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Newspaper
Roanoke Rapids Herald
Location
Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1944
Page
2
A wartime editorial warns how careless sharing of military information can aid the enemy and cost lives. It urges civilian defense vigilance and promotes women joining the WAC, outlining 239 job options and benefits for ages 20 to 50 with no dependents under 14.
Advice urges discretion in conversations about war topics. It warns that casual remarks by soldiers workers or sailors could reveal critical details to the enemy. The guidance emphasizes thinking before speaking to protect convoy safety and factory outputs.
In a federal court in Washington thirty people are on trial for treasonable activities. Some claim the proceedings are a persecution or un-American show, while others call them un-American and perhaps subversive. The piece warns against distractions from the central issue.
The court must decide if the American people have suffered injury from the indicted individuals. Personal interests or ambitions are irrelevant. the key issue is the guilt or innocence of the thirty indicted, to be determined in a court of justice.
Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Senator McCarran described a proposal to amend the Constitution to allow treaty ratification by a simple majority as unsuitable. He criticized the current two-thirds requirement as illogical undemocratic and a barrier to steady foreign policy, noting past reforms like Prohibition repeal moved swiftly. He urged modernization to prevent minority obstruction in peace agreements.
In Hospital Enfield Charlie Purring ton seven year old son of Mr and Mrs Phillip Purring ton Enfield is receiving treatment in the Rocky Mount Sanitarium following a bicycle accident. Mr and Mrs Robert Green and daughter Margaret of Greenville spent Mother's Day with Mrs Ella Cameron of 1023 Cedar St.
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