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A sprawling collage of late 1930s political gossip and opinion pieces covers administration figures, policy debates, and social notes. It highlights a Senate subcommittee seeking access to a dust-encased memorandum on immigration, a Thurman Arnold forecast of wartime materials shifts, Eleanor Roosevelt’s press conference rules, and labor conditions of federal workers. The column mixes analysis, humor, and insider chatter about Roosevelt aides, industry, and the war economy.
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Hughes
Tokyo
Senate Immigration and Naturalization
Roosevelt
Hull
Global War Echoes in News and Letters From New York
A column surveys wartime attitudes, military rumors, and cultural notes. It discusses intelligence work by a famed detective in Scotland Yard, Japanese and German war temperament, shifting loyalties in the Near East, and Allied strategic moves through Palestine. It also reports British labor unrest, strikes, and wage debates, plus Tin Pan Alley’s song focus and a Venice incident involving Nazi officers and dancing girls.
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Tin Pan Alley
Germany
Japan
Yokohama
Venice
Berlin
Adolf
Grow Vegetables Fast for Flavor and Tenderness
A guide to rapid vegetable growth using balanced plant food. It explains soil prep, watering, and broad casting of plant food, with a table of application rates for common garden plots. Emphasizes speed of growth, flavor, tenderness, and the role of temperature and timing in quality.
Wartime music bans and adaptations in British radio
The BBC uses Reich and Italian tunes after temporary bans arguing program quality. Government pays enemy property custodian a copyright fee held in trust until peace. The Mikado remains staged but would face slow compliance if banned. Sir Granville Bantock adapts Internationale for English church choirs as UK and Russia ally. Pious folk now sing the once outlawed anthem.
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British Broadcasting Company
United Kingdom
Russia
Granville Bantock
Whale washes ashore on Carolina coast near Kitty Hawk
A 34 foot whale with a ruptured side washed ashore near Kitty Hawk on March 31. Earlier, several smaller mammals were found near Myrtle Beach, S.C. The damage may have been caused by a ship's prow or an explosion.
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Manteo
Kitty Hawk
Myrtle Beach
S.C
J Ed Sechrest II Buried In Richmond
A group returns from Richmond Va after the sudden death of J Ed Sechrest II former High Point resident who died of a cerebral hemorrhage at his daughter s home in Richmond Funeral services were held in Briley Funeral Home and interment was in Riverside Cemetery Survivors include two daughters Mrs Frank Vestal and Mrs T G Wright both of Richmond a son J Edward Sechrest Jr of Merchantsville S J and two sisters and a brother Also mentioned are nieces of the deceased and other relatives.
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Richmond
J. Ed Sechrest
Frank Vestal
R. E. Bulla
C. M. Causey
J. M. Sechrest
Mesdames
J. R. Poindexter
T. R. Ballard
Briley Funeral Home
Riverside
H. M. Sechrest
High Point
T. G. Wright
J. Edward
Eight synthetic rubber processes vying for tire supply
U S has eight processes for making synthetic rubber. Butyl rubber, Buna S and Buna N, Neoprene, Americo, Ghemigum, and other Buna types mix from butadiene, butylene, styrene, acrylonitriles, and acetylene gas. Germany relies on coal and petroleum chemistry. U S hopes to outrun shortages with multiple methods.
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Loward W. Blakeslee
New York
America
Senate Defense Investigating Committee
Standard Oil Company of
New Jersey
Standard Oil
Thurman Arnold
Germany
Buna & Is
Buna N
Perbmnan
Nuna S
Louisiana
Baton Rouge
du Pont
Americo
Goodrich Tire
Goodyear
U. S
Infant of Mr and Mrs W H Grant Died in Gastonia
The infant child of Mr and Mrs W H Grant formerly of Hig Point now of Gastonia died last week in Gastonia. Funeral services were held there Sunday. Mrs Grant is the former Thelma White of High Point. It was previously misreported as the death of W H Grant.
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W. H. Grant
Hig Point
Gastonia
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