YMCA leaders elected at Carolinas convention
J Harper general secretary of Rocky Mount YMCA was elected president of the Carolinas YMCA secretaries. Other new officers include T C Knight of Elkin YMCA as vice president and Chester Francis of Rock Hill YMCA as secretary treasurer. Wartime service topics and personnel discussion dominated the morning session with participants from Wilmington Winston-Salem Sumter Fayetteville and Charlotte.
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Harlotte
J. Harper
Rocky Mount Young Men's Ristian Association
Carolinas’ Center
YMCA
TC. ‘Knight
Elkin Iga
Ches- Francis
Rack N.S. C
Treas
C. O.tty
Charleston
Fb. L. Vick
Newton
YAICA
Rper
Permet
J. B. Lunting
Wilmington
L. Coons
Winston-Salem
Wright Plant Reclaims Steel At Paterson Plant
Wright Aeronautical Corporation reclaims enough steel daily to build destroyers. Chips of alloys aluminum magnesium brass and bronze are collected 24 hours a day, cleaned and sorted in an hour, then shipped by train car. The process uses a 780 rpm centrifuge and 100 ton hopper to feed gondola cars with 23 tons per car.
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Paterson
WN. J
Wright Aeronautical Corporation
Medal of Honor Welcomes Discharged Hero Into Immortals
A Navy Medal of Honor recipient is accorded special dispensation upon discharge. Regardless of prior record, past sins are forgiven and the bearer is placed among the Navy’s immortals.
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U. S. Navy
Navy
Program To Be Worked Out for Report Dec 1
A government plan to force Americans to buy about 15 million dollars in bonds annually to curb inflation and back wartime financing may be laid before Congress after the tax bill. The proposal would rely on higher taxes or new levies, studied by a joint committee to report by December 2, with Treasury support from Morgenthau. Reuters
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Congress
Treasury
Morgenthau
George
D-Ga
Senate Finance Committee
Danaher
R-Conn
Finance Committee
The
Taft
Ohio
Vandenberg
Mich
Records Music and Our Soldiers by Glenn Miller
Glenn Miller discusses the morale role of popular music for soldiers. He recounts Sunset Serenade and Moonlight Serenade programs sending 50 records to camps, distributing over 32 000 records and 100 instruments, and the continued appeal of sentimental tunes among troops. The piece highlights the band industry, radio, cinema, and the wartime effort to keep soldiers connected to civilian life.
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Glenn Miller
RCA Victor
George M. Cohan
Tin Pan Alley
America
Horn
Hitler Delays at Stalingrad Echo 1941 Crisis
War analyst Kirk Simpson notes Hitler’s hesitance to seize Stalingrad mirrors last year’s Russia campaign. As winter nears, German advances stall from Kiev to Rostov, Ostensibly advancing in Crimea while Moscow braces. The piece links timing, weather, and Japan’s potential aid to the larger strategic stalemate.
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Kirke L. Simpson
Wide World
Hitler
Stalingrad
Russia
Kiev
Crimea
Rostov
Caucasus
Berlin
Donets Basin
Moscow
Orel
Bryansk
Vyazamd
Odessa
Black Sea
Japan
Hiller
Roosevelt
Chamber of Commerce to continue local surveys
The Chamber of Commerce announces ongoing surveys in the city and surrounding area on retail business agriculture and farm labor industries and education. A dinner meeting Wednesday at 6 15 pm at the Elwood Hotel will include representatives from civic groups such as the Merchants Association Rotary Junior Chamber of Commerce Lions Monarch Kiwanis Exchange Altrusa Civitan and others to discuss survey details.
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Chamber of Commerce
Frank J. Sizemore
Elwood
Merchants A Association
Rotary Club
Junior Chamber of Commerce
American Business Club
Lions Club
Monarch Club
Kiwanis Club
Exchange
Altrusa and
Civitan Clubs
Business Professional Women and Business and Professional Girls
Ftigh Paint Real Estate Board
Kfarm
Striking Battery Workers Agree to Return to Jobs
In Depew New York leaders of a battery plant walkout agreed to end the strike and seek a wage increase through a War Labor Board referee. Clarence M Lamotte said workers would return Monday and the CIO UAW seeks a 17 cent hourly rise plus equal pay for women. Earlier an officer asked the government to operate the plant.
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Depew
N. Y
National Battery Company
War Labor Board
Clarence M. Lamotte
CIO
United Automobile Workers
Lamotte
Uaw-Cio
Wiliam S. Hilger
Uawcio International
North Carolina Education Association Postpones Spring Meeting
The board of directors met in Raleigh and decided that times are too uncertain to choose the spring meeting time and convention type. The decision on the time and place will be taken at the next board meeting scheduled for December 20 in Raleigh.
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Raleigh
The
North Carolina Education Association
Government rules on fuel oil rationing for unconverted buildings
Washington date Sept 19 The government ruled that apartment houses and commercial and industrial establishments failing to convert to coal heat when possible would receive no fuel oil rations basic or supplemental The Office of Price Administration had already ruled that householders who failed to convert when possible would receive no supplemental rations though they would have a basic ration
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
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Artley
M.C.A
Australia
North Carolina
Duguet
J. Melville Broughton
Mrs. Miniver
Center Theatre
Wright
High Point
Dunkirk
England
Garson Pidgeon
William Wyler
Sidney Franklin
Teresa Wright
Dame May Whitty
Reginald Owen
Henry Travers
BY Jack Bell
Tokyo
Prince Konoye
Gen. Tojo
Pearl Harbor
Leningrad
Kharkov
N.C. BE. A
Richard Arien
Jean Parker
State Theatre
Salem Street
Thomasville
Joan Crawford
Melvyn Douglas
Frene Dunne and
Patric Knowles
Dorothy Lamour and
Richard Denning
DAY Cleaning Company
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