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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1942
Page
3
The piece argues that to reach ten million soldiers an air force of one and a half million and a navy of one and a half million, current estimates for victorious needs, the male population under twenty and over forty five must enlist. It notes voluntary enlistment has kept six million from exhausting by draft.
Pictured at UNC Chapel Hill are promoted officials: Dean Thos J Wilson Jr named Advisor on Admissions Editor of University Records and University Archivist Ben Husbands named Registrar Roy Armstrong appointed Director of Admissions I C Griffin becomes Assistant Registrar Roland B Parker named Dean of Men The piece also notes political delays with White House and Congress as election looms and touches on labor, war production and a quarrel between the Maritime Commission and Navy over shipbuilding gear and typewriters.
United States soldiers in England and Scotland study British defense plans and civilian mobilization led by town clerks. Veterans confront German invasion strategies while diaries from 1936 note Axis timelines and a dam project in Afghanistan. Buenos Aires crackdowns prompt Portenos to seek U.S. trade, as neutrality affects Latin American economies.
Wade G. Wood, 23, of Denton, N. C., is a bombardier trainee at the San Antonio Aviation Cadet Center. He is part of a record class of navigators and bombardiers in training, with 12 weeks of instruction followed by a five week aerial gunnery course.
The report discusses wartime shortages and logistics from Wales to the United States, noting coal unported, maize shortages for heat and power, and rail and fuel substitutions. It highlights Allied and Axis dynamics, Turkey’s neutrality, and U.S. troops training abroad boosting morale worldwide.
A Reuters dispatch from Istanbul quotes Belgrade reports that Germans shot all men in four Yugoslav villages and sent women and children to concentration camps in reprisal for the destruction of a German military train.
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