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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1936
Page
2
A column discusses how children process disturbing images such as a sinking ship. It argues for gradual exposure to tragedy to build resilience, noting that over shielding can hinder real-world coping and that time helps children adjust with a balance of sympathy and realism.
George Ross reports on the ongoing dispute over Clifford Odets as St John Ervine, the London critic, pans him in print and the debate continues across theater circles.
Critics crown Odets as the Bronx showman of the stage while others vilify his social circles and Hollywood choices. The playwright recently returned from Hollywood where he wrote The General Dies at Dawn and kept writing despite mixed reception. He is known for Waiting for Lefty Awake and Sing and Paradise Lost and remains a prominent figure in theater and film.
North Carolina Attorney General reports 13 785 persons faced charges in superior courts last fiscal year with 71 percent conviction. Forsyth led with 830 cases, Guilford 689, Mecklenburg 598 and Wake 589. Inferior courts tried 13 459 on dry law charges, with Mecklenburg leading at 8 297 cases and 24 965 defendants convicted overall.
Col. Frank Knox the Republican vice presidential nominee said labor groups once fought their own battles and accused a government favoring one labor organization of being un American. He urged government to act as an umpire in labor relations and defended free enterprise as the basis of the nation’s social order.
Emma Blair Nursery School on East Russell Street will open Wednesday at 8 30 a.m. and operate 8 30 a.m. to 2 30 p.m. under Mrs Lena Lowe Jarrett and Miss Ella Gibson. Returning pupils are invited and new ones welcomed.
In Newburgh New York on September 1 1935 Mrs Dorothy Sherwood a 28 year old widow pleaded guilty to first degree manslaughter in the drowning of her two year old son Jimmy in an August creek incident. She said she drowned him to save him from starvation claiming she was out of work.
In New York on September 1 cotton futures closed very steady with gains of 6 to 11 points. A large airline company report noted Reno New4 leads the nation in patronage by proportion to size, adding a regional travel emphasis to the market day.
A renowned playwright and actor, living partly at a country cottage, is linked romantically to Luise Ranie who visited him recently. He writes mainly from dawn to morning hours, draws inspiration from Beethoven, and travels with a portable phonograph and a music library. His fame is high yet he moves through crowds unnoticed.
Dwightie Cross, age six, enrolls in the Huntersville school after years of aviation involvement. Son of auto dealer Dwight Cross, he has flown since infancy and piloted his father's plane regularly, handling takeoffs and landings while often letting others fly once airborne. He is noted for stunt skills and delight in impressing passengers.
A modern air base has been built at Manila to support trans-Pacific airliners, signaling a shift in regional aviation infrastructure. The report lists stock figures and names of companies with scattered OCR errors, highlighting a period of expanding air transport capacity and industrial activity.
Rodney Dulucher reports on private party strategy as Democratic and Republican leaders weigh money, patronage, and state-by-state battles. The piece highlights New England gains for Republicans, key contests in New York and Pennsylvania, and uncertain outcomes in Wisconsin Michigan and the farm states as the election nears.
The text notes Republican hopes for a clean sweep in the corn and wheat belt while Democrats present plausible figures to show in the races, signaling a tense midwestern political landscape with uncertain outcomes.
RALEIGH Sep. 1 Fi State WPA administrator George W Coan Jr said skeleton WPA employment officers would be maintained at New Bern and Elizabeth in place of the district headquarters formerly there He designated W O Saunders to run the Elizabeth City office with a staff of 4 to 6 workers and said a manager for New Bern had yet to be named
A Chicago grain report notes a veteran flyer from a sea board airline who has traveled almost 1,000,000 miles without ever flying more than 100 miles inland.
In the discussion, analysts weigh how candidates could lose everywhere yet win, depending on loyalties among Indians and voters in Michigan, New York, and Pennsylvania. Both camps privately expect Lemke to siphon more votes from London than from Roosevelt, altering expected margins.
A cross word style puzzle features a Young Diva answering across and down clues. The grid includes references to operatic terms and notable terms like the demigoddess wood tissue and a flying mammal. The puzzle spans multiple clue numbers with musical and mythic associations.
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