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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1938
Page
2
North Carolina sees mostly cloudy warmer conditions with likely mountain rain. Monday turns cloudy with rain and possible snow in the mountains, followed by colder air in the north and west. South Carolina remains cloudy and warmer Sunday, with Monday rain and interior cooling.
The High Point Boys Club under Major R. M. Cowan continues its tenth week of weekly entertainments at the South Main street club building. Dedicatory programs feature the harmonica unit glee club and boys band with Cloverdale school receiving the first dedication. The club offers free admission and lessons in band and string instruments, plus gymnasia and sports for all boys. call 4328 or visit the club for details.
Mrs. John C. Abels and Mrs. Laurance J. Ingram of High Point reached the finals of the Mid-South Bridge Tournament at the Carolina Hotel in Pinehurst, among 32 players remaining after 140 entrants were cut. Both players also competed in last year’s finals.
High Point will host a North Carolina V. F. W. rally and pow-wow on Sunday February 6. National leaders including National Commander-in-Chief Scott Q Squyres and National Junior Vice-Commander O N Brown will meet with members from local and state posts. North Carolina officials will represent the department. Luncheon for visitors will be at the Elwood hotel with reservations through A C Ingram or T C Potts.
Payne and Turner receive a death sentence set for March 5 as appeals are filed. Payne shows emotion and weeps during Judge Alley’s charge while Turner remains calm and converses with authorities and his former wife. Defense contends lack of premeditation. prosecution argues intent to shoot if not captured.
In Asheboro on January 29 a fire badly damaged the eight room home of Claude Dorsett at 2:30 p m. The blaze started in the roof or attic and spread to the second floor where Prof. and Mrs. A R Primm lived. Firemen saved some first floor furniture. Damage was estimated at 3000 dollars.
Relentless fighting between Hangchow and Nanking continues near Lake Tai with Japanese forces gaining a foothold on the west shore while Chinese counter drives threaten a shift. The Lunghai front sees slow advances as opposing armies engage in feeble engagements along a fragile line.
In Singapore on January 29, Britain conducts large scale combined drills across land sea and air. Ten thousand soldiers, 24 war ships and eight aerial squadrons join mock battles over six days starting February 2 near the Far Eastern naval base.
The piece argues evidence on a standing stone may reveal Roanoke island colonists were massacred after four years in the region, leaving only seven survivors. It cites Captain John Smith and William Strachey supporting the claim of Indian massacre rather than Croatoan relocation.
Lawmakers agree to restrict large farm benefit payments with a tiered structure. Those receiving 8 to 20 dollars would gain 12, while 40 to 60 dollar recipients get 12 plus 10 percent over 40, and 60 to 186 dollar recipients receive 14 with a final adjustment to reach 200 for 186 to 200. County and state farmer committees would administer programs and be appointed via farmer input, as conferees press to finish differences in the two bills over a Sunday session.
Boston police posted a strong guard around two Japanese ships and stopped an unarmed clash on the wharf between Chinese seamen and Japanese sailors aboard the Saller tied to the Kelgo Maru. The harbor detail was later expanded to a third Japanese boat Kansai Maru, though no threats were confirmed. Inspector Benjamin Goodman led the precautions amid warnings of possible trouble.
The 1937 birthday of Charles A Lindbergh is recalled as a milestone in a life marked by dramatic public moments. The piece traces his rise from an ordinary boy to a global aviation figure, the Paris flight, reception at Le Bourget, and the later tragedies including the Lindbergh kidnapping and Hauptmann trial, ending with his reclusive retirement and guarded public presence.
The text, in reflective prose, contemplates an aviation pioneer approaching age 36. It contrasts public fascination with personal life, noting the pilot’s travels, meetings with world figures, and life choices while hinting at the significance of his future possible endeavors.
Chinese sources report Chiang Kai-Shek has eight divisions at Suchow Kweli and Lanteng as part of a defense along the Lunghai line. Japanese officials give no exact figures but expect reinforcements from north and south to aid a possible push toward Pemen and Lunghai passes. Chinese forces along Lunghai are estimated near 400,000, with Suchow about 876 miles northwest of Shanghai as a central bastion.
A political speech fragment urges the Republican Party to express the American spirit, oppose pressure groups, and base policy on abundant goods and lower prices. It condemns the view that elected officials must surrender conscience to the chief executive and aligns with calls to resist centralized authority.
More than five thousand department dry goods and specialty store merchants will gather in New York for the 27th annual convention of the National Retail Dry Goods Association at the Hotel Pennsylvania starting Monday. The program centers on labor relations and employee relations as retailers face slackened sales, rising costs, and hopes for a spring upturn driven by consumer demand and price pressures.
W C Wessels national director of Cubbing Boy Scouts of America visits High Point February 15 to grow Cubbing in the Uwharrie Council. He arrives around noon and conducts a training day for Cubbers Den mothers and parents from Winston Salem and Greensboro. Sessions include a council luncheon at the ton hotel and an evening meeting at Wesley Me church for mothers and Den chiefs and for parents whose sons are registered in Cubbing or seeking to join.
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