Veterans prefer own organization after war opinion note
T Carlton Kirkman High Point public works director and a legionnaire says returning soldiers may form their own group rather than join the American Legion. A commenter notes veterans of this war will not shun politics. Other locals praise ministers and a Chattanooga Times editorial lauds a Wake Island film. Selective Service Board 4 thanks The Enterprise for notifying delinquent registrants and updating addresses after a wave of questionnaires.
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T. Carlton Kirkman
High Point
American Legion
Mark Spelvin
White
Legion
Chattanooga, Tenn
Times
Wake Island
Spirit Of Man Rallies Through Stalingrad War News
A World War II era reflection praises the Soviet defense at Stalingrad as a sign of the unconquerable spirit of man and compares it to Wake Island. It argues unity with the United Nations despite political differences and lauds civic clubs for supporting underprivileged children and community programs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stalingrad
Hitler
Soviet
Volga
Russia
Stalin
Wake Island
United Nations
S.C
Kluckers may not ride again in North Carolina
A reader in Washington County sought a charter to form a Ku Klux Klan following reports of attacks on white women. Secretary Thad Eure replied that unlawful aims cannot be pursued and that lawful protection exists through state courts, peace officers, and the SBI, despite nostalgia for old methods.
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Kluckers
North Carolina
Washington County
Thad Eure
State Bureau of Investigation
SBI
Hiram W. Evans
Henry Grady
Inquirer
Eure
Washington Way
R.E.P
Civic clubs aid in charitable work across High Point
Miss Betty Jean Miller highlights Rotary Club donation to the iron lung while Lions Club assists the blind and other clubs help crippled children and provide proper glasses under private efforts. The community relies on these civic groups to support medical aid and vision needs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W.C.I
Betty Jean Miller
High Point Rotary Club
Iron Fung
Rotary Club
Lions Club
Old Barber Shop Memories and the Police Gazette
Reader recalls the old barber shop as a social club era before women changed it. Mentions Police Gazette being barred from U S mails and notes contrast with today’s cheesecake art and modern jokes. Reflects on nostalgia and uncertainty about changes.
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Gazzette
United States
Police Gazette
Ireland's Neutrality Seen as Safeguard Against British Rule
Veteran reporter argues Ireland remains neutral not from Anglophobia but belief it cannot survive as an independent state during war. A German victory risk is weighed against feared British dominance and postwar subjugation. The piece frames neutrality as a test of Irish intelligence and preference for self-rule over British action.
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Ireland
S.B.H
A Thought On Worship And Sanctuaries In Frail Times
A short meditation contrasts worship under God’s ancient sanctuaries with adoration in crowded roofs built by human hands. The speaker Bryant reflects that most people who make the best of life have little.
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Bryant
Walter Winchell on Broadway notes and cinema reviews
Broadcaster Walter Winchell surveys this week’s theater and film scene. Critics spar over The Morning Star and The New Priorities while Gladys Cooper and others draw praise. Midway in color dominates the film lineup. stars like Ginger Rogers and Ray Milland headline comedies and dramas. Goebbels’ lies and Berlin reportage are dissected, with editorial provocations on Goebbels and wartime cinema.
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Morning Star
London
Gladys Cooper
Brenda Forbes
Rhys Williams
R. Lockridge
Bert Wheeler
Henry Youngman
L. Kronenberger
G. Jessel
Jack Haley
Ella Logan
de Marcos
Brooks Atkinson
Times
J. Mason Brown
The
Post
Ginger Rogers
Ray Milland
R. Benchley
Marjorie Main
Aline AlacMahon
ZaSu Pitts
Sherlock Holmes
Lupe Velez
Leon Errol
The Wireless Humor and Variety of Radio Tonight
The piece surveys radio offerings featuring Jean Tennyson with the San Francisco Opera Co next month, Dinah Shore on the Blue Network, Gil Lamb signing a long term contract, Goodwill broadcasts to South America and Mexico City, Garry Moore and Red Skelton segments, baby talk jests recalling Dorothy Parker, and cultural notes on Nation's critique of Filmland and Zero Mostel as well as Life magazine’s profile of Leon Henderson.
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Jean Tennyson
Stephen Foster
San Francisco Opera Co
West Coasters
Dinah Shore
Blue
Gil Lamb
South America
Mexico City
Garry Moore
Red Skelton
Dorothy Parker
Local News Digest Highlights and Notable Mentions
Home Loan Bank to start functioning soon. Brentwood School discusses Junior Red Cross. Freshman at Duke Frank Sizemore Jr. visits. several elks visit Sanford and York. Roosevelt demands utility safeguards. Al Capone in Atlanta prison. Curtis tours Tennessee. Revival preacher Luther Bridges speaks on Spirit and consecration. Pointers beat church team 4 0 in Durham. Lucy Cobb visits. Mrs. Beach returns from York. 67th Congress adjourns. tariff bill praised by Pat Harrison. South railroads avoid non union workers. Ford plant operating again. Geography linked to air power in naval context. Admiral Harwood commands fleet in the British Eastern Mediterranean.
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Home Loan Bank
Brentwood
Red Cross
Pat Harrison
Dmiss
Congress
Theodore Roosevelt
South
Ford
Local News: Fred N. Tate Elected President of Central Carolina Development Co
Fred N. Tate of this city was elected president of the Central Carolina Development Company, marking a milestone in the firm’s leadership and local business development.
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Fred N. Tate
The
Central Carolina Development Company
Around Capitol Square News Notes and War Salvage Efforts
News items from the enterprise desk cover salvage programs lightening war needs with confiscated axes crowbars and a smashed safe lock repurposed for the war effort. The salvaged cannon and statuary prompt discussions on what to release and how memorials fit obstacles. Also noted are library medal talks, venereal disease education planning, cotton picking labor shifts, and British sailors drafted as pickers with pay rates.
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Crabtree Creek
Raleigh
Durham
Arments
Cotter
Children and Nine Month School Terms Debate Cotton Fields
The article discusses proposals to suspend all teen age classes for three weeks to allow children to pick cotton and related fields. It notes Cleveland’s version of the idea as feasible in union and county areas. Opponents argue a nine month term is needed to cover spring farm work. It asserts farm work can benefit children and questions U S arming context.
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Associated Press
Audit Bureau OF Circulation
Post Office
High Point
N. C
Congress
John Budd CO
Lexington Art
New York City
Cleveland
Mexion
Union
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PB. Rawley
R. B. Terry
Raddelelbette
Severe Sec
Treas
Hammett A. Cecil
Mgr
Robert Thompson
Troy R. Short
Jere Sloan
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Enterprise
Spirit of
Man
Neutral
Walter Winchell
Broadway
Washington
Leon
Capitol
Time Magazine
Nippon
N. Y. Times
Milady
Shirer
Flannery
CBS
Berlin
Howard K. Smith
Knopf
Goebbels
Smith
Naziland
Benedict Arnold
W. L. White
Harcourt, Brace
Wallace Carroll
Houghton-Mifflin
Europe
Hargrove
Henry Holt
Hans Habe
Huns
der Feuhrer
Lincoln Colcord
John T. Whitaker
Whitaker
Rose Bowl
Donald Day
Finland
Day
der Chicago Staats- Tribuene
R. Brennan
T. Hardy
J. M. Barrie
Marcelo Cox
Anon
the Times
Gerald L. K. Smith
U. S. Senate
Michigan
Hollywood Baiters
Nation
Filmland
Kyle Crichton
Zero Mostel
Zero
Life
Leon Henderson
Jime
Frank Sizemore, Jr
Duke
W. M. Snipes
Walter Lorenz
Portland, Ore
J. G. Snipes
Steele Street
B. R. Linthicum
T. O. Whittington
Emma Post
Bascom Jarrell
Sanford
Hattie Glass
Franklin D. Roosevelt
al Capone
Atlanta
Curtis
Tennessee
Salisbury
Luther Bridges
Wesley Memorial Methodist Church
Lucy Cobb
Louisiana
C. W. Brooks
English Street
W. W. Beach
York
S. C
C. C. Muse
C. C. Edwards
New York
Admi
Henry H. Harweod
Capitol Square
Lynn Nisbet
Enterprise Bureau
Sir Walter H
Charlotte
Marjorie Bealretary
State Library Co Sion
Dare
Manteo
Douglas da T. S. Ferree
Caroline
War Prison Board
Osnaburg
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