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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 26, 1956
Page
2
The text notes that only the United States and Canada celebrate Labor Day on the first Monday of September while most other nations observe May 1 as Labor Day since 1889.
A compact listing shows programs across the day from Robin Hood and Burns & Allen through to Love Story and Linksetter with mid‑day news and soap era blocks. The sequence includes science fiction, variety, weather, and morning chapel segments plus game and talk formats typical of the era.
A fragment lists 9:00 1 Love Lucy 11:05 News 11:18 11:35 oes Paul 1:00 Sign Off. The readable items include Love Lucy episode and a News slot before Sign Off times.
Jacoby on Bridge analyzes a defense against a squeeze in a five level contract. With West to lead fourth trick the queen of hearts forces South to choose between allowing a squeeze or risking a heart trick. The article emphasizes timing to prevent East from cashing the heart king.
West opened clubs with king then ace. East discards king of diamonds on the second club. West ruffs diamonds, South overruffs and trumps. On the last trump East is squeezed in red suits. East cannot stop both hearts and diamonds.
A bandit armed with a butcher knife robbed a bowling alley safe on John W Higgins Drive. A 68 year old clerk was awakened, forced to open the safe, tied to a post for hours, and beaten before he escaped. The thief took $170 and Higgins was treated for facial cuts.
Mike Linden faces Julius Chesney a New York Star Bulletin foreign correspondent who offers a fast boat to Egypt in exchange for three million drachmas. Chesney warns of Gestapo listeners, outlines a trap at Piccadilly Cafe and contracts with a benefactor to sponsor escapes. The danger escalates as Gestapo watchers pursue Linden amid a tram chase.
Florentino Das a 37 year old Filipino fisherman sails the Lady Tim Ara u from Hawaii toward the Philippines. He aims to become the first person to sail solo across the Pacific from Hawaii to the Philippines since 1924. 【Note: OCR may contain typos in this historic report】
Col. Frederick E. Gignoux 79, credited with leading the last U S Army cavalry charge in the Philippines after the San Mateo battle on December 19 1899, died in Tucson Arizona. He spent winters in Arizona and summers in Maine and had been in poor health. Born in Albany New York he joined the 11th Cavalry at the University of Nevada and served in four major battles before discharge in 1920. He then settled in Portland Maine and ran a steamship agency until his death.
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