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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1936
Page
1
The 1935 Congress opens as the U S government reports a 1936 year end public debt of 30 54 billion dollars an all time high while half the current fiscal year shows expenditures exceed income by 1 88 million. Roosevelt refines the 1937 budget as receipts lag and a major portion of outlays funded relief and recovery.
Reported actions by Italy and Ethiopia aimed at suppressing domestic dissent. Mussolini reiterated the regime’s stance on force against opposition as troops were deployed from Addis Ababa toward Gojjam. An Emperors loyalist appeal was sent to curb revolts tied to imperial taxes and to support Haile Selassie’s rule.
Paris papers report France asked Great Britain to potentially replace French troops on the Rhine frontier with forces to shield the Italian front. Discussions between British and French staffs weigh aid in case Italy attacks British ships in the Mediterranean. No decision yet, Mussolini kept informed.
The Chamber of Commerce of the United States urged adherence to the present provisions of the adjusted compensation act and rejected any additional payments. The stance came as veterans groups backed a bill to offer immediate full payment of adjusted service certificates and related loan interests, proposing changes to maturity dates and Treasury payments.
A permanent neutrality bill was introduced in the House by Chairman McReynolds of the foreign affairs committee. The measure would give the President broad discretionary power to embargo war materials and preserve mandatory embargoes on actual implements of war for belligerent nations.
Congress faces key debates on neutrality policy and veterans bonus as the administration seeks embargo powers. A House foreign affairs bill would allow presidential discretion on embargoes while mandating embargoes on war goods. The Chamber of Commerce opposes the compromise bonus plan amid election year tensions. The treasury reports a large deficit as Roosevelt prepared a broader budget outline.
Staunton Virginia January 3 Mrs Robert Preston Barry 19 a Nashville Tenn bride died in Kings Daughters Hospital from a Lee Highway collision four miles north of Staunton on her honeymoon trip to New York. Her husband 25 suffered broken ribs but was listed as satisfactory. The truck driver Charlest Rinehart of Bur i N C faced technical charges as police investigated the crash.
Coroner J. J. Albright announced there would be no inquest into the death of 60 year old L. T. Wilson a Wake Forest merchant killed when his car collided with a freight train near Henderson yesterday.
The American Kennel Club awards dates of April 17 and 18 for Asheville Kennel Club’s fourth annual licensed dog show.
South Carolina state Senator J J Dorn aged 52 dies from complications after an automobile crash near Race Pond Georgia. Dorn testified in the Hauptmann kidnapping trial about machinery marks on the wood for the ransom ladder linked to his McCormick mill. Funeral services planned for Troy South Carolina at 11 A M Saturday.
Forty four year old Tommy Touhy, long a foe of Al Capone’s gang, faces a court hearing on a petition to move his trial to St Paul for alleged 1933 mail truck robbery in Minneapolis. He was captured in Chicago after being named as a suspect in related Sacramento and Charlotte post office robberies.
A vacuum tube device developed by V. K. Zworykin and George A. Morton enables vision in darkness by converting infrared and ultraviolet light into visible images. The electron optical tube uses a cesium coated lens and a fluorescent screen to reveal a colorless world in greenish black and white, functioning like a telescope powered by a small battery.
Snow and a bucket brigade saved a Pineville hotel cafe from a second floor blaze. Citizens and firemen from Charlotte aided as water was carried by hand since the town has no water system. Damage was about 5000 dollars.
Six thousand delegates at the fourth Southwide Conference of the Baptist Training Union discussed mission work as adjournment neared. Dr Toyohiko Kagawa, famed Japanese Christian reformer, attended with plans to address two sermons, one afternoon and one night.
Daniel Brown a 20 year old escapee from Randolph county prison camp was shot dead by G E Shelton while attempting to steal chickens on Salisbury road in Winston-Salem. A coroner jury ruled the shooting justifiable homicide noting Brown or an accomplice fired first. A loaded dum dum bullet was found at the scene. Shelton testified he fired a shotgun after being fired upon.
H L Mitchell executive secretary of the Southern Tenant Farmers Union urged mass picketing of the C H Dibble cotton plantation near Earle Arkansas to deter planting a crop. He said the union has evidence to send scores of planters to federal prison for AAA contract violations and will forward these facts to Washington. The union claims 256 00 members in six southern states.
Political heirs of the late Huey P. Long hold a mass meeting in New Orleans denouncing what they call an unconstitutional federal invasion of Louisiana. Officials say federal operatives have been assigned to examine voter registrations amid the January 21 primary. Representative Cleveland Dear supports the federal intervention as necessary to preserve democracy, while Rep J Mark Wilcox says a congressional committee will study the matter.
Three men convicted of dynamiting Holt and Stevens mills during the 1934 textile strike begin serving prison terms in Raleigh. John L. Anderson is ordered to 8 to 10 years, J. P. Heggard 4 to 6 years, and J. F. Harraway two years after appeals were denied. Tom Canipe remains at liberty and ill in Fayetteville.
Columbia announces the election of William H. Harth city electrician to succeed Dr. Foster as athletic director at the University of South Carolina. The appointment was disclosed today by a special committee of trustees.
Washington January 3 The broadcast to begin at 8 oclock High Point time surpasses world series and major sports events in scope. NBC estimates most of the nation 18 million receivers will be turned on as Roosevelt speaks. Short wave stations will rebroadcast the message to Europe and beyond if conditions allow.
Josephus Daniels United States ambassador to Mexico will speak at the Jackson Day dinner in Raleigh January 8. Daniels is currently in Washington.
Charles and Anne Lindbergh and their son Jon left the Adelphia hotel in Liverpool for an unannounced destination seeking quiet and rest. They departed by car after three days of seclusion, with a second man, heading toward Speke Airport with plans unclear.
Police identified the wandering girl as Ruth Anderson an 18 year old from Springfield Massachusetts She was found in a dazed memory lapse condition on a Raleigh street after calling for aid Welfare offices in Springfield telegrammed arrangements to return her to her parents who had reported her missing Detained pending word from her parents in the Negro section of the city.
North Carolina shows fair but colder conditions with a mostly cloudy Saturday and possible light rain in the west. night temperatures dip and wind turns west to east. South Carolina stays fair but cooler, with possible light rain in the extreme west Saturday afternoon and winds from Hatteras to Jacksonville diminishing.
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