May Cut Short Warm Springs Stay For Fight
Washington April 1. An implication that President Roosevelt may cut short his Warm Springs stay to press a showdown in Congress on neutrality revision is read by observers. The European crisis and the opening of neutrality fights in Congress next week heighten the sense he may return to Washington on short notice if Poland faces armed conflict.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Warm Springs
Europe
House
Senate
Germany
Poland
Registration dates set for local primary and general elections
The local board approves a resolution for new registration. Registration books open April 4 at 9am and close April 17 at 6 34pm, then reopen April 19 to 25. Registrars must be at polling places on April 8 9 15 22 and for challenges April 29 and May 1. If a primary occurs it will be April 18 with polls 7am to 6 35pm and the general election on May 2.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pleted
Slate
Willis H. Slane
Registration Meeting Sets New Books and Instructions
Chairman Schoch announced a Monday 11 a m meeting at city hall old courtroom for all registrars to receive new registration books and final instructions. The notice lists precinct polling places and officials including Elm Street School House 11 and Guilford County Building 31 with respective registrars J McMullan Grady Hedrick Frank Hart and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Schoch
City Hall
Elm Street School House
Talmadge Ellington
J. McMullan
Alton Hayworth
Adams Street
Grady Hedrick
J. O. Gold
G. R. Shiplett
William G. Ralston
E. Ellison
Fred Sappenfield
North Main
J. J. Grisette
J. R. Moss
Paul Yokely
North Wrenn Street
C. S. Murphy
H. A. Wood
H. F. Wright
Woodrow
Bill Edwards
van Wheeler
Charles Gueth
Johnson Street School
Lyman Wilson
Parker Waynick
O. R. York, Jr
Guilford County Building
Frank Hart
L. P. Howell
R. E. Blair
Willowbrook and
Ward
B. P. Keever
A. C. Allman
Jack Nance
Cloverdale School House
Teddie Priest
Byron Hayworth
A. F. Saunders
Oak Hill School
Thomas Fagan
John Slay
Everett Morris
East Green
Earl Williams
Jessie Lawson
W. H. Hollingsworth
Davis Street
Wilson Irvin
Gurney Lewallen
M. C. Taylor
East Green Street
L. P. Greenway
John Miller
G. M. Beck
High Point Girl Sings Solo in Lees-McRae Cantata
Miss Margaret Anne Craig daughter of Mr and Mrs C M Craig of High Point will be a featured soloist with the Lees-McRae Choral Club in the Easter Cantata Calvary by Henry Wessel presented Sunday night April 2 at the Banner Elk Presbyterian church. She is a senior at Lees-McRae and has sung with the group for two years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Banner Elk
N. C
Margaret Anne Craig
C. M. Craig
High Point
Lees- McRae
Spring Photo Contest Opens in High Point
The Enterprise invites readers to submit photos showing Spring for a contest open to nonprofessional photographers. Entries must be received by Friday April 7 with cash prizes for top four images and publication consideration. Returnable photos may be picked up at The Enterprise office.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
High Point
Enterprise
Huge Difference In Bale Price And Finished Cotton Products
Senator Ellender reports to Congress that a $40 cotton bale can yield from $270 to $775 in finished goods. He cites WPA purchases and trade data to show how much value is added by converting surplus cotton into apparel and cloth for the needy, arguing vast costs limit such aid.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Congress
Ellender
D-La
Louisiana
Works Progress Administration
Fulmer to Hold Hearings on Cotton Subsidy Bill Next Week
Representative Fulmer of South Carolina announces a House Agriculture subcommittee hearing next Tuesday on his bill to set aside 2,000,000 of the 11,490,000 bales in government cotton crop insurance holdings. The topic ties to Roosevelt export subsidy plans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Roosevelt
Representative Fulmer
D-Sc
House Agriculture
Fulmer
Senator Smith Says He Is In The Dog House
South Carolina Senator Cot ton Ed Smith told the Senate that he feels punished by the administration and can only bark from the dog house. He warned that he may bite when pressed by political opponents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Carolina
Cotton Ed" Smith
The
Senate
Floridians Lynch Convicted Killer in Lynching
Miles W. Brown, 28, convicted of slaying Roy Van Kleeck, was abducted from jail by masked men after a mercy recommendation spared him from the electric chair. His body was found on a country road. Governor Cone ordered an investigation to bring the killers to justice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Panama City
Fia
Miles W. Brown
Brown
Roy van Kleeck
Mercy
Johnny Goodwin
Goodwin
Florida
Tallahassee
Fred P. Cone
George Cooper Gibbs
Reformed Church Choir to Present Easter Cantata
The First Evangelical and Reformed Church choir, about 20 members under Miss Margaret Hedrick, performs the Easter cantata Gethsemane to Calvary by Witty Sunday at 7 30. The service replaces the evening worship and preludes Holy Week, with Rev. Hoy L. Fesperman guiding Monday through Friday messages on temple cleansing widow, good work, the Lord's Supper, and Calvary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
First Evangelical and Reformed Church
Gethsemane
Calvary
Witty
Margaret Hedrick
Hoy L. Fesperman
Jesus
Temple
Rev Howard Ford Named BTU Leader
The North Central Regional Convention of the Baptist Training Union installed Rev. Howard Ford of Sparta as president. About 300 delegates from 16 Western North Carolina counties attended, with officers and departmental leaders named and contest winners announced.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lelia Ayers Willis
Boone
Estell Cockerham
Elkin
Lucie Edkerd
Taylorsville
J. C. Camps
Paul Wagner
Mount Airy
John Foy
Violet Keller
Granite Falls
Katherine E. Farr
Morganton
World Fair sandwich consumption surpasses seven thousand miles
New York World's Fair 1939 expects over 120000 sandwiches to be eaten by visitors. With two per person, the tally implies bread and meat to cover 7000 miles, more than twice the width of the United States.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
United States
Farmer Charged In Slaying Of Son For Insurance
Albert Lee Christmas 45 in Vienna Ga is jailed in Bibb County on murder charges after his son Albert Lee Christmas Jr 5 was found dead near a railroad trestle. Willie Howard cousin also jailed on similar charge as authorities say life insurance policies worth about 2700 dollars motivated the crime.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vienna
B. R. Perry
Georgia
Albert Lee Christmas
Bibb County
Macon
Willie Howard
Christmas
Willie Mae Christmas
Albert
C. Vinson
Howard
Perry
Building permits in High Point exceed twenty five thousand dollars
High Point issued permits totaling more than 25 000 last week for the second straight week raising March’s total to 80 201. The report lists 12 new residences 13 non residences repairs to 44 residences and 13 non residences with a largest permit for Gospel Tabernacle church on Willowbrook Street at 15 500.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
High Point
Buildings Department
Gospel Tabernacle
Alderman
Willowbrook Street
First Church of God
Asheboro Street
W. G. Foy
J. T. Burrus
Boulevard
C. E. Jarvis
Richland Street
Nalto Farlow
Jones Street
First Baptist Church
North Main Street
P. A. Mason
Lindsay
Link Streets
J. M. Allen
Tryon Street
Seborn Perry
New Front
South Main Street
J. R. Allred
Park Street
C. H. Dobbins
Wise Street
Wade Hampton
Ridgecrest
T. R. Ballard
Howell Street
W. G. Watson
Edgewood Avenue
Whittier
Burton Streets
Otis Moser
Wade Street
Cross
Gurley Streets
Gary Leviner
Pickett Street
Icebound selected for senior play at local high school
The senior class will stage Owen Davis three act drama Icebound in the high school auditorium May 5 and 6. The Pulitzer Prize play features Edna Mae Oliver in original cast and a large student ensemble led by Caroline York in charge of production and Maude Burrus directing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Jordan
Hugh Strickland
Emma
Kathryn Allen
Ben Jordan
Roger Taylor
Jane
Eloise Rankin
Hannah
Josephine Deal
Sadie
Elizabeth Welborne
Orin
James Wilson
Ella
Jane Parker
Doctor Curtis
Hoyt Hilton
Judge Bradford
George Shellhorse
Jim Day
Carlton Foster
Nettie
Caroline York
Muriel Bulwinkle
Maude Burrus
Elizabeth Lindsay
Seek Domination of Latin American Air
The government announced five major agencies are coordinating on a six point plan to extend U S air power in Latin America. Officials from Civil Aeronautics Authority and state war navy and commerce departments met to push faster service more exports lower rates and larger modern planes with regular night flying and expanded inter American routes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Civil Aeronautics Authority
State, War, Navy and Commerce Departments
United States
North Carolina election reform passes key measures
Raleigh April 1. The 1939 Assembly enacted major changes to election law. Absentee ballots are eliminated for primaries with in-person voting on election day. Absentee safeguards added for general elections. Voter lists to be revised and precincts reduced to curb fraud. Markers in general elections unchanged. primaries allow limited assistance to disabled or illiterate voters by family or qualified voters. The changes aim to curb fraud and shift accountability to county election board chairmen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Assembly
County Election Board
Free Holy Week show of The Sign of the Cross at Paramount
The religious drama The Sign of the Cross will be presented free of charge as a Holy Week feature at the Paramount Theatre with two Wednesday matinees at 12 30 p m and 2 30 p m. Starring Fredric March Claudette Colbert Elissa Landi and Charles Laughton the film recounts Rome A D 64 with Marcia and Marcus Superbus in a tale of faith and martyrdom.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paramount Theatre
Fredric March
Claudette Colbert
Elissa Landi
Charles Laughton
Wilson Barrett
Marcia
Rome
Marcus Superbus
Caesar Nero
Marcus-the- Pagan
Nero
Paramount
Schools to observe Easter holidays in High Point and Negro schools
White schools in High Point will observe an Easter holiday from Friday through Monday. Negro schools William Penn Fairview Street and Leonard Street will observe Thursday through Monday as teachers attend the North Carolina Negro State Teachers convention in Goldsboro.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
High Point
Charles F. Carroll, Jr
William Penn
Fairview Street
Leonard Street
North Carolina
Goldsboro
Technicalities May Block Church Union
The Presbyterian split may delay reunion for two years as northern and southern branches prepare for separate assemblies on May 25. Southern group meets in Montreal North Carolina. northern group gathers in Cleveland Ohio. B K Tenny notes stalled merger despite renewed push in recent years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlanta
Apri
Presbyterian Church
B. K. Tenny
Montreal
N. C
Cleveland
Ohio
Tenny
Parole Prison Reforms Highlight Southern Sociological Meet
At Atlanta on April 1 the Southern Sociological Society closed its fourth annual meeting with discussions on prison and parole reform. Dr. Fred C. Frey was elected president, with Dr. Charles Johnson and Dr. Belle Boone Beard as top officers. L. F. Chapman urged replacing walls with fences, arguing walls impede rehabilitation and create an incentive to escape.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlanta
Southern Sociological Society
Fred C. Frey
Louisiana State University
Charles §. Johnson
Fisk University
Belle Boone Beard
Sweet Briar College
B. O. Williams
Clemson College
Comer Woodward
Emory University
Hornell Hart
Duke University
Walter C. Reckless
Vanderbilt University
L. F. Chapman
Florida State Prison
Society Today
Nations tax bill reaches new high in 1938 report
A U S Chamber of Commerce committee says total 1918 to 1938 tax burden rose to a record level, urging economy in government expenditures, less federal meddling, and tighter scrutiny of costs before accepting federal grants to aid business recovery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
United States Chamber of Commerce
Mrs Mary Ellen Bland Dunn Dies on 81st Birthday
Mrs Mary Ellen Bland Dunn of near here died after a fall on her 81st birthday. The widow of Rev William Bland, Confederate soldier and Sampson County’s first public school teacher, she passed away in a local hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Ellen Bland Dunn
Mary Ellen Bland
Near Here
William Bland
Sampson County
Reverend W Hooper Adams Dies At 59 In Asheville
The Rev W Hooper Adams 59 retired Presbyterian minister died at his home in Asheville after a stroke. Funeral services are set for 4 p m tomorrow at First Presbyterian Church. The body will be sent to Charleston SC for burial after services. Adams previously served in Charlotte Westminster Presbyterian and Bryson City before moving to Asheville fifteen years ago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. H. Adams
Asheville
W. Hooper Adams
First Presbyterian Church
Charleston
Mt Vernon Baptist Church to hear two sermons
Rev E L Kirby will speak on The Crying Rocks at the morning service with The Finished Task as his evening topic. National Negro Health Week events continue with a 3 30 pm health mass meeting at First Baptist featuring Dr Roscoe C Brown and Dr Walter Hughes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
MT. Vernon Baptist Church
E. L. Kirby
First Baptist
First Baptist Church
Yadsuet Club
Roscoe C. Brown
United States Public Health Service
Walter Hughes
North Carolina State Board of Health
Patricians Hold Annual Formal Dance at Kilby Arcade
The Patrician Club held its annual dance at the Kilby Arcade on Friday night with a large mix of local and visiting guests. Music was provided by the Jones and Morrisey Orchestra of Greensboro.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Patrician Club
Kilby Arcade
Jones and Morrisey Orchestra
Greensboro
Wedding of Jack and Jill play at Leonard Street
Leonard Street primary presents The Wedding of Jack and Jill in the auditorium Monday at 8 o’clock. First and second grades perform with a small admission charge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leonard Street
Jack and
Jill
Four Cornered Wedding contest at Brooks Memorial M E Church
The Ladies Aid Society No 2 hosted a Four Cornered Wedding contest at Brooks Memorial M E Church Thursday evening. Mrs Etta Meek won with Alda Blanton Lorena Ingram and Jessie Dickerson placing second through fourth as a musical program preceded the concluding event. The effort raised 124 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brooks Memorial Church
Brooks Memorial M. E. Church
Ladies Aid Society No
Etta Meekins
Alda Blanton
Lorena Ingram
Jessie Dickerson
Leonard Street P T A Meeting Tuesday
The Leonard Street School Parent-Teacher Association will meet in the auditorium Tuesday. A special feature of the program is a cake march with a small admission charge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leonard Street P.T. A
Tuersday
Parent-Teacher Association of
Leonard Street
St Mathews Church News Prominent evangelist to preach
Rev Mrs Bailey of Greensboro will preach at St Mathew C M E Church this afternoon at 3 o clock. On the same program the American Legion Master Singers and the Spirit Four will sing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ST. Mathew's Church News
Bailey
Greensboro
St. Mathew C. M. FE
American Legion Master Singers
Spiritual Four
St Mark Ladies Aid to Host Chicken Supper
The Ladies Aid Circle No. 3 of St. Mark M. E. Church will host a chicken supper at East End Cafe on East Washington Street Monday evening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ST. Mark Ladies Aid
Ladies Aid Circle No. 3
St. Mark M. E. Church
East End
East Washington Street
Friends of Mrs Crutch and Miss Carter Ill at Hoover Street Home
Mrs Dora Crutch and Miss Nettie Mae Carter mother and daughter of Mrs Lessie Carter are ill at their home 1226 Hoover Street. The notice lists their medical condition and location for community awareness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dora Crutchfield
Nettie Mae Carter
Lessie Carter
Hoover Street
Willing Workers Club Hosts Tea at Miss Lassiter's Home
The Willing Workers Club of Pilgrim Congregational Church met at Miss W R Lassiter's Taylor Street home Tuesday night. After the business session, a tasty repast was served. The group will hold a tea at Miss Lassiter's home this afternoon from 4 to 6.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pilgrim Congregational Church News
Willing Workers Club
Pilgrim Congregational Christian Church
W. R. Lassiter
Taylor Street
Mrs Ruth Walker Visits Sister in City
Mrs Ruth Walker of Orlando Florida is visiting her sister Mrs George Lemons at 725 East Washington Street. The brief social note places the family in the local community and records a temporary visit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ruth Walker
Orlando
Florida
George Lemons
East Washington Street
Misses honor mother on 73rd birthday at Rivett Drive home
Misses Lorene and Bernice Phi fer entertained a few friends for their mother’s 73rd birthday at 1216 Rivett Drive last Sunday afternoon. Mrs. Sylvia Alford sang favorite selections during the musical portion before guests moved to the dining room for dinner.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lorene
Bernice Phifer
Rivett Drive
Sylvia Alford
Stewardesses to Meet at Mrs Hitchet's Underhill Avenue
Stewardess Board No 1 of Women's Memorial A M E Church will meet this afternoon at 4 o'clock at the home of Mrs Mollie Hitchet on Underhill Avenue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Women's Memorial A. M. E. Church
Mollie Hitchet
Underhill Avenue
Mrs. O. H. Younge Addresses Fairview Street Students
Mrs. O. H. Younge, interviewing clerk at the colored branch of the local North Carolina State Employment Service, spoke to Fairview Street School students at chapel exercises on "'My Future'." She urged preparation for the future and stressed the need for proper educational training.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
O. H. Younge
North Carolina
Former service man found unconscious on highway
Marion reports James Crawford twenty one, recently returned from army service in the Panama Canal Zone, was found unconscious on a highway near here today with wounds about the head and face.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marion
James Crawford
Panama Canal Zone
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Peggy Louise Kennedy
L. K. Kennedy
Flynt Street
Patty Lou Hauser
D. M. Hauser
Centennial Avenue
Kennedy
Smith
Hauser
Stone
High Point Girl
Reformed
Howard Ford
BTU
Enterprise Bureau
Sir Walter Hotel
Henry Averill
Raleigh
Claths
Phifer
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