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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1936
Page
1
Rightist deputies walk out in protest as the chamber debates the validity of Jean Chiappe's election to the chamber. Leftists jeer Chiappe and read newspapers, while charges of election irregularities and past Bravisky era policing hover over the session.
Washington July 2. President Roosevelt calls National Chairman James A. Farley to a White House conference amid talks on Farley’s status in the New Deal leadership. Republicans assail the Philadelphia platform as dynotizing voters while Wallace accuses the GOP plank of conflicting farm and eastern capital policies. Roper urges business support to keep the campaign focused on education.
Dr A D Graeff urged the League of Nations to secure adherence from the United States and other Geneva absentees. The appeal was made before the assembly in Geneva on July 2 as part of ongoing efforts to strengthen collective action.
In Shamokin Pennsylvania Enochskie Jr a 35 year old miner survived 22 hours trapped after a collapse. He was rescued strapped to a plank and taken to a hospital where doctors reported he had possible internal injuries and was in serious condition with an even chance of recovery.
North Carolina trucking groups protest South Carolina arrests of truck drivers for using auxiliary gas tanks. Officials say South Carolina treats auxiliary tanks as illegal, unlike North Carolina, risking reciprocal licensing moves between the two states.
Edgecombe County commissioners agreed to let voters decide on a school improvement bond of about 225000. An election could be held in late August, funding projects in several areas including Rocky Mount. The plan includes a high school addition and new buildings for Negro students with costs around 67000 and 50000 respectively.
Vatican City July 2 Pope Pinus ordered world censorship of movies under bishops. He directed establishment of motion picture review offices, annual promises from lay Catholics to abstain from bad films, and emphasized parental duty in guiding screen choices.
A 12-year-old boy named Lloyd Wooten is held in Gaineville pending investigation into the shotgun death of his aunt Ida Jenkins. Authorities say the boy was booked earlier today.
The Vindicator Printing Co. announced it had acquired the Youngstown Telegram and merged it with the Vindicator, uniting two Scripps-Howard papers in Youngstown.
Secretary Morgenthau testified that 12 month expenditures topped receipts by 4.884 billion dollars while national income rose and federal revenue increased. He cited a 33.75 billion dollar public debt with recoverable assets pegged at 8.75 billion, and noted losses from the agricultural adjustment act ruling and soldiers bonus prepayment.
A tornado struck Archibald and Mangham early today, killing Ernest Bradford, six, and injuring five others including an infant. The five injured are Mrs. J. McCormick, Mangham, with lacerations and a fractured arm, Mrs. John Baskin of Mangham, John Atwell Baskin, son of Mrs. John Baskin, and Mrs. Carlton Underwood. The twister lasted about five minutes, cutting a southwest to northeast path around 7:30 local time.
Quiet prevailed at the Hanes Hosiery mill in Winston Salem as a hosiery workers strike entered its second day. About 150 workers left their jobs though the mill operated normally with few on the night shift. Labor organizer Henry J. Adams of High Point predicted a broader extension of the strike to close the mill.
Sadie Lawson a 38 year old factory worker will be arraigned in Winston Salem court on a charge of burning her invalid mother to death Mrs Elizabeth Lawson was found burned and died next day in hospital Spruill Thornton said he would not enter an insanity plea and did not know what plea would be entered Fire chief said the accused woman told him she set the fire to kill parasites but the police chief said she confessed then repudiated the statement
Harry Thomas Thompson, a former U S navy yeoman, was called into federal court in Los Angeles for trial on charges of selling confidential naval documents to a Japanese officer identified as Lieutenant Commander Toshio Miyazaki. Clyde Thomas said a speedy trial was arranged due to the seriousness of the charges.
Aaron E. Norman aged 77 a philanthropist and former vice president of Sears Roebuck died yesterday at his summer home in Elberon New Jersey of a heart attack. He had been a prominent Chicago executive and civic figure.
Federal troops took control of Merida as police killed 13 striking bus drivers and 51 wounded in a labor demonstration. Governor Fernando Lopez Cardenas resigned, Florencio Paloma Valencia named chief executive, and troops disarmed police to restore order after bombs and street clashes outside the palace.
A powerful storm drenched High Point and Guilford county with 1.77 inches of rain by nightfall. Lightning struck a fire alarm box, damaged trees, and knocked out power briefly, with the worst impact centered on Sedgefield and nearby streets.
Dr James H Straughn will address a one night joint rally of young Methodist Protestants and Methodist Episcopals South at High Point college. Rev Frank Jordan of Charlotte will be principal speaker with expected turnout from High Point and Greensboro.
GLEN COVE New York July 2 Physicians map a weight reduction plan for J P Morgan the financier. He was carried by ambulance from a private railcar into his Long Island estate. Medical advisers and family say he is not seriously ill and expects a vacation to his estate near London and a grouse hunting trip in Scotland. He is in his 69th year.
Emma Goldman arrives in Nice to settle affairs of Alexander Berkman who died of a personal safety related bullet wound. She arranged a simple funeral at a small cemetery outside Nice where Berkman was buried yesterday.
Dispatches report 18 people dead in Archangel and Odessa disasters. Eleven hydrographic expedition members drowned when a junk boat sank in Kandalakoha bay. Seven workers died in a Soviet lino factory explosion in Odessa with ten others seriously injured.
Dispatches from Parahyba report 240 homes destroyed as floods followed 470 hours of rain. Damage is heavy in seven interior cities with railway and communication services hampered. Casualties unknown.
Franklin D Roosevelt, a Georgia farmer, faces financial losses as prolonged drought hits Pine Mountain lands. The article notes the drought as the area's worst in years, eroding hopes for a productive crop season despite presidential status.
The highway safety division announced licenses of 10 more drivers were revoked for drunken driving or related charges, bringing total revocations to 3,669 since the law took effect November 1. Three drivers R B Koonce Thomas L Lowe and Coke Burton had licenses revoked an extra year for a prior revocation.
Raleigh July 2 Edwin Gill parole commissioner said no decision had been reached in the cases of George Alston of Orange county and Willie Lee Gallman of Forsyth, both slated for execution at the state prison tomorrow for murder.
The article urges EMOCRATIC voters in North Carolina to vote in the second primary held four weeks after the first. Polls open at 5 08 AM and close at 7 40 PM on Saturday with options for absentee ballots from the registrar or county elections office for those absent or ill.
Dublin municipal elections show Eamon De Valera’s Fianna Fáil failing to capture the Dublin corporation. Fine Gael wins 18 seats, Fianna Fáil 12, Independents and Labour win 3. Cosgrave backed by Independents.
A well dressed woman entered the apartment of Miss Annalie Blake a 36 year old in a near north Chicago hotel and after a conversation drew a pistol fatally shooting her in the heart before she could reach help Harold Knox the hotel manager said the slayer made inquiries about apartments and cried Help been shot to the switch operator before fleeing the scene.
Kishida a Japanese coast engineer was seriously injured in a raid near Tsingtao according to Domei News Agency reports from Shannung China dated July 2.
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