Whitt Promoted to Staff Sergeant in Italy Fight Unit
Mrs Paul J C Whitt visits her in laws at 236 Mill St as son Lloyd K Whitt is promoted from sergeant to Staff Sergeant. He serves in the 307th Fighter Squadron of the Fifteenth Air Force in Italy, amid duties in air transport and Army Air Forces operations. Madigan Hospital center welcomes nineteen veterans from Alaska and the Aleutians for treatment after long service with the air corps and other corps. T/5 Lee Land of 512 Underhill St Point appears among the veterans arriving for care.
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Lee Legrand
Madigan Hospital
Lewis
Washington
Madigan Pital Center
Aska
Aleutian
Air Corps
Transporttion Corps
Quartermaster Corps
Ial Department
Leeland
Underhill Street
Point
Postwar employment in High Point expected to stay steady
A local U S Employment Service survey forecasts no unemployment problem for many months after the war ends, with potential job gains across mills and furniture firms. The study covers 5 799 workers now and projects about 7 000 postwar opportunities, barring yarn shortages and market declines.
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High Point
U. S. Employment Service
Ralph E. Miller
U.s.es
U.S.E S
U.S.E.S
Emwaves
Miller
Ering
War Manpower Commission
Aussies Holdout in Philippines Fortify Cordillera Front
In the Cordillera Alpine region 12 000 to 14 000 Japanese combatants remain. The Sixth Infantry Division reports capturing an elaborate enemy stronghold in the Kiangan sector after days of artillery air and infantry assaults.
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Cordillera
Central
Sierra Madre
Kiangan
Sister of St. Louis woman dies in hospital
Mrs. Walter L. Hargett Jr of St Louis learned late yesterday of her sister Miss Geraldine Krabbe s death in St Louis after a four year illness. Miss Krabbe who had been moved to the city hospital last Saturday died about two o clock yesterday afternoon. She was the second daughter of Mr and Mrs J Harry Krabbe of St Louis and is survived by several brothers and sisters. Funeral arrangements were incomplete with services to be held Saturday at Roberts Funeral Home and interment at Lake Char- shoe Keene ct ms is spending rs. Hargett will be unable to attend.
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Walter L. Hargett, Jr
St. Louis
Geraldine Krabbe
Miss Krabbe
City Hospital
J. Harry Krabbe
Hargett
Roberts Funeral
Lake Charshoe Keene Ct
Inlaw
W. L. Hargett
Johnson Street
Duke Medical Graduate Wins First Borden Research Award
Dr. John Phillip McGovern, a Duke University School of Medicine graduate, is the first Duke recipient of the Borden Undergraduate Research award in medicine. He earned the 1945 prize for an original investigation on whooping cough, after completing B S medicine and M D degrees at Duke in June. He studied at Trinity College 1939 to 1942, entered Duke in July 1942, and trained in pediatrics at New Haven Hospital before an army internship.
Honshu Raid Report Ref lects Air Battle Tone
Excerpt notes American air raids on Honshu and a Japanese wartime radio commentator warning that intensified air assault challenges must be resisted. It discusses propaganda claims about air mastery not guaranteeing invasion success and the Japanese stance amid the home front pressure.
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Honshu
Tokyo
Southerners Beaten In FEPC Struggle
The House refused to limit FEPC activities to liquidation funds and voted 188 to 116 against a southern backed move to restrict new funds. Lawmakers then advanced a compromise to resolve a deadlock over financing sixteen war agencies and expected FEPC normal operations funding of 250000 for the current year.
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Washington
House
Fair Employment Practice Committee
FEPC
Usi
Norma
Ater
Committee Approves Excess Profit Plan
The Senate Finance Committee approved legislation to ease the excess profits tax and speed up corporate refunds. The measure, already passed by the House, would raise the exemption from 10000 to 25000, allow a 10 percent postwar credit, advance bond maturity to January 1 1946, and speed refunds for prior losses or credits.
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Washington
Senate Finance Committee
House
Randolph Native Dies At Daughter's Lincolnton Home
Thomasville man Thomas Ashworth Macon 73 died at his daughter Mrs James T Bowman Lincolnton after weeks of illness He operated a dairy farm south of town for 12 years He married Flora Jane Spencer in 1892 who died seven years ago Survived by four children Rev Clarence M Macon Maleta Neece Ernest M Macon and Mrs Bowman Funeral at Marlboro Friends church with burial in the family plot follows viewing at Russell Funeral Home
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Thomasville
Ashworth M. Macon
Nathanel and
Emz Cox Macon
James T. Bowman
Lincolnton
Randol County
Flora Jane Spencer
Clarence M. Macon
Ogler
Colo
Maleta Macon Neece
Climax
Ernest M. Macon
Pee
Troy Public
Troy
Bowman
Friends Church
Russell Funeral
Marlboro Friends Church
High Point
Thomas F. Andrews
Victor Murchison
Okinawa naval base plans and command changes outlined
Japs in Little Rock direct Okinawa development as an advance naval base. Ackner Bay once Nakagusuku Wan served as a fleet anchorage. Rear Adm. John P. Price named to succeed as Fleet Air Wing One commander. Price receives Navy Cross for directing operations from Okinawa. Wing maintains long patrols over Korea Tsushima strait and aerial blockade hampers Shanghai to homeland shipping. Planes have damaged Japan’s rail lines as transit routes shift.
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Little Rock
Okinawa
Ackner Bay
Nakagusuku Wan
Price
Fleet Air Wing
John Pe
James St
Greenville
S. C
Madeline Gleason
C Ave
Coronado
Calif
Fleet Adm
Chester W. Nimitz
Nens
Admiral Price
Fleet Air Wing One
Korea
Tsushima Strait
Yellow Sea
Shanghai
Sea of Japan
Air Wing
Year Round Garden Success by Local Mrs Eshelman
Mrs J A Eshelman of 905 Johnson Street demonstrates year round gardening, producing fresh vegetables through winter with Swiss chard lasting two years and a diverse harvest including salsify parsnips and Chinese cabbage, inspiring neighbors to garden as well.
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High Point
J. A. Eshelman
Johnson Street
Eshelman
Allied Strategy and Outlook in the Pacific War
The article discusses expected timing for testing Japan's defenses through aerial strikes by October, the slow relocation of troops from Europe and America, and potential British actions in the Indian Ocean monsoon season. It notes MacArthur's success in Borneo, rising Allied control in the southwest Pacific, Chinese forces reclaiming southern China, and a large Indian army awaiting a chance against Japan, provoking Tokyo's invasion anxieties.
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Japan
East Indies
Indian Ocean
Britain
Singapore
MacArthur
Borneo
Southwest
Pacific
Java
Sumatra
China
Russia
Tokyo
Taft Attacks Bretton Woods Financing Plan at Senate Hearing
Senator Taft denounced the Bretton Woods proposals as a drain on US savings and urged delaying the monetary pact. He urged direct US loans to war-torn nations, argued against equating economic and political international cooperation, and warned against reckless global lending. The debate coincides with House delay and UN charter discussions.
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Barkley
United Nations
Bretton Woods
Foreign Relations Committee
Taft
International Bank
Ohioas
Carolinians Decorated by French at Invalides
Two high ranking American officers from the Carolinas received the Legion of Honor in Paris. Brig. Gen. Jones J. Davis of Central, S. C., and Col. Frank M. Albrecht of Tryon, N. C., were among several officers honored in the courtyard of the historic Invalides.
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Paris
Carolinas
Historic Invalides
Legion of Honor
Jones J. Davis
Central
S. C
Frank M. Albrecht
Tryon
N. C
Fun Science reveals pendulum lines converge to earth
A humorous AP feature explains that plumb lines hung from Washington's monument and the Empire State Building would not hang parallel. The weights reach toward the earth’s center, causing the lines to converge rather than align parallel.
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Washington’s
Monument
Empire State Building
Dr Gray Addresses Rotary on Cancer Prevention and Hope
Dr Gray of High Point Memorial Hospital spoke to the Rotary Club on cancer recognition and treatment. He urged annual physicals as the best protection and noted some cancers are curable when detected early. The talk was introduced by Rotarian B Bonner with former president C F Carroll presiding in President Hartley’s absence. Visitors included Rotarians from Greensboro Concord and Knoxville and Lt William Smith Deal and Dr G I Humphreys.
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Rotary Club
Cray
High Point Memorial Hospital
Gray
C. L. Gray
B. Bonner
Edgar Hartley
Charles F. Carroll
T. C. Abernathy
Greensboro
Stuart Morrison
Concord
F. E. Fowler
Knoxville
Tenn
William Smithdeal
Army Air Forces
G I. Humphreys
Ratification Push Grows Unanimous in Senate Hearings
The 1919 charter covenant debate extends as Thomas J. Reardon of Hartford argues the charter alters the U S constitution and is improper for committee review. Senate leaders Barkley and Hill say negative votes on ratification look unlikely and aim for a unanimous vote despite possible reservations.
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Thomas J. Reardon
Hartford
Conn
United States
Barkley
Hill
Alabama
Liberate Mrs Stevens Held on Man Slaughter Charge
Mrs Imogene Stevens 24, Texas born wife of Paratroop Major G Raisey Stevens 3d posted 15000 bond and was released from Fairfield county jail after being held since June 24 on a charge of manslaughter in the shooting of a young submarine sailor at New Canaan.
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Bridgeport
Conn
Imogene Stevens
Texas
G. Raisey Stevens
Fairfield County
New Canaan
Lamps May Check School Epidemics
The New York state department of health tests germ killing ultraviolet lamps in classrooms to control measles chickenpox and mumps. Cato Meridian Port Byron Cayuga county and Mexico Oswego county schools are study sites with data to be collected over several years.
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General Electric
New York State Department of Health
Cato Meridian
Port Byron
Cayuga County
Mexico
Oswego County
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