Medico Says U. S. Could Save Billions By Treating Mental Diseases
Dr. Arthur H. Ruggles of Providence says mental health is the nation’s greatest medical problem and could save about one billion dollars annually if mental disease is prevented and treated early. He notes 51 percent of hospital beds hold mental illness patients and urges public education, physician training, and coordinated funding to cut sickness and death rates.
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Stephen J. McDonough
Chicago
United States
American Psychiatric Association
Arthur H. Ruggles
Providence
R. L
America
Ruggles
Pittman Cash and Carry plan eyed as neutrality debate grows
The article reports on Senator Pittman pushing a mandatory Cash and Carry system for all American goods including munitions, effectively repealing the arms embargo. It details proposed penalties for entry into combat zones and the potential for President discretion in enforcing the law amid undeclared war scenarios. Senator Vandenberg proposes renewing only the expired Cash and Carry provisions, drawing bipartisan interest but no clear winner.
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Belliger
Pittman
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Congress
Vandenberg
R-Mich
Pumpkin Pie Origins and Preparation
The text states pumpkin pie originated in England and describes a method where a pumpkin is baked after being filled with apples. This suggests a traditional combination of pumpkin and apple filling baked into a pie.
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England
Leaders Discuss Outlook Of Legislation In Congress
President Roosevelt and party leaders reviewed the legislative outlook in Washington noting no adjournment date. Senator Barkley said the soft coal issue was mentioned but no specific administration action was discussed. Somoza spoke delaying agriculture bill in the Senate.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Barkley
Kentucky
Somoza
Senate
Agriculture Department
Chamber
Anastasio Somoza
Nicaragua
la Guardia
New York
House
WPA
Works Progress Administration
Hopkins
United States Chamber of Commerce
Man Held for Double Killing Amid Silent Denial
A man named Burgunder, arrested in Johnson City Tennessee, proclaims innocence while awaiting transfer to Phoenix with a fellow detainee. He asks his father to stay out of the case and his mother in California urges courage. He plans to enroll at Teachers College under an alias, insisting he did not commit murder.
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Ruth Burgunder
Alhambra
California
Jordan
Harless
Phoenix
Burgunder
Johnson City
Tenn
Earl Sell
R. M. Burgunder
Seattle
Alahambra
Calif
Teachers College
Berlin Rome Axis Closer After Parley
Sir William Leeds, British ambassador in Moscow, to deliver Britain’s formal reply to a Soviet proposal for a British French Russian alliance. The Duke of Windsor at Verdun plans a 4 p.m. radio appeal to the United States calling for peace after his abdication speech of Dec 11, 1936. Pope Pius XII renews a plea for peace and urges a May crusade of prayer during a French address to Algerian Eucharistic Congress.
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William Leeds
Moscow
Duke
Duke of Windsor
Verdun
France
United States
Pius XII
Algiers
Algeria
AFL Mobilizes Drive to Enroll Textile Workers Nationwide
Leaders of the American Federation of Labor launch a campaign to enroll about 1,250,000 textile workers under the AFL banner amid a dispute with CIO aligned leaders over UTW rights. UTW head Francis J. Gorman says court rulings support UTW, while CIO plans a TWOC UTW merger convention in Philadelphia next week.
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Washington
American Federation of Labor
CIO
United Textile Workers’ Standard
AFL
UTW
Francis J. Gorman
Textile Workers Organizing Committee
TWOC
Philadelphia
Gorman
William Green
Hoey Addresses Trinity School Graduates
Governor Hoey presided over diploma presentations after a Raleigh address urging graduates to live by industry intelligence and integrity. He stressed self control, national pride, and the pursuit of happiness within American liberty as the graduates received diplomas.
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Seneca
Jesus Christ
America
Hoey
William Albertson
John Brooks
Mary Burton
Clifford Cagle
Wyatt Church
Doris Clinard
Donald Clodfelter
Margaret Cook
Paul Duncan
Joseph Farlow
Verda Farlow
Jeff Frazier
Helen Gibson
Annie Gray
Ollie Hepler
Virginia Hill
Frances Hughes
Russell Hunt
Leonard Hurley
Lowell Hurley
A. C. Jones
Paul Kearns
Margaret Knight
Evelyn Lackey
Ruth Laughlin
Leatrice Lindley
Hallie Marsh
Lottie Milligan
Kathleen Poole
Milton Reddick
Harold Richardson
Ernest Riddick
Sterlin Robbins
Fred Royals
Virginia Simmons
van Smith
Annie Spencer
Juanita Steed
Thad Steed
Imogene Sumner
Marie Thayer
Frances Trotter
Dorothy Wall
Lucille
Walters
Billie Welborne
Banks
NLRB Proposes Four Charges For Act Debate
The NLRB asks four charges be considered in the act, opposing expansion ideas and criticizing proposals to loosen employer expression on unionization. The board warns increasing board size echoes earlier cautions about government efficiency.
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NLRB
Ilar
Senate Labor Committee
Rep. Anderson
DMO
Anderson
Labor Board
Hughes
Supreme Court
Coleridge Scouts Lead Strong Uwharrie Camporee Patrols
The seventh annual Uwharrie Council Camporee closed with 49 patrols checked in at 4 p.m. Officials praised top ratings, led by Coleridge Troop 504 Lion patrol with 622 points. Other high scorers include High Point patrols Silver Fox and Wildcat, Asheboro Crow, and High Point Skunk.
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Uwharrie Council
Lion Patrol
Coleridge
G. R. Hodgin
Silver Fox Patrol
High Point
Wildcat
D. H. Parnell
Crow Patrol
Asheboro
Cameron Parks
Charles McGahey
M. T. Lambeth
Steelman presents compromise amid Pittsburgh coal shutdown
In Pittsburgh Dr James H Greene vice president of the local Chamber of Commerce says the U S Chamber might intervene. He warns if President Roosevelt cannot remedy the situation organized business must act. Authorities estimate the coal shutdown costs miners ten million dollars weekly in wages and railroads eleven million weekly in freight revenues, with thousands more out of work.
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Pittsburgh
James H. Greene
Chamber of Commerce
U. S. Chamber of Commerce
Roosevelt
Osteopathic Ophthalmology and ENT Convention Attends Dallas
Dr F C Sharp of High Point has been invited to attend the American Osteopathic Society of Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology convention. The event runs June 23 to 25 in Dallas, Texas, aligning with the forty third annual meeting of the American Osteopathic Association. About 2,500 osteopathic physicians from the U S Canada and Europe are expected.
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F. C. Sharp
Security National Bank
High Point
American Osteopathic Society of Ophthalmology
Mrs Edna Harris Rites Held In Raleigh
The funeral of Mrs Edna R Harris 67 year old Raleigh resident and corresponding secretary of the State Baptist Woman's Missionary Union was held today. The body was sent to Gaffney South Carolina for burial after a brief illness that caused her death Saturday night.
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Edna R. Harris Raleigh
Edna R. Harris
State Baptist Woman's Missionary Union
Morris
Gaffney
S. C
Dr. Robert Drane Jewett Dies at 79 in Wilmington
Dr. Robert Drane Jewett, a Wilmington physician of 79 and founder of the North Carolina Health Bulletin, died after a brief illness.
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R. D. Jewertt
Wilmington
Robert Drane Jewett
The
North Carolina Health Bulletin
Services At The Churches
Christian Science Sunday services May 7 1939 featured a lesson sermon with Golden Text from I Corinthians 15 22 and citations from Psalms and Mary Baker Eddy. The text discusses spiritual discernment and the idea of humanity regaining Paradise through Truth and divine Science.
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Mary Baker Eddy
Officers Hold Negro After Liquor Raid
Fred Simpson, already facing trial for illegal whiskey possession, was released on $300 bail after sheriff’s deputies nabbed him near the Frank Davis Service Station on Greensboro highway. Thirty one pints of tax paid whiskey were seized from a thicket Friday night. Simpson denied ownership and may face trial at the next session of High Point Municipal Court. The story notes the average life of a passenger car as seven years with an estimated 125000 cars, twice that age, in use in the United States.
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Charlie Freeman
Mangum Avenue
Freeman
L. Shipwash
Cedar Street
Oscar Spivey
West Russell Street
New York
Shipwash
Mattie MacDowell
Gordy Street
Roscoe Friday
Thomas Lackey
Charlie Goodrum
E. H. Wilson
King Street
Anderson Alston
Wade Street
Thomas KE. Knight
Fairfield Road
Clarence F. Ring
Clyde Leonard
Vail Street
William Glenn
William Bynley
South Main Street
Fred Simpson
Frank Davis
Greensboro
Simpson
High Point Municipal Court
United States
Scout Troop Scores Lead At County Event
In a county contest held across Lexington Asheboro High Point Salisbury and Thomasville troops scored from 507 to 551 points. Top finishers include Eagle troop 28 Beaver Asheboro 551 and Flying Eagle troop 228 Salisbury 523.
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Lexington
Asheboro
High Point
Salisbury
Thomasville
Jap warplanes raid south China coast amid civilian evacuations
Japanese planes struck along the South China coast causing heavy property and loss of life as authorities ordered business closures and inland movement. Refugees crowded Chungking amid siege damage while Chiang Kai-Shek’s government location remained unconfirmed.
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South China Coast
Shanghai
South China
Amoy
Chiang Kai-Shek
Chungking
Chengtu
Sezechwan
Domei
Nanking
Hankow
Coltrane named administratrix for Blair estate
Alice Coltrane of 118 Underhill Street qualified as administratrix of the estate of Alice V. Blair who died in High Point on April 26. Heirs include Vertie Lyerly Minnie Blair Mary B. Mason W. W. Blair Jr and John G. Blair. The estate lists 100 in personal property and 2865 in real estate.
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Greensboro
Alice Coltrane
Underhill Street
Superior Court
A. Wayland Cooke
Alice V. Blair
High Point
Vertie Lyerly
Minnie Blair
Norfolk
Mary B. Mason
Atlantic City
N. J
W. W. Blair, Jr
Newark
John G. Blair
Hamlet
Trinity event marks cornerstone of new agricultural building
In High Point the Trinity community gathered for a morning program with music by the High Point College band and an invocation by Dr. O C Williamson. Jeff Frazier presented records to be preserved in the cornerstone of the upcoming agricultural building. A trio sang God Bless America as rain fell and attendees included descendants of Fifteen families from a century past.
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Trinity
Major Craven
Old Trinity
Trinity High School
McCloud
Old College
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