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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1938
Page
5
Fragments indicate events around transport and aviation schedules. Mentions Japan, Peiping Hankow railroad, and a shortage of equipment. Notes gasoline taxes in the first quarter of 1938 totaling 44,291,887 dollars, comprising 62 percent of the federal auto time tax bill.
Shanghai dispatch reports Japan cutting the Peiping-Hankow line south of the Yellow river and launching an inland drive toward Chengchow with heavy Chinese resistance. Hankow-Chengchow traffic halted by a bridge explosion south of Chengchow as Japanese forces press from the Sandy Plains. Chinese forces withdraw to defend arsenals and seek mountainous terrain. Chinese bombing planes claim a Japanese warship sunk on the Yangtze near Kweicheh as Japan moves toward Anking, while refugees flood Ninghsia and Chiang Kai-shek urges aid and boycotts against Japan.
Twelve notable figures are scheduled to speak at the Carolina Institute of International Relations June 13 to 22 at the University of North Carolina. The event, under the American Friends Service Committee and UNC, is funded mainly by voluntary contributions.
Two weeks after taking second in the Ivy League meet, Columbia sprinter Herb Weast was awarded first place in the 100 yard dash. Jim Pender of Cornell handed him the medal as moving pictures revealed the judges had erred.
The article details a spectacular yet logical defense by Robert Chatkin and Dr R H Ecker in the Grand National Masters Individual Championship in New York. The opening lead proved pivotal, with Ecker and Chaikin later joining a strong field for the summer National Championships at Asbury Park.
In a four hearts contract the South hand must counter West gains by cashing both the ace of clubs and the ace of diamonds. The declarer can force a win by leading a heart to establish the suit, then executing a ruff and discard sequence that leaves dummy with established heart length and West with no exit. The end result yields four hearts by ending in a crossruff maneuver.
Mrs L M Greenwood presented her music pupils in a keyboard recital at 500 Underhill Avenue on Thursday evening. The event featured poetry, a wall drawing by Roberta Defrants Miller, and a program of piano trios duets and selections by multiple performers.
The Boy Scout leadership and training course at William Penn high school begins each evening at 7 o'clock. It started Thursday night and continues tonight and Monday night. Those absent Thursday are urged to attend tonight.
A serialized 1938 tale follows Joe Murray and two women, Helen and Terry Mallow, with Joe torn between past tragedy and a perilous present. Terry's ardor grows as she schemes for escape from her old life while Joe questions love, loyalty, and a looming marriage. The scene centers on Terry confronting Joe after a family fight and revealing pressure to marry, raising the stakes of their fragile bond.
Cranium Crackers presents five wordplay clues on currency, Edison, the Marx Brothers, planetary diameters, and Hawthorne. Solve for the missing names and numbers to complete the quirky riddle set as a playful page feature.
In Brooklyn on June 10 Burleigh Grimes was within one out of a no-hit no-run game eight times in his career yet a single tally in the eighth spoiled the gem.
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