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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 18, 1937
Page
7
High Point will send delegates and alternates from several city schools to the North Carolina Education Association convention in Durham this weekend. Members of the state association are urged to attend and participate, with listed delegates from Senior High, Cloverdale, Elm Street, Oak Hill, Johnson Street, Bay Street, Ada Blair, Brentwood, Emma Blair, and unattached participants.
MGM and Warn Brothers titles headline a busy week with Willing and Able and Dangerous Number among the key releases. Notable showings include The Gay Desperado, Make Way for a Lady, Love on the Run, The Great Ziegfeld, Sitting on the Moon, Fugitive in the Sky, Hopalong Cassidy Returns, Broadway Bill, Stolen Harmony, Counterfeit and Heroes of the Range across Carolina Rialto and other venues with family friendly or mature notes.
W C Bill Brown 26 of 304 Pershing Street completed a county roads term yesterday morning and on returning home for a reunion was persuaded to drink. He had several drinks and was jailed for drunkenness before reaching his home.
Oak Ridge Military Institute cadets plan a public full dress parade on Sunday at 3 p.m. on the drill field to welcome spring. The program includes rifle drill with music, assembly at 2:55 p.m., and a march from the Alumni building led by the Institute band. Parade commandants include Cadet Major Jack Powell and Cadet Captains L. P. Sawyer N. D. Bitting J. A. Harris Buck Higgins and Cfl W Browning.
William Lee Fox, 33, line foreman for Duke Power, died in a Thomasville hospital at 5:30 PM from an on job accident Thursday morning. Born Lexington April 8, 1904, he had worked for Duke since 1926 and lived in Thomasville the last three years. He leaves a widow, two sons, his parents in Norfolk, four brothers, one sister. Funeral services set for Kinney Street home Monday at 2:15 PM and 2:30 PM at Community M. P. church, with burial in Winston cemetery.
Mrs. A N Trentham, 77, of Cotton Grove near Lexington, died at home yesterday. Survived by four sons Frank Stockton Cal C T Joe BE and Harvey Lee Trentham and three daughters Mary E Smith Linwood Lou Viola Sledge Charlotte Sallie Lawrence Brown Davidson county. Also three sisters Julia Waitman C L Leonard and Charlie Hedrick. Funeral at Cotton Grove church Sunday at 2 PM.
World speculators in grains and staples dumped holdings as Europe aimed to bolster peace foundations. Prices dropped for wheat, corn, cotton, rubber, copper, hides, and scrap steel, while finished goods markups and Roosevelt’s price stance influenced outlooks. The AP index of industrial activity rose to 104.9, with steel, power, and motor production up, freight carloadings only slightly down. Retail trends showed gains overall, though not uniform, with weather and promotions affecting results. Steel capacity reached 90.3 percent, up from 89.9, amid high March orders anticipated for the second quarter.
The High Point Milk Producers association will hold a special meeting at High Point city hall Monday night at 8 o clock, announced by P. M. Davis, president. Davis urged all members to attend as important matters will be discussed.
In Kansas City on April 17 Judge Merrill BE Otis sentenced five men to prison and jail for vote fraud conspiracy. He voiced belief that others beyond the polling place were guilty, though their identities remain unknown. The ruling closes this sixth trial as the federal grand jury, which has indicted 108 people in the Nov. 3 election probe, plans to reconvene Monday.
Sea Biscuit, owned by Charles Howard of San Francisco, won the $10,000 added Marchbank handicap by three lengths over Grand Manitou and Sobriety. The mile and an eighth time was 1:49 4-6.
A new Bob Steele Western titled Cavalry arrives at the Broadhurst Theatre with pounding hoofs blazing guns and rugged settlers. The fast moving film features a wagon train fight with Indians and a timely cavalry rescue led by Bob Steele.
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