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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1937
Page
2
Partly cloudy with scattered showers expected Sunday in North Carolina region. Forecast calls for farmers to work on the court today with generally fair conditions overall.
An extended revenue and appropriations report outlines road funding shifts with total obligations reaching 25.3 million and available funds around 40.6 million. Details show public schools receiving 22.1 million and debt service at nearly 5 million, with notable drops in inheritance and distance tax receipts affecting July collections.
Japanese air forces pounded Tientsin and advanced along the Peiping Suiyuan line as Chinese defenders stalled in alleys and brick streets. In Peiping 250 American civilians sheltered in the embassy compound under Marine protection amid relief efforts and slow shifts toward new governance under Japanese control.
Chinese and Japanese forces clash west of Peiping with guerrilla fighting intensifying as Japanese troops encircle the capital. Two American missionaries, Harry S. Martin and James A. Hunter, are reported safe at Tungchow while other foreigners seek refuge in Peiping.
A Harris resident said to be connected to a prior tip near James is sought as a suspect after a young would-be robber targeted RS H Taylor and fled without a hold up after pleading to avoid police. The robber claimed he only wanted a ride and did not intend to harm.
A terse summary notes that seven percent of IRs and eleven percent of trains involved in fatal accidents had been drinking or intoxicated. The fragment indicates concerns over alcohol use in transportation-related fatalities and cites specific percentages.
The administration pushes a wage hour measure setting minimums up to 70 cents and a 35 hour week amid a five day debate with many roll calls. The Wheeler Johnson child labor substitution was adopted to bar shipments of such goods into states and across interstate commerce.
Examiner Lindsay cites 150 witnesses and 3,000 pages of testimony accusing Dearborn police officials and inspectors of neglect and illegal searches during the Ford plant riot on May 26. The presentment charges Inspector Slamer, Sergeant Dean, Wasser and Herman, Snider, and Matron Hitchcock with failures to act and unlawful searches of women and bystanders.
Washington July 81 The Senate again refused to attach the Wagner Van Nuys anti lynching bill to the wage hour measure by 46 to 39. Copeland NY urged adding it as an amendment and warned the bill has no chance as separate legislation. Supporters vow to try again at the first opportunity. The measure would make mob related prison seizures a felony and assign liability to counties where seizures occur. Gavagan bill definitions differ and cover labor disputes and gangster wars.
The funeral backdrop at Paris Missouri marked the end of an era as Tom V Bodine publisher editor of the Paris Mercury lay in state in his office estate. The AP report notes his death and the paper ceasing operations in the wake of the loss.
The executable mayfly is said to have tendrils and floats to buoy it up, describing a distinctive bodily adaptation.
The judge described police actions near the Ford plant as misinformed traffic patrol duties as a clash arose over public versus private property. He noted tensions between service department authority and citizen rights, with testimony on beatings of UAW members and Carl Brooks allegedly made a special officer at the urging of Ford’s Harry Bennett.
Senate commerce committee approved two bills to improve sea travel safety after a Chesapeake Bay steamer fire. One requires complete passenger lists filed ashore. the other tightens construction rules to reduce sinking risk, improve fireproofing, cargo handling, fire drills, and inspections.
Four short-term prisoners received paroles today from Governor Hoey in Raleigh. Eleven clemency requests were refused. Paroled were Oliver Frazier of Craven county for assault on a female, Evertee Spainhour of Stokes for breaking entering and larceny, June Cooper of Duplin for possession of whiskey for sale, and Theo Somerset of Columbus for larceny.
The steel workers organizing committee says a one week loss of wages suffices as punishment for 43 members who struck at the Brackenridge plant of Allegheny Steel on July 23. Regional Director Clinton Golden says convening a union meeting on company property violates the contract and is inexcusable.
In Paris on July 31 France protested to Italy over newspaper claims that France allowed volunteers to cross into Spain to fight for the Spanish government and supplied arms to Valencia. Foreign Minister Yvon Delbos demanded sources for the allegations. The French charge dAffaires in Rome echoed the protest.
University of Georgia officials announced the appointment of James A Spurill Jr a former Rhodes scholar from South Carolina to the law school faculty. Spurill of Camden D C will be assistant professor of law at Georgia College in Athens.
The first white center stripe for roads was introduced in 1912 by BE. N. Hines of Michigan, marking a milestone in highway marking history.
The article notes that about 40 percent of pedestrian and motor vehicle crashes are fatal for the pedestrian or the vehicle occupant, and five percent of two-vehicle car crashes are fatal.
Police probe the fatal shooting of a year old girl and serious wounding of her mother Mrs. S. Miles at a farmhouse near Mt. Croghan South Carolina. Deputies report no motive or leads and bloodhounds failed to pick up a scent. Residents are unsettled as investigators search for the attacker.
Cairo reports Premier Mustapha Bi Nahas Pasha prepared a new cabinet for the newly proclaimed boy king Farouk I. He submitted the government’s resignation as required and was empowered to form a new cabinet. Farouk, 18, begins governing with powers limited under constitutional provisions and British influence remains.
An observation notes that the sawfly constructs its cocoon with a lid that can be lifted to allow an exit. The design enables emergence while protecting the pupa inside.
U S Representative Clare E. Hoffman urged about 100 delegates from a dozen states to form a National Federation of Independent unions. He compared John L. Lewis and the CIO to King George III and said an independent union is needed now as the colonial union was in 1776. He framed the issue as dues collection versus representation.
Reporting from the Spanish conflict frontline rebels faced resistance as loyalist forces clashed with insurgents. Communications note insurgent radio hints of a Madrid push while Madrid front remains tense near Villanueva de la Canada and Cuenca province reports a Franco victory along the northern edge.
Estella Fritts 71 of Lexington route two died at 6 40 PM after a seven month illness. Survived by husband H M Fritts son Jesse Fritts and daughters Mrs Ray Harris Mrs Van LAMBeth and Mrs Ernest Warner all of Lexington route two. brother James Younts sister Miss Emma Younts and 16 grandchildren. Funeral from Clarkbury M E B Church at 11 AM Tuesday. burial in church cemetery.
The Yellow Cab Company of Cleveland launches a Blotto Service allowing a drunken man to ride home in one cab and have a second driver take his own car home for him, enabling a safe return.
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