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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 18, 1943
Page
6
The forecast notes continued cool conditions for North Carolina this afternoon tonight and Sunday forenoon and likewise cool weather across South Carolina.
Allied dispatches depict German rearguards withdrawing from Southern Italy while Montgomery’s Eighth Army links with the Fifth Army, with air forces claiming robust control of the skies south of Rome and in the Taranto sector. German divisions reinforce Salerno but face mounting pressure from ground and air offensives.
Pfc Nolan V Johnson returns to Camp Cooke California after a 16 day furlough with his parents in Thomasville Route One He entered the U S Army December 1 1941 Staff Sgt William S Wall son of Mr and Mrs S B Wall 1126 Campbell Street is on a 10 day furlough at home He is with Fort McClellan Alabama and entered service December 1 1941 and was promoted to his rank August 1 this year
Roosevelt reported Russian forces push toward Germany with a major reversal since Napoleon. Stalin announced Bryansk surrender, a key rail hub near white Russia, widening the Red Army advance to within 70 miles of German held grain regions in October 1941.
Thirty nine residents of High Point city and township are summoned for jury duty in Guilford Superior court. Civil cases begin Monday September 27 and run for three weeks with two judges, Henry A. Grady of New Bern for week one and Allen H. Gwyn of Reidsville for weeks two and three.
The report lists numerous civil and criminal terms for Greensboro and High Point, with term starts on November 1 for civil court, October 18 for criminal slate, and October 25 for High Point criminal term. It also provides weekly juror lists, upcoming calendar committee meetings on September 23 and 30 and October 7, and notes court hours and daily schedules.
Damon Runyon argues Washington should acknowledge General Douglas MacArthur publicly to preempt a sympathy surge. He compares past leaders’ handling of powerful military figures and urges the Roosevelt administration to define MacArthur’s role now to prevent political maneuvering shaping the 1944 race.
Paul Roberts of Davidson County was jailed in Albemarle on $500 bond facing charges of stealing from a U S mail box at 308 North Main Street Lexington extracting Treasury certificates worth 37 50 payable to Lacy F Manly and attempting to cash them at a Salisbury department store. Postal inspector Charles J Shannon arrested him and he awaits trial in the middle district U S court.
R B Curran assistant manager of the Robert E Lee Hotel in Winston Salem will become manager of the Sheraton Hotel starting October 1. He succeeds W G Malone who resigned to run the Joseph Hewes Hotel in Edenton. Curran is a native of Edenton and has hotel experience since 1924 in Georgia Florida Virginia and North Carolina. He is married with one daughter.
War Food Administration reports price gains across eastern North Carolina and middle belt tobacco markets. Higher quality grades in the middle belt rose one to two cents per pound, while lower quality offerings climbed up to six cents. Thursday gross sales totaled 938,004 pounds at 34.65 dollars, boosting the season to 6,834,838 pounds at 34.41. Eastern belts saw increases of one to four cents per pound with 4,550,804 pounds sold at 39.33. Since season start, belts sold 119,137,963 pounds at 36.61.
F J Elbertson 78 retired farmer of near Thomasville dies after extended illness at his home. Survived by wife Etta Yale two sons Fred and Joel a daughter Mare Skeen a sister Miss Sarah Elbertson and six grandchildren. Funeral Sunday 3 PM Prospect Methodist church with Rev C O Plyler and Rev T R York officiating. interment in church cemetery.
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