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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1938
Page
2
Weather notes update with local forecast for North Carolina and coastal to inland routes. Fair conditions with cooler south and warmer northwest on Tuesday. Moderate north winds from Sandy Hook to Hatteras and northeasterly winds from Hat eras to Jacksonville.
President Roosevelt schedules a White House conference on the next year budget. He will meet with Secretary Morgenthau Assistant Treasury Secretary Hanes and Acting Budget Director Bell in the capital. Morgenthau will join his regular Monday luncheon with the President.
In the Celebes region cattle remain small, reaching sizes comparable to domestic calves. Local herders note limited growth due to environmental factors and feeding practices. The modest cattle size affects herd management and market potential for livestock.
Raleigh Oct 10 Commissioner of Revenue A J Maxwell announces he now fights diversion of highway funds. He says the state must allocate all automotive tax revenue to highway improvements and modernization, arguing safety and aged roads require priority over other uses. He adds that slowing road bond payments might be worthwhile to fund safety upgrades.
The article tracks the Davidson County election dispute where Burgin initially led on first returns but Deane surged after a state board inquiry. The state Supreme Court remanded for proper final returns from Davidson and Richmond counties, with county boards conflicting over state board recommendations and removals changing the tally.
A three alarm blaze at the Walters Gallery on Mount Vernon Place in Baltimore threatened a $75 million art collection. Gas masked firefighters used over 30 hoses to control the fire, which damaged the rear of the Henry Walters mansion adjacent to the gallery. Officials will assess damage once smoke clearance allows examination of paintings and objects.
The Kent estate Knowles is described as having a room for each day of the year and a staircase for each week, with a court for every day of the week, highlighting its sprawling design and midcentury grandeur.
The article notes that England's cricket ball remains the same in size and weight and highlights a bakery founder from 370 years ago whose descendants continue the family business connected to the ball's tradition.
The late Reverend M. Wernerus constructed a unique shrine in Dickeyville Wisconsin over four years using stones glass shells and metal sent from 41 parts of the world. He dedicated the shrine to religion and patriotism and it now attracts thousands of devout visitors annually.
Berlin dispatch notes Nazi leader Hitler enjoys broad public adulation after the Czechoslovak crisis while facing four main threats: a fragile economy, demand for greater intellectual self rule, church repression, and anti semitic policy risks. Economists warn Germany is mortgaging the future for public works and rearmament as unemployment remains locally uneven.
An airliner crashed today at Soest Germany killing 16 passengers believed to be Germans and four Belgian crew members.
A gold diamond studded medal is presented to the prior year's national champion before the 500 mile race at Indianapolis Speedway marking the Bach Memorial Day ceremony.
Mercury travels an oval orbit with speeds of 0.36 miles per second on straight sections and 0.24 miles per second on the curved portions, indicating variable orbital velocity.
The World Telegram reports District Attorney William F. X. Geoghan of Brooklyn has new information that may solve the $427,000 1934 armored car holdup and two linked slayings. After four years of investigation authorities now have a fuller picture, identifying events and players and their roles.
Dr Clyde Fisher of the American Museum of Natural History says the aurora or Northern Lights may be visible on clear nights this week. The forecast follows Saturday’s Mt Wilson Calif report that astronomers record the century’s largest sunspot.
The Amer-Bar Association reported that annual earnings of nearly half the lawyers in the United States total less than $2,000. Surveys show fewer than two percent have incomes above $15,000 per year.
A Gainsborough painting may be imported for sale into the United States duty free while a Van Gogh painting may not. Paintings produced before 1800 arrive duty free for resale in the United States.
Plants suffer a fever when afflicted with certain ailments. The tiny bacterium that causes rot has been found responsible for most of the trouble.
The report states motor vehicles account for 89 percent of total gasoline consumption in the United States, highlighting the dominant share of cars, trucks, and other road transport in national energy use.
The text argues that German democracy has never matched American democracy and that economic wreckage foresees a day of reckoning. It notes the unsteady republic after World War I, citizen indifference to democracy, and church-state frictions with reports of slight easing in Nazi church campaigns.
The article outlines multiple Ford Motor Company appeals seeking to stop the NLRB from withdrawing litigation over reinstatement orders. It covers rulings on workers who strike, reinstatement mandates at Sands Manufacturing and Memphis Furniture, and high court refusals involving Luciano and Hahn. It notes Supreme Court guidance on NLRB procedure and past cases affecting interstate commerce.
Mark Etheridge of the Louisville Courier Journal will headline UNC Chapel Hill’s 145th birthday celebration on Wednesday October 12. The event features Etheridge as the principal speaker and highlights the university’s milestone in the city.
A New Wilmington quarry worker, returning from a mushroom foraging walk, joined a Westminster College class group by chance and avoided poisonous toadstools after students identified the mushrooms, likely saving his life.
In Sacramento the county plans a courthouse annex near the jail forcing the Seventh Street Terrs from their football field. Prisoners and sheriff lose free seating at the Terror home games as lawn work proceeds.
In Lamar Missouri Paul Hickman and 15 volunteers erected a tall tower of boxes for a high school football celebration. At dawn the same structure was missing with no sign of the theft.
In Tobias Nebraska, young donor Maas suffered a sequence of mishaps while working. A wheat barrel crushed one foot, a chain damaged another while he rode a drill, and he later stepped on a nail.
The Senate campaign expenditures committee found two solicitation letters sent to federal employees and others by the Pennsylvania Democratic state committee violated federal law. Both letters bore names linked to Senator Guffey and Governor George H. Earle, with Guffey and Earle denying responsibility. one letter claimed Guffey’s signature, the other bore signatures of Oscar Deckerd, the finance committee chairman.
James Roosevelt eldest son of President Roosevelt rests at Hollister California where he may not swim golf or ride horses. He arrived for a two month stay as guest of Walter P Murphy convalescing from stomach ailment and not allowed to swim lift a club or ride or mount horses during recovery.
The Arctic tern holds the bird world record for a long distance migration. Each season it travels from the Far North to Antarctic shores, covering about 11,000 miles.
In St. Jean de Luz France on October 10 United States Ambassador Claude G. Bowers said James P. Lardner son of the late humorist King Lardner remains missing for more than two weeks after disappearing September 22 while fighting with the International Brigade for the Spanish government. Officials weigh whether he was killed or captured as U S efforts to locate him continue and prisoner exchanges accelerate with 75 Americans held by insurgents to be discussed alongside recent swaps.
A Soviet statement asserts Charles Lindbergh lied about Soviet aviation strength after visiting Moscow. It accuses him of parroting Western claims, boasting of a false offer to lead Soviet civil aviation, and serving English and German interests to pressure Munich and Czechoslovakia.
The nation's gasoline tax bill in 1937 equaled six days' pay for every private sector wage earner in the United States.
Senator Reynolds urges large army air base at Fairbanks naval air bases at Kodiak and Sitka. He calls for defenses at Atu Nome Wainwright and possibly Point Barrow with Dutch Harbor naval expansion. He supports the Alaska highway and better west coast to Alaska steamship service and seeks to title Wrangell Island for the U S from Russia.
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