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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1939
Page
4
The excerpt reflects Luke chapter two teaching charity and sharing. It contrasts giving with possession noting deeds of kindness persist while wealth given remains with others. The passage emphasizes personal duty to aid those in need and live by charitable example.
An editorial criticizes High Point city council for holding closed meetings to swear in new Power Commission members and issue the oath of office. The piece argues all official actions should occur in open sessions with press and public present, to avoid suspicions of political maneuvering before an upcoming vote.
The High Point city council voted yesterday to reduce retail electricity rates. The move aims to ease bills for residents and businesses. Officials cited anticipated savings and market competitiveness as drivers of the decision.
The article argues for careful scrutiny of electric rates tied to Duke Power profits and urges a conservative, library minded approach. It contends higher charges tax users of electricity to avoid broader tax hikes and calls for concerted public action to fund a growing city library.
John Barrymore fights over a $300000 property purchase with Elaine Barrie Barrymore and her mother as he seeks separation and divorce. He accuses no accounting and claims his property won’t be returned. Britain reportedly considers a non aggression pact with Germany in Hitler's speech era.
The Twin City Sentinel notes a cat shelter run by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals has rescued 53 long lost cats and kittens. They are placed in comfortable homes with beds milk bowls fish and possibly catnip. The item evokes Pope and historical care for animals.
The Concord Tribune notes plans to relocate Concord Public Library to a new community center on North Union Street and Asheboro's completion of new library quarters with a $3,000 furniture and equipment appeal. The High Point Public Library faces possible move unless the old post office site is bought from the federal government. The board of directors works to improve the city library system.
A reader warns visitors and locals to guard against subway and station change booth thieves who short change customers. The piece details common tricks, timing, and the risk to summer crowds at events like the World's Fair and circuses.
A collage quotes John Barry praising Elaine and DiMaggio recalling a close escape. Senator Donahey hints at shifting war warnings. Burle Marx reflects on music bridging nations and reducing hostilities.
President Roosevelt argues that democracy succeeds not by land, wealth, or force but by the desires and deep satisfaction of every citizen including men women and children who form the nation’s electorate.
The president slept undisturbed as he ignored Adolf Hitler’s thunderous rhetoric at six in the morning. The scene highlights Roosevelt’s routine despite the global turmoil of the era and ongoing tensions with Germany.
The piece argues that efforts to combat dictatorships by many states are paradoxically steering those nations toward authoritarian rule, weakening the global stance against autocracy. It notes rising central power, reduced civil liberties, and consolidation of authority as governing bodies imitate regimes they oppose.
A brisk slice of Broadway chatter highlights Eleanor Powell, Beatrice Lillie, Doris Duke, and Barbara Hutton in social spots around Astor, Fifth Avenue, and Harlem venues. Notes include Blue Barrow on conscription chatter, John Emery’s mixed notices, and Hemingway’s Spain project. Glenn Miller debuts at Glen Island. World’s Fair rush prompts hotel booking spikes. Descriptions mix humor with insider sight-lines and city scene color.
A jumble notes a honeymoon tragedy on 47th Street where a bride leaped from a hotel window after a tuberculosis-related letter to her husband, plus a Broadway air base plan for San Juan and a Puerto Rico zone claim. It mentions Rollin Kirby’s resignation, Pecora’s Wall Street book, and Buddy Ebsen’s Yokel Boy rehearsals amid casino beer prices and Parisian impostors.
A doomed romance unfolds as a famous swing star battles illness while his Ohio lover weighs family opposition. Her parents scorn musicians and annulled a marriage, yet she clings to love and hopes a broadcasted message or column clipping may reunite them before his life ends.
The piece highlights New York icons such as Paul Whiteman with a 12 inch Deep Purple platter, Jean Ellington’s stage act, Marcella Hendricks at the Fair's Zuyder Zee, and the Amazons with javelin tosses. It notes MGM's Goodbye Mr Chips and Zanuck’s Rose of Washington Square plus Dick Robertson’s Decca recording To Live the Life of a Lie, with Henry Dreyfus' Perisphere interior referenced.
The piece lists witty barroom lines from several locations including Paradise and The Village Barn. Notable quips compare marriage to a merger and humorous takes on relationships and manners, presented as a celebration of sharp local humor.
Junior High School nine defeated Salisbury by 7 to 0 on home ground yesterday afternoon. J Elwood Carroll spoke at High Point College during the anniversary program on Literature in the Age of Science. High Point High School debaters beat Greensboro in Greensboro yesterday.
Miss Vera Idol spends the weekend in Raleigh as guest of Mrs. L. L. Ivey. Miss Elizabeth Snow Welborn and Miss Billie Hiatt to attend the Chapel Hill dance tonight. Knox Wilson Charles Kephart and Walter Murray depart for Chicago to attend a furniture exposition.
Tornando toll in the South listed at 38. Grand juries in Chicago return 125 indictments against booze gangsters and slot machine racketeers.
An editorial recalls wartime production surge and Germany’s fears as America prepared to end the war. It notes the heavy costs of arming a postwar force and emphasizes raising funds through the Victory Liberty Loan to secure victory and rebuild.
A column of barroom lines from venues such as Famous Door Russian Art Onyx Leon and Eddie's and Queen Mary presents sharp wits and jibes. Each remark targets relationships and social behavior with a punchy, period voice.
A whimsical remark by Broadway Confucius notes that the girl on the mind is far more dangerous than the one on the lap. The quip plays on contrasts between thought and action, reflecting stage humor of the era.
Bruce Catton reports from Washington on the rising system of state line barriers to interstate trade. He notes numerous truck and motor vehicle regulations and taxes plus dairy, fruit, and dairy product movement controls, with projections of heavy economic impact and calls for federal–state cooperation to create uniform standards and possible federal steps.
A Kansas man fell into a hole while chasing a hat blown off by the wind and remained trapped for four hours. Officials say he likely wore the same hat for about a decade.
Miners and operators remain deadlocked as their conference room debate over coal heating stalls progress. Had the hotel run or ef coal heated the room, an agreement might have been reached earlier.
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