Farm Action To Halt Price Climb Warns Roosevelt Policy Move
Washington reports President Roosevelt ordered an across the board price and wage freeze to curb rising costs. War Labor Board and OPA directed no wage hikes beyond the 15 percent cap, with rollbacks on farm prices and new controls on utilities. Congress faces tax and savings pressures as the White House seeks broader anti inflation measures.
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Irving Perimeter
Washington
Roosevelt
War Labor Board
Office of Price Administration
War Manpower Commission
Congress
Senate
Mr. Roosevelt
Il Am
White House
John L. Lewis
Prentiss M. Brown
Chester C. Davis
Little Steel
First Baptist Rally Sponsors Baby Contest to Clear Debt
The women's division of the First Baptist Church annual rally to relieve church debt sponsors a baby contest closing Thursday April 22. Readable entrants include William Johnson Jr, Brenda Bethea, Junior Dumas, James Thomas Miller, Thelma Little, Phylis Jacqueline Harris, and many others.
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William Johnson, Jr
Brenda Bethea
Junior Dumas
James Thomas Miller
Thelma Little
Phylis Jacqueline Harris
William Jackson Byrd Elizabeth Gray
Ronald Fugene Yokely
Sarah E. Beatty
C. Caldwell
Melvin Parker
William Flhott
Terrah Pauline Byrum
Harold Saunders
Patricia Kimbrough
Jackie Halston
Barbara Jean Oliver
Edna Calvin Rogers
Betty Ann Carr
Wm Jarrell
Willie Lee Boyd
Emma Joe Williams
Juanita Walker
Furnis Williams
Ann Elizabeth Beck
Bobby Sharpe
Barbara Ann Saunders
Bennie Dillard Ingram
Jasper Lawhorn, Jr
Shirley Cloud
Joseph Fulton Payne
Earline Baucom
Cora White
Doreya Brower
Patricia Ann Young
Welton
Mrs Hoover Hosts Beauticians Club at Crawford Street Home
Mrs Susan Hoover entertained the Beauticians Club in a regular meeting at her residence 1207 Crawford Street. With president absent, vice president Miss Ruth Harriss presided. A repast followed and HAM PRIZE advertised at Washington Street Pharmacy will be given at First Baptist Church Monday night April 12.
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Susan Hoover
Beauticians Club
Crawford Street
Ruth Harriss
Washington Street Pharmacy
First Baptist Church
Fathers urged to attend meeting at William Penn High School
All fathers with children at William Penn High School are urged to be present Sunday afternoon at 4 30 p m in the school cafeteria for a scheduled gathering.
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Wm Penn High School
Negro Students Strike at St Augustine's College Raleigh
Negro students at St Augustine's college in Raleigh refuse to attend classes protesting a suspension. Officials had reduced a year suspension to 15 days, a leniency the students deem insufficient. Separate items note fires claim about 10,000 lives annually in the United States and a booming European stamp collecting hobby amid wartime.
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Raleigh
St. Augustine's College
United States
Regeneration and Raleigh history in casual North Carolina note
A Raleigh column muses on public school history and biographies of Sir Walter Raleigh, recounting his imprisoned years and executions, the Roanoke Island fort, and Raleigh as capital. It blends reflections on regeneration, old time religion, and a call for renewed spiritual light and freedom, linking seed sown in victory gardens to national sacrifice.
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Raleigh
North
Caroline
Sir Walter Raleigh
Queen Elizabeth
Roanoke Island
Elizabeth
James I
South America
Orinoco
England
Wake County
Edenton
New Bern
Halifax
Hillsboro
Hell
House
Memorable Qs on Armies Rations and Service Roles
A wartime Q and A covers how Tom Atkins became a label for British soldiers, soup bones nutrition, church rationed foods for suppers, changing national service life insurance beneficiaries, and the WOW’s role as a non military women’s ordnance group promoting health and cooperation.
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WOW
WAAC
WAVES
Woman Ordnance Workers, Inc
Carolinians Commended For Courage
Ten sailors from the sixth naval district received official letters of commendation from the chief of naval personnel for brave actions aboard a merchant ship attacked by enemy forces. The named crew members include Lawrence Green Wilder, John Wilford Smith, Charles Slatton Slatten, Fred Weed, Claude Snead, Clarence Lee Smith Jr, Robert Lee Wilkerson and others from South Carolina and nearby towns.
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Charleston
S. C
Sixth Naval District
Chief of Naval Personnel
Sixth District
California
Eldocraft
Rado State
North Carolina
Lawrence Green Wilder
USNR
Zebulon
John Wilford Smith
SNR
Benson
Charles Slastings Slatten
East Flat Rock
Naval Service
South Carolina
Fred ‘Weed
Dill Village
Winnsboro
Claude Ernest Snead
Halhalla
Clarence Lee Smith, Jr
Taylors
Robert Lee Wilkerson
Calhoun St
Bamberg
Fayetteville Chapter Makes Biggest Donation in NC DAR Blood Fund
In Brevard on April 9, the Colonel Robert Rowan chapter at Fayetteville led North Carolina in DAR blood plasma fundraising with a $650 gift. Regent Mrs. J. W. Pendleton announced the chapter’s contribution as part of the DAR’s top state project, noting the national fund total stood at $3,500.
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Brevard
North Carolina
Daughters of the American Revolution
Robert Rowan
Fayetteville
J. W. Pendleton
Joseph B. Silversteen
DAR
Everett math champ wins state high school contest at UNC
Everett Robinson of Durham won the state high school mathematics contest sponsored by the University of North Carolina Extension Division. C. E. Mel tosh, secretary, announced. Jo Anna Black of Central High School, Charlotte, took second place. One hundred seventy six papers were submitted.
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Chapel Hill
Robinson Everett
Durham
University of North Caroli Extension Division
C. E. Meltosh
Toda Jo Anna Black
Central
Charlotte
Washington Monument height noted in D C report
A brief Washington article states the Washington National Monument in Washington D C stands at a stated height of feet, highlighting the landmark and its prominence in the capital.
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Washington, D. C
Double Killer Will Be Executed April 23
Raleigh April 9 State Supreme Court upholds Clyde Grass of Kannapolis for murdering his father in law W A Godwin and his sister in law Annie Lee Stafford. The Carbarrus County grand jury convicted Grass of first degree murder in Godwin’s death and second degree murder in Stafford’s.
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Raleigh
Supreme Court
Clyde Grass
Kannapolis
W. A. Godwin
Annie Lee Stafford
Grass
Carbarrus County
Godwin
Annie Lee Strafford
Charles Foley Loses Wrist Watch After Snatching Incident
Richmond California report says Charles Foley signaling a left turn with his arm extended when a nimble bystander grabbed his watch and fled. In a separate note, 17 year old Charles Ross Horsey Jr seeks to change his surname to Collins in superior court to avoid being nicknamed after famous racehorses.
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Richmond
Calif
Charles Foley
Foley
Los Angeles
Seabiscuit Whirlaway
Charles Ross Horsey, Jr
Superior Court
Collins
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Aot
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OPA
Executive Department
Beeson
Hardware Company
N. Main
Dahlgren
Naval Proving Ground
Beauticians
Europe
W. A. Bivins
Tommy Atkins
War Office
Mn War Price and Ration Board
Everett Math Champ
Pouund Wood
Phillips
Vigk’s
Stanback
KOTEX
South Main Street
Prescription Store
Freezer
Ini S
Talget
Gulf Spray
Johnson
Pablum
Castoria
Mason
Black
Pinkham’s
Conomipe
Bengay
Woodbury
Doctor Foster
Bath
Jergen’s
IPANA
Cc. C
Arrid
Hind
Sacharin
Schick
Redwine How. CO
Nora Main Street
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