann in an Allied air raid on Buchenwald near Weimar.
Maj. E. D. Bassi stated that planes at the Raleigh-Durham Army Air Field have been moved to an inland field not yet designated. The evacuation was announced in Raleigh on September 14.
Donald M. Nelson war production board chairman, on Roosevelt's mission, conferred today with Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek in Chungking. The meeting follows Nelson'sArrival in China as he travels to reinforce allied wartime coordination.
New York stock activity showed continued declines with offerings less urgent. Losses appeared in time and international Harvester Douglas Aircraft American Telephone Allied Chemical and J C Penney while numerous issues held steady.
AP reports American forces advancing from Belgium toward the Siegfried Line. William Smith White describes tanks and infantry breaking a wide front, with Botgen captured nine miles from Aachen. Armor moved about six miles toward Aachen, while infantry pushed about eight miles near Prum, ten miles inside Germany.
United States forces drove two miles into the Siegfried line along a four mile front northwest of Trier supported by armor and artillery. German defenders fought fiercely from prepared positions, requiring bunker by bunker and pillbox by pillbox clearance.
North Carolina produced an estimated 79 million eggs in August up from 78 million last year. Tarleton of the agriculture statistics notes yearly layerm total at record levels with 800 million eggs projected for January through August. Milk production remains solid with 13.7 pounds per cow as of early September.
The Lam beth family thanks friends and neighbors for kindness during illness and death of their mother Mrs S L Lambeth. They also appreciate the beautiful floral offerings from many well wishers. The Children.
The entry notes that British divisions including the sixth South African have moved into the line with the Fifth Army as Clark intensifies efforts to breach the Gothic Line in central Italy. It describes the line as a deep defense zone with concrete emplacements trenches tank obstacles mines and dugouts along mountain sides.
Allied forces sustained air operations with minimal weather disruption. One barge and one train disrupted in a communications strike. two planes lost in the Berlin raid. RAF units supported British Canadian and Polish forces in the north, claiming several vessels and locomotives damaged or destroyed. Ninth Air Force reported many German assets damaged and ongoing reconnaissance over the Siegfried line and Rhine revealing defense alterations and sandtraps.
A late night collision on a single track three miles northeast of town at 2:20 am involved the 16 car Dixie Flyer en route to Miami. Fog hampered rescue as a Catholic priest gave last rites. one identified victim was fireman Lewis Rauson of Evansville Indiana.
The Soviet sponsored Polish committee of national liberation signs a population exchange with Ukraine and White Russia to move Poles from Ukraine and White Russia to Poland and move Ukrainians and White Russians to Polish territory. The pact allows land, farms, and tax relief with two tons per family plus livestock.
The wartime leaders meet at Quebec’s citadel as Roosev elt and Churchill near a final phase of talks. Chiefs of staff outline plans for crushing Japan while MacArthur and Nimitz are tipped for command roles in the Pacific theater.
The report notes Soviet and Romanian forces attempting to encircle and hold fronts in Praga and Warsaw area while German and Hungarian units retreat. Fierce fighting around Sanck and Krosno continues as Russians capture both towns. Berlin says Moscow high command cannot break through toward Tukla, with southern Szekler movements evacuated as front shortens.
The piece notes a major morale threat in Germany from air raids. It reports 5 000 to 6 000 Allied bombers dropping 10 000 tons of bombs between the border and Berlin after Eisenhower warned of heavy bombing.
The Wilmington weather bureau reported early today that a storm center was observed passing north about 150 miles east of Wilmington. If it maintains its course the main force should miss the mainland, with only the tip of Hatteras likely to be affected while winds shift from south to north and barometer rises.
AP reporter notes winds of 44.8 mph at New Bern and calmer gusts inland. Coast Guard says the Fort Macon station records high winds and evacuations nearby. Power lines down reported in Morehead City as a 64 mph gust blows across the region.
Norfolk officials forecast winds near 75 mph at Virginia Beach with the Atlantic hurricane likely to push winds to 60 mph in Norfolk and heavy rain. Tides may reach four feet above normal, higher at the oceanfront, with the 23 August hurricane record nine feet above normal. Northeast winds at 35 mph drove rain through Norfolk this morning.
An old standardized drug store promo promises new pep and vim through a general sale. It mentions ten Point products and references Mann's Cut Rate and Welgrees Sten as purchasing locations.
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