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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 16, 1933
Page
1
Raleigh reports slow progress as the Senate rejects a House pay cut for solicitors and insists on 4250 dollars annually with expenses. House backs 3500 dollars plus weekly add ons while debates rise in luxury tax measures.
Four bank robbers engage police in Ambler Pennsylvania after looting the First National Bank. One robber killed, three captured, and three women held as suspects. About 850000 recovered. arrested men confess to New Jersey and Philadelphia robberies. Bank cashier Samuel Horst and his wife were held in their home.
The Blaine resolution for repeal of the prohibition amendment passed the Senate with protections for dry states from liquor imports and moves to the House. The 63 to 23 vote on the Blaine resolution and the tense floor scene are noted as the measure advances.
In Miami on February 16 the gunman fired at President Elect Roosevelt as five others were wounded. Mayor Anton J. Cermak of Chicago was seriously wounded and hospitalized while the assailant was held in jail.
A summary of famous last words spoken by assassins during high profile political murders. Joe Zangara shouted it kill all presidents and officers. John Wilkes Booth cried semper tyrannis. Leon Czolgosz said I have done my duty. Charles Guiteau claimed I did it and will go to jail. Paul Gorgulov yelled Die for the fatherland.
A growing crowd of Seattle and Washington state workers surpassed 5,000 as they secured the King County building in a two day encampment. They demand welfare relief packages including groceries, gasoline, and cash per person, while the welfare board calls the requests impossible.
A sub group recommended to the joint appropriations committee that all North Carolina teacher training colleges come under the University of North Carolina board of trustees. The proposal was presented this afternoon in Raleigh.
Former Vice President Dawes told a Senate committee that his bank violated the principle of the law in loans to Insull companies.
North Carolina vital statistics show January births 5 602, deaths 2 872 with influenza and pneumonia deaths rising. The death rate 10.5 per 1 000 compares with 8.5 last year while births rose 1.8 percent to 5 602. Airplane fatality noted in January.
Aggregate resources of 6 016 national banks nationwide stood at 2 210 974 000 on December 31. This reflects an increase of 744 979 000 since September 30 but a decline of 1 351 312 000 from December 31 1931.
AP reports that a Roosevelt has again survived an assassination attempt with Franklin D. Roosevelt narrowly missed in Miami, while Theodore Roosevelt was wounded by a bullet deflected by a manuscript and eyeglass in Milwaukee in 1912. The piece recounts past presidential assassinations and outcomes, noting Booth, Guiteau, and McKinley.
President-Elect Roosevelt, traveling away from Miami after the assassination attempt, sent a message to Hoover on victims. He visited the hospital and found Tony Cer mak still focused on school teacher pay. Moley accompanied Roosevelt as he voiced grief for the five wounded.
In Miami on February 18, the president elect appears at a solemn event marking a new administration. Attendees include key political figures and civic leaders as the transition foregrounds policy priorities.
Washington February 16 Senate rejected Senator Giase’s repeal amendment to bind ratification by state conventions. The plan would shield dry states from liquor imports and ban saloons with joint enforcement. Glass and Blaine measures faced votes. Glass failed 46 to 38 as Blaine’s two thirds rule loomed.
A reporter recalls a dramatic scene in Miami as a pistol fired near President elect Roosevelt during public festivities. Mayor Cermak of Chicago collapses nearby as an assassin uses the reporter as a rest for aiming. Crowd hysteria erupts with cries to protect Roosevelt.
Chicago awaited news on Mayor Anton J. Cermak after he was shot in Miami by an assassin while continuing the anti gang drive. Police hunted suspects tied to Capone era figures including Jack MacGurn and William White as fear of a gangland plot rose.
Wil Rogers jokes that President Hoover will denounce Congress and the Senate for holding back relief measures in a Santa Monica dispatch. He quips the mood has sunk in the senate and suggests the mirror is the culprit.
President Elect Roosevelt escaped unharmed as gunfire erupted during an election rally. The assailant shouted threats while bystanders and officials reacted with shock and concern across political figures and international peers.
Mrs W F Cross of Miami described grabbing the assassin's pistol on a bench near the President-Elect Roosevelt as shots rang out. She and Tom Armour restrained Zangara, preventing further harm as the crowd helped subdue him.
The state highway commission will meet here tomorrow to consider bids on several highway projects. A new bridge across the Catawba River between Hickory and Gastonia is among the items, and it will open tomorrow morning.
In Downey California Dr Vernon Blythe a Santa Ana dentist entered Gal latin grammar school and killed his wife Eleanor and their 8 year old son Robert after a divorce suit, then killed himself. Their 12 year old Vernon Jr escaped by running as 25 children watched.
The public order committee plans a large security build up for Roosevelt’s March 4 inauguration after a Miami assassination attempt. Major E. Brown says 75 plain clothesmen plus 200 Baltimore-based officers will be deployed, with more secret service staff, pending Congress approval of funds. Authorities also pursue clues on Giuseppe Zangara, the Miami gunman, labeling him an anarchist and solo actor from Patterson, New Jersey.
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