Liquor reform faces rocky path in 1945 North Carolina
Editorial notes Governor Cherry will struggle to move liquor reform through the 1945 General Assembly. A referendum bill is unlikely and postwar measures will be contentious. The piece questions the ABC system in wet counties and suggests possible investigations into the liquor control setup.
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Raleigh
Cherry
General Assembly
ABC
Carolina
Assembly
Legisla
North Carolina wine lobby seeks to limit fortified wine sales
The wine lobby in Raleigh aims to legalize fortified wines at 24 percent alcohol across counties but seeks to stay largely undisturbed by the General Assembly. John Caffey, a former Guilford five, leads efforts from a Walter Hotel top-floor suite, while talks consider restricting imita or synthetic wines and curbing wine offerings rather than expanding them.
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Raleigh
Guilford
John Caffey
Walter Hotel
Gener- Assembly
Caffey
North Carolina
Old North Carolina Tax Debate Angers Merchants
In Raleigh Josephus Daniels upholds a one thing at a time rule while the sales tax repeal debate resurfaces. Daniels links his hospital campaign to repealing taxes and notes current interest in the issue has waned among merchants and labor unions as the General Assembly meets for business.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
Josephus Daniels
McDonald
General Assembly
Liqudated McDonald Campaign Faces Possible 1948 Candidate
Representative Shelley Caveness of Guilford says the McDonald organization has liqui dated and paid its debts and quit. The discussion centers on a Democratic nomination candidate for governor in 1948. Colonel Stimous Valentine, a former McDonald manager and World War II veteran, might run independently if he pursues the race.
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Raleigh
Shelley Caveness
Guilford
McDonald
Stimous Valentine
McDonaldites
Caveness
Valentine
Editorial calls for resignation of Senator Josiah Bailey
The February Federationist editorial urges Senator Elosiah W. Bailey to resign for not fully backing President Roosevelt and Henry Wallace. It notes Bailey’s 1930s opposition to Al Smith and contrasts his stance with Ball of Minnesota, who supported Roosevelt. The piece situates the campaign against “anti New Deal” lawmakers within AFL CIO efforts in 1948.
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Federationist
North
Simmons
Senate
Josiah
North Carolina
Bailey
Federation
Congress
AFL
CIO
Ball
Minnesota
Roosevelt
Horton Seen As Potential Governor Candidate In Raleigh
In Raleigh the prevailing chatter among North Carolina political circles centers on Wilkins P. Horton possibly running again for governor. Horton denies plans, yet travels widely as friends weigh how a Cherry draft for the Highway and Public Works Commission chairmanship might influence his prospective bid.
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Cherry
Mr. Horton
State Highway and Public Works Commission
Weathers Seeks Board Change and Fertilizer Law Revision
Senator Lee Weathers of Cleveland pushes an amendment to control by the State Board of Health influencing member appointments. A fertilizer law revision is also planned to reduce fertilizer grade diversity from about 35 to 18 or 20 analyses. The Mecklenberg delegation sent a long telegram urging state support for the North Carolina Society and its aims.
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Lee Weathers
Cleveland
Senate
Senate Board of Health
Broughton
State Board of Health
North Carolina Medical Society
Medicos
State Board of Agriculture
Central Experiment Station
Financial Responsibility Act may require auto liability insurance
The proposed measure by Lynn Nisbet would force every driver to carry liability insurance. Known as the financial responsibility act, it would revoke licenses and license plates until damages from an accident are paid, with penalties up to six months in jail or a $500 fine.
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Visn
Commissioners of Motor Vehicles
Air training crash records stir debate on safety in wartime
Washington fights over air service accident counts amid new calls for a Senate report. Senator Langer urges fresh inquiry into non combat flights as figures show 17 crashes in U S in 1944. Early training fatality rates differ between Army Air Forces reports and Aeronautical Training Society findings.
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Washington
Senate Investigal
N. William Langer
North Dakota
Republican
Ramrod
Senator Langer
Truman Committee
Mead Committee
Sen. Lanier
Asate
H. H
Arnold
Air Forces
United States
RAF
Aeronautical Training Society
Army Air Forces
Army Air Force
Aviation training safety rises with peak pilot output
The article compares 1939 flight training safety to current figures, noting vast improvements and suggesting a possible sensational report from Sen Langer. Officials expect the long-term focus to stay on safer aviation training and improvements in both military and postwar civilian programs.
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Sen. Langer
Armed Services
I'll Be Seeing You Shows How Love Rebuilds War Wounded
In a plain town setting a returning soldier coping with shell shock finds healing through love and friendship. The film argues courage and support can repair damaged lives and restore hope for the future.
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A. L. Alexander
David O. Selznick
South Pacific
Be Seeing You A Soldier Film Urges Gentle Veterans Welcome
By George Sokolsky this review praises the motion picture as a guide to normal life for returning veterans. It argues audiences should avoid heroizing soldiers and instead help them rejoin ordinary society, family, and civic life without class or political pressure.
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Selznick
Roosevelt
Dewey
Rotary
Kiwanis
WINCHELL On Broadway
On Broadway items list Betty Compson Errol Flynn Mildred Darling Betty Bruce Lt Jack Lawson Ensign Gabriel Dell Lisette Verea Loretta Duffy M Amsterdam Fred Allen Frederic March and quotes about Gregory Peck Sallies in Our Alley and social notes on Margaret OBrien Clark Gable and Jose Iturbi dates and anecdotes Joe E Lewis toast.
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Betty Compson
Errol Flynn
Brunet
Ziegfeldart
Mildred Darling
Club 18
Betty Bruce
Central Park
Jack Lawson
Gabriel Dell
Lisette Verea Trousseau
the Times
Frederic March
Star of
Adano
Gregory Peck
Margaret O’brien
Clark Gable
Robert Young
Jose Iturbi
Joe E. Lewis
Midtown Dowager Immersed in Subway Rush Hour Push
Eyewitnesses recall a Park Avenue dowager stumbling into a dark subway during rush hour. Crowds shoved her toward a waiting train as she maintained composure and quipped that people cannot be packed in like anchovies.
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Midtown
Park Avenue
Memos of a Midnighter and Show Biz Gossip
A diary of stage and screen talk notes a new play Hope for the Best about a writer torn between two women. It mentions Jim Dorsey’s Pennsylvania booking at $1,000 weekly, Warner’s courting Marion Hutton, Bing Crosby movie plans, and a Copacabana Miami Beach show with the song Too Bad You Haven’t Got a Heart. The column ribbing links a verse by Don Wahn and asks for attorney notification.
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Jimmy Dorsey
Pennsylvania
Warners
Marion Hutton
Betty
der Bingle
Warbie
St. Mary's
Copacabana
Miami Beach
Elliott Eberhard
Don Wahn
Columm
Broadway Ballad and Ticker Tales From Times Square
A column blend notes Broadway songs and nightlife headlines. Lenore Lemmon may sue Jakie Webb in Florida while Webb faces a federal jail term, and Eleanor Parker graces magazine covers as Warner Bros plans publicity.
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Times Square
Lenore Lemmon
Jakie Webb
Florida
Cvm
YMCA
YWCA
Manhattan
Boca Raton
Palm
Miami Beach
North America
Seven Mags
Eleanor Parker
Warners
Betty Bacall
Hollywood
Louella Parsons
Bim Non
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