U S Air Force Nears Fighter Show in North Africa
Cairo Aug 17 The U S Army Air Force is nearly ready to stage its North Africa fighter display after a dress rehearsal with RAF squadrons. American pilots will fly the latest pursuit planes with U S insignia in fighter squadrons, bomber units already in action. Brig Gen Ruby Strickland praised the joint training with the RAF, noting strong comradeship and improved tactics amid desert operations.
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Cairo
United States Army Air Force
North Africa
Pi Jotts
United States Air Force
Fuka
Jack
Wilson
Benton City
Wash
Messerschmitt
Whitaker
Nessee
William W. O'Neill, Jr
Seminole
Okla
Ruby C. Strickland
Paine Field
Everett Wash
RAF
Strickland
Lewis H W. Brereton
U.S. A
At Least Ten State Deaths Across North Carolina
Charlotte reports at least ten violent deaths over the weekend across North Carolina. Alton Lanier 41 of Lillington killed by a train near Lillington. T Hutchison of West Asheville drowned after falling from the West Asheville bridge. Lizzie Perry 30 and Marvin Pasour Negroes burned to death in Gastonia fire. Emanuel Seagle Negro of Cary at Morrisville. Lindsey Thompson 18 Negro of Georgetown S C injured falling from a truck in Apex. Willie Caldwell Negro of near Charlotte died from auto crash injuries. Carl L. Kivett farmer near Ramseur shot himself. Bruce Lee Williams 42 of Durham fatally injured by a train. Matthew Martin 7 of Winston Salem drowned in Salem Creek.
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Charlotte
North Carolina
Alton Lanier
Morrisville
Lindsey Thompson
Georgetown
S. C
Apex
Willie Caldwell
Charlotté
Carl L. Kivett
Ramseur
D. J. L. Fritz
Bruce. Lee Williams
Durham
Matthew Martin
Winston- Salem
Salem Creek
Churchill Conference Involved Stalin Wavell and Voroshilov
Marshal Klementi Voroshilav, former defense commissar and now commander of Soviet reserve armies, aided Premier Stalin in talks. Gen. Sir Archibald P. Wavell, Britain’s India commander, also participated. The United States Army Medical Library is the world’s largest medical library.
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Defense
Stalin
Archibald P. Wavell
India
United States Army Medical Library
Weather update for the Carolinas and Georgia
Little change in temperatures with scattered showers and thunderstorms this afternoon and tonight. North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia observers report scattered thundershowers, with minimal temperature shifts through tonight.
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North Carolina
South Carolina
Georgia
Jinnah warns of Muslim opposition to British-India peace
Jinnah, leader of the All-India Muslim League, says 80 million Muslims would see any British peace with the Congress as a betrayal. In London, Arthur Greenwood urged the government to resume civil disobedience talks for Indian self government. Jinnah argues the Muslim League was sidelined despite wartime cooperation and asserts he would still urge Muslims to resist any Hindu government, even at the cost of his life.
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Congress
Jinnah
All-India
India
Australia Varies in Pacific War Outlook
The report says Australia has effectively become the orphan of the Pacific and foresees the loss of a counterattack base against Japan. Allied air attacks on Timor claim large fires in a Japanese town and returning aircraft despite heavy fire. Timor interior operations and daily bombing aims are noted, while Kokoda land skirmishes in New Guinea are tagged as not of major importance despite Japanese reinforcements.
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Australia
Pacific
Japan
Timor
Kokoda
New Guinea
Soviet forces press Don bend drive near Stalingrad front
The Red Army faced brutal German pressure in the Don bend northwest of Stalingrad with aims to reach the Volga city. In Kretskaya sector German assaults continued while Romanians were routed elsewhere. Voronezh front battles saw a German breakthrough into a village, street fighting underway, and Russian regrouping counterattacks. Luftwaffe losses topped Soviet losses with 369 planes downed. 241 Soviet aircraft were reported lost in the week ending Aug. 15.
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Red Army
Don
Stalingrad
Kretskaya
Volga
Kotelnikovski
Voronezh
Moscow
Voronezi
Pravda
Soviet Commununique
Caucasus
Mo MTV Hollywood News Reel Plans Stage Door Canteen
Hollywood report notes a Stage Door Canteen analogue planned in New York for soldiers, with Bette Davis and John Garfield organizing. It cites American films barred from unoccupied France by year end as Hitler’s new order films rise in 4009 theaters. Signal Corps expands filming units as producer’s son William Lasky enters the Army as a private.
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Hollywood
Stage Door Canteen
Manhattan
Bette Davis
John Garfield
Francé
Vichy
Hitler
Signal Corps
William Lasky
Army
Hollywood Hot Shot Stars and Marital Melodrama
A flurry of Hollywood gossip covers marriages careers and cast changes. Greta Garbo Greta Garbo and Greta Garbo are named amid contract moves with Paramount Columbia and MGM rumors. Actors like Mickey Rooney Ava Gardner Lana Turner and Bob Hope surface in light anecdotes about finances marriages and future projects.
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Metroe
Lana Turner
Steve Crane
Falcons of Britain Facing Destruction Over Carrier Pigeons
Falcons of Britain are marked for extermination after destroying carrier pigeons carrying vital messages. Officials instruct hunters to shoot them and destroy nests to protect communication links.
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Britain
Soviet Seaplanes Raid Baltic Bases In Heavy Action
Pravda reports Russian seaplanes operating in the Baltic area attacked enemy bases and ships, causing wide spread damage. A 3,000 ton German transport carrying munitions was sunk and twenty fires were observed after a raid on an enemy port.
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Kotelnikovski
Baltic
Pravda
Japs Move Again Map Shows Advance Toward Australia
A wartime map depicts Japan's forces advancing nearer to Australia with seizure actions highlighted. The layout emphasizes the strategic move and its implications for Allied defense plans.
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Australia
Trainman killed as passenger freight crash near Adrian
Adrian Mich Aug 17 One trainman was killed and another critically injured today when a westbound Wabash passenger train struck a freight cars derailment or obstruction on the track injuring the crew member in the crash authorities said details were limited as the investigation began in the early afternoon the wreck occurred as the train approached a grade crossing the fatalities and injuries were confirmed by railroad officials and local authorities
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Adrian
Mich
Notice of Sale of Land in Guilford County High Point
Public auction in High Point Guilford County North Carolina will sell land described as North Main Street and Church Street intersection property containing 5000 square feet No. 423 North Hamilton Street and other described parcels. Sale subject to lease to Firestone Tire and Rubber Company and extension of lease with Robert Rankin Executor. Auction set for September 3 1947 at 11 am with 15 percent cash deposit.
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Lena B. Rankin
Horace
Haworth
Register of Deeds
Guilford County
North Carolina
West Green
South Main Streets
High Point
High Point Township
North Main Street
Church Street
North Main St
Reitzel’s
NS. C
Robert Rankin
Firestone Tire & Rubber Company
N. Y
Horace S$. Haworth
Charles F. Hrabe
Stella B. Hrabe
James C. Welch
M. E. Welch
North Hamilton Street
Hamilton Street
Richardson Street
Nora Welch
M. BE. Welch
M. C. Welch
Office of the Register of Deeds
High Point Morris Plan Bank
W. R. Morrow
N. C
Gurney P. Hood
State of North Carolina
Security Life & Trust Company
N.C
Allen Mitchell
New York Stocks Mixed Amid Broad Session
Aug 17 trading at 2 p.m. shows mixed results across major groups with Penn RR, Pepsi Cola, Pitt, Radio, Reynolds, Sears, Westinghouse, Studebaker, Tex Gulf, Transamerican, Trane & Westinghouse among names listed. Market actions reflect varied investor sentiment as several rail and utility stocks appear alongside consumer goods and industrials.
Shipping Losses Decline Across Wider Atlantic
Last week's announced ship losses were the lowest in 16 weeks with seven Allied merchantmen sunk by submarines. Only two sinkings occurred in the Gulf of Mexico and five off South America, as total wartime Western Atlantic victims rose to 426. Fifty six seamen were killed and 134 rescued. victims included two British, two Dutch, two Cuban and one Norwegian craft.
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Enterprise
U. S
Gulf of Mexico
South America
Associated Press
Atlantic
RCAF Pilot Wins Distinguished Flying Medal for Malta combat
Serg. Claude Weaver a 20 year old Royal Canadian Air Force pilot from Oklahoma City received the Distinguished Flying Medal for shooting down five German fighters and helping destroy a bomber over Malta in one week. Weaver born in Oklahoma City joined the RCAF last year and his citation praised his courageous and inspiring example.
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London
Claude Weaver
Royal Canadian Air Force
Oklahoma City
Okla
Malta
Weaver
Train Collision Near Raisin Center injures none on passengers
Northbound New York Central freight train collided at a crossing near Raisin Center eight miles northeast of Adrian. Initial reports say none of the more than 100 passengers on the Wabash train were injured. Eight passenger coaches remained on rails.
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New York Central
Raisin Center
Adrian
Rescuers Save Woman Hanging From Window Sill
New York Aug 17 Two rescuers fought for fifty minutes to save a 28 year old art student Miss Mary Wurtz as she hung by her fingertips from a window sill six stories above Riverside Drive. Spectators watched while Arthur Zohn building superintendent and Jacob Dobson porter grasped her wrists and pulled her inside as Mrs Zohn phoned police.
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New York
Riverside Drive
Mary Wurtz
Nw York City
Arthur Zohn
Jacob Doson
Notice of Sale of Real Estate in High Point
Foreclosure sale announced by substituted trustee Owen Reese under a 1941 deed of trust on property in High Point Guilford County North Carolina. Property is described as Nort Park lots 114 and 115 with 5 percent cash deposit required at sale. Sale set for September 1942 in front of Guilford County Building at Green and South Main Streets.
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Ole Jackson Wood
Guilfe
North Carolina
Guilford County
North Caolina
We. Green
South Main Streets
High Point
Hic Point
Guilford
Putnam Avenue
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Wm. F. Freeman
Nort Park
Office of the Register of Deeds
Gale
Owen Reese
Roberson, Haworth & Reese
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