Thomasville Drunkenness Court Docket Report
Thomasville court heard drunkenness cases Monday with Judge Carl Wilson presiding. Seven High Point men were found guilty on public drunkenness charges tied to a Saturday night arrest at a Thomasville High Point highway cafe. Devernia Gamble received 30 days for dis orderly conduct and property damage related to a Palace Theatre disturbance. Prayer for judgment continued. others ordered to pay court costs.
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Howard Shed
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Thom asville Lions Club Elects New President
In Thom asville on May 20, 0 8 Poer a prominent hardware dealer was elected president of the Thom asville Lions Club succeeding Vernon Snyder who led the club for 12 months. New officers include Tom Johnson first vice president L. E. Rackley second vice president John Perry third vice president Paul Keyes secretary Lank Harris treasurer Hal Harrison lion tamer Clifton Reed tail twister with Henry Templeton and Luther Link added to the board of directors. Dr Clyde A Milner president of Guilford College spoke on Democracy urging greater sacrifices to sustain American freedom.
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Poer
Thomasville Lions Club
Vernon Snyder
Tom Johnson
L. E. Rackley
John Perry
Cranium Crackers High and Low Quiz Challenge
A newspaper-quiz item explores world and U S elevations from sea level to peaks. Questions ask the highest and lowest U S points, global highest mountain and height, polar elevations, a peak once named Mt Denall Home of the Sun, and the greatest ocean depth. A note adds domestic airlines carried 177 055 passengers in January 1941, flying 69 047 939 miles, up about 30 percent from 1940.
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McKENNEY ON BRIDGE Masters Thread Highlighted
In eleven years of the World Championship Masters Individual Tournament no player has won twice. David Burnstone, winner in 1933, placed second in 193? and 1935. Waldemar von Zedtwitz, 1936 champion, was third in 1933. Oswald Jacoby, 1935 winner, ...
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Waldemar von Zedtwitz
Oswald Jacoby
Becker Netpares Best Records In Bridge Event
South to East Pass 20 placed third in 1931. M. D. Maier, winner in 1939, finished third in 1934 and 1936. B. J. Becker, winner in 1937, placed third in 1936 and 1934, and third again this year, signaling perhaps the strongest individual records. Becker demonstrated a fine partnership temperament with a protective play that misled the declarer and yielded a poor score for the opponent.
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Singer Claims Child Taken During Custody Case
In Los Angeles on May 20 Marion Talley testified in a divorce and custody suit that her six year old daughter Susan was taken from her when she was two weeks old. Eckstrom and Dr. D F Johnson are named in the case. Talley described pressure to move to Hollywood for a film contract and alleged attempts to place the child in a hospital for better care. She admitted a brief marriage to Eckstrom on March 23, 1935.
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New York
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St. Paul
Minn
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W J Vestal Taken By Death At Liberty
Word reached here that W J Vestal brother of Alves DO O Frazier died at Liberty at 12 30 this morning. Funeral services will be held at Staley on Wednesday afternoon at 3 o clock. The Alps are said to have risen from a seaway four to seven times their present width.
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National Whirligig News Behind the News
National Whirligig reports behind the scenes on re-armament wonk. O S A weekly contract list seen as political, while lawmakers tout local gains. Roosevelt and Stimson open Atlantic yards for British ship repairs with three-shift Navy work around the clock.
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London experts challenge Nazi oil victory notion
London petroleum experts say the war cannot be won by exploiting Nazi oil shortages. They note the Reich anticipated this and developed techniques that now appear to solve the problem. The piece recalls that in 1918 the Central Powers secured only about two million tons of petroleum products, a shortage contributing to the Armistice, and that two years ago estimates suggested…
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New York
S. Burton Heath
London
Reich
Truck Driver Injured in Sleep Crash on Randolph Street
Thomasville resident Hepler on Randolph Street Extension was driving a truck that drifted, ran over his leg, and left him badly fractured. He was carried by ambulance to a local hospital, then transferred to Winston-Salem for further treatment after the incident.
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Thomasville
Stokes Hepler
Blitzkrieg Oil Use Defies Expectations In World War II
A London Petroleum Press Service analysis states Germany’s oil use stayed below forecasts despite vast air power and rapid conquests. It notes blitzkrieg methods consume fuel quickly but for short periods, with major campaigns like Poland and France drawing limited oil, while civilian use fell sharply.
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Catcher Ray Price Signed by Albany Club
Albany Eastern League club in Albany New York signed catcher Ray J Price from Fast St. Louis Illinois as a free agent. Price had been released last week as manager of the El Dorado Cotton States League club and had signed with the Senators the previous night. He batted 329 in 74 games last season with Lenoir North Carolina in the Far Heel League. Sunflowers were cultivated by the Indians long before white men arrived in America.
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