Carruthers Resigns Local Post to Prepare for Army Duty
Guilford's Senator Nominee Joseph T. Carruthers Jr. stepped down as Greensboro Junior Chamber of Commerce president to prepare for active Army duty as an ordnance captain. He also indicated he would decide by October 15 whether to relinquish his senate seat and potentially not carry the party into the general election.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. de Roulnac
Hamilton Guilford
Joseph T. Carruthers, Jr
Greensboro
Junior Chamber of Commerce
Senate
Carruthers
Carruthers Senate bid up in air as army leaves eyed
Secretary of War Stimson said no further leaves of absence would be granted army officers to attend state legislature sessions. Carruthers faces uncertain future as speculation swirls over whether he will resign to run for the state senate and who would replace him if he cannot serve while on active duty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Stimson
Senate
Carruthers
Tor
Frank Murphy
Supreme Court
A L. Fietcher
Unemployment Compensation Commission
Army
Ordinance Company
Ireland
Australia
Monroe
Camp Sutton
Democratic Executive Committee
Perificos
Rupert T. Pickens
Thomas J. Gold
Pickens
L. P. McLendon
Greensboro
Julian Price
John W. Caffey
Caffey
Executive Committee
Thomas C. Hoyle, Jr
Hutchins Transfer From Tyndall To Officers Candidate School
Staff Sgt. Marion A. Hutchins of 400 Prospect Street High Point leaves the Tyndall Field Army Air Force gunnery school for Miami Beach to enter the Officers Candidate Administrative School. He is one of 18 men selected for the program.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marion A. Hutchins
Prospect Street
High Point
Tyndall Field Army Air Force
Miami Beach
Final dividend checks still undelivered from bank receivership
About 8 000 final dividend checks have been distributed by the receivership of the defunct Commercial National Bank. Roughly 3 500 checks and many former checks remain to be distributed. Call room 714 Security Bank Building or the Comptroller in Washington to claim.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Natorial Bank
R. MM. Fry
Security Bank
Comptroller
Washington
First Session of Girls Day Camp Ends at YWCA
The first session of the Y W C A Girls Day Camp closed with a simplified operetta The Pirates of Penzance. Melva Price played the Pirate King and Elizabeth Wagner the Major General. The performance featured campers in roles and a pirates chorus, with a later dressy encore. Susannah Thomas announced a second day camp session for ninth grade girls starting tomorrow and invited interested girls to contact her.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gilbert and Sullivan
Betty Lou Vance
Jeanne Nostrand
Margaret Allred
Lib Pegram
Madge Slayton
Betty Lou Nance
Mildred Coggin
Shirley Williams
Nancy White
Carlene Kearns
Carolyn Ridge
Lucille Linthicum
Doris Herne
Zellan Allen
Mary Sue Briggs
Susannah ‘Thomas
Girt Reserve
Susannah Thomas
Miami Ranks to Quarter in Ocean Front Hotel
The field personnel will be quartered in a Miami ocean front hotel as a reward for successful completion of the course. If this course proves successful, Sergeant Hutchins will receive a commission as a second lieutenant in the Army Air Force.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miami
Ocean Front
South Florida
Hutchins
Army Air Force
George Craven Dies at 58 in Guilford Sanatorium
George B. Craven editor of the Thomasville Tribune and a noted local figure died at 6 a.m. at the Guilford County Sanitorium after a 10 day illness. He lived with his daughter Mrs Bruce Coltrane at 314 Hill Street and was the grandson of Trinity College founder SGrafton Craven. Survived by Coltrane and three brothers, Craven had a long career in journalism and later ran the George B Craven Investment Securities Company before becoming Thomasville Tribune editor in May 1941. Funeral Friday at 4 p.m. at Sechrest Funeral Home chapel, interment in Trinity Cemetery.
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George B. Craven
Thomasville Tribune
Guilford County
Craven
Bruce Coltrane
Hill Street
Sgrafton Craven
D.D
Trinity College
Duke University
Coltrane
J. B. Craven
Greensboro
B. Craven
Lakeland
Fla
E. B. Craven
Lexington
Trinity
James L
Nannie Bulla_Craven
Trinity Public Schools
Carrie Edwards
Coline
Hester Wills
Sechrest Fural
Harold Robertson
Winston-Salem
Trinity Methodist Church
Selma
N.C
Crescent Press
Spencer
Lexington Leader
News and Telegraph
Greensboro Daily News
Danvill Va
Register
Halfax
Chase City
Progress
Lancaster, D. C
High Point
Hickory Chair Company Ordered to Reinstate Workers
The National Labor Relations Board ordered Hickory Chair Company to reinstate three discharged workers tied to union activity. The firm announced it filed a notice for review with the circuit court of appeals, while union officials doubted the appeal’s success. Joe D. Boyd of the Furniture Workers Union stated the firmen were discharged for union organizing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hickory Chair Company
National, Labor Relations Board
Hickory Frm
Circuit Court of Appeals
Joe D. Boyd
A. F. L. Furniture Workers Union
USO States It Reaps More Than It Raises In N C
Ernest Edinger told a High Point gathering that North Carolina will put back into the state more than three times its $444,000 campaign ask. The 194? drive sets a $13,700 quota for High Point starting June 29 with 15 workers per unit under agency colonels. NC has 1,400 paid staff averaging $1,100 yearly.
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United Service Organizations
Nora Carolina
Ernest IL Dinger
Sheraton Hotel
High Point
T. V. Rochelle
Nathan
Matt Wall
Field Artillery
Young Men’s Christian Association
Phil Grandjean
Tank Corps
Young Women’s Christian Association
Kenneth Redman
Tanic’ Corps
Jewish Welfare’ Society
Harry Jacobs
Air Corps
Salvation Army
John Kalte
Marines
North Carolina
Ale
Edinger
USC
USO
Jin
Last Chance For First Aid Courses
Volunteers lacking one class in the 10 hour first aid course may make up tonight at 7 30 at Senior High School. Final chance before Civilian Defense graduation exercises. Lessons cover Dressings and Bandages, Control of bleeding and pressure points, Fractures, Artificial respiration and shock care, plus War gasses and decontamination. Instructors include Foscue, Freeman, Walker, Davis, Mirkman, Moffitt, Mann, Olen, LeBaron, Haywood, Wall, Copeland. Room 106 105 Cafeteria Gymnasium 101.
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Henry Foscue
William Freeman
Robert Walker
Philip Davis
Carlton Mirkman
Pete Moffitt
Kitty Mann
Mary Ruth Olen
Olin LeBaron
W. F. Haywood
Matt Wall
Vesta Copeland
Openings for Trainees in Welding and Machinist Trades
Several openings for Welder and machinist trainees at the National Defense Training school located at the Senior High. Machine shop classes run 1 a.m. to 9 p.m. and 3 p.m. to 3 a.m. Electric welding runs 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. and 3 p.m. to 11 p.m. Applicants need at least eighth grade education. any white male aged 18 to 45 is urged to contact the Employment Service in the Arcade Building at once. Also notes note propeller pitch control for high altitude flight and leather footwear production figures for July 1940.
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National Defense Training School
Hot Dog Prices Rise Amid War Cost Pressures
A surge in hot dog prices follows wartime cost increases. Vendors shifted the price from five to six cents, citing higher material costs. Some retailers kept old prices, but most raised them, affecting the man on the street and his daily lunch.
Jurisdictional Dispute Ends in Thomasville Furniture Fight
A ten month jurisdictional dispute at the Thomasville Chair Company ended with the Upholsterers International Union dissolving. The USU 308 voted unanimously to adjourn local 308 and send the charter to the international headquarters. Furniture Workers Union will meet Friday to absorb members of the dissolved union into local 2992. The National Labor Relations Board had heard the case and an election favored the Furniture Workers. The USO drive here will begin June 29, not May 29 as previously announced.
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APL
Thomasville
Lhe
AFL Furniture Workers
Furniture Workers Union
National Labor Relations Board
Furniture
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General Assembly
Melvin L. Stone
J. R. Stone
Route Three
United States Army
Sergeant Stone
Drew Field
Tampa
Fila
George Craven
Hickory
Pennsyvania Station
New York City
Maurice T. Moore
National Women's Committee
Cou
N. C
North
Carolina
Eermiatian
Wubby
Rose Furniture CO
Rose Furniture
South Main Street
East Main Street
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