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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 05, 1936
Page
1
A White House conference discussed raising 500 million to fill tax gaps and fund $1 billion in treasury and post office appropriations. Secretaries Morgenthau and officials noted improvements in business and banking, while debates swirled around new taxes and potential shifts in GOP leadership in Ohio’s upcoming presidential primary.
Zero weather numbs the north to the Rockies and spreads coast to coast. Temperatures plunge with dozens of towns reporting 40 degree drops and the Midwest bears the hardest. Sixty-nine hours of snowdrift delays strand travelers and halt transit from Milwaukee to Chicago.
Pekin Illinois reports a general strike amid record cold as 2,000 union workers join a walkout at the American Distilling plant. Roving strike leaders threaten closure by 5 p.m. and windows smashing if demands aren’t met. Pickets guard the plant. many businesses close. food supplies remain adequate. cold, deserted streets prevail.
Alleged communist activity triggers raids and labor demonstrations in Hungary Bulgaria Yugoslavia Romania Austria and Mexico. Police arrest 50 in Bulgaria and 19 gypsies go to trial while Austria and Yugoslavia report widespread raids. Monterrey Mexico endures a two day shutdown as workers and capitalists unite against Bolshevik dictatorship claims. Similar accusations spread to Brazil Argentina and Uruguay.
House appropriations committee recommended a 1937 fiscal year total of 29.6 million dollars more than current allowances for treasury and post office operations including 400 thousand for the federal alcohol administration and 500 thousand for coast guard aircraft. The postal service and treasury faced cuts and reallocations while land bank payments and customs staffing saw increases. The session notes added that internal revenue and secret service payrolls would rise to support enhanced enforcement and field work.
Cloudy and lightly colder tonight with rain along the coast and likely snow in the south and east tomorrow. Hatteras to Jacksonville expect moderate to fresh northerly winds with rain tonight and Thursday. Charlotte area reports 8 AM temperature and rainfall readings across cotton belt towns, with readings from Montgomery to Greensboro and other stations.
Warrants against Ann Cooper Hewitt's mother Mrs Maryon Cooper Hewitt and two doctors, Dr Tilton E Tillman and Dr Samuel G Boyd, remain unserved as police wait for the principals to surrender. The heiress Miss Hewitt accuses a plot to sterilize her to benefit her estate and deny her the chance to have children.
Weather note from Raleigh reports light floods on the Cape Fear and Neuse rivers as an expected sixth winter snow could arrive tonight. Flood warnings projected Cape Fear at Fayetteville to 36 feet and Elizabethtown to 27 feet. Neuse at Smithfield to 16 feet, with cold spell delaying arrival. Temperature drops and a forecast low near 22 degrees expected tomorrow morning.
New York's special prosecutor Thomas E Dewey, a cousin of Admiral George D Dewey, plans a fresh assault on organized vice. In six months he has disrupted Usury and prostitution rings, estimated at one to five billion dollars a year in illicit profits. He reports a million-dollar weekly loan racket and twelve million yearly prostitution net. He hints at ten other major investigations and silent moves that frighten gangster leadership. Police raided prostitution houses and gaming dens after his cue, with many arrests and evasions reflected in a rapid citywide crackdown.
Convoys of trucks moved from Dockland cold stores to suburban retailers with strict secrecy as picketing at Smithfield intensified. Six hundred police guarded central London while additional officers protected rail depots holding meat two days. Slaughtermen from Islington stockyards joined the Smithfield walkout over wage and hour demands amid public criticism of a so called organized conspiracy to starve London.
The U S House passed a senate approved bill repealing compulsory cotton potato and tobacco control acts. An amendment to free 250000 bales from Bankhead tax was added by Rep Fulmer. The vote stood 167 to 6 with roll call demanded by Republicans. The repeal follows the AAA invalidation and supports President Roosevelts request.
Newberry South Carolina February 5 The morning shift at Mollohon mills a Kendall company unit did not report for work and operations stopped The mill offered either a wage cut or longer hours but workers refused Company president Paine said a statement would follow The Mollohon mill employs 450 workers in two shifts The Oakland mill of the same chain operated as usual
Henderson and Vance county schools reopened today after closures last Wednesday due to severe weather and bad roads.
M. D. Vincent, NRA industrial studies chief and former textile administrator, blamed obsolete equipment and management for distress in the cotton textile industry. He urged uniform hours and minimum wages to equalize labor costs and criticized subsidies for retired machinery as wasteful. He said efficient management could lower prices, raise wages, and boost profits.
Beaufort notices a February 17 hearing on the Norfolk Southern railway receivers request to abandon their trackage between Morehead City and Beaufort. The action affects the line under the receivership with the hearing held in Beaufort.
A Yugoslav Jewish medical student, David Frankfurter, killed Wilhelm Gustloff, Nazi leader in Davos, to avenge German Jewish suffering. He surrendered to police after firing five bullets from the study threshold, dying mentorless. Frankfurter hailed from Berne and was jailed for questioning.
Greensboro February 6 A proposed new constitution for the Evangelical and Reformed Church was discussed at the 106th annual North Carolina classis meeting at First Reformed church Leadership of the general discussion was given by Reverend W E Lampe of Philadelphia officers elected include President Reverend Charles E Hiatt Vice President Elder W L Hunt Corresponding Secretary Reverend Banker J Wheeler Reading Clerk Reverend Rey Whisenhunt Stated Clerk Reverend J C Leonard D D Treasurer Reverend Milton Whitener Reports noted gains in membership finances and activities by retiring president Reverend H C Kellermeyer Adjournment set for late date
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