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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1942
Page
9
Sweden expands its armed forces and industrial output while preserving neutrality, drawing Berlin fire as Stockholm boosts ships planes and tanks, fortifies coastlines, and increases taxes to fund defense amid wartime harvest and labor strains.
Stanford University announced it would not implement a plan to put San Francisco city jail prisoners to work in its cafeteria during a labor shortage after learning the prisoners had been jailed for drunkenness.
Analyzed by BL KIRKE L. SIMPSON, the piece argues the Allied urge for a second front grows amid Russian defenses at Stalingrad. It warns premature action could worsen Soviet peril, despite Willkie and Moscow calls, noting uncertain Nazi and Russian dispositions and unclear Axis reserves.
A NEA Service report from Atlanta notes wartime conditions push Southern moonshiners back to genuine corn mash whiskey rather than sugarhead. Prohibition-era shortcuts faded as cane syrup and corn mash rise, with raids showing shifts from sugar to syrup, and bootleg methods often diluting illicit liquor.
W. C. Tucker of 1105 Campbell Street reported his 1940 four door green Pontiac sedan was stolen about 7 PM from the 100 block of West Commerce Street.
In High Point a community key drive collects old keys to supply nickel silver material to the Navy. Police headquarters serve as key-kans receiving points as citizens donate keys from officers and prisoners. Proceeds of sales to local dealers will go to the USO, with the paper industry supporting the non profit effort.
J Byron Gibson well known in local police circles will face lottery charges in city county court at Winston Salem Tuesday. He was arrested along with Dorothy Ann Van Fossan and Harold Albert Van Fossan. Police raided their West Fourth Street apartment in Winston Salem and seized currency tickets an adding machine fidgers and other paraphernalia.
Funeral services for 82 year old Mrs. L J Diffee will be held at her home on 1103 Johnson Street this afternoon at 3 oclock. Rev W A Jenkins with Dr S W Taxster and Dr W R Brown to conduct. Burial will follow in Oakwood Cemetery. Shortages of railway cars are reported in India.
Miss Gladys Nivett of the High Point welfare office says WPA intake fell 50 to 80 percent in the past year as construction work for armed forces reduced reliance on WPA. She notes increases in other welfare areas and that CCC is gone and NYA referrals now channel applicants to training centers. Agencies show similar case levels to last year.
Ulysses E F Pharis 26 of 901 Thissell Street faces reckless driving charges after a motorcycle motorcycle rider collided with a southbound car turning into the Green Top Tavern on Asheboro Road. Passenger Eugene Ling 16 from South Main Street Extension suffered bruises and a leg injury and was treated at a local hospital.
In Emporia Kansas Mrs J C Mc Kinney Republican vice chairman arrives breathless for a rally after a two week washing ironing bread baking and making ice cream. Notes Java population density with 820 persons per square mile on the island of Java.
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