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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 09, 1937
Page
2
Police thwart a payroll robbery plan in the city as plainclothes officers intervene. Ray Nance, a plainclothes team member, identified three men in a marked Ford V-8 near the bank and signaled colleagues to respond.
A tense daytime takedown near a downtown car ends with Pattillo Maddox and Mace more jailed after officers close in and cuff them. The trio faced guns drawn and heavy spectator interest as investigators search the car and gather details on prior crimes across multiple states.
Prosecutors plan charges for three men including pistol possession. Pattillo and Maddox face holdup charges in the National Food store robbery with possible further counts for assisting Georgie police. Local store staff identified a pistol tossed during the Saturday night robbery.
Nashville April 9. John E. Edgerton, president of the Southern States Industrial council, denounces sit-down strikes as a path to destruction of property rights. He urges federal action to cope with the crisis and criticizes administration spokesmen for weak comments on law and property rights.
Arthur Kirkman general manager of the HPTD Railroad spoke at Virginia Polytechnic Institute Blacksburg to business administration students and faculty on faculty student relations and trends in modern business education. Holt McPherson editor of The Enterprise joined the visit and attended a dinner hosted by the Business Administration faculty.
Fletcher Shuman aged 29 of 606 Evans street was charged by local police with driving drunk and larceny after trust for taking and driving the automobile of A. J. Hotham owner of A Save It store without permission. Total bond set at 1500 dollars.
Police early today arrested Garfield Robbins of Perry Street on an old warrant charging him with the theft of hosiery forms valued at 1600 dollars from Adams Millis plant No 3 on December 20, 1935. He is charged jointly with Maxie Gibbs who is already serving a county road term for breaking entering and larceny.
Tarboro reports a wage increase of two to ten percent for Bunnymeade Hosiery Mill workers after a grievance committee meeting. Rawls Howard, president, said labor unrest in the looping department last week has ended and all workers are satisfied.
Rev. W. P. Hunsucker of Conover was elected president of the Missouri Synod Lutheran South eastern Conference at its final meeting held yesterday at St. John’s Evangelical Lutheran Church near Hickory.
President Emeritus of Yale University denounces the plan as political bad faith while Senate Judiciary hearings on the court bill proceed. The panel weighs federal enforcement of state wage laws and an interstate ban on shipping goods made under unlawful state conditions. House labor panel endorses a stand against sit-down strikes and spies. Army air force headquarters shift to California for a month of maneuvers starting May 1.
Gov Frank Murphy announced settlement of the Hudson Motor Car strike last night. The action ends a walkout that left 3 700 workers idle and calms a tense front after days of stoppage at the plant. The agreement details were not released in the available text.
Michigan states its serious trouble in the motor industry is ended as automobile builders watch John L. Lewis’s forecast that Henry Ford would deal with the U A W in time and Ford’s pledge that union recognition would never be granted.
Chicago markets report butter at 9 184 creamery specials 93 score 31 3114. Extras 92 30 percent. Firsts 86 89 2945 30. Standards 90 centralized carrots 30 percent. Eyes 29 564 steady prices unchanged.
A party of 33 German textile men visited Charlotte to tour several cotton mills and attend a luncheon as guests of the chamber of commerce junior chamber.
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