Brooklyn Tigers Sign Three Players For Training Camp
The Brooklyn Tigers announce contracts with Verne Allom of the University of Cincinnati Dale Carmody from Southern California and Dub McGibboney Arkansas State Teachers College halfback as they prepare to open training camp on August 6. Allom was among 30 collegians drafted by the Tigers with 20 currently in service and the note that Creighton Miller and Ralph Park remain among available draftees.
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New York
Brooklyn Tigers
National Football League
Verne Allom
University of Cincinnati
Dale Carmody
Southern California
Dub McGibboney
Arkansas State Teachers College
Uliom
Tigers
Creighton Miller
Notre Dame
College Amps Told Not To Officiate In Pro Games
The Oregonian reports Commissioner Edwin Atherton of the Pacific Coast Intercollegiate Athletic conference advised conference officials not to officiate in the new American Professional Football League. Officials reportedly are irked as no official announcement was made, but Atherton stated conference rules prohibit pro work.
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Portland
Ore
The
Oregonian
Edwin Atherton
Pacific Coast Intercollegiate Athletic Conference
Atherton
Patriots Battle Germans in France War dispatch from Port Rou Spain
Allied forces in southern France engage German regulars and SS units near Perigueux and surrounding towns. German troops push through woods from multiple axes toward Chalais Montpon Bergerac and Sariat as battles intensify in the Peri region.
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Port Rou
Spain
Peri
France
Perigueux
Pex
Chalais
Montpon
Bergerac
Sariat
Paris Declared Open City Amid War Strain
Madrid reports ABC says Paris should be an open city as Allied forces near Normandy. Paris endures rationing and food limits while coal and electricity are curtailed after bombings sabotage and German requisitions. Four coal laden barges blocked in sabotaged canals north of France.
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Madrid
ABC
Normandy
Metropol
Paris
Army Nurses to Be Made Officers
President Roosevelt ordered all army nurses commissioned as actual army officers replacing relative rank. The move gives nurses, female dieticians and physically fit personnel full officer authority, ending limited command under prior relative rank.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Army Department
Allied forces push north of St Lo amid heavy fighting
Allied and German forces clash across Caen and the Cotentin front as American units press toward Lessay and Coutances, while Montgomeries line gains falter. Rommel counterattacks bruise British positions near Caen and St Lo, with RAF and US air power targeting tanks, fuel, and reinforcements.
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Omar Bradley
la Haye du Puits
Gis
Mt. Castre
Lessay
Coutances
Marshal Rommel
St. Lo
Paris
Periers
Bernard L. Montgomery
Caen
Erwin Rommel
Haye du Puits
Colombelies
River Orne
Faubourg de Vaucelles
Iggy
la Meauffe
Vire
RAF
Hottot
Vimont
Tilly-Sur Seulles
Polio Survey Expands Across North Carolina
Two representatives of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis began a state survey of polio conditions. George Engelhardt and Miss Meredith Moody noted research and restorative aims with Bowman Gray Medical School assisting. Six epidemiologists and about 100 nurses and six therapists are deployed to piedmont centers. local chapters have contributed 37,721.58 toward the effort.
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National Foundation For Infantile Paralysis
George Engelhardt
Meredith Moody
Engelhardt
Bowman Gray Medical School
Winston-Salem
North Carolina
Piedmont
Foundation
Silver Compromise Nears Acceptance at Bretton Woods Talks
A silver compromise appeared headed for acceptance by the United Nations monetary conference. Described as an appeasement gesture to Latin American nations, it also aims to win silver state congressional support for Bretton Woods related legislation. Some 3,800 experienced pipe liners laid the Big Inch pipeline to the east.
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Bretton Woods
N. H
United Nations Monetary Conference
Late Bulletins Hint No Formal Acceptance Speech by President
Three day delays in bulletins and remarks suggest the President will not deliver a formal acceptance speech. Observers report uncertainty and indications that the event may be unlikely.
Brownell Attacks Roosevelt Over Fourth Term Bid
Herbert Brownell Jr., Republican chairman, accused President Roosevelt of using the commander in chief title to extend his political power. Brownell, a guest of Gov. Thomas E. Dewey, commented on Roosevelt’s suggestion he would accept a fourth term if nominated.
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Albany
N. Y
Herbert Brownell, Jr
Roosevelt
Brownell
Thomas FE
Dewey
Weather Outlook for North Carolina Today and Thursday
Partly cloudy and hot with widely scattered afternoon thundershowers mainly in the mountains. Tonight will be fair to partly cloudy and warm. Thursday remains partly cloudy and hot with scattered thundershowers, mostly in western areas.
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North Carolina
Germany makes six peace bids since February, Madrid dispatch says
A Madrid dispatch to the London News Chronicle reports that Germany has made at least six attempts to gain a negotiated peace since February. The latest bid followed Hitler's "never capitulate" speech last week.
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London
Madrid
London News Chronicle Today
Germany
Hitler
German Spy Executed in Britain at Pentonville
Joseph Jan Van Hove a former Antwerp waiter posing as a refugee was executed at Pentonville Prison today as a German spy. He is the sixteenth person to be executed in Britain for espionage since the war began.
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London
Joseph Jan van Hove
Antwerp
Belgium
Pentonville
Britain
Hitler tightens grip as war stretches Germany thin
The government press urges German readers to accept rail stoppages while Nazi leadership laments dwindling supplies and manpower. Hitler faces Allied onslaughts in France and Italy, a new Russian offensive, and a strategic squeeze that forces use of youths and older workers.
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Hitler
France
Italy
Foreign Administration
Russia
Fuehrer
Russians drive towards Grodno and Bialystok in broad offensive
Russians report heavy losses for Germany with 1,500 killed and an equal number captured on the sector. Advances push across the Niemen south of Lida and toward Grodno and Bialystok as Rokossovsky and Bagramian execute encircling moves from Lida to Baranowicze area.
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Bialystok
Warsaw
Lida
Baranowicze
Niemen
Byelitsa
Konstantin K. Rokossovsky
Deaths of Robert B Howard in Burlington
Robert B Howard, 59, native of Person County, died suddenly at his North Park Avenue home. Survivors include his widow Mrs ary Mister Howard, three daughters, six sons, four sisters, three brothers, and eight grandchildren. Funeral arrangements pending arrival of sons from army camps.
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Robert B. Howard
North Park Avenue
Person County
Ary Mister Howard
Robert Shoe
Haw River
Satterfield
R. A. Peter
Ralph B
Archie L
C. 8. Howard
D. B. Howard
C. C. Howard
High Point
H. F. Howard
Virginia
D. A. Howard
Baltimore
W. C. Stanfield
Annie Buckner
Greensboro
J. E. Moss
Ruth Jefferson
Danville
Mrs. Judith Mullinix 72 Died At Home In Uwharrie
Special to The Enterprise reports Judith Mullinix 72 died at her Uwharrie home at 4 30 AM. She was wife of J M Mullinix. Survived by six daughters Odessa Thayer D P Mullinix A S Mullinix J Tucker of Uwharrie W A Kearns Arnold Ward of High Point and three sons J A E M C B Mullinix all of Albemarle. Funeral at Bethany Church Uwharrie Thursday at 2 30 PM with burial in local cemetery.
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Enterprise
Uwharrie
Judith Mullinix
J. M. Mullinix
Odessa Thayer
D. P. Mullinix
A. S. Mullinix
Albemarle
J. Tucker
W. A
Yanks Press Near Liling as Chinese Drive Routs Japanese
U S planes destroy 50 supply boats and two bridges as Brig Gen Clinton Vincent says attacks have driven the enemy toward Hengyang. In Yunnan Chinese forces prepare assaults on Tengchung Lungling and Magshih while British troops pursue Japanese remnants near Northeast India after a two day battle near Chepu.
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Liling
U. S
Clinton Vincent
China
Hengyang
Yunnan
Tengchung
Lungling
Magshih
Burma Road
India
Chepu
Christian Endeavor Meeting Called Off
The North Carolina Union of Christian Endeavor state convention at Elon College July 21 23 has been canceled as a health precaution. State officers announced the decision after a Greensboro meeting.
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North Carolina Union of Christian Endeavor
Elon College
Greensboro
Yank S Repulse Allies Reach Mount Civitella Front
Allied forces repulsed a German attack and cleared Mount Civitella, while tanks crossed the Nestore, upper Tiber tributary, pushing ahead. A German counterattack near Pietralunga cost the Allies a small amount of ground. On the Adriatic, Italian units advanced near the Musone river as Ancona came under artillery fire, eight miles from the front.
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Civitella
Nestore
Tiber
Pietralunga
Adriatic
Musone
Ancona
Ballard Infant Claimed By Death
Infant son of Mr and Mrs William J Ballard of 1508 Longstreet died at a local hospital Tuesday night at 9 30 pm Surviving are the parents a brother Billy Joe Ballard paternal grandparents Floyd Ballard Greensboro and maternal grandmother Mrs R O Williams High Point The father in the U S Army stationed at West Point N Y Funeral services at graveside this afternoon at 4 o clock Reverend W L Smith interment Floral Garden cemetery
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Robert Lee Ballard
Wm. J
Margaret L. Williams Ballard
Longstreet
Wm. J. Ballard
Billy Joe Ballard
W. L. Smith
Floral Garden Cemetery
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