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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1933
Page
11
The High Point police department reports 295 liquor arrests in November among about 600 docket entries. Indictments include 53 liquor violations and 45 DUI cases. traffic violations total over 840 with 105 indictments and 461 for illegal parking. There were 35 accidents, two fatal, 13 injuries, and 65 vehicles involved.
Hargrove Willoughby, a Black man of 720 Kivett Drive, was arrested after a footrace with a police officer when officers found 42 quarts of whiskey in a woodshed behind his house. Police entered via a wrong side amid a gambling game. liquor was recovered in the yard. Willoughby was pursued across the street and caught after a half mile chase, now held in the city jail.
A father and son, R. B. Weir and Lennie Weir, were arrested in Winston-Salem on charges of flogging Chariles Bodenheimer near Kernersville a week earlier. Bodenheimer collapsed from wounds and was reported in serious condition. Warrants had been issued the previous Saturday and served today. The incident followed Bodenheimer's protest over trespassing on their property.
The Lea family including Percy Lea appeared in a federal courthouse seeking bail after a court decision. They met with Buncombe County Sheriff Laurence Brown and were joined by North Carolina Solicitor Zeb Y. Nettles and Attorney General Dennis G. Kummitt. No comments were offered on the ruling.
Barrels will be placed in all city schools Monday morning and stay through Friday noon to collect donations for needy families. Adjutant John O Beirne of the Salvation Army explains students are asked to contribute non perishable food items. The Army kettle remains in front of Richardson's Department Store daily through Saturday December 23 to raise funds for Christmas relief.
A speaker denounces the moving picture industry as a corrupt force undermining American life while urging parents to critically evaluate films with school and church guidance. He argues entertainment must be wholesome, educational, and profitable for theaters to survive, advocating joint community action to steer cinema toward civilization.
Two plainclothes officers from the police department raided a Pearson Street house last night but found no liquor after the resident claimed it was empty. They retrieved a search warrant and completed the sweep, leaving convinced by the woman's candor.
The article outlines changes in Furniture Code I8 effective Monday including daylight shift wage rates, apprentice and yard worker limits, and overtime rules. It notes 24 cent standby rates for South region apprentices and yard workers, 40 hour week protections, and a 20 member authority to administer the code with regional manufacturer groups.
President Gray signs decree for minting three million silver pesos and printing seventeen million small denomination bills. American-linked national bank planned to issue funds amid inflation fears. Interior reports indicate order with minor trouble at Santiago where Woolworth strikers clash with strikebreakers.
The farm administration says it is shaping an 1984 production program for dark fire cured tobacco to curb a likely smaller crop next year and lift prices this season. Virginia's marketing holiday over low prices hastens action, with details to be announced soon and a system of rental payments for acres taken out of production.
Dr. P. J. Lancaster, popular physician of Lancaster, was elected president of the Davidson County Medical Society at the annual meeting and banquet in Thomasville. Officers include R. V. Yakeley vice president Dr. R. Sharpe secretary treasurer and Dr. R. K. Farrington delegate to the state society. All physicians except Dr. J. C. Leonard attended.
A skit shows General Johnson arguing with American Newspaper Publishers Association members over press freedom. A publisher insists they own the papers and have no freedom, while Johnson notes the irony as the sketches lampoon headlines and New Deal policies a farm segment details allotments and government benefits totaling 14 862 dollars as Peek comments.
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