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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1939
Page
2
Fair tonight and Friday with slightly warmer conditions on Friday. Hatteras to Jacksonville winds light to moderate west to variable and partly overcast skies tonight and Friday. Sandy Hook to Hatteras winds gentle to moderate variable with fair conditions tonight and Friday.
Asheboro tale of Richard J Vollmer, a paroled convict posing as an officer and marrying twice for cash and property. He fled to Maryland where Taneytown police arrested him on impersonation charges.
Funeral services for Mrs Ruth Meredith 37 who died at her Forrest Avenue Extension home were held Wednesday afternoon at 3 oclock from the residence. Dr FE Blackard and Dr O C Williamson officiated. Burial was in Oakwood Cemetery. Pallbearers were J S Welborn Harry Grimes J R Newton C C Layton W L Walton Clarence Brown S FE Montgomery and Dr W L Jackson. A mixed quartet sang The Old Rugged Cross and Abide With Me. Flowers were carried by friends.
Willard Ham of Walkertown and George H. Sharpe of Greensboro charged with liquor law violations over 220 cases of whiskey seized on Prospect Road had their cases continued in Municipal Court to the next jury term. Judge D. C. MacRae granted the delay after defense counsel cited a murder trial keeping co counsel from attending. Ham drove the truck. Sharpe owned it. The short term was to adjourn today. W. T. Herndon was found not guilty of abandonment and non support yesterday. Claudia Anderson's case for contributing to delinquency of a minor was dismissed before jury reached it.
Harris H. Jarrell spoke at the Rotary Luncheon after a three month tour of Europe and the British Isles. He warned that nationalist selfishness and ignorance fuel tensions risking war and submerging civilization if the war machine advances. Visiting Rotarians H. D. Jones Edgar K. Wilson T. S. Redding and other guests attended.
The article reports on Senate and House discussions over a public works bill including WPA PWA NYA CCC and Treasury divisions. It notes local contribution changes and labor opposition rumors, with Byrnes Wagner Barkley Lodge and AFL responses amid possible agency reorganizations and a push to devalue the dollar.
A Foreign Policy Association official told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that President Roosevelt's moves have helped avert a broader war in Europe while hearings consider revisions to the Neutrality Act. Morley argues inflexibility undermines the State Department. Nearby British Columbia coal output reached 1,439,499 tons in 1937, up 100,000 tons from 1936.
Spectators in Berlin watched a grand parade featuring massive artillery units including 10 inch guns, expanded motorized and air defense formations, and a regiment of heavy howitzers. Hitler reviewed the troops as crowds cheered and international observers noted unprecedented weapon types.
The Roosevelt administration waits for Hitler's Reichstag speech before deciding whether to return Ambassador Hugh Wilson to Berlin. Britain sends back its envoy Sir Nevile Henderson as the U S weighs Hitler's reply to peace proposals. Congress advances neutrality and defense bills. Civil Aeronautics Authority pilot training and a naval air base bill seek rapid passage.
A provocative zoological claim notes that nurse gharks possess nine rows of teeth in a single jaw. The description suggests a remarkable dental arrangement uncommon among known species. Further verification from paleontological sources would be needed.
Ruth Tolley a 15 year old Jamestown High School student was selected health queen for Guilford County with Earl Ballinger 16 of Guilford College named health king. The pair won from a field of 13 county 4-H contestants in Greensboro with Tolley scoring 98.5 and Ballinger 97.5. Twenty counties advance to the Greensboro finals ahead of regional and state contests in Raleigh.
W L Kilcoin of Washington DC will discuss old age insurance administration at the Employers Forum on April 27 at the King Cotton Hotel Greensboro. Kilcoin, regional representative for the Social Security Board, oversees 27 field offices across NC VA MD WV and DC and has held posts in labor and commerce.
Funeral services for Mrs. J A Hayworth who died at her High Point Route 1 home were held at Deep River Friends Church at 11 oclock conducted by Rev A Lincoln Falk pastor of North Main Street Baptist Church. Interment followed in Oakwood Cemetery with pallbearers Howard Bamm on Ernest Leonard Lestern ard Grover Leonard Emory Leonard and Thomas Hilton.
Jack Wright of Wright's Clothing Store killed an eagle near here using a tip-to-tip measurement of 80 inches. The bird was shot in a field off the Winston-Salem road.
State death notices list Ruth Poole Walton of Asheboro 45 died after weeks of illness. Funeral at M E Church to follow with Rev M P Powell officiating. Interment in new Asheboro cemetery. Survived by two daughters Nina Ruth and Margaret, and two sons Harold and James, samt siblings and extended Poole family.
William F. Haynes Jr a 27 year old state labor department district inspector died in a Burlington hospital from injuries after an automobile accident on the Greensboro Burlington highway Tuesday. He was based in Greensboro and lived in Raleigh with funeral Friday at Hillsboro and burial in the family plot. His parents Mr and Mrs W J Haynes of Raleigh survive.
R L Harper aged 65 of Zebulon was found dead in his bed yesterday with coroner Roy M Hanks citing a heart attack as the apparent cause.
Mrs. Ruby Cline files a 100000 damage suit in Guilford County Superior Court against Southern Railway, claiming her husband H H Cline died in a December auto train collision near High Point. The complaint cites obstructed crossing view, a nonfunctional electric warning signal, and loss of earnings estimated at 200 dollars monthly, plus 500 for truck demolition.
Fifty Western North Carolina theatre managers their wives sweethearts and guests attended the annual Big Ten Managers Club dinner dance in the Sheraton Hotel ballroom. An opening bingo game offered prizes to ladies. Joe Edmundson Mount Paramount Theatre won a free trip to the New York World's Fair. Francis Holmes led his Lexington based orchestra. Emmitt Stafford Broadhurst Theatre was arrangements chairman.
Ancient Egyptian frescoes illustrate weavers at their looms dating back about 3000 years before Christ. The panels show skilled workers in a textile craft from an early period of Egyptian history.
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