Global War News and Local Labor Echoes From The Era
Frontline reports place German advances near Rostov and Kramatorsk, with Leningrad bombardment preceding an infantry and tank assault. Roosevelt declares full speed ahead to destroy Hitlerism, while Taft criticizes neutrality policy. In Thomasville and High Point, factory workers debate strikes and a mass meeting, and a Royal Marine Band concert is planned in High Point. Twenty years ago, MacDonald’s electoral landslide is recounted amid prohibition raids and bootlegging inquiries.
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Rostov
Berlin
Kramatorsk
Kharkov
Leningrad
Washington
Roose‘velt
America
Taft
Ohio
Roosevelt
Thomasville and
Standard Chair
Thomasville
High Point
Matt Wall
Royal Marine Band
His Majesty
Formidable
Norfolk
Crete
London
J. Ramsey MacDonald
House of Commons
Seaham Harbor
Labor
National Labor
Labor Party
Guilford County
Greensboro
Moscow Front Reinforced As Siberian Troops Arrive
Ten years ago today Soviet forces increased Moscow’s defenses with fresh reserves from Siberia and launched fierce counterattacks. The new arrivals bolstered the defense and aided a series of hard-fought engagements on the entire front near the capital.
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London
Moscow
Siberia
Dog Tag Helps Identify Lost Children in Buffalo
In Buffalo New York a dog tag led police to identify two youngsters who wandered the streets refusing to talk. Officers bribed with candy and gum before spotting a dog with a license tag. The children were Charles and Lucille Lane ages 2 and 4, whose parents had been searching for hours.
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Buffalo
N. Y
UPI
Charles
Lucille Lane
Historical Names List From Newspaper Page
A dense roster of male names appears in the page segment, listing individuals such as John Wise Johnson Westley Green Jacob Wagner Roy Carter Harvey Stuart Wheeler and many others. The collection includes middle initials and varied spellings, suggesting a directory or membership roster rather than a narrative story.
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Jacob N. Wagner
Roy Carter Harvey Stuart B. Wheeler
Menfil Theror Fergerson Herman S. Penland Leonard Messer
Isiah W. Cooke
Elbert B. Adkins
Industry urged to save alcoholics amid manpower crisis
Yale associate Robert Straus told the American Sociological Society that manpower shortages in 1951 defense production could raise stress and alcohol use among workers. He warned that industries will hire marginal workers, including problem drinkers, unless recognizing the problem. He said past industrialists dodged acknowledging alcoholics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Yale
Robert Straus
Yale Center of Alcohol Studies
Syhope
American Sociological Society
Straus
Rockland Man Learned He Won Lieutenant Rank Months Later
Charles J. Janowski of Rockland who re enlisted in the Army as a sergeant discovered nine months into service that he held the rank of lieutenant. He had a World War II commission but entered Korea era service as a sergeant and only later learned of the promotion after combat duty.
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Rockland
Mass
Charles J. Janowski
Jankowski
Janowski
Battles and rail facts from distant war theaters
The report notes major Korean battles and troops returning to a rest camp in Japan. It cites about 3000 ties per mile on rail lines. It also mentions the Kalakala, the world’s first streamlined ferry built in 1935 at Lake Washington shipyards in Seattle, entering service between Seattle and Bremerton.
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Japan
Lake Washington Shipyards
Seattle
Bremerton
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Ascoult
John Wancock
Forest Hill Drive
IS Years OF Life Insurance Service
Griffith Office Equipment Co
N. Main St
Piione
Southern
Brett Csr
Youngstown
Bishwasher Combination
Lambeth-Welborn
St. Main St
Kate Smith
Avery Felder
NOCTV
Statios
Huffman Paint CO
W. Washington ST
America's Finest
Aaa
DENNY
Civic Club
Carolina Spring Corp
Charles C. Edwards J. Roger Edwards
Clarence E. Lambeth
Charles ©. Edwards, JR
Frances Johnson
Martin Robinson
Join
Covington
Isiah Murphy
Ben Howte. JR
James Burrell
John Lovett
William Simms
James Ledbetter
Oliver Quick Awell Blakney
McKinley Sims Benson Robinson
Solomon Deer
Robert Jackson
Frank Dillstor
Wtkh
Lewis Williams
Pete Vpegues
Jack Mason
Bessie Craft
Hubert Togrrence
James Ricks
Lucy Trapp
Cora Small S. Chapaian
DR. Crowford
Clover Brand Dairies
Ray E. Woods
N. M. Ridge JR
L. M. Delegal
E. L. Chambers
R. C. Soyars
J.C Willis
R. W. Moffitt
DR. W. Smite
PD. T. Harvey, JR
J. M. Branham
Donise Smith
J. V. Neal Howard Small
Westley Green
Jessie Ricks
HI. D. Jones
J. R. Collins
W. PH. Taylor
Aa. T. Oglesby
K. EL. Workman
G. L. Cowan
A. B. Clufton
J. W. Hays
F. W. Foustef. Taylor H. CG. Petty E. Q. Ridge
G. D. Rumsey
A. Wright
CG Forbis
D. Staley
E. CG. Brown
WM. Walker
F.C. Clocifelter
H. W. Hicks
J. C. Kennon
R. Batiln
V. C. Eccles
J. H. Beeson
HW. R. Sloan
J. L. Robbins W. 8
Trachey
A. W. Banner
L. D. Hinshaw
W. KR. Campbell
J. I. Quigley
Cc. S. Megahey
D. H. Monroe
J. C. Hauschild
Mrs
Blanche Ward
Laura Young
3. O. Scotten
RE. B. Hicks
Grayson Bell
David Bouldin, JR
Dallas Clinard Delbert Clodfelter
Lee Collins
Perry Culler
Harold Dean Henry George
Bill Hall Sherman Hancock
Herbert, Turley
Lawrence Jarrett
John Kay
Richard Knapp
W. A. Konkle
Leslie Lamar Dewey Linthicum
Joe Linthicum
John Long
Oscar McCampbell
V. L. McDermott
Whit Mullin
Clayton Sechler Garland Snider
J. Henry Thomas
Joe Welborn
Welch Furniture CO
Cleo Brown Russell Flynnodell G. Carmichael
L. Beck H
Willard C. W. Vordrehle
Community Chest
L. Kirkman
F. J.‘ Flagler
T. Carlton Kirkman
L. B. Dutton
Charles E. Miller
R. Glenn Calicutt
May Coleman
S. C. Schaub
Robert L. Murray
G. W. O'Ham
Thornion
MM. M. Strother
Wilma Eyerly
Lillian Justice
T. Bruton
TF. Hyde Willie Little
Reliable Mfg. CO
Doris Campbell
Universal TY Furniture
Harvey Wilson
Annie Lance
Dewey Leonard
W. J. Burton
Community Chest Office
College Street
Save Alcoholics, ‘Industry
TEL
Independent Oil CO
Guilford Optical Co
LE High Point
Pte Sb
Wright - Womble- Pitts
W. C
ING, Inc
Norm Adver
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