Quezon at Saranac Lake Ailing Philippines President Resting for War Return
Manuel Quezon president of the Philippines arrives at Saranac Lake health retreat after PT boat rescue from the Philippines. He rests at McMartin camp while doctors report his improving condition and hopes for liberation from Japan as MacArthur leads Allied push toward Mindanao.
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Saranac Lake
N. Y
Philippines
Manuel Luis Quezon
Asheville
N. C
Quezon
Pearl Harbor
Manila
Saranac
McMartin Camp
Maria Aurora
Seneida Quezon
Manuel Quezon, Jr
Just
Georgetown Preparatory School
Saranec
Francis B. Trudeau
Edward Livingston Trudeau
Trudeau Sanatorium
Adirondack
Francis Trudeau
McMartin Lodge
Douglas MacArthur
South Pacific
MacArthur
Manu2 Quezon
Basilio Valdez
Vaking
Watertown
Manuel Quezon
Philippine Commonwealth
Bais
Negros
Mindanao
General MacArthur
Australia
Cox
McMartin
North Elba
Lake Placid
John Brown
Osawatomie
Harper's Ferry
Robert Louis Stevenson
Stevenson
Roosevelt
New York
Pacific Isles
Tor Heels Reunited In Southwest Pacific
NC alumni in the Southwest Pacific reunite in an empty tent on Guadalcanal. Lt. Robert S. Glenn and Marines Major Otts Carr and Lt. H P Bucky Osborne, all UNC ’40s–’43s, write from the Pacific recounting island memories Tulagi New Georgia and other sites as they bond amid war service.
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Chapel Hill
University of North Carolina
Southwest Pacific
Robert S. Glenn
Lenoir Chambers
Norfolk
University
South Pacific
Glenn
Otts Carr
Durham
H. P.bucky Osborne
Jacksonville
Marine
Guadalcanal
Washington's Death Bed Made in New York in 1789
The bedstead on which George Washington died at Mount Vernon was crafted by a New York cabinet maker in 1789.
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George Washington
Mount Vernon
New York
North Carolina Delegation Names Gardner Aide and Broughton Roles
At the Democratic national convention a North Carolina caucus praised ex Governor O Max Gardner and named Governor J M Broughton as delegation chairman. Gardner noted Broughton could be a vice presidential candidate and picked committees including Ehringhaus as honorary assistant VP and Low as honorary assistant secretary.
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Chicago
North Carolina
O. Max Gardner
J. M. Broughton
South
Broughton
W. P. Horton
Pittsboro
Beatrice Cobb
Morganton
Gardner
R. L. Harris
E. L., McKee
Sylva
Josephus Daniels
Navy
Luther Hamilton
Morehead City
Walter Lambeth
Thomasville
Willis Smith
Raleigh
Jules
John D. Larkin, Jr
Trenton
W. @. Bost
J. C. B. Ehringhaus
Gov
Stella Low
Newland
Pittsburgh Soldier Stows Away on D Day Invasion
Pittsburgh native Pfc. Charles FE. Schmelze, 20, served as a glider crew member and fell asleep in a troop conveyance tail, unknowingly becoming a D Day stowaway as reports from the beachheads reveal.
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Pittsburgh
INS
Charles FE. Schmelze
One-Minute Test Grab Bag Questions
A quick quiz item asks who is the darling of my heart living in our alley and which song recommends turning dark clouds inside out. It also asks which woman's name is missing from the lyric Just me and baby makes three. The wisdom note adds that memory hinges on attention and etiquette urges clear enunciation for the hard of hearing.
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Just
Baby
July 20 Horoscope and Local Theft Confession
A horoscope for July 20 predicts a shrewd, honest, popular birthday person with good fortune and supportive elders, urging focus on love and business. The report also notes a Queens theft mystery solved by a cleaning woman confessing to stealing clothes and goods from a roof line. It cites Robert Fulton as building early steam warships and submarines.
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New York
Jins
Kent Manor
Kew Gardens
Queens
Southerners Revolting At Convention For Byrd Plank
In Chicago delegates from eight southern states rally behind Senator Harry F Byrd of Virginia urging a white supremacy plank and two thirds nominating rule. The rally draws hundreds, with Arkansas Alabama Florida Louisiana Mississippi Texas Virginia South Carolina badges seen as 194 votes. Byrd emphasizes he is not a candidate. Louisiana had pledged 22 votes earlier.
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Chicago
Harry F. Byrd
Virginia
Roosevelt
Convention Resolutions Committee
Rules Committee
Arkansas
Alabama
Florida
Louisiana
Mississippi
Texas
South Carolina
Lone Star
Byrd
Wesleyans Announce 65th NC Conference Meet at Shady Grove
The North Carolina Conference of the Wesleyan Methodist church will hold its 65th annual session August 8 at 9 a.m. through August 10 at Shady Grove Wesleyan Methodist church Colfax. Delegates from North Carolina Virginia and South Carolina will attend with lodging in camp cabins and meals in a dining hall under the Shady Grove Camp Ground Association. Conference officers include President Rev E L Henderson and Secretary Rev Lyman F Lance.
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North Carolina
Wesleyan Methodist Church
United States
Shady Grove
Virginia
South Carolina
Shady Grove Camp Ground Association
E. L. Henderson
Charlotte
J. A. Wood
Gastonia
Lyman F. Lance
Colfax
R. T. Fortune
Asheville
Yonkers Welcomes Its First Policewomen
The City of Yonkers sworn in its first policewomen, Mrs. Helen Constance Murray and Mrs. Helen J. O Lear, to investigate juvenile delinquency and guard children under 16 at night.
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Yonkers
N. Y
Helen Contance Murray
Helen J. O'Lear
Byrd Leads Flexible Delegates With Mixed State Pledges
The mass meeting yielded nonbinding pledges with Byrd receiving votes from Mississippi and four Florida delegates. Roose velt gains 106 delegate votes from unrepresented Georgia Tennessee Kentucky and North Carolina. Arkansas supporters reportedly back Byrd.
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Byrd
Mississippi
Florida
Arkansas
Georgia
Tennessee
Kentucky
North Carolina
Roosevelt
Thei
Budget Chiefs Tour State Institutions For Next Biennium
The North Carolina state advisory budget commission began a biennial tour visiting institutions to review grounds and justify requests for the 1945 budget. Members include Brower, Clark, Taylor, O Berry, Wallace, and Stone. Early hearings show increases sought and surpluses cited to justify higher support. The panel will later hear Raleigh departments before compiling recommendations for the General Assembly.
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Raleigh
State Advisory Budget Commission
General Assembly
Budget Commission
Budget Bureau
Se Ahd Senate
A. S. Brower
Duke University
James H. Clark
Negro Teachers’ College
Winston-Salem
Appalachian College
Boone
T. B. Sanatorium
School For the Deaf
State Hospital
Morganton
The Chronic Drinker by Logan Clendening M D
Dr. Clendening argues prohibition failed to curb crime and chronic alcoholism is a medical problem best addressed by treatment and Alcoholics Anonymous. He notes AA groups in the U S and Canada, urges medical and psychological approaches, and asserts many can quit drinking with support and willpower. A reader asks about smoking and drinking with high blood pressure. the doctor says a cigarette may raise pressure slightly but a single drink is not harmful and can be good for high blood pressure.
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Alcoholics Anonymous
White Ribbon Crusaders
United States
Canada
S. M
New World Maps Mention 1546 Span of New Mexico
Fragmentary text notes New Mexico on early maps of the New World and an 1546 dating. Mentions Great Smoky Mountains and blue haze described as present early.
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New Mexico
Great Smoky Mountains
New World
Evers
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Manuel, Jr
Leneida Quezon
Tor Heels
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Robert Fulton
Wesleyans
By Logan Clendening, M.D
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