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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1934
Page
5
Raleigh Apr 26 With rising auto fatalities and mounting insurance costs a campaign urges a strict drivers license law and a larger highway patrol. Proponents seek 400000 annually from license plates to fund at least 250 patrolmen, expanding enforcement across 7000 miles of roads.
Pilot Mountain police chief and tax collector K E Cooke has been reported missing after leaving a note to his wife and departing Sunday. Mayor J B Jarrell declined to confirm the disappearance. Cooke previously served with the Winston Salem police force.
In Raleigh it is said only three of NC 11 congressmen face no opposition for renomination as June 2 primary nears. Lindsay Warren, Robert L. Doughton, and J. Walter Lambeth are unopposed, while others campaign at home to defend seats amid several tight races.
At a mass meeting in Pembroke about 2,500 Robeson county Indians urged Rep. Clark to press Congress to designate them as Siouans. They oppose the name Croatan and seek recognition as a Siouan or Cherokee lineage, arguing Croatan traces mixed origins. The group, supported by state and local officials, lives in Robeson and nearby counties with supervised schools and institutions.
Gloria Swanson has parted from her fourth husband F Michael Farmer and plans an early divorce. The actress says the marriage, begun in 1931, was a mistake. They have one child Bridget Michaele born in London 1938. Farmer is in Paris with the child.
Tom Hunt, 35, sought family relief aid in Pittsburgh after wartime service. A Washington letter announced he had been awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for heroism near Cote de Chatillon, France on Oct 14, 1915.
Three bandits attempted to rob the First State Bank of Round Lake at 9:30 AM. Bank president E C Weber and a clerk were inside as vigilantes armed with garden tools fired and cornered one robber, wounding and capturing him while another fled in a car and the third escaped on foot.
A pursuit reached a cover in a Round Lake lumberyard as a posse closed in on the fugitive. Round Lake lies in Northeastern Illinois near the Wisconsin border, ten miles from the state line.
Raleigh April 25 The U S Weather Bureau reports March was cold and wet with frequent rains. Precipitation averaged 1.73 inches above normal. a cold wave on March 11 12 brought near zero temperatures on higher mountains. State mean 47.7 F. high 85 F at Goldsboro. low minus 4 at Mount Mitchell. Floods in the Roanoke river caused slight damage.
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