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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 27, 1939
Page
4
A religious excerpt cites Deuteronomy 24 7 warning death for Israelites thieves and Lavater stating a man who cheats a friend cheats God. The piece presents a brief biblical and moral reflection.
An observer notes how nations inflate or downplay war damages before and after conflicts. Russia accuses Finland of injuries, Germany touts battleship losses, England disputes figures, while a North Carolina paper urges readers to distrust wartime reports as public skepticism grows.
North Carolina signs to enforce the Federal Wage and Hour Law within its borders becoming the first state department to contract with the federal division. The plan adds six factory inspectors and a technical advisor to liaison between agencies and aims to reduce duplicated inspections.
In 1864 victories by Union forces led to Thanksgiving being set on the last Thursday of November. A Chapel Hill letter cites General Sheridan’s October 19 battle at Cedar Creek and Lincoln’s October 20 proclamation, establishing the tradition.
Lowell L. Leake, vice president editor of the Asheboro newspaper, a columnist with experience at Washington Post and other papers, presents vivid sketches of the great and near great in his column News and News. He discusses evangelists including Billy Sunday and Dwight L. Moody.
Aimee Semple McPherson drew a crowd in Denver when a kneeling prospector, mid-blessing scene, had his trousers rip revealing the back seam. Reporters snickered as she calmly turned the man to the choir and offered reassurance.
The page quotes Senate Minority Leader Charles L. McNary urging the Republican Party to prove farm welfare concern to farmers. It also features varied remarks from Dr E Frank Salmon on personal faith, Oscar Strauss on Nazi theft of works, a psychologist on insomnia, and J A Colescott calling for Klan disorganization to end anti-Semitism and anti-Catholicism.
Heinrich Himmler visits Prague to enforce school attendance among Czech students. The action underscores Nazi control over education and civilian life in occupied Czechoslovakia.
Walter Winchell columns gossip about births marriages and scandals from 1940s Broadway. Mentions include Mrs Orson Welles expecting freedom to wed C Lederer and a 10 pound girl for Jimmy Kerns of The Yacht Club Boys. Names like Gregory Taylor Ione Zographides Ariane Allen Vincente Minelli and Leonard Lyons appear in quick vignettes.
A brief political sketch notes the Albany legislature possibly allowing bars in theatres and smoking on balcony areas of legitimate houses. It comments on war reporting and Frontline activity, mentions F D R third term strategy and party tensions, cites Jim Farley as preferred by many Democrats, and references Republican slogans and a stripper nicknamed Margie Hart.
Florence Camp told confidants she was grateful for Winchell's writing which clarified the Kuhn matter. She also thanked reporters for not mentioning the Stork Club event, while two days later Worlds Fair photographers captured the scene, and Fritz admits using aliases in court.
Brief notes report public figures and rumors including the Duchess of Windsor’s determination to visit, judge Wilkerson’s past sentencing of Capone, and assorted witty asides about neutrality laws, wagers, and personalities such as Brenda Frazier and Bruce Cabot.
Eddie McVeigh, formerly with the Municipal Opera in St Louis, now tends a door at the Roxy Theatre in New York City and boasts of a strong singing voice. He attributes his health to eating regularly. The transcript references other public figures and events, including Eddie O’Hare murder coverage, counterfeit busts in NYC, and a mix of entertainment notes from the era.
Local stores will close for Thanksgiving. The National Bellas-Hess Company held its annual employer banquet at First Presbyterian Church with C. C. Newton as toastmaster. J. R. Kemp arrives for treatment at High Point Hospital. Willis Slane will travel to New York after a Chapel Hill football game. Edna Colleen Dowdy born November 23. Hoover reveals a $2,000,000 construction program for next year. England seeks unity on Russo-Chinese dispute. Twelve Oklahoma banks fail to open after death of bank commissioner C Graves Shull.
Washington November 27 The Republican National Committee weighs delaying the 1940 convention until after the Democratic gathering with talks of July or August to sustain campaign tempo and reduce routine campaign work before the nominating event. The plan hinges on future Democrat strategies and historic precedents.
Twenty years ago Miss Clara I Cox urged High Pointers to buy Red Cross Christmas seals with twenty five percent funding anti tuberculosis work. Municipal court disposed of three minor cases including a drunk and disorderly vagrancy and assault with fines and suspended judgment.
F Caveness of Asheboro visited on business. Eugene Jarrett and family left for East Bend to spend the holidays. Mozelle Ellison spent the day in Greensboro. Miss Josephine Wood and companions Marguerite King Kernersville Marguerite Taylor Goldsboro Elizabeth Reid Morehead City spent the day in the city.
Nation faces fuel famine and coal shortage as colder weather sets in. New Orleans endures heavy rain with saloons at full blast. High Point marks an unusually general Thanksgiving. Possible European Christmas truce discussed to spare bombers.
A fragment mentions a rich young man owning sugar plantations and hints at a hidden maternal interest. Barbara Blair shifts from blond to brunette and is described as a sexy Russian spy. The Waterville Maine Sentinel notes a law about public nose blowing. a June Current Digest item is cited. Winchells celebrate two Thanksgiving Days for each ocean.
A 1939 letter argues crime stems from inheritance and cites eugenics as a solution. It discusses England's high arming of police, Lombroso’s criminology, and German and other European eugenic courts as examples.
Earl Browder concedes he sometimes uses false names on trips to dodge autograph seekers, suggesting it is a precautionary measure rather than a habit.
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