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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1936
Page
2
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer suspended publication as the Seattle chapter of the American Newspaper Guild and the Seattle Central Labor Council called a strike. Picket lines blocked the building and mechanical unions barred entry, halting the morning edition.
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer resumes publication as 22 of 80 newsroom workers walk out to protest two Guild member dismissals and demand recognition. Guild president Richard Seller notes 40 of 68 eligible workers are on strike. Longshoremen and Teamsters buttons appear on pickets. several employees were beaten last night. Seller orders pickets to maintain order and avoid violence.
The report details civilian deaths including children and women amid renewed fighting as rebel forces claim to have sunk the government warship Jaime I. Madrid disputes the rebel broadcast while accusations of monarchist and fascist support surface in Spanish press.
Rainey Bethea, 22, a Black man, was hanged in Owensboro for the rape of a 70 year old white woman. Dr. Tyler said the drop broke the neck, yet the heart beat continued for minutes. Bethea wrote a letter to his sister from Louisville asking to be buried beside his father and declaring he was saved. He was baptized recently in jail by Rev. Herman Lammers.
The drive set for August 15 seeks about $90,000 with funds arriving daily. Dr. Lambeth notes a strong push as Sunday delays contract completion and highlights a $20 gift from the St Joseph AME Church of Durham, surpassing some white church gifts.
A four month strike at Limestone mills near Gaffney ended with an announced settlement led by mill president W. C. Hamrick local union chief J. H. Palmer and State Labor Commissioner John W. Nates. Two hundred fifty workers had joined the walkout over the mill employing an overseer objected to by the union. Details of the accord were not disclosed.
George Raft and Dolores Costello Barrymore headline a breezy comedy romance opening Sunday at the Paramount. Raft plays a tough gambling house operator who seeks high society love and takes etiquette lessons with comic aid from Ida Lupino and Reginald Owen as a plot to stop his romance unfolds.
Father Coughlin addressed delegates blaming lawmakers for not submitting a constitutional amendment on unfair wages and long hours. He warned against social revolution reducing good people to tin cups or beggary. He asserted America and the Constitution have not failed.
At the platform, he was greeted with a 15 minute demonstration highlighting the event.
The mountaineer testified in a soft voice that Bud and Hinson were good friends and that he could buy liquor on credit from Lon. He said there was drinking the night Bud visited and that Lon supplied the liquor, but claimed everything was in good fun.
Poignant scene as authorities exhume the body of Bond Barham, 65, in Poplar Bluff Missouri to determine if his death was caused by a poison trap. His daughter Mrs Roy Fortner, 30, of Bloomfield Massachusetts, and suspect Edwards, 22, are connected to the case along with a reported link to illegal liquor.
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