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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1936
Page
1
Southern senators back a designated sales agent to liquidate all government cotton at a maximum of 20 000 bales weekly. The agent would sell to five top bidders with no more than 20 percent of weekly allotment to any one bidder, proceeds to the treasury.
A major investigation is opened into a crash between the Dathia and Nashville line and the Chesapeake Ohio train Sportsman in Cincinnati. Dozens injured, with several taken to hospitals. some passengers from Florida bound for New York. A single trestle approach connected the two trains when the collision happened.
TWHACA New York February 1 Head football coach at Cornell universityhi Dobie resigned today in a letter to athletic director James Lynah saying he did so in interests of harmony. He has coached Cornell in Ithaca since 1920.
State officials imposed a ten day nationwide hunting moratorium in Green York Marlboro Dillon Sumter Lexington Cal and Richland counties. Warden A A Richardson also ordered a season on the Santee and its tributaries in Codgetown county and the Great Pee Dee river area amid heavy snows.
In Him City on February 1 a hunting trip ended tragically when a gun fired accidentally on the Baker property injuring Mary , 16 months old daughter of Mr and Mrs Baker. The child died from the injuries.
A senate agriculture committee report names Anderson, Clayton and Company of Houston and George H. McFadden and Brothers of Philadelphia as large cotton trading firms accused of using futures to manipulate price movements. Arthur Wyllie notes the report is preliminary and may be modified. The firms allegedly controlled 20 percent of the U S cotton crop in six years.
Governor orders Col. H Norman Schwarzkopf to oversee a renewed inquiry into the Lindbergh kidnapping. Hauptmann remains the central suspect with Hauptmann's guilt as the prosecutors warn no clear accomplices have emerged. Schwarzkopf reports weekly to the governor as the case continues.
Chicago reports fresh subzero temperatures as the Midwest faces renewed bitter cold. Dozens more die from exposure or fires sparked by heaters. Coal shortages loom amid rationing talks and transport disruptions across several states. Minnesota and North Dakota record deep freezes with forecasts for colder days ahead.
A remnant unit of the 1932 Bonus Army, totaling 129 veterans, was sent from the transient Kingstree camp to homes across nearly every state. State transient director H M McElveen said seven state constables and seven highway patrolmen were present as a precaution, with no disorder. Veterans received one-way tickets home and WPA employment certificates. Removal was ordered by federal authorities in Washington.
Mrs. Huey P. Long, widow of the late senator, is named to fill the unfinished term. Governor James A. Noe announced the appointment as state officials debated successor plans amid Long's fatal 1920s bid. The move places Mrs. Long on the April ballot as a formality.
The Works Progress Administration approved nine jobs programs in North Carolina to employ 145 people. Allocations by district include Alamance for sewing rooms, Vance for library work, Buncombe for recreational activities, Anson for county clerical work, and four other districts with air marking town projects and various personnel counts.
Raleigh report shows January had the fewest escapes since 1931 as the North Carolina penal division took charge. Acting director Oscar Pitts said 31 escapes occurred, with 41 escapees recaptured, following 87 escapes and 87 recaptures in December.
Raleigh February 14 Governor Whiringhaus today sent requisition papers to the West Virginia governor asking that Henry Cooley Nile Cooley Frank Taylor or Neil McKay be returned to Johnston county to face a charge of killing Oscar Shambley in 1933. Cooley is under arrest in West Virginia.
Whiteville NC February 1 Lenne Buffkin was sentenced to 25 years for second degree murder in the death of H L Strathern Jr near Chadbourn last September. A Columbus county jury convicted after three hours deliberation. Appeal filed and bond set at 10000. Buffkin claimed self defense while the state showed intent to kill.
Savannah Georgia February 1 4. Five residents killed at 3 am when their car collided with a freight train backing across the highway at Port Wentworth. Victims named Bert Varnedee driver Miss Letha Wise Elton or Fleming Thacker and Mr and Mrs Heyward Stewart en route to a South Carolina amusement center. Officers said the car struck the ninth car of the Savannah and Atlanta railway freight.
A cold spell began with minus five below zero at 2:20 AM at Fort Bragg. By 5:00 AM the temperature was zero and by 8:00 AM it had climbed to seven above. Major Calvin Gurkhead of the United States Signal Corps reported the readings.
Alabama officials investigate why 20 Black inmates were burned to death when a truck caught fire after a prisoner lit paper to warm his hands. Guards H M Middlebrook and C R Wasson aided two survivors by stopping the truck, opening the door, and rolling escaping inmates in the snow to extinguish flames.
Raleigh February 1 The awards for installing the state police radio system are delayed while the Waynick commission studies bids. Lowest bids reach 148000 dollars with 30000 dollars annual maintenance. Brower will confer with Ehringhaus and highway officials before action. Costs to be funded by the highway safety division or the betterment fund with budget bureau approval.
Raleigh police investigated a claim by Louis Cohen of Delaware that six sable skin coats valued at 2,500 were stolen from his car while it was garaged overnight. The telegram from Miami said Cohen, who deals in sable coats, left the stock in his car and did not check it until reaching Florida.
The 1936 North Carolina Bar association convention set for Asheville July 2 to 4. The site was chosen by the association's executive committee in Raleigh yesterday.
Washington February 1 textile manufacturers cheered by broad support for unified action against the Ellenbogen textile control bill. A National Association of Manufacturers spokesman testified at a housing labor subcommittee hearing and promised to denounce constitutional grounds when hearings resume. Industry leaders advocated modifying anti trust laws and restraining Japanese imports while outlining a program modeled on the old NRA code with forty hour weeks and minimum wages.
Temperature readings across North Carolina hit new lows with Henderson at six below, Greensboro four below setting an all time low there, and Raleigh reporting fourteen below. Goldsboro, Charlotte, and Franklin County also recorded subfreezing levels amid a statewide cold wave.
OCRACOKE February 1 ice covers Silver Lake harbor for first time since 1918 and stops all shipping. The mail boat has not operated to the mainland since Wednesday. The trawler Two Sisters returned safely after a snow storm and the Voyager faced northwest moves toward Morehead City.
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