Wake Island under Army Navy control after siege
Wake Island is now occupied by about 1 200 navy personnel under Capt E A Junghans and 100 army air transport and communications staff. Seabees dismantle Japanese emplacements while base roads and buildings rise, with transport planes servicing flights west to Tokyo and east to the mainland.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tom Lambert
Wake Island
United States Marines
Navy
Army
Air Transport Command and Communications
E. A. Junghans
Bethesda
Wake
United States
Tokyo
Wake Oo. Com
Junghans
Pan American
Naval Air Station Administration
Pan American Survey Flight
Naval Air Transport
Honolulu
Army Air Transport Command
Kwajalein
Guam
Wake Island Atoll
Wilkes
Peale Islands
Peacock Point
Conversion Of Library Is Progressing
Work is rapidly advancing on turning the old Pickett home at North Main street into city library quarters. The upstairs now serves as offices and work rooms with rooms for periodicals, checkout, rental books, and an adult reading area. The left side houses children’s books and reading spaces while the right holds fiction and high school volumes. Librarian Miss Elizabeth Gurley and her staff praised the remodeled layout.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pickett
North Main Street
City Library
Elizabeth Gurley
Government Again Asks For Information
Atlanta federal works agency seeks more data on High Point storm sewer plans under the mobilization act. City Manager Braden confirms a second information request for the storm sewer project of 8510 dollars. Water main survey funds remain unchallenged. A $7000 street lighting survey was cancelled as a private firm offers the work at no charge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Federal Works Agency
Atlanta
High Point
Ity
Braden
Rent form guidance for equipment and services inclusion
Question asks if all equipment and services are in the rent. If not, file Form DD-102. 1944 with February 1, 1946 effective date. The form mirrors High Point landlords use, takes under five minutes, must be completed in triplicate and returned to OPA as part of the rent control registration plans announced Friday in The Enterprise.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
OPA
High Point
Tests For Rh Blood Factors Cuts Danger To Unborn
Baltimore obstetricians launch a central Rh laboratory to routinely test pregnancy blood, aiming to prevent erythroblastosis in unborn children. Dr. Milton Sacks directs with Dr. Alan Guttmacher chairing. space provided by University of Maryland. Fifty percent of pregnant women tested, with monthly antibody tracking if the wife is negative and the husband positive.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James EF. Hague
Baltimore
United States
Baltimore City Medical Society
Alan Guttmacher
Milton S. Sacks
University of Maryland
School of Medicine
Dr. Sacks
Sacks
Judson Motor Co Expands Detroit Production
Judson Motor Co reports daily output of 400 passenger cars in Detroit despite supplier shortages. A second assembly line opened February 19 and management aims to raise production as materials permit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
Judson Motor Co
Advertising Executives Meet In Chapel Hill War Effort Praise
William H. Neal of Wachovia Bank urged ad executives to use advertising as a defense of democratic life at the Carolina Inn during the mid winter meeting of the Carolinas Advertising Executives Association drawing over 100 leaders from North and South Carolina. The program featured retail clinics with Ralph Grant and John Geisen, plus talks by W S Townsend Rex Winslow and others on improving ads and promoting cooperative promotion methods.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chapel Hill
William H. Neal
Wachovia Bank and Trust Company
Winston-Salem
North Carolina Bankers Association
Neal
Carolina Inn
Carolinas Advertising Executives Association
North
South Carolina
Ralph P. Grant
Ivey's
Asheville
John Geisen
New York
Bureau of Advertising
ANPA
Grant
Geisen
W. S. Townsend
Townsend
Rex Winslow
University School of Commerce
Lee Rickard
Anderson
S. C
Independent Daily Mail
Ray King
Concord Tribune
R. S. Haltiwanger
Columbia
State Record
I. W. Williams
Charlotte News
A. Robinson
Charlotte Observer
Guy M. Leedy
Elizabeth City Advance
A. F. Carrere Goldsboro News Argus
Kingsport
Tenn
Navy Men Retire At Highest Rank
President Truman signed legislation authorizing retirement of Navy officers at the highest temporary war rank if service in that rank was satisfactory. The act lowers retirement age from 64 to 62 for all officers except Fleet Admirals and allows retirement boards to trim active officers. Fleet Admirals have no fixed retirement age. Officers may retire at their own request or due to disability.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Truman
Navy
Lumber Grading Course Set at N C State College
A lumber grading course for representatives of the lumber and wood industry will be held at North Carolina State College from March 4 to 7. Invitations to enroll have been issued to sawmill operators wholesalers retailers industrial buyers and timber users.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raleigh
N. C. State College
College Extension Division
Quotations From Southern Securities 1946 Trading Bid and Ask
The record shows bid and ask quotations from various dealers as of 12 noon on Wednesday February 20 1946. Prices include Acme Alum Alloys Alabama Great Southern Railroad Amer Trust Co Charlotte and many others with listed bid and or ask figures. The data lists common and preferred issues for banks railroads mills and insurance firms along with utility and manufacturing stocks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc
Acme Alum Alloys
Alabama Great Southern Railroad
ASL American Bakeries Co
American Casualty Co
American Enka Corp
Amer-La France-Foamite Corporation
Amer Trust Co
Charlotte
American Yarn & Broc Co
Amer Yarn & Proc Co
Atlanta & Charlotte Air Line Railway
S Auto Finance Co
Auto Finance Co
Sassett Furniture Indus
Jausch & Lomb Optical
Hird & Bom Successes Ceesedd
Iuc Bell
Imc
Giy Dutler’s, Inc
Outler's, Inc
Care, Clinch, & Ohio RR
the Care Insurance Co
Carolina Power & Light Co
Care Sales Corp
Jaro Tele & Tele Co
Donial Stores, Inc
Nal Stores
Inc
OO Cierces ‘Empire Dist Elec Co
2Rwin Cotton Mills
Rwin Cot Mills
Welity Bank
Ducuam
Fore Dairies, Inc
Fore Dairies
Gartinekel
Julius & Co
Jertinekel
Garlock Vocking Co
Vamble Wiolfiers
Hanes, P. 1
Knit Co
Lee
Highland Park Mfg
High Park Mfg
Home Tele
Defferson Standard Life Insurance Co
Larkwood Losiery Mills, Inc
Ee 1
Life & Casualty Inn Co
McEwen-Kaiser Co
Mid-West Refineries, Inc
Iskocedcunecescesli
Monumental Life Ins. Co
May
Morganton Furn Co
National Container Corp
New Britain Machine Co
North Caro RK Co
Northwestern National Life Sromwares Sev
Thecccnce Dl Occidental Life Ing
Y Peninsular Tele Co
Peoples Savings Bank & Trust Co
Dace AY
Piedmont & Northern Rall
Piedmont & Northern Rall 66 Pilot Full Fashion Mills
Reverside
Dan River Mills
Rose's
Towan Cotton Mills
Gal Cotton Mills
Ootanems
Scott & Williams
Seaboard Finance
Security Life & Trust Co
Seeger-Sunbeam Corp
Seiber Rub Co
Seiberling Rubber Co
Sonero Products Co
South Atlantic Gas
Southern Fire Ins. Co
Southern Webbing Mills
Stonecutter Phllis
Faton, Ine
Rush Named To Head Local PCA
George Rut Rush named general manager of Pennsylvani Central Airlines for the Greensboro High Point area. He will assume direction of all PCA activities on March 1. The Mobile native is a 1938 Tulane graduate, wartime naval aviator with over 1600 flying hours, married with two children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Rut
Pennsylvani Central Airlines
Ma Ager
Greensbor High Point
J. H. Carmichael
PCA
Bush
Greensboro High Point
Mobile
Ala
Rus
Tulan University
Tulane
Universit of Alabama
Mobil Corporation
Wav
Thi
J. O. Rush
Sebastian Byerly To Serve In London Embassy
Sebastian Byerly son of Mr and Mrs Charles A Sebastian of 101 West Howell street sails for London to serve at the American embassy under the U S state department. He recently discharged after four years in the armed forces two years in the Southwest Pacific with the 26th signal company. He studied in city schools and High Point College and worked with Paramount Pictures in New York City before his service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. Byerly Sebastian
Charles A. Sebastian
West
Howell Street
London
U. S. State Department
Sebastian
Armed Service
26Th Signal Company
Southwest Pacific
High Point College
Paras Mount Pictures
New York City
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Shigematsu Sakaibara
Wake Falls
Death Island
Halsey
Admiral Spruance
Northampton
Numa F. Reid Lodge
A. F
A. M. NO
Stevenson
Gregory
N. C
Cambridge Garlic
N. Main St
Main St
United States OF America
Office OF Price Administration
Rupert Brook ’ Esq
Metro Realty CO
Joel. Davis
Metro Realty
City and
LA. Cotton St
Alaska, GA
Peach ST
Alaska
Ve. Banneker
C&s
Masimott
SEC
UTO Production
Clifton Green
Florence
Herbert A. Beuerman
U. S. Treasury
Treasury
W. S. Waddell
Elizabethton
Daily Star
NAEA
Chicago
Robert K. Drew
Milwaukee Journal
National Advertising Executives Association
Southern Securities
Val
Rush
George Rush
N. Main &T
Droops
Tae
Sartin Dry Cleaning CO
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