New Health High Hit As Army Venereal Rate Drops
The wartime venereal disease rate in the U S Army has fallen since Pearl Harbor, signaling a shift toward public health measures. Medical officers placed in encampments curb prostitution and use the May Act to curb sexual commerce near bases, with Tennessee and North Carolina pilots showing progress as community rates align with military trends.
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Pearl Harbor
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Congress
Tennessee
Camp Forrest
Qel-Aties
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American Social Hygiene Association, Inc
Asheville
Chattanoga
North Carolina
Fort Bragg
N.C
North Caroline
FBI
Germans Hit In Battle At Sub Base Raid
Nov. 24 report says 19 German planes were lost during a daylight raid by 4? U S Army Air Forces on a German submarine base at St Nazaire via Loire estuary. Four fighters were shot down and four bombers missing amid heavy opposition from Luftwaffe and RAF support aircraft.
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France
Despie
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Davidson County Sees November Bond and Stamp Shortfall
Davidson County faces shortfall in War Savings bonds and stamps as $191,000 quota nears. total sales reach $43,918.25 with contributions from banks, post offices, and local firms. Traffic deaths around 23,000 nationwide last year highlighted in the report.
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Thomasville
Walter W. Rapp
Commercial Bank of Lexington
Lexington
First National Bank of
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Industrial Bank of
Carolina Bank and Trust Co
Denton
Davidson Theatre
Preacher Uses News Stories For Sermons In Florida
Dr Paul R Hartin 38 a youthful bespectacled pastor at First Avenue Methodist Church St Petersburg packs crowds for Sunday services, preaching thrice in morning and twice in evening to manage 5000 attendees in a 1000 seat church. He uses news stories to captivate the congregation and urges members to act on church work. He also runs a school of choral education and a large lay organization. He is noted as an avid fisherman and inventor of gadgets to quiet cussing, including a hooked minnow net for boat wells.
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NEA
Garrett Biblical Institute
Northwestern University
First Avenue
Surance
Hartin
St. Petersburg
Dr. Hortin
Hidden Plot in Nancy Hale Loft
Blythe plans to seize evidence by hiding in Nancy Hale's closet as gamblers near arrival. She contemplates using her gun to bluff and hopes the crime plan can turn the men over to police without harming Nancy or Scooter. The tension centers on Blythe's love for Duane and Nancy's own romance.
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Scooter Hale
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Mom Miller
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Scooter
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Nick
Nancy Hale
Blythe Miller
Eve
Thomasville Schools Achieve 100 Percent Red Cross Drive
Thomasville scholars contributed fully to the Junior Red Cross drive as Mrs. Harry Curlee reported. Each school listed its chairperson and gift totals, with a final tally of 60.76 dollars raised across all institutions.
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Thomasville
Harry Curlee
Red Cross
Red Cross Fund
Allen Jay Baptists Hold Special Sunday Services
Allen Jay Baptist Church welcomed the Allen Jay School faculty and committee as guests for an annual affair. Principal T Bennison led as superintendent with devotionals by Mrs Dolan Hedrick and Mrs Jack Campbell. The program included faculty taught classes, a trio performance, and a high school glee club under Bennison. More than three hundred attended, including about one hundred visitors.
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Allen Jay Baptist Church
Allen Jay School
T. Bennison
Dolan Hedrick
Jack Campbell
Evelyn Pearson
Roosevelt Gives 500 to Fish Campaign Fund
President Roosevelt contributed 500 dollars to the Dutchess County Democratic Committee’s campaign fund used in an effort to unseat Rep. Hamilton Fish of New York. The New York Secretary of State’s office lists Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr. as another Dutchess County contributor.
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N. Y
Roosevelt
Dutchess County
Democratic Committee
Hamilton Fish
New York
Secretary of State's Office
Treasury
Henry Morgenthau, Jr
She Shops Cash and Carry Backache Relief
An ad argues tired kidneys cause backache and other pains. It promotes Doran's Pills as a long used remedy to flush poisons from the blood and restore energy, urging readers to ask a druggist for Doane Pill.
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Doran
Cheek Bound Over In Trial At Thomasville
Samuel Gaither Cheek was bound over to the Superior Court with bond set at 600 dollars after a local court hearing on hit and run driving. Ray Gordon was found guilty of drunken driving speed and reckless driving and a traffic-ordinance violation, receiving eight months for drunken driving with sentences suspended on payment of fines and costs and no driving for two years. plus 90 days for other charges, suspended on costs. Luther Wilson received four months for beating a board bill, suspended on payment of 24 dollars to Mrs My ers and costs. The list of those found guilty followed.
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Thomasville
Samuel Gaither Cheek
Tern
Superior Court
Ray Gordon
Luther Wilson
Ester Myers
Thanksgiving Services to Be Held at Thomasville
Thanksgiving services by all Thomasville churches will be held Thursday at 10 a.m. at Main Street Methodist Church. Rev W K McGee of First Baptist will preach. The offering benefits Mills Home in the city. A stray sentence about charges and riders appears, but no clear relation to the service.
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Thomasville
Bissell Believes Jap Invasion Of India Is Unlikely
NEW DELHI November 24 Brig Gen Clayton L Bissell commander of U S Army air forces in India Burma and China said the Japanese are too busy in other areas to attempt an invasion of India at the present time He noted US air forces in the theater are being steadily augmented by heavy bombers and in six recent raids on Burma not a single plane was hit by enemy fire.
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New Delhi
Clayton L. Bissell
U. S. Army
India
Burma
China
Bissell
Bissei
United States
Burman
Business travel dominates American highway car trips
It is stated that about 62 percent of passenger car travel on American highways serves business purposes, highlighting a strong economic drive behind commuter and commercial mobility.
Inventors Claim Shared Honor for Gasoline Car
The distinction of inventing the gasoline motor car is shared by the United States, Germany, and Firnace, with each nation contributing to early automotive development in the era.
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United States
Germany
Firnace
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