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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1945
Page
5
President Harding features in the dawn of radio with the first recorded election broadcast and the inaugural speech read on air plus extensive radio reporting. A vendetta note explains a Latin origin of the term vengeance custom among a murdered man's kin.
Washington reports that the United States may offer Britain and Russia large loans if they adopt liberal foreign trade policies. Officials see a $5 billion British loan likely, with low interest and long repayment. Russia previously sought $6 billion, now limited by U S policy. talks may begin if Moscow commits to not using commerce to influence politics.
Walter Winchell recounts Diamond Jim Brady hosting a $100000 plus dinner for Gold Heels atop the Hoffman House roof with 50 guests and 500 champagne bottles, plus gowns and velvet jewelry. Grace Vanderbilt funds a Beaulieu theatre party with a full crew. Hans Stengel ends his life in Greenwich Village after a famed party.
Diamond Jim hosted a stag party for a dozen guests. At dessert, three waiters brought four large pies with eleven white ribbons and one red. Jim pulled the red ribbon, the pie collapsed, a scantily clad cutie emerged to feed him, then eleven more cuties joined to feed the guests.
Count Boni de Castell Lane and Anna Gould hosted a grand Paris ball lit by 80 000 Venetian lanterns with nine miles of red carpet and 200 musicians plus 80 ballet girls while 500 servants stood at attention. Henry Clews Jr started the Servants Ball with guests in servant dress. F T Stotesbury held a $500 000 party at Bellevue-Stratford with nine floors of suites and Venetian Tyrolean decor. Harry Lehr staged a Dogs Dinner with canine guests in fancy dress. James Hazen Hyde funded a Louis XVI court costume ball at Sherry’s featuring Rejane and orchids, but Lehr nearly spoiled the party.
A chaotic Chicago crime tale recalls Capone South Side and Moran North Side factions sharing booze rackets. A staged peace dinner ends with an alley cat poisoned, triggering a deadly purge the following week known as the Myrna Murders where seven Moran men die by tommy guns.
The Western conference football brigade eases up this week on title pursuits. Michigan meets Army in New York while Indiana hosts Nebraska. Minnesota plays Fort Warren Wyoming at home. Iowa visits Purdue and Ohio State hosts Wisconsin. Illinois and Northwestern idle.
A veterans article outlines VA vocational rehabilitation rules and criteria. It explains how service connected disability affects eligibility and uses two fictional cases to illustrate when rehab is or isn’t needed. The piece emphasizes pension status as a gate for applying for retraining and notes terminology on disability ratings and pensions.
Estate of C E Kellam Jr before the Superior Court of Guilford County notifies all persons with claims to present them to executor verified by September 20, 1946. Those owing the estate should settle promptly. September 17, 1945. C E Kellam Sr, Executor. N Cox, Attorney. 9/19-26 10/3-10-17-24
The article notes Vassar College covers about 1000 acres and houses more than 200,000 volumes. It mentions a first telephone in the White House and a kitchen scene where vegetables are re-heated over steam using a double boiler. Rutherford B. Hayes is referenced in connection with the era.
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