Clean Up Campaign In Full Swing
The first annual clean up paint up campaign by the Junior Chamber of Commerce is underway with ceremonies at the YMCA. About 24 painters contributed and painted the V in a record 27 minutes. The tin can dump on Main Street adds daily. Scouts will give matinee tickets for 10 cans from 4 to 6 pm this week. Tickets for a May 10 matinee of Tom Sawyer Detective at Paramount are available. Poster contest entries appear in downtown windows with prizes to winners.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Junior Chamber of Commerce
Main Street
Paramount Theatre
Spencer Tracy
Mickey Rooney
Center Theatre
College Book Dedicated to Local Civic Leader
High Point College distributes The Zenith yearbook dedicating it to F L Porter Sr a prominent local civic and industrial leader. A full page Porter photo and dedicatory notes appear. edited by Jack D Lee with Albert G Earle as business manager. The volume features faculty and student portraits senior superlatives athletics campus organizations and a beauty queen section. Alice Chandler named Miss High Point College for 1941 by Paramount Pictures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. Logan Porter
High Point
High Point College
Zenith
Porter
Jack D. Lee
Albert G. Earle
Mountain Lakes
N. J
Alice Chandler
Paramount Pictures
RAF HITS LIBYA TARGETS IN HEAVY BOMBING
Cairo reports that Bengasi harbor and Benina airdrome along with Barece Derna and Gazala in Libya were struck in a very heavy bombing raid by the RAF. At least five axis planes were destroyed at Benina, including troop carriers, according to the RAF communique issued today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bengasi Harbor
Cairo
Egypt
Benina
Barece
Derna
Gazala
Libya
RAF
Local Notices on Property and Residents
Brief item lists residents and addresses including Bill Hall at 901 Johnson Street fourth floor two ee Williard Payne Archdale Oty icke Garland Johnsgbert Street sixth one ieeee Dorothy Leach 506 Jones Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bill Hall
Johnson Street
Ee Williard Payne
Archdale
Oty Icke
Garland Johnsg
Ieeee
Dorothy Leach
Jones Street
Roosevelt urges faster heavy bomber build up for democracies
President Roosevelt proclaimed the need to accelerate air power growth for democratic nations, citing Knudsen’s praise for heavy bombers. Production must reach a 3,500 planes monthly peak after a year, with new Tulsa and Fort Worth plants to add 50 each month, plus additional plants planned and funded under lease lend and defense appropriations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
OPM
Stimson
Tulsa
Okla
Fort Worth
Texas
War Department
Glenn L. Martin Company
Baltimore
Britain and Axis clash as raids intensify across Europe
Diplomats spoke of Greece and Turkey amid renewed fighting as RAF and Luftwaffe raids escalate. Germany claimed strikes on Mannheim Frankfurt Mainz and other Rhine targets while Berlin noted raids on Heidelberg and channel ports Boulogne Cherbourg. In Britain bombers hit Belfast Clyde shipyards and Liverpool with heavy casualties feared. a Belfast shelter suffered a direct hit killing 12.
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Greece
Eden
Churchill
Britain
Middle East
Yugoslavia
Germany
Rhineland
Heidelberg
Mannheim
Boulogne
Cherbourg
Hitler
Luftwaffe
British Isles
Belfast
Northern Ireland
Scotland
Clyde River
Glasgow
Liverpool
Merseyside
North Carolina angler lands 40 pound channel bass
A. Coke Cecil of High Point claimed the thrill of a lifetime on Ocracoke Island, joining guide Sommers Spencer for surf casting at Ocra coke Inlet. The 42 to 43 pound channel bass fought for 25 minutes before being landed by F. R. Stedman after a long beach struggle, the first big bass of the 1941 Ocracoke season.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. Coke Cecil
F. R. Stedman
Ocracoke
High Point
North Carolina
Mrs. Cecil
Sommers Spencer
Ocracoke Inlet
Pamlico Sound
Blackbeard
Cecil
Stedman
Axis moves and aerial battles across Europe and Africa
Messerschmitts attacked Dover and balloon barrages as RAF Spitfires pursued. Axis forces occupied Greek islands Lesbos Chios and six Cyclades. Mussolini praised Italian German counterattacks at Tobruk. Salum and Iraq oil battles loom as British and Iraqi leaders reject mediation. Greek government reports extensive bombing and sinking of auxiliary vessels and hospital ships with crews.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Messerschmitts
Dover
Take Islands
Balkans
Greece
Hitler
Lesbos
Chios
Aaegean Sea
Kykladon
Cyclades
Italy
Dodecanese
Aegean
Anaphe
Ios
Thera
Naxos
Amorgos
Paros
Mussolini
Tobruk
Libya
Middle East
Iraq
Diwaniya
Falluja
Britain
Abdullah
Trans-Jordan
George II
Crete
Fifth District Meeting to Name Folger Successor
Reidsville May 6 The Fifth District Democratic Congressional Committee meets at 3 p m in Reidsville to discuss nominating a successor to the late Representative A D Lon Folger of Mt Airy. Members include E G Thompson Roxboro chairman W B Horton Caswell Gilbert Shermer Forsyth and B S
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Reidsville
Democratic Congressional Committee
A. D
Lon) Folger
Mt. Airy
E. G. Thompson
Roxboro
W. B. Horton
Caswell
Gilbert Shermer
Forsyth
North Carolina Weather Update Winds Shift and Clouds Increase
Cloudy tonight and Wednesday with scattered showers and warm temperatures. Wind patterns vary along the coast with easterly to southeasterly flows and increasing cloudiness through the period, turning fresher by Wednesday in some areas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Carolina
Island Hatteras
Hatteras
Jacksonville
Lion Of Judah Back On Throne In Addis Ababa
Haile Selassie, emperor of Ethiopia and Lion of Judah, returned to his capital after five years in exile as Italian control ended. Crowds cheered as he rode in with British General Cunningham and his sons Crown Prince Makonnen and the Duke of Harar. Italians remaining in the city stayed indoors. Local riders greeted the Lion of Judah on caparisoned mules.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Addis Ababa
Ethiopia
Haile Selassie
Lion of Judah
A. C. Cunningham
Selassie
Makonnen
Rome cathedral carvings bound to protect from bombs
Every piece of carving on Rome's Milan Cathedral, famed as a wedding cake, has been tied with sacking to shield it against blast damage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rome
Milan
Local figures endorse Folger amid HLB Board note
Royster of Granville Karl B. Massey of Rockingham N E Pepper of Stokes and B Carter of Surrey Ty face a statement from Frank Hancock of Oxford on the Federal Home Loan Bank Board endorsing John H Folger the late representative's brother Hancock declined to be a candidate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Hancock
Oxford
Federal Home Loan Bank Board
John H. Folger
Hancock
P. J. Neal Elected Civitan President
The Civitans of High Point met for a noon luncheon at the Sheraton Hotel to elect officers for the coming year. P. J. Neal was chosen president with W. B. Harris as vice president and C. H. Risch as secretary treasurer. Silas Casey and Horace Haworth joined as directors. Neal and Risch were named delegates to the Carolinas Civitan Convention in Myrtle Beach, S. C., May 25–26.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Civitans of
High Paint
Sheraton Hotel
H. L. Brockmann
Civitans
P. J. Neal
W. B. Harris
C. H. Risch
Silas Casey
P. W. Flagge
Horace Haworth
Messrs
Neal
Risch
Myrtle Beach
S. C
U S Plan to Occupy Canary Islands and Other Territories
The speaker argues that if Verde Islands Canary Islands Singapore or Dakar are occupied by the United States and Great Britain it would provide a vantage point to strike at the threat. The aim is to stifle the source of the danger and keep Britain’s sea lanes open with U S navy and air force.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Verde Islands
Canary Islands
Singapore
Dakar
United States
Great Britain
Britain
Ambitious Growth in U.S. Tool Industry Cited
The article notes America the machine tool industry could expand beyond prior production estimates. It also covers the Russo Japanese neutrality pact as a Pravda described blow to Allied interests and Russia's shifting wartime stance between cooperation and non cooperation, creating questions about future Soviet policy before U S shipments to Nazis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pravda
Communist Party
Russia
Germany
United States
Emil Schram Approved to Head Stock Exchange
Emil Schram chairman of Reconstruction Finance Corp. has been approved by the New York Stock Exchange board as the next president. He will succeed William C. Martin Jr., who left last month for military service under the Selective Service Act.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Emil Schram
Reconstruction Finance Coarp
New York Stock Exchange
Schram
William C. Martin, Jr
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Paulette Wulin
Tipton Street
Stanley Harris
Jefferson Avenue
F.L. Porter
Clentor
the Mighty
Gene Autry
Smiley Burnette
Mary Lee
Bob Crosby
Jean Rogers
Crosby Bobcats
Rialto
Priscilla Lane
Dennis Morgan
Thomas Mitchell
Alan Hale
Barbara Stanwyck
Miss Manton
West End
State Theatre
Salem Street
Thomasville
James Ellison
Maureen O'Hara
Argentine
Deanna Durb
Franchot Tone
Captain Marvel
Buster Keaton
Coke Cecil
A. D. Folger
Eastupan Kod
I.ceseven
Elec Auto
Penney JC
Adams
Dla al Chem & Odvye
Alleghany
Freeport
Pullman
Alco
Reni Rand
Redd & Sts
Goodrich
Mitt
Goodyear
An Smelt
Graham Paige
Reynolds
At&t
Gt Nor Ry
Ani
Anaconda
Sead Gil
Arni
Baldwin Ltd
Cal
Weather Bureau
B&o
Johns Man
Barnsdall
Bendix
Kroger Groc
Swift
Asheville
Boeing Airpl
Avlanta
Charlotte
Loft
Timken
Chicago
Burl Mills
Lorilard
Transameraly
Columbia
Louis & Nash
Trans & West Air Mk Denver
Evansville
Mack Truck
UN Pac
Galveston
Calumet & Hee
McCrory Svores
Airc
Nat Biscuit
Memphis
Champ P & F
Nat Cash
US Pipe
Miami
Ches & O At
Rub
Chrysler
Nat Dairy Prod
US Smelt & Ref
Mobile
Colum G & E
Nat Dist
Us&s
Steel
New Orleans
Coml
Nat Ead ii
Nat Ew
D& Lt
Raleigh
San Antonio
Consol Edis
Nor Am
Rs Vick Chem
San Francisco
North Am
Nor Pac TI
Tampa
Nor Pac
Washington
Curtiss Wright
Western Union
Wileyington
Wilson
del Lack & W
Woolworth
Doug Pac
Pac Mills
Yes
T&c
du Pont
Packard Wa Youngs S&s & Tt
Men of Boys
Broadhurst
Paramount
Civitan
America
STOCK
Ays Love
Jean Arthur
RKO
the Devil
Miss Jones
Royal Crown Cola
Universal
Hal Roach Studios
Greensboro
Nehi Bottling CO
Greensboro, N.C
Battleground Ave
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