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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1938
Page
2
Asheville June 18 The eleventh annual Rhododendron Festival closes tomorrow with officials calling it the most successful yet by attendance and popularity. Carnival night activities peaked Friday while the final program continues today with scenic tours and art exhibits. Southern sponsors depart today. flags will be lowered and memories saved for next year’s festival.
The WVPA division of research reports that unemployment will remain a serious problem due to business cycles, tech progress, and labor force growth. It estimates a 500,000 annual increase from labor supply and notes the trend may continue for some time. The findings were sent to Administrator Hopkins via Corrington Gill.
The ceremony made John and Anne Roosevelt man and wife at 12 11 as Rev Endicott Peabody joined the couple, with 300 guests including James Roosevelt watching a Benzed Mendelssohn processional. The bridal party then traveled from the church to the Nahant club, historic home of Frederic Tudor.
Prime Minister Chamberlain faces a knotty issue as he refuses retaliatory action against insurgent attacks on British ships in Spanish ports. Parliament plans a Tuesday debate on foreign affairs while London hosts figures like George Tatarescu and Sir Reginald Hoare amid talks of economic aid to Romania. Venice talks among Count Da Cisne and Milan Ca Fie explore Austro German union impacts on Italy and Yugoslavia and possible Yugoslav Italian alliance.
Agriculture Department scientists study 40 states on 142 new use projects for cotton materials. Cotton bagging covers 1937 bales, and fabric reinforces runways streets and highway fills while protecting crops and seedlings. Beehive covers and roof siding also tested.
Campaign speakers assailed Franklin Delano Roosevelt for expanding the national debt from 23 to 38 billion dollars while asserting benefits to communities and industry. They blamed the New Deal for unemployment, declining farm prices, and railroad collapse, calling for reduced government action and tax relief to revive the economy.
Paris reports that 760,000 government employees pressed the government to raise wages and shorten hours within three months under threat of a general strike. The Public Service union warned of extremely energetic action, possibly including work stoppages, if demands are not met.
Reports from multiple cities describe intensified anti Jewish measures including large three foot high signs labeling shops Jewish in Cologne and Berlin slogans from Nazi squads defacing windows. Eyewitness accounts recount looting and destruction of a shoe store and other property as mobs unleashed violence against Jews.
Chinese hydrology warned channels could not carry heavy floods, predicting inundations in Northeast Henan and northern Kiangsu and Anhwei by August. Japanese forces advanced up the Yangtze toward Hankow, with 30 planes bombing a river boom at Matowechen near Anne, 215 miles from Hanow.
The Greensboro area and Guilford County prison case involving de Journette, a Black defendant, received an automatic stay of execution until July 8 after he perfected an appeal to the North Carolina Supreme Court. Attorney General Harry McMullan announced the move.
The piece assesses Secretary Hull labeling Italy Germany and Japan as international anarchists. It notes hopes for disarmament steps, the navy expansion bill, and a drift toward a morally defensible stance supporting international law. It predicts a tougher American attitude amid Rome Berlin Tokyo and looming election.
Ben C. Robertson a High Point Negro alias Ben C Vaughn operated a Loflin street cafe for six to seven years and admitted to officers he is wanted in Chester D C as an escaped convict. He said he had two years remaining on a breaking and entering sentence.
An 18 year old adopted son led officers to the body of his foster father, Edward J. Cuhlman, whom he said he shot May 31 over a scolding. Jason Edward Dusky confessed, promising to plead guilty, and faced murder charges with arraignment planned in justice court.
Copeland body lies in state at the Rambling white farm house in Suffern New York burial planned in Rahway New Jersey. Funeral service set for Tuesday at 3 pm in the garden weather permitting with Rev Charles P Bispham officiating. Copeland will be buried beside family members in Rahway cemetery.
Native superstition in Dutch Guiana holds that Djuka tribesmen must not spit out food. An evil spirit is believed to search for food left in mouths and endanger lives if it finds the discarded morsel.
A historical note states that sixty percent of the French Foreign Legion is made up of Germans. The statistic highlights the diverse composition of the famed unit during the period covered.
In Nahant Massachusetts June 18 the Republican organ pumpers failed to keep the organ pumping during the Roosevelt Clark wedding. Mrs Malcolm Lang wife of the organist reported the group paused as the President and Mrs Roosevelt and the first family arrived. She blamed heat and eagerness to see the President for the lapse.
Chapel Hill June 18 Dr Whatley W Pierson UNC dean and political science head told the Carolina Institute of International Relations that democracy in Latin America has likely alarmed observers while noting dictatorship has long flourished in Spanish American nations. He described Brazil under Vargas as likely not to undergo drastic change.
Paris officials announce a trial flight next month to test a Paris to New York air route. The plan centers on the 64 passenger sea plane Lieutenant De Vaisseau as part of France's effort to explore transatlantic service.
The National Labor Relations Board schedules a June 27 hearing in Los Angeles on a CIO white collar union complaint against Bank of America alleging Wagener Act violations. The board may soon target five insurance companies as well, signaling broad Wagner Act reach into banking and insurance.
In Dublin on June 18 Prime Minister Eamon De Valera's Fianna Fáil party held a rising lead after yesterday's general election. By midnight Fianna Fáil had 27 seats to Fine Gael's 18, with labor and independents at four each as votes continued across 131 seats in Dail Eireann. Final results were not yet known, with counts continuing into mid next week.
Paris plans a transatlantic flight from a base near Bordeaux about July 15 heading to New York. The route uses the Azores as a midway landing base after Portugal granted permission to France.
Spanish premier June Negrin, in a Madrid radio address, rejected any armistice with the Insurgents. He said Spain would remain free for the Spanish people, that the war would be long and hard, and that government Spain would face new sufferings and severe tests before victory.
London Kentucky June 18 The defense in the Harlan anti union conspiracy trial plans to open Monday with options including testimony about the 1931 Evarts battle that left three deputy sheriffs and a clerk dead and led to life terms for UMWA officials. Another possibility is to place an operator on the stand to explain the Coal Operators association aims. Defense chief Charles I Dawson said no decision has been made.
Approximately 125 members and guests of the Carolina Aero club gathered at Myrtle Beach for the monthly meet. More than 30 planes of all descriptions brought sportsmen pilots from the two Carolinas to the beach resort. A banquet was held tonight and officers will be elected at a business meeting tomorrow. Dr. F M Boldbridge of Charlotte is president.
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