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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 03, 1941
Page
4
A compact devotional note contrasts Jesus compassion with a merchant of Venice line. It pairs Matthew 14 14’s healing act with a prayer for mercy, suggesting mercy as a learned discipline. The verses frame mercy as a practical duty guiding actions toward others.
The piece argues strikes in defense industries should be resolved via negotiation and government sponsored arbitration. It criticizes labor leadership resisting mediation, urges the President to consider legal compulsion, and notes concerns about underpaid city linemen amid a crisis and public service implications.
The city council committee concluded pay is largely in line with private employment for similar work. Officials urged continued negotiation over strikes, noting no state expense. The Asheville Citizen cited Italian press as attempting to divert attention from Axis defeats and a failing Fascist cause.
The revenue commissioner A. J. Maxwell attacks Lesser-Newsome history and Warren history as biased and opinionated. He argues both works carry political slant and advocates an impartial, reasonably accurate textbook free of the writer's bias while acknowledging the necessity of clear, verifiable facts.
The WPA Writers' Project in Asheville seeks the owner of the first car in North Carolina for its State Factbook. Greensboro cites W. D. McAdoo Jr with a 1902 Orient Buckboard, 1700 cost, speed 10–12 mph. Earlier claim hints a Rockingham County inventor built his own vehicle before 1902.
Copies of Jule B. Warren's North Carolina Yesterday and Today will be withdrawn from state public schools at term end for correction. Governor Broughton has accepted Warren's resignation from the State school commission. Warren will revise his history.
In South Bend Indiana Mae Davies stricken by infantile paralysis as a young woman defies odds. confined to a wheelchair she begins gardening and exercises until she walks with a cane. she later learns shorthand and typing, keeps working at an insurance office, and tells her story as an unsung American heroine.
Readers are encouraged to cut out columns and paste them into scran books to review and study as a personal success textbook. The prompt invites readers to begin their own compilation now and use the clippings for ongoing learning and motivation.
An Indiana man was found with imitation books containing liquor. The incident hints at smuggling practices tied to hidden containers. The piece also comments on wartime sentiment and everyday phrases reflecting social mores during the era.
Walter Winchell surveys nightlife in New York at Versailles style, naming stars such as Loretta Young, Gertrude Lawrence, Madeleine Carroll, and Loretta Young while noting fashion, gossip and backstage mischief. The piece lampoons a phony Broadway ticket hustler and mocks vanity in high society.
On Broadway prints flirtatious blurbs from clubs and eateries on East 56th Street and nearby venues. Jokes poke at celebrities, stage doors, and chorus girls with wry quips about lovers, luck, and nightlife.
A collage of entertainment items: Bernice Parks with Sugar Hill and Chichicastenango rhythms at Copacabana, Prof E Marti rumbas, a Madison Avenue pharmacy shout out, John Howard at St Moritz, S J Woolf novel land in best sellers, Danny Kaye at La Martinique, Charley's Aunt at Cort Theatre, My Sister Eileen at Baltimore, a Hollywood Starlet turned Broadway discovery by Marc Connelly and Max Gordon, Jo Ann Savers declines Hollywood return.
A local letter to the editor urges citizens to seek office in the upcoming primary. It lists Republican candidates for mayor and four council wards in High Point, urges broad participation, and calls on citizens to back capable governance.
Local news notes that Roy Shiplett will retire as sanitary officer on April 7 to enter business. J. D. B. Koonce, 60, a High Point resident for 32 years, died at his Lindsay Street home from a third stroke of paralysis. He was active in civic, religious and paternal affairs. In other items, students visit for Spring holidays and social events around Duke University, Rutgers, and Carolina Teachers College. Navy planes evacuate families from Mangua, Nicaragua. Horace Kephart injured in a motor accident near Bryson City. Six Notre Dame gridiron heroes will be pallbearers at Knute Rockne's funeral.
Peter Edson outlines President Truman’s plan to form a seven member Senate committee from Missouri to probe the $40 billion defense budget. The panel will question secretaries of war and navy, OPM leaders, and a range of officials, aiming for a thorough, nonwhitewash inquiry with potential prosecutions.
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