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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 04, 1939
Page
11
Daddy Fant of Atlanta, a crack engineer of the South, has preached in towns along his 153 mile run between Atlanta and 31 years into the work. His Bible is fastened to the engine plate and he once prayed while a thief held up his train a week prior. A cake of ice started a fire.
High Point police found J I Groome's stolen car near Thomasville city hall. An attempt to burn the vehicle was suspected after charred paper and a burned front seat were discovered. Investigators have little evidence to identify the thief.
The article describes a critical global cotton crisis with United States output falling below half the world total while exports drop to about one third. It notes a subsidy program to recapture foreign markets, a reciprocal trade plan with Britain, and a proposed marketing quota for 1940 pending farmer approval in December.
In Cincinnati Ohio labor factions debate a national unity accord tied to President Roosevelt peace overtures. AFL President Green signals willingness to resume talks after the president urged continued negotiations. CIO must decide how to respond when John L. Lewis and others face the new appeal at the San Francisco convention.
Guilford County real estate deeds are recorded in High Point Hamptons and Morehead Townships. Transfers include A G Dixon and wife to Mozelle G Wood on Palatka Street D A Dowdy and wife to R G Garland on North Main Street Vv C Harmon and wife to Lola A Staley and A P Staley in Staley subdivision Central Investment Corporation to Charles M Amick and wife on Kivett Drive J A Doggett trustee and Co C Sharpe and J W Sharpe to Molle Enoch and wife adjoining Dillard property G F Roseberry and wife to W L McDaniel and wife in J H Iddings subdivision A K Moore and wife to Thomas J Love and wife Madison Avenue loan corporation to Nellie Frances Beal tract on Madison Avenue R D Douglas trustee to J E Latham Company on Watlington Road.
Delegates from 21 American republics ended a brief neutrality accord in Panama after eleven days of talks. Observers noted past vocal disputes over a joint coastal patrol gave way to broad agreement. Sumner Welles called the declaration an advancement of unusual importance. Narciso Garay said delegates returned satisfied and proud for peace and regional security.
Four thousand postmasters will gather in Washington for the National Association of Postmasters 39th annual convention. The event marks a high point for the Post Office as officials seek to honor those who handle the mail with a large capital meeting and events.
Alfred Nolette told a divorce judge in Alfred Maine that his wife did not appreciate his jokes. He charged cruel and abusive treatment saying she would laugh at other men’s jokes but not his.
Police arrested Robert Coffer a young white boy of 2000 English Street on larceny for stealing a pistol from the home of his housemate M Snead and he remained in city jail in default of a 300 dollar bond.
Henry I. West, head of operations and maintenance at East Carolina Teachers College in Greenville, was appointed chief engineer in charge of the mechanical division of the State Board of Public Buildings and Grounds.
Two Johns Hopkins scientists report in Scientific Monthly that poliomyelitis virus infected monkeys via the eye. Previously known infection route was nasal mucous membranes. Researchers Howard A. Howe and David Bodian noted the virus can enter through a tiny canal from the eye to the nose, enabling entry to nerves.
J. T. White filed a civil action in the clerk's office seeking 150 dollars in damages from the Central Ice Delivery Company for injuries from an auto truck collision on September 11, 1939.
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