Women Firefighters and War Bond Drive Highlight Pearl Harbor Day
State Fire Marshal Sherwood Brockwell and Fire Chief E K Ingram discuss women fire fighters as six trained women can replace four men in key tasks. Pearl Harbor Day marks the anniversary and calls for broad bond and stamps purchases with leaders like H G Faulkender and Mildred McAfee promoting total war mobilization.
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Samarcand
Pearl Harbor
Japan
H. G. Faulkender
America
Armed Services
Legislature urged to resist sweeping emergency powers
An editorial warns the incoming North Carolina Legislature against granting broad emergency powers to the Governor during wartime. It argues executive orders lack democratic harmony, notes the governor can call a special session, and cautions against haste, urging careful action to protect three-branch government.
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North Carolina
Union
Toward Disaster The manpower problem drifts toward disaster
The piece argues the nation must use manpower efficiently for war, citing Baruch Committee parallels to Roosevelt. It lists agreements on urgent needs in fighting, worker shortages, underused groups like women and Negroes, and material limits. It contrasts voluntary and compulsory matching of workers to jobs, notes fear of treating people as pawns, and questions why Washington delays decisive action.
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Roosevelt
Baruch Committee
Washington
World-Telegram
Coluum
England
Siberia
Lec'y Morgenthau
The
Treasury
Sympathy for Governor Broughton in Wellman case fate
Governor Broughton faces a grave duty in North Carolina deciding Wellman’s fate after a juried rape conviction. Doubts over alibi and location linger as the governor reprieves Wellman to December 18 for further inquiry, hoping new facts resolve the question of guilt or innocence.
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Broughton
North Carolina
Mason Wellman
Wellman
Fort Belvoir
Iredell County
Iredell
War housing output and costs during wartime construction
A recent announcement cites roughly 500000 living units for war workers since mid 1940. Private industry built 355000 units, government financed 142000, with over 10300 stopgap trailers. Private unit cost averaged 34540, covering 470000 non war homes. Publicly financed units cost about 3930 after trailer costs. Private enterprise likely does not owe apologies for its achievement.
Whose Is He Archibald MacLeish and OWI fate
A questioning view contrasts Archibald MacLeish's role in the Office of War Information with Elmer Davis's War report and suggests he belongs at the Library of Congress. The piece asserts that the writer aims to destroy the new European order and that the Allies will win the war with Stalin's cooperation.
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Archibald MacLeish
Office of War Information
Library of Congress
Elmer Davis
MacLeish
Office of
Europe
Josef Stalin
Murky Broadway Gossip and Memo From Washington
Walter Winchell sketches a collage of social oddities and political quips from Louise Atwill to George M. Cohan, plus a wave of letters and rumors about public figures. Highlights include ribbing over war chiefs, a defense office quip on sobo tourists, and notes on Mickey Finn and Eddie Davis’s road to Morocco.
Wilson Wizner figure shares Mizner quit movie work
Lew Lipton, cited by Alva Johnson in his Wilson Wizner series, recalls Mizner’s switch from picture business to restaurants with the remark because he left show business to pursue dining ventures.
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Lew Lipton
Alva Johnson
Wilson Wizner
Mizner
Broom Face Baby Sparked Divorce Tale
A humorous divorce reason recounts the husband, a star, returning home to see his wife poking a broom at the baby and exclaiming she wanted the child to get used to kissing his grandfather, recalling the odd domestic dispute.
Thanksgiving closings and news briefs in 1932
Local business and industry here will close for Thanksgiving next Thursday. City Manager Knox says expenses are the lowest in six years. Notable notes include Rev. and Mrs. E. M. Jones honored, Roy Watts Jr. having a birthday party, and Blanche Culler’s December wedding to Grady L. Mann. National politics cover Hoover budget, Roosevelt Hyde Park rest, and Yugoslavian leader Mihailovitch comments. An American bandit was nabbed in Mexico.
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Ikknox
E. M. Jones
Ward Street Methodist
Jones
Belmont Park Church
Charlotte
Roy Watts, Jr
Blanche Culler
P. L. Culler
Grady L. Mann
Hoover
Dixie
Roosevelt
Hyde Park
N. Y
State Revenue Department
Budget Commission
Washington
Carolina
National Capital
Elks reception to honor J Edgar Masters in High Point
Local news notes J Edgar Masters grand exalted ruler of the Elks will attend a Friday afternoon reception at the Elks Home from 12 to 1. The High Point Township Sunday School Institute opened yesterday. Judge W F Harding has or
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J. Edgar Masters
B.P.O.E
Elks Home
High Point Township Sunday School Institute
W. F. Harding
Diversion of highway funds debated in states
The Enterprise Bureau reports on how gas tax and vehicle fee revenue declines spark talks of restricting funds for road building. States including Iowa, Oregon, and West Virginia added to a growing list supporting constitutional protections against diversion, with many already in place since 1928. A RAND study notes ample future funds for maintenance despite lower revenues and possible delays in new construction.
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Kansas
Misouri
Califoria
Colorado
Tadho
Michig
Minnesota
Nevada
New Ham Shire
North Dakota
South Dkota
Iowa
Oregon
West Virgins
Richard H. Rush
Department Commerce
Rush
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Marie Louise
Josephine
George M. Cohan
Cohan
Dorothy Thompson
Mazzini Society
Lec'y
A. A. Berle, Jr
Duce
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Miss Thompson
Rome
Afussolini
Walter O’keefe
Washington Hotel
Ass’t
Thurman Arnold
Mr. A
Thurama
Bund
United States
Walter
Herbert Asbury
Mickey Finn
Baltimore
Michael Finnegan
Chicago
Michael Finn
Mickey
Lone Star
South State Street
Mickey Finn and the Recipe For the Knockout Drirn
Gem of the Prairie
Knopf
Finn
Edward Anthony
Colliers
Lou Merrilt
Sam
Camp Merritt
Lexington Theatre
New York
Mr. Cohan
Anthony
George
Eddie Davis
Bob Hope
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E. A. Ellington
Paramount
Crosby and Lamour
Columm
Office of Defense Transportation
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Carolina and Yadkin
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Hal Ingram
Hamlet
Dalton Kennedy
Statesville
Kenneth Denny
Lacy Neal Carr
Greensboro College
High Point
Congress
Morrison
Hayworth Springs Road
Mark Wayne Clark
Africa
Yugoslavia
Draja Mihailovitch
Mexico
Capital Square
Lynn Nisket Enterprise Bureau
Sir Walter Mote
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Roddie Ward
Motor Vehicles
Milwaukee
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