City departments seek postwar room, new building
City leaders from police to health outline postwar needs emphasizing more space. Chiefs urge connected city hall with jail, courts, and new facilities. several departments call for new buildings, larger quarters, and modernized storage and clinics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Police Department
W. G. Friddle
Friddie
Police
Friddle
Municipal Court
D. C. MacRae
W.g.priddie
Truck Train Wreck Fatalities Injuries Reported
Greensboro January 31. A. F. Wilson, 60, Southern Railway engineer, was at the throttle when a train crashed into a gasoline truck driven by Shirley L. Messagee, 34, of Charlotte. Messagee improved slightly from critical burns while Michael W. H., 50, of Charlotte, was killed by suffocation. Wreckage cleared. lines being repaired.
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Greensboro
A. F. Wilson
Southern Railway
Shirley L. Messagee
Charlotte
Wesley Long Hospital
Piedmont Memorial Hospital
Plantation
E B Stone To Speak To Share The Ride Groups
B ene of the OPA district office will be principal speaker at Tuesday night’s meeting of share the ride groups. The meeting begins at 7 30 in the County Building to discuss gasoline and tires. J F Jones urges all interested persons to attend.
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Ene
OPA
J. F. Jones
Funeral Rites Held for Mrs Mattie Dickey Near High Point
Funeral services for Mrs Mattie Dickey who died at her home near High Point were conducted at Highland Methodist church on Sunday at 3 pm. Rev S W Johnson and Rev Roy H Parker led the service with pallbearers Lacy May Henry Wells Conner Brady Carl Brady Clifton Spoon Lonnie Brande. A music trio of Mrs Markland Potts Mrs M W Childress and Mrs J F Lockabill Jr provided accompaniment. Interment followed in the Fairfield Methodist church cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mattie Dickey
High Point
Highland Methodist Church
S. W. Johnson
Roy H. Parker
Thom- Ville
Lacy May
Henry Wells
Conner Brady
Carl Brady
Clifton Spoon
Lonnie Brande
Markland Potts
M. W. Childress
J. F. Lockabill
Fairfield Methodist Church
W T Kirkman 89 Dies Suddenly at Home in High Point
W T Kirkman 89 retired merchant dies at 916 Montlieu avenue High Point from a heart attack SuN day afternoon after years of good health He came to High Point in 1867 worked at Ragan Millis store later forming W T Kirkman Comer He retired 1918 Surviving widow two sons five daughters siblings and nine grandchildren with a great grandchild Funeral Tuesday at 3 PM from the home
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William Thomas Kirkman
High Point
Montlieu Avenue
Gift
Greensboro
Larkin
Temesia Bevil Kirkman
Ragan- Millis
W. T. Kirkman Omer
Laura Mendenhall Coffin
Kirkman
Aldermen
H. W. Hayes
Paul H. Hardy
Harrisonburg
C. Olin White
Kalamazoo
Mich
Howard A. Swaim
Salisbury
Joe L. Kirkman
Percy V. Kirkman
Annie Jennie Guyer
Ncral
Russian Drive Into Poland Presages Fall Of Rich Center
Lisbon Jan. 31 The Russian advance into old Poland pressures Germany as it relies on the central government general area for sustenance. German experts describe large scale livestock, dairy, oil, silk, flax and tobacco production, with fourfold meat and triple potato shipments to Germany in 1942. The article warns of a looming food catastrophe if retreating German forces evacuate Poland’s pantry.
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Wade Werner
Lisbon
Old
Poland
Germany
Balkan
Krakow
Eastern Front
Red Army
Stalin May Not Recognize Old Yugoslav King
London January 31 reports say the Moscow government rejected a proposed alliance with the Yugoslav king in exile. King Peter’s premier Bozhidar Purio sent the plan to Stalin, who reportedly replied that the time is not yet for such a treaty amid the wartime Yugoslav question.
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Stalin
London
Moscow
Yugoslavia
Peter
Reuters
Cairo
Bozhidar Purio
Josip Broz
Yugo
FCC Faces Budget Cut in 1944 War-Effort Scrutiny
The FCC comes under House scrutiny as a bipartisan panel demands deeper cuts to the independent offices supply bill. Chair James L Fly is pressed over testimony before a special committee on agency activities. Lawmakers dub the agency a liability to the war effort and push for further reductions.
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Washington
Federal Communications Commission
Commission
James L. Fly
House
FCC
Rg Ir Gegen
Taber
New York
OPA Violators Heard In Durham Today
In Durham on January 31 twenty cases alleging violation of Office of Price Administration price ceiling and rationing rules on meats and groceries were docketed for hearing before Chief Hearing Commissioner Daniel L. Bell of Atlanta. The drive covered 180 investigations in the area.
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Durham
Office of Price Administration
OPA
Daniel L. Bell
Atlanta
New Grower Tobacco Allotments Deadline Set
Asheboro January 29 Special To The Enterprise announces February 1 as the deadline to apply for new grower tobacco allotments. Applicants must have at least one year of tobacco farming experience in the last five years and reside on the farm where the allotment is sought. Applications are made at the AAA office in Asheboro.
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Asheboro
AAA
Head of it is a menace to the war effort
Taber argued that the entire fund for the FCC radio intelligence division should be denied and those functions handed to the war and navy departments. This stance framed the division as a threat to national wartime needs and urged reallocation of resources.
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Taber
FCC Radio Intelligence Division
War and Navy Departments
City Light Department Employee J A Barringer Dies
John Alexander Barringer 56 of 404 Vine Street died yesterday at Bowman Gray hospital in Winston-Salem. A city light department employee for 17 years he had been ill two years and a hospital patient two weeks. He was born May 3 1886 in Cabarrus County. survived by widow Katie Beaves, a son Dwight R. Barringer of Norfolk VA a daughter Mrs W H Hudson of High Point four brothers and one sister. Funeral services Tuesday at Emmanuel Lutheran Church with burial in Floral Garden Cemetery. Pallbearers are city light department employees and Masonic rites will conduct graveside services.
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John Alexander Barringer
Vine Street
Bowman Gray
Winston-Salem
City Light Department
Barringer
Cabarrus County
Wesley and
Bellnora Page Barringer
Katie Beaves
Emmanuel Lutheran Church
Numa F. Reid Lodge
Masons
Dwight R. Barringer
Norfolk
W. H. Hudson
High Point
Paul M. Barringer
China Grove
W. M. Barringer
Gold Hill
Charles Barringer
New London
L. R. Barringer
Palestine
Texas
Guy McBride
Concord
F. L. Conrad
Floral Garden
Sechrest Funeral Home
Masonic Order
At Least One Japanese Unit Surrenders on Bougainville
Marine Corporal George Horst reports at least one Japanese unit on Bougainville Island surrendered. In a letter to his father Roy Horst a spokesman among the prisoners complained that Marines push them off the island and the navy won’t let them off.
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Kansas City
George Horst
Marines
Bougainville Island
Roy Horst
Money Pouring In From FDR's Birthday Balls
Washington date line reports funds raised for the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis surged over the weekend as Americans celebrated President Roosevelt birthday. Lady Hardwicke presented a 240000 dollar check from Hollywood profits while the president urged new support for the war loan drive and reaffirmed the pledge of unconditional surrender. Roosevelt, aged 62, was praised by his physician for his surprisingly good health.
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Washington
Roosevelt
National Foundation For
White House
Executive Mansion
United Nations
Rep Doughton Would Simplify Tax Returns
Rep Robert L Doughton of Sparta North Carolina 80 year old chair of the ways and means committee will run again for a 17th term He said war clouds impelled him to delay retirement planned for 1940 and he wants income tax return simplification before leaving Congress
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Washington
Robert L. Doughton
Sparta
N. C
Ways and Means Committee
Doughton
North Carolina Democrat
Coughton
Congress
Seven Violent Deaths Recorded In State
Charlotte reports seven people died violently in North Carolina over the weekend. A firefighter W H Michael from Derita died in a collision between Southern passenger train No 5 and an oil tanker near Gwiford Station. Adolph Holshouser, 26, was found shot to death in Concord where he lodged. A man identified as Dillard Selter of Harlan Kentucky was found dead in the Cape Fear river with autopsy planned. Mrs Ollie Sellers of South Carolina and her seven month old infant died in a truck crash near Rockingham. Second Lt Arthur B Smith of Seymour Johnson Field died when his fighter crashed near Goldsboro. M L Yarborough, a Char case operator, died from a head wound. Detectives A McCall and J B Baker said he had killed himself, apparently due to despondency over financial reverses.
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Charlotte
North Carolina
W. H. Michael
Derita
Southern
Greensboro Wirston-Salem
Gwiford Station
Adolph Holshouser
Concord
N. J. Mitchell
Wilmington
Dillard Selter
Harlan, Ky
Cape Fear
Ollie Sellers
S. C
Rockingham
Arthur B. Smith
Seymour Johnson Field
Goldsboro
M. L. Yarborough
A. McCall
J. B. Baker
Battle updates from Montenegro and surrounding regions
Slav radio today reports hard fighting in Montenegro and in the Croatian coast between Senj and Vinodol. Albanian mercenaries have joined German forces in Montenegro. Local fighting continues in Bosnia. Inland seas once lay where the Rockies and Appalachians now rise. Army Lance prepares nearly 2,000 ammunition shipments every eight hours for overseas delivery.
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Slav Radio Today
Montenegro
Senj
Vinodol
Bosnia
United States
Rockies
Appalachians
Army Lance
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J. L. Perkins
Perkins
Boys
J.J. Ellington
Juvenile Court Department
Ellington
City Department
Lake Crowe
Crowe
Lois Welborn
Welborn
Mareesegue
Reece Snyder
Goldston Park
Wighland Mill
Royal
Iity
Ingram
National Board of Fire Underwriters
Paul Clapp
Civil Service
Civil Service Commission
James B. Lovelace
City Public Works Department
T. C. Kirkman
Ikman
R. A. Herring
Rome
U. S. Signal Corps
OWI
E. B. Stone
Mrs
Mattip Dickey
W.T. Kirkman
Montlieu
J.A. Barringer
City Employe
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Plymouth
Dodge
de Soto
Chrysler
MOPAR
Chrysler Corporation
Desoto
Ture
Major Bowes
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