Holiday visits fill local families across city
The list of military personnel and relatives back for the holidays includes Mate Wall on convalescent leave from Bethesda Maryland. Mrs Wall and Miss Doris Loftin visit South Main Street often with relatives. Capt J J Phibbs Jr and family plan visits over Christmas. Several others from Duke Durham and Augusta Georgia return to stay with parents on Main Street and Colonial Drive.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hola
Wall R
Coltrane Street
Mate Wall
Navala
Bethesda
Wall
Doris Loftin
Frances Wilkes
Chester
Cis
Mrs. C Bobo
South Main Street
J. Phibbs, Jr
Fort Aes
Mer. Phibbs
Anna Lou Doctor
Duke Rage
Durham
Harry Doctor
More Street
Allen Penny, Jr
Augusta Ey Academy
Augusta
Bill Penny
Fort Defiance
Evelyn L. Penny
Colonial Drive
Birth notices from High Point Memorial Hospital births
Seaman Daniel Webster Efird and Mrs Efird announce daughter Frances Dawn born December 2 at the Washington Street unit of High Point Memorial hospital. Husband in Navy in Brooklyn NY. Also a son Charles David born December 17 to Billy Douglas McFayden and Clara Cox Apartments. Other births include Anne Fisher, Byron Lee Jones, Walter Wickers, Jo Anne Knight, Barbara Lynn Bocholis, and more with Navy and Air Corps fathers noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vera Patterson
Washington Street
High Point Memorial Hospital
Broadway
Daniel Webster Efird
Efird
Kearns Street Extension
Frances Dawn
Merie
Josephine Stiles
Navy
Brooklyn
N. Y
Billy Douglas McFayden
Clara Cox
Charles David
Oeene Fisher
Anne
High Int Memorial Tar
Helen Trene Hedrick
Gordon Street
California
M. E. Jones
Adams Street
Byron Lee
Boulevard
High Point Memorial Hospita
Joanne Knight
Joe Knight
Jo Anne
Oakland police arrest man tied to home and furniture sale
Police in Oakland investigate a man who believed he bought a house and furniture while others claimed they did not. Authorities arrest one person connected to the alleged sale and rental scheme as officers pursue further details amid a report mentioning Empress Catherine and a Russian woman with many children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oakland
Calif
All Time Mark Established By Miners
The Solid Fuels Administration reported a 1944 record coal output but said war demands remain unmet due to labor and equipment shortages. Coal mines have shed one fifth of peace time workers and the average miner’s age rose to 45, with losses mainly in Virginia West Virginia Tennessee and Eastern Kentucky.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Solid Fuels Administration
Virginia
West Virginia
Tennessee
Kentucky
Blood Vessel Injuries Highlight Wartime Wounds
Report from White Sulphur Springs Hospital notes fragmentary shrapnel wounds during the war era cause vascular damage. Doctors describe pulsating growths, like blisters, forming on vessels and state Ashford has removed over 100 such growths.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wee Eee Ae Hospital
Ors
Ashford
Local Service Families Report Army News and Births
Marriage of Miss Marie Long to a military police officer in France is reported. Cpls Russell LeRoy Hunter and Janice B Hunter from Point Route One celebrate a family event. Clyde Ayers and wife announce the birth of son Charles Dwight on December 23 at the Feomeried hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Russell LeRoy Hunter
Point Route One
Janice
Marie Long Ahre
France
Ayers
Clyde Ayers
Charles Dwight
Feomeried Beopisth
Lillian Brown
Gastonia Man Receives Silver Star Medal
Gastonia resident John Leo Farris, a motor machinist mate, was awarded the Silver Star for gallant action as part of the first beach battalion on an assault beach at Salerno Italy on the evening of September 15, 1943. He enlisted in the Navy in September 1942.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleston
N. C
John Leo Farris
John Farris
North Marietta St
Gastonia
Trict Public Relations Office
Salerno
Italy
Farris
Navy
U S District Attorney Claud Sapp Admitted For Checkup
Columbia South Carolina December report states U S District Attorney Claud Sapp of Columbia is convalescing satisfactorily in a hospital after being admitted yesterday for a general checkup.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbia
S. C
U. S
Claud Sapp
Typhus Killed 10,000 in Siberia in Six Months World War I
During World War I a severe typhus outbreak in Siberia claimed about 10,000 lives within half a year. The epidemic overwhelmed relief efforts as troops and civilians suffered in remote camps and towns amid wartime disruption.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Siberia
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Horney
Clington Fir
Houston
Texas
Blain Avenue
C Teague
Lewiseague
Church Street
Robert Blair
Fort Bensice, Ga
A. M. Non
Dex
William Gossard
Zelma Parnell
Geneva Crowder
Ee Sebastian
Wm. D. Locke
J . J. Hamlin, Jr
Hii
Rutherfordton
Hamilin
Margaret Pickett Hamlin
Rotary Drive
John Knox Wilson, Jr
United States Navy
Julius Gurney Wilson
U States Coast Guard
J. Knox Wilson
Ecker
John W. Silvey
Whipple Lanning
Portland
Ore
R. M
United States Naval Reserve
John R. Thurman
United States Military
West Point
J. R. Thurman, Jr
W. Chase Idol, Jr
Philadelphia
W. C. Idol
Hillcrest Drive
Mr. Idol
Fairchild Publications
Mary " Wilson "Wall
New York
Mrs. E. 5 . Wall
Marguerite “Murray
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill
Mrs. Fort Murray
Parkway
Marcelle Clark
Mary Sue
Miss Gheck
Mrs. Willis Slane
Miss Briggs
J. Gurney Briggs
Carl F. Gibson
L Horton
Rocky Mount
Emily Shackleford
Mary Alice
Charlotte
W. H. Gibson
Oakwood Court
McFaydens
Estelle
Allenay Schoo
Norwood
High Point
Fastiases
High Point Tire & Battery Co
Dd. L. Barker
College Street
Rmmit
Catherine
Christ Babe
Koonce
North State Telephone Company
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