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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1938
Page
10
Most city plants will observe a two day Christmas break with Saturday before and Monday after Christmas as the typical length. Furniture firms report varied schedules with closures from December 22 to December 27 and post holiday reopenings. Textile mills like Highland will close December 22 night and reopen later.
High Point manufacturers announce Christmas week closings. Burlington mills shut 7 a m Tuesday morning December 27 after a brief December 24 pause. Adams Millis Crown Hosiery Diamond Melrose plan similar close and reopen dates, signaling orders to be filled in 1938.
Riverside Military Academy in Gainesville Ga closes fall term and sends about six hundred cadets home for Christmas. Transportation by train bus plane and private car serves cadets whose homes span forty two states and foreign countries. Cadets and faculty reconvene January 3 at Hollywood by the Sea Florida for the winter term. High Point North Carolina cadets include Robert L. Brinson James Irving Groome and Willis H. Slane Jr.
The Senior High School will repeat the Christmas season feature Why the Chimes Rang in the chapel Friday at 8 45 am for the benefit of parents and townspeople. Admission is free and officials expect a large turnout to view the ambitious program.
Louis Silver, a Thomasville junk dealer arrested on Tuesday, is scheduled for trial in municipal court tomorrow morning on charges of buying and receiving stolen property. Three juvenile defendants Theodore Smith Alonzo Jewel and Wilbur McDonald will face trial in juvenile court tomorrow afternoon.
Hollywood reports Eva Tanguay regained strength in a critical illness after a weeks long battle. Dr. Wendell Starr said she was much improved though death had seemed imminent the previous night. Larvae of a beetle were found alive for almost two hours in an alcohol solution.
Walter Winchell notes from Broadway report a surge of legal cases and nightlife chatter. Dewey targets loom, theater dispute over U Spot It, and many actors relocate to Florida or Hot Springs. Otis Skinner’s 80th birthday is honored, while Eden hosts Lippmann at The Colony.
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