Ickes and Nelson praise Moscow Pact in Madison Square Garden rally
Treasury Secretary Ickes and War Production Board Chairman Nelson hailed U S Soviet harmony at a Madison Square Garden rally marking ten years of diplomatic relations. They pledged full repayment of Russia's obligations and urged unity against Hitler, while blasting Hearst papers and Patterson McCormick for anti Russia bias.
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New York
Moscow Pac
Ickes
War Production Board
Donald M. Nelson
Russia
United States
Soviet Union
Nelson
Joseph Stalin
Madison Square Garden
Andrei A. Gromyko
Joseph E. Davies
Hearst Press
Patterson - McCormick
Axis
Stalin
Roosevelt
Hitler
Patterson-McCormick
Runy on Brighter Side mocks WACs WAVES with leg cracks
Damon Runy ridicules members of the WACs and WAVES focusing on legs and skirts. He jokes about bow legs and misperceived flaws while proposing slacks to equalize appearances and ease observers. The column pivots on humor about female service members.
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Damon Runy
Wacs
Waves
Penicillin Developments and Medical Notes for General Use
Health observers discuss penicillin as a germ killing drug nearing general availability after a long testing period. A U S committee has outlined indications dosage and safety. penicillin shows promise for infections resistant to sulfa drugs and direct wound application in certain fractures. The piece notes delivery methods and limits. it includes a Q A on hydrochloric acid use with reassuring guidance.
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California
C. J
Swearington Arrested by T'ville Police
Eu gene Swearington, a local youth, was arrested for smoking in a theatre. Police then found a High Point warrant for larceny of $20 and turned him over to High Point officials for disposition of that case.
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Enterprise
Thomasville
Eugene Swearington
Swearington
High Point
Record Run Of Hogs Is Foreseen
Chicago scouts report a coming flood of hogs to national stockyards as spring genetics finish, with 74 million pigs bred and fattened for market. Packing plants seek to hire more workers amid a manpower shortage, but few part timers remain in Chicago back of the yards. Workers’ limits and the reluctance to employ women in slaughtering roles compound the crunch, signaling the year’s heaviest hog influx.
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Chicago
Oea
Engle
One-Minute Test Questions and Answers
Questions ask how many lines are in a sonnet and who wrote The Good Gray Poet and the best antiquity biographer. Answers: fourteen, Walt Whitman, Plutarch. Words of wisdom from Hamerton on evolving thoughts.
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Walt Whitman
Plutarch
Hamerton
Hints on Etiquette Steamed Clams Eaten by Hand
Steamed clams are eaten with the fingers and served in shells with bouillon and hot butter sauce. Take the clam by the neck, remove the film, and slide the clam into a cup of bouillon to rinse sand. Then dip in butter sauce and eat by holding the neck, which is not eaten.
Nov 10 Horoscope Highlights for a Thoughtful Leader
The reader is a studious, broad minded birthday child with literary interests and public leadership potential. Around 4:26 am a plan forms to remodel old things and methods, just before dawn a delayed matter may reach completion, and by 8 am sharing a valuable experience could benefit both parties.
Final Rites Held For L. E. Brown
Luther Edward Brown of 405 Polk Street Thomasville died at his home after an extended illness. Funeral services were at Trinity Street Methodist Church conducted by Rev. D A Oakley and Rev. Walter Cockman. Interment in the city cemetery.
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Thomasville
Luther Edward Brown
Polk Street
Trinity Street
D. A. Oakley
Walter Cockman
David Bell
Ed Smith
Walter Brown
Floyd Lucas
John Lanier
Early Todd
Jimmie Lou Hill
Wilma Lee Hedrick
May Waisner
Dorothy Hughes
Easy Life and Inflation Talk In Casual Comment
A column by W. A. Bivins reflects on Sgt. Charles Loflin and the idea of an easy life in the war, then shifts to inflation concerns, discussing currency history, price ceilings, and the need for rationing and wage controls. It urges readers to write to soldiers overseas to boost morale and remind them of home.
Missing British Commodore Todd Reported Missing In Action
Commodore Percy Todd of the Royal Navy, aged 48, was reported missing in action by the British Admiralty. He previously received the Distinguished Service Medal in 1936 for rescuing 139 crew members from the US gunboat Fulton after it caught fire on a voyage from Hongkong to Foochow in 1934 while commanding HMS Wishart in Chinese waters.
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London
Percy Todd
Royal Navy
Admiralty
Todd
Roosevelt
U. S
Fulton
Hongkong
Foochow
China
H. M. S. Wishart
Therescue
When Will Italian POWs Be Released in the U S
Italian soldiers sailors and marines at Camp Perry discuss potential status changes after Italy becomes a co belligerent. The article explains red tape legalities and the challenge of classifying prisoners as pro Allied or pro Fascist while maintaining safeguards and allied interests. Guards and Italian officers oversee living, work, and recreation within four company huts and a shared camp hospital and chapel.
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Charles J. Thobaben
Central Press
Camp Perry
Italy
United States
Great Britain
Russia
United States Army
Soe
T Po
E. C. McCormick, Jr
Germany
Harold D. Woolley
Pany
Spi
Anny
Marescialli
Bus Sideswipe Kills Six in Route 40 Crash
Six people died and about ten injured when a Grey bus carrying twenty passengers was struck by a bulldozer blade extending from a truck six miles south of Blackstone Virginia. The bus en route from Norfolk to Roanoke collided in rain and fog on Route 40 between Kenbridge and Blackstone. The bulldozer blade tore into the bus, throwing passengers, with driver Victor Blue of Roanoke among the seriously hurt. Identified dead include Ross David Yeary 25 and Joseph J Shelton Jr 24. The bulldozer truck driver, Robert Jackson of Lexington North Carolina, was held on an unspecified charge.
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Blackstone
Virginia
W. H. Read, Jr
Norfolk
Roanoke
Kenbridge
Read
Victor Blue
Ross David Yeary
Pennington Gap
Portsmouth
Funeral Rites For Parrish Infant Held
The funeral service for Jackie Charles Parrish, infant son of Mr and Mrs Clarence Parrish, was held at the family home in Thomasville Monday at 5 30 PM. Rev T R York of Mount Zion Holiness church led the rites with music by Miss Elvida Black and Mrs Clarence Eddinger. Interment followed at Fair Grove church cemetery with flowers arranged by Mrs Virgil Ward.
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Thomasville
Jackie Charles Parrish
Clarence Parrish
T. R. York
Mount Zion
Duped centenarian tale at wartime manpower office
In New York a 101 year old war worker was exposed as an ex herb doctor who had been jailed for practicing medicine without a license. Reporters and photographers watched him lift cartons but a veteran police reporter identified him, prompting the man to confess and the WMC press agent to alert his boss that they had been duped.
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Russia
Great Britain
Hitler
William Raph Hearst
J. M. Patterson
New York Daily News
Robert R. McCormick
Chicago Tribune
Roosevelt
New York
Sonal War Manpower Commission Office
Brooklyn
WMC
Ambassdor Armour’s duty to defend America questioned
The speaker condemns Ambassador Armour for shaking hands with those undermining the United States and argues Washington must send a strong note to Buenos Aires or face grieving mothers on Main Street U.S.A. The wartime stance urges the U.S. Air Force to deliver the next message to Argentina.
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Guadalcanal
Ambassador Armour
Buenos Aires
Main Street
U.S. A
Japs With Clubs Surround Camp Head's House
Tulelake California November 9 A project director testified that angry Japanese residents armed with clubs surrounded his house at the Tule Lake relocation center He said the crowd demanded his removal and he called in the army to intervene Army tanks armored cars machine guns and fixed bayonets were used and he heard three shots but saw no injuries
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Tulelake
Calif
Rey R. Best
Tule Lake Oocation Center
Best
California State Senate
Fights Extradition To North Carolina
Thomasville officials report extradition papers sent to Raleigh for Governor J M Broughton’s signature to return Yarborough from Maryland to face charges of abandonment and non support of his wife and children Yarborough was captured in Maryland and fights extradition. officers will travel there if Maryland honors the papers.
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Thomasville
E. R. Richardson
Raleigh
J. M. Broughton
Agre
Yarborough
Ellicott City
Maryland
North Carolina
Reynolds Says He Will Stay Active in Public Life
Washington Nov 9 Senator Robert Rice Reynolds says he will continue in public life and champion his state and nation's interests though he will not seek renomination. The 58 year old isolationist, once a foe of aid to Britain, explains work pressure for leaving the Senate and notes his marriage to Evalyn Walsh McLean as a recent personal change. He remains a prominent figure through his recent editorial work for The National Record.
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Washington
Robert Rice
Bob
Reynolds
North Carolina
Senate
meNow
Military Affairs Committee
Great Britain
Pearl Harbor
Connally
England
American Vindicator
America
The
National Record
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Ohio
Charlie
Armed Services
Japan
Chan
Loflin
Treasury
Confederacy
Gettysburg
George Brown
Jim Smith
Brown
Smith
Johnny
American Legion Magazine
Uncle Sam
U.S
Erie Proving Ground
M. P
War Manpower Commission
United States Employment Service
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Priemer Operaers
U. S Army
Julius Valantinelli
U.S. Army Signal Corps
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