Call for an ordinance setting pool room youth age limit
The newspaper urges High Point officials to pass a minimum age rule for pool rooms to curb juvenile delinquency. It notes no existing local law, cites parental signs, and cites Police Chief Friddle as supportive, arguing enforcement is feasible and comparing to under 18 employment rules in beer establishments.
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Associated Press
High Point
Nco
Koonce
Friddle
W. G. Friddie
Congress and subsidies spark new type of legislation
The piece argues Congress persists in asserting constitutional prerogatives over executive actions, criticizing repeal of a $25,000 salary cap and opposition to subsidy plans to curb living costs. It warns government-backed plants could displace private firms, citing Aluminum Company of America’s facilities and the risk of unfair competition if war-era advantages persist.
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Congress
White House
S.B.H
Government to Become World’s Largest Industrial Power
The United States government is projected to own vast factory capacity after peace, spending 10 to 15 billion dollars across aircraft, shipyards, and metal facilities. The National Industrial Conference Board cites high government shares in new shipbuilding, aviation, iron and steel, machinery, and oil products. It argues government plants will be newly built, efficient, and aided by private corporate know how.
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Aluminum Company of America
United States
National Industrial Conference Board
Block Price Control Campaigns Seek Household Pledges
Block Price Control New Orleans tests a civilian defense plan where block groups urge households to follow rationing and price rules and report violations. Public resistance to snooping and reluctance to question merchants challenge effectiveness, but consumer cooperation is deemed essential to make rationing work.
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New Orleans
Wooden Tanks Debate Prompts Local Industry Question
Time Magazine notes pro wooden tanks for oil transport face repeated rejections in Washington. Advocates counter with wood, labor, metal, and flat car supply figures. The discussion raises a question for High Point plants about starting manufacture now.
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Washington
Time Magazine
High Point
Room at the Top for Every City in War Jobs
A doctor warns that Vv Lumbago signals anemia and poor blood, while a separate remark mentions lawn care needs. the editor asserts broad national scope for cities to lead in vital war jobs.
They Say Thoughts on Prices and Policy Across High Point
A series of public comments touch on wartime price controls, furniture markets, and local regulations. Officials like Owen Reese and J T Ryan discuss price panels and market dynamics, while J C House and W G Friddie comment on Sunday beer bans. Admiral Nimitz and Gen Giraud are quoted on broader foreign policy and security themes.
Davis office controls food price shifts to WFA
Editor Peter Edson surveys Chester C Davis as War Food Administration head and his stance on price control. Davis backs following congressionally ordered formulas, opposes heavy policing, and favors higher taxes and war savings to curb inflation and reduce black markets.
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Office of Price Administration
War Food Administration
Chester C Davis
OPA
WFA
Davis
Chester C. Davis
Washington
Congress
Office of Economic Stabilization
Department of Agriculture
Commodity Credit Corporation
Federal Reserve Bank
Consequences and Winds in Historical Reflections
The passage contrasts prophetic warning with literary moderation. Biblical warning from Hosea 8 7 speaks of sowing wind and reaping whirlwind and the futility of a barren bud. George Eliot notes that consequences are unpitying and deeds carry lasting effects beyond past fluctuations.
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George Eliot
Broadway Gossip and High Society Fragments Across Town
United States figures and New York socialites mingle as Waldron and McAvoy rush to a plane, Mayor Angelo and Mrs Rossi attend a Diamond Horseshoe event, and Carol Bruce appears in Pigtails. Writers and stars such as Carl Sandburg Frederick Lonsdale Roland Young and Betty Grable surface amid midtown chatter and nightlife notes.
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United States
Waldron
Wm. McAvoy
Pan-Am
Stork Club
Kansas City
Angelo
Rossi
San Francisco
Diamond Horseshoe
Carol Bruce
Carl Sandburg
Collier's
Frederick Lonsdale
Roland Young
Charles G. Shaw
George Jean Nathan
Betty Grable
Harry James
Cafe Society
Doris Duke Cromwell
Justice F. Murphy
Savoy Plaza
Adelaide Moffett
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