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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 24, 1942
Page
2
North Carolina expected considerably cooler tonight with possible light scattered frost in the northwest mountains. South Carolina and Georgia also forecast colder tonight across the region.
Special to The Enterprise from Salisbury North Carolina notes Catawba Indians excel in a passing attack led by co captain Dwight Holfhouser. Wofford Terriers claim to have improved pass defense under Coach Ted Petosky to stop the Tribe's aerial threat in the upcoming Saturday night clash. Holfhouser’s strong two game start and solid practice week raise expectations of a renewed battle with Wofford.
The township assessed Duke Power Company and related parties after leaving its jurisdiction. The taxation targets include the Duke endowment trustee and the palatial estate within the township, with real estate taxes levied on the property in addition to the individual assessment.
A warehouse in Pine Level was destroyed by fire on September 24 with hundreds of bales of cotton burned. The estimated damage is about 45,000 dollars, and owner B. Oliver is reported to be owed.
The article argues Hitler aimed to seize Stalingrad to boost morale and open routes to the Caucasus and Middle East while pressuring Japan. It suggests forcing Von Bock into a prolonged siege may have cost Germany the war, with the next month likely to reveal the outcome of this gamble.
House members debated how to handle farm labor in wartime. Some urged drafting workers to fields with urgent need, while selective service officials would decide. Others argued farm labor should be deferred from military service and kept on the farms.
Lucas Flying Fortress attacks a Japanese flying boat after a long dogfight. Nelson and Malczeski knock out engines and set craft ablaze. Spetch fires from the tail turret as the enemy crashes near shore. Lucas’s crew fires 1,500 rounds with no casualties. The RAF drops two ton bombs with twice the explosive of 15 inch shells.
Kaiser yards in Portland launch the 10,500 ton liberty freighter Joseph N Teal ten days after keel laid, cutting two weeks from prior records. Henry J Kaiser predicts further speed and aims to sea by Sunday as the ship hits the water with boilers firing.
An outline of the Senate farm parity debate shows administration opposition to a broad rewrite while supporting a targeted price ceiling adjustment. Key senators cite 40 of 96 backing upward parity revision, with 22 against and those undecided or unavailable. The clash could push floor fights if a compromise fails.
Soviet reports detail intense fighting with Nazi forces across the Volga and Caucasus fronts. Red Star and Izvestia cite heavy losses for Germans as Soviet counterattacks restore pressure around Stalingrad and along corridors, stairs, and fortified positions.
All 1300 seats at Center theatre for the Wake Island premiere were sold before Thursday noon to war savings bond buyers of $25 or more. More than 20 Gold Star and war mothers will attend as special guests. Bond sales totals will be known Friday. Hugh J. Smart announced the city’s strong response. Music by High Point College band. Charles F. Carroll will speak. Junior Rangers members will attend, having earned a major general rank in the scrap metal drive.
U S Employment Service seeks one hundred highway laborers for Eastern North Carolina at 45 cents an hour for 60 hours weekly with overtime. Additional openings include spray operators, loopers, knitters, upholsterers, delivery staff, drivers, and dairy farm hands. Women 18 to 40 and young men with 2 to 3 years of high school training urged to apply.
Five and still burning two hours after the crash. The Cleveland night express pulling a Pullman derailed and was side swiped by a freight train going opposite. Nine injured admitted to Frederick Hospital. victims include John Straub and Thomas Rogers of Pittsburgh and Mrs. John Van Hamersveld of Cleveland. Ambulances sent others to Washington County Hospital in Hagerstown and to the state penal farm emergency hospital nearby.
Envoy viet premiere Willkie toured Moscow defenses calling them the most impressive of the year. He asserted Hitler would face a tough job taking Moscow. He observed many women in uniform among defense units and visited several factories.
In Durham on September 24 two African American suspects Dan Phillips 29 and wife Rosanna 24 were questioned by Sheriff F G Belvin in connection with the death of 64 year old Harry Watkins whose body was found in an abandoned well in Orange County. Watkins disappeared August 2 with the remains of 42 tanks. The couple were arrested on a Gastonia farm while picking cotton.
Robert H Bartholomew of the United States Marines recruiting service will be in High Point through next Tuesday interviewing and examining applications for the Marine Corps. Sgt Bartholomew conducts daily interviews at the recruiting office, room 212, in the post office building.
A modest elderly donor visited the American Legion scrap metal depot in High Point donating a pan a spectacle case a large safety pin a cigarette lighter and sewing machine gadgets to be melted into anti bullet salvage. She asked to remain unnamed praising the aim to save American soldiers. War Production Board official George W. Robertson praised local leadership including James E. Lyon and Judge D. C. MacRae as the depot reported strong activity and nearing a five million pound coal total.
Randolph County youths Lester Burrow about 19 and David Walker about 20 are jailed over the assault and robbery of Claude Isley 53, operator of the King Tut cafe two miles north of Asheboro. Isley was unharmed though robbed of two bags totaling 55.20. Authorities pursued Burrow by bloodhounds and Walker by trail before arresting both. no warrants yet issued.
In Asheboro on September 24 Mrs A Lawson Granger wife of the local Congregational Christian minister was named chairman of Randolph county tuberculosis seal sales for the coming year. She follows Mrs C B Rosson who chaired two years through the Junior Woman's Club led by president Mrs Henry Cline. The campaign starts November 23 and the club plans a tuberculosis float in the parade and a war bond auction Saturday afternoon. At least 90 of the country s 350 airliners have been given to the War Department for military cargoes and personnel.
In St Louis on September 24, Robert Nash a 27 year old electrician confessed after hours of questioning to the ax killings of his father Charles A Nash 61 an internal revenue agent and his mother Eleanor 49 found nude and mutilated in a family car on a highway eight miles north of Springfield Illinois Nash said the quarrel over his financial troubles began on a deserted country road near St Louis and he struck his father during the argument He said I know the penalty for my crime and I am willing to pay it and later added of course I am sorry
London dispatch reports British bombers began their first night raid of the week on targets in northern and northwestern Germany including Flensburg submarine yards. A coastal command strike against an Axis convoy off the Dutch coast claimed three medium ships hit. Air ministry notes ten bombers missing and says British air activity over Britain was limited to three Nazi flights.
In northeast England a bomber was said destroyed before crossing the coast. Explosive incendiary bombs were dropped on a town, starting one or two fires, but authorities said they were quickly controlled and damage remained slight.
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