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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 11, 1937
Page
2
Eight people die in separate highway crashes. Henry Guy Pierce aged 25 is seriously injured near Seneca after his car hit a curb and overturned. Elliott Lee Alexander aged 38 is killed near Greenville in what authorities call an unavoidable accident.
Report notes extended low temperatures across Pennsylvania eastern Ohio and western Virginia with lowland areas experiencing the cold impact. Weather readings emphasize unusually harsh conditions for the period and potential effects on daily life.
Flooding spread along the Stonycreek at Johns town Pa as water filled cellars and a 25 foot flood level neared in Pittsburgh at the Allegheny Monongahela confluence. Meantime many Midwest cities logged subzero lows including Moorhead -12 and Lacrosse -18 with other records from Devils Lake Sioux City Duluth and Omaha.
Diplomats discuss potential German influence in the Mediterranean with Italy portrayed as unlikely to welcome dominance. French officials warn Spanish Morocco risks, urge expulsion of Nazi volunteers, and consider armed occupation if needed. In Spain, Madrid relocates civilians as insurgents prepare for a fresh offensive amid bombings.
NORLINA Jan 11 Plummer Hardy was jailed on a charge of attempting to steal a train. Officers say the drunken man tried to take a locomotive and three cars to ride to Roanoke Rapids. A yardmaster found him in the engineer seat as the locomotive moved on a sidetrack.
Asheboro Chapter of the W. O. W. held a formal installation ceremony Friday evening in the lodge hall. BE A. Wright officiated with W. L. Hunt and A. F. King assisting. Officers installed include Robert Lloyd as consul commander Clarence O. Allen as adviser lieutenant E N. Morgan as banker J. T. Pugh as financial secretary and others. John F. Hamilton elected to serve as past consul commander.
Amesbury Massachusetts on the first Sunday of 1937 Rev Leon A Dean offered free taxi rides to and from Main Street Congregational Church to anyone unable to walk He urged no excuses for non attendance and while only 12 people used the service the church was well filled by worshippers afterward
Raleigh January 11 Governor Roey said he telegraphed an invitation to Governor Paul V McNutt of Indiana and Mrs McNutt to be guests at the executive mansion during their North Carolina visit on Thursday and Friday.
First foreign refugees from Lianfu, capital of Shensi province report thousands of troops poised for open mutiny. They arrived today by air in Shanghai signaling escalating unrest and potential security crises in the region.
The article notes that Paris, France, did not adopt a standard hour until 1816, highlighting the city's late alignment with a uniform time framework.
Wall Street ends with uneven gains and losses as major indexes show modest moves. Traders weigh earnings, Bank of America and Coca Cola results, while sector shifts reflect cautious outlooks for 1930s market dynamics.
The county agent's office in Winston Salem has opened a seed cleaning and treating station to assist local tobacco growers.
Chicago market report lists butter grades with prices across creamery specials and extra firsts and standards. Egg prices show weak early demand with local grading and refrigerator standards noted.
Spain and Portugal harbor vast cork forests. The cork oak trees are stripped of bark every 8 to 10 years and produce 45 to 60 pounds of cork each time. Despite repeated stripping, the trees live 150 years or more.
Canada produced 6,095,000 cords of pulpwood in 1935 valued at $41,195,000. The figure reflects total forest product activity and market prices for the year.
A spider native to Australia is described as the smallest of its insect like class at a mere one fortieth of an inch in size. It is noted that spiders are not insects and lack antennae, possessing four pairs of legs unlike insects' three.
The initial balloons were inflated using wood smoke as a common fuel source, marking an early step in the ballooning process.
Mrs Elsie Randall 19 of San Francisco died from wounds alleged to have been inflicted by her estranged husband. She was rushed to a hospital where surgeons delivered a seven pound baby boy by Caesarian operation just before her death. The father was arrested and denied the shooting.
John B. Edgerton of the Southern States Industrial Council praises the eduth leading the nation in re-employing workers and predicts rapid absorption of former manufacturing labor. Saul K. Liggett of a Boston drug chain says the President must solve the problem himself.
Judge Lewis E. Teague, enforcing a strict policy, fined Grace Blackwelder five dollars and costs for operating a car without a state permit and barred her from driving until a permit is obtained. A second defendant had been fined twenty five dollars earlier.
J N Stout was arraigned in municipal court before Judge Lewis E Teague on a prohibition violation after a raid on Shamrock filling station yielded 97 pints of liquor. Officers described the liquor stash as one of the nearest caches found in months and Teague ordered a jury trial at the next term of jury court.
A splendid musical program was rendered today before the Monarch club luncheon by Miss Bessie Tesh and E. Earl Wells pastor of the Church of God. The program was in charge of N. L. Garner. R. A. Wilson, president, presided over the meeting.
An old advertisement urges relief from lingering coughs and bronchial irritation with Creomulsion. It claims the medicine targets the seat of the trouble and aids nature to heal inflamed membranes, promising results from the very first use.
The cabinet would oversee Social Security and relief systems and possibly education. Most construction activities like roads and public works would be consolidated under a new cabinet post. The Interior Department would become a conservation department with Civilian Conservation Corps duties, and minor shifts would be presidental with Byrd pushing consolidation to avoid overlap and waste.
In Oregon City 85 year old Fred Weiland slept with windows open and his mouth agape. His sore teeth froze to his jaws and he had to work his jaws with his hands to free the plates.
December sales in the Fifth District department stores rose about 1 percent in dollar volume over December 1935, with a 1 percent cumulative gain for the year. District figures trail the national gains of 15 and 12 percent, while Charleston South Carolina and Winston-Salem North Carolina posted notable increases. State figures show North and South Carolina gains as well.
Funeral services will be held tomorrow for the Rev Samuel J McDowell longtime pastor of the English Lutheran church who died today at age 73 in Baltimore.
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