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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 08, 1938
Page
1
Funeral services were held today for Henry Brown Martin a 57 year old veteran Winston Salem newspaper man who died yesterday. For nearly 25 years Martin was city editor of the Twin City Sentinel.
Paris report says Prime Minister Leon Blum, defeated in the Senate on his bid for dictatorial financial powers, announced to Socialist deputies that he would resign and hand his resignation to President Albert LeBrun tonight.
The Senate near a final vote on the revenue bill rejected a plan to raise the tax on aid liquor from $2 to $2.25 a gallon. The measure, approved by the House, faced opposition from treasury officials and the senate finance committee who argued it would boost bootlegging.
The International Shoe company said on April 8 that on May 8 it will reduce wages for about 80,000 employees by roughly 10 percent. The cut affects wage earners salaried employees and officers due to declines in competitors over recent months.
The American Red Cross ordered 12 workers to Alabama for relief duty amid a threatened flood endangering thousands of residents.
Dan W. Hill president of the Piedmont League said he would resign at a meeting of league directors to be held in Durham Sunday April as reported from Asheville North Carolina by AP.
Judge Ira W. Jayne led defense motions to dismiss first degree murder charges against Julia M. Aker once a wealthy real estate dealer and refused to admit her to bail.
New York traders pushed stocks higher in a brisk session the rally marking the strongest move since a recent drop. The advance followed a slow opening and brief tape weakness, with volume fading as gains widened and many issues trimmed early gains.
Carl Smith an attorney and Les Bobbet have met at 34th Avenue and Union to walk to work for 33 years. They recall many conversations and say they do not walk quickly.
Shanghai April 8 AP Chinese forces claim a smashing victory at Taierchwang in Shantung Province after pushing Japanese forces from the northeast gate. Chinese say 30 tanks 900 machine guns 10 000 rifles 77 artillery pieces captured and 15 000 Japanese casualties. General Feng Yu Hsiang plans a ballad about the battle.
Special report from Thomasville details Hazel Gillam of 386 Brown Street killed when struck by a tractor trailer while attempting to hop a moving truck. Gilliam worked for Gray Concrete Co. Driver Daniel Hoover reported the incident occurred yesterday afternoon between sections.
Charlotte April 8 Taylor Durham secretary of the Southern silk hosiery manufacturing industry said a wide bulge in demand appeared abruptly. Buyers had deferred spring orders then decided to place them all at once, implying production would take several weeks or more to fill.
President Roosevelt signed amendments to the crop control law to raise cotton acreage to about 28 million acres this year and free Brewers from penalties on roughly 2,000,000 additional acres. A 2 cent per pound levy will apply to output in excess of grower allotments. The amendments also modify allotment distribution among cotton and flue cured tobacco growers and raise each state's cotton acreage by 4 percent to correct perceived inequities in the farm act.
Governor Olin Johnston urged the South Carolina General Assembly to divert 1.5 million dollars from state highway funds to finance higher old age benefits and a teacher retirement plan. He proposed immediate state funds be matched with federal funds to provide up to 30 dollars per month to eligible elderly residents.
In Charlotte on April 8 Carl T. Moore aged 23 a painter and Miss Phyllis Kirkley aged 20 a telephone operator were killed when their car was struck by a Southern passenger train at a crossing.
Mrs. Juana Allraum Vogt, Queen's College instructor, told Brooklyn educators that pronunciation varies by region from Brooklyn to Dixie with differences in tr and ol sounds. She argued that a single coast to coast standard of speech is unlikely, noting regional traits in how words are spoken.
The Duluth Herald News Tribune suspended publication as AFL workers were barred from their jobs on payday by a strengthened Lake Superior Newspaper Guild picket line. The Guild, including all white collar employees, demanded a Guild shop with mandatory joining after 30 days of employment.
Five family members were hacked to death and two others gravely hurt in Samaloc Tayabas province. Police arrested two men who confessed shortly after the attack.
The United States Conference of Mayors asked President Roosevelt to seek $3 billion in Congress to provide work for 3.5 million unemployed. WPA head Hopkins told the Senate panel that 18 million people are on public assistance. Roosevelt hinted at new public works funds but gave no figure. He noted long term, interest free loans to municipalities as part of talks.
Roland Turner of Atlanta has been named general forestry agent of Southern Railway System with headquarters in Dorchester Washington. He will oversee the 11 000 acre Pregnall demonstration forest established in 1925 to show southern landowners it pays to grow pine trees. The forest draws foresters students and others to study its results.
A Madrid special treason court today sentenced five individuals to death for attempting to incite rebellion. The defendants faced charges of conspiring to overthrow the government and engage in treasonous activities.
A mutual settlement ending a 24 hour Detroit street car strike was announced by Mayor Richard W. Reading. Service is expected to resume by 11 a.m. after a meeting to ratify terms with Amalgamated Association division 26 leaders and union officials.
The House defeated Rep Case's amendment to preserve the independence of the general accounting office and comptroller general. Debate centered on a proposed six assistant appointees at ten thousand dollars a year and a rival plan for a new auditor general to post audit expenditures.
Former Marine Corps commander Major General Smedley Butler told the Senate naval committee that the administration navy expansion bill is “proposed for the purpose of international bluff.” He warned that the American people will wake up and oppose the bill before a keel is laid, saying the expanded navy is intended to do somebody else’s work.
London broadcasts say Britain demands restoration of Aguila oil holdings, deeming expropriation unjustified. O'Malley conveyed that Britain hopes Mexico will recognize the injustice and take steps to remedy by restoring properties. Washington has similar concerns about compensation and payment ability.
Authorities appealed to the public to aid the Frome murder investigation, a double slaying in west Texas near Van Horn involving Mia Weston Frome, 46, and her daughter Nancy, 23. Sheriff Fox urged a search for their clothing and luggage and suggested the motive may not be robbery. The pair were en route from Berkeley, California to South Carolina.
In Coatesville Pennsylvania a grocer Samuel Eby faced a run of bad luck. After his supply ran out he drove to a second store to fetch a chicken for a customer. A police officer tagged his car for double parking while he made the purchase. On the way to deliver the chicken he stopped to visit a friend and the chicken was stolen.
New York District Attorney Samuel J. Foley ordered seizure of all copies of Life magazine in the Bronx for sale as four pages about the motion picture The Birth Of A Baby were deemed in violation of the penal code banning lewd material.
The National Broadcasting Company said blizzards disrupted communications making it impossible to set up a landline to Wichita Kansas. A scheduled Col. Frank Knox broadcast tonight was canceled.
A cloudburst and swollen White Stone Creek killed 13 people in White Stone Georgia. Four bodies were recovered and rescuers warned more victims may be found as floodwaters rose across Alabama Mississippi Georgia. Weather and tornadoes caused widespread damage with rail disruption and Red Cross aid.
In Kobe Japan on April 8 Admiral Mitsumasa Yonai minister of the navy said the decision by the United States and Great Britain to abandon the 35000 ton battleship limit shows their intention to oppose Japan. He called the move a disturbance to world peace during a tour of western Japan naval depots and factories.
Cold rains sleet and drifting snow harass the eastern half of the continent with continued wintry weather likely for another day. Severe midweek snowstorm damage tops a million dollars, with Ohio losses around one million and widespread road closures in Iowa Wisconsin Nebraska Illinois. Northwestern Bell reports 2000000 in property damage from 77 breaks and 5500 snapped poles as repair crews work to restore service.
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