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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1933
Page
1
Roosevelt to sign the steel code today as Hugh S Johnson seeks final NRA drafts. He also pressed for a coal operators accord while reviewing oil industry supervision demands. Johnson blocked wage rule evasion by restaurants by forbidding deductions for meals unless pre June 16 practice.
Mob attack in Cienfuegos alarms revolutionary leaders fearing vengeance over Machado opposition. Former police official Lino Lomo’s house was burned amid protests by ABC Society. Dr Juan Frederico Edelman named president of the supreme court. appointment confirmed by Carlos Saladrigas. Dock workers strike violence erupts. one man killed and another beaten. Havana harbor office damaged amid unrest.
Winthrop Rockefeller son of John D. Rockefeller Jr. dined with a Yale classmate in Fort Worth with armed bodyguards nearby. Federal agents accompanied the visit and remained on guard outside the home during dinner. Rockefeller refused to comment on security and joked about kidnapping fears as police rode nearby.
Raleigh August 19 North Carolina teachers will be paid salaries from 45 to 90 dollars monthly in the coming year under a scale to be submitted to the state board of education by a special committee. A maximum 115 dollars may be paid to principals of seven teacher schools with a minimum of 95 dollars.
Will Rogers writes from the Washington bureau that he and Johnson are drafting a code for comedians. He argues that senators and congressmen form a separate professional class and that amateurs should not be grouped with them. Rogers vows to take the fight to the country, claiming the code would increase work for lawmakers, which he opposes.
President Roosevelt selects a largely new Latin America diplomatic team to push Good Neighbor policy and broaden trade. Alexander Weddell goes to Argentina, Hugh Gibson to Brazil, Sumner Welles to Cuba, Jefferson Caffery to succeed, Josephus Daniels to Mexico, and Mal Sevier to Chile. Peru post awaiting permanent ambassador.
A series of crime battles unfolds as four robbers hold up a Grand Haven bank and are confronted by citizens. Two employees and two bystanders are wounded. one robber is captured, the others flee, and most of the money is recovered. Chicago tightens crime fight with prison terms and statewide manhunts for suspects in major cases.
Chicago authorities move forward in the Hamm abduction case as Arthur R. Reese, 38, of Anoka Minnesota, is questioned after being seized in La Salle Illinois. He faced questions about rifles, a shotgun, two revolvers and 882 dollars found on him while federal agents verify ransom serials linked to William Hamm.
Florence Aug 19 The weekend holiday finds warehousemen in the South Carolina and border tobacco belt preparing for higher sales next week. They expect better quality and greater volume with prices up from the previous week. Farmers report satisfaction with last week’s results as prices rose, averaging unofficially between 13 and 14 cents a pound.
Grover A. Whalen announced an agreement after an overnight session ending a 60,000 dressmakers strike in the Metropolitan area. The plan grants collective bargaining rights, a 35 hour work week, and minimum wage scales as a compromise between unions and employers. Pear-picking resumes in Santa Clara valley.
Washington on August 19 reports farm administration official C A Cobb calling the 1933 acreage reduction program a success. He said a definite practical plan for the next two years will be prepared and presented to the field as soon as possible. He noted this year’s campaign cut more than 4,000,000 bales but warned of continued excess cotton in supply. If no reductions had occurred this year, production would have reached about 16,500,000 bales.
Frank X. Shields, the New Yorker dominant in eastern grass events, defeated Wilmer Allison of Austin 1-6 11-9 6-1 6-8 to claim the Newport Casino title in a dramatic rally. Also notes Culbertson leaves Santiago after five years as ambassador and Gandhi enters day four of his fast unto death in Poona.
The Public Works Administration approved 3,052,051 dollars for new work giving projects across the country. The plan includes a project in North Carolina to be located later.
President Roosevelt returns to Hyde Park after a week of rapid action in Washington. He dispatched warships to Cuba and steered the blue eagle drive on basic industries while coordinating NRA and relief programs. He planned post arrangements with Havana and appointed Hal Sevier ambassador to Chile and opened Latin American reciprocal tariff talks.
Four people die and two are critically injured when a Wabash passenger train strikes an automobile at a street crossing in Fort Wayne Indiana. The victims include James R. Gray 39 of Toledo Ohio his wife Nettie Blanche Gray 8 and Mrs Ellan Thomas about 88 of Princeton Kentucky. The crossing watchman said the car occupants did not heed signals and drove into the train’s path.
A lengthy dispatch describes French Foreign Legionnaires marching across the Atlas region toward the Rabat area to crush Berber dissidents at Biebel Badou, with plans to seize Koucher peak as Moulay Absselmen capitulates. The piece notes desert conditions, aerial recon, and continual ambushes by Nomad tribes.
Gerardo Machado former Cuban president prepared to depart Nassau aboard the steamship Franconia with plans to go to Bermuda tonight. He paid his hotel bill and did not disclose his destination as the Bermuda voyage was the likely option among his party’s plans after arriving Sunday.
Tom C. Daniels of New Bern was elected state commander of the American Legion with Greensboro chosen as the next convention city for North Carolina. Mrs. W. R. Absher of North Wilkesboro was named president of the legion auxiliary which adopted a rule barring any candidate from announcing a bid for departmental president before after Poppy Day May 30.
In San Jose California on August 19 1930 authorities prepare to try David A Lamson 31 a Sanford University publishing representative for the murder of his wife Allene Thorpe Lamson. The case hinges on who killed the young matron and why with a 10 inch pipe found in a bonfire as key evidence.
A truck converted into a bus carrying twenty eight Wakarusa residents and affiliates was sideswiped near South Bend Indiana by a fleeing truck. Six people died and ten were injured in the crash as others were pulled from the wreckage. The driver of the fleeing truck headed toward Chicago.
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