Republican committee endorses Payne reelection and reform effort
The High Point Republican committee reelected Percy Payne as chairman amid endorsement of Arnold J. Koonce’s drive to reform City Hall. The group urged party members to remove trusted officials seen as compromising with opposing forces and pledged to promote responsible governance in Guilford County.
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Arnold J. Koonce
Payne
Walter York
York
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High Point Court Jury Term Adjourns After Nine Trials
The High Point court adjourned after a week with nine cases tried. Cook, a 43 year old resident, faced charges including abandonment, non support and assault involving his mother in law and wife Lela Cook. A total of 108 cases were calendared and tried this term with jurors entering judgment and fines paid. The clerk announced another jury term will open with civil cases first week and criminal cases second week.
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High Point
Cook
Land Avenue
Lela Cook
Juy
Jar
ETTC Honored At USC Function In High Point
The Eastern Training Technical Command of the Air Corps will be honored at a USC function in High Point with an arielate dance at the gymnasium. The event marks the transfer of Sedgefield operations to St Louis and includes intermission songs and gifts for servicemen who have long supported the local USO. Jimmy Harris and his band will play while hostesses with last names A and B attend.
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Eastern Training Technical Command
Air Corps
Sedgefield
St. Louis
USO
High Point Uso
Jimmy Harris
Royster Thurman
Subcommittee to Decide Daniels Contempt Charge
A Senate farm subcommittee planned to decide if Jonathan Daniels of Raleigh North Carolina an administrative assistant to President Roosevelt should be held in contempt for refusing to answer questions about the Rural Electrification Administration The move would be a first ever contempt prosecution of an executive officer by either house Daniels argues the information is confidential between him and the President and not for public release Four of five subcommittee members support testing Daniels refusal to testify in the agencies investigation and test congressional authority to compel testimony.
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Senate Farm
Jonathan Daniels
Raleigh
N. C
Roosevelt
Congress
Rural Electrification Administration
REA
Daniels
House of Congress
Subcommittee
Real estate executive to join Lumbermen's Mutual Insurance
J. C. White, long associated with National Realty Management and later with Taylor M. Simpson & Company, has accepted a new role with Lumbermen's Mutual Casualty Insurance Company and will start around April 1.
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J. C. White
National Realty Management Company
Taylor M. Simpson & Company
Lumbermen’s Mutual Casualty Insurance Company
Front Line Of Civil Defense Urged By Dr Carlton
Dr R L Carlton of Winston-Salem outlined tuberculosis as a wartime front line threat at a dinner in Winston-Salem. He urged intensified education and case finding, praising x ray and sanatorium as essential weapons in disease control. The High Point X ray survey was discussed with Dr Vestal delaying a mobile unit to April 3.
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Winston-Salem
North Carolina Tuberculosis Association
Sheraton Hotel
Wilson Weldon
Carlton
High Point Tuberculosis Association
Tom Vestal
Industrial Hygiene
State Board of Health
M. D. Bonner
Vestal
Burlington
Charlotte
Bonner
S. S. Saunders
Seal Sale
Ida Ruth Staplefoote
Health Department
William Penn High School
Dr. Vestal
C. T. Ingram, Jr
Tom Gold, Jr
C. Kirkman
Edgar Snider
Hazel Johnson
8. S. Coe
Snider
R. A. Herring
John Whitescarver
Faye Edwards
Charles Kearns
J. P. Hollingsworth
Saunders Dallas
Willis Slane
Grady Goldston
Wilson O. Weldon
S. C. Kirkman
Car theft probes after near Jewel Baptist church
Police and state patrolmen investigated the theft of a car owned by Lora J. Doggett of 912 Forest Avenue near the Jewel Baptist church. The vehicle was recovered this morning in a ditch miles from the scene as the thief appeared unfamiliar with the driving apparatus.
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Jewel Baptist Church
Lora J. Doggett
Forest Avenue
Rubber Shortage Forces Stockpile Use and Recapping Push
Industry leaders warn of lasting artificial rubber delays in 1942 with limited imports and a stockpile dwindling to a quarter of prewar levels. Executive plans hinge on recapping and rationing while military testing expands tire durability and substitution limits.
Textile Workers Union To Meet Saturday Night
Local 319 of the Textile Workers Union of America will meet Saturday March 4 at 7 p.m. at 811 South Main Street. President W. W. Anderson announced the agenda includes wage increase health and hospital insurance political action and postwar planning.
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South Main Street
W. W. Anderson
Anderson
Marriage License Issued at No 2 Fire Station
Deputy Gene Horney issued a marriage license to James Sidney Badgett of Davidson County and Myrtle Brown Harrison of Guilford County at Fire Station No 2.
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Isterer Gene Horney
No. 2
James Sidney Badgett
Davidson County
Myrtle Brown Harrison
Guilford County
Inaugural Dates and Morse Telegraph Pioneers
A history of March 4 as the U S inauguration date and John Adams. It notes Woodrow Wilson's 1917 private oath, Harrison's brief term, Morse's telegraph debut with the first message What hath God wrought and Polk's inauguration. Credits Morse career and the 1843 funding. Includes a brief portrait of Chief Friddle.
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New York
John
Woodrow Wilson
William Henry Harrison
Maybank shirt tail probe mocks regulation and fashion
Damon Runyon notes Senator Maybank may seek a senate inquiry into textile rules after an awkward experience with shirt tails. The piece jokes about war time tailoring, advocates reforms, and shifts to fashion quirks and dressing motions with comic exaggeration.
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Maybank
South Carolina
Washington
Senate
Water Leaks Prove Costly, City Utilities Head Asserts
City utilities officials warned that hidden leaks in homes and buildings can be costly over weeks. Meter reading errors and faulty meters or fixtures are corrected when found. An extra accounting check is done for large month to month variations.
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Perkins
Funeral Rites for Lillian Miller Held in Thom asville
The funeral for two year old Lillian Rebecca Miller died at home Tuesday night was held Thursday at 2 30 pm conducted by Rev Thomas B Flowe at South Side Baptist church with Miss Betty Jean TObin providing music. Interment was in Unity Chapel Methodist church cemetery. Separately J R Stone longtime Thom asville farmer died at home early Thursday with services Friday at 3 pm at Mount Pleasant Methodist church led by multiple pastors. Pallbearers included L H Hilton Ray Ball B Morris W B Morris Fred Green and Cletus Hayworth. Interment followed in the family lot at the church cemetery.
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Thomasville
Lillian Rebecca Miller
Callie Miller
D.rs. Miller
Thomas B. Flowe
South Side
Bertha Nickerson
Unity Chapel Methodist Church Cemetery
J. R. Stone
Mount Pleasant Methodist
James A. Allen
Mount Pleasant Church
T. W. Allbright
Kernersville
R. M. Andrews
Greensboro
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George R. Brown
High Point
L. H. Hilton
Ray Ball
B. Morris
W. B. Morris
Fred Green
Cletus Hayworth
Lawrence Kennedy
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