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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1937
Page
10
A completed word puzzle listing Across and Down clues for a French statesman themed crossword with clues ranging from clock face to celestial to nautical terms, including legal claim and beret entries. It provides solutions for each numbered clue in both horizontal and vertical sections.
Nineteenth century report details Senor Manuel Cobos governing Chatham Island in the Galapagos with iron authority. Prisoners labored on his plantation while soldiers received pay and enforced brutal discipline. One inmate named Camilo suffered under retaliatory punishments.
Casanova, left on a desolate Galapagos isle with a water jar and two knives, survived years in isolation. Guards secretly gave him matches and clothing. later, Cobos,\nCasanova’s persecutor, ordered executions and a massacre that spurred a mutinous voyage. He was found alive after three and a half years, having hunted turtles and iguanas and marked time on trees.
The Post Office Department released a new 25 cent booklet detailing all U S stamps since 1847, the first to reproduce stamps in black and white. Denver will gain a coast to coast AM 11 stop with first flight cachet, and King Farouk reaches majority August 1 with a new stamp set bearing his portrait.
Detroit June 5 Harry H. Bennett personnel director of Ford Motor Company notified Wayne county prosecutor's office he would testify Monday before a one man grand jury investigating a riot outside the Ford Rouge plant in Dearborn. Bennett said he was not avoiding service on the subpoena issued by Common Pleas Judge Ralph W. Liddy.
Ben F. Wilson of Orange county, master of the State Grange, said farmers would vote for compulsory crop control with safeguards. The Grange agricultural committee went on record in favor of federal legislation to make crop control compulsory.
Miss Chioris Kellum of Wilmington was named associate director of employment to replace Mrs. Louise M. Frye of Charlotte. The appointment was announced by George Coan Jr state WPA administrator. Frye resigned effective June 1 and Kellum, who had been Frye’s assistant since December, will lead the social service division of WPA.
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