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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1938
Page
5
The Civil Service Commission reminded about half a million federal workers to refrain from political activity or risk penalties. Discharge for some infractions could follow, with fines up to 5090 and up to three years imprisonment for soliciting campaign contributions from federal officials.
Uncle Ray recounts Nellie Bly’s 1890s world journey inspired by Jules Verne. She meets Verne in Amiens, then sails Atlantic in eight days, crosses France and Switzerland to Brindisi, and proceeds toward Port Said, Aden, and Suez, noting heat and stark landscapes while skipping pyramids and sphinx on a speedy itinerary.
Washington speculation centers on whether Democratic Chairman James A. Farley will back independent campaigns for reelection by Idaho Senator James Pope and Texas Representative Maury Maverick. Pope and Maverick, Roosevelt backers, lost in Democratic primaries. Maverick faces a rejected ballot plan and may pursue a write in campaign if blocked.
Guilford County transfers cover High Point and Morehead townships including D B Crawford and wife to B G Hames and wife on old Thomasville road Prudential Insurance to Harvey Turner and wife on Walnut street Minnie Albright receives Lawn dale drive tract from Fairfield Company and others Elizabeth Kersey acquires Terrel street tract John J Michaux commissioner to Elizabeth Kersey Rebecca Coble sells Greensboro Highlands tract to B O Clark Guilford Parkways tract sold by C W Lowdermilk and wife to J W Sheppard and wife F E D Steele and wife transfer to I M Lassiter and wife Bevans estate tract in F L Bevans subdivision.
Walter Winchell notes Keith Kimball advertising executive at Fortune predicts fall changes. Ruth Hunter, longtime Ellie May in Tobacco Road, leaves the cast to present her groom with an image. Time hires engineer and scientist H B Churchhill who has links to several radio stations.
Readers are invited to send problems and questions to Marjorie Mansfeld in care of The Enterprise and will receive replies in these columns.
The reader describes a wife who has worked three years instead of one to finance furniture and a home. The wife is exhausted, irritable, and spends all earnings on clothes and home luxuries. A physician should be consulted and may require the wife to quit work until health improves.
Publisher H R Luce broadens into new areas this year as March of Time debuts on Tele Vision. The piece notes social rounds of Robert Ogden Bacon Jr Eleanor Young and a social debutante scene while lampooning rival chatter and a new Washington advertising push tied to the Dies Committee. A famed playwright in town unsettles peers with talk of imitating John Warde. The fragment ends with a torch song line about loving more than one heart.
In the Connecticut Restatorium tale the Little Cheese enters Bull Griffin’s lair after heavy drinking. A misread light switch exposes a room of grotesque faces and a werewolf. The fear cascades as the would‑be assassin realizes he may be suffering the D T s.
Wolfgang the Little Cheese is tormented by a cruel handler and a room filled with ghastly visions. A frightened escape leads to a lit room where a shrieking woman and a flood of snakes pour from a box, as danger and dread erupt in a twisting fantasy.
A six hour working day is cited as an ideal condition in Sir Thomas More's Utopia published in 1516. The note marks the historical discussion of labor efficiency in the early 16th century.
WPA crews in Ohio fight a coal vein blaze that has burned since 1854 in the Hocking Valley. The stubborn underground fire continues to burn beneath the valley, defying efforts to extinguish it.
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