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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1935
Page
1
AP dispatch reports Italy defying powers to intervene in Ethiopia and hinting at leaving the League. London cabinet ministers convene an emergency meeting amid fears of a League collapse. In Addis Ababa Ethiopia widens war preparations while seeking peace, as Rome mobilizes 500000 troops along the Austrian frontier.
Ralph McDonald of Winston-Salem announces candidacy for governor in Greensboro. He says the campaign will force a showdown between two fundamentally conflicting social economic viewpoints in North Carolina and condemns policy trends favoring bondholders and corporate wealth over social needs. He notes proximity to power and industry background as shaping influence.
In Los Angeles Wiley Post’s body began its final voyage as thousands prepared to pay homage to Will Rogers who perished with him in an Alaska crash. The plane carried Post’s remains toward Oklahoma City for services while Rogers’ body lay in a Glendale mortuary awaiting Thursday funeral arrangements.
Garfield Woodie of Hickory dozed on a store counter and dreamed of riding an automobile that crashed into a pole. He woke with facial cuts and bruises after falling to the floor and was taken to a local hospital for treatment.
In Berlin on August 20 a section of Merman Goering street subway under construction collapsed near the Brandenburg Gate. Eighteen workers were missing with four found injured. rescue teams by city fire, police, first aid, and 800 soldiers searched the site as a heavy crane and machinery tumbled into the tunnel.
In Durham on August 20 court proceedings descended into confusion as D. C. Meredith freed on an assault charge appealed the decision. Acting court sergeant Captain N. K. Hardee tried to compel a witness to swear the clerk amid a drunkenness charge by a Black man who claimed innocence.
The Washington Post reports Vice President Garner plans a fall stop in Japan while traveling to the Philippines for its new government inauguration. The stop is seen as significant for U.S. Japanese relations.
Washington reports a Senate House conference panel reached final accord on a $250 million tax bill replacing inheritance taxes with higher estate and gift levies. Key points include graduated corporate income taxes, a raised capital stock tax to 1.40, capital gains rules, surtaxes up to 75 percent, and stricter intercorporate dividend exemptions. The measure, eyed for House floor Thursday, omits the inheritance tax per state bargain.
London reports ministers abandon continental holidays to meet in emergency cabinet session amid fears for the League of Nations. A policy is expected ahead of the Geneva council meeting as Mussolini’s move on Ethiopia alarms smaller nations. A Scandinavian official laments the great powers' failure to halt the invasion.
Addis Ababa authorities completed a cartridge factory to address a critical ammunition shortage. Troop movements were kept strictly secret and army divisions instructed to avoid the Addis Ababa Djibouti railroad, Ethiopia's sole modern link to the outside world as large concentrations of forces gathered.
The body of J. R. Cole a 60 year old hermit was found unclothed across a bed in his cabin in the Ebenezer section. He had been dead at least a week. Sheriff and a county physician considered foul play unlikely attributing remains to wild animals.
Evans Poe a Black preacher in Laurinburg was arrested for intoxication and asked to be tried on Saturday for a preaching engagement. A special court session set the case and Poe paid a $5 fine plus costs before leaving.
Alvin Karpis, Public Enemy No. 1, threatens the life of J Edgar Hoover in a letter received by the Justice Department from Ohio about a month ago. Hoover declined to comment on the threat.
Bench warrants were issued for Adjt. Gen. Henry H. Denhardt of the Kentucky National Guard after an indictment for criminal contempt. The warrants target Franklin and Jefferson counties and Harlan. Gen Denhardt led about 700 guardsmen into Harlan for the August 8 primary, with the grand jury probing alleged election law violations and possible further indictments for other guards officers.
Bodies of three Indianapolis residents found beside their private plane wreckage after a crash against Laramie Peak 40 miles from Paco. Searchers located the survivors early this morning.
Mrs Grover Bergdoll said she planned to seek a White House interview to request a presidential pardon for her husband, World War draft dodger now in exile in Germany.
Governor and Mrs. John C. Ehringhaus visited Governor Louis Brann at the Maine State House during a vacation tour through Augusta. The brief call occurred amid Ehringhaus and his wife’s Maine itinerary and statehouse engagements.
A cache of dynamite sufficient to blow up the bay was found on Will Rogers estate property in Santa Monica canyon by a group of boys. Army air representative RK G Norris reported the incident to police.
Speaker Burns told President Roosevelt that Congress would adjourn by Saturday after progress in the house on Tennessee Valley Authority amendments. He said final agreement seemed certain on TVA but the utilities holding company regulation bill remained uncertain and a compromise was hoped for.
Technical Sergeant Stanley R. Morgan is promoted to Master Sergeant in recognition of his initiative and resourcefulness in organizing and directing the recovery of Rogers and Post, transporting their bodies to an Arctic Eskimo village and providing a detailed account of the tragedy near Point Barrow, Alaska.
A devastating blaze reduced Berlin's main radio city building to smouldering ruins. One person died and 26 were injured in the August 20 fire. Authorities investigate the cause as crews battle embers and secure the site.
Dr J T Burrus Guilford county senator and physician says with Dr Ralph W McDonald’s candidacy he will probably drop plans to seek the governorship in 1936. He may back McDonald or decide later, while The Charlotte Observer quotes Burrus pledging support for McDonald as the better candidate.
Jim Watson a Negro farm hand escaped a tenant building amid a gunfight with bullets fired by J B Bruton Jr brother of the girl. Airplanes and armed citizens scoured the area but Watson remained missing as searchers reported a minor wound allegedly inflicted two weeks earlier on a four year old girl.
Buster Keaton filed a complete denial to his wife Mae Elizabeth Sewell's divorce suit. He states the couple did not misbehave at the July 4 holiday party in a Santa Barbara hotel and notes Mrs Sewell has nearly all their community property, claiming no need for alimony or court costs.
Harvard professor Thomas Reed Powell told North Carolina Bar Association members aboard a cruise that public discussion will focus on amending the constitution to grant Congress broader powers than the Supreme Court. He criticized slogans and urged national regulation to revive agriculture and industry.
South Carolina sees partly cloudy skies with showers tonight and Wednesday and little temperature change. North Carolina expects showers tonight and Wednesday with steady temperatures. From Sandy Hook to Hatteras winds rise with east to southeast gusts and overcast showers. Hatteras to Jacksonville winds stay moderate and variable with possible showers.
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