30 Sep 1942
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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1942
Page
1
Continued cooler conditions dominate as the Carolinas experience rather cool weather with slightly higher temperatures expected tonight across the region.
Bob Weyler general representative of the Brotherhood of Carpenters will address a mass meeting of furniture workers here tomorrow night at 7 30 at the labor temple Joe Boyd announced today
The piece describes wartime atmosphere as the conflict seems near while the narrator stumbles through a dark street near a hotel. Foreigners are watched by military police who maintain constant surveillance amid wartime paranoia and a web of spies.
Report notes the Germans attempt to work up the Terek River toward Ordzhonikidze after failing to advance south or east from Mozdok. The source suggests a backtracking move from Mozdok along a loop of the river.
Debate over farm price ceilings continues as Senator Hatch seeks to require cost of production be considered before price adjustments. Barkley proposes a compromise drafted with Reed Tydings and O Mahoney to raise ceilings where labor and other costs rise. Brown notes 11 of 43 majority Senators favor switching to Barkley compromise. Senator Thomas remarks on potential shifts.
The American Legion salvage depot doubles in size as scrap continues to pour in. Chairman J. E. Lyon reports a 38,000 pound engine donated and old furnaces saved. By next week, railway car shipments are planned if cars can be found. Local firms donate trucks, van, and labor for metal delivery to Greensboro. Lyon aims for a first million pounds on the yard by week’s end, urging merchants to display cooperative placards and donate old grate bars.
Red Star reports German rockets and paratroop raids lighting the northwestern outskirts as dry steppe grass burns. Soviet artillery claims another unit killed about 606 Germans, disabled 15 tanks, and destroyed five field guns, 35 machineguns, and 27 supply trucks while German infantry and tanks attack observed near the steppes.
Senators debated the cost of production measure with Beeby pushing the theory and Barkley predicting passage. The session ran late as Beeby spoke after the Senate adjourned two hours past, and leaders faced frayed tempers with no progress before a recess was called.
Anti tank fighters opened fire and burnt four tanks while about a company of enemy infantry was wiped out. Soviet Black Sea aerial forces credited with sinking five Axis trawlers six barges four power boats and seven torpedo boats. German troops reach suburbs of Tuapse claim Berlin radio. Red forces seize a height near Tuapse and rout Romanian mountain division. Pravda reports German panic at Novorossisk and heavy fighting on Caucasus passes. Red shock troops reportedly pierced lines near Rzhev and advanced toward the upper Volga amid autumn woods. Leningrad residents note persistent green leaves as sign of war endurance with Luftwaffe raids producing 11 German planes shot down by Red Army pilots.
Seattle light heavyweight Harry Matthews outpointed Al Hostak in a recent bout. Joey Peralta outpointed Gree Shans in Tamaqua. Buddy Farrell from Newark defeated Marvin Bryant in White Plains. Event listings include locations Dallas and New York with scores and ringside notes.
High Point opens its new 18 hole Blair Park golf course with no ceremony. Thursday afternoon play starts at 2 o'clock with the first four or fewer players to tee off earning commanding early positions. The course is named for David H. Blair Jr., son of a donor.
In a rally speech before 10,000 Nazis, Hitler ridiculed the Atlantic Charter as a temporary measure and warned Britain to expect nine hours of contigous resistance if an invasion attempt is repeated. He boasted of German advances in the Don region, claimed Stalingrad as a key to traffic control, and attacked Roosevelt over wartime hardship rhetoric. Rommel and other Nazi leaders attended as Germany prepares for further operations.
In a Commons statement Churchill says Allied losses at Dieppe were nearly half of those involved. He notes unexpected German street barriers blocked British tanks and that RAF air action destroyed about 100 German planes. He addresses Canadian casualty figures and clarifies statements about assaulting forces.
Allied actions report relentless pursuit of Japanese as heavy bombers advance toward Buna destroying barges and beach installations. An air unit bombs Salamaua airfield while rugged terrain prevents exact distance of land advance. Recaptured ridge near Port Moresby lies about 32 air miles away, 55 miles by trail with Zarbaiwa village taken along with the ridge. South Africa’s size described by area equivalent to Arizona, California, Nevada, and New Mexico.
London reports growing effectiveness of Allied anti submarine campaign. Interceptions of Nazi reconnaissance flights reduced U boat pack attacks and shore based bombing challenges. Carrier based planes rapidly improving. British officials caution over inflated German claims and potential morale boosting propaganda.
Mrs G T Alexander in charge of the Thomasville Red Cross surgical dressing corps announces new material arrival to continue the local project for wartime dressings. Workers are urged to join with hours 9 to 11 am and 2 to 4 pm, Monday through Friday, in room 219 Lambeth building West Main Street.
In 1766 Rhode Island enacted laws for the preservation of the oyster to protect coastal beds from being scraped bare. The statute aimed to regulate harvesting and safeguard marine resources, reflecting early colonial efforts to manage public fishery wealth.
J. H. Tice, father of Dr. W. T. Tice of High Point, who was stationed with the Army in Texas, died at his Wadesboro home at 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon after suffering a paralysis stroke that morning. Mrs. Tice and their two children left for Wadesboro to attend. Funeral arrangements were incomplete this afternoon.
In Municipal Court today no judgment was recorded for Bruce H. Carraway on malfeasance charges. Judge D C MacRae and the solicitor did not address the case, and clerks offered no recall of proceedings amid a lack of information. A separate note remarks whales as the largest animals known to have lived, out-sizing prehistoric dinosaurs.
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