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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1938
Page
4
The piece argues that the fighting continues with loyalty split and women stepping into factory roles. It warns of weeks more combat, thousands of deaths, and vast costs. It contemplates potential British and French intervention shaping a final, desperate clash.
The text notes a stiff bill assessed by United States authorities linked to a Tokyo incident. It mentions acceptance by Japan of the demand, a non communicated formal note, and a costly episode exceeding two million dollars as consideration for easing pressure on a vessel.
The text notes the United States quitting silver purchases, a move seen as serious for Mexicans who rely on silver to balance trade. It indicates US purchases had kept prices higher than world levels, with implications for regional economies.
The document warns that suspending oil purchases could embarrass the United States and harm reciprocal trade with Mexico. It notes Mexico's lost revenue, potential effects on U.S. industries, and urges sympathetic policy to ease tensions, advocate neighborly cooperation, and promote Pan American ties. It highlights road-building and regional unity as essential to economic contact.
A North Carolina delegation meeting in Washington, urged by Gov. and the State Planning board, aims to win one of four new agricultural experiment stations. Each site would invest about a million dollars to study industrial uses of surplus crops, with NC highlighting peanuts and soybeans, its strong libraries, and cooperative agents to back efforts against competing states like Texas and Alabama.
Honore Prendergast, a Dubuque girl who aspired to be a nurse, studied in Chicago after saving funds, then returned to work at a Dubuque hospital. After a dental procedure left her face swollen, a social outing led to an engagement with a friend of her would‑be escort, and she ended up marrying Don Ameche.
A collage of quotations touches on divorce law changes in Britain, industrial dynamite imagery, a New York rally, baseball trade talk, political satire, fire emergencies, oil prices and Monterrey prospects, a Paris legal duel, and Viennese motorists praising Hitler.
President Roosevelt resumes aggressive push for a wage hour bill and a broad monopoly message in April. He reshapes TVA leadership, rallies southern allies, and hints at a spending or lending program while disputing Spanish war bomb claims.
Bids for sewer work will be opened soon. Fifty seven Boy Scouts will conduct a traffic check tomorrow. Dr Frank Rines of Canada leads revival at Main Street Methodist church. Swift and Company opens a branch at 302 West Green Street with J R Fanelty in charge. Mrs J F Hayden and Mrs Grace Ford visited Greensboro yesterday. Mrs W J Yatel and son Bertrand ill at home with lagrippe. Miss Alice Elizabeth Freeze to arrive tonight from Converse College to spend spring holidays. Mrs Thompson Allen of Chattanooga visits daughter Mrs Paul Myatt.
The U S Senate passed a 325 million dollar flood appropriation bill amid public unease as presidential aspirants loom. Rewards totaling 675000 are offered for heads of hoodlums linked to recent Chicago bombings.
Twenty years ago Winston-Salem and Reidsville high schools plan debates at the city high auditorium Friday on compulsory arbitration of labor disputes. High Point debaters James Lyon How ell Albertson Carlton Kirkman and Miss Blanche Criddlebaugh will travel to Winston-Salem and Reidsville tomorrow. Commencement exercises at Mechanicsville graded school closed the term. Local patriotic meetings are planned. Pauline Simmons Salem College student home for Easter. Max Bones at Camp Jackson visiting for Passover. Thelma Wineskie Hollins College student to spend Easter with family. Daylight saving time begins Sunday March 31 at 2 a m. Germans push near Amiens. Argentina to join Allies. China-bound aerial bombs shipments via Philadelphia licenses total about 2.2 million dollars through year’s start.
Charles B. Driscoll recounts taking Alfred Bunge to a Friday luncheon of the Wednesday Culture Club in New York. He chats about Ursula Parrott’s dogs, baby Patricia, Amy Vanderbilt and Morton Gill Clark’s travel book, and a potential six week old chow.
Dennis McEvoy 18-year-old son of J P recalls his failed transfer to Columbia after two years at University of Chi and studies in the Sorbonne. He lacked a high school diploma which Columbia required. Eddie Thurau 42 a German native runs a 129th street tropical fish hatchery with his family selling 5 000 rare fish to collectors at prices from a cent to 20 dollars per pair.
A middle aged man frantically searches the car floor delaying a BMT subway train near the door. His hindquarters block loading as guards roar and passengers push. He shouts at two strangers then reattaches a recovered tooth with a snap, and the ride resumes.
In a personal defense the narrator asserts Odd McIntyre’s Manhattan is real not imaginary challenging critics who dismiss the city’s character. The piece defends intimate knowledge of town life and urges readers to trust those who see quality in their communities.
Fred C. Kelly visits from his Ohio farm described as the gayest sartorial specimen in the Shelton lobby wearing a Skyblue home spun suit bought in Scotland and a spreading red woolen tie. He heads to France to dig up hitherto unreported letters of Mark Twain.
A narrator recounts Captain Kidd’s affectionate routine with Annie, a stout Polish cleaning woman. He waits eagerly, sniffs the air, and barks with excitement before her arrival, then greets her with tender growls and follows her loyally all day.
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