81st Division Holds 25th Anniversary in Greensboro
The 81st Division, first in the trenches on November 11, 1918, marks 25 years since Le Havre landing. Veterans from the Carolinas and nearby states gather at the O Henry hotel with speakers including R. Gregg Cherry and Col. Allen Kimberly. The event includes BTC 10 entertainment and a World War II Wildcat reunion.
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Greensboro
le Havre
France
Carolinas
Virginia
Tennessee
Florida
Georgia
North Carolina
Charles J. Bailey
Guilford County
High Point
O. Henry
R. Gregg Cherry
Gastonia
Wildcat
Allen Kimberly
BTC-10
81St
Cherry
Col. Kimberly
BTC- 10
Herbert E. Olive
Wildcat Division
Olin D. Johnson
South Carolina
Local Firms Back 26 Week War Drive In High Point
Treasury page highlights salvage drives and war bond campaigns with design by government artists. list of supporting High Point firms includes Adams Millis Alma Desk Coca Cola Parker Paper Spaugh Paper and many others backing the 26 week program to mobilize citizens for the war effort.
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High Point
Adams- Millis Corporation
Alma Desk Company
American Trucks Corp
Amos Hosiery Mills
Atlantic States Motor Line
L. H. Bottoms Truck Lines, Inc
Burton Upholstery Co
Carolina Container Co
City Transfer & Storage Co
Clover Brand Dairies, Inc
Coca-Cola Bottling Co
R. D. Fowler Motor
Metal Stamping Co
Myrtle Desk Co
Parker Paper Co
Pickett Cotton Mills
Logan Porter Mirror Co
Royal Crown Cola
Sherrod Shirt Co
Silver Knit Hosiery Mills
Snow Lumber Company
Southern Oil Transportation
Spaugh Paper Company
Perley A. Thomas Car Works, Inc
Warner Transfer
Rome to be declared open city in Italy war move
The article reports planned Italian moves to denude Rome of military facilities and the allies demand verification by neutral observers. It notes Rome’s political status under Badoglio and recent Allied air raids on Rome railway yards, including a large bombing effort from North Africa with minimal Allied losses.
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Berlin
Anthony Eden
House of Commons
Rome
Badoglio
Italy
Sicily
Mussolini
Churchill
Paris
Manila
Douglas MacArthur
Philippines
Bataan
North Africa
Woman Nabbed Thief After $24 Theft From Sleeping Man
A woman’s quick noticing of a noise at home led to Floyd Barbee’s arrest in High Point. Barbee admitted stealing $24 from Clyde Cox, a sleeping Oakdale mill worker, later found in a snuff box at Barbee’s Oakdale home. The Cox family helped police take him to headquarters where the admission was given.
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Floyd Barbee
Clyde Cox
Oakdale Cotton Mill
Cox
Barbee
Clyde
Downtowntown High Point
Mrs Douglas Borrowed Colt Wins Travers Stakes Drama
Mrs Barclay Douglas reclaimed a colt she sold for 5000 dollars and rode it to victory in the 74th Travers Stakes at Belmont Saratoga day. Eura sian paid 15.20 for 2, Beatrice MacGuire’s Bee Mac won Spinaway Stakes for two year old fillies.
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New York
Barclay Douglas
Eurasian
Bee Mac
Beatrice MacGuire
Ed Bradley
Car Stolen From S Wrenn Street Overnight
Walter L. York reports his black 1937 Oldsmobile was taken from the 100 block of S Wrenn Street after it was locked. The theft occurred between 8 and 10 o'clock last night.
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Walter L. York
Parkway
S. Wrenn Street
York
Rochelle named co chair of Guilford CED group
T V Rochelle of High Point is named co chair of the Guilford County committee for economic development with Joseph M Bryan of Greensboro. The postwar plan, led by Studebaker's Paul Hoffman, aims to survey postwar employment needs and develop job programs for the rehabilitation period.
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T. V. Rochelle
High Point
Globe Parlor Furniture Company
Guilford County
J. Spencer Lovel
Greensboro
Burlington Mills Corporation
C.E.D
Guilford
Alamance
Caswell
Chatham
Davidson
Randolph
Rockingham
Joseph M. Bryan
Jefferson Standard Life Insurance Company
Rochelle
Love Said
Paul G. Hoffman
Studebaker Corporation
National Organization of C.E.D
William Benton
University of Chicago
W. L. Clayton
Houston
Texas
M. F. Folsom
Eastman Kodak Company
Clarence Francis
General Foods Corporation
Eric A. Johnston
Brown- Johnston Company
United States Chamber of Commerce
Robert M. Hanes
Winston-Salem
Wachovia Bank
Federal workers urged for draft reallocation
Rep. Jennings Randolph proposed that federal employees be drafted before essential war industry workers. He claimed excess federal staff and advocated eliminating at least 350,000 positions to protect aircraft and shipbuilding industries under study by the House labor committee.
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Los Angeles
Jennings Randolph
D-W Va
House Labor Committee
Randolph
Normandie Refitted As Lafayette Returns To Surface
The French liner Normandie, fired by a welder’s torch during refitting as the Lafayette, is being righted after 18 months on the Hudson mud. Diagrams show the process to lift the $59 million ship at a cost under $4 million. Divers slowed water intake and eight pumps drained mud and water as she emerged from the river.
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U.S
Lafayette
Hudson River
Uncle Sam No 1 Schoolmaster in War Education Plan
Washington report from the Office of War Information notes that by 1943 one in ten American adults may be in servicemen education classes. It highlights 650 specialized army jobs and 558 navy schools, with 750000 functionally illiterate recruits targeted for primary schooling to prepare for modern warfare and postwar civilian life.
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Washington
Uncle Sam
Office of War Information
OWI
Navy
Army
Minimum wage guidelines set by Fourth Regional WLB
The Fourth Regional War Labor Board announces wartime wage standards for four south east labor market types. Rates for common labor range 40 to 50 cents, truck drivers 45 to 75 cents, top mechanics 1.20 dollars, and office workers such as bookkeepers secretaries stenographers and typists cited with specific ranges. The board says these levels are guides and largely stabilized. Wu Pien a monk at Frengchen Temple in Inner Mongolia has died at 129.
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Atlanta
Fourth Regional War Labor Board
WLB
M. T. van Hecke
van Hecke
Wu Pien
Frengchen
Inner Mongolia
Allied planes strike Borneo oil port in bold Pacific raid
Allied bombers flew 2,500 miles to Balikpapan on Borneo in a record raid, targeting refineries reservoirs and tankers. The operation reached new distances in the Pacific theater under cover of darkness.
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Southwest Pacific
Balikpapan
Borneo
Douglas MacArthur
Salamaua
Japan
New Guinea
Kiriwina Island
Dutch Celebes
Green Pays Lewis Back For Expelling
CHICAGO Aug 14 William Green won a payback move against John L Lewis seven years after Lewis expelled him from the United Mine Workers. The AFL executive council split on restoring Lewis miners and referred the issue to the annual convention without recommendation. Hutcheson proposed a counteroffer to Lewis terms.
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Chicago
William Green
John L. Lewis
Lewis
United Mine Workers of America
American Federation of Labor
AFL Executive Council
AFL First
William L. Hutcheson
Carpenters’ Union
Daniel J. Tobin
Teamster
Edward Flore
Hotel and Restaurant Employes’ Union
Hutcheson
Barbers Union Votes Up Haircut Price to One Dollar
The NEXT SEATTLE Barbers Union voted to raise the price of haircuts to one dollar from seventy five cents. Union secretary cites higher living costs and reduced earnings for barbershops as the reason for the increase.
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Seattle
Barbers Union
Roosevelt Churchill Meet Across War Strategy
Canada conference gathers Roosevelt and Churchill as five prewar and wartime talks map wartime strategy. Atlantic Charter 1941 and United Nations 1941 shape plans. Casablanca 1943 confirms unconditional surrender and Sicily invasion. Churchill Stalin meet Moscow a year ago amid North Africa planning and summer offensives.
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Churchill
High Seas
Washington
Pearl Harbor
United Nations
North Africa
Casablanca
Sicily
Mussolini
Canada
Pacific Theater
Europe
Allied Air and Naval Blitz Near Messina In Sicily
Allied air fleets and British and American naval units pounded coastal targets around Messina and Sicily as evacuee boats sailed empty to Sicily and returned loaded. Allied airmen sank troop ferries and damaged 16 others while ground forces advanced toward Randazzo Taormina and Riposto.
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Marina de Valencia
Palmi
Pizzo
la Mezia
Italy
Messina
Berlin
Rome
Randazzo
Mt. Etna
Anm
Riposto
Eighth Army
Taormina
Seventh Army
Piraino
Weather forecast for southeastern states and cotton belt
North Carolina shows not quite so warm with scattered thundershowers in the mountains. South Carolina remains warm with scattered mountain showers. Georgia stays warm with scattered thundershowers in the extreme north. Washington report notes temperature and rainfall in major cotton regions for the last 24 hours ending 8 p.m.
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North Carolina
South Carolina
Georgia
Washigton
Weather Bureau
Rural Traffic Showed Decline In July In North Carolina
Raleigh August 14 Rural traffic across North Carolina declined in July with 624 900 vehicles checked by 20 electric eye counters versus more than 1 145 000 in July 1941 says James S Burch state highway commission statistics and planning engineer The note also mentions iron casting shift from sand molds to metal molds.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
James S. Burch
State Highway Commission
Burch
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