War Bond Breakfast Aims For 150 Attendees With Stars
The speaker hopes at least 150 people will attend the War Bond Breakfast on September 16 with three movie stars as guests. Admission requires purchasing a war bond of 85 000 or more, and organizers report strong local support. A separate letter by Colonel Washburn defends the Selective Service Act and outlines Army training policy for selectees and civilian specialists, noting non combatant roles and varied training durations. The piece emphasizes civilian duty, parental support for a large army, and moral readiness for victory and civilization.
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Hugh J. Smart
Senator Carruthers and High Point in NC Senate Row
A Greensboro Daily News inspired piece urges Carruthers to resign if unable to serve, allowing a High Point candidate to be drafted for the Senate seat unless he remains on the ticket. The piece argues for unified High Point leadership to secure representation amid wartime politics and stresses labor’s crucial wartime role and democracy’s defense through American workers.
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Greensboro Daily News
Joseph T. Carruthers
Senate
Roosevelt address blunts call for action on inflation
The piece critiques President Roosevelt's Congressional address warning of taking action if Congress delays. It notes repeated proposals to stabilize farm prices wages and profits, accuses both Congress and the President of inaction, and warns that delay could threaten democracy amid the war effort. It calls for decisive measures by October 1 and condemns political maneuvering.
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Associated Press
Roosevelt
Congress
Labor Day origins and union ties in U S history
The piece notes Labor Day originated with the Knights of Labor, the first national trade union, comparing it more to the modern CIO than the AFL. It suggests Labor Day is linked to organized workers yet questions ownership by unions, reflecting on reverence for labor.
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Associated Press
Total News
Audit Bureau OF Circulation
High Point
N. C
National
John Budd
Lexington
New York City
Knights of Labor
A. F. of L
Charity
Memphis
Mississippi River
Raleigh
Agricultural Credit Corporation
Walter Winchell on Broadway Notes of an Innocent Bystander
Walter Winchell reviews September’s first week on Broadway and film. He notes mixed stage reactions to I Killed the Count and praises skating acts at Madison Square Garden. He mocks Goebbels propaganda and highlights wartime films Wake Island and Across the Pacific, while recording media critiques and literary quotes from various authors and broadcasters.
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London
Doris Dalton
Louis Hector
Clarence Derwent
Howard Barnes
H-Trib
Madison Square Garden
Donna Atwood
Vera Hruba
Robert Dench
Rosemary Stewart
Wake Island
Brian Donlevy
Robert Preston
MacDonald Carey
Manchuria
Pearl Harbor
Pacific
Meller
Humphrey Bogart
Mary Astor
Sidney Greenstreet
Berlin
Goebbels
U. S
Front Pages differ on Stalingrad threat reports
On Wednesday four New York afternoon gazettes ran divergent fronts about the Stalingrad threat from disastrous to perfectly ducky. Otto D. Tolischus coined a name for the tap Foreign Office which sponsored the coverage.
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Stalingrad
New York
Otto D. Tolischus
Tap Foreign Office
Local News Roundup From City and Suburbs
Local Democrats meet at the Sheraton to discuss a membership drive and barbecue plans. Civic clubs met there last night amid optimism on business and civic affairs.
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Sheraton Hotel
Lyon Mercantile Agency
North Carolina
War-time shifts in North Carolina legislature и officials
One legislature nominee withdraws to enter naval service while two others are in service and a fourth expects induction. Several races vacant if called to duty. Induction rules bar sitting legislators from service, with possible pre election induction of candidates. Deferment favors married officials until single quotas exhaust. Hyde County gains North Carolina’s first woman civilian defense chair, Mrs Seth Gibbs, reflecting strategic state defense needs.
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Charlie Gold
Rutherford County
Armed Services
Julian Alsbrook
Halifax
State Senate
Basil Whitener
Gaston
House
Joe Carruthers
Senate
Guilford County
Gold
R. E. Price
Guilford
Carruthers i
War Department
Selective Service
North Carolina
Broughton
Seth M .Gibbs
Engelhard
Hyde County
Gibbs
Ben Douglas
Manteo Moves Toward 24 Hour Citizen Defense Center
Local officials in Manteo organize a Citizen Defense Control Center to operate around the clock as wartime conditions prompt stronger civil defense. The move follows shortages and shifts in state building use while officials must allocate space for retirement and tax offices amid wartime constraints.
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Manteo
Committee On State
State Retirement Fund
State Tax Research Departments
Revenue
General Assembly
Crounds
North Carolina Art Society
Historic Commission
Art Society
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Walter Winchell
Grew
Tokio
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Thorne
Oscar Levant
Brooklyn
Red Barber
Dodgers
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Boston
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Coughlin
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Reader's Digest
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Midway
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Smith
Winchell
Kurusu
The
Times
Miss Lombard
Washington
Japan
Bund
Mein Kampf
James Cozzens Gould
Ann Hunt
Margaret Culkin Banning
Kay Riley
Austin O'Malley
R. L. Martens
Frank Kingdon
Free World
Elizabeth Seckler
Reidsville
Thelma Williams
Louise Pearson
English Street
High Point Hospital
Reece Snyder
White Lake
R. B. Terry
Atlantic Bank and Trust Company
C. L. Anos
M. J. Wrenn
J. A. Mizell
Lius W. Cone
J. W. Simpson
Greensboro
American Legion Amxiliary
AWD. Simmons
J. M. Goodwin
North Main Street
Eommanual Lutheran Church
BD. S. Gurley
Carmen Oakes
Lenoir College
Hickory
George J. Douglas
Asheville
G. A. Rusband
Seth Main
Richard Johnson, Jr
R. F. J. Johnson
Derrick
Samuel Gompers
AFL
Daugherty
Trinity College
Durnan. N. Underwood
Durham
Capital Square
Roy Dearstyne
State College Poultry Deparment
Dearstone
Virginia
South Carolina
Budget Commission
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