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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1939
Page
3
Washington reports on the Dies committee uncovering an anti Semite plot to spread fear across the country. The piece outlines a coordinated network using fake conversations and mimeographed bulletins to convince elites and officials, aiming to steer public opinion and policy.
Mrs Ophelia Thompson Griffin, ending 42 years in the city school system, was unanimously elected a life member of the High Point Teachers Forum at the forum's final session at William Penn High School. Other officers were re elected for 1939 40 except secretary who declined. The secretary will become program chair.
Newton lawyer W C Feimster opposed parole for Kohler Holdsclaw who fled North Carolina 13 years ago and lived in Michigan as a model citizen. He represented the family of John W Gabriel who was allegedly killed. Holdsclaw also known as Frank Bentley was arrested on a drunken driving charge and fingerprinted. Returned to North Carolina in March 1938. Michigan residents including ex Governor Frank Murphy urged a parole review.
Governor Bain left the North Carolina State Senate before taking the Beer Czar role while remaining on the Wayne County Welfare Board. Wayne board members receive five dollars per diem up to a maximum of sixty dollars a year, with limits on meetings. The text notes Wake Forest electricity charges near tops, with a claimed rate drop from twenty to nineteen cents per kilowatt hour.
The State Highway Commission bulletin dated May 15 shows 27 of 88 projects to be completed by June 1 and eight more due before mid next month. It notes eight eight repair projects were under way as of May 15.
Beaver Pennsylvania May 25 A 17 year old Paul Cook confessed to killing his parents Forrest Cook 45 and Eleanor Cook 24 and his sister Eleanor 24 at their farm home saying they were mean to him He told authorities he did not get along with his father who blamed him for minor troubles including a forged check and other small misdeeds He was jailed pending murder charges at the trial court.
Invitations are out for the June 10 wedding at 7 p m at the First Presbyterian Church Fayetteville. Flora McPherson McNeill daughter of former State Senator George McNeill and a member of the State Board of Elections will wed Harold Jadison Dillehay. The April accident report notes one fatality among drivers with under three months experience and two crashes with possible fatalities among those with eight to six months experience.
Of 80 deaths in April highway accidents no less than 20 were pedestrians killed on roadways. Kieht were killed crossing a highway seven walking along the roadway and five were children at play in the street.
A newspaper note observes that only seven of thirty pedestrian fatalities occurred inside city limits while a country road appears deadlier than city streets. The remark contrasts urban and rural risk.
Osteopathic physicians from across North Carolina converge on Raleigh for their annual meeting. The program includes a symposium on influenza and pneumonia, a paper on gall bladder drainage, a tech demonstration, and discussions on foot care and sciatic neuritis. Dr. Thomas M. Funk of Mooresville is president.
Two Arabs were killed and three wounded when shots fired into an Arab crowd at Haifa Port Easter railway station. Arabs blamed Jewish assailants for the violence.
Elon College will award five honorary degrees at the 49th commencement. U. S. Senator J. W. Bailey, Jonathan Daniels, Rev. Robert W. Coe, Rev. Roger E. Treat, and Thomas Alfred Morgan will receive Litt. D., Doctor of Divinity, Doctor of Divinity, and Doctor of Science degrees respectively.
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