Rural Mail Box Improvement Week Initiated on Monday
Rural Mail Box Improvement Week to speed rural mail delivery and improve appearance begins Monday. Postmaster S C Clark urges proper sturdy boxes with owner names on visible sides and regular painting. Patrons with nonstandard top opening or revolving doors may keep them if long used and maintained. otherwise boxes should be replaced with approved types and placed on firm supports.
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S. C. Clark
Post Office Department
Virginia
Police Seize 101 Pints Of Whiskey On Broad Street
City officers seized 101 pints of tax paid whiskey and gin from a fleeing driver on Broad Street after a car stop. Earlier, 12 pints were seized from a car driven by Mrs. Virginia Fritz of Fligh Point and 67 pints were found buried in cans at Robert Royal’s Greensboro home. No arrests reported yet.
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Broad Street
Virginia Fritz
Fligh Point
Route 2
Gay Comedy Spotlighted in 1940s Film Cast
Cummings leads opposite Miss Arthur in a fiery idealist role while Coburn plays a millionaire who dons an alias to probe an employer revolt in his store. The trio’s antics drive a riotous comedy fantasy ending, supported by Gwenn Byington Sakali and Demarest. Directed by Sam Wood for RKO from Norman Krasna. a Coney Island picnic scene stands out as a highlight.
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Spring Byington
S. Z. Sakali
William Demarest
Sam Wood
Kitty Foxie
Frank Ross
RKO Radio
Norman iCrasna
Coney Island
Caribbean Bases Strategic for Defense Across 1500-Mile Orbit
The United States has acquired base rights around the Panama Canal extending to Trinidad Antigua Barbados and British Guiana with new troops such as the 252d Coast Artillery joining from Fort Screven. The Caribbean siting aims to deter contraband fear and potential intrusions while safeguarding the canal and regional oil and shipping routes for global naval strategy.
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Pearl Harbor
Neighbors Arrested On Charges In Mutual Feud
L P York, 58, of Thomasville road, was arrested on charges for threatening H C Crawford with a shotgun. Crawford, jailed on a breaking and entering warrant sworn by York, faced temporary detention and sanity examinations. York was later released on bond after a psychiatrist found him sane. Crawford also held on sanity evaluation.
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L. P. York
Thomasville Road
H. C. Crawford
Crawford
York
Archdale Man Forced to Turn Car to Avoid Collision
Sob Newton Archdale man swerved to avoid a car entering the Asheboro highway from a filling station. His companion Hal Pearce of Archdale escaped injury as Newton overturned his auto in the sudden maneuver. The offending car fled the scene and the driver remained unknown to filling station attendants.
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Archdale
Asheboro
Hal Pearce
Arendale
Portsmouth Defeats Asheville 5 to 0 in May Game
Portsmouth defeated Asheville 5 to 0 in a game at Asheville on May 3. Ace Parker, star outfielder and Brooklyn Dodgers football player, broke his right ankle sliding into second in the third inning. Max Wilson pitched well for the Cubs, allowing seven scattered hits, aided by errors and eight hits off Lowery as the Cubs built chances to score.
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Portsmouth
Asheville
Ace Parker
Brooklyn Dodgers
Ace
Max Wilson
Cubs
Lowery
Poole and Warner Reach East Carolina Golf Finals
Poole Grover, a 17 year old Raleigh Duke sophomore, and Rodney Warner of Raleigh advanced to the finals of the fourth annual East Carolina Golf tournament in Raleigh. The 36 finals are scheduled for tomorrow.
Drowning Ranks Third Among Unintentional US Deaths
Red Cross records identify drowning as the third leading cause of accidental death in the United States, highlighting the ongoing public safety risk and the need for preventive measures.
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United States
Red Cross
Funeral Rites for Mrs Albert Doyle Held Today
Funeral services were conducted at 3 p m in Sechrest Funeral Home chapel for Mrs Albert Doyle 25 a former High Point resident who died Thursday at Garfield Hospital Washington Burial followed at Springfield Cemetery Her husband and her mother Mrs Marvin English accompanied the body here More than 12000 rail cars and coaches on American railroads are air conditioned
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Sechrest
C. L. Ruth
Pilgrim Holiness Church
High Point
Garfield Hospital
Washington
Springfield Cemetery
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