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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1937
Page
4
A reflection on James 5 15 urging faith backed prayer to heal the sick and forgive sins. The author A Maclaren emphasizes trust and patience guiding prayer from trust to gratitude and praise.
The article notes a Soviet plane landed near the North Pole with eleven crew, four staying to winter there to study atmospheric conditions while the rest return. It questions the expedition's scientific aims, suggesting propaganda value and potential future air routes to the United States.
An Wilmington report details plans to double the Kure Beach bromine plant and its sea water mining profits. Howard W. Blakeslee notes bromine and by products promise hundreds of millions in value amid scientific advance, while Dr. Willard H. Dow cites dramatic size and impact of the operation.
John D. Rockefeller dies at his Ormond Beach home after a long career marked by immense wealth and harsh impacts on others. The piece contrasts his business power with social acts of charity and critiques monopoly while noting his legacy in American industry. Royal Snobs Refute British Democracy argues that monarchy fosters snobbery, contrasting England's title culture with American democratic ideals as society reacts to Wallis Warfield's marriage to the Duke of Windsor.
Washington reports three proposals the Chandler Barkley and Lea measures aim to curb corporate reorganization abuse and protect bondholders investors. The bills seek disinterested trustees in reorganizations ban conflicting interests and require fuller disclosure to security holders.
The field challenges government and industry. those working in it must bless the force that provides constructive standards rather than tolerate a vacillating path toward chaos.
The North Carolina purchase division rejected bids for about 60 patrol cars due to silvery paint. Officials may seek new bids with plainer paint to save money and improve highway safety. Critics say Raleigh prefers parade glamour over life-saving changes, echoing the slogan Semper parades catchum nit.
The explosion that damaged the British destroyer Hunter during international patrol duty off the Spanish coast is cited as a potential spark for war. The piece argues the United States should avoid supplying warships in such volatile conditions, warning history like Remember the Maine shows how easily tensions rise.
A lively testimonial dinner celebrated Broadway figure Gene Buck with notable guests. Joseph P. Tumulty presided, delivering praise and generous compliments as performers and producers joined in a brash, festive display.
Diary entries from New York on May 24 describe cheer from Jacob Ruppert Sheila Barrett Alice Brady and Ted Healy. A London letter from Tom Geraghty praises ancient streets. A wedding reception at Glenhead for the T Dennis Boardmans and plans with J Bryan III for a Saturday Evening Post piece are noted.
Local news notes parade a charity drive at the bandstand with YWCA members selling cold drinks ice cream candies and nuts to fund conference plans. Rotary club installs new officers Logan Porter president and W C Idol secretary treasurer.
Rev H N Bowne and Mrs Bowne along with Mr and Mrs Matt are part of the local social notes indicating arrivals and visits in Raleigh today.
As guests depart, Grantland Rice, a touch groggy, tells Arthur McKeogh that the shouting and tumulty die down. The remark captures the evening’s fading energy after the celebratory event.
Crowds in England hum a catchy tune during coronation celebrations while radio and street performers spread the earworm. London embraces milk as a trend, and New York sees orange drink stands blooming in shopfronts. A quirky American restaurant named Ye Old Doughnut Dunkery opens beside Palladium in London.
A $200,000 manufacturing plant is organized here to produce hosiery yarn for High Point mills. The yarn mill will house 5000 spindles and manufacture 1600 to 2000 pounds of yarn daily. A Moffitt is named among principal stockholders.
Capt. A. M. Rankin arrives in Lexington on business. Albert Rawley hosts a party May 22 for his seventh birthday. Miss Clara Steele returns from Greensboro College seas where she has been a student.
Raid on the English coast last night cited with 29 officers and 373 men missing from the British transport Transylvania torpedoed in the Mediterranean on May 4.
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