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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1934
Page
11
The article details the execution of Satterfield by electrocution at 10 49 pm after the 10 32 first shock failed to end his life He declined to speak with officials and was surrounded by clergy The piece also notes related cases and witnesses including R L Bridges and H A Lane and mentions the victims family and ongoing legal actions from October 10 to October 26.
The Rice method advocates a free at home rupture treatment demonstration by William G. Rice originator. He will appear at the Sheraton High Point on Monday and Greensboro Hotel on Tuesday offering a free trial to rupture sufferers with no cost. Demonstrations run 8 to 12 a.m. and 2 to 5 p.m. with claims of restoring ease and work ability without wearing a truss.
Sixty North Carolina high schools may be dropped from the Southern Association list in December 1935 for not meeting the nine month term requirement. Only seven of the state’s schools have nine month terms, with several cities debating local funding to extend the term. Education officials note the 176 day term and $1000 teacher salaries as key hurdles to accreditation. Leroy Martin argues NC’s eight month standard merits recognition.
The article describes Satterfield confessing to firing the shotgun and implicating Mrs Grice and Sasser in a plot to kill the Iron worker. Grice and Gasser were retried in Wayne superior court and acquitted last Wednesday night. Satterfield, on death row, testified as the key witness outlining alleged intimacies and the motive linked to attacks on her. The defense offered no testimony, and the jury delivered its verdict.
Miss Frank Louise Mitchell bride elect will be honored at a dinner dance in Winston-Salem tomorrow evening. Her aunts Mrs. W. Glenn and Mrs. J. B. Glenn will be hostesses with members of her bridal party and a few close friends in attendance.
Raleigh reports crop specialists estimate North Carolina cotton will bring 47.125 million dollars this year, the best return per bale since 1929 when 743000 bales sold for 59.236 million. Figures released by the state agricultural office.
The department of agriculture projects 650000 bales this year. At 500 pounds per bale the production equals 26 million pounds. Cotton priced at 12.5 cents per pound on December 1. Estimated producer sale value reaches 40.626 million dollars to date, excluding 6.6 million dollars in contemplated benefit payments.
Calypso news reports two more deaths from an earlier wreck near town. Mrs C W Massey of Princeton died in a Goldsboro hospital. Her husband died shortly after at the scene when his light truck collided with a machine driven by Miss Margaret Carter of Kenansville at a highway crossing. Five Duplin county home demonstration service employees were only slightly hurt. James Corbett remained in critical condition.
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