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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1932
Page
1
Secretary Mellon testifies before the Ways and Means Committee outlining a plan to raise revenue to balance the 1934 budget return to the 1924 act framework. The package includes a selective sales tax income and corporate tax increases a super estate and higher surtaxes.
Josephus Daniels former secretary of the navy told a Berry School anniversary audience in Mount Berry Georgia that America risks wrecking itself without a conscious aim to ruin. He blamed human greed governmental favoritism and war minds for global danger praising Miss Martha Berry and President Wilsons era while urging permanent remedies. In Alabama Mississippi tornadoes killed nine and injured many while destroying 30 to 40 homes including a grammar school. Damage extended across multiple counties with further wind rain and floods reported in nearby towns.
Governor Ibra C. Blackwood asks the South Carolina General Assembly for immediate expenditure reductions and abolition of useless functions. He urges tax relief, bonding the 5 million dollar deficit over ten years, cotton acreage limits, bonded warehouse cotton receipts as preferent collateral, early adjournment, fiscal year shift, local bond control, economy in schools, and a workmen's compensation act. He argues these steps will aid farmers and keep banks from buying foreign bonds.
Mrs. Lydia A Hodgking, an 82 year old traveler returning to Marshall Minnesota from Europe, told reporters she would stop in to see her kid sister.
Four Americans charged with Kahahawai murder face possible acquittal or life terms due to lack of direct evidence. They may be tried by a mixed blood jury after Secretary Adams approves a civilian trial, with no eyewitnesses and only circumstantial links.
A crew of eight was saved from the fishing trawler St. Rita after it ran aground a half mile south of Paul Gamiel Hill coast guard station near Manteo North Carolina. The ship from Gloucester Massachusetts faced heavy surf and could not be hauled off as waves pummeled the vessel. Names of the rescued: Captain Frank Favalo Gerald Rioux Gasper Lucido Domnere Parise Jack Binecher Salvator Conte Tony Aloe Joseph Barcelona.
Senate resumes debate on land bank capitalization. Francis White appears before finance committee on foreign bond sales inquiry. Manufactures subcommittee advances beer bill Learing. Foreign relations committee meets in executive session. House debates reconstruction bill. Judiciary to open impeachment hearings against Secretary Mellon. Ways and Means on taxes and Mellon. Merchant Marine probes Shipping Board. Naval construction hearings continue. Wage bills reviewed by labor panel.
President Hoover initiated a broad effort to nominate 10 diplomats financiers and legal minds to fill current and anticipated vacancies. The move follows a swelling list of unoccupied posts and delays may stretch weeks or months as additional names land on his desk. Holmes' successor was a dominant topic in Washington as Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. had resigned, prompting praise for the court elder statesman.
Washington Jan 13. The naval row deepened as the House navy committee sees a clash over shipbuilding plans. Rep Britten Illinois proposed a one year program to supplement the committee chair Vinsons ten year bill for 120 ships worth 616 million. Britten cited cross party support and asked for early committee consideration.
David Ware 71 chief miller at Walters Mill in Caswell County North Carolina died when his overalls snagged in a main shaft pulling him into the machinery. A nearby negro boy could not stop the mill and had to fetch help. Ware died before aid arrived.
The Interstate Commerce Commission today upheld freight rates on tobacco products in less than carloads from Winston-Salem Reidsville and Durham North Carolina and Richmond Virginia to southern destinations.
A favorable report on the Norris resolution calling for an investigation into Farm Board activities was sent to the Senate today by the agriculture committee. The document outlines support for scrutinizing lending practices and governance within the Farm Board.
Directors of Sinclair Consolidated Oil Prairie Oil & Gas and Prairie Pipe Line announced a merger creating Consolidated Oil Corp sharing stock on a 14 for 10 Prairie Pipe basis. The combined firm will issue 14 218 835 shares with key officers named and meetings set for March 1.
Middleburg Virginia January 13 Mrs Agnes B Ilsey about 40 a prominent society and sports woman and her maid about 65 were found murdered in the Ilsey home near here. The skulls were crushed and the house in wild disorder. The bodies were in separate rooms and the assailant washed his hands in the maid’s room. Paul Boe ing, Mrs Ilsey’s brother, found the bodies and fingerprint experts were requested from Washington and Richmond police.
Reynolds Tobacco reports net earnings for 1931 of 36,396,817 up from 34,256,664 in 1930. Undivided profits total 62,233,341, an increase of 6,396,817. President S. Clay Williams cites stronger newspaper advertising as a key factor in the year of depression.
Betty Hickock, 18, daughter of Dr. A L Hickock a resident psychiatrist at Rockview Penitentiary was fatally stabbed today by a prisoner patient in the psychopathic ward. The assailant was seized shortly after the discovery of the killing.
Mr. and Mrs. William Rice celebrated 63 years of marriage after being wed by a justice of the peace. They have lived on the same Coopersville area farm since their wedding.
Boulder City plans its first church to serve residents and Hoover Dam workers. The project aims to be a community affair with local support and involvement.
In Tsingtao on January 13 Japanese marines patrolled streets after a riot in which Japanese residents attacked a Chinese newspaper office and Kuomintang headquarters. Thousands of Chinese fled the city while Japanese protests, including a nighttime parade, prompted further violence before marine intervention.
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