Local Court Grants Nineteen Divorces This Morning
The municipal court jury granted 19 divorces in the first session of Mu court proceedings this week. Nine couples received divorces on two year separation grounds including Horace B. Harkey and Verbie Ruth Pugh Harkey and Gertrude Wood and Claude Lee Wood. Ten couples were granted divorces on statutory grounds such as Perlie Lee and Cora H. Osborne and Luther C. Steele and Gladys Steele.
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Municipal Court
Mu— Court
Horace B. Harkey
Verbie Ruth Pugh Harkey
Gertrude Wood
Claude Lee Wood
Elizabeth Michael
H. M. Michael
George Covington
Henrietta Gray Covington
Walter E. Dorsett
Lille Mae Dorsett
Almedia Kennedy
D. E. Kennedy
Lawrence C. Dennis
Ruth Dennis
F. E. Young
Ethel Young
M. We. Hoskins
Bessie Hoskins
Katie Gill
Robert Gill
Eva Sims
Napoleon Sims
A. L. Manning
Annie Smith Manning
Perlie Lee
Cora H. Osborne
Luther C. Steele
Gladys Steele
Louise Rogers Rector
Otis S. Rector
Harold H. Lopp
George ‘Is Hopkins
May B. Hopkins
Frances Lee
Lloyd Hicks
Winston-Salem to install FM radios in four high schools
Superintendent John Watson Moore announced plans to install frequency modulation radio equipment in Gray Hanes Reynolds and Atkins high schools. The city would be the first in the state to adopt the state board of education suggestion that FM stations supplement classroom programs rather than replace teaching. The system would beam programs via WMIT when schools open next fall.
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Winston-Salem
John Watson Moore
T City
State Board of Education
WMIT
Gray
Hanes
Reynolds
Atkins
Moore
Radio Rams
State Arranging For Highway Equipment
Raleigh July 11 report Chief Highway Engineer W Vance Baise said negotiations are under way with armed services to obtain postwar highway equipment. The department has authority to buy about 30 one and a half ton trucks but lacks motor graders bulldozers and heavy machines. He suggested government surplus could be bought later at a discount and noted much equipment used on the Alaska Canada Highway will not be serviceable. North Carolina released government equipment after the last war to aid road building.
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Raleigh
War Board
Alcan Highway
Alaska
North Carolina
Broughton Names Eight Delegates to Rivers Congress
Governor Broughton appointed eight North Carolina delegates for the rivers and harbors congress in New Orleans July 7 to 28. The list includes Rep. Graham A. Barden of New Bern Rep. Herbert C. Bonner of Washington Cyrus D. Hogue Frederick Willetts William G. Broadfoot Ben F. Royall Stanley Woodland and T Culpepper from Elizabeth City all named to attend.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
National Rivers and Harbors Congress
New Orleans
Broughton
Graham A. Barden
New Bern
Herbert C. Bonner
Washington
Cyrus D. Hogue
Frederick Willetts
William G. Broadfoot
Wilmington
Ben F. Royall
Morehead City
Stanley Woodland
Beaufort
T. Culpepper
Elizabeth City
Funeral Rites For War ren Parker Everhart
The funeral service for Warren Parker Everhart eight year old son of Lexington Route 2 was held at Pierce s Chapel Baptist church Monday at 4 00 p m Rev Douglas McDowell of Asheboro led the service Pallbearers included Edward Sibson Jay Hill and Oscar Hunt Flowers were carried by friends and Miss Sena Mae Parrish directed the floral tribute Interment was in the church cemetery
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Thomasville
Speial
Warren Parker Everhart
Lexington
Rocky Mountain
Pierce’s Chapel Baptist Church
Douglas McDowell
Asheboro
Edward Sibson
Jay Hill
Oscar Hunt
Vena Mae Parrish
Marianas operations surge with Guam and Rota shelling
American forces in the Pacific reported fresh blows at Guam and Rota, nearing potential invasion objectives after Saipan capture. Carrier task groups faced heavy fire but damaged Japanese positions, with a destroyer rescuing a downed pilot. Liberators bombed Sorong and other targets across Dutch New Guinea and the Carolines.
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U.S. Pacific Fleet
Pearl Harbor
Guam
Rota
Marianas
Saipan
Ranas
Central
Southwest Pacific
Carolines
Truk
Palau
Yap
Woleai
Far East
Sorong
Dutch New Guinea
Marshall Islands
New Guinea
Allied siege push and reentry in La Haye Du Puits
German troops reentered La Haye Du Puits as the American First Army seized the town and surrounding roads. Allied commander Montgomerie reported 34,000 prisoners since D-Day, with the British second army testing Caen defenses while American forces push toward Periers and Carentan, advancing along the Vire river and securing La Forges Graignes and Sainteny.
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la Haye du Puits
First Army
Bernard L. Montgomery
France
Caen
Odon
Orne
Maltot
Carentan
Periers
Doughboys
Sainteny
la Forges
Graignes
Vire
Peach price ceiling set at $4 a bushel in nine southern states
Raleigh reports the state agriculture department says the peach price ceiling will be four dollars per bushel and two dollars and sixteen cents per half bushel for best grade from July 15 to August 15. After August 15 the ceiling drops to three dollars and sixty six cents per bushel and one dollar ninety nine cents per half bushel as the season ends.
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Raleigh
State Agriculture Department
North Carolina
Weather Outlook for North Carolina
Partly cloudy, warm and humid today and tonight with a warm spell continuing Wednesday. Widely scattered afternoon or evening thundershowers are possible across the state.
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North Carolina
Italian premier says armistice terms to be published by Allies
Rome July 11 Premier Ivanoe Bonomi stated the Italian government had no objection to publicizing the armistice terms and had left the initiative with the Allies. He said the Allies asked whether his new regime opposed publication of the provisions.
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Rome
Ivanoe Bonomi
U S planes raid Japanese bases in Sinyang Yochow area
U S planes bombed the Japanese bases of Sinyang and Yochow destroying five enemy planes and damaging several more. Southeast of Hengyang American Warhawks destroyed 50 supply boats and two pontoon bridges. An air strip at Hengyang was damaged. The 14th air force raided canal shipping in northeast French Indo China and dropped supplies to Chinese forces on the Salween river front in Yunnan. Three barges were sunk and ten damaged.
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Chungking
P— U
Yunnan
Japanese Forces Flees Burma After Kohima Threats End
Japanese troops allegedly in flight toward the Chindwin river in Burma after dispersal of enemy forces threatening Kohima and the Imphal plain in northeast India. The move followed the campaign to neutralize the Southeast Asia command headquarters impact.
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Southeast Asia Command
Kanday
Ceylon
Thhrus
Chindwin River
Burma
Kohima
Imphal
India
London Faces New Wave of Flying Bombs
July 11 report says more flying bombs hit London and southern England after a free night, with attacks below prior peak. Despite buzzing attacks continuing, damage and casualties are light and residents largely unfazed, relieved by the absence of the terror’s loud drone.
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London
P—P
England
Bombardment grows as Allies strike Italian rail hubs
Allied air forces pummeled Milan railyards with heavy bombs and thousands of incendiaries. RAF Wellingtons and Halifaxes dropped two ton blocks and caused extensive fires as the assault continued, signaling a prolonged push toward the Gothic Line.
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Milan
Polio Epidemic Guidance Urges Early Care and Caution
Public health advisories warn that polio spreads during outbreaks and advise limiting fatigue in children. They note avoid tonsil or adenoid removal except urgent cases and stress early medical care for suspected polio cases.
School for Delinquent Girls Moved to Rocky Mount
Officials announced the school for delinquent Negro girls will be housed at the old national youth administration center in Rocky Mount once federal inventory of equipment is completed. The last legislature funded maintenance of a temporary home until permanent quarters are built.
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Raleigh
National Youth Administration Center
Rocky Mount
Roosevelt Bids for Another Term Amid War Wariness
In a wartime setting President Roosevelt states he does not wish to run again but would accept another term if drafted by the convention and voters. He notes his 12 years as president and commander in chief and emphasizes war aims, job creation for returning veterans, and a stable economy.
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Roosevelt
Oeigi Pape Paarhinen
Albany
N. Y
Thomas E. Dewey
Hannegan
Wallace
China
Charles de Gaulle
French Committee of National Liberation
Mr. Roosevelt
Fleet enters tunnel bombardment in chain of attacks
The report describes a fleet entering a tunnel, damaging a rail front end, bombing two transformer stations, shelling a third, attacking freight cars in three yards, destroying a locomotive, and firing on three additional trains.
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