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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 14, 1938
Page
3
Seven senators won renomination or moved to the front in primary returns but national focus centered on Georgia where Senator Walter F. George and others faced President Roosevelt backed rivals. Georgia Democrats picked their senatorial candidate amid New Deal clashes while incumbents in several states ran unopposed and Vermont and Washington contests narrowed.
The summary lists multiple party contests and nominations. It notes Senator Walter F. George seeking renomination against Roosevelt's opposition. Augustine Lonergan facing Kopplemann in Connecticut. South Carolina ballots controlled by militia at Charleston. Maybank defeats Manning amid Democratic leadership. Vermont Republicans renominate G D Aiken and E W Gibson. New Hampshire Gov Murphy leads GOP nomination. Tobey ahead in Republican senate race. Fred Brown, Democrat, unopposed in Colorado. Mills forced into a run-off in Louisiana. Utah selects Franklin Harris to face Elbert D. Thomas. Washington Senator Rowe wins renomination. Arizona Senator Hayden holds seat. Michigan Republicans back Frank Fitzgerald to challenge Frank Murphy.
Uncle Ray recounts a Swiss avalanche near Selma where hundreds of tons of snow crashed through a village church and houses. Four people were missing and three women plus an elderly man survived hidden in stables and a kitchen. Rescue teams tunneled through the snow to reach the trapped residents.
A compact English lesson by W L Gordon on word usage and pronunciation. It explains common mistakes such as reading versus talking and mispronounced syllables. The piece highlights synonyms Fluency eloquence and loquacity and presents today’s word satirical with pronunciation notes and a quotation.
A practical advice piece with Q and A style from Anne Ashley offering tips on making oak stain, cleaning kid gloves, and remedying stiff cake batter. Includes formulas and step by step actions for each problem cited.
At the Downs Linda Gordon watches Golden Toy and Merry Maid battle to a photo finish. The judges declare Toy the winner after a foul claim is disallowed, leaving Linda and Uncle Sandy triumphant and planning a future with shared winnings and wedding plans.
Oklahoma City program notes an unusual musical treat for conference attendees from Sept 25 to 27. The Federal Symphony Orchestra will perform a 40 minute arrangement of songs from all 48 states ending with The Star Spangled Banner.
Director T. E. Browne of the Vocational Education Commission reported that 57 010 persons received vocational education in North Carolina's public schools last year while the state still did not meet demand. London has 145 hospitals.
Q A discussion on tipping hotel valet for pressed suit and gifting for invitations. It covers tipping etiquette and whether a wedding invitation or announcement requires a gift. The dialogue also addresses whether well bred women and girls should smoke in public dining rooms, noting Rome customs.
The piece poses five questions and provides quirky answers. It notes the average person attends about nine percent of a year of schooling, mentions machine gun Kelly and the Latin term sine nobilitate, and states the earth’s surface area as 196 950 000 square miles. It identifies the only U S point where four state boundaries meet as the southwest corner of Colorado at the intersection with Arizona Utah and New Mexico.
A playful item asks who was the only bachelor U S president born four years after the Mutiny on the Bounty and who died as a septuagenarian after eight years. It notes five cars in the last Indiana polis Speedway race burned alcohol instead of gasoline.
A. Fulton Weaver Jr, chief engineer, announced 35 of 60 WPA workers on the Woodfin water shed fire line project near Asheville were suspended after striking over their foreman Ben Lyda. Lyda reportedly demanded a full day's work. 21 strikers returned to work.
Chicago reports butter at 1,378,903 pounds sold at steady prices and eggs at 6,518 dozen with stable fresh graded firsts local 24 12 cents. Prices remain unchanged across other categories.
An 18 story residence in Massa Maritima provides housing for children of workers of an industrial concern and stands among Italy’s tallest buildings.
William F B McKenney presents insights from the American Contract Virtige League on bridge strategy and play. The column outlines techniques for bidding, defense, and card counting to improve game results.
General Malin Craig announced the army has developed new anti tank guns, improvements of foreign models, including an American 37 millimeter mobile unit said to be unequaled. It features extremely high muzzle velocity and overwhelming firepower at long range.
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