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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1938
Page
2
Generally fair weather across Carolina regions with slight coolness tonight and Wednesday. Winds shift from northwesterly to light offshore breezes, overcast skies, and a chance of light showers near the coast at night and into Wednesday.
Leon Stoker, a local youth, was taken to Burrus Memorial Hospital with slight wounds after being struck on Fairview Street by a vehicle driven north by J Robbins of route 3 Hight. Robbins was arrested on a hit-and-run warrant. Bystanders said the car did not stop after striking Stoker.
The missing woman, once thought kidnapped, is identified as 17, not 18. Bennett called state police at 1 30 a m to report his daughter missing after 12 hours unreported, with state police Captain Donald Leonard directing the search. FBI agents were on scene though Newark declined comment on their role.
CONFIDENCE STIMULATED firm has established headquarters to carry on the survey. With Mr. Flood was H. A. Martin, resident engineer in charge of a drilling survey at Styers dam site now. The sole remaining legal obstacle is an injunction in which North Carolina courts have held bonds for the city in abeyance. City officials say the project is only a proposal pending survey findings on practicability. City council meets tomorrow and will weigh two proposals by engineer W. G. Waldo who has worked on the project since its proposal. Waldo may end his current contract at one figure and stay as engineer for a smaller sum.
Reports describe heavy Chinese casualties around Shan tung railways and Japanese losses in fierce clashes. Hangchow denial followed by patrols in Tsingtao. two Americans killed in Hankow plane crash. New bridge on the Hongkong Canton road opens an artery for war materiel with large truck convoys toward Canton and Hongkong shipments continuing.
Attorney General Cummings cited supreme court rulings in Alabama and Duke Power as the basis to proceed with 61 power projects nationwide. An unofficial tally shows injunctions in 47 of those cases, with 12 outside DC in states including Idaho Iowa Kentucky Michigan Mississippi North Carolina and South Dakota. Total estimated construction cost nears $147 million, with public works loans totaling about $61.2 million and fronts around $38.4 million.
A Court of Honor for local Boy Scouts is set for tonight at 46 o'clock at Wesley Memorial church. Executive Bunn W Hackney Jr announced the event and more than 40 awards will be presented including the Eagle Award to Alton Hardee of troop 1 with C E B Diffendal presiding.
Within the past 24 hours police booked seven drivers for traffic violations: two hit and run cases, one red light violation, one car with improper brakes, one no license, one speeding, and one traffic ordinance violation. A note reminds that operating a vehicle without a rear view mirror is unlawful.
Cather ine Dean Seckler of High Point sues Dwight M. Seckler in municipal court for divorce based on two years separation. They married in Chatham Virginia on November 4 1935 and separated January 8 1936.
Washington officials predicted a 1939 deficit of about 1 billion dollars as President Roosevelt warned that next year’s budget would be unbalanced. Morgenthau said improved business conditions could still balance the budget, while Congress faces debates over trimming spending versus creating jobs through relief programs.
Senators Smith and Bailey offered cautious praise calling the speech conciliatory and not vindictive while others viewed it as lacking new proposals. Southern legislators largely avoided comment on the renewed call for wartime hour legislation, opposed by the region for fearing industry impact.
Greensboro January 4 class work resumed at Women's College after holidays. Students began returning Monday with about 1900 on campus by Monday night. Mid term exams set for January 21 27 and the second semester starts February 2. Registration for the new term is January 31 and February 1.
Greensboro Jan 4 Chairman George L Stansbury said a contract will be let in about ten days for beautification of the High Point county building grounds. County commissioners visited High Point yesterday and conferred with landscape engineer R D Tillson on plans to improve the grounds around the building.
Alabama voters faced a three candidate senate primary to replace Justice Hugo Black with former Senator J Thomas Heflin, J Lister Hill, and Charles W Williams. Hill backed the wages and hours bill while Heflin and Williams opposed it. Dixie Graves, wife of Governor Bibb Graves, will resign to allow the winner to serve, avoiding a general election.
Four hundred former Agua Caliente employees and their families occupied the Agua Caliente Hotel and Casino in Mexicali demanding the right to work. They locked gates and barred police and Agua Caliente Co officials as part of a dramatic takeover linked to earlier anti gambling laws.
FBI agents halted at the curb and surrounded four cars in Sanford North Carolina catching fugitives Payne and Turner after a swift quiet arrest. The pair faced multiple charges including slaying Patrolman George Penn and bank robberies in Montgomery and Laurel Hill. A Sanford man known as Spud McLeod was taken into custody for questioning.
The interior of 800 Park Street home occupied by F. A. Spoon was slightly damaged by a fire thought to have started from a spark in a flue. Firefighters from stations 1 and 2 and the service unit responded shortly after 9 o clock. The house is owned by W. A. Davia.
Workers added to the American labor market by population growth. November 1937 shows 2,160,000 fewer employed than autumn 1929. Private construction leads declines with over 650,000 fewer jobs, railroads down about 600,000, manufacturing down around 440,000. Building trades industries most affected.
Hollywood, Jan. 4 Stan Laurel threatened to stop alimony to his second wife Virginia Ruth Laurel if she challenges his marriage to Mrs Laurel 6. He says he will contest the attempt to set aside the final divorce decree won last week while he eloped to Yuma with Illiana Vera Inanova Shuvalova the 26 year old Russian singer.
State Senator Edgar H. Bain of the eighth district Wayne and Johnston counties announced his bid for re nomination in the upcoming June Democratic primary.
Davidson county fatalities from motor vehicle crashes rose over 1936 by more than twenty seven percent in the first eleven months of 1937. Fourteen residents were fatally injured, with two youth victims from hit and run accidents, one fatality outside the county, and two drivers unidentified in October cases.
Chicago produce report shows butter at 810 978 pounds steady with creamery specials 32 33 percent extras 32 and firsts 30 32 percent. Eggs receipts 4 503, current receipts 22, refrigerator standards 21, firsts 20 percent. Ed note says butter arrivals formerly quoted in tuls now in pounds.
Group of 12 lawmakers from the house and senate met to resolve differences between the farm bills. Senator Bankhead said cotton provisions show three key gaps: compulsory program timing, target total, and penalties. Chairman Smith urged action to reduce the 1937 surplus and raise prices with government purchases up to 6 million bales.
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