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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1936
Page
2
The 1935 total retail payroll in High Point reached 1 033 000 dollars, up from 893 000 in 1933, with 1 306 full time employees. Retail stores numbered 449 in 1936, up 68 from 1933, across food, general merchandise, apparel and other sectors. Active professional and firm members grew from 44 in 1933.
The data show the aggregate payroll reaching 197 000 with the automotive group close behind at 194 000. Food stores posted the largest total sales at 2 243 000, the automotive group second with 2 221 000, and the apparel group third at 1 222 000.
The annual Older Boys Conference begins at a High Point church with 9 30 pm talks by Dr Spaugh and later dean Herring. Leaders include Arthur Port and Holty McPherson. Saturday tours visit Tomlinson Chair and Southern Furniture Exposition.
Mrs Simpson travels incognito with a chauffeur body guard and secretary after arriving in Rouen by steamer New Haven from Dieppe. She phones London then returns toward Rouen as the hotel meeting concludes.
Duke Power Company intervenes in a suit delaying the local project. Judge Link will decide matters without reference to a jury, while city officials report standstill except for engineering studies as they await a Supreme Court Buzzard Roost decision on related grant issues.
Opening prices on the New Orleans cotton market show steady to higher starts. December up to 12.26, March 11.99, May 11.88, and July 11.74 with futures opening steady amid light gains.
City hall will sell rat poison this Saturday from 1 to 4 PM per an announced plan. Proceeds support municipal services.
Funeral services for Rev. T. A. Williams 64 pastor of the Guill ford circuit of the Methodist Protestant church were conducted in Jamestown and Burlington with a parsonage service at 11 o clock and a 2 o'clock church service. Interment followed in Pine Hill cemetery Burlington. Active pallbearers included David Marsh and J T Tedder among others. Honorary pallbearers were members of the Methodist Protestant conference. The church choir sang What a Friend We Have In Jesus Jesus Lover of My Soul and Rock of Ages.
The United States embassy urged the Chinese government to investigate the fatal shooting of George Newsome an American tobacco executive in Hsuchang. The envoy also sought protection for other Americans amid tensions with native interests over sales percentages and direct farmer dealings. Newsome, from South Carolina and formerly of Winston-Salem NC, led the Hsuchang Tobacco Company, recently nationalized. He left a wife and daughter. the attacker was believed to be a Chinese enraged by the monopoly.
Silence covered the amount Samuel Insull paid Mme Helene Coyimzoglu for aid she gave him during his exile in Greece.
Walter Cagle a 525 pound resident of Sand Mountain visits Boaz Alabama each year to collect winter clothing including size 74 overalls 24 yards of flannel and size 18 shoes. The visit is marked by a Cagle Day dinner of beefsteak buttermilk and honey and a mayoral key presentation.
Charlotte December meeting of Southern Carded Yarn manufacturers discussed building a stronger organization with a state chairman for each state and a protective clause in sales contracts against possible cost rises from legislation. Dr Claudius Murchison noted improving order books and inventories but missed price increases, lagging other textile sectors.
Report notes King Edward and the heir presume to abdicate, with Queen Mary depicted as worn by sorrows. The article stresses royal concern for Mary as the monarchy faces renewed strains amid mutterings of abdication and public doubt.
Pattern 9103 offers a light hearted frock for visiting or dining out with puff sleeves and a flattering yoke. Choose vivid fabrics. sizes 14 through 42 with yardage details and a diagrammed sew chart included. Order from The Enterprise Pattern Department in New York for fifteen cents each.
Strikes across two auto industry branches deepen as a third ends in a truce. Libby Owens Ford Ottawa workers 1,800 and Pittsburgh Plate Glass 6,000 tied to a dispute over meeting sites. Ford in Detroit idle Lincoln Zephyr line without frames. Goodyear workers in Akron end 21 hours of sit down. Longshoremen in New York refuse cargo on Champlain. Picket lines form at Herring Hall Marvin and D L Auld plants. Wage talks drive broader walkouts.
Greensboro Daily notes H S Willis and Samuel H Willis qualified as executors of their mother Cora E Willis's estate after her High Point death November 30. The 1932 will values the estate at about 19 400 with real and personal property. Each child receives one sixth, with Charles B Willis Receives one eighth and several grandchildren receive one twenty fourth shares.
Sunburned and wind ta nned wheat belt leaders urge a broad fair deal plan for farmers from seeding to selling. A 15 member committee will advance further for a January 15 report. The proposal calls for production adjustment, crop insurance with government cost support, and an ever normal granary to store wheat in bumper years for lean years.
W C Ricks known as Big Bill Ricks faced eight months suspended county road sentence for aiding and abetting prostitution with a cabin camp on Thomasville road below Oak Hill. He must pay $25 plus costs and may not host guests for one year unless he serves the suspended term.
The Fascist air raiders hit Madrid in three waves last night with intense bombardment concentrated along the river and in the University City area. Government reports say 1,200 bombs and shells were dropped on Pozuela de Alarón, Casa del Campo, and University zones as defenders held Pozuela and Aravaca.
Greensboro December report from Troop B of the highway patrols details nine deaths in the district during the past month and 50 injured. The release notes 3,705 warnings issued, stolen cars recovered, and tests conducted. Defendants found violating highway laws totaled 31 over three months and 144 overall.
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