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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1937
Page
2
Weather guidance emphasizes keeping cool to avoid sun stroke or heat prostration and urges calling a physician only if symptoms appear. The fragment mentions temperatures and wind but is garbled and lacks clear details.
A Senate judiciary committee pushes for rapid action on a broad plan to reform the court system. The measure would explore all aspects of the organization of the United States courts and related institutions during the upcoming recess.
The Guilford County Commission approved three resolutions including tax exemption for the sixth annual High Point Fair and backed a five week extension of federal criminal court. They allocated 10 000 dollars for an adult education program with state match and outlined Bangs disease control led by local superintendents and state and federal agriculture officials.
A Senate resolution would authorize a committee to study proposals for appointing additional judges and reforming judicial procedure. It covers bills already introduced and those to come in the seventh-fifth Congress. The panel could study constitutional amendments and report periodically with recommendations. An appropriation of 87,500 is proposed.
The report describes wide scale shifts in Japan’s armed forces in response to North China tensions. It notes 2500 promotions and 23400 transfers, only 50 officers retired, and five divisions moved toward Hopeh to counter a large Chinese mobilization. Evacuations of Japanese civilians continued across China.
Attractive wool needlepoint design features a Tabby cat and a dog Rover to brighten cushions. Includes color suggestions and stitch illustrations with transfer numbers. Send 10 cents to The Enterprise Household Arts Dept for the pattern and provide name address and pattern number.
Charlie Ford a 40 year old Negro of Bruton Flats died in a Sunday morning wreck on Kivett Drive near Gordon Street intersection. Police believe Ford was intoxicated as the automobile turned over him and he died before ambulance arrival.
A Greensboro North Carolina girl Miss Hazel Sheppard, 17, died when a car veered into a railway underpass abutment on the Richmond Washington highway near Alexandria Virginia. Four others were injured including Miss Pauline Painter, 21, and Miss Bernice Bunting, 17, plus Mr L H Sheppard and Mrs L H Sheppard. The driver Mrs Sheppard reportedly lost control as the vehicle approached the underpass and struck the concrete abutment. The dead girl was the sister of L H Sheppard.
General Tire and Rubber Co. posted a net profit of 991262.21 for the six months ended May 31 before excess profits tax. President William O'Neil said this equals a $2.01 per share dividend after preferred dividends of 81375, with total annual earnings of 43.63 per share for 1986.
Miss Louis Cash of Gastonia and Miss Tommie Weaver of Charlotte died in a hospital after an automobile wreck late last night. Their companions Park Ellis and C P Watts, both of Charlotte, were reported still unconscious. Rural police said the sedan left the highway at a bridge and plunged into the stream bank and could not determine the cause. Ellis worked for Old Dominion Box Co and Watts for Southern Asbestos Co.
Police detained three men early Saturday following a rim-drag car incident in Union South Carolina. The suspects named as Robert Keppelle Schenectady NY Jack Hanes Charlotte NC and Abraham Cohen New York City claim abduction by Cohen and two accomplices in New York and were taken into custody awaiting FBI fingerprint results.
Cincinnati long distance trucking was paralyzed by a strike called by the Teamsters and Chauffeurs union. Thomas J. Farrell said several hundred drivers were idle as employers held an afternoon meeting. Philip G. Phillips cancelled a mediation trip to Harland county, Kentucky. Farrell cited a push for uniform wage rates while firms blamed an internal union dispute for blocking negotiations.
Frilly little Marian Martin shirtwaist frock pattern invites budget minded girls from ten to eighteen. Simple eight gore skirt short puff sleeves and front buttons make a versatile classroom ready design. Pattern includes chart and costs fifteen to pattern. book offers more sewing titles and fabric tips. Order to The Enterprise Pattern Department 232 W 18th St New York NY.
In Laning Michigan AP reports a remnant of the Michigan Legislature led by House Speaker George Schroeder aims to extend the session. They plan meetings today and Tuesday to force either resumption of work or constitutional adjournment as Governor Murphy calls a special session.
Insurgent forces launched an artillery assault on Madrid's outer defenses near Villanueva de la Canada west of the capital, meeting only slight resistance. Government sources said Italian troops with Gen Franco's army were withdrawn from Santander andreinforcing Teruel while bitter fighting continued near Adamuz and Ovejo as insurgent attacks were repulsed.
The Securities Commission expelled Michael M Meehan from three exchanges for manipulating Bellanca Aircraft Corp common stock in 1935. Meehan, dubbed the boy wizard of Wall Street, rigged the market on the New York curb exchange during various periods in 1935.
The National Catholic Federation of Textile Workers called about 7,000 men to strike across eight Dominion Textile plants. In Montreal four mills closed with around 8,000 workers idle. no violence reported, but picket lines formed around the sites.
Nine Italians aboard a commercial aircraft died when it crashed near Wadi Halfa airdrome as it neared landing. Witnesses said the pilot accelerated the engine, apparently unable to complete a safe approach.
Mrs Franklin Roosevelt calls a takeoff by her cousin Alice Roosevelt Longworth the most helpful criticism she has received of her radio broadcasts. In the August Democratic Digest she notes the mimicry showed flaws in her radio technique and urged self improvement.
In Charleston Illinois two children ages seven and four months died after a fire started by a lighted cigarette dropping from a tray onto a couch. Firemen suspect the blaze began in the early morning apartment fire that gutted the dwelling.
Greensboro Aug. 2 The Guilford County grand jury returned true bills in three capital cases involving Roby Osborne and Russell McIntyre of High Point who had appeals withdrawn from 10 year sentences for breaking and entering and larceny. Frank Gamble of Hoover Flats and Johnny Wilkes alias Johnny Morgan faced first degree burglary capital offenses for burglaries on Kivett drive and Steele street. All three burglaries occurred while occupants slept, making them capital offenses. trials deferred pending indictments.
A coroner's verdict in Bl Centro California fails to explain why Fred W. Simmons shot Dr O L Webster at the Seventh Day Adventist church then killed himself. Witnesses cited domestic troubles. Mrs Simmons denied motive. Simmons, 40, Webster, 37, had argued over his wife’s church activities and finances.
The New Jersey Veterans of Foreign Wars urged the legislature to pass a law prohibiting carrying any foreign flag in the state over a Swastika display at a German American band camp near Andover. The group also sought investigations of un American activities at the camp and announced statements from Herman von Busch of Newark defending the camp amid scrutiny.
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