Dialogue on war aims and public health in High Point
The piece weighs wartime strategy and Italian relations, arguing invasion of Europe may be risky yet necessary, while praising Churchill’s stance and noting Axis tensions. It then shifts to local health policy, urging stronger action on tuberculosis disparities between white and Black residents, funding for clinics, and a fuller city report to support housing improvements.
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Rome
Europe
Cairo
Italy
Athens
Axis
Germany
Mussolini
Churchill
R. A. Herring
Jamestown
Junior Service League
Herring
Propaganda in Motion Pictures Sparks Debate in America
A 1920s discussion traces propaganda from its papal origins to modern use in films. It weighs whether American theatres should host propaganda, noting government caution, audience desire for escape, and the risk of fear driven by sensational depictions.
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America
Poland
Germany
Balkan
Moving Picture
Sunday movie limit causes clergy to differ on policy
Asheboro ministers approve Sunday movies only for soldiers in uniform, sparking dissent from theatre concerns. The Burlington Daily Times-News questions the double standard and the average man’s access to entertainment, while the Gastonia Gazette notes severe boll weevil damage and shifting cotton fortunes as the era’s weather and pests reshape North Carolina agriculture.
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Asheboro
Burlington Daily Times-News
Gastonia Gazette
Wall Street Journal
Georgia
High Point
Weevil
Hitler
From Coils to Circuits A Cornell Professor's Leap
The story recalls Dr Joseph Slepian a Cornell mathematics professor who gave up teaching to wind coils at Westinghouse then rose to associate director of Westinghouse Research Labs He studied coils lightning arresters and secured 200 patents The moral urges practical work over theory and notes a judge censuring a German editor for Nazi endorsements.
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Cornell
Joseph Slepian
Sorbonne
Paris
Westinghouse
Pittsburgh
Doc Slepian
Joe
Joe Slepian
Joe” Slepian
Slepian
Westinghouse Research Laboratories
America
The Private Papers of a Cub Reporter Walter Winchell
Walter Winchell collects views on Hollywood influence and American freedoms, noting public reverence for stars over senators. The piece blends satire with references to Roosevelt, Goebbels, and evolving cultural politics, citing anecdotes about Hollywood’s role and a New Yorker quip on origin stories for children.
Broadway Notes and Ballot Pitch in May 6 Issue
In this May 6 edition John R. Davies campaigns for today’s primary opposing Mayor La Guardia after appealing to the Court of Appeals over polling rights. Vi vienne Segal offers Broadway fashion and advice while references to Dodger figures Camilli and Durocher appear in a pennant song. Lindbergh’s Des Moines speech draws condemnation as anti Semitic, and Joe McWilliams faces a suspended sentence for inciting hate. An All American backfield legend muses on his son’s future, and a light jab at unemployment and taxes closes the page.
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John R. Davies
la Guardia
Davies
Court of Appeals
Lindbergh
Des Moines
The
Herald Tribune
Joe McWilliams
Hitler
Yorkville
Local News Notes and Social Briefs
Local items report highway officials to be honored at the country club and school budget cuts discussed by the city board. Cornelia Farly recounts a hen that hatched a chick from a nest of setting eggs, and Major gifts are planned for tomorrow at the Enterprise Cooking School. People updates include Adelaide McAnally’s return from Chapel Hill and the Joneses’ trip to enter the University. News briefs touch cotton plans, repeal sentiment, and remarks on Germany’s status by James W. Gerard. Local news notes High Point and Greensboro team batting tied, highway workers expand with 25 miles of concrete road, and marriages and travels of residents are listed.
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State Highway Commissioners
City Schools Board
Cornelia Farly
Hoover Street
Cornelia
Enterprise Cooking School
Jocal News
High Point
Greensboro
Winston-Salem
I Spy Games Behind $611,500 Nazi Diamond Plot
U S reader Peter Edson reports a complex spy tale tracing a $611,500 flow of big bills from New York to Panama to Rio de Janeiro to Johannesburg and back to Brazil, financed illicitly to purchase diamonds for the Nazi war effort. The scheme crossed continents via banks and airlines, with discovery limited and enforcement tightening as refugees and German agents collide in a high stakes diamond trade.
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Washington
Samuel
Peter Edsom
South America
New York
United States
Germany
Hitler
Bank of
South Africa
Rio
Rilo
U. S
Panama
Brazil
Berlin
Europe
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Adelaide McAnally
Hars
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Richmond
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