Champ Awards Are Made At YMCA Dinner
At the annual YMCA meeting and athletic night awards honored first and second place finishers in league play with medals trophies and gold balls. J Wilson Smith Interstate secretary urged completing the new building raising 175000 and creating a health club to boost revenue and aid boys and soldiers while stressing club strength as the YMCA bulwark. Fred N Tate introduced the speaker and Tony Simeon outlined last year’s sports program and awarded MVPs and all star selections across Juniors Midgets and Municipal Leagues.
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Smith
J. Wilson Smith
YMCA
Fred N. Tate
High Point Ymca
Tony Simeon
Richard Reid
Irby Dawson
Allen Klutz
Hugt Gordon
Garrel Speas
Bobby Lee
Billy Hartley
Nelvin Cooper
D. C. Kennedy
Henry Overcash
Freddy Glasne
Highland
Amos
New Victory Garden Size Added to High Point Contest
The American Business Club announces Class F gardens from 2501 to 5000 square feet may enter the Victory Garden contest. Big gardeners urged the change, with prizes including War Bonds for top production and awards for novelty, appearance, and planting. Amateur entrants should register using the coupon.
Victory Gardeners Registration Blank
Registration form for the American Business Club victory garden committee asks gardeners to mail a 50 cent payment and provide name address location of garden size in square feet years of gardening experience and telephone number to P. O. Box 310 High Point.
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American Business Club
Victory Garden Committee
P. O
High Point
War mood and pro Russian sentiment amid fascist tensions
The article notes fear of Russian displeasure and widespread pro Russian feeling among many people. It mentions Greece and Yugoslavia being forced by force to stay aligned, and Romania and Hungary pushing for withdrawal of troops from the front. It also remarks on Fuehrer’s birthday address to a cringing Quisling and includes a Greek myth reference about the atlas vertebra.
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Russia
Greece
Yugo- Slavia
Rumania
Hungary
Fuehrer
Quisling
Dakar Distance From Natal and Gibraltar Noted
The article states Dakar in French West Africa lies almost midway between South America and Europe and is 1,860 miles from Natal, Brazil, and from Gibraltar.
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Dakar
French West Africa
South America
Europe
Natal
Brazil
Gibraltar
Transformed and Life Beyond Easter Play at First Methodist
Holy Week program brings the East Asian style Easter play Transformed and Life Beyond to High Point First Methodist Church on Friday at 8 15 p m. Miss Magnhild Soderberg directs the cast led by Magnhild E Soderberg with music by the senior choir under Mrs Harry Monroe. The Rev Wilson O Weldon says the production was staged in Washington D C but never in the South before.
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South
First Methodist Church
Jesus
Wilson O. Weldon
Washington, D. C
Easter Sunrise Service Broadcast From Arlington
Commander Gueth announces the Easter sunrise service of the Grand Encampment of Knights Templar in Arlington National Cemetery will be broadcast on the Columbia network from 7:30 to 8:15 Sunday. Chaplains Harris and Montgomery of the Senate and House will participate, President Carson of Dickinson College will speak, a cross of lilies will be laid on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier by Vice President Wallace, and music will be provided by the U S Marine Band.
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Charles M. Gueth
Knights Templar
Arlington National Cemetery
Columbia
Frederick Brown Harris
D.D
James Shera Montgomery
Senate
House of the United States Congress
Frederick P. Carson
Dickinson College
Henry A. Wallace
U. S. Marine Band
Light German naval forces sink ammunition barges in unclear locale
The report states German units sank three ammunition barges and references possible water fighting in the Black Sea or Sea of Azov. Two German torpedo boats were sunk in the latest battle while a midday communique offered little on Kalinin area activity. The bulletin claims 3,000 German dead on a northern front where Russian forces reportedly captured a key height after midnight. Old manuscripts note ink manufacture in the middle ages and Canada fined fathers whose children remained unmarried at 18.
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Black Sea
Sea of Azov
Kalinin
Moscow
War Department lists 311 U S soldiers wounded in action
The War Department released a list of 311 U S soldiers wounded in action across areas including Asiatic European North African North American Pacific and Southwest Pacific. The North Carolina entries feature names and next of kin including Parker Allen J. High Point and McNeely Robert T Mooresville among others.
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Washington
War Department
U S
North Carolina
Williams
Mas Williams
Randolph Ter
Adam R
Pearl
Morganton
McNeely
Robert T. Clarence P. Mc McNeely
Academy St
Mooresville
Gower
Hilton E. Henry Gower
Pantego
McCray
Lee D
Gertrude W. McCray
Monroe
Norman
Ray E
Joe R. Norman
Mountain Park
Parker
Allen J
Sue S. Parker
Emerywood
High Point
Perry
John Jr
Thelma C. Perry
Hebron St
Hendersonville
Rice
Earl Arthur L. Webster
Burlington
Rogers
William L
Ola A. Rogers
E. Second St
Lumberton
Southwest Pacific
Maness
Thomas C
Maggie L. Maness
Ramseur
Eleven Stores Yet To File Ceiling Prices In High Point
The Raleigh Office of Price Administration reports eleven High Point stores have not filed their ceiling price lists with the rate board though due July 1. Notices were sent to 22 stores with missing records. eleven are closed or operating under another firm. If not filed within seven days, these cases will be referred to the Charlotte regional office for investigation.
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Rate Board
High Point
Raleigh Office of Price Administration
Raleigh
Charlotte
Book ration plan rumor warned by OPA official
A wartime notice cautions the public against rumors of new rationing. Application blanks for the replacement book will be left in mail boxes from May 20 to June 3 and mailing is expected to finish by end of July. The official warns that rumors cause panic buying and will have no basis in fact. If rationing is needed later, government will issue official notification.
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Brown
OPA
Sound Defense Can Balk Smother Play
This article discusses the smother play in bridge, a rare trump coup. It presents a hand identical to yesterday to show how East could have defeated the smother by choosing a different defensive line than the standard shortening of declarer's trump.
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East
Chess Like Bridge Defense Explores Endgame Chinks
The passage discusses a bridge defensive plan against a strong attack. West wins the opening diamond lead, South ruffs and clubs, East covers, and the chosen line warns that a heart return blocks a smother play. The text notes only one entry to dummy, enabling a single successful trump finesse before West's diamond repetition yields a king trick for East.
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West
South
East
Dealer rotates after each hand in winning player’s favor
After the first hand the dealer does not alternate. The winner of each hand becomes the dealer for the next hand, giving his opponent a slight edge.
Local Woman's Mother Dies At Cedar Grove
George H. Hussey 76 retired farmer of Cedar Grove township died suddenly Tuesday night at 7 after long illness. Survived by wife Elma Bell Vincannon married 1893. Golden anniversary Feb 23 1943. Six children W. W. Hussey Gayle Hussey Pearl Hussey Portia Hussey Mrs George Rossiter Mrs J H Redding. Also two sisters and two brothers EF Hussey Lydia Rush W A Dawson D E Hussey. Funeral Thursday at Hopewell Church at 3 PM with body in state 2 until 3.
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Asheville
George H. Hussey
Cedar Grove Township
Elma Bell Vincannon
W. W. Hussey
Charlotte
Gayle Hussey
Asheboro
Pearl
Portia Hussey
George Rossiter
J. H. Redding
High Point
Lydia Rush
W. A. Dawson
EF. O. Hussey
Randleman
D. E. Hussey
Hopewell Church
Special Venire Ordered In Swanson Case
Greensboro April 21 A special venire of 150 men was ordered for possible jury service in superior court for the murder trial of John Edgar Messer William Dalton Biggs and Elmer Hardie Biggs Jr in the killing of Jamestown merchant E J Swanson. The defendants were arraigned yesterday and a blanket subpoena for ushersettes was issued to test alibis.
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Greensboro
John Edgar Messer
William Dalton Biggs
Elmer Hardie Biggs, Jr
E. J. Swanson
Jamestown
W. H. S. Burgwyn
Swanson
John C. Story
Danville
Final Rites Held At Riverton For Miss F McMillan
The funeral for Miss Fanney McMillan of Riverton was held at the McMillan homeplace with Rev. J B Willis and Rev. Frank L Goodman officiating. Pallbearers included Mack Reaves, Duncan McKenzie, John McMillan, Campbell McMillan, Delbert McMillan, Emory Matthews. Burial followed at Spring Hill Cemetery. Miss McMillan, from a prominent North Carolina family, died in a Winston-Salem hospital. She leaves three sisters and three brothers.
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Thomasville
Fanney McMillan
Riverton
Winstons Salem
Mack Reaves
Duncan McKenzie
John McMillan
Campbell McMillan
Delbert McMillan
Emory Matthews
J. J. Pence
McNeil Watson
Lee McFarland
Albert McMillan
Spring Hill Cemetery
Simple Simon Patter Recognizes Aids For Upset Digestive Health
Distressed readers are urged to try Udea Get a Behos Udge Tablets from druggists. The ad touts relief from indigestion heartburn and other acid related pains with a mix of product names and phrases.
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Manns
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