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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 16, 1937
Page
2
North Carolina fair tonight and cooler in the east, Saturday partly cloudy and slightly warmer. South Carolina fair tonight and increasing cloudiness, warm in the northwest portion. Winds from Hatteras to Jacksonville moderate northerly under overcast conditions tonight and Saturday.
CHAPEL HILL April 16 Delegates to the 93rd meeting of the American Chemical Society were homeward bound today after four days of sessions on progress in American laboratories. Nearly 400 papers were read covering every phase of chemistry and the convention attracted about 2,000 attendees.
City officials say a petition to force a vote on the civil service commission cannot occur until at least 12 months after the act’s ratification and requires about 4 500 valid registered voters. The fear followed a weak election showing and party ticket issues and hinges on a 25 percent threshold of registered voters, not those who vote, to trigger a vote.
A noted surgeon states that average life expectancy for women rose from 40 to 64 years, but the reflection is that for a woman it still means 24 more years to live, with a focus on personal perspective over statistics.
In Washington on April 16 a French worker's delegate urged the world textile conference to back a shortened week. Thomas Ashurst, British employers' delegate, protested that such a move was not playing the game.
TVA solicitor James Lawrence Fly described a suit by 19 southern power concerns to curb TVA expansion as an awful collection of debris. He cited the Ashwander case and argued the TVA act remains constitutional while judges listened during the hearing on TVA’s bid to proceed with transmission lines and substations beyond existing projects. The case questions TVA jurisdiction and a district court order blocking new lines serving multiple states.
Clarence Langley and Baxter Lawrence, young white men, were ordered held for Guilford Superior court under bonds of 1000 each after arraignment before Judge Lewis E. Teague on charges of breaking entering and larceny. They allegedly broke into W. H. Russell’s East Green Street home on April 7, stealing a suitcase and clothing valued at 60. Police found part of the clothing buried at the defendants’ Randolph Street home and a buried chewing tobacco jar. Both defendants pleaded not guilty. Mary Elizabeth Langley of Randolph Street was sentenced to 30 days in the work house after pleading guilty to stealing a chair from a neighbor. The chair had been repainted and altered and valued at 2. Other cases: Vivian Vail non-support abandonment not pros with leave, Gilbert Tatum seduction to pay costs after witness and defendant marriaged, Elgin Gilmore two assault with deadly weapon charges not pros with leave, Tom Holt trespassing dismissed.
Raleigh April 16 charter issued to Toggs Mutual of Raleigh a mutual non stock business to deal in gasoline oil tires and other motor vehicle supplies with A L Fletcher Howard E Satterfield N C Newbold and J B Martin among incorporators. Also chartered was People In-
A Burling ton firm named Insurance Agency, Inc. is authorized to operate a general real estate and insurance business under $10,000 capital with $300 stock subscribed by W. H. Cameron, Pearle Turner and Claiborne Young, all of Burling ton.
The Atlantic Cotton Association opened its 14th annual convention in Atlanta. The body includes cotton merchants brokers and allied interests from Georgia Alabama North and South Carolina Florida and Virginia. The meeting began April 16 with delegates from multiple states in attendance.
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