19 Dec 1931
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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1931
Page
1
A newcomer claims a quick advance in the bridge tournament as organizers push for swift action. Details remain tentative with officials noting the event aboard a special venue and ongoing matches shaping the early rounds.
The Senate backed a House joint resolution adding 200 million dollars for veterans loans and 3.925 million for other compensation. The farm bill to turn over surplus wheat to Red Cross and qualified charities was approved for drafting, aiming for passage before Christmas recess.
Daniel Willard president of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad told President Hoover he has confidence wage cuts will be settled peacefully. He believes a 15 percent cut would add about 200 million dollars to carriers coffers and, with 100 million from the railway credit corporation, improve the situation. He said newspapers misinterpreted their New York statement and that no ultimatum was intended.
Santa Monica December 19 UP Pola Negri the motion picture star fights for life after a relapse from illness tied to an intestinal obstruction and surgery. She grew weaker overnight despite hospital care and had not responded to treatment.
In Los Angeles a women's breakfast club will distribute gift baskets to unemployed working girls. The baskets include cosmetics like powder rouge lipstick silk and perfume along with food. Founder Mrs Byron Fitts emphasizes the items help applicants look presentable.
Hundreds of farm families in northern Mississippi and Louisiana sought temporary refuge as flood waters subsided. South Arkansas roads reopened while streams receded. broken levees left inundated crops and waterlogged homes. The Tallahatchie River burst its levee flooding Mimms Carrie and Curtis, and Bernice faced highway closures with rail tracks under water.
Ely Culbertson and Theodore A. Lightner built a 7 915 point edge over Sid ney Lenz and Oswald Jacoby in the contract bridge contest. The leaders plan sessions at the Waldorf Astoria and Chatham as the weekly play continues with observers watching closely. Willard S Karn questions the bidding strategy.
Edward Ray a 69 year old man from Los Angeles was hospitalized after his glass eye exploded while he spoke with a friend. A brief report notes the artificial eye burst and glass splinters entered his eye socket as he collapsed on the sidewalk.
Greensboro, December 19 W H Foster secretary treasurer of the Republican state executive committee was released on under $1000 bond while awaiting trial on two indictments from a federal grand jury charging unlawful solicitation of political funds from federal office holders. The grand jury returned 57 counts and subpoenas were issued to 57 witnesses, mostly postmasters, as District Attorney E L Gavin led the investigation from Washington.
Mostly fair weather with a period of rain Thursday or Friday. Temperatures moderate early and midweek, then turning colder toward the end of the week.
The Associated Press recounts 1931 as a year of upheaval with 23 governments toppled globally. Spain dethroned Alfonso declaring a republic while England France and other nations saw cabinet changes or new presidents amid economic strains and political volatility.
Charles B E Mitchell head of National City Bank told the Senate Finance Committee that further adjustments on war debts might be wise though not certain. He cited Europe showing hopeful signs of repayment and warned Germany could rebel if debts persist beyond sixty two years, cautioning against universal cancellation.
A Wake County judge voided the Buncombe county indictment against John Mitchell former chief state bank examiner and three state corporation commissioners noting no crime was charged. The case moves to a new bill and grand jury with possible appeal to the state Supreme Court.
M F Gay walked into the Georgia State Prison death cell in Milledgeville in civilian clothes with no handcuffs and announced he would be executed. He is slated for the electric chair Wednesday after a murder conviction. Sheriff Spence admitted he was unfamiliar with prison procedures but trusted Gay would not flee.
Albany police hold Marion Kiki Roberts in the murder investigation of gangster Jack Diamond. DA hopes Roberts can reveal Diamond’s activities and possible motives. Diamond, known as Legs, led a mob in the Catskills. his killers waited after a jury exonerated him. Roberts fled to Boston with her mother. Diamond’s wife was in New York at his death.
Charlotte reports the Izaak Walton league offers a remedy for shedding Christmas tree needles. Burton H. Smith, NC league publicity director, advises placing a few spoonfuls of sugar in a pan of water and dipping the freshly cut end of pine cedar spruce or balsam in it. The tree absorbs the mixture and needles stay on longer.
Mrs. Hadley Moseley is found not guilty of murdering her youthful lover Richard Acklin in her Nashville home last May. Acklin, heir to a prominent local family, faced murder charges in Moseley’s husband’s death, while Moseley admitted love for Acklin and the defense argued he died by his own hand.
Santa Claus post office handles about ten thousand cancellations daily in November and December. Postmaster J F Martin says he receives 300 to 500 letters daily from children nationwide and forwards requests from schools and charities to donors. He has worked at Santa Claus for 28 years and notes the venue’s eight decades as a post, gaining wider fame after a photographer visit six years ago.
The Southern Conference selects Knowville Tennessee for its next regular meeting on December 2, 1932. C P Miles of Virginia Polytechnic Institute is named president at the annual gathering. Also Hoover appoints Ira Ornburn to tariff commission to fill Alfred Dennis’s seat. Smoot blocks immediate moratorium action, deferring to Monday.
Senator Walcott a Republican from Connecticut told President Hoover there would be a desperate effort to bring the emergency reconstruction corporation measure to a vote in the Senate before the Christmas holiday.
Charles E. Mitchell testified to the Senate Finance Committee that National City Corporation profits on foreign loans since 1919 amounted to 13 392 221 dollars.
Liberty South Carolina December 19 Officials investigated a highway shotgun duel that left Walter Kelly 45 fatally wounded after staggered 200 yards to his home where he died Willie Gilstrapt 38 was slightly wounded by pellets and says he acted in self defense refusing to reveal the cause.
The 30 year old Baroness Alma Gene Stach Von Goltsheim relinquished her Bavarian title to marry Joe Jones a Miami soda fountain clerk. She regains American citizenship lost by a past youth marriage and hopes to become a dental technician. The couple plans to reside in Miami where Jones works at a local soda fountain.
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