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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1935
Page
1
A westbound mail plane crashed shortly after takeoff from City-Count airport in Pittsburgh early today. The pilot, Floyd Church, 38, of Newark New Jersey, was killed in the crash.
The piece reports Bruno Hauptmann defending himself in the Lindbergh case with cross examination by Attorney General Wilentz and notes a parallel U S grand jury inquiry into graft in the Public Works Administration led by United States Attorney Leslie C Garnett and assistant John Fidelly targeting a Texas canal project and related disbursements.
Huey P. Long held a state house hearing under martial law to expose a murder plot against him. Sidney Longy testified he gave a gun and bombs to attackers and accused four sheriffs, a district attorney, and possibly a judge of involvement. National guard troops guarded the capitol during the inquiry.
Police seized 75 gallons of liquor plus 268 pints and 04 fifths in a Raleigh raid on a house at 18 South McDowell Street. Everett King, a prior liquor offender, was charged and held on $500 bond pending a hearing next week.
General Hugh S. Johnson urged the House Military Committee against instant conscription of industry in wartime. The NRA builder testified on laws to remove profits from war, signaling strong industry resistance to rapid wartime mobilization.
A steel barge numbered Two from Norfolk sank with all five crew aboard on the night of January 23. All five residents of the Norfolk area were aboard and presumed lost.
RALEIGH Jan 26 The Carolina General Assembly met briefly with six senators and six house members present The house passed a few local bills including HB 81 and HB 108 while the senate took no action Regular sessions resume Monday night HB 81 concerns aldermen of Franklin and HB 108 relates to Wake County city manager form of government SB 79 allows Alleghany County to name tax collectors for back taxes
Senator Reynolds of North Carolina avoids the Senate floor amid caustic comments about the world court calling it Babel bunk baloney. He hails from Asheville in Buncombe County.
Forecast calls for mostly cloudy conditions tonight with slight warmth in the south portions. Sunday brings a cooler trend overall with a dip in temperatures, especially in northern and central areas.
A high administration source says President Roosevelt will personally administer the $4,000,000,000 work relief fund and allocate money through existing agencies. The plan aims to limit secretary Ickes role to funds allotted by the President, with Hopkins assisting as relief administrator.
In Chicago a University graduate Henry Arden and his mother Ruth Arden killed two Illinois relief workers and then themselves after being dropped from relief rolls. Miss Alice Irwin and Miss Caroline Wallace died from multiple gunshot wounds in a spree at a relief station and Arden later died in a hospital.
Winter grip tightens across the United States as tens of thousands face homelessness in the Mississippi delta and states record multiple deaths. Forecasters warn of a colder weekend with heavy snow from the Pacific coast to the Atlantic seaboard and subzero winds in the north.
Federal inspectors opened a rapid inquiry into the Mohawk disaster in which 46 died with 34 known dead identified and 12 missing. Officials question survivors after the Ward liner collided with the Norwegian freighter Talisman off the Jersey coast. 117 were rescued. Prominent victims include Mr. and Mrs. Julian Peabody and Prof. H. F. Cleland of Williams College.
North Carolina legislators wrap a week of sessions in Raleigh with no major measure approved. The joint finance committee dominated the week as the three percent sales tax faced broad opposition. A highway and public works bill to secure rights of way for a federal scenic parkway was the only statewide item to pass both houses.
New York dispatch reports Captain Wang testifying before a federal inquiry into the Sea Girt collision between the Mohawk and the freighter Talisman off New Jersey. He said the Mohawk swerved across the Talisman with no warning blast and that steering failure may have caused the disaster.
Floods along the Coldwater river push property losses in Mississippi to between 5 and 10 million dollars. Refugees shelter in Marks and Lambert as engineers bring in boats. Officials cite 21 flood deaths across Mississippi, five in Tennessee and one in Arkansas.
Special dispatch from Pasadena reports Will Roosevelt speculating on Congress granting President Roosevelt permission to spend four billion eight hundred million. The piece notes Washington commentators apologizing and a sense that opposing hatreds cancel each other, with the loan framed as borrowing rather than paying.
The senator quoted a report claiming a mob planned violence if an arrest did not occur. The narrative named William O Rourke as Standard Oil head agent in the district and described a car seizure with a calibre pistol and two gas bombs found in a sack. District Attorney Odom was among those identified as political enemies.
Claude Maddox, named in Byron Bolton's confession as one of six men linked to the St Valentine’s Day massacre of 1929, was seized by Chicago detectives at his Berwyn home and taken to central headquarters for questioning. Bolton, in St Paul on kidnaping charges, claimed he acted as finger man in the gang slayings.
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