High Point Community Responds To Soldier Housing Needs
In High Point, officials including Frank J. Sizemore urge residents to host soldiers arriving for a weekend visit, stressing hospitality as vital to those serving in the United States Army. J. Ryan notes raw material shortages could affect furniture production, while traffic chief Fred Snider cites the importance of traffic lights to manage city flows amid shortages. Hollywood ban remarks from Ron Heath touch on entertainment, and school head M. L. Patrick laments pupil losses to military service and better jobs.
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High Point
Fordiers
Ces
Frank J. Sizemore
Comerce
Chair of Commerce
Fred Snider
Snider
EL Am
A Useful Life Calvin B. Terry Dies in Hamlet at 85
The Enterprise publisher R. B. Terry’s father L. R. Terry longtime local manufacturer died last night in Hamlet at age 85. He spoke of temperate living during a High Point trip and was described as a gentleman of the old Southern school. The community extends condolences to his family and friends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Calvin B. Terry
R. B. Terry
Enterprise
L. R. Terry
Hamlet
High Point
Terry
Nathaniel
Dent
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Prince of Wales
H. W. Hemerick
Elkin
Heneviel
Winston-Safem
J. L. Crouse
Greensboro
Governor Broughton Faces Dilemma Over Baldwin Case
A Duke Hospital murder case tests state policy as Governor Broughton weighs execution versus life imprisonment for John S. Baldwin of Columbus County. Psychiatrists describe Baldwin as paranoid schizophrenic and increasingly dangerous. Two more experts are to report, possibly shaping a possible shift in state practice on insane murderers.
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Broughton
John S. Baldwin
Columbus County
Randolph Jones
Duke Hospital
Baldwin
Edwin Gill
Fred Hanes
Duke
State Prison
Brongton
Milk Fund Appeals For Help To Feed Infants
Community appeal urges support for the Junior Service League Milk Fund to continue feeding underprivileged infants amid wartime financial strain. It notes the 12 year history of providing milk since 1939 and calls the public to aid in nourishing children alongside other wartime drives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
USO
Community Chest
Red Cross
Junior Service League
League
High Point
Business Men Must Obey War Orders Or Face Consequences
An editorial urges steel makers, packers, gas station operators and beer retailers to follow wartime rules on price ceilings and rationing. It says some rear their self interest by evading regulations and profiteering, contrasting their actions with the sacrifices of service members and war fronts.
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Roosevelt
Bataan
Wake Island
Backward glance at 50 years of fashion and society
Walter Winchell On Broadway recounts Helene Reynolds era memories from 1890s New York and Newport society. He highlights vivid clips about Little Egypt at a Seeley party, Mrs. Bradley Martin’s lavish events, Sherry’s restaurant intrigues, and figures like Teddy Roosevelt, Barbara Hutton, and Booker T. Washington, noting fashion, manners, and social shifts across cities and eras.
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Helene Fortescue Reynolds
Helene Reynolds
20Th Century- Fox Studio
Washington, D. C
New York
Alexander Graham Bell
Theodore Roosevelt
Newport
Miami
New York World
Sherry’s
Herbert Barnum Seeley
P. T. Barnum
Manhattan
Little Egypt
Teddy Roosevelt
Seeley
Bradley Martin
Marshall Field
Barbara
Barbara Hutton
Bhuton
Rite Carlton
Enrollment Boom Swells North Carolina Colleges
State College Raleigh registrar W L Mayer reports 35,000 applications on file, up from 7,59 last year, with engineering leading gains as junior colleges see strong demand for scientific and technical programs. Chapel Hill unit strains housing as Navy preflight inflates needs. Legislature braces for uniformed legislators and shifting committee power amid big treasury surplus and new appropriations focus.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. L. Mayer
State College
Raleigh
Guilford College Meeting Promotes World Peace Plans
A world peace meeting is slated at Guilford College today. Central Friends Church services are canceled in observance. Local items note retirement of Charles Gueth after 40 years as a postal carrier, and various community updates including travels, political candidacies, highway contract awards, and notable deaths and events across North Carolina.
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Guilford College
Smith
Central Friends Church
Charles Gueth
Postal Service
Gueth
Pittsburgh
High Point
Two Tall Smokestacks Among World’s Highest At 585 Feet
Brief items note Anaconda Montana boasts 585 foot smokestacks said to be the world’s tallest. Other entries credit Captain Hanson Grégory of Camden Maine with an idea about holes in doughnuts.
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Anaconda
Montana
Hanson Grégory
Camden, Me
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J. P. Rawley
Rawley
Sec
Treas
Minetya
Cecil
Mgr. Obert Thompson
Associated Press
Audit Bureau OF Circulation
D. C
of Congress
National Adv
THE
John Budd CO
Lexington Ave
New York City
J. Ryan
South Manufacturers Association
Ryan
Arge
Meone
Hollywood
Ron Heath
Incipal M. L. Patrick
Overdale
Afl-Cio
Walter Winchell
Broadway
John C. Stevens
College Place
Robert W. Garrett
Presi
Sherry's
Delmomico's
Rainbow Room
Fefe’s
Monte Carlo
Louis Sherry
Frederick Havemeyer
Sherry
Edith Gould
France
John Gates
Oliver H. P. Belmont
Col
Henry Watterson
Mark Hanna
Booker T. Washington
Madison
Lottie Collins
Texas
Diamond Horseshoe
Elisha Dyer, Jr
Harry Lehr
Worthington Whitehouse
Capital Square
Education Department
Chapel Hill
University
Navy
General Assembly
Louisiana
House
Senate
John Kerr, Jr
Warren County
F. E. Wallace
Lenoir
Capitol Hill
J. Hampton Price
Rockingham County
Finance Committee
Finance
Harris
Shearin Harris
Albemarle
House of Representatives
Franklin County
Nital
Bill Sharpe
State News Bureau
Bill
Carolina
Curtis McNeill
Guilford General Hospital
J. Ss. Livengood
Nina Livengood
Harvey Simpson
Mammoth Cave
Whitestown
Ind
Chicago
R. Hi. Hutton
Brooklyn
N.Y
J. E. Wades
Clifford Frazier
Greenshoro
Booney Filler
Charlotte
Eovernor
Pennsylvania
Joseph Cox
Statesville
C. D. Smith
Moore County
W. L. Stamey
North Carolina
Katherine Pickett
Margaret Taylor
Tarboro
Greensboro College
Harding
John C. Kilgo
Chareotte
Burlington
Army Artillery Board
Fort Mills
Okla
Camp Bragg
Congress
U.S
Corm Marenc
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