Local O. E. S. Chapter to Meet Tuesday Night
High Point chapter 106 Order of the Eastern Star will meet Tuesday night at 8 at the Masonic Halls. All members are urged to attend and visitors are welcome. Also today YW A of Green Street Baptist meets at 7 30 with Miss Clara Farrington at 720 South Main. Good Will Garden Club meets tomorrow at 10 with Mrs H E Johnson on Greenway drive. Junior Garden club asks members to send flowers for the regional show May 15 16 to Mrs J A Eshelman on Johnson street by late Wednesday. D A R chapter meets Tuesday at 3 30 at Mrs R K Stewart home with several associate hostesses.
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O. FE. S
High Point
Order of the Eastern Star
Masonic Halls
Green Street Baptist Church
Clara Farrington
South Main Street
Good Will Garden Club
H. E. Johnson
Greenway Drive
Junior Garden Club
J. A. Eshelman
Johnson Street
Alexander Martin
R. K. Stewart
J. Fox Marshall
W. A. Underwood
Bruce Carraway
A. 8. Caldwell
Clyde Farlow
W. L. Tabb
Local residents visit and travel notes
Mr and Mrs Ben Cooper and children of Statesville spent yesterday with relatives. Mrs Carrie Cook Gray left for Bernardsville NJ after visiting sister in law Mrs H L Cook. Mr and Mrs J C Gold returned from a Shenandoah Valley motor trip visiting Endless Caverns. Mr and Mrs John Slane of Statesville visited with daughters Mrs Frank Wineskie and Mrs Fred Whitescarver and son Willis Slane. Mrs Ballinger of Hickory visits Mrs Matt Wall and will compete in the Southern Women's Golf Association tournament at Sedgefield starting tomorrow.
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Ben Cooper
Statesville
Carrie Cook Gray
Bernardsville
N. J
H. L. Cook
J. C. Gold
City
Shenandoah Valley
John Slane
Frank Wineskie
Fred Whitescarver
Willis Slane
Ballinger
Hickory
Matt Wall
Foreigners Targeted in Communist Propaganda Drive
In Amoy China on May 12 Chinese communists in southwest Fukien province launched a campaign accusing foreigners of meddling in China's politics. They charged the United States Great Britain and Japan with backing Chinese factions to gain influence and trade privileges. The dispatch cites editorials accusing Britain and the U S of supporting Feng Yu-Hsiang Yen Shi-Shan and other factions to aid their interests. A second piece alleges American and Japanese assistance to multiple factions in southwest China for similar aims.
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Amoy
China
Fukien Province
United States
Great Britain
Japan
Feng Yu-Hsiang
Yen Shi-Shan
Northwestern
Kuomintang
Cotton Exports Decline As Home Mills Expand
In 1928 Virginia and the Carolinas produced 1,660,000 bales of cotton but mills in these states consumed 3,040,000 bales as factories expand, reducing export via Hampton Roads according to Clarence W. Newman of the Virginia state chamber of commerce research department.
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Richmond
Be an Beetle 10 Be Active Again Raleigh May 12
Extension entomologist C. H. Brannon warns the Mexican bean beetle has spread across North Carolina threatening snapbean crops. He advises careful magnesium arsenate spraying on the underside of leaves, starting now, and to stop when edible pods form.
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Raleigh
C. H. Brannon
North Carolina State College
Mr. Brannon
Ted
Stetson Leader Nominated for Baptist Presidency
Dr. Lincoln Hulley president of Stetson University in Deland Florida is placed in nomination by Dr. Claude W. Duke Tampa minister for the Southern Baptist convention presidency in New Orleans this week Duke travels from Florida to attend the annual convention opening Wednesday Also nominated are Dr. M C Dodd Dr L R Scarborough and Dr John E K White from respective cities and seminaries
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Tampa
Fla
Lincoln Hulley
Stetson University
Deland
Claude W. Duke
Southern Baptist Convention
New Orleans
Duke
Florida Baptists
Hulley
George W. Truett
Dallas
Texas
M. C. Dodd
Shreveport
L. R. Scarborough
Seminary Hill
John EK. White
Savannah
Five Day Week Gains Ground for Building Trades
A Bureau of Labor Statistics survey finds 349 296 workers in the United States building trades now on a five day week, marking a rise in the partial implementation of standard work weeks across the industry.
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Washington
United States
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Radium Discovery Described as Saltlike in Early Findings
The article notes radium was found about 35 years prior and describes its appearance as similar to ordinary salt, highlighting early observations of this radioactive element.
Military court opens to probe mob violence in Sherman
A Sherman military court investigates a mob that burned the city court house after a fatal attack on a white woman. Sixteen men are held. fourteen faces federal prohibition charges. Coroner says George Hughes suffocated in a vault before his body was dragged and burned.
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Sherman
Tex
Lawrence E. McGee
National
Dan Moody
George Hughes
Salem College Seniors View Wayside Inn Project
Nine members of the Salem College senior class in education visited the Ray Street School to inspect the Wayside Inn project built by Mrs. Dan R. Schroder's fifth grade class.
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Salem College
Wayside Inn
Dan R. Schroder
Ray Street
Adoption of Australian Ballot Across States
The so called Australian or secret ballot system has been adopted by all states in one form or another, standardizing voting procedures nationwide.
Early Water Purification Advances
The initial method used sand filtration. By 1895 a mechanical process sped purification, operating about 40 times faster and removing 38 to 99 percent of bacteria.
New Books Review Highlights Publicity Clash in Culture
Richard Maslock argues that American culture is spoiled by loud book publicity and mob mentality. A May issue features a Week End Library with 19 reprints including Of Human Bondage and Where the Blue Begins, plus novelties Youth and The Time Machine and various excerpts, essays and stories from noted authors.
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Richard Maslock
New York
Ballyhoo
Frank K. Noteu
Mitch
W. Somerset Mangham
Christopher Morely
Joseph Covnrad
H. 4 G. Wells
Edna Ferber
Stephen Vincent Benet
Frank Noyes Hart
Arnold Bennett
Walt Whitman
Panicking the Mob and the Popularizer Notch Commentary
Notch critiques mass appeal and public applause shaping politics and culture. He argues the mob chases fads from books to toothpaste, corrupting truth through popularizers who butcher their subjects. Culture, he says, is something the public must be, not possess.
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America
Oscar Umlaut
Notch
Papa
Reviewers Note Spring Decline in Literary Quality
Some reviewers this spring have seen a lowering in the general quality of the literary output. Confidential word comes to this.
Hoover Hosts Stag Dinner for Earl Derby Visitor
President Hoover hosted a White House luncheon honoring the Earl of Derby on his route to Louisville for the Kentucky Derby. Attendees included Sir Ronald Lindsay, Secretary Mellon, Under-Secretary Mills, Joseph E. Widener, and Hugh Wallace.
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Washington
Hoover
White House
Earl of Derby
Louisville
Ronald Lindsay
Mellon
Mills
Joseph EB. Widener
Philadelphia
Hugh Wallace
France
Lord Derby
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