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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 23, 1932
Page
5
In Long Branch New Jersey a pistol hold up ends oddly as William O Brien suggests buying the gun from the thief. A boy slipped a gun to O Brien demanding a nickel then fled with the quarters after the exchange. He later discovered the revolver was fully loaded.
Reports from Shanghai describe fires burning Chinese homes and executions by Japanese troops. Witness accounts recount Chinese civilians killed, civilians warned to flee, and a man in civilian clothes led away at gunpoint. Consular denials followed, while fighting rages near Kiangwan and the international settlement.
Announcement reports the engagement of Miss Elizabeth Alexander of Charlotte to Charles Pollard of Washington D C second son of Governor John G Pollard of Virginia. The bride elect's family are well known in the city where they married years ago. The Alexander- Pollard wedding date is to be fixed.
Debutantes host a leap year event in Toronto inviting eligible bachelors. Young ladies invite their escorts, supply flowers, and plan any courtship they desire in this social gathering.
In Nueva GEPONA Isle of Pines a 28 hour 50 minute boycott runs daily by Japanese and Chinese residents in sympathy with their nations. A 10 minute truce allows all to gather around the radio and hear the Shanghai war dispatches.
Mrs. Sarah Blackman leads a solo march along the Coney Island boardwalk with a sign about consumer demands. Police arrest her for holding a parade without a license and fix a $2,000 bond.
The report depicts a ferocious day on the front between Chapei and Kiangsu with heavy artillery, air strikes, and smoke screens. Japanese troops push infantry advances while Chinese gunners defend hidden positions and Red Cross workers assist the wounded.
Washington February 23 close advisers to President Hoover say he will not join the movement for an economic boycott of Japan. Senate leaders oppose such a step to pressure for peace in China. Senator Watson of Indiana supports staying out of the Far Eastern dispute and keeping American troops at home.
The senate judiciary committee issued a unanimous favorable report on Judge Benjamin N. Cardozo for the supreme court. The action clears the way for prompt confirmation to succeed Oliver Wendell Holmes who resigned recently.
Vincent Simone was released from a 30 day sentence for assault drunkenness and breach of the peace after a judge learned he had become a father. Judge Nehemiah Candee granted early release so he could pass around cigars.
Senator Brookhart condemns film industry practices he calls among the most shocking in American business. He urges probes into movie newsreels and possible political use by Hays allies, citing an independent exhibitor’s article and a suspected propaganda reel for Roosevelt. He warns of dangers to small investors if securities are not examined.
Mrs. O Brine revised her account claiming a 3 a m rendezvous on Spring avenue led to Forest being grabbed into a car by a possible female kidnapper. Police weigh jealousy versus kidnapping theory while noting O Brine’s endurance flight records with Dale Jackson and the Hunters.
Adolf Hitler and Theodore Duesterberg joined Ernst Thaelmann as the four declared candidates for president of the German republic. Joseph Goebbels announced Hitler’s bid after prior denials, signaling a split in attempts to unite against President Paul von Hindenburg.
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