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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1937
Page
10
Dozens of requests for help arrive for the Empty Stocking Fund as donations trail the growing need. Recipients describe families with little income, rent, fuel, and food struggles, while contributors list scattered small gifts totaling 645.75 to date.
Ed Mendenhall Jr a local real estate man and president of the North Carolina Association of Real Estate Boards was elected President of the American Business Club at a weekly dinner meeting last night. Other officers and board members were named along with two new members Gilbert Clinard and Malcolm Moore and guests M F McNeill J Hoffer and Alan Wirts. Dr Nat Walker won the attendance prize.
John Brittian of 1125 Campbell Street was arrested on a hit-and-run charge after a car struck E. B. Kinley’s vehicle on Grimes Street near the Triangle Hosiery mill and fled. Kinley reported the damage and officers traced the suspect through the license number.
State highway safety division revokes the license of James Mills of 518 East First Street Lexington after a court conviction for driving under the influence of whiskey.
Marshall Davis and R. T. Shaffer of High Point were found guilty in Greensboro Municipal Court of transporting 203 cases of taxpaid whiskey seized near Julian. Each received 12 months on the roads, their truck seized and whiskey destroyed. Bonds were set at 500 dollars. The case awaits Guilford Superior Court in January.
Melvin Paul Lowe of route 1 High Point was bound over to Guilford Superior court on a $1000 bond for larceny of an automobile after a Municipal court hearing. Patrolman Sutton arrested Lowe five hours after the car, reported stolen by Mrs. W H Culler of Winston-Salem road, was seized near Durham.
Police record three traffic arrests: a red light violation, a bicycle without lights, and a hit and run. The notice urges caution and stresses using brakes before entering highway curves.
Organization of the YMCA Commercial basketball league will be completed at a meeting tonight at the Y at 7 30 oclock, secretary Edgar Hartley said.
At the annual meeting and banquet at the Sheraton hotel last night the Uwharrie Council of the Boy Scouts of America elected officers. H A Millis of High Point was reelected president for the 15th year, with H A Styers of Lexington as vice president and W A Dobson of Atlanta as sixth region executive who gave the feature address. Also named were S B Stedman of Asheboro as vice president H R Williamson of High Point as treasurer J E Lambeth of Thomasville as vice president and Bunn W Hackney Jr as council executive.
H A Millis of High Point was reelected president of the Uwharrie Council of the Boy Scouts of America for the fifteenth year at the council banquet in the Sheraton. Officers kept include J E Lambeth Thomasville vice president B B Stedman Asheboro vice president and H A Styers Lexington vice president. 136 members attended as W A Dodson of Atlanta urged expansion of Scouting to build character and bridge generations.
The North Carolina Traffic League voted unanimously against a proposed 15 percent rise in class one railroad freight rates at the Greensboro meeting. Four new board members were named T A Finch James G Hanes A W Fisher and A J Kaneesey. The group plans to oppose the ICC hearing set for Atlanta January 6 citing pending rate investigations and to avoid widening regional price disparities as commodity costs drop.
Police seek a man using aliases as T. V. Carber for forging about 30 checks of 22.50 each on Lewis and Homes Motor Freight Lines. Checks bore forged signatures of two firm officers and paid Carber’s salary. He disappeared after working as an assistant driver and driving trips between High Point and Atlanta. Checks stolen from the office and printed for the company, drawn on First National Bank of Atlanta West End branch. Warrants to be issued for larceny and forgery.
Charlotte report states attorneys sought to complete testimony in a Wagner Act case against Interstate Granite. The NLRB alleges failure to bargain with union representatives and discharge of M. B. Shell for union activity. The government also claims evasion by using contract work. Granite Co. denies the charges.
Mrs. Smyer, while sampling a chestnut roasted from a batch, was burned around the mouth when the chestnut exploded, causing injury in Arkansas City Kansas.
O Lina utilities commission announces C. H. Noah of Raleigh as a director, with C. W. Strickland of Proximity Manufacturing, Carl R. Cunningham of the North and South Carolina Cotton Manufacturing Association, C. A. Cannon of Kannapolis as traffic league president, and L. F. Owen of Winston-Salem as vice president.
This evening at 7 30 the Wesley Memorial church hosts a special service themed What I Received From Bishop Hughes Meeting Speakers include W B Mc Ewen Edgar Snyder and Frances Gordon Lindsay with music arranged by J Gurney Briggs Dr Embree H Blackard will preside
The Winston-Salem and High Point Y boxing teams will meet at the local Y M C A on Saturday night. Matches begin at eight o'clock with a schedule closed to the public.
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