Blair Receives Public Welfare Service Honor
William Allen Blair, longtime editor and board chairman, today receives a honor from the Governor and State Board of Public Welfare marking forty years on the board. The ceremony highlights a lifetime of service and the family motto It is more blessed to give than to receive.
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Public Welfare Service
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Infantry Heroes and the War Effort Explain the Need for Recreation
The piece argues the United Nations goal requires public support and morale through sports and recreation during wartime. It praises wartime unity, defends ongoing athletic events, and deflects calls to abandon entertainment while highlighting the infantry's crucial, underrecognized sacrifice alongside airmen and Marines.
Wife of a War Hero Dies Not By Face But By Courage
The Greensboro Daily News reprints a tribute to Lt Charles W Spencer a Flying Fortress bombardier who lost ears a nose and an eye in combat. His wife Jeanne answered with a kiss that made his artificial nose fall off then proved she married more than a face praising loyalty courage and civilian resolve in wartime.
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Infantry
Rangers
Cassino
W.W.B
Charles W. Spencer
Flying Fortress
Germany
Jeanne
Jeanne Spencer
Spencer
Frank Sinatra
Marshall
Taft
OPA
New York
Draft muddle over manpower policy debated in Congress
Washington observers outline conflicting explanations from government bureaus as disputes over manpower, the McNutt role, and a possible labor draft cause confusion. Senator Taft calls for a single final plan with clear classifications and stable timelines to let families plan amid war.
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Washington
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Pacific
Atlantic
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Armed Services
McNutt
Army
Navy
Cleveland
Leonard Ayres
War Department Economic Bureau
Cleveland Trust Company
Voices From High Point Citizens On War Effort And Community Life
A collection of local reflections includes BR Young praising industry labor unity progress and Gusta Hefner noting spring hats while Janis Miller cites parental strain at theaters. Others discuss gasoline rationing fairness and wartime home security with Clyde Milner and RK Ragan proposing a farmer rest center. T/S also praise Saint Marys Church boys choir and Mr Nichols efforts in church music across High Point.
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Clyde Milner
Guilford College
YWCA
Saint Mary's Episcopal Church
High Point
BR. K. Stewart
Nichols
High
Taft Calls Draft Bill to Classify All Men by Seven Classes
Senator Taft notes that more than two years have passed since U S entry into the war and recalls introducing a bill on May 5, 1942 to classify all draft subjects into seven classes based on certain criteria.
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United States
Winchell On Broadway Amuses and Assists Celeb News
Rods of gossip sketch Myrna Loy divorcing J Hertz Jr consoled by ex groom Arturo Hornblow. Ver onica Lake’s liaison with Andre de Toth noted while Fred MacMurray clashes with Paramount over recent role. Mary Dowell weds S Hindley in Texas. Lana Turner announces divorce as Joan Arthur becomes a sweater girl.
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J. Hertz, Jr
Arturo Hornblow
Raymond Clapper
Mutual
Veronica Lake
Andre de Toth
Fred MacMurray
Paramount
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Mark Hellinger
Alexander Kordas
Merle Oberon
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Dowell
Fort Worth
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Lana Turner
Cugat
Canary
Lina Romay
Jack Adams
Richard Whitney
Dick Smart
Jerry Geisler
Chaplin
Geisler
Mary Nolan
Imogene Wilson
Ziegfeld
Martin Gabel
Frances Robinson
Odessa
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