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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1939
Page
4
A biblical verse from James warns that the tongue is hard to tame and deadly. A quip from Sir Philip Sidney notes that no sword bites as fiercely as an evil tongue.
A North Carolina notice chronicles Dr Ralph W McDonald joining the University of North Carolina as associate director for extension work after years of political and public appeals for a job. The piece debates relief aid critique and suggests political shifts amid university leadership and state interest in light and learning.
Highway Commissioner Gordon Hackett and Engineer Stewart announced progress on plans to improve the Forsyth end of the Forsyth to Winston-Salem road. Public notice indicated the highway commission will extend its work further along the corridor.
The article discusses highway curve redesigns urged by the U S Bureau of Roads and local commission efforts to modernize trunk routes. It then examines Guilford county's cross border school costs, proposing neighboring counties cover rooms for shared students as Rockingham delays action. It ends with a human-interest tale of Joseph S Duncan who turned job loss into inventing the addressograph, founding a large company.
The new city council is urged to resolve whether juvenile judgeship duties should merge with the parks and playgrounds commissioner or remain separate. The piece favors testing consolidation but grounds support in the principal person involved rather than systemic change, focusing on improving the city's handling of juvenile delinquency through leadership.
General Evangeline Booth, 73, Salvation Army head, states that a belief is growing that war need not be inevitable. She argues for peace and diplomacy as essential to global security.
A political figure labels anti-Communist groups as the antidote to a broader disease. Gen Van Horn Moseley is described as a quasi fascist leader, condemning Communism and framing his side as the cure. The remark underscores postwar ideological splits within right-wing circles.
Molotov quotes Stalin stressing that one should not risk national safety by bearing the burden of others' work. The Russian foreign minister recalls the warning as tensions rise over international duties and alliance commitments.
Vladimir Hurban, Czech minister to Washington, says growing global justice awareness sustains a people temporarily deprived of liberty and not crushed by oppression.
The Polish pianist Ignace Jan Paderewski, forced by ill health to end a concert tour, recalls the extreme courtesy of American audiences and press during his visit.
A compact recollection by Walter Winchell and contemporaries of nocturnal notebook chatter about lead lines. It recalls Bob Casey on Jack Benny and a sly comment on Hauptmanns execution, with judges stripes and sharp city prose.
The passage notes 1923 World Series writing by Heywood Broun and Grantland Rice on Ruth’s poor season and elbow injury. It mentions Max Schmeling beating Joe Louis and a New York Evening Poster line on the World’s Fair. Buck O Neill condemns the crowd for booing Ruth.
In 1934 Joe Hennessey, a Woollcott protege, told Hilton’s story to Woollcott who praised Goodbye Mr. Chips in The New Yorker and spurred a publisher to release it. The tale found success, leading Woollcott to champion Hilton’s later work Lost Horizon, though Hilton never met Hennessey.
Mary Welsh, former Chicago reporter, worked for Lord Beaverbrook in London and Rome. She tried an interview with Mussolini by gifting orchids publicly while learning Il Duce dislikes women reporters. Count Ciano invited her, noting the aversion and a past scandal involving a French Count.
A humorous empire wide broadcast on Empire Day drew voices from across the realm. A Scotsman praised Windsor, Canada, for Christmas apples while Mescofsky repeatedly bought one beer daily, later finding free lunch and dog biscuits removed from the corner saloon.
An American sailor in uniform destroys a fascist pamphlet on 42nd Street and confronts hawkers while a witness cheers. The scene includes witty exchanges with Jimmy Cannon and notes on social chatter among dandies about attire and public figures.
High Point Chamber of Commerce joins local furniture makers in a joint movement to combat rising freight costs. The page also notes Margaret Andrews and Wilbur Hutchins winning annual school contests and lists several people visiting or returning home from Charlotte Hollins and North Carolina College for Women.
Sir Esme Howard the British ambassador told Secretary of State Stimson he would import no more whiskey into the British embassy.
Charles F. Long and associates bought half of W. H. Ragan property on South Main Street for a planned furniture exposition building. F. M. Waters and Claude Smith, city public school principals, solicited funds for a projected playground and swimming pool for children. Police officers have ordered new uniforms.
Miss Evelyn Jones left for Concord to visit relatives. Charles Amos leaves for vacation about 60 days. Grady Burke returned from overseas where he served with the A E F. Mrs Carl Ellison and daughter Louise visited Mrs A L Ellison on Ton Street in Concord.
Gov Bickett plans to pardon Forney Williams who died in France allowing his mother to receive a pension. The probe follows a report about a leak related to a peace treaty story and a four day land landing in New York.
Dr Peter Marshal states the central dispute at the Presbyterian General Assembly in Cleveland is a choice between Christianity and paganism rather than intra Christian political divides.
John A. Stephens of U. S. Steel articulates that the essential reality today is the value and priority of people in society and industry. He emphasizes human welfare as the defining focus of modern progress and industrial relations.
The evangelist Dr. J. Frank Norris predicts current turmoil will draw more intellect to church leadership. He argues upheaval signals a shift toward wiser guidance within religious ministry and urges constructive reform.
In a brief exchange, Beebe is accused of stealing thunder while Lucius is said to be crestfallen, mourning his own misfortune as he wears his vest at half mast.
The Dies Committee heard remarks suggesting some witnesses should be evaluated by psychiatrists. General Moseley testified he backs the Bund but denies being a Nazi, a claim challenged as hypocritical by critics who compare it to admitting guilt while denying the accusation.
In Washington June 6 the U S Marine Commission faces payroll headaches as ships it runs or hires crews for use private firms. The commission pays crews directly while ships aboard are government controlled. To avoid discrimination hiring, it uses union and non union lists from the shipping commission. The NMU and CIO unions pressure for union hiring halls but the commission maintains fixed policy based on list percentages to match union and non union hires.
On the east and west coasts a union dispute blocks hiring practices for ships to the Orient. Sailors' Union of the Pacific and Ha Lundberg push for hiring through union halls, opposing the commission’s suggested hiring approach. Harry Bridges backs the west coast stand, vowing picket lines around incoming steamers.
The Coldbrook shipped a crew in Norfolk Virginia for a Seattle voyage starting a regular assignment. Under law sailors may reclaim fares if paid off at a port other than the origin, so Coldbrook crew not sailing Pacific may get train fare home. Lundberg and Bridg push to tie Coldbrook to AFL halls while CIO is okay.
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