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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1939
Page
4
A compact religious quotation cites James 4 7 urging submission to God and resistance of evil. It also references Thomas a Kempis with a poetic aphorism about will and desire. The piece blends biblical verse with a Renaissance devotional voice.
The piece weighs how Berlin Moscow relations influenced Hitler’s rearmament and global danger, noting Britain and France feared Bolshevism and Spain’s Civil War, then praises a local school centennial celebration and hails Ben Dixon MacNeill for press coverage of an ancient shipwreck found near Oregon Inlet on Roanoke Island.
The piece argues practical, hands on work is crucial alongside formal education. Citing ex GM president Knudsen it urges youths to pursue skilled trades and manual labor, warning that overreliance on college paths weakens practical know how. It lauds production driven by workers rising to leadership.
The passage questions if a war vessel built for England by Sir Walter Raleigh or a Sir Francis Drake ship wrecked after a storm could explain the Lost Colony. It suggests tying the wreck to Drake’s fleet and to disprove Harker’s Island claims as Roanoke’s site, framing the discovery with new glamour.
A Nebraska reporter born in Grand Forks, Douglas E. Lurton, builds a new publishing idea. He moves to Minneapolis to refine it and pitches Wilfred Funk, who buys the concept for a pocket size magazine called Your Life. The first issue debuts in October, profit comes immediately, and the model proves a rare success.
In a Sunday union service at a Protestant church a Jewish Rabbi delivered the principal talk. The writer questions why a Rabbi, not professing Christianity, would occupy a Christian pulpit and argues salvation rests on Jesus Christ, while criticizing the Rabbi’s call for mind freedom and restraint. The letter ends noting continuation on Page 9.
Walter Winchell reports on Broadway chatter naming Jessica Pepper linked to A Arthur ex columnist, the Luther Adlers shelving stage, Litvinoff’s rumored Soviet exit, Barrymore legal standoff, jockey Coucci quitting, Jamaica bookies losses, Frank Erickson booked for seventy thousand, a cancelled Bund meeting, and Eve Curie introduced at Dutch Treat Club.
Federal agents investigate Nazi consular officers for activities akin to those that led to purges of the Storm Troopers. The Department of Justicers probes the scandal quietly. The Hennies are accused of attempting to woo several American soldiers to gain Army secrets, a plan that failed.
Nancy Carroll may accept Van Smith after he flew in from the Coast to shadow her. John King Lardner's son and his wife expect their heir around mid May. Dorothy Lamour and Charlie Barnet rumored merger date in Mexico. Lee Wiley is overworked at Drs Hosp. Clare Luce supports the Abraham Lincoln Battalion. Ralph Pulitzer reportedly seriously ill. Father Divine negotiates for a building at 124th and Lex. The Circus has paid most of its loan, with 190 thousand still due and a large tour advance. The new torch song echoes themes from Dinner for One Please James.
The report claims a Bund leader has a German criminal past including theft of clothing from University of Munich students and four months in prison. When later questioned in a case, he denied a German record and faces potential deportation for perjury both on entry and on citizenship.
Report notes Elliott Roosevelt Ralph Hitz and Amon Carter plan a new night club The Texas Ranch on top of the Belmont Plaza Hotel. Mention of AFLA Chorus Girls Union vs NTG set for upcoming clash. Several odd lines reference Hollywood rehearsals layoffs and a midtown raid involving Nazis and radio gear. Jimmy Stout credited with a Johnstown victory and a dismissive remark about the Mrs.
During the Golden Spike celebrations locals and guests in period costume suffered injuries when a New York columnist allegedly fired a handgun. Mrs. Ray Gage, wife of a Union Pacific official, was hit in the foot by a blank cartridge wad at St. Joseph's Hospital. Other victims included Cecil B. Beville's PR man Bill Hebert and his companion. The shooter reportedly fired a six shooter into the air on Madison Avenue from a cab.
Prosecutor Dewey received a four month old report detailing Nazi smuggling of guns and tear gas bombs into New York with names and places but no action has been taken. The piece questions why the report remains unacted upon while other show business notes and industry items appear in circulation.
Earle W. Waldron plans a living newspaper dramatization that will reveal Fritz Kuhn, Bund chieftain, soon to be replaced by a beautiful titled German woman with international social contacts.
The fragment notes Wilfred Clark a 72 year old nephew of John Wilkes Booth, an actor with the Federal Theatre. It mentions a nude stage mishap at a fair and rumors about Betsy Lawlor Dodgers, Tallulah Bankhead supporting an orphan, and possible marriage talks involving C Gehringer of the Tigers and a Dodge widow.
The Redpath Chau tauqua will open here May 13. Local UNC alumni held a banquet at the country club last night with Executive Secretary Robert House of Chapel Hill delivering the principal address. Prof. Charles W. Phillips of Greensboro spoke at a Wesley Memorial Church supper meeting for church school workers.
Miss Nancy Carr Terry of Salem College spends the evening in the city. Mrs. Wilbur Jones expected home today from Atlanta. The local Children of the Confederacy chapter will sell Confederate flags in High Point Friday with proceeds aiding local work.
In a Georgia farm school today Governor Roosevelt of New York called for better home living conditions improved agricultural methods and elimination of inefficiency in local government. C C Crawford defeated K D Cox for mayor in Asheboro yesterday.
Twenty years ago High Point reports reaching its Liberty Loan quota with an intensive drive totaling 607 950 dollars. The city is poised to gain an ice cream cone plant as a local concern plans to start making cones today beneath Henderson and Foast Meat Market on South Main Street. An electrical storm knocked out half the linotype battery at The Enterprise, reducing reading matter in today’s issue.
Local business men and farmers in the immediate section decided yesterday afternoon to ensure the city gets a creamery. A stock solicitation committee is J J Farriss A E Tate J E Millis C C Robbins P M Davis and W B Richardson.
Three American naval flyers took to the air today for a flight across the Atlantic as Germany is expected to sign a peace treaty and press for momentum.
European states engage in diplomacy to win influence with Greece amid shifting regional alignments. The comment contrasts perceptions of Greek ties and reveals competing interests from external powers.
The Detroit editor reports Gehringer may stay single after seeing her often while remarks about a drowned bridegroom on a honeymoon, a bottle cap inventor's son leaving 15 million to three elderly sisters, and the fund to Harvard Yale and Princeton. Mention of Marinelli ally Elvira Caffre shifting to Jimmy Kelly, and various other odds and ends.
Bruce Catton notes a spring effort led by the American Association for Economic Freedom to unite liberals behind a national program to end unemployment via government action. The plan outlines a National Reconstruction Commission and industry councils, with licensing, capital support, and controlled private ownership to expand production and absorb unemployment.
The speaker notes world peoples will learn the golden rule, praising belief while Naysayers doubt. The piece remarks Lou Gehrig’s streak being broken and questions which umpire has caused the most deflected pop bottles. It compares German ambitions to Polish prospects, viewing them as distant.
Baseball season opens early so magnates can exploit cold weather to stage lucrative summer doubleheaders, maximizing gate receipts and broadcasting gains.
The text notes that many visitors may not inspect scientific exhibits yet, but clarifies that the fair teaches what a trylan and a periscope are, highlighting basic scientific explanations at the event.
Episcopal Bishop Francis M. Taitu speaks on the need for unity among believers to resist sin the world and the devil in a call for collective moral strength and religious resolve.
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