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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1937
Page
3
Dorothy frets over Joan’s fate after Joan leaves with Mr Hendry following a tense visit at the Downs house. Dorothy blames herself for not staying with Joan and worries about the frightened girl’s wellbeing and possible harsh reaction. She questions where Joan could go at one in the morning with no clothes or money.
Dorothy waits for two thirty then phones Hendry house finding no answer. Joan runs seven miles from Green Hills via a lonely road to Burlington, fearing capture for murder of Mr. Hendry over four thousand dollars. She faces police sirens, a dark station, hunger, cold, and an uncertain fate.
A woman flees peril after Hendry’s murder and faces media scrutiny. She heads to New York to hide, renting a shabby room while avoiding detection as headlines threaten to accuse her. She carries ten dollars and seeks anonymity amid the city’s crowds.
Asheboro May 19 Bosong Hosiery Mills purchased eight 45 gauge full fashioned hosiery machines at the Elmhurst plant sale of the Proper McCallum Hosiery Co. The machines, in good condition, originally cost 10 000 dollars each now bring 2 500 dollars apiece.
A South African farmer near Capetown hung a long tin cane string to deter birds. Baboons discovered the setup and barged in for fruit. A sentinel baboon seized the string and rattled it loudly, sending the group fleeing in fear.
Alexander D. Goode of High Point will be ordained a rabbi Saturday May 22 at graduation exercises of the Hebrew Union College Cincinnati rabbinical seminary. Dr Julian Morgenstern will perform the ordination and confer the degree. Goode earned a 1934 Cincinnati University BA and won five scholastic prizes while at the rabbinical college. He has been business manager of the HUC Monthly and has held a bi weekly pulpit in Marion Indiana and officiated for Jewish holidays in Henderson Kentucky and Alexandria Virginia.
Summer pavement is dry and gritty causing tires to wear faster than in winter. The harsh road surface increases abrasion and reduces tire life due to higher temperatures and more aggressive driving conditions.
An unclear line claims that tires not inflated to the proper point render the speedometer inaccurate. The sentence suggests a link between tire inflation and gauge readings. No further details or context are provided.
Raleigh May 19 The State Alcoholic Beverages Control Board plans to implement rules with minor wording changes and split groups for stores and county boards. Chairman Cutler Moore defends the rules as curbing abuses, banning telephone orders and sample distribution, and prohibiting board members from store offices or sample contact. Local board objections persist, but Moore vows to enforce the law and improve the North Carolina system.
Dairymen from across North Carolina will gather in Salisbury on Thursday to discuss plans for improving creameries. State Dairy Division chief C. W. Pegram and extension dairyman John W. Arey are among the speakers at the Raleigh news item.
The Harbor Board of Napier New Zealand ceded former ocean floor to the government for a housing project. An earthquake six years ago raised the harbor floor and exposed hundreds of acres of dry land. Sixty acres will hold 215 new dwellings forming a model suburb adjacent to the harbor.
Milford Hodgins a 15 year old from High Point North Carolina was returned to Point city court to face charges of absconding with entrusted funds. Arrested in Oklahoma City May 10 he claimed he took the money to come west to be a cowboy. The High Point sheriff refused to send funds but the Kiwanis club bought his return ticket. He said he wanted to go home find a job and repay 285 dollars.
Chief of Police W G Fri says it is not yet clear if Hodgins is 15 16 or 17 years old. A warrant is held. if 15 he would be turned over to juvenile authorities rather than appear before Judge Teague in municipal court. Disposition hinges on age when the boy is found, with prior work as an errand boy at the hall and a deposit of about 350 dollars, including 285 in cash, tied to the case.
Henderson May 19 Dr. Harris Hartwell Bass prominent local surgeon and former state medical society president died after a two month illness He formerly led La Elizabeth hospital chief surgeon and served with Seaboard Airline medical society He practiced with his son Dr H Bass Jr surviving: second wife five sons three daughters one brother Funeral arrangements incomplete.
After Ahmed Hussain and a Ca pote Mohammedan demonstrated walking barefoot on a twenty foot trench of white hot coals at Carshal England an English student fed his shoes and socks and bravely emulated the Indian achievement.
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