Bedfellows in North Carolina Politics Stirred by Revenge and Dry Issues
In High Point a political figure aligned with Dr. Ralph McDonald seeks to deliver the Democratic vote to his ally while aiming to thwart rival Gregg Cherry. Oscar Pitts supports Cherry for practical reasons, having previously opposed him. A Raleigh-Greensboro report hints McDonald is wooing drys with a referendum path, echoing past shifts in stance. The piece laments the tangled alliances and calls for strong action against wartime profiteers and Nazi-financed agents.
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Ralph McDonald
Gregg Cherry
Cherry
Raleigh
Oscar Pitts
Mr. Pitts
Mr. Cherry
Wilson Warlick
Greensboro Daily News
Tom Best
McDonald
GDN
Drys
Hoey
Heaven and Earth
Bill Drake
Dr. McDonald
Ra leigh Baker Sentenced to Two Years in Federal Prison
The Raleigh bakery operator Fred Staudt received a two year federal sentence for failing to register 432000 pounds of sugar. The speaker expresses regret over his guilt but praises Judge Meekins and hopes other cheats follow suit to end black markets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred Staudt
Raleigh
Meekins
Traitors and a Treason Case Mentioned in Debate
A discussion questions the public display of approval for a resident who helped save Max Stehan, sentenced to death for treason. The piece argues emotions toward traitors hinder calm consideration of the case and notes Stehan assisted a German prisoner.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Max Steihan
Traitrs
Stehan
North Carolinians Die in Japanese Prison Camps
Papers report several North Carolinians among hundreds who died of disease in Japanese prison camps as portrayed by the Red Cross. The brief notice hints at starvation and poor sanitation while urging United Nations action to hasten victory and free survivors from Bataan and other sites.
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Red Cross
United Nations
Bataan
Fred Drakes
Pop
Bitigr
Harper's Bazaar
Louise Gwenn Winters
Louise Duke
New York
Washington Biggies
Sally Shepherd
NBC
Red Mueller
USC
Wendell Willkie
Noveltie
B'klyn
Prescription for postwar business stability urged by Cleveland engineer
George T. Trundle Jr. asks industrialists to prepare for peace by building ready to sell products and markets now. He warns a treasury with customers matters more than cash alone and urges plans to protect employment and wages once war production ends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George T. Trundle, Jr
Cleveland
Treasury
Lebensraum and Liberty in Wartime Rationed Worlds
A column reflects on Nazi demand for lebensraum in camps while contrasting allied prisoner conditions in the Reich. It playfully imagines swapping luxuries for a village, notes a medical fact on facial muscles, and ends with a seasonal quip about summer’s return.
Thoughts on Parents Prices and Potatoes in High Point
A collection of quotes covers juvenile delinquency roots with a police view on parental influence, OPA price enforcement warnings to merchants, praise for cooperative real estate work, concerns about federal auto stamps, and a reader’s tribute to E M Knox proposing a living memorial over a bronze plaque.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sgt. Kiger
Washington Street
OPA
Carl M. Simpson
Charlotte
Knox
E. M. Knox
Sicily Greece and Democracy in an Ancient Mirror
Editor Elmer T. Peterson draws parallels between Mediterranean struggles of today and Athens in ancient times. He highlights Alcibiades as a symbol of shifting loyalties, tyranny rhetoric, and the volatile democracy that crowned him but warned of tyranny’s pull.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elmer T. Peterson
Daily Oklahoman
Mediterranean
Alcibiades
Nome
Athens
Tisaphernes
Abydos
Plutarch
Lysander
Alcibiades and Athens: decline under a gilded yet treacherous leadership
The passage surveys Alcibiades as a brilliant yet self serving leader whose endless triumph bred overconfidence and chaos in Athens. Lysander closes in while Alcibiades enjoys luxury with Timandra before a violent death, praised democracy only when useful, and betrays truth with rhetoric. Timon mocks his vaunted eloquence.
Paraphrased historical claims about nations and nature
A collage of stated facts covers Romania’s ancient beginnings, Czech pilots in the RAF, U S armored division ammo use, bird colors from light refraction, carp origins via China and India, and the vast US road network. The mix reads like a trivia list rather than a connected article.
Broadway Nightlife Echoes and Celebrity Glimpses
A vivid chorus of New York nightlife notes figures like Earl Browder, Robert Minor and Dorothy Kilgallen amid Midtown vignettes. The column traces Broadway glamour, stars, social scenes, and urban chatter from the era, with sightings of Bergman, Rita Hayworth, and Groucho Marx peppering a kaleidoscope of clubs, weathered by wartime currents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Earl Browder
Robert Minor
Billy the Oysterman
20Th St. Place
Supreme Court
Frank Murphy
David Dubinsky
Dorothy Kilgallen
Richard Kollmar
State Department
Sumner Welles Ankling
11Th St
Greenwich Village
Eugene Casey
FDR
Mr. Boss
James W. Gerard
Broadway
Indiana
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High Point Enterprise
J. P. Rawley
R. B. Terry
H. A. Cecil
Mgr
D. A. Rawley
Robert Thompson
Membenh
Associated Press
High Point
N. C
John Budd
Lexington Ave
N. Y
Audit Bureau OF Circulation
Cape
Congress
Pearl Harbor
FBI
Reichland
Enterprise
High Point, North Carolina
MAMA
Roger Thompson
Atlanta
DD. A. Dowdy
S. C. Clark
Ed Mendenhall
Overman
High Point Township
Harry N. Carr
Marketing Reports
War Fund Distribution Administration
Sicily
Greece and
Benjamin Franklin
Jeremiah
Timon
Romania
Royal Air Force
U. S. Armored
China
India
Europe
United States
Winchell
Donna W
Confrere Skolsky
Hollywood
Arthur Murray
Lucy Monroe
Groucho Marx
Ingrid Bergman
Rita Hayworth
Los Angeles
de Gaulle
Giraud
Lucky Millinder
N. Carolina
Ken Hopkins
Ramona
Club
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