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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 06, 1938
Page
1
Last minute report from Washington says Japan asked the State Department to itemize its 2 214 007 bill for loss of life and property in the Panay sinking on December 12. Tokyo says the request is for accounting purposes only and that Japan intends to pay full indemnity.
The Senate approved the 131 million Interior Department appropriation bill and sent it back to the House for concurrence in amendments. Senate amendments add about 86 million to the House total with an extra 2 million for National Park Service expenditures on the Blue Ridge and Natchez trace parkways. Washington, April 6 AP. The United States accepted Germany's absorption of Austria and urged Germany to assume Austria's debts to the United States totaling 64,493,480. Government debts amount to 26,005,480 and Austrian debts held by Americans total 38,488,000.
Norfolk Southern petitions to discontinue all passenger trains between Mackeys and Columbia and between Aberdeen and Asheboro are under advisement by the North Carolina Utilities Commission.
High Point's Robby Dunkelberger the defending champion falls in the second round of the north and south amateur tournament at Pinehurst. He loses 4 and 2 to Charlies Clare of New Haven Conn.
A nine year old, Richard White son of Mr and Mrs Robert White was fatally struck by an automobile while riding his bicycle on an errand to a nearby store in Marion April 6. The incident occurred as he rode along the street and the driver remained at the scene.
Governor Hoey praised home demonstration clubs for enriching rural life and urged making North Carolina a beautiful state. He cited the clubs and agents as key to real progress and development in rural communities during his April 6 speech to farm women in Currituck County.
The Amalgamated Engineers Union urged workers to volunteer overtime to aid the Spanish government. The manifesto said the extra hours would produce non armament goods for immediate shipment, claiming it would help Spanish workers while saving British jobs.
Austrian bishops demand no changes to the Austrian concordat without prior agreement with the Holy See. Cardinal Innitzer met Pope Pius XII after arriving from Vienna and held three discussions with Eugenio Pacelli, the Vatican secretary of state.
High Point Board of Adjustment urged a change to the building zone ordinance to allow a 73 family apartment on land owned by the W. C. Jones estate near High Point High School. City council committees were asked to study the proposal and a future public hearing was likely.
Soviet preparing to retake Amur Islands, say Japanese dispatches. Tokyo reports authoritative quarters believe Soviet aid to China includes plans to recapture the Amur Islands seized by Japan last June, fueling fears of trouble along the Amur boundary between Siberia and Manchoukuo.
The city council approved two ordinances in regular session. One bans parking on certain streets from 1 am to 6 am, while allowing small trucks and light vehicles on others. The second regulates the transport of inflammable liquids through the city. The action addresses persistent enforcement and safety concerns.
Raleigh April 6. Superintendent Pitts said eight inmates from the Lenoir prison camp in Caldwell county would be transferred for punishment after a reported strike. Disciplinarian H H Honeycutt rushed to the camp and ordered a transfer bus to bring the eight men to the main facility for solitary confinement.
A district training school for law enforcement officers of the Piedmont area will be held in Greensboro tomorrow under the sponsorship of the Institute of Government and the FBI. Edward Scheidt of Charlotte, special agent in charge of the Carolinas office, Albert Coates of Chapel Hill, director of the Institute of Government, and North Carolina FBI National Police academy graduates will serve as instructors.
The Highway Safety division announced a three day booster tour to cut deaths and accidents in North Carolina. Starting April 26 the tour will begin in Raleigh and stop in major cities across the state.
In Hendaye on April 6 AP reports stronger Franco and government forces clash over Tortosa as insurgents push along the Ebro delta. Government artillery and militiamen counterattack, briefly driving rebels from a frontline position, amid a broader Catalonia autonomy conflict.
Paris April 6 AP Premier Leon Blum secured a crucial vote for his finance bill in the chamber of deputies with 310 to 250 in a bitter debate. The narrow margin signals continued but fragile support for the People’s Front and Blum as the senate prepares to vote Friday amid opposition labeling the measure Marxian Nazi Rooseveltian.
Washington April 6 The labor relations board ordered Inland Steel Corp to deal with the Steel Workers Organizing Committee and to sign a wage and hour contract if an agreement is reached. The order follows a lengthy strike at Indiana Harbor and Chicago Heights involving Inland Steel and other firms in the so called little steel strike. The industry group said it would bargain but would not sign contracts, citing the Wagner act.
Washington April 6 Vice President Garner faced trouble filling two TVA investigating committee vacancies amid GOP pressure to appoint Senator Bridges New Hampshire an opponent of the Tennessee Valley Authority Bridges sought a seat while Garner aimed for impartial appointees Several Republican senators declined to serve or object if Bridges joined the panel
Blizzard blamed for a four story hotel center fire in Chicago's West Madison district. Seven guests died as flames trapped residents while firemen rescued thirty others including 15 women, and a firefighter was among the injured. Fire Marshal Corrigan cited spontaneous combustion in a room storing paints oils and rags as the cause with damage estimated at 15000 dollars.
Notices posted by officials say the Edna Cotton Mills will close on April 15 due to business conditions. A strike was called earlier, but there was no public statement about workers demands.
Bodies of Nancy Frome 23 and her mother Mrs Frome were found in mesquite brush five days after death, near a highway in West Texas badlands. The victims were stripped and their heads crushed. Wes ton G Frome of Berkeley California is named. two years earlier four others vanished in the same area.
In El Paso Texas peace officers formed a Central Bureau of Information and assigned Sheriff Chris Fox to manage records in the case of Mrs Weaton G Frome and her daughter Nancy slain. Six people were detained across three states as investigators pursue leads fueled by a $2000 reward. The latest arrests were made at La-
CHAPEL HILL April 6 presentation of the Howard Crosby Warren medal for the top published work in experimental psychology in the US and Canada in the past five years. The Society of Experimental Psychologists dinner session convenes at the University of North Carolina tomorrow and Friday with Dr. W F Dashiell presiding.
Washington officials discuss a potential large federal public works program to boost employment and industrial activity. Officials warn that actual funding depends on business recovery and note projected relief needs may exceed prior appropriations as social security payments end and farm cutbacks impact jobs.
Washington April 6 A House labor subcommittee recommended a revised wage hour bill shaping a graduated minimum wage and a 40 hour work week. The bill creates an independent five member board to administer provisions, with a president empowered to require reporting through any executive department head chosen to curb board power.
Greensboro April 6 The North Carolina Tuberculosis Association board re elected Dr P A Yoder of Winston Salem as president. They paid tribute to late managing director Dr L B McBrayer and named Dr R L Carleton to succeed him. Mrs C E Platt of Charlotte was renamed first vice president and Dr C W Armstrong of Salisbury second vice president.
Cairo reports say King Farouk and his bride Farida expect a child in mid November. Farouk, age eighteen, and Farida sixteen, wed January twentieth.
AP report describes a stalled floor showdown on the revenue measure as the House ends general debate and eyes a vote on enacting clause removal. Lawmakers clash amid disorder while Senate Finance considers revised tax formulas and potential conference talks with the House.
Washington observes Army Day with a review by President Roosevelt for over 12 000 troops and civilians amid peacetime preparedness. A world arms race and wars in Spain and China push defenses forward as Congress considers a 489 million dollar department appropriation and a 560 million dollar Navy bill.
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