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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1940
Page
12
Dr. O E Baker reports that the average person consumed about 100 pounds less food in the past year than in 1900. The article promises three reasons for this shift and explores factors behind changing eating patterns.
The text discusses tonic health claims and the role of nutrition amid changing U S eating habits. It notes tonic products promising energy and appetite boosts, then shifts to social trends: electricity gasoline and aging populations reducing food demand. It ends with a prompt about enjoyment.
Chattanooga Tenn March 28 Harry C Adler longtime Chattanooga Times associate died after a long illness He was 74 and father of Col Julius Ochs Adler president and publisher of The Times and NYT vice president and GM Adler retired from active service in 1932
Durham city manager and Winston Salem's accounts commissioner testified before FTC Trial Examiner Preston in a lime industry probe. Charlotte purchasing agent Beatty said five bidders tied to city lime contracts in 1936 and identical bids recurred in 1937 with bids drawn from a hat. Twenty one southeastern companies are alleged guilty.
Paris reports German patrol attacks on French out posts between the Saar and Rhine repulsed without difficulty. Bad weather limited air activity, but two German recon flights occurred. French planes again operated deep into Germany. Near Basel, electric beacons on both banks of the Rhine marked an unofficial pact to warn war planes away from neutral Swiss territory.
A notice references unfair methods of competition and unfair acts and practices in interstate commerce. The brief mentions oversight and regulatory action without detailing parties or dates.
The Air Ministry says a Bristol Blenheim on a recon mission over Heligoland Bight is missing after being intercepted by German fighters. German news agency claims the plane was shot down. Two Norfolk lifeboats searched the North Sea for a second missing plane after patrols, drawn by flares.
Five foreign phrases are traced to their languages: ante bellum Latin for before the war. chiaroscuro Italian for light dark contrast. qui vive French for alert. modus operandi Latin for method of operation. The note also mentions the bark of a wild dog imitated by the lyre bird.
Thomasville firemen fought a blaze at the Mills Home Wednesday afternoon when waste paper ignited and spread to a lumber shed near the printing office. The shed sustained only slight damage as firefighters arrived promptly. More than 41 percent of the article remains unreadable.
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