Local notices and society items from January 1934
Belated Salvation Army event planned for tomorrow night at 8. Emerywood Club meets tonight. President’s birthday ball raises over 250 dollars. Robert Williams named president of High Point College students council. Louis Voorhees among state artists exhibits entrants in Washington DC. Dental health survey planned for schoolchildren. Convalescent list includes Miles Stryker Gratton Foy Jr Mrs Roy Wright and Mrs H C Blanchard Burr us Memorial. Helen Lutetia Barker marries Nor...
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Salvation Army
Emerywood Club
Robert Williams
Efland
Students’ Council
High Point College
Louis Voorhees
Miles Stryker
Baptist Hospital
Winston-Salem
Gratton Foy, Jr
Roy Wright
H. C. Blanchard
Burrus Memorial
Helen Lutetia Barker
Famed Follies Beauties At Paramount Tuesday
The Paramount Theatre hosts a one day only program on Tuesday featuring the Amazing Arabella in a musical revue with Gene Krupa and Fats Waller. The bill includes the Follies beauties from Vanitys and Scandals, Bert Nagle and Mariah the Human Cats, and a variety of talents from New York venues. Matinee prices start at 33 cents for adults and 9 cents for children with later shows offering higher rates. The Detroit News praised Arabella as a show stopper and highlighted the star-studded lineup and provocative pin up acts contributing to wartime morale.
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Gene Krupa
Fats Waller
Little Jack Little
Ted Lewis
Paramount Theatre
New York
ROXY
Capitol
Paramount
America
Arabella
Nick Kenny
THE
NEW York Mirror
Detroit News
Duke
Roosevelt
Churchill
Radio Schedule Highlights 1940s Nighttime Lineup
A detailed late evening and overnight radio schedule listing programs across CBS NBC and mutual networks. Includes Captain Midnight News Time The Lone Ranger Lux Comedy The Cavalcade of America Lum and Abner Sherlock Holmes and more with various hosts orchestras and serials.
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Farrell
Captain Midnight
Cbs Seria
Mbs
Vasice
Abe
Quincy Howe
News Time
Cbs
America
Abelyn Murray
Tim Healy
Ana Muste Orcestra
Jer Sullavan
Jack Armstrong
Bia-West
Volney
Imbs
Lowell Thomas
Wbde
Henry J Taylor
Fred Waring
Nbc
Haltenborn
Parks and Warren
Cbe
Voorhees Oer
Nbde
Blu
Nbe
Paul Inebella Jerry
Blu Beneptes
Tal
Tyne
Gaxton
Abe-Daee -Dagwood
Cbs- West
Dancng Musico
Nbde-West
London
Clergy Officiants and Navy Claims in 1986 Rank Claim
The article notes Rev. Wilbur Hut chins officiating at a service led by man B. DeHart. It also reports the Japanese Navy Minister stating auxiliary ships will outrank the U S by 1986, juxtaposed with isolationist skepticism. Dr Frank Porter Graham, UNC president in Raleigh, discusses consolidating Carolina State College and Greensboro College for Women as a national educational contribution.
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Togo
Japan
United States
Frank Porter Gra
University of North of Carolina
Day
Raleigh
Carolina
State College
Greensboro College For
America
Local Bible class feasibility study at new Y M C A quarters
Twenty years ago on January 31 a local Bible class from various churches planned a night at the new Y M C A quarters to discuss a feasible form for organizing a baseball here. Also noted were city construction permits totaling 56 340 dollars in value for January.
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High Point Theatre
Dearie
War Office clashes roam in Washington on policy
A Washington clash between Elmer H. Davis and Robert E. Sherwood over wartime information policy threatens a president with an embarrassing choice. Sherwood leads OWI foreign operations while Davis heads domestic publicity. lawmakers criticized Davis as too political and near fourth term minded. Meanwhile air superiority aids crisis efforts as RAF and Allied air forces strike behind German lines and sabotage bottlenecks disrupt rail and canal traffic.
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Elmer H. Davis
Robert E. Sherwood
Office of War Information
Sherwood
White House
Joseph Johnson
Finan
Vis
Mr. Sherwood
Mr. Davis
Mr. Barnes
Willkie
Alexander
Frascati
Italy
RAF Fliers
Reich Frontier
Invasion Strategy Split Across Allied Fronts
A wartime briefing argues that Allied forces will not fight alone as a crescent of conflict forms from Leningrad to western Europe. It notes Hitler’s lack of strategic reserves and predicts a joint Allied push with Eisenhower Stalin and Wilson coordinating to break German strength.
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United Nations
Leningrad
Mediterranean
Europe
Ames Ca
Keran
Hitler
France
Kiev
Low Countries
Reichswehr
Greece
Norway
Italy
Peter
Paul
Wehrmacht
Eisenhower
Stalin
Wilson
Duke Awards Diplomas to 36 in Wartime Graduation
Duke University held a mid winter graduation at the University House marking its first wartime accelerated program completion. Thirty six graduates received degrees as Dr G T Jordan preached the sermon and Dr Robert L Flowers spoke at the afternoon exercises.
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Durham
Duke University
University House
Jamin N. Duke
G. T Jordan
Charlotte
Robert L. Flowers
Duke
Margaretta Elizabeth Rcagle
Philadelphia
Anna Mae Atkinson
Wadesboro
N. C
L. L. Bailey
Richmond
Margaret Elizabeth Keys
Fayetteville
Agnes Weeks Kirkmyer
Dorothy Eleanor Labs
Pitman
N.J
Anne M
Tullahoma
Tenn
Reginald Murrill Meneine
Williamston
David Lindsay Morton
Ruth F. Malton
Mobile
Ala
Robert V. Nauman
Analomink
Zora Lois Nichols
Homestead
Fla
Nancy
Kentucky Flier Bags 6 Planes In 15 Minutes
Capt. Her schell H. Green a 23 year old Mayfield Ky fighter ace, shot down six enemy planes in about 15 minutes during air battles over Northern Italy. He downed four Junkers JU88s, then a Macchi 202 and a Dornier 217, adding to Thunderbolt escorts total. The Mediterranean Thunderbolts have now destroyed 56 enemy aircraft in theater.
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Edward Kennedy
Algiers
Italy
Herschell H. Green
Mayfield
Green
Dornier
Thunderbolt
Mediterranean
US Plans Three Point Postwar Japan Dismantling
Washington outlined a three point program to curb Japan after the war. It calls for stripping heavy industries convertible to munitions, barring merchant fleets and restricting ships to under 1000 tons, and limiting metals to consumer needs. The plan seeks to curb military capacity until Japan relinquishes empire building and distrustful governance, with naval bases potentially retained in limited form.
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John M. Hightower
Washington
Japan
United States
Asia
Ee Ae
Bonin Islands
Coon
Tee Gates
Pacific
Philippine
Oyster and Shrimp Production Soars 300 Percent
New Bern report by Captain John A. Nelson shows fisheries gains in shrimp and oysters from last year to the first six months, with production rising to 3,093,310 pounds of oysters and 143,420 tubs of shrimp, while clams and crabs fall.
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New Bern
John A. Nelson
Morehead City
Damon Runy on The Brighter Side and Veterans Politics
The piece argues veterans groups historically remained non political to avoid political manipulation. It contrasts this with labor which uses political leverage. It warns future veteran blocs could become a political force after the war, potentially allying with older groups to influence national policy.
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North
Washington
United States
Creomulsion Promises Quick Cough Relief
A three days cough signals danger and chronic bronchitis may follow if untreated. Creomulsion claims to reach the bronchial membranes, loosen phlegm, and aid healing with beechwood creosote and other medicines, without narcotics, offering a money back guarantee if it does not help. Buy War Bonds You Can Fight Too.
Jackson Day Dinner Draws 700 Tonight in Raleigh
Postmaster General Frank C. Walker, former Democratic exec chair, headlines the 1944 Jackson Day dinner in Raleigh. About 700 attendees are expected as State Senator Joe Blythe, Governor Broughton, and Blythe remarks push the campaign’s fund goal toward roughly $20,000, with the national target at $3,000,000.
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Raleigh
Frank C. Walker
National Democratic Executive Committee
North Carolina
Joe Blythe
Charlotte
Blythe
Broughton
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Wilbur Hutchins
J. B. Cooper
Violet Johnson
W. H. Slane
Greensboro
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Theton Hotel
Coolidge
Morrison
Law School
University of North Carolina
American Bar Association
North Star
Anne Baxter
Dana Andrews
Walter Brennan
Walter Huston
Jane Withers
Ann Savage As
Anita Louise
Evelyn Ankers
Patricia Morrison
Fred McMurray
Rangers OF Fortune
Rialto
Lon Chaney
the Wolf Man
Rliedig
Awa
Y Ray Tucker
John E Rankin
American Legion
Mississippi
World War Veterans Committee
BY Albert Leman
Kentucky
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Damon Runy
Jackson
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Guiding Light
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Weiner
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Treasury
Cavalcade of America
Voice of Firestone
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Piedmont Farm
WPB
OPA
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