Public hearing on Guilford highways prompts bridge and drainage talks
Discussion centers on Hamilton overhead bridge and Willowbrook Perry Street projects. City officials consider state funds to accelerate construction while addressing drainage and reservoir silting concerns. A Raleigh trip was proposed but results remain undisclosed.
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Burton
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Hamilton
Willowbrook Street
Perry Street
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Hamilton Bridge
Raleigh
Engi
A.W.S
Grand Old Man of North Carolina Turns 82 at La Grange
Dr James Yadkin Joyner celebrated his 82nd birthday near Kinston, spending time on his tobacco crop and farm. The former NC superintendent of public instruction is praised for pioneering school consolidation and libraries and remains engaged with weather, crops, and state future.
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Kinston
Greensboro News
J. Y. Joyner
North Carolina
McIver
Alderman
Aycock
Joyner
Dr. Joyner
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Withal
Hitler
la Grange
Camp Davis to Close by October and Training Camps Curtiled
Official notice indicates Camp Davis will close in October. Seymour Johnson Field in Goldsboro reduced from about 60 000 to under a third in manpower. Several camps face reduced activity as reconversion to civilian use is planned, with large sums spent on permanent structures and barracks. Congressmen traced evacuation of Southport amid Navy readjustment. Plans aim to sell vacant firing range acres to small farmers, seeking minimal waste in reconversion.
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Seymour Johnson Field
Goldsboro
Lynn Nishet
Bayard Clark
Southport
Navy
War Talk and Civic Plans Highlight Random North Carolina Notes
Mrs. Brinkley Mitchell criticizes wartime profiteering and urges light near the Chamber of Commerce. Judge MacRae backs lighting near Finn Street School after a drunken incident. USO hostess leaders promise momentum in junior program. Governor Broughton cites factional obstacles to a Southern vice presidency bid. Mrs. Harper urges women journalists to seize their rising role. Quotes on experience and training from Hood and DorrDam summarize civic reflections.
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North Main Street
Finn Street
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CI0
Political Action Committee
Chicago
Melville Broughton
Millionaire lawyer leaves fortune to cat named Buster
Woodbury Boston lawyer Rand died and left a fortune supposedly between 50 000 and 100 000 for the care of his cat Buster to spite relatives. Publicity and photographers haunt the cat and keeper Mrs Jet Thomson. The cat allegedly suffers a nervous collapse from the stress of fame and intrusion.
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Buster
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A Lift For Alcoholics Not Hereditary Says Yale Study
Yale Summer School findings show environment rather than heredity drives alcohol abuse risk. Anne Roe led a study of 61 youths raised by foster parents after early removal from alcoholic or nonalcoholic homes. None became alcoholics. only three drank occasionally, offering hope against fatalistic beliefs about heredity.
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Yale University
Anne Roe
Section of Alcohol Studies
Laboratory of Applied Physiology
Yale
Hamilton Fish Fends Off Strengthened Drive For renomination
The veteran congressman faced fierce opposition labeled pro Nazi and anti Semitic as his district was redrawn to dilute support. He endured attacks from Dewey Willkie and even Helen Hayes while defending his wartime stance prior to Pearl Harbor. The controversy centered on his comments about Jews and Roosevelt and whether his views match national needs.
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Hamilton Fish
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Tom Dewey
Wendell Willkie
Helen Hayes
Pearl Harbor
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Stalin
Roosevelt
Hamilton
Debate Over Jewish Voting in 1940 Election
The piece argues testing districts show Jewish voters favored Roosevelt in 1940 but notes diverse Jewish opinions among leaders like Proskauer and Wise, while Willkie supported by others. It defends Hamilton Fish against anti semite labeling and criticizes national purges and mudslinging in politics.
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Roosevelt
Joseph Proskauer
American Jewish Committee
Willkie
Stephen Wise
Abba Hillel Silver
Hamilton Fish
Security, Walls, and the Futility of Armies
A column argues against reliance on weapons and fortifications, warning that security comes from ingenuity and vigilance rather than walls or fleets. It cites Maginot Line and China's wall as examples of false security and calls for adaptive defense in a changing future.
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Isdom
France
Realism and vigilance urged to meet evolving war threats
Paul Mallon argues leaders and publics must adopt a doctrine of realism stressing insecurity in all things and the need for wise governance. He warns that weapons will grow in scale and that only persistent wisdom and alert administration will suffice amid expanding destruction.
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Europe
Wallace Seeks 1944 Bid as Roosevelt Quietly Delays
Walter Winchell reports Wallace pressed for renomination after a 1944 flirtation with a White House bid. FDR’s silence left Wallace isolated and pursuing the next best option. Also noted are Hollywood gossip items, marriages, divorces, and show business shifts stressing rising incomes and club politics.
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Henry Wallace
Jim Farley
Wallace
Roosevelt
Farley
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