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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1931
Page
4
The High Point Enterprise announces R. B. Terry as business manager and adv. mer. editor with the paper publishing in the afternoons and Sunday morning.
A reflective excerpt cites Deuteronomy praising divine judgment and righteousness. The quotation by Theodore Parker emphasizes truth as a guiding virtue and blessings for the steadfast seeker. The lines frame truth as a lifelong moral compass.
Obituary honors Win Anderson Alderman educator and administrator at UNC Tulane and Virginia. Born in North Carolina he helped shape public schooling and higher education while his broader impact spanned national chemical industry progress and southern economic development.
The Manufacturer's Record spotlights growing chemical manufacturing in the South with a detailed feature. It notes industry penetration across Dixie and argues chemistry is a creative science driving regional industrial expansion.
A chronicle of aviation feats and explorers. Frank Hawks flies 365 miles in Ireland in two hours while Kingsford-Smith arrives in Singapore with mail from Austria to England. Eaker lands in Oklahoma after a long ascent. Beinhorn reaches Berlin after a desert crash. Von Schiller announces a second Graf Zeppelin trans Atlantic crossing in August. Durant tours Europe from England. Odin sails toward Iceland aiding Augustine Courtauld’s Greenland search. Panghorn and Herndon prep for a round the world flight. DC X resumes flight to South America. Time remains the ultimate obstacle and the driving force behind mankind’s ascent.
After days of stalemate the North Carolina legislature appears ready to pass a revenue bill. Advocates of the MacLean school bill win and a luxury tax is adopted to support it, seen as a less undesirable make-shift than a general sales tax.
Bruce Catton argues that rapid global travel spreads diseases and goods effects worldwide. A quarantined patient with distomiasis highlights how interlinked nations become and how health, industry, and politics influence each other across continents.
The column lists SURRENDER Charles Farrell and Joan Bennett THE PLUTOCRAT Will Rogers DISORDERLY CONDUCT Victor McLaglen Edmund Lowe WICKED Elissa Landi Victor McLaglen Spencer Tracy THE YELLOW TICKET Elissa Lands SPENT BULLETS Richard Barthelmess and notes Spent Bullets drawn from John Monk Saunders current novel Single Lady Saunders is praised as one of the year’s best light books. A teaser on WHO KILLED BILL HIGGINS Part I ends with a suspenseful passage.
Illinois state fire marshal has opened an investigation into a fire that destroyed two race horses owned by D. L. Keifer of New Orleans in a private barn near the Washington Park track on April 24.
Alumnae officials search 19 000 UC records to find the oldest living graduate after the late speaker of the house Uncle Joe Cannon. Dr W Eberle Thomp is mentioned as a leading contender among the candidates.
A Bethel resident known as Son, who will turn 96 in July, is highlighted in local notes. The short item marks the upcoming milestone and notes the age.
Edith Woodcott leaves road sweepers and grave diggers special bequests in a surprising will. She leaves her home as a rest house for poor Anglican clergymen and bequeaths $500 to a doctor who didn t overcharge. Estate valued at over $116000.
A Rhode Island breed called turkens is raised by farmer I. W. Dinsdale near here. The birds have long turkey-like necks and are slightly larger than typical chickens.
The phrase wise cracks arises from quick clever jokes delivered with wit and insight. In humor, a crack is a sharp remark that exposes a truth, and the term wise signals smart, pithy commentary that lands with sly intelligence.
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