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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1938
Page
2
Fair tonight and Wednesday with light to moderate winds from the south and southwest in the northwest South Carolina region. Coastal areas from Sandy Hook to Hatters to Hatters show moderate to fresh winds mainly northeast and east.
Chicago May 3 butter totals 1,219,843 pounds with steady prices and eggs at 31,754 with firm demand and prices unchanged.
Two civil actions were filed in Municipal Court today. W R Kennedy sues Robert Blair for ownership of a car stored with Pat Brown Motor Co and sold to Blair who refuses to surrender it. Belton James Johnson sues Southern Dixie Life Insurance for $500, claiming premiums paid and death of his brother on October 21 1937 with no payment from the insurer.
The High Point Civitan club elected officers for the coming year at a Sheraton hotel meeting. Officers are Horace Haworth president W F Freeman vice president Charles Risch secretary and treasurer Silas B Casey sergeant at arms and board members Meldon Holmes Henry Koonce Percy Neal. Casey presided and reported on the Carolinas Civitan convention. visitor H M Lilly of Yanceyville attended.
L R Sykes, Royal typewriter agent, moves headquarters from 212 North Main to 107 East High Street announced today. Mrs Wheeless recovering well after appendectomy at Guilford General Hospital following Sunday night operation.
Mrs. Alt on Dail entertained Friday evening at her North Cox street home honoring Miss Evelyn Hughes whose engagement to Alvin Essick was announced. Two bridge tables and one bingo table. Hughes won bridge first prize a pottery vase, Mrs. Jimmy Webb second a box of stationery. Bingo prizes went to Mildred Milks Jack Spencer Forest Swicegodo and Pauline McRae. Nestled roses snapdragons and sweetpeas decorated the home with a sweetpea corsage for the honoree. A frozen vegetable salad sandwiches saltines and coffee followed.
Hitler nears Rome amid heavy Italian press coverage and intensified police vigilance to deter any assassination attempts. Vatican coverage is muted with Pope Pius at Castel Gandolfo and four cardinals received. Rome ends in summer calm as the pontiff travels by car.
The Amazon River estuary is about 200 miles wide and allows ships to sail far inland out of sight of land, highlighting its immense scale and navigational reach.
The total population of England is 40,350,000 with 19,357,000 males and 20,993,000 females. This census style figure highlights a female majority by 1,636,000.
Pearl Mae Massey a white resident near Greensboro was ordered to leave North Carolina by May 5 or face a two year sentence after pleading guilty to breaking and entering and larceny in Guilford Superior court. She confessed taking $7 from nurse Bernie Swain and $2 from nurse Elizabeth Hatcher.
The Social Security Board is studying a new widow and minor child pension at the request of President Roosevelt. Proposals include monthly payments of $10 to $20 for children until they turn 18, replacing the current 3.5 percent of earnings paid to heirs if the worker dies before age 65.
National issues were less prominent in six states voting for Congress and state offices. In Florida the big primary drew strong local interest while South Dakota Alabama and Indiana focused on races for senator governor and House seats amid late campaign drama including anti-Catholic leaflets in South Dakota and Heflin challenging Starnes in Alabama. Virginia Jenckes sought reelection in Indiana giving a rare female candidacy in the House.
C of C head calls for a prolonged quiet period to allow government and business to consolidate reforms and study future steps. Aldrich cites Roosevelt and warns against ongoing spending as citizen income rises. Davis, KC grain company president, urges education of communities on the interdependence of workers, investors, and consumers within American business.
Dr Peele is named bishop of Biblical literature at Trinity College and headmaster of Trinity Park School in Durham North Carolina. He has led Greensboro district as presiding elder since 1936 and previously led First Methodist Church in Charlotte for nine years. The church debates a merger with other Methodist branches while a nine member court weighs union.
Four inmates overpowered two guards at Broadmeadows Delaware county prison farm MEDIA Pa May 3 to day and escaped They were Joseph Bergenia 18 John Tuppen berger 22 Walter Drysdale 26 all of Philadelphia and Joseph McGee 20 of Darby The escape happened as the four on kitchen duty reported to help prepare breakfast
A senate banking and currency subcommittee unanimously deferred action on the Glass bank holding company bill for this session. The measure would be reintroduced to be considered by a new Congress, and Senator Glass said he opposed action now. President Roosevelt had urged enactment this session.
Investigators linked a young mother to Cleveland's torso slayer as fragments of her torso were recovered from the Cuya hoga river near downtown Cleveland. A lower left leg found three weeks earlier matched the same body, while the head remained missing.
Hobbsville reports an 11 year old boy, Wiggins, son of Mr and Mrs J Wiggins of Trotville, was instantly killed when he fell from his bicycle and was struck by a school bus at 8 oclock this morning. One eyewitness said the youth rode near the rear of the backing bus and skidded into its path.
William R. Ramsey, 34, an FBI agent, died from four bullet wounds suffered in a gun battle with a former Indiana convict near Danville Illinois. Sheriff Harry George and state officers had followed the suspect to a rural home. the suspect, Joe Earlywine, was killed. Ramsey’s mother raced to his bedside from Seattle. Virgil Earlywine, 7, was wounded in the cross fire.
Franklin Tennessee May 3 Students at Battle Ground Academy still lack an extra holiday until they beat Headmaster George S Briggs who has held the marble championship for ten years. Gillam Traughber and Briggs competed yesterday with Briggs winning after two hours and twenty six minutes leaving students without the holiday again.
C E G Suggs, 77, died at 1104 Anderson Street this afternoon at 2:30 after two years of illness. Born in Randolph County he lived there most of his life until two years ago. Survived by widow Ella Suggs and children Donald Mamie Robert Charlie and Gorrell Suggs of Ashcore Highgate and the homeplace.
The Columbia University trustees awarded a special prize to the Edmonton Journal and 96 other provincial papers opposing Alberta’s press act, risking independence of Alberta newspapers. Regular Pulitzer prizes went to the Bismarck Tribune and others. Thornton Wilder and Marquis James also cited for letters.
Senate approved a 15 million dollar appropriation for light fast harbor defense craft experiments. House items for a lighter than aircraft and 12 million for inventions were cut. An amendment would allow the secretary of war to place educational orders with manufacturers to learn munition production. White House opposition to relief funds limits remains, with talks of restraining discretionary powers. Efforts to curb relief expenditures face White House resistance as Congress weighs speed and coordination of job programs.
The koala, often called teddy bears, spends its life bound to tree branches as a defining feature of its Australian existence.
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