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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1938
Page
2
Members of the House naval and military committees will conduct a thorough checkup on national defenses from Maine to Hawaii and Panama Canal to Alaska to gather information for future legislation. The survey will cover major navy bases, air bases, anti-aircraft positions, and seacoast defenses.
Military committee members will study coast defenses to determine the need for new coast artillery and anti aircraft guns. They warn of obsolete stationary guns and stress mobility and aerial bombardment resilience. May notes Japan withdrew fishing fleets from Alaskan waters after the U S moved to build more battleships.
The Treasury has ample cash and banks will receive redemption money as bond holders or as deposits. The Federal Reserve board sold 108 million dollars of bonds last week to curb price rises. Roosevelt’s credit inflation program lifts government bond prices by increasing idle bank money and boosting bond purchases for investment. The result is a more volatile bond market if gold money circulates quickly.
Military actions shift to the seaboard war zone as insurgents fail to press an assault on the former capital and exploding mines interrupt operations. World tensions include Mexico rejecting British protests, Daladier seeking to limit attacks, and Japan paying indemnity to the United States for the Panay bombing.
Lexington man Coy Royals 33 charged with larceny of 1119.75 from E. E. Nance a Lexington confectioner. Bound over to May 9 term of Davidson county Superior Court on 2000 bond after waiving preliminary hearing. Royals captured by High Point officers and confessed taking the money all but six dollars recovered.
Dr W W Peele presiding elder of the Greensboro district will preach at Wesley Memorial church Sunday at 11. This marks his last appearance before departing for the General Conference in Birmingham and he has been linked with possible bishop vacancies. He was born in Gibson NC and earned degrees at Trinity College now Duke.
In Chicago dental news 92 year old Uncle Jimmy Richards of Palestine Illinois reportedly began cutting a so called third set of teeth. The American Dental Association’s Pierce Anthony dismisses the notion stating no human has more than two sets of teeth and what Richards has are super-numerary teeth.
Readable fragments report vessels on the Yangtze River dated December 12. Details on numbers or names are unclear but indicate river traffic activity during that period.
Report says Jose Miaja civil and military chief for most of Spain except Catalonia escaped capture during a march toward the Mediterranean. He traveled to the front to study defenses, then fled toward Barcelona as Franco forces moved through Vildecona, using a plane to return to Madrid.
Police search the city for an unidentified Black man who last night entered the home of Mrs J A Medlin at 402 Cedar Street. He awakened her, grabbed her by the neck, then fled through a kitchen window. No items were taken and officials believe the intruder intended to rob an unoccupied house.
High Point leaders will join state colleagues at a Greensboro conference April 24 to 26 themed Government as an Agency for Human Welfare. Events include a memorial service for Dr. W. Poteat at First Baptist Church and Red Cross and public welfare talks by UNC and national figures.
Rev H L Truesdell and his two choirs will lead 11 oclock services at Pilgrim Congregational Church corner Taylor and Fairview streets. Choirs praised for past performances. Rev H R Walden to give Sunday evening message at 730. All clubs asked to report and submit boxes cards and envelopes.
A South African native in Na bomepruit is arrested on murder charges after an alleged ritual killed one of twins. Posner is named in the report as the accused.
Cloudy with showers this afternoon in eastern areas and cooler tonight. Saturday partly cloudy and cooler in east and central portions. Hatteras to Jacksonville winds southwest shifting northwest tonight and Saturday, possibly fresh. Sandy Hook to Hatteras northwest to northerly winds with partly cloudy tonight and fair Saturday.
W C Swaim 32 pleaded guilty in Guilford Superior court to forging J Lilly name on a December 22 check for 33 dollars and was sentenced to 12 months. In High Point a breaking and entering case against a Sumner township farmer’s house was ready for the jury when a juror fell ill. Four High Point men and two others faced theft charges from the Diamond Full Fashioned Hosiery plant with three Negro defendants pleading guilty and the white watchman pleading not guilty.
Mrs E I Hollman of New Bern will serve for the next year as president of the Women’s Missionary society of the North Carolina Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church South Delegates selected Washington NC for the 1939 meeting and named officers including H L Faison W C Chadwick EB McKinney J B Temple B C Thompson R H Broom W L Knight and district secretaries were renamed.
Plainclothes officers raided a Washington street home and seized five gallons of corn liquor. They arrested Josie Eccles, identified as a Negress, of 735 East Washington Street, on a prohibition violation charge and she remained jailed in default of a $600 bond.
Flames crackled in the dry Everglades as state and county crews battled overnight and into the day to extinguish them with little prospect of rain. The effort continued in Miami area paths amid ongoing firefighting operations.
Stonewall Jackson Manual Training and Industrial School officials unveiled plans for a new gymnasium and infirmary. Bids for the projects will be opened April 29.
Winston Salem April 22 The governor spoke at the 19th annual convention of the North Carolina Congress of Parents and Teachers urging all residents to join in eradicating illiteracy. He predicted the 1939 General Assembly would add a 12th grade to the public school system. The convention elected officers including Mrs Doyle D Alley of Waynesville as president and Mrs N L Walker of Raleigh as first vice president.
Mrs. Henry M. Robert Jr. of Annapolis becomes president general of the Daughters of the American Revolution for a three year term ending in the 60th anniversary year. Delegates visited Mount Vernon and heard President Roosevelt praise immigration ancestry and the need to educate younger Americans about revolutionary origins. The meeting also endorsed his naval expansion plan.
Burlington April 22. M K Tyson a local Negro war veteran and tailor filed today as a candidate for the house from Alamance county. Tyson, former commander of the Alamance county Negro war veterans post, was once secretary of a national association of Negro tailors and dressmakers. He said the white folks are going to send me to the general assembly. Observers call this the first Negro candidacy for the legislature since Reconstruction days.
Senate committee chairman Wheeler said he would discuss emergency railroad legislation with WPA Administrator Hopkins and other officials next week. He also backed further federal loans for distressed railroads to stave off bankruptcy as Roosevelt plans a luncheon with Henry Ford.
A planned strike by the Pittsburgh Sun Telegraph office workers AFL union was rescinded after publishers and union representatives reached an agreement. The talks included Wikhmer M. Jacoby and the newspaper management.
The piece notes Germanys expanding armed forces under Hitler five years after reorganization of the army. It cites mobilization potential of 1,300,000 in 48 hours, 850,000 regulars, 1.5 million reserves, and ongoing naval and highway projects, with Austria annexation boosting preparations.
W. W. Rath a 21 year old Greensboro youth was arraigned in Superior court on a holdup charge and sentenced to five to eight years for the larceny of 86 cents from H. Kypris of Greensboro.
Two New York Stock Exchange members testified at an SEC hearing that Richard Whitney tried to borrow 200000 dollars weeks before his brokerage firm crashed on March 8. Testimony came as the hearing adjourned until Tuesday in Washington with J. P. Morgan & Company partners to be called.
Chicago April 22 Butter totals 1,102,202 pounds with steady pricing for creamery extra firsts at 24-25 percent and seconds at 21-21 percent. Eggs at 234,869 cases firm with fresh graded varieties up to 19 percent, current receipts 17-20 percent, storage packed extras 20 percent.
An attractive woman of about 35 approached Deputy Auditor George Hellmich at the marriage license bureau asking if any extra men were looking for a wife. He asked about her qualifications and she said she had a form. The line forms on the right.
A hen found in Launceston Tasmania yielded 23 gold pieces from its gizzard. George Town, the buyer who killed the bird, has joined others in scouring surrounding areas to locate how the fowl obtained the rare treasure. The pieces vary in size from No 1 shot to about one sixteenth of an inch, are flat and water worn.
Contractors Blythe Brothers under city and PWA contract shift 3,000 cubic yards daily in the second lap of excavation east of Kivett drive bridge. A. H. Guion and Co handles the Dalton street bridge span while retaining walls are finished and spur tracks await construction to connect with the new line.
Tokyo reports the Panay case is settled as Japan pays 2,214,007.36 dollars in full indemnity. The payment was delivered at the foreign office in a quiet ceremony with Eugene H. Dooman receiving the check. Standard Vacuum Oil Co. receives 1,287,942 dollars, more than half of the total.
President Roosevelt says he cannot embargo arms shipments to Italy and Germany under current law and notes the same applies to France and Britain. He declines to name all limitations. House naval and military committees will conduct a thorough defense review this summer.
Irritated Millbank gardeners threaten to petition the town council over constant poultry raids. Hens are blamed for digging and scrapping newly planted plots. Despite wire netting, raids continue as gardens struggle to ward off the biddies.
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