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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 10, 1938
Page
18
Insurgent forces push toward Barcelona severing land links from Madrid and Tortosa while Madrid endures shelling with 50 dead and 200 wounded. Negrin reshuffles cabinet to strengthen war effort as France and Britain urged non intervention.
Generalissimo Chiang Kai shek is elected chairman of both the Kuomintang congress and its central executive committee, giving him sweeping political and military power. Reports say front-line Chinese officers are reluctant to reveal the full truth about battlefield progress as guerrilla clashes continue near key city areas.
Premier Blum seeks three month emergency powers as about 45 000 workers strike and costs rise. He proposes foreign exchange controls, capital taxes, and a two year debt moratorium. Hitler tours Austria while Vienna bishops meet the Pope amid Austria Germany tensions. Mexico court action over foreigners oil properties continues with expropriation proceeds to fund restitution.
Washington officials push for more federal spending and a public works push to aid business. RFC loans expanding while Roosevelt resists railroad subsidies. Tax bill revisions cut undistributed profits taxes, wage hour reform advances with a regional five member board.
Rev George W Cooke of Buffalo starts preserve sessions with a string ensemble at Sunday gatherings offering doughnuts and fruit juice. A Hopkins Baltimore hospital program will feature historic music once used for spider bites and an ailing duke, to spark interest in medical history. Midge Reed supported her dad Pete until 21. Pete sues for support and a portion of her earnings.
In Short King Farouk's side won in Egyptian elections. A Chicago hotel fire killed eight men across two floors. An April snowstorm hit northern states. Orlando deaths rose to 11 after cancer serum injections. U S wheat crop forecast strongest in seven years. Britain's RAF crash toll rose to 52. Italian auto race deadly crash left ten dead and 32 injured. Britain House of Commons contemplates public coal control. Born: son to Mrs Oliva Dionne. Married: Haila Stoddard to Jack Kirkland. Died: James Carew and George C Priestly.
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In Britain a Labour MP slapped a Conservative after a “Go to Poland” remark and both apologized. In France Leftists shouted down rightists who hurled “Back to the Ghetto” as Premier Blum intervened. In the U S Senate Senator McKellar lunged at Copeland during army appropriation debate as Mrs Clark intervened.
Last year two strikes halted electrical service in Saginaw Valley. Over the weekend CIO organizers disrupted Consumers Power Co plants while nonunion workers were barred. Florida Governor Murphy helped broker a temporary reopening of plants and a four month extension of a previous agreement. An NLRB election is promised as AFL and independent unions claim majorities. Inland Steel Co. is ordered to bargain with CIO, while the board notes the company’s refusal to engage in a sos agreement.
Dr. John P. Peters of Yale urged tax funding for medical care, schools, hospitals and laboratories at the American College of Physicians meeting in New York. President James H. Means called AMA stance near standpatism. Su Lin panda died in a Chicago zoo. Floyd Tangier Animal Smith hunted pandas in China. A New Orleans grain dust explosion killed five men at a 4 million dollar elevator.
Benjamin F. Fairless, 47, becomes chief administrative officer and president of U S Steel Corp in a $2 900 000 000 enterprise. Edward R. Stettinius, 37, is named chairman of the board, succeeding Myron C Taylor 64, who told stockholders in Hoboken that the future of the nation and the company is assured. Hungary’s regent Admiral Horthy, 70, asserts Hungary will retain independence and recalls 1919’s red and white terror.
Sunday entries note Palm Sunday events including election mentions in Germany and political observances across the week with various political and academic meetings listed. The record references Henry Ford and notable figures and institutions in the United States and abroad during the period.
Mrs. Weston G Frome 46 and her daughter Nancy 23, California socialites, disappeared in Texas after stopping for a tire blowout. Three days later two bodies were found and identified without fingerprints. Police say they were held up and clubbed to death by occupants of a passing auto. Nancy Frome.
In Chicago last weekend Interior Secretary Ickes called fascism a ruthless political monster while publisher Frank Knox urged defending democracy through government and free enterprise competition. Governor Earle of Pennsylvania equated fascism and communism, saying both purge blood and curb liberty.
Washington observers report House leaders struggle to limit debate as Congress weighs a plan to create a welfare department and reorganize agencies. Supporters seek three concessions while opponents argue the measure concentrates presidential power. a showdown motion failed after days of disorder.
Secretary Hull stresses security demands for a 5-5-3 arms ratio and no imaginary Chinese wall. Congress debates naval and army budgets with costs projected at $750 million yearly. Philippine independence is postponed beyond 1946 as Roosevelt and Quezon favor extended economic ties and delayed independence.
Reports indicate the San Francisco mint produced 1 245 000 Chinese silver dollars last month. Washington officials estimate the nation holds 71 366 more Indians than in 1900. Coiffure experts in Louis anticipate brass hues will surpass plating blonde in popularity. A landlubber on the U S battleship New Mexico told Los Angeles officers he bought ice from a stranger, but a crew refused to surrender it.
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