Two More Divisions Hit Red Cross Drive Quota
Donations climbed to 22234.52 as two divisions reached their targets in the Red Cross War Fund Drive. The Women's Division posted 130 percent of its quota and Institutional Division about 120 percent. Several plants exceeded their marks and Brgiss Manufacturing led at 175 percent. Booths opened at Post Office Sheraton and Elwood Hotels as industrial donors pushed toward the 37000 goal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Reds
Tional
Hillcrest
High Point
Briggs Over
Briggs Manufacturing
Snow Lumber
Continental
Welch Furniture
Slane Hosiery
Adams Millis
Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company
Red Cross
Sheraton
Elwood
Sheraton Beauty Shop
Elliott Floral Co
Charles Store
Bean's Shoe Shop
W. W. Preddy Grocery
Parker Wounded in Tunisian Raid Noted Pilot
Lieut. Allen J. Parker a U S Air Force bombardier and son of A S Parker of Em erywood Apartments has been slightly wounded in action in Tunisia. A Red Cross inquiry is being used to learn the injury extent. Parker has served four months and landed in Africa last January. A list of local businesses appears after the notice. Overheated motors waste gasoline.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Parker
Liver
Allen J. Parker
U.S. Air Force
A. S. Parker
Emerywood
Tunisia
Red Cross
Africa
Utley To Lead Second War Loan Drive Here
A. M. Utley of Wachovia Bank named chairman of High Point War Finance Committee to head the April campaign selling treasury bonds. W. H. Andrews Jr. of Greensboro named Guilford County general chairman as the drive runs April 12 to May 1 with a goal of 13 billion dollars nationally.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. M. Utley
Wachovia Bank and Trust Company
High Point
W. H. Andrews, Jr
Greensboro
Guilford County
N.S. Calhoun
Shubal C. Kirkman
High Point War Savings
H. N. Willard
High Point Savings and Trust Company
Clarence M. Allred
Security National Bank
Victory Fund Committee
Treasury
North Carolina
Utley
War Savings
U. S. Treasury War Finance Committee
Treasury Department
War Finance Committee
Robert M. Hanes
Winston-Salem
Charles H. Robertson
R. S. Dickson
Charlotte
Pvt Rufus Mounce To Arrive Friday For Furlough
Pvt Rufus Mounce stationed at Middletown Pennsylvania with the United States Army is expected to arrive Friday morning for a ten day furlough with his wife and family at 1010 Smith Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pvt
Rufus Mounce
Middletown
United States Army
Smith Street
Local Army Lists Enter Fort Knox Re placement Training Center
Pvt Cecil C Prince and Pvt Eugene A Lockwood Jr begin basic training at Fort Knox Kentucky. They will receive instruction in light and medium tanks and assault weapons. Tech Cpl Harold Roach, son of Mr and Mrs H M Roach, stationed with Coast Artillery in Bermuda after 18 months service and basic training at Fort Eustis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cecil C. Prince
Eugene A. Lockwood, Jr
Armored Force Replacement Training Center
Fort Knox, Ky
Prince
C. C. Prince
N. Main St
Lockwood
FE. A. Lockwood
Bermuda Tech
Harold Roach
H. M. Roach
The
Coast Artillery
Bermuda
Fort Eustic
Virginia
Next Time Says Friddle on Blackout Violations
Police Chief W G Friddle says prosecutions will follow the next blackout. He notes violations were not malicious but due to employee carelessness and that many firms added outside switches. home violators may face charges too.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. G. Friddle
Friddle
Huge Field Blaze Keeps Firemen Busy on Green Street
A grass fire in the 600 block of West Green Street yesterday kept firemen busy for over two hours. Fire Chief E. K. Ingram said wind spread the flames along Green Street to High Street with no major damage. A second grass fire at Park and Green Streets was quickly extinguished before 6 p.m.
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West Green Street
E. K. Ingram
Green Street
High Street
Park and
Green Streets
Duke Endowment funds aid North Carolina hospitals
The Duke Endowment announced grants totaling 769000 plus to 105 hospitals and 40 orphan homes in the Carolinas. Burrus Memorial will receive 3607 and Guilford General 715 with payments based on 1942 work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burrus Memorial
Guilford General Hospitals
High Point
Duke Endowment
Charlotte
North Carolina
New York
Carolinas
Guilford General
Leonard Of Local P O Talks On The Mail
A. B. Club dinner guest B G Leonard superintendent of mails spoke on The United States Mail at 6 pm in the Elwood Hotel. He described postal departments classes rates and the high share of mail from service members and families. Visitors included George Ingold A M Barr and others. Barr won the attendance prize.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
American Business Club
Elwood
B. G. Leonard
United States Mail
Leonard
Postal Service
George Ingold
A. M. Barr
Minneapolis
Minn
Shelley
Johnny Womack
Barr
Tangible tax receipts lag behind 1941 figures in North Carolina
Raleigh March 31. State Revenue Commissioner Edwin Gill said tangible tax receipts through March 29 totaled 1,472,878.78 dollars, down 54,252.88 from 1,527,131.66 dollars in the same period of 1941. The state takes four percent for collection and twenty five percent of the remainder, with counties and municipalities receiving the rest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raleigh
Edwin Gill
Women from Eight Local Clubs Aid Red Cross Drive
A committee of women from eight local organizations led by Mrs. John A. Myers joins theater campaigns for the Red Cross drive. High Point theaters aim to raise 37000 dollars as 16000 nationwide theaters mark Red Cross Week April 1 7 with continued support. A short film and a Red Cross tribute are planned during Red Cross Week with participation from groups including the American Legion Auxiliary Council of Jewish Women Altrusa Club Womens Club Business and Professional Club and Nurses Aid among others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John A. Myers
Hugh Smart
Motion Pictures War Activities Committee
High Point
Red Cross
Pearl Harbor
March of Time
Ian
Council of Jewish Women
Altrusa Club
Women’s Club
Business and Professional Club
High Point Council of Gardens
Nurses Aid
Red Cross Motor Corps
Burglar's Emergency Surgery Hindered by Cuffed Gap
A convicted burglar was ordered to undergo emergency surgery while handcuffed to a hospital bed. The key broke during attempts to unlock the restraints, delaying transfer to the operating room until undersheriff Tom Mainland and aides opened the lock with a borrowed bobby pin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helppul-Hints Dept
Denver
Tom Mainland
Pro-Nazi Belgians in Brussels Reported Issuing Funeral Cards
Warning from London dated March 31 notes Belgian news agency bel says pro-Nazi Belgians in Brussels received printed funeral cards announcing their own deaths.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Inbel
Brussels
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Rationing Board
Bald
Rial Bank
North Main Street
Gate City Motor CO
Penn
Sylvania
Pennsylvania Railroad
Ada
Ohio
Thomasville
Rowalnd Supply Co
Smith's Studio
Goodyear
Lewis & Holmes Motor Freight
Seidman & Seidman
Farm Cooperative
Shackelford’s Men's Wear
Penrod Jarden & Clark Co
Lexington Grocery Co
Bedford Sales Co
Clinard Milling Co
Robb Plumbing & Heating Co
Behr-Manning Corp
Wood - Armfield Furniture
S. E. Hauser & Co
P. C. Penn
Rosaine Shop
Jake Harris
Hedgecock Lumber CO
Ward Street
United States
Chicago
Johns-Manville
Parker - Brown Lumber
Oak Street
Fort Knox
Duke
South Carolina
Victory Coal Co
Sideloff
ICE & Fuel CO
Nat Walker
Walgreen
Roger
S. Main ST
Daedet T Tale Finance
W. C. Brown
North Wrenn Street
Searc Roll
U. S
Sta-Co Vermont
Aloeste Pr Nos
Red Cross Drive
Siebler
Shackelford
North Main St
E. High St
W. O. Atkins
John Staples
Sherman Sechrest
S. 8
Sechrest
E. W. Payne's
W. Payne
E. W. Payne
Tobacco Barn
B. L. Herman
Atty
Arthur L. Ellison
A. L. Charles
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