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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1939
Page
18
A Tennessee born sharecropper and his family describe years of toil from Alabama to Missouri and into southeast Missouri. They faced eviction by sheriff with only six bits a day for food and limited work options. They sold livestock and faced famine while awaiting relief and stable housing.
Hollywood gossip notes Sophie Glutz slips from a radio interview moment as celebrities top the talk. The piece surveys Stage magazine observations on Hollywood's talent scene and upcoming cooperative productions linked to famous agents and directors. It touches on actors like Walter Wanger Joan Bennett and Myron Selznick and mentions multiple studios and deals shaping the season.
A companion page lists contestants for a school ticket sponsorship contest. Names include Margaret Briggs Mary Lou Cecil Maggie Watson Mary Lou Moffitt Katherine Kearns Erie Lee Hardee Kathryn Allen Alice Chandler Frederica Morris Mary Ruth Woolen Dot McCall Betsy Wagger Betsy Yow Sue Clifton Jean Rankin Helen Crowder and Eileen Thomas.
The article states that automobile body steel commonly measures about one sixteenth of an inch in thickness. This figure reflects typical material standards used in car manufacturing at the time.
Andral Roach signs his daughter Margaret for a role in Captain Fury which he will personally direct. Metro plans patriotic shorts following Warners. M G M will film It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis as a counter to dictatorships. Wings of the Navy praised as the best documentary aviation picture to date.
A Missouri landowner recalls Postwar farm life and foreclosure losses. He describes debt from 1932, labor needs, and costly sharecroppers while detailing hardship, grant flowage rights, and efforts to reduce families and expand acreage for stability.
A dated column criticizes liquor advertising in family papers and radio, blaming brewers for funding priests and warnings of a national moral decline. It argues liquor interests helped overturn prohibition and spurred gambling, drunkenness, and traffic accidents, signaling danger to national character.
Secretary of Labor Perkins reported 230,268 jobs filled by employment service offices in December, bringing 1938 total to 2,701,349. She noted 160,982 of those were in private industry and that applications for work continued the downward trend seen in recent months.
Mr Simeon explains ten day aquatic schools provide water safety first aid and life saving instruction. Past participants return to High Point to teach methods and serve as lifeguards at local pools with Red Cross involvement expected to have representatives at the school.
Potsy Clark of the Brooklyn Dodgers football team forwards a formal contract to all men who announce the arrival of a baby boy. The coach dates the control ahead 21 years.
In early times young Indian women were given in marriage in exchange for horses, a practice noted as part of historical trading customs.
Workmen finished the new Center Theater in High Point and will open at 6 30 p m Monday January 30 with brief ceremonies. Mayor Grayson will accept on behalf of residents. Capus M Waynick will be master of ceremonies as the High Point College A cappella choir performs. The theater features modern sound and projection gear from Western Electric designed to reproduce broad tones.
Funeral services for Mrs Eva Sapp Kerner 65 a Kernersville native and prominent resident were conducted Saturday at the Kernersville Moravian church with Rev Walter Allen officiating. Burial followed in the church cemetery. She is survived by husband James F Kerner two daughters Mrs Clay Ring and Miss Gaiselle Kerner two grandchildren two sisters and two brothers.
The new Center promises talking pictures with special acoustic treatments and the very latest seat design for comfort and beauty. It features a top tier cooling system and is described as one of the leading theaters in the country after an advance peek.
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