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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 03, 1939
Page
2
Fair, slightly colder with frost in interior tonight. Tuesday remains fair and cold. Sandy Hook to Hatteras shows moderate northwest winds turning northerly. South portion fair tonight and Tuesday. Hat teras to Jacksonville reports moderate northwest to northeast winds with generally fair weather tonight and Tuesday.
A congressional committee concluded the TVA act has been honestly and efficiently carried out. It urged funds for completing the dam program on the Tennessee River and found private industry like rates apply to TVA. The panel credited reorganization since 1938 and downplayed GAO criticisms as baseless. It projected $22.93 million annual power income with $2.82 million profit once 10 dams are finished.
The report estimates 50 year investment costs for navigation and flood control by TVA and details private power company lawsuits costing $518,159 in legal defense. It notes TVA power sales would stay within its region, while praising flood control and navigation gains including a 9 foot channel to the Mississippi system and reduced flood levels on the Tennessee, Ohio, and Mississippi rivers.
Lawmakers move toward adjournment on Tuesday while considering amendments to lower scrap tobacco dealer licenses and raise legislative pay from 600 to 900. A bill targets licensing of on promise fortified wine and bans Sunday sales in a broad set of counties including Granville Rowan Ashe and others, with Aulander listed.
As the session nears month four, the Senate and House have extended two measures to two years and moved slowly, with only five major bills disposed of. Congress has finished action on 45 measures out of 7,857, most of them minor.
Leaders seek to stay with Barkley plan with two and a half months more work ahead. Proposals such as Wagner Act revision and business tax changes may be sidetracked. House slashed WPA funding. Senate expected to fight this week. Debates on neutrality laws, cotton surplus release, and cash and carry provisions loom as May 1 deadline nears.
Randolph Hospital in Asheboro reports admitted patients including Mrs Fannie Tyson Lucille Smith Carl Burrow Mrs Harvey Cox Mrs James Sexton Mrs Bennett Freeman H M Luck Mrs J T Buie Mrs Wade Hurley James Dickens and others. Discharges include Jesse Morris Robert Gary J R Brady and Mrs Wade Hurley. Births record Liary Bryant to Mr and Mrs L B Walker Asheboro and a son to Mr and Mrs G J Salmon Ramseur.
The North Carolina department of Veterans of Foreign Wars will open its convention in Charlotte on May 20.
The High Point Township Democratic Executive Committee will meet tonight at 7:30 at the County Building for a check-up of precinct workers in preparation for the new municipal registration. Chairman Walter E Crissman announced there would likely be one or two speakers.
Ed J Welch well known farmer died at his home 1403 East Lexington Avenue. Funeral services were conducted from North Park Baptist Church yesterday at 3 pm by Rev Ernest M Smith. The church was filled and the choir sang several hymns. Pallbearers included H B Chatham J V Guyer L R McNeil P K Fry L W Glenn and T M Wood. Interment followed in Oakwood Cemetery family plot.
At the Guilford County 4 H clubs meeting in Greensboro the Oak View School club was praised for the largest attendance. Eighteen members represented the Oak View group. they traveled from the Agricultural Building to the Central High School gym for the session led by Jack Criswell of Raleigh, who supervised a recreational program.
Fred Kimball, director of the high school band, joins Camp Willemoore at Willemoore Springs as staff. The two four week terms run June 10 to July 9 and July 10 to August 6 with instruction in major instruments, harmony, theory, composition, and drum majoring, plus public performances and stunt nights.
April 3 report: Wilson post of the Travelers Protective Association votes to back Bill Windston of Raleigh for president of the state organization. A A Ruffin is elected post president for the ensuing year.
In Brussels, the Belgians rejected the fascist Rexist party in yesterday's general election. The party dropped from 21 to 4 seats in the Chamber and from 12 to 1 in the Senate. Liberal and Catholic parties gained seats. Socialists and Communists saw losses. The new Chamber line up features Catholics 73, Socialists 64, Liberals 33, Flemish Nationalists 17, Communists 9, Rexists 4, Frenssen Technocrat 1, Ex-Service Men's Association 1.
The British prime minister announced a non aggression plan to defend nations against Hitler. He urged Romania and Poland as potential guarantees while stressing multilateral action beyond Poland. Churchill pledged support as the house cheered and Britain united behind the policy to restore confidence without war.
North Carolina shipping points and national markets report on wholesale fruit and vegetable prices. Lettuce demand steady. strawberries, potatoes, cabbage, apples and sweet potatoes show varied regional trends with fob prices and crate or basket quantities. News covers U S and North Carolina departments of agriculture figures and market conditions.
About 300000 Appalachian miners stayed home as contract talks stalled, with 70 percent of the soft coal industry idled. Aimed at a closed shop and penalty clauses, the dispute keeps 338000 workers in 300 locals under work suspensions, costing about 1.5 million dollars daily. Major states affected include Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee.
Police questioned Hugh Hillard and Buddy Kelly after Mary Riley of Atlanta died from a skull fracture five minutes after admission to hospital. Hillard said she fell against a radiator during a party at his Riverside Drive apartment. a second woman and another man were present. A blood trail from the apartment led to the elevator before they took her to Reconstruction Hospital. District Attorney Dewey’s homicide bureau opened an inquiry.
The Supreme Court agreed to decide if a federal income tax can be imposed on the $12,500 1936 salary of Joseph W. Wood rough of Omaha a U S Circuit judge. The case tests a 1936 law taxing salaries of judges who took office after June 6 1932 while constitutional protections shield salaries during terms. Only one minor decision announced before adjournment to April 17.
In New Delhi on April 3 Mohandas K. Gandhi secured a win in his push for constitutional reform. A ruling by Sir Maurice Gwyer, chief justice, required the Thakore Saheb of Rajkot to appoint advisers on democratic reform from candidates recommended by Villa Bhai Patel, leader of the Indian National Congress, following Gandhi's hunger strike actions.
LIVESTOCK MARKET TO OPEN KINSTON NC APRIL 3 THIS town's second livestock market will open Thursday.
The Curtis Publishing Company stopped retail sales of all its magazines in Germany after Nazi censors confiscated several issues of the Saturday Evening Post containing articles on European affairs. This action was announced in Philadelphia on April 3.
The new Turkish Parliament re elected Ismet Inonu as president of the republic. The assembly, elected to uphold Ataturk's democratic principles, gave Inonu prolonged cheers for his work with Ataturk in building modern Turkey.
President Roosevelt continues his Georgia vacation at Warm Springs as Congress debates a 358 million dollar armaments bill and a government reorganization measure. He studies international affairs while secret service notes remain tight and consultant Thomas Corcoran visits en route to Washington.
Sherwood Eddy and colleagues at the University of North Carolina argue Catholics Jews and Protestants unite against fascism and Nazism. Douglas praises religion as a social progress force while Hurwitz links democracy to universal individual worth resisting Hitler’s tribalism.
The federal government ran a deficit of 2.374 billion dollars in the first nine months of the fiscal year ending June 30, with expenditures at 6.764 billion and receipts at 4.391 billion. March income tax receipts totaled 505.8 million, above expectations but below last year, and the national debt stood near 30 billion on March 31 before transfers to the Old Age reserve pushed it above 40 billion.
Raleigh April 3. The North Carolina Department of Conservation and Development says warm water fishing will be allowed April 9 and 10 to aid anglers with Easter holidays. The trout season remains closed during Easter, opening April 15.
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