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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 30, 1937
Page
2
Generally fair tonight and Wednesday with little temperature change. Winds along the coast from Hatters to Jacksonville expect gentle to moderate north and northeast winds with partly overcast skies tonight and Wednesday.
Snowshoe rabbits begin turning white as winter starts, a seasonal adaptation through fur color change. The transformation helps camouflage them against snow and reduced predation as days shorten.
Local Mann's Drug Stores in High Point offer Dr. Fugate's Prescriptions with a money back guarantee. The long used remedy claims relief in thousands of asthma cases and requires no obligation for more information.
Thirty Spanish insurgent bombing planes escorted by forty ships attacked Alcala de Henares and Arganda near Madrid. Government reports say thirty bombs dropped with fierce dog fights as casualties from Guadalajara raid are unconfirmed but feared. officials warn widespread bombings amid growing insurgent pressure.
Within the past 24 hours police recorded six traffic arrests five for violations and one for no license. Violations included two traffic ordinance breaches two reckless driving one stop sign run and one speeding. A cautionary note urged drivers to stop when the light is caution.
The Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn are named for the sun’s positions at solstices with Cancer in the north and Capricornus in the south. The lines mark the sun’s farthest reaches on the celestial sphere during the year.
Raleigh November 30. New automobile license plates with black numbers on an orange background go on sale Wednesday at 64 offices across the state. Over 600,000 pairs will be sold for 1938 if growth continues. registrations reached 575,764 by last Friday, a record high, with 2,000 mail orders to be filed tomorrow.
J Edgar Hoover head of the FBI was invited to a Sunday January 30 meeting of North Carolina law enforcement officers at the Sheraton hotel. The aim is to form a regional unit to cooperate with the International Association for Identification. Attending will be fingerprinting ballistics handwriting and other experts with Edward Scheidt also expected from the Charlotte office. A luncheon at 1 pm and an afternoon theater party are planned after the business session.
The Home Loan Bank board reports North Carolina 14 Federal Savings and Loan associations assets rose from 5.878 million to 8.169 million in ten months. Direct reduction home mortgage loans grew from 4.516 million to 6.96 million in the same period. Savings invested totaled 3.217 million as of November 1.
D P Whitley was named winner of the Civitan club intelligence test at the weekly luncheon at the Elwood hotel. Silas B Casey, president, presided. Ted Harllee announced the winner and read the correct answers. C Carroll Cooper was admitted as a club member. Clinton W B Hall invited members to Wesley Memorial church service Monday night.
The Greensboro High Point airport committee will meet this afternoon at 4 o'clock in the office of George L. Stansbury to discuss minor landing field problems. High Point members include Mayor C B Gray son Amos R Kearns and Frank J Sizemore. The permanent committee includes mayors presidents and secretaries of the two chambers of commerce and the county commissioners chairman. I P Ingle will represent Mr Kearns who is out of the city.
R H Sechrest of High Point qualified as executor under the will of Dennis C Aldridge who died in High Point November 28. Personal property valued at 500 dollars was declared. The only beneficiary is the board of trustees of the Junior Order O rphanage at Lexington.
A certificate of Incorporation was filed in Greensboro by Standard Auto Accessories Incorporated of High Point. Authorized capital is listed as $10,000 and incorporators are Jimmy Cops J L Burton and C W Meredith.
A health note states that the average male lung capacity is roughly five quarts. This provides a simple estimate of how much air a person can inhale and hold in the lungs.
In ancient animal records a lion’s heart is noted as the smallest among the earliest predatory creatures studied. Researchers compare cardiac sizes to infer metabolism and lifestyle differences across fossil species.
Philadelphia judge grants a bail hearing for Mary K O Connor 19 charged with homicide in the death of five year old Nancy Glenn on Labor Day. D A fixes bail after coroner meeting. O Connor admits knocking the child down in anger and leaving her face down. Marie Kibbler Phillips 1936 Olympic gymnast is a bail material witness. Other charges against them were dropped after a witness refused to testify.
Barkley aims for a broad farm plan while a behind the scenes push grows for fixed crop prices. Senators McNary Vandenberg Bailey back amendments as Smith of South Carolina dislikes the bill's direction and Bailey presses safeguards for small farmers and tobacco and cotton supports.
The St. Louis Ford assembly plant resumed operations today under police escort as UAW workers picketed. CIO leaders accused the company of discrimination and forcing loyalty pledges, while plant manager Milton N. Johnson denied the allegations and said there is no company union.
Funeral services for Edward H. Smith 34 longtime High Point Juvenile court judge and former civil service official will be held Wednesday at West End Baptist Church with burial at Oakwood Memorial Park. A Charlotte native, Smith died yesterday afternoon at his Redding Street home from pneumonia. The city hall and civil service offices will close in his memory.
Miss Mary Rickard died at 712 West Green Street and funeral services were held Monday at 2 30 PM from Bethany M E Church Davidson County with Rev Lee R Spencer Jr and Rev J N Bowman officiating Pallbearers included Arthur Willie and Paul Davis Ray Rickard Charles and Lonnie Dickens Interment followed in the family plot at the church cemetery The church choir sang Shall We Gather At The River and Abide With Me Prior services were conducted at Yows Funeral Home at 1 30 PM
Funeral services for D C Aldridge 82 who died after several weeks illness were held at Sechrest Funeral Home with Dr O C Williamson officiating. Junior Order National Orphans Home girls from Lexington sang Abide With Me and It Is Well With My Soul under Robert Brutton. Pallbearers from the Junior Order included D A Neese J F Hart J A Herndon H H Culler A F Moore C C Muse A B Horney and W M Shuford. Interment was in Oakwood cemetery.
Percival Leonard Rosseau, 68, prominent member of the Old Lyme art colony, known for paintings of field dogs, died in his winter home at Overhills North Carolina. Born September 21 1869 in New Orleans he studied in Paris and specialized in animals. He leaves widow Nancy Bidwell Rosseau two sons Leon B and Francis V and two grandchildren. Private funeral services will be held at Fayetteville North Carolina.
About 250 Chester high school students quit classes protesting the suspension of 18 year old John Gilman, student editor, in a demonstration linked to the issue of freedom of the press. The incident occurred in Chester, Pennsylvania, as part of a broader protest by pupils.
Four Asheboro men face murder and accessory charges in the Fort Bragg shooting death of Sergeant J. C. Mott. The trial was recessed due to influenza illness of Judge G. V. Cowper. Prosecution’s attempted reading of a defendant’s sworn statement was denied for lack of personal presence.
The 1916 highway act era shows over 3.1 billion dollars moved from federal treasury into road building. Annual federal aid highways funding averages rose to 298.6 million, far above the pre depression level of under 100 million. This year so far includes 24 million for federal aid highways and grade crossing elimination, plus 13.5 million for park linked roads. Western senators led a revolt against Roosevelt curtailment proposals even before the message arrived in Washington.
In Washington on November 30 President Roosevelt faced immediate Senate criticism over a plan to cut highway aid. Senator Hayden of Arizona defended a contractual obligation and warned that canceling a 214.9 million dollar road-aid item for the next fiscal year would disrupt states' two year road programs already mapped by their legislatures.
Captain Henry Noe, 65, long known in North Carolina coastal shipping, died last night at his daughter's home in Lenoir. He served as first officer on schooners in coastal and West Indian trade before steamers dominated the routes.
Chicago markets report butter steady at 7,477 pounds with firsts averaging 88 to 89, creamery at 232 to 34 and other prices unchanged. Eggs total 3,288 cases steady with refrigerator extras 1944 and standards 19 percent, firsts 18 percent, other prices unchanged.
The executive board of the North Carolina division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy will convene in Crbeensboro to discuss the division’s work for the coming year.
Observers say peace conferences might have collapsed earlier if not for the business slump. Layoffs cut incomes for both unions as industrial production declines. Some cite potential consolidation as a path to influence legislation and sustain unified labor action. George M. Harrison, AF L committee chair, reports progress after the latest session.
The Lazarist mission orphanage near Nanking was hit by bombs. Sisters herded children into a dugout but a blast killed girls aged nine to fifteen and sixty babies, with two sisters wounded. Nearby facilities, including a Carmelite mission and a Lag arist seminary, were not struck. The Japanese reported advances along the Nan Shanghai and Hangchow railways as U S forces prepared to evacuate Americans from nearby ports.
British and French ministers agreed that intervention in Spain had helped reduce international repercussions and resolved to pursue coordinated action to protect rights and uphold obligations under treaties in the Far East and Mediterranean areas.
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