State News Briefs: Tobacco Prices Jobs and Polio Reports
The war food administration says eastern and middle flue cured tobacco belts show steady average prices with minor gains on the middle belt. North Carolina veterans’ benefits totaled 34978 for August from the state labor department. Civilian postwar construction jobs outlook voiced by William Muir of Durham. North Carolina to observe Democratic Women’s Day with Hour of Decision broadcast. Charlotte’s Mrs. Charles W. Tillett among speakers. Infantile paralysis cases reach 742 for the year with Guilford Harnett Montgomery counties reporting new cases.
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Associated Press
War Food Administration
North Carolina
WEA
Raleigh
B. B. Everett
Democratic Executive Committee
Democratic National Committee
Charles W. Tillett
Charlotte
Woman's
National Committee
State Board of Health
Guilford
Harnett
Montgomery
Annual North Carolina Council of Churches opens at Guilford
Guilford college hosts the North Carolina Council of Churches annual sessions with Dr. John R. Cunningham presiding. Key addresses by Dr. Harold Trigg and Dr. Henry Smith Leiper will be delivered during the meeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Guilford College
North Carolina Council of Churches
John R. Cunningham
Davidson College
Harold Trigg
Elizabeth City State Teachers College
Henry Smith Leiper
World Council of Churches
New York
Pacific Diary editor's note from base tour exploits
Larry Adler recounts seventh diary installment detailing his USO tour with Jack Benny Carole Landis June Bruner and Martha Tilton entertaining GI Joe and his buddies at South Pacific bases during the war period.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Central Press
Larry Adler
Jack Benny
Carole Landis
June Bruner
Martha Tilton
United States
South Pacific
GI Joe
Navy Memoir of World War II South Pacific Show
Larry Adler presents a wartime diary recounting a night with sailors and actors including Frankie Darro and Jack Benny on a South Pacific base. He describes monsoon fears, hospital wards, and morale amid coral island trees, with humor and hardship contrasted against Hollywood dreams and peril.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frankie
Bill Bentley
Englewood
N. J
Dave Sugarman
Chicago
Jack Benny
Carole Landis
Martha Tilton
June Burner
New Orleans Boy Orphaned After Father's Death Finds Clue
An 11 year old boy in New Orleans, left alone after his father died downtown, says a map of the Hotel Pennsylvania in New York holds his future. He has no known living relatives and is under care of St Stephens Parochial School priests. The father had heart ailment and arranged for the boy's care. The Tower of London origins note appears as unrelated trivia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Orleans
New York City
Harry
Pennsylvania
St. Stephens Parochial School
Australians Expect End of War by Christmas 1945
An informal Australian poll across workers and service members predicts Europe will end this year and the Pacific war with Japan by Christmas 1945, with many believing Hitler defeated by then and Japan likely to surrender or be forced into peace soon. One secretary admits she does not read newspapers or listen to the radio.
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Australia
INS
Europe
Japan
Hitler and Co
Arena
Germany
Hitler
East Prussia
France
Bud
Hirohito
German POWs to Help Harvest Million Dollar Potatoes
More than 500 German prisoners of war will arrive in the Connecticut Valley to harvest a crop valued at about one million dollars, including potatoes onions tobacco and fruit. They will be paid 80 cents a day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Springfield
Mass
INS
Connecticut Valley
Rameses II Opens First Nile Delta Red Sea Canal
The ancient Egyptian king Rameses II is credited with initiating the construction of a canal linking the Nile Delta to the Red Sea, marking an early engineering effort in maritime connectivity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rameses II
Nile Delta
Red Sea
Woman’s Son James Varner Returns on 21 Day Leave
James Kirkwood Warner a technical sergeant in the United States Army Air Force has completed thirty one missions while stationed in England. He has been sent back to the United States and is on a 21 day leave with his parents Mr and Mrs C A Varner at 1504 Franklin Street. Sgt Varner earned the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Air Medal with Oak Leaf Clusters for his outstanding service.
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James Kirkwood Warner
United States Army Air Force
England
United States
C. A. Varner
Franklin Street
Sgt. Varner
Seaman Comar F. Yates Graduates Naval Radio School
Comer F. Yates, Seaman First Class, completes Radio and Radar School at Naval Air Training Center Jacksonville Florida and has attended every school at Yellow Water Florida. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. John Yates of Trinity who recently visited during his graduation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seaman Comar
F. Yates
Comer
Naval Air Training Center
Jacksonville
Fla
Yellow Water
John Yates
Trinity
Ensign Robert L. Conrad Jr Commissioned in Navy Reserve
Robert L. Conrad Jr. 20, 300 Louise Avenue was commissioned an Ensign in the U S Naval Reserve after graduating from the Naval Reserve Midshipmen's School at Abbott Hall Northwestern University Chicago Illinois He will serve as a deck officer with the fleet.
Aviation Cadet Younts Starts 18-Week Training in Texas
Aviation Cadet Paul L. Younts son of Mr and Mrs P I Younts Rt 2 begins an eighteen week training period at Childress Army Air Field Texas to earn his wings as a bombardier navigator. Upon graduation as a dual rated second lieutenant or flight officer he will join a crack RAF crew on a B 29 Superfortress.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paul L. Younts
P. I. Younts
Rt. 2
Childress Army Air Field
Texas
RAF
Gore joins Army after induction at Fort Bragg
William R. Gore son of John Gore of this city has arrived in Croft South Carolina for basic training. He was inducted into the army May 18 1944 at Fort Bragg. Before entering the service he was up at the Diamond Hosiery mill.
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William R. Gore
John Gore
T Croft
S. C
Army
Fort Bragg
Dosh Appointed Secretary to South Pacific Base Command
From New Caledonia comes word that 1st Lt. Alice V. Dosh former office manager for Murray M. White Inc has been named secretary to Major General Frederick Gilbreath commanding general of the South Pacific Base Command She has served overseas since January 1944 and was among the first WACs in the Pacific. Local notes report Pvt Walter A Whitt 30 husband of Mrs Lucile Whitt stationed in Miami Beach and Pfc Dayton C Parrish 23 also at the Redistribution Station Both men served in Europe and held prior employment with local firms. Also Lt Allan H Craig USN recently returned to the States after duty aboard the USS Tuscaloosa and participation in the Normandy and Southern France invasions. Pvt Henry A Stroud arrives at Fort Monroe for Coast Artillery training.
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Alice V. Dosh
New Caledonia
Murray M. White, Inc
Frederick Gilbreath
South Pacific
Dosh
Women's Army Ci
Army Headquarters
WAC
Pacific
Miami
Fla
Walter A. Whitt
Lucile Whitt
Park Street
Army Ground and Service Forces
Miami Beach
C. B. Miller Brothers
Pfc
Dayton C. Parrish
Alma Desk Co
Craig
States
Allan H. Craig
USN
Centennial Avenue
Philadelphia Navy Yard
Tuscaloosa
Normandy
Ridge Now B 24 Pilot in Italy
2nd Lt. Albert D. Ridge Jr. son of Mr and Mrs Albert D Ridge of 401 Colonial Drive serves as a B 24 Liberator bomber pilot in Italy and across Germany Austria France and the Balkans He graduated from High Point High School and entered service February 10 1943 after attending High Point College
Norman Earns Commission at Camp Berkeley M A C Graduation
Ralph T. Norman 32 of 503 Sunset Drive received a commission as second lieutenant in the Medical Administrative Corps at the Officer Candidate School graduation held at Camp Berkeley Texas on September 20 He entered service in August 1942 and has been granted a 10 day leave before reporting to his new station.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Medical Administrative Corps
Camp Berkeley
Texas
Ralph T. Norman
Sunset Drive
Navy Seaman Second Class Promoted to Fireman Second Class
Herman French has been promoted from Seaman second class to Fireman second class in the Navy and transferred to an Amphibious training school at Little Creek Virginia. He recently spent a ten day leave with his wife and daughters.
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French
Herman French
Navy
Little Creek
Albania's strategic Adriatic position described
Albania holds a key geographic position commanding the Adriatic entrance. It sits opposite Italy with a narrow sea gap of about 47 miles, separating the two lands and shaping regional strategy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albania
Adriatic Sea
Italy
Labor Federation Debates Wage Stabilization Panel Hearings
The American Federation of Labor opens a ten day series of hearings to press the War Labor Board to modify wage stabilization policy. AFL had submitted its case months earlier and the board hearing today invites oral argument on the panel's findings, though the panel made no formal recommendations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
American Federation of Labor
War Labor Board
AFL
Nazi Workers Get 15 Minutes Lunch Break
Madrid report says German factory workers will be allowed only 15 minutes for their midday meal to curb idling and boost war production as announced by the Nazi press. The Voelkischer Beobachter cited excessive breaks in factory districts as the reason for the policy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madrid
Hitler
Voelkischer Beobachter
British social security plan aims to curb poverty
The British government will present a broad social security program to the House of Commons designed to eliminate extreme poverty and improve welfare for Britain's 47 million. It includes unemployment and sickness insurance health service widows and retirement pensions family allowances orphan benefits motherhood and death grants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
House of Commons
Britain
Beveridge
Roosevelt backs large REA loan program for rural electrification
President Roosevelt and the budget bureau advocate setting aside 585 million dollars for REA loan purposes to rural electrification associations over three postwar years. William J. Neal of St Louis, deputy administrator for the REA, spoke to a conference of REA officials yesterday.
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REA
Denver
Roosevelt
Budget Bureau
William J. Neal
St. Louis
Public Relations Panel and Recreation Institute Open Meetings
The Negro Public Library hosts a Public Relations Panel meeting with committee chairs appointed, including L. E. McDonnell as executive secretary and G. W. McCorkle as boyhood committee chair. The panel will meet the third Sunday monthly to relay OPA changes to large groups. Dr. Harold D. Myers opens a Recreation Institute led by Ruth Ehlers, with Mayor Koonce and Rev. W. S. McLeod present.
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Negro Public Library
East Washington
L. E. McDonnell
G. W. McCorkle
Alphonze Smith
Daniel Brooks Homes
E. P. Wilson
L. B. Haizlip
O. E
DR. Myers
Recreation Institute
Harold D. Myers
State Recreation Committee
W. S. Mc. Leod
Matt Wall
D.V.O
Arnold J. Koonce
C. E. Yokely
Myers
Bay
E. Davis
Wm. Penn Gymnasium
Ruth Ehlers
National Recreation Association
Johnnie Mae Banks
Price Street
Raleigh
Storks Beauty College
Wm. Penn
Clinton Chambers
Trenton
N. J
Points North
J. J. Wilson
Rivett Drive
H. H. Croft, Jr
Needle Craft Club
East High Street
M. B. Byrd
Palmer Nelson
High Point
E. H. Hall
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Veterans Service Division
State Department of Labor
Forrest Shuford
Durham
William Muirhead
Associated General Contractors of America
Muirhead
Winston-Salem
North Carolina Baptist Hospital
J. M. Broughton
Bowman Gray School of Medicine
Wake Forest College
Thomas A. Morgan
Sperry Company of
Vance County
Henry A. Wallace
Illinois
Minnesota
Benny
Isles
Southwest Pacific
Lincoln King
Jo Ae
Frankie Darro
Pearl Harbor
Hollywood
Judy Garland
Jack
South Sea
Melbourne
Sydney
Adelaide
Anto Dolin
E. F. Wallender
Arlington
Meteorological Bureau
Destiny
Adler
American Red Cross
New Orleans Church Caring For
Tower of
Gundulf
William the Conqueror
General Goldeagle
West Point
Glinda Glamour
Wind Berry
Wind
Berry
Merwin
Jimmy Hat
Brothers
Hell
Hank
AL Mark New York, Ni
Warner
Younts
WM. Gore
Camp Croft
Stroud
Fort Monroe
Henry A. Stroud
W. D. Stroud
Hamilton Street
Coast Artillery School
High Point College
High Point High School
Norman
Nijmegen
Waal Rhine
Holland
Isaac Pressley
Spartanburg
Stark General Hospital
Charleston
Battle Fields
Caroline Anne
Jimmy
Pressley
Army Signal Corps
Labor Federation
Scott
Long Ivan
Guatemala City
R. J. Scott
City of
N. C
High Point Township
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