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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1934
Page
1
Jimmy Halverstadt of Davidson won his quarterfinal match at the state intercollegiate tennis tournament, defeating Walter Levitan of Carolina 6-2, 6-2 to advance to the semifinals.
World disarmament representatives head to Geneva for full sessions amid France Germany and Great Britain tensions. Reports say France may seek German armament proof while Japan lines up a hard stance leaving a global pact uncertain.
Postmaster General Farley opened bids for private contractors to carry air mail on 21 routes for at least three months. Bids as low as 19 cents per airplane mile were submitted, with maximum rates of 41 to 45 cents. The opening drew officials and aviation men as the Senate planned to address the air mail bill.
Washington April 20 Hugh B Johnson told newspaper editors no charges of NRA code violation against large manufacturers would stand in court. He urged editors to help NRA objectives, warning against vigilant accusations and urging collaboration for quicker progress.
Washington April 20 Four major measures gained momentum in Congress with Senate committee approval for a stock exchange control bill and similar action in the House. President Roosevelt backed direct federal loans to industries and a strengthened NRA labor bill drew support from Senator Wagner after White House talks. Perkins signaled early unemployment insurance, while air mail, anti crime, and depositor protection debates continued as MacArthur urged 48 000 more army troops and Mrs Roosevelt pressed national preparedness.
An investigator told the Trade Commission that Insull Utilities overpaid Peabody Coal, an Insull dominated firm, and shifted the excess cost to consumers through higher electric rates.
Rock Hill South Carolina reports that Highland Park mill and its striking weavers have settled their differences and the plant will resume operations on Monday. The agreement ends a walkout that began earlier this week and restores manufacturing at the facility.
Raleigh April 20 The North Carolina Municipal League urged the state to distribute 0 percent of gross highway funds to towns for street maintenance. The proposal, part of a bill for the 1935 legislature, envisions about 2,500,000 for municipalities with a $3 per capita basis in towns of 2,500 or more. Governor Ehringhaus noted State maintenance could be shifted but warned North Carolina cannot currently bear the burden.
Carolina forecast shows fair skies and cooler temperatures with Saturday warmth in western areas. tonight partly light. Winds at Hatteras and Jacksonville: moderate northwest to west, overcast conditions tonight and Saturday. AP records note 2 hour temperature and rain data from principal cotton areas elsewhere.
Governor Futrell ordered the state penal board to end using convicts to pull 100 pound cotton planters on the Rucker estate prison farm. He cited concerns that six able bodied men handling the planter is not harmful, calling the six man team method a misguided substitute for mules and asked the board to stop the practice after a demonstration observed by H Grady McCall and Walter Helms.
Shreveport scene reports Fred Lockhart saying he helped abduct Leo Frank from Milledgeville prison to Marietta, linking him to the 1915 Georgia lynching. He claims he drove the car, admitted mob involvement, and cites fear for his life as motive.
Governor Talmadge pardons Leland Harvey and Aubrey Smith, two Georgia escapees. Harvey faced 110 years remaining, Smith 145. Both engaged in robberies. Smith boasted he would not be captured alive but repeatedly escaped without serious trouble. The pardons follow a year of consideration after a prison farm visit at Milledgeville.
Stedman defended a practice of employing convict drawn planters in the fields to speed planting, citing mule shortages and delays. He said the workers performed no harder tasks than typical farm labor and that the method was necessary to push planting forward.
Tokyo officials and foreign diplomats wrestle with Japan's restatement of policy toward China. Critics call it white hands off China or an Asiatic Monroe Doctrine while wondering how Tokyo will apply it and whether it threatens world peace.
Census Bureau reports March cotton spinning operated at 102.3 percent capacity on a single shift, up from February and last year. Spindle totals and active hours are listed for states including Alabama Georgia Mississippi North Carolina South Carolina Tennessee Texas Virginia with state averages around 288 hours per spindle.
In Madrid on April 20 youths from syndicalist and socialist parties attacked young actionists gathering for a political meeting. Gunfire broke out in the city center as tensions escalated during the protest.
The federal emergency relief administration announced a grant of 500000 dollars to North Carolina to enable the state to pay teachers full salaries for this school term.
Alabama National Guardsmen and deputies dispersed 500 to 700 striking miners at the Red Diamond coal mine near Leeds after a brief parley. A striker was killed Wednesday. guards were sent as reports described pickets threatening to block workers returning to the shaft.
A Santa Monica column links Lexington Mass citizens marching on Washington to protest government business with a Washington report noting 2,750,000 employed in the past year and March payroll activity. The letter suggests many will be too busy with work to march, quipping on wage impact.
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