Thornton-Meadows Vows Spoken In Methodist Church Of Tampa
Miss Dorothy Mae Thornton and Pfc Raymond A Meadows wed at the Methodist Church of Tampa with Rev D D Dieffenwierth officiating. The bride wore a blue floral print dress with white accessories and gardenia car. she is the daughter of Clarence E Thornton and plans to remain with her parents during her husband’s Army Air Force service. Meadows, son of W V Meadows of Route One Gibsonville, is stationed at Drew Field Tampa for special training after leaving Guilford County.
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Tampa
Fla
Dorothy Mae Thornton
Pfc
Raymond A. Meadows
Signal Corps
Army Air Force
Methodist Church of
D. D. Dieffenwierth
Gardenias
Rs. Meadows
E. Thornton
Deep River
Jamestown High School
Mann Drug Company
Pfc. Meadows
W. V. Meadows
Route One
Gibsonville
Guilford College
Guilford High School
High Point
Drew Field
Dorothy Mae ‘Thornton
Clarence FE. Thornton
Pfe. Meadows
Jeanette Smits
International News Service
New York
INS
Ethel Bowers
National Recreation Association
Miss Bowers
Birmingham
Ala
Mary
Mama
Papa
Norfolk
Providence
R. L
Lexington
Cincinnati
New Fall Fashions Shown In New York
In New York showcases of the season arrive as stores display new fall styles. Tulsa diners report a hotel kitchen blaze caused by cooking hamburgers. Seven fire engines arrived to control the smoke and flames. No casualties noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Tulsa
Okla
Foxbrownie, Inc
Tara
Duke Ellington and Other Stars In War Era Records
A column reviews Duke Ellington and His Orchestra on a new record with Mercer Ellington's A Slip of the Lip on the A side featuring Ray Nance Hodges and the band. Bea Wain sings Blue Rain with Walter Gross directing, plus Heifitz gardening notes and other artists. The piece also notes wartime recreation efforts and social issues among teens and soldiers demanding communal, chaperoned events.
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Jasper
Duke
Duke Ellington
Mercer
Ray Nance
Ray
Rays
Johnny Hodges
Victor
Bea Wain
John Mercer
Jimmy van Heusen
Walter Gross
Bea
Ed Heyman
Johnny Green
Andre Baruch
North Africa
Jascha Heifitz
Luboshutz and
Nemenoff
Irving Berlin
Barry Wood
Paul Bunyan
Johnnie Appleseed
OWL
Lacey Monroe
American Legion
Local notables and visitors in Greensboro area society
A list of residents and guests visiting or recovering in Greensboro area hospitals and homes. Entries name Mrs. Gertrude Sprinkle of Cable Street and others in hospitals, furloughs, and family visits from Guilford to Washington and New York, with several appendectomies and recoveries noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gertrude Sprinkle
Cable Street
Reeds Hospital
Greensboro
Baby Album Highlights Local Birthdays
Shirley Ann Stinson, daughter of Mr and Mrs H P Stinson Route One, turns five. Reta Mildred Wiley, daughter of Mr and Mrs Charles Wiley 318 Phillips Street, will celebrate her first birthday on Saturday August 21. Rosemary Eury, daughter of Mr and Mrs D J Eury of Norfolk Virginia, formerly of High Point, celebrated her second birthday on Saturday August 14.
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Shirley Ann Stinson
H. P. Stinson
Route One
Reta Mildred Wiley
Center
Charles Wiley
Phillips Street
Rosemary Eury
D. J. Eury
Norfolk
High Point
Cotton Ginning Price Boosts Announced by OPA
The Office of Price Administration raises maximum cotton ginning prices by 5 percent and adjusts bagging and ties ceilings. The regional release says rates for bagging and ties rise at least 25 cents per pattern, with a $1.85 ceiling unless a higher limit was set previously. The move aims to sustain ginning services amid higher operating costs without increasing consumer living costs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlanta
Office of Price Administration
OPA
First Oil From Big Inch Reaches Coast
The first oil from the Big Inch pipeline reaches the east coast as a valve is opened at Sinclair Refining in Marcus Hook Pa. The crude from Longview Texas begins filling storage tanks for refining into gasoline lubricants and fuel oil. Initial flow is about one third of the eventual 150000 barrels per day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marcus Hook
Big Inch
George R. Brignance
War Emergency Pipelines, Inc
Sinclair Refining Company
Longview Tex
Try For Overtricks In Duplicate Bridge
The article discusses carelessness as a weakness in rubber bridge and shows Von Zedtwitz's play to four spades. He wins the opening heart ace, leads clubs, ruffs hearts, and executes a sequence of ruffs and trumps to cash out the hand. West’s defense fails to cover, allowing the declarer to secure the contract.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kibitzed Waldemar von Zediwitz
von Zedtwitz
West
North
Dumimy
WAC Replacements at Walter Reed Hospital
More than 175 members of the Women's Army Corps replace trained personnel at Walter Reed Hospital. WACs in white assist in operating rooms drive ambulances and perform skilled technician tasks. Pvt Dolores Burke of Chicago operates an X ray treatment machine and prepares radioisotope work previously done by nurses.
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Washington
Women's Army Corps
Walter Reed Hospital
Army
No. 1 Medical Center
WACS
Walter Reed
Dolores Burke
Chicago
Opera Star Jennie Dickerson Bartlett Dies
Jennie Dickerson Bartlett 87, noted opera star of the 1880s and 1890s and later legitimate theater actress, died at the Edwin Forrest home for actors in Philadelphia. Born in New York, she trained in New York and London, spent seven years with Carl Rosa Opera, toured America with Louise Kellogg Brignoli, and after her husband John R. Bartlett’s 1918 death appeared in The Letter with Jeanne Fagels and Quarantine with Helen Hayes.
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Philadelphia
Jennie Dickerson Bartlett
Legitimate Theater
Edwin Forrest
New Hurley
N. Y
New York City
London
Carl Rosa Opera Company
America
Louise Kellogg Brignoli Company
John R. Bartlett
Jeanne Fagels
Helen Hayes
Arvia Rollins Weds Corporal Dwight Upton in Chesterfield
Mrs. M G Smith announces the marriage of Arvia Lee Rollins to Corporal Dwight Y Upton solemnized in Chesterfield South Carolina on July 18. The bride wore navy blue with white accessories and gardenia corsage. The couple’s relatives joined them from the city, with the groom serving in the U S Army Air Force and stationed in Denver Colorado.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. G. Smith
Greensboro Road
Arvia Lee Rollins
Cpl
Dwight Y. Upton
Chesterfield
S. C
South Carolina
Joe Byrd
Smith
J. S. Upton
High Point
U. S. Army Air Force
Denver
Colo
Preacher Intercepts Dice Game Proceeds for Church
After a businessmen's barbecue in Palestine Texas a dice game was halted when Rev. Joe Berry collected $7.50 and the dice, declaring the money would go into the First Christian Church collection plate next Sunday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Palestine
Tex
Joe Berry
First Christian Church
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D. L. Cates
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Naval Air Corps
Ada Gossett
R. C. Kearns
Guilford General Hospital
Leatrice Lindley
Washington, D.C
F. B. Lindley
Linley
Lieut. del Roman
Army Air Corps
A. S. Caldwell, Jr
Alice M. Caldwell
Oxford
A. W. Peace
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First Presbyterian Church
Lessie Majeskie
Montheu Avenue
Jackson
Miss
James C. Majeskie
Union University
Jackson, Tenn
James L. Fagan
Majeskie
City
W. R. Callahan
Patricia
Durham
Bobby Sink
Perishing Street
Lackey Clinic
Frank Carricker
Winston-Salem
J. F. Hicks
Selman Field
Monroe
Elizabeth Swiggett
Hicks
Stanley Fuchs
FE. Rosen
Parkway
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Natalie Rosen
Julia Delle Sears
Burrus Memorial Hospital
J. B. Ridge
Glen Kearns
Mrs. Kearns
Binghamton
G. L. Lynch
Salisbury
Burley J. Miller
Agito
Rowe Bron
Marie Heath
O. H. Spangler
John
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P. G. Heath
Guilford Sanatorium
Baptist Hospital
Constance Grant
A. D. Grant
Roaring Gap
Witch Doctor
O. Moss
Southern Pines
Sedgefield
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America’s Card Authority
Ajii
Duplicat
WAC
Freedom Today
Arvia Rollins
Corporal Upton
Charity
Kolgas
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