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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1932
Page
1
In Winston Salem on August 10 a man and a woman believed to be communists were escorted from a hall shortly before the annual convention of the North Carolina Federation of Labor.
Madrid reports Spanish army units moved on Seville to quell a monarchist uprising after Madrid suppression left eight dead and about 30 wounded. Government says 6 rebels and 2 rebel officers died. Seville under Gen. Jose San Jurjo’s control, with a battle anticipated as arrests pass 82.
The New York Stock Exchange rallied with railroad stocks leading the rise as Union Pacific and New York Central pushed higher. Traders awaited Hoover's speech with expectations of economic measures including a new commodity credit corporation. Cotton and grain prices rose amid firm buying.
New York August 10 unfilled tonnage of the United States Steel Corporation fell 68466 tons in July to 1966302 tons on July 31 marking the 16th straight monthly decline. June tonnage dropped about 142000 tons from May and declines of 100000 tons or more have prevailed for months as dull steel buying pushed backlog to record lows.
Early returns from nearly half of Arkansas precincts show Hattie Caraway leading the Democratic Senate race with 39,107 votes to 19,797 for Bodenhamer and 8,030 for Miles, while J. Marion Futrell leads the gubernatorial contest with 37,953 votes over Tom Terral at 18,589.
Pair named Richard Brown and Richard Johnson were executed in Huntsville for the murder of A. N. Nodruff, a Fort Worth oil man, and for robbing his fiancée.
Edith Rockefeller McCormick, noted as Americas richest woman, lies seriously ill at a Gold Coast hospital in Chicago after financial troubles and a public divorce. Her estranged children are reconciling as Harold Fowler McCormick travels from the Pacific coast to her bedside amid economic strain on her fortune.
Supreme Court Justice McGeehan in a special Bronx term prepared to hear charges against Mayor James J. Walker. Sidney S. Levine filed for George Donnelly, secretary to Cyrus Miller, arguing Governor Roosevelt lacks power to hear removal charges.
J Wallace Winborne of Marion was elected state Democratic chairman in Raleigh and began planning the fall campaign. John Bright Hill of Wilmington accepted the executive committee secretary post after initial reluctance, with leaders predicting a short campaign and a cautious start around mid September. McLendon of Durham was nominated for state chairman, having managed Ehringhaus’s gubernatorial bid.
Ambassador Debuchi of Japan met with Secretary Stimson for about an hour to review the general Manchurian situation. Debuchi said he planned to return to Japan before Christmas and had no instruction to seek an explanation of Stimson’s Kellogg Briand speech.
In Beverly Hills California August 9 ex president Coolidge misses the notification ceremony citing hay fever as the reason. From Plymouth Notch Vermont his former home, Coolidge notes hay fields there and mocks Washington hay cutting since October. Senator Dickinson faults Roosevelt for delaying the Mayor Walker inquiry, warning such timing splits newspaper space and suggesting partisan tricks in events.
Chicago August reports Julius Rosenwald funded 7.825 million dollars to guard Sears Roebuck employees from stock market losses in 1929. Executors of his estate released details after Chase National Bank filed a claim for the amount, noting he posted 101,359 shares as security to prevent account losses when the market fell.
Libby Holman Reynolds seeks seclusion to recover and endure murder trial. Indicted for her husband Smith Reyne’s death, she left Wentworth on bond while attorneys plan defense. A venue change to Cincinnati is possible if trial moves. her father tours home.
United Press reports US business failures last week reached 672 up from 576 the prior week per Bradstreet's Journal. First National Stores directors may raise the common dividend from 2.60 to 3 annually later this month. Continental Illinois Bank and Trust Co. chairman George H Reynolds sees stock buying easing hoarding. Illinois Steel Co. plans to open its South Works at 10 percent capacity late this week. Rice-Stix Dry Goods and Ely and Walker report a spike in wholesale buying, especially cotton goods, helped by higher raw cotton prices. Ernest Stix calls yesterday the best buying day of the year.
Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Co. secured a Navy Department order valued at $100,000 for aircraft radio equipment. The deal signals strong defense electronics demand and expands Westinghouse production lines.
Briggs Manufacturing Co earned 18 cents a common share in the second quarter while posting a net loss of 953,933 dollars in the preceding quarter. The report notes the improvement in earnings but highlights ongoing losses prior quarter as context.
Aug 10 1932 Berlin reports Hitler pressing to become chancellor after talks with President Hindenburg and Chancellor von Papen. Hindenburg returns to Berlin with von Papen to discuss including Hitler’s Nazis in the cabinet amid unrest. Bombs explode in Elbing and violence rises across Silesia and East Prussia.
New York reports a sharp rise in scrap prices and a slight uptick in consumer interest in steel and pig iron. Demand for wire products grows from agricultural areas as a sign of improvement in the steel industry. Chicago area rail traffic shows 20 173 cars moved August 1–7, up from 19 039 the prior month.
Detroit based Norge Corporation reports sales of refrigerators for the first seven months of 1932 nearly equal the total sales of the prior year, signaling a sharp rise in demand and production.
In Bucharest on August 10, the Roumanian cabinet announced its resignation. The move comes amid intensified political pressure and calls for reform as government leadership changes hands.
Spokane news reports Harper Joy, vice president of a local investment bank, was seen acting as a clown during his vacation. He has joined a circus for a two week stint before returning to his stock and bond work.
Rocky Mount, Aug 10. Mrs. Bertha Cobb Burgess, 32, died in a hospital from what physicians called self administered poison. She swallowed 10 tablets after a confrontation over testimony against her father in Nash county court. Her husband T. A. Burgess, an attorney, was with her. he reported seeing Clyde Joyner under the Burgess home window before Burgess shot him, a second shot prevented by a weapon’s misfire.
RALEIGH Aug 10 Minor political parties may place their presidential candidates on the official North Carolina ballots in November by action of the state board of elections meeting here Friday. J Crawford Biggs chairman said the move would prevent claims of discrimination. Prohibition and lalist party reps have inquired and communists are said to be showing interest in the Tar Heel vote.
In Izard county Arkansas a dead man, R. J. Bates, was nominated sheriff in the Democratic primary after dying last Sunday. An unofficial count from 31 of 82 precincts showed Bates with 1 312 votes against 655 for living challenger O L Elliott.
State's Attorney Hawthorne cross-examined Capt. William Newton Lancaster, British filer, denying the murder charge. Lancaster said Clarke died by his own action and admitted forging two death notes. Clarke was shot at Mrs Keith-Miller’s Miami home where Lancaster sought to wed her.
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