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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 11, 1938
Page
1
Senate filibuster by Senator Byrnes of South Carolina confronts anti lynching legislation. He argues the Democratic Party’s reach now includes Black voters and leadership, citing Walter White of the NAACP. Byrnes insists the bill must pass and condemns opposition.
South Carolina begins the 1938 legislative session with pleas for quick action on the state budget and tax measures. Speaker Blatt urges early handling of the 11.95 million dollar appropriation bill while debates over tax allocations to counties and a minimum work week for textile workers loom on the calendar.
York Jan 11 W Illip W Aldrich chairman of the board Chase National Bank urged prompt adequate modification of government policy on the market. He said such change would aid business recovery and criticized the federal capital gains tax the distributed profits tax and looming federal regulation of securities during the bank's annual stockholders meeting.
ASHEVILLE Jan 11 Sheriff Lawrence Brown announced Bill Payne 41 of Tex Peruad o corroborated the story of his companion in crime Wash Turner that they shot and killed George Penn state highway patrolman near here last summer The sheriff said he was through questioning the notorious bank robbers who were short.
Spartanburg S C January 11 Thomas K Fletcher 47 former city clerk and treasurer was sentenced to three years in prison after pleading guilty to embezzling 7055 99 of city funds He held the office from November 1933 until last November when succeeded by L T Williams A related charge involving 900 was brought against Geddes Be West recently retired as police chief
Governor Hoey told agriculture workers the state has a great farming future if resources are conserved and tenant farmers are trained. He stressed farming is a science requiring well trained men and warned unemployment stems from inadequate education, urging better selection and training for suitable vocations.
Madrid January 11 General Vicente Rojo chief of staff of the government’s army and commander of the Teruel offensive was awarded Madrid’s laureate insignia by President Manuel A. Rojo directed the Teruel campaign and the government forces’ operations around the stronghold, altering the civil war’s course.
Paris January 11 The council of ministers gave Premier Camille Chautemps liberty to forge a new social peace pact with capital and labor He warned of urgent need to end agitation against national interests and announced a conference tomorrow with employers workers and middle class representatives to settle strike actions
The National Industrial Conference Board reports December wage earners’ cost of living fell 0.4 percent from November, though 2.9 percent higher than December 1936. Food rents and clothing dropped, coal rose, and sundries were unchanged. The dollar’s purchasing power is 112.9 cents, up from 112.4 in November.
In Jerusalem on January 11 police fought a band of twenty armed Arabs near Hebron. The clash followed an ambush that killed J. L. Starkey, director of a British archaeological expedition, yesterday. Police pursued the retreating group into the hills.
Paris instructed its Tokyo ambassador to deliver an energetic protest after Japanese warplanes bombed a Catholic mission in Nanning South China on January 9. One French monk Father Martin was killed and another wounded, prompting heightened Franco Japanese tensions.
The Spanish government army pounded insurgent lines in the La Muela De Teruel sector but failed to report decisive gains. Aerial combat involved both sides near Teruel as insurgents claimed government losses of about 100 men while trying to guard south to Teruel.
Governor Hoffman expressed doubt the Hauptmann case is fully solved after dividing a $26 000 reward among 100 participants. The $25 000 New Jersey Legislature reward was awarded with $7 500 going to Walter Lyle of Elizabeth for returning Hauptmann's license number on a ransom note.
A Northwest Airlines plane crashed and burned in the Bridger Mountains north of Bozeman Montana killing ten aboard. Pilot Nick Namer who had flown over a million miles without injury perished along with co pilot F W West and eight passengers including W E Borgenheimer of Basin Montana. Snow and blizzard conditions delayed recovery and a guard remained at the scene.
City officials and landscape architect R. D. Tillson opened talks on preserving and beautifying grade crossing embankments. Plans remain tentative but the city hopes to finance the project through the Works Progress Administration to plant the red clay banks.
U S Attorney Frank Hennessy said testimony at a federal navigation bureau hearing showed the crew of the liner President Hoover should be praised rather than blamed for actions after the ship wrecked on an Oriental island. The government will not prosecute any crew member for mutiny.
Tokyo reports that the emperor and top officials drafted Japan's firm China policy in a secret imperial conference. A manifesto outlining future action was promised within days, with options including seizing surrender or continuing hostilities as China remains at war.
President Roosevelt invited five industrial chiefs to the White House for a five o clock conference on the recession. Alfred P Sloan of General Motors Ernest P Weir of National Steel Lewis Brown Johns Manville M W Clement Pennsylvania Railroad Colby Chester General Foods led the group. WPA rolls rose to 1 76 million with 250 000 to 300 000 added since December 1. The president also pursued talks with private power utilities in a forenoon session with leaders from Central Service Texas Power and Light and Nevada California Electric.
The national emergency council reports North Carolina allocated 92 767 651 dollars from relief funds appropriated by Congress in 1935 1936 and 1937.
Secretary Wallace told a senate committee that rural relief demands were rising with no clear ability for local or federal agencies to cope. He cited the drought plagued Great Plains, falling farm prices, and increased mechanisation as causes, predicting income may drop five to ten percent in 1938 and that weather and business recovery will drive future needs.
In Columbia South Carolina six convicts charged with murder in the killing of Ca tlin Sanders of the state tertiary guard prepare for trial. They pleaded innocent after indictment by the grand jury and arraignment. The assault occurred December 12 when Sanders was stabbed in his office during a botched attempt at bribery.
Sheriff J M More said 17 people either jailed or bonded in connection with the dynamite deaths of three children on Friday. Six men from Pikeville were to be taken into custody as material witnesses, with others arrested in Elizabethton and Asheville. Sheriff Moreland said he was arrested on a charge of being an accessory after the fact in the Gouge home blast that killed Harm Gouge and his two daughters.
In Washington on Jan 11, Secretary Perkins announced a fixed minimum wage of 14 dollars per week and a 40 hour maximum work week for government contracts of 16 thousand dollars or more in the handkerchief industry. The ruling takes effect January 26 under the Walsh Healy government contract act.
The Rev. C W Robinson age 89 who pastored Presbyterian churches in North Wilkesboro and nearby for 30 years died at home today. He served the community as a church leader and mentor to many.
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