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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 29, 1939
Page
5
Government officials weighing evacuation of Chillan within 24 hours and burning the ruins to clear debris as more than 10 000 bodies are believed buried under rubble after Tuesday night earthquake. Rescue efforts reveal only about 1500 recovered with hunger and disease spreading.
Beginning Tuesday at 7 30 p m at the Gospel Tabernacle Miss Alexandria Wasilewska formerly Alice Hayes of Broadway will speak nightly through Sunday February 5. A native of Poland she left the stage for Christian work after training at New York venues and later preached across the country to large congregations and youth.
Reports from Santiago place Chillan’s death toll at 20,000 with total near 24,000 for the affected area. The quake flattening central districts left churches banks and homes destroyed. theatres filled with victims and survivors shelter in parks and open spaces. Airplane pilots saw widespread destruction in smaller towns.
Ray Galloway chairman says the North Carolina Municipal Employes Association will hold a Raleigh meeting February 10. The agenda centers on a retirement bill for municipal and county employees.
Dr. Atwell Campbell McIntosh 79 Kenan professor emeritus of law at the University of North Carolina dies after six months illness. Funeral at 3 p.m. tomorrow at Presbyterian church in Chapel Hill with interment in Chapel Hill cemetery. Survived by widow Carolina Seagle daughter Mrs Fred Page and sons Edwin and Andrew. United States air transport companies lead in volume of activity over all nations.
A tour through Walter Winchell style items criticizes radio news gathering at Columbia University and lampoons figures from Orson Welles to Joe Louis. It notes TV and stage quips from The New Yorker to Harper's and JFK era wit about Olsen and Johnson, Cagney, Jean Arthur, and Ronald Coleman.
Accident figures indicate flying is much safer in the United States than in Europe with American airlines carrying more passenger miles while foreign lines suffered about twice as many passenger deaths.
Palo Alto report from January 28 notes Everett Dean, who left Indiana to coach Stanford, compares mid western basketball to coast play, calling the former twice as rough.
London January 28 Jack Lovelock Olympic 1500 meter champion now practicing medicine condemns cold showers before breakfast for athletes.
Governor Clyde R. Hoey cannot attend the Asheboro Kiwanis banquet on Tuesday night at Central Methodist Protestant Church due to a scheduled address to the state legislature on highway funds diversion. A. L. Brooks of Greensboro will speak in his place as part of the Know Your State program.
A. L. Stone, retired mail carrier living on route 1 Thomasville, was brought home yesterday by a local ambulance. He had surgery over a week ago at Baptist Hospital in Winston Salem and has been convalescing there since.
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