High Point Bison win state basketball championship
The High Point High School Bison basketball team claimed the state title after a season of doubt. Coach A J Imeon guided a resilient squad to end Durham’s five year hold on North Carolina schoolboy basketball and earn community praise. A public fund drive is suggested to celebrate with a city wide dinner or similar tribute and to support future competition.
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Black Bison
A. J.imeon
Bison
Durham
North Carolina
High Point College
T. V. Rochelle
Rochelle
S.C
Breech predicts automatic flying near, amid crash tale
The Breech talk at Bendix investors cites automatic flying as near. An Army report describes a four engine transport that bailed out after 2000 miles and crashed on a mountain, challenging Breech while underscoring optimism about future aviation safety and automation.
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Ernest E. Breech
Bendix Aviation Corporation
Army Publicity
South America
R. C. Ulmer
Mexico
Freedoms in Hudson County Under Boss Hague
Governor Edison accuses Frank Hague of suppressing freedom of speech assembly religion and press in Hudson County New Jersey. He argues the United Nations could test Four Freedoms there while noting the issue is nonpartisan despite Edison being a Democrat close to the President.
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Charles Edison
Hudson County
N. J
Frank
Boss Hague
Radburn N J Neighbors Cut Wasteful Milk Pickup Plan
War Savings report notes that eleven families on one Radburn street shared six dairies and six trucks delivering milk daily. A chemist proposed a cooperative single-dairy delivery to reduce fuel and vehicle use, and residents agreed to switch to the dairy with the most local business. The plan reduces to one truck and worker with four tires and gasoline for six cylinders while serving nearly all households.
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Radburn
N. J
Addison Place
Marines In Skirts Forms New Auxiliary Units
The article notes women joining the Marine Corps auxiliary and the choice to avoid complex acronyms, with Major Ruth Cheney Streeter stating the Marines are proud of the name and open to including women. It questions potential nicknames like Marinettes and includes a tangential joke on speech rates and bandits.
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Marine Corps
Ruth Cheney Streeter
Citizens weigh war talks and laws in High Point letters
The column collects local voices on war stamps family savings, city ordinances from 1909, political strife over civil service, rationing, and air raid warnings. Residents like Mayor Kirkman, Postmaster Clark, Sgt Ridge, and others defend thrift, safety, and civic duty while lampooning excess rules and wartime anxieties.
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Civil Service
High Point
C. EF. Hughes
Bureaucrats and Congress Could Swap Roles in Fantastical Scenario
Heritage of a bureaucrat argues that swapping jobs between lawmakers and top government officials would yield little real change. The piece cites ex Senator James Byrnes and a failed war crop incentive plan, showing Congress ultimately holds the approval power despite executive push.
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Congress
Executive Department
Washington
Cotton Ed Smith
South Carolina
John H. Bankhead II
Jasper
Ala
Paul J. Kilday
San Antonio
Tex
Harold L. Ickes
Paul V. McNutt
Harry Hopkins
Justice Byrnes
Byrnes
Department of Agriculture
Office of Economic Stabilization
House Ways and Means
Congressional
Prose Fragment Cites Biblical Cup and Byron Satire
An 18th or 19th century style fragment contrasts sacred and profane cups from I Corinthians with a Byronesque denunciation of inconstancy. The text condemns insincerity and a lack of permanent foundation in mortal character.
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Byron
Navy ships and units launched during 1941
The battleship Indiana launched November 21 was completed six months ahead of schedule. Nine destroyers and thirteen submarines were launched by the Navy in 1941. In 1775 John Hancock signed a commission making Samuel Nichols a Marine captain, the first commission of the U S Navy. Fighter Squadron VE-72 is symbolized by a blue wasp with boxing gloves.
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Indiana
Vo Righteen
Navy
John Hancock
Samuel Nicholas
U. S. Navy
VE-72
Broadway Tonight A Dazzling Patchwork Of Stage And Gossip
On Broadway a chorus of stars Like Billie Burke Oscar Levant Monty Woolley Tallulah Bankhead Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne parade in lively vignettes Raul Muni Marian Murray J Fields Frances Mercer Myrna Loy and others populate this panorama of theater life. Intermissions mix war news travel notes and club chatter with quotes and quips from critics managers and gossipmongers.
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Billie Burke
Oscar Levant
Monty Woolley
Tallular Bankhead
Alfred Lunt
Lynn Fontanne
Raul Muni
Marian Murray
Hollywoods
J. Fields
Lew Fields
Lyceum
Frances Mercer
Myrna
Reuben
Tamara
Lisbon
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High Point Enterprise
J. P. Rawley
R. B. Jerry
H. A. Cecil
Mgr
D. A. Rawley
Robert Thompson
Ihs
Associated Press
N C
John Budd CO
Lexington Ave
Audit Bureau OF Circulation
Mr. Breech
S.B.H
the Freedoms
Charity
Mayor Kirkman
S. C. Clark
United States Treasury
B. C. Denning
Lucy O. Harper
Sgt. W. B. Ridge
J. E. Lyon
Lyon
Lois Welborn
Lois
F. F. Aubert
Pr. M. Davis
F. V. Barnes
Army
Massy
Hitler
George Paulos
Middle East
Axis
Peter Edson
James F. Byrnes
Supreme Court
Eres
Winchell
Broadway
New York
Charlie
Chaplin
Caruso
Arthur Brown
Arthur
Lew Lehr
Peter Lorre
Lorre
Ed Gardner
MGM
Norma Shearer
Norma
Gardner
Duffy's Tavern
Hwood
Brooks Atkinson
Chungking
the Times
Simon and Schuster
Anastasia Reilly
Grosse Point
Mich
Tiona Massey
Ben Bernie
Sissy
Jimmy Hines
James L. Everett
Anna Constant
Jane Froman
R. A. Hereford
Jean Tennyson
CBS
Saroyan
the Astor
Carel Bruce
Roxy
Joey Adams
Tony Canzoneri
Leon
Eddie
Ann Miller
Reveille
Beverly
Havana-Madrid
Pilar and
Lucille
Sophie Tucker
Copababana
Matthew Head
Simon & Schuster
Murder, Inc
Brooklyn
Abe Reles
Coney Island
Abe
D. A
Reles
42Nd Street
Uptown
Bronx
Penn
FBI
Life
la Martinique
la Conga
Noel Coward
Valentine
Sue Ryan
John Young
NBC
Chums
Spencer Hares
Hedda Hare
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