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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1933
Page
1
A freight train struck a crowded school bus in heavy fog at a grade crossing in Crescent City. Nine people died, including seven children, with about 30 injured and several not expected to survive. Three siblings were among the victims. Attack by a train at an isolated crossing caused the tragedy this morning.
Washington heard claims that strict post prohibition regulation has opened room for graft and political influence in liquor enforcement. Representative O Connor cited a scandalous liquor industry situation while Harvey H Smith testified about a possible whiskey trust cornering white oak timber for barrels. He proposed a $5 per gallon tax and argued distillers could cut barrel costs if they made their own fittings.
High Point children with broken or discarded toys join an annual toy roundup by The Enterprise and Hugh J. Smart to aid the Firemen's Toy Hospital. Toys will be refurbished and distributed to needy families, with a Jackie Cooper film bill at the Broadhurst theater Saturday at 10 AM.
A school bus collided with a northbound train at Silver Point Grove crossing six miles south of here in dense morning fog. Ten to fourteen children died or were seriously hurt. many others were rushed to Palatka and nearby hospitals. An inquest is set for tomorrow morning.
AP reports Henry Morgenthau Jr acting secretary of the treasury denied negotiations for a currency stabilization agreement with Great Britain and France.
Acting Secretary Morgen thau said he declined a compromise in the income tax dispute involving Charles KE Mitchell former head of National City Bank and will pursue ordinary legal steps to collect the tax.
Speaker Rainey declared support for free coinage of silver at a press conference and said any Roosevelt proposal at the coming session would pass the House easily.
The body of Rich ard P. Young Dick Glendon Columbia crew coach was found on a Chatham beach. He had been missing since he left his home in South Chatham yesterday on a hunting trip.
Senator Reynolds office announces Everett McDaniel of Shelby as director of the census for western North Carolina and that young Smith of Asheville is appointed an attorney in the veterans claims division of the justice department.
J W Dean president of the Knoxville tobacco board of trade favored a 30 day holiday on barley tobacco sales proposed by Tennessee Governor McAlister and Kentucky Governor Laffoon. The comment followed a sale of 182,906 pounds at 13.17 per hundred dollars two fifty eight below opening day price.
Across Europe and the United States, deadly winter storms caused dozens of deaths, with 17 total in Europe and more than 50 nationwide. A cargo steamer wreck off East Suffolk killed twelve. Paris saw light snow while French rivers froze. In the U.S. blizzards disrupted searches and transport, with Cleveland and Baltimore among cities reporting fatalities, and flood and thaw damage reported in California.
An interdepartmental panel urged consolidating U S communications under federal supervision. Officials see fewer upheavals than expected, with antitrust limits and existing private dominance in telephony, telegraphy, and radio shaping the push toward a government supervised merger rather than full ownership. Congress will decide in coming session.
An article notes the automobile industry may seek an extension of its code before December 31. The controversial merit clause allows employers to hire promote or fire on merit, not union status, and has strained relations with labor and the NRA. Roosevelt and Johnson reject code amendments.
In Chicago, a daylight robbery at Unity Trust and Savings bank led to 96 safety deposit boxes opened. Police estimate losses between 50 000 and 100 000 as three gunmen overpowered attendant Joseph Kinch and used a wave radio to monitor police. Four bystanders were subdued and bound.
Charley Meyers, missing air mail pilot, told Eastern Air Transport he ran out of gasoline and landed in a swamp at Harris Neck, about 20 miles south of Savannah. He planned to reach Jacksonville, Florida, by road after fog delayed him while flying north with the New York air mail. Officials said he was safe and “okay.”
A Christmas era letter from Beverly Hills comments on gold dollar debates fading, notes crowds seeking money news, jokes about Confederate currency, and mentions a peace conference in South America. The writer recalls Geneva talks and Japanese recruitment during Manchuria events, signing as Will.
The burned body of Mary Burns, 20, of Troy New York, was found in the Star Realty block ruins on North street Pittsfield Mass. She was to marry today in Stephen town New York and had visited her fiancés parents Nelson La Fountaine who was rescued unconscious. Seven top floor occupants were saved by ladders and four others including La Fountaine were hospitalized for smoke inhalation. Firemen searched hours before locating the body after she was seen leaving a fourth floor window.
Hearings by the House Ways and Means and Senate Finance Committees warned that competitive taxation by state and federal governments could raise liquor prices enough to keep bootleggers profitable.
Dispatches from Asuncion report Paraguay taking Port Saaveda and Fort Munoz while bombing Fort Munoz. Saavedra fell after Bolivian garrison burned barracks, with 9,000 prisoners captured across Aliguata Gondra and other forts. Murgla fortress also reported captured as armies press toward Saavedra amid armistice talks at Montevideo.
The RFC price for newly mined domestic gold remained at 34.01 dollars per ounce. No change announced today.
Augusta city council declined to reopen the liquor licensing issue and received a petition from a mass meeting held Sunday requesting reconsideration as information.
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