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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1938
Page
4
A fragmented OCR line references Psalm 18 6 about singing to the Lord and bountiful blessings, noting generosity and wisdom as core traits. It contrasts love for others with a life of peace and caution against selfishness.
South Carolina voters show independence despite a pro-Roosevelt tilt in reported sentiment. The South Carolina primary pits Senator Elli D. Smith against Governor Olin Johnston with Wilsonian fears echoing. Roosevelt faces questions over executive influence in elections and the reach of presidential appeals.
The Durham Herald questions Roosevelt's emphasis on purity and mocks his preaching. It notes papers linking F D R to voting patterns for Cousin Theodore during Roosevelt's run and contrasts Hoover's support for Wilson with anti New Deal Republicans who switch to a Democratic candidate.
A letter from R N W questions church and rich areas while The Greensboro Record contrasts slum conditions in the city with broad social critique. Bruce Catton argues Congress should tax wartime profits, proposing a simple, sweeping income and corporate tax to fund peace. North Carolina braces for Ecusta Paper plant growth, aiming to expand cigarette paper production and industrial development.
A New Industry For North Carolina reports good news with the state receiving an important economic development announcement. The message highlights growth potential, new jobs, and broader investment impact for the region.
Details for the Republican campaign in North Carolina were released after yesterday’s steering committee meeting in Charlotte. A Charlotte man was convicted in municipal court for using brass slugs at pay stations and sentenced to three months on the roads. Roy Lambeth is named the new City postal carrier with routes on North Main, Morris, and Ray streets.
The piece blends local notes from New York Aug 29 with reflections on youth driving, a busy ice and seafood market near West Street, and a tour through the Tele building lobby. It highlights Mary’s learner permit, a crowded harborfront food stalls, and the cool, cathedral like interior of the telegraph building.
Walter L. Avery, Eastern Air Lines passenger service chief, outlines job rules for male flight stewards. Applicants must handle people, project a confident personality, and meet specific physical criteria, including height 5 ft 4 in to 5 ft 8 in and 125 to 150 pounds. Starting pay is 100 dollars monthly plus four dollars daily when away from base.
Washington report outlines the U A W leadership clash between John L. Lewis and Homer Martin as 400000 members face disintegration. Profiles the key figures Homer Martin Richard Frankensteen Wyndham Mortimer and the factional fault lines with Lovestoneites and Stalinists cited as rival influences.
The passage cites Herbert Swope on free speech and vision and Earl M. Kouns on birth year in assessing old age pension eligibility. It also notes John Barrymore on acting as a bag of tricks and Alden Warmlin on barbers as professionals, reflecting period discourse.
In a Philadelphia court Mrs Ellen Sheaffer 84 loudly admonishes Deputy Attorney General Thomas Minnick Jr during a hearing. The exchange underscores tensions in a public case drawing local attention and prompting courtroom commentary.
Prof. Howard W. Haggard of Yale University says today’s era demands more socially minded physicians who guide public health and medical practice. He stresses ethical leadership and community responsibility in medicine.
William Wagner, a jeweler, warns that failure to fix the issue over selling old watches as new could ruin the watch business nationwide. He emphasizes the risk to retailers and markets if the practice continues unchecked.
Magistrate Overton Harris of New York tells the mother of a boy arraigned for dis orderly conduct to obtain a paddle bore a hole in it and raise a welt on the boy as discipline. The remark accompanies a local court decision in a juvenile case.
Edward L. Doheny and associates face a $10,000,000 lawsuit over losses blamed on a fraudulent lease of the Elk Hills Naval Oil Reserve. The case centers on stockholders affected by the agreement and its alleged manipulation.
Prof. Fred Waters arrives from Indiana to assume duties as principal succeeding A A Taylor at the Greensboro high school. Cotton merchant Robert L Thompson of Greensboro will speak at a patriotic meeting in the high school auditorium on Sunday.
Carter Dalton of Missouri to Greensboro today on business. Misses Mary Duncan and Adelaide McAnally left yesterday for Roanoke Virginia for a house party. Mrs R K Marshall has returned from a visit to friends in Greensboro.
News briefs report Noyon, pivot of the German line, captured by French forces with allies gaining substantial ground. Plus cotton hits new high for October, Lloyd George praises the Sammies, and German youths' morale worries the Lutheran church.
Strikers at a Pittsburgh apartment picket in top hats and evening clothes. This case shows management cannot claim the strikers failed to present formal demands.
A British botanist asserts he once traced a flea from Scotland into central Europe, then shifts to a discussion on where political sanity has drifted. The piece frames scientific curiosity amid current political discourse.
Cal Tinney, a brash Oolagah youth, has grown into a polished radio host. He has attracted celebrated guests to appear on his program without pay, a demanding feat even in New York’s bustling scene.
Cal attracts Broadway attention as a boy who talks like Rogers. From a Oklahoma prairie crossroads he chats with townsfolk, writes a daily squib about people, hosts a radio program, lectures with humor, and is married with a baby.
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