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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 02, 1940
Page
8
A Nazi raider narrative in pictures from Graf Spee crews shows three and a half months of warfare in the South Atlantic. The pocket battleship hunted Allied shipping, sinking four merchantmen before British pursuit forced its scuttling in December.
Commerced 17 near Montevideo after a running fight. Captain Langsdorff and his command crew fled to Buenos Aires for internment. After ensuring their care, he killed himself in his hotel room.
A contemporary report describes mounting tension in the Balkans as Entente talks unfold. Allied forces concentrate in the Near East to counter German moves. Ribbentrop warns against Balkan entanglements while Romania and Yugoslavia seek to protect borders. Bulgaria remains outside the Balkan Entente.
The First Evangelical and Reformed Church announces a Church Loyalty Crusade led by Rev. Hoy L. Fesperman with 41 volunteers. Teams will visit homes carrying Lent materials and devotionals, reporting weekly to the Crusade commander through the first Sunday in April.
Greenville Feb 2 The North Carolina Crop Improvement Association elected W A Short of Greensboro president yesterday and awarded him a silver pitcher for the best shell led corn at its exhibition.
City welfare department led by supervisor Miss Gladis Rivett reports severe snow conditions causing widespread hardship. Staff worked overtime to rush aid and requests donations of children’s clothing and shoes, with callers urged to arrange pick up at 2543.
Dr. Silkini, famed spirit medium, offers famous illusions before turning the Paramount into a den of spooks with phantoms and monsters. The display includes spooks, ghosts, spiders, flying reptiles, and human vampires amid a seance. No children’s tickets, buyers must be accompanied by parents.
Dr J C Stokes Methodist minister and Oak Ridge pastor was guest speaker at Circle No 4 of the Main Street Methodist Missionary Society meeting held at Mrs Richard Whitaker’s home. He discussed the work of missionaries and related topics.
Rev. O E Simpson pastor of Moravian churches at Mayodan and Leakaville in Rockingham county will be guest speaker at Kernersville Moravian church Sunday February 4 at 7 45 p m for the annual missionary day The Kernersville school reopened after a snow delay with attendance below normal but expected to be in class by Monday morning
A brief item notes necessary repairs to a local building were postponed yesterday afternoon due to an issue with the heating system. No individuals or organizations are specified in the readable text.
Since 1924 James B Duke founded the fund the hospital section of the Duke Endowment has contributed 12 393 379 to 157 hospitals in the Carolinas the annual report showed today.
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