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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1933
Page
1
The United States recovery administration launches a nationwide buy now drive led by Hugh S. Johnson to curb unemployment by steering consumer spending. Roosevelt signals contract price adjustments for rising costs as labor boards begin mediating strikes and labor disputes. Havana faces a growing hunger crisis as widespread strikes close transport and many services.
William Smith, national secretary of the American Federation of Full Fashioned Hosiery Workers, announced a moratorium on new strikes in the hosiery industry. All labor disputes will be referred to President Roosevelt's newly created industrial mediation board, while ongoing strikes continue under a status quo arrangement.
In Brownsville Pennsylvania thousands of miners defied a Roosevelt truce and stayed out. A few mines reopened but most remained idle as picket lines dwindled. The last Fayette county mine closed and Governor Pinchot urged delay, with a National Guard battalion in the area and John L. Lewis urging workers to resume.
Phoenix August 7 Arizona voters will decide whether the state becomes the twenty first in the union to sanction repeal of the eighteenth amendment A court battle to restrain the casting of ballots failed five days before the election anti forces concede the state likely will vote overwhelmingly in favor of ratification
William R. Delenski returned from San Antonio to answer a kidnaping charge involving Atlanta banker John K. Ottley for a $40 000 ransom He expects Georgia's maximum twenty years He confessed and spoke freely to officers The case drew a crowd at the landing and linked to a reward claim by Pryor Bowen a Lavonia youth's attorney Bowen released the banker during a failed ransom attempt Delenski planned to flee to Mexico upon a clothing shipment misnaming him B A Williams
Lexington obituary notes the death of Thomas J. Grimes 75 a pioneer flour manufacturer and banker who helped establish the first roller mill in North Carolina with his late brother J D Grimes. Survived by wife Elizabeth Sink Grimes two sons J Clarence and I Paul Grimes and daughter Mrs W L Griplever. Funeral plans were not announced.
HARBOR N F Aug Gener al Italo Balbo may send his armada of 24 Italian sea planes or the 1600 mile hop to the Azores next stopping place on the return from the United States on Wednesday an aide said today.
Aberdeen Maryland August 7 Arthur Rickey a 50 year old farmer living near the town was gored to death by a bull last night authorities said a farm accident and fatal animal attack. The incident occurred on the Rickey farm and authorities are reporting the victim as the deceased.
Utica New York August 7 non-strikers in New York states milk strike appeal for greater protection after last nights violence. One man shot another threatened with lynching two women beaten a state trooper struck with an iron pipe and farmers injured by flying clubs and stones. Governor Lehman authorized sheriffs to appoint extra deputies and state police guard milk trucks as strike enters sixth day.
In Madras on August 7, R. Achakar Mahatma Gandhi's lieutenant and 16 others were sentenced to six months' imprisonment after being arrested while holding meetings to explain the Congress independence program.
Will Rogers Faults weekly admin plans that forbid strikes as a wartime burden. He argues unions reflect many groups and that a strike harms the innocent while the government seeks fair settlement. He praises restraint and calls for choosing alternatives before strikes.
Police probe ties Henry F. Sanborn murder to business ties and romance as investigators reveal a July 17 bank withdrawal of 2000 and identify his fiancée Magnihild Alimkaar, a 27-year-old Brooklyn interpreter. Detectives pursue Bancroft Mitchell and Willard McNeil linked to a securities deal with the Weibel brewery.
A UNC Chapel Hill freshman, seeking to restart his studies, mows lawns for pay. He sent mimeographed letters to local homeowners offering guaranteed dependable service for the summer, with pricing by yard size or hourly work. The letters cite four university dignitaries as references.
Oklahoma City police arrested leaders of a relief strike movement amid threats of a job walk on unemployment relief projects. Agitators sought at least 10 six hour days a month at 40 cents hourly, while workers currently earn 1.25 dollars daily for one to six days monthly. Bob Gladneck and W M Williamson led the group and were taken with five others, to be escorted to the city limit.
Kentucky counties saw fourteen slayings during the primary weekend with ten more wounded amid intense county race feuds and old grudges. Brown Strong and Frank Brock died, with National Guards on duty in Harlan as vote tabulation began.
Authorities investigate the slaying of 69 year old Henry Santér in Kannapolis. Shotgun wound in the back allegedly fired by his son in law Charles Deas 22 after an argument on the porch. Deas fled but was captured near Concord after wrecking his automobile.
French airmen Maurice Rossi and Paul Codos landed at Damascus Syria at 4 00 P M GMT 11 00 A M EST completing their non stop flight from New York They reportedly beat the world distance record by about 560 miles with a total of about 6900 miles and had planned to continue to India but halted the run at Rayak may have broken British held distance record by roughly 200 to 350 miles depending on final routing
Reuters reports an unofficial Paris dispatch that Maurice Rossi and Paul Codos, French airmen, began from New York on Saturday and achieved a nonstop crossing, passing over Syria as they continued their route.
A labor investigator is due this week in Zona Anderson 8 C Aug. 7 9 to negotiate a settlement of the 850 Apple ton mill workers strike. The operatives struck over mill conditions and had requested a conciliator from Washington. Washington authorities said B H Dunigan would come to help iron out the trouble.
Officials of the National Recovery Administration provide answers on blanket code eligibility for small firms and home industries. They explain how curb service businesses with young workers must pay minimum wages, and that not reducing pay is required to avoid harming the re employment agreement.
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