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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1938
Page
10
Insurgent air raids on Barcelona cause 24 dead and 35 wounded as armies clash along multiple fronts. In recent coastal raids about 150 people have died, with Alcaniz near Teruel suffering the heaviest toll.
Insurgent forces press to find weak Franco lines as government gunners shell roads. Barcelona suffered a heavy 7 p.m. raid with multiple waves of bombs. 24 killed and 35 injured in night attacks, with another 22 killed and 29 wounded at dawn in the business district.
In New Castle Indiana firemen spent 15 minutes searching for Mrs Marie Soliday s residence before she called to say the fire had been put out with a bucket of water.
Guilford College continues its faculty lecture series on Mysticism with a 4 p.m. Sunday talk in the library by Dr. Russell Pope on French Quietism and Jeanne Marie Guyon. Attorney R D Douglas will also speak from a Catholic layman’s perspective.
Forest Grove Oregon Mrs Lizzie Bennett 78 and her sister Mrs Alura Hickman met for the first time in 75 years. Separated in Philadelphia they learned they had lived in several towns at the same time without knowing their kinship.
The First Methodist Protestant church of High Point began in 1895 with 13 members. By 1938 its membership exceeded 750, with a large Sunday school, Woman's Auxiliary, junior church, and other groups. The 1924 building on North Main and Richardson houses a pipe organ donated by Mr. and Mrs. George T. Penny.
Raleigh dispatch notes Clyde Co. Carter, Wilmington lawyer and politician, secured a job with the state unemployment compensation commission. It highlights Mrs. Bessie B. Phoenix as a key recommender, recalls her “Boss” Phoenix nickname from the Mae Oliver Arch Allen Young Democratic clubs clash, and mentions ongoing political maneuvering around Broadway franchise hearings and May primaries.
The North Carolina Board of Nurse Examiners will conduct spring examinations at the capital on April 6 7 and it has been announced by Beatie M Chapman secretary of the examining board All applications must be received by the deadline to qualify for the tests.
Denton residents and guests share weekend visits with family in Greensboro High Point Lexington and Thomasville. The Denton M P church Women Auxiliary met at P D Hameltons with Washington birthday decor and refreshments.
Rockingham North Carolina reports that John Bowling Byrd faces a federal trial next week, likely Wednesday, tied to the Bank of Candor robbery. He is charged alongside William Payne, who awaits execution with Wash Turner over a murder tied to the August death of a state highway patrolman near Asheville. The unrelated line about a hyrax and suction cups appears in the text.
J. E. Denton Jr announced that 122 unemployment compensation checks will be distributed Monday at the local North Carolina State Employment Service office. The listing includes claim numbers such as 6-32 7-32 11-32 18-38 14-32 and many others.
A rural Indiana Pennsylvania intersection collision left 28 year old Edwin Shearer dead hours after a car struck a motorcycle. S. W. Shearer, 26, leaped from the auto to help the injured cyclist. The report notes the rising prevalence of the so called moving habit in the United States.
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