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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1939
Page
4
A concise collection of quotations on prayer and bold request. John 16 24 urges asking in his name to receive joy. Lavater notes that generous habit enables noble, bold asking.
The Duke Power project faces opposition from High Point citizens, Yankin County, and property owners in the Yankin basin. The debate centers on eminent domain, tax loss to Yadkin County, and the city’s obligation to pay taxes if court rulings require it. The paper urges resolving tax questions through legal finish rather than preemptive settlements.
The Connecticut General Assembly may receive the Lyman Beecher homestead as an executive mansion. If accepted, the Beecher name would again symbolize civic virtue with Harriet and Henry Ward Beecher and their siblings cited for moral leadership and national impact on abolition and reform.
The High Point Civitan Club adds a photographer to its officers showing growing use of pictures in publicity. The piece notes amateur photographers bring freshness but must respect privacy while newspapers lean on images for public interest as society follows submarine news and calls for end of war machines.
The article argues submarines are deadly weapons regardless of craftmanship, recalling the Lusitania torpedo from a German U boat. It notes submarines as a shared concern among major powers and frames them as devilish yet closely watched in the era of potential future conflicts.
A prize contest offers 25 dollars to first, 10 dollars to second and 5 dollars to third for stories on curing inferiority and gaining courage. Read about Virginia Kunkler of Hollywood who transformed self view after an intelligence test and later started an engineering trade magazine.
Walter Winchell on Broadway notes bookmakers groaning over a phone wager ban and calls it a tough crooked dollar era. Eddie Cantor’s Loew’s State date on June 29 stands 50 50 from the gate. in Boston his last percentage run yielded 18 thousand in a week. Brenda Frazier quips there’s no special guy, sharing lines from escorts. The International Casino finale thrills spectators, George White delays Scandals in Atlantic City to July 17, Cobina Wright Jr. sings at the Ritz in Boston with Bernie’s band. Nicky Blair of the Paradise frets on business, and Mayor La Guardia may be wired to scrap the Fair and revive 6th Ave. L.
A city schools report released today shows about 8000 students enrolled in the past eight months, up roughly 400 from last year. Anna Gertrude Douglas is named regional champion in a flag contest and will compete for national honors in Washington with other regional winners. A boy and a girl will earn a free trip around the world.
The wife of a Broadway producer, bored with everything, dismisses a friend's suggestion to travel saying there are other places she would rather see first.
A club raconteur teased a dancer new to Broadway as a "sweet little" home girl easily shocked. Beatrice Lillie queried with a dry line, asking if the subject was Tallulah Bankhead. The bit played on star personas in a late night column.
Miss Dallas Loflin received a surprise birthday at her home 805 Carr Street on Wednesday evening in honor of her 22nd birthday. Miss Bettie Corbett returned from Baltimore, and Mrs. Tom Powell hosted the Beta Pi club gathering yesterday.
At the fair last night Rosita Royce the Sally Randish dancer chatted about her act. Asked how many shows she does daily she replied Eighteen. A bystander gasped at the workload. She quipped that the doves tire easily while she stays energetic.
Irvin Berlin discusses Sid Silvers mother’s illness as Silvers rushes from Hollywood to visit. A long distance call from Hollywood prompts debate on a scene in a proposed script with a suggestion involving lap dissolves and a hero reveal. Mrs Silvers jokes about his dialect.
One student was killed and 32 injured as protests against examinations erupted in Mexico City. Ambassador Dwight Morrow left Mexico City for Englewood New Jersey to attend his daughter Anne Morrow Lindberghs marriage to Charles A. Lindbergh.
Twenty years ago Dr W C Smith dean of North College for Women will deliver the baccalaureate sermon to the senior class at 8:30 Sunday evening in the school auditorium Miss Florence C Bullard a Red Cross nurse will speak on her war experiences Wednesday night of chautauqua
A New York reporter asked the eldest son about his father’s arrest in a Philadelphia poison ring case. The son dismissed the interview and called the accusation a dirty lie as the reporter cited possible charges of extortion and bribery involving a $1000 payment and a bizarre instruction.
Mrs. G. W. Clark visited Greensboro yesterday afternoon. Mary Agnes Crowder left this morning for Blackstone Virginia for several weeks. Miss Frances Bowman of Randleman is visiting her sister Miss Louise Bowman.
The piece notes strong Republican support in national polls and recalls the Literary Digest collapse after Landon’s perceived lead. It also mentions media chatter about cross party lines, German contacts, and upcoming television auditions as cultural shifts unfold.
The Old Bay Line steamer Virginia burned to the water’s edge near the Potomac mouth. There were 156 passengers aboard and three firemen, all Black, are reported dead. Also noted: Austrian army to vanish under treaty terms and WWI hero Alvin C York visiting Washington.
Washington residents practice curtseys ahead of the king and queen’s visit as some congressmen learn bending gestures.
The piece sketches lighthearted cultural notes from a bygone era. It mentions The Cake of Yesterday in The World of Tomorrow, Cary Grant and Jean Arthur in a Berlin style exchange, and a chorus girl claiming a specialty. It also riffs on legal changes and media personalities with a sharp, humorous tone.
In Akron Ohio a man was arrested after taking photographs at a gambling resort with a candid camera. He was taken into custody and revealed his shirt in the incident.
The Fair’s blow to Broadway prompts several managers to question safety. Billy Rose pays performers to jump into the Aquacade lake even as some are ready to do it for nothing. Adel Bert Therne, a Bund punk, confronts a motorist at Yaphank and discovers the motorist stood up to a deputy sheriff. A $15 fine underscores the first principle of Ratzism: make the victim utterly helpless before the strike. Similes compare the situation to Jimmy Durante’s prominent nose.
Bruce Catton reports on Senate Foreign Relations hearings about the Monroe Doctrine and a possible axis foothold in South America through Bolivia. Legal opinions vary on U S action if a sovereign government allies with totalitarian powers, with some senators hinting at a new doctrine if needed. The piece also notes a sharp drop in farm futures trading in 1938 and 1939 due to government loans and subsidies, reducing speculative activity in wheat corn and cotton.
Secretary Ickes will oversee the transfer of a Bureau of Fisheries aquarium with black bass pike and terrapins from the Commerce building to the Interior Department. The aquarium plus a small museum could make the Interior basement a Washington show spot after the July reorgan ization.
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