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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1939
Page
3
Puzzle lists a horizontal and vertical word fill with clues for an island republic capital theme. Entries include terms for objects and concepts like eagle's claw talented sound of inquiry and nocturnal mammal along with road, roof of mouth and other body parts and a mix of nouns verbs and adjectives.
Mary Franklin a Gazette society reporter investigates Janice French's death and a secret East 70th Street apartment. She confronts Janice's cold mother and engaging father as the front page tale unfolds with police leads and a public mystery.
A Hollywood writer from the eastern press is hired by a studio and after a slow start adapts a rejected outline into a script. An associate producer sees potential and passes it to veteran story doctors for a rewrite, possibly becoming another film. John Garfield notes fame and autograph mixups with Mrs. Garfield and a fan. A Motion Picture Relief Fund director recounts a Scandinavian nobleman tale.
Macduff from Macbeth. Uncas from The Last of the Mohicans. Silas Marner from Silas Marner. Hopeful from The Idyll of Miss Sarah. Minnehaha from The Song of Hiawatha. Athos from The Three Musketeers.
The article explains how red blood cells carry oxygen via hemoglobin and how exercise boosts red cell activity and concentration. It notes normal cell counts for men and women, discusses body blood volume, and links heart function to blood flow and tissue oxygen supply.
The article by Roberta Lee explains cognac as a premium French brandy from the Cognac region and notes the pronunciation konyak with stress on the first syllable. It also advises that a close friend should not rush to kiss the bride at the ceremony's end before the parents have done so.
A struggling actor who had pawned nearly all possessions asked the relief fund for one evening’s use of a dress suit and studs to attend a reception hosted by Crown Prince Frederick and Princess Ingrid in Los Angeles. Funds were provided but he returned to poverty with suit again pawned and money returned to the relief fund. Detectives advised a climate change after further incidents involving titled but penniless individuals.
A compact vocabulary lesson lists proper forms for relation and relative, notes mispronunciation of suede, and corrects spelling of nasals. It defines synonyms such as vanish disappear dissolve and explains relegation as exile or banishment with a Burke quote about keeping religion from obscurity.
Sugar cane and sugar beet. Nicodemus. The sturgeon. Battle of Quebec. Galveston Texas. Porcupine flesh is a common fisher diet item and even skilled porcupine dispatchers rarely avoid the quills.
A compact item describes rapid events unfolding in sixty seconds as a global moment in time. The piece frames a moving snapshot of world happenings in real time during a minute of reading.
The column notes rapid global production rates: milk and whiskey by the minute, slaughter in Argentina every two seconds, India treating parasites, California citrus value per minute, hearing devices and mail processing speeds, wallpaper usage, and aluminum output per minute.
Anti Nazi demonstrators protested a contract award to a firm supplying window frames for the new British Hospital in Buenos Aires Argentina. In Northern Ireland officials report a cattle anthrax outbreak near Belfast raising animal health concerns.
German disciplinary courts gain power to dismiss pastors who disobey church duty to loyalty to the Fuehrer the People and the Reich. The move tightens Nazi control over church affairs and enforces ideological conformity among clergy.
Advice from Anne Ashley Q recommends oiling the motor per directions brushing and emptying the bag after use turning off the motor when idle to extend the vacuum’s life.
Uncle Ray reflects on humanity's war era fears and progress from cave dwellers in Europe's ice age to fires lit by lamp grease. He notes early technology, such as fire making and pyrite, and recalls stone huts, tools, and hunter gatherer life as a prelude to modern changes shaped by war and invention.
A reader writes to Uncle Ray at The High Point Enterprise seeking 1939 membership in the Uncle Ray Scrapbook Club. They request a Membership Certificate a leaflet on making a Corner Scrapbook and a printed cover design, inclosing a stamped self addressed envelope.
A bridge quiz explains the Blackwood four five no trump convention. South uses cue bidding to show ace or void in clubs and a strong hand, while North bids four hearts to show a five card heart suit and seeks slam potential. South answers five hearts to show two aces and five no trump over four no trump asks for kings, leading to a seven no trump final contract to avoid spade breaks.
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