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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1937
Page
2
Fair tonight and Saturday in North and South Carolina. Winds vary along the coast from Hatteras to Jacksonville with moderate to fresh southwest winds offshore. Partly overcast skies with scattered showers off the coast.
The Deep River Quarterly Meeting will be held tomorrow at the historic Deep River church five miles from High Point. It brings together five Friends churches Deep River Springfield High Point Oak Hill and Archdale. Elders and overseers ministers meet at 10 am with worship at 11 am. A noon picnic lunch will be served and a business meeting held in the afternoon. A young people special meeting is set for 10 30 am.
City council in special session asked Public Works to cost a fifty foot High street width between Main and Wrenn streets amid grade crossing plans. The State Highway Commission favors 40 feet, with a 26 foot retaining wall adding about 17500, while a fifty foot option would require study.
R. D. Dickson, delegate to the International Kiwanis convention in Indianapolis, discussed his experiences and topics from the gathering during a noon meeting at the Elwood hotel. The club plans a July 16 picnic at Dr. W. L. Jackson’s farm with fishing and swimming. Norman and Arthur Fidler performed duets with Dan W. Smith at the piano.
Captain Thomas Kilroy testified they threatened police. Patrolman George Higgins said he saw a revolver in Joe Rothmund’s hand. Rothmund allegedly knocked down Policeman Walter Oakes and tried to kneel on his throat before Oakes shot Rothmund.
John T. Underwood retired chairman of Underwood Elliot Fitzgerald and founder of the Underwood typewriter business died early this morning at his summer home in Vienna Cape Cod Mass. He was 80 years old.
Fragment notes porpoise as a ruthless predator of food fish likening it to a shark, but the passage lacks context or specifics about species, location, or study.
Rumors sweep Indiana that Bethlehem Steel and Weirton Steel plan elections among all plants’ employees. In Washington, John Riffe testified about Chicago Memorial Day riot, saying demonstrators near Republic Steel’s mill did not intend to enter. Gates opened as backlog back to work spreads with guards, 115 cars entering, 300 pickets jeering. Canton dynamited home of nonstriking worker Matt Perrish amid tense reopenings. Cleveland mills remain closed.
All suspects in the strangling of Madeline Everett 7 Melba 9 and Jeanette Stephens 8 were freed except one youth. District Attorney Baron Fitts said the killer may have been acquainted with the girls and not a stranger. Eddie the Sailor remains under scrutiny though not charged.
Johnstown mayor Shields fights revived tax liens tied to a beer and spirits cache found in an old brewery. The 1935 internal revenue assessment prompted by raids on Emmerling Products in 1925 spurs conspiracy cases as federal agents pursue payment while Shields denounces the move as an attack to force him into line.
Federal jury in Indianapolis convicted C. J. Morley former Colorado governor and four Morley & Co. officials of mail fraud. Morley resigned as firm president and was found guilty on one count alleging a scheme to defraud.
Judson Grissett aged 67 died at his home 1508 Longstreet this morning after months of ill health. He was born October 17 1869 in Brunswick County NC and leaves a large family including four sons G W W R J D J B and four daughters Bertha High Mrs Paul Jesterall Mrs A H Justice and Mrs O R Ware. He was a North Main Street Baptist Church member and had lived in the city since 1926 coming from Lynchburg Virginia. Funeral services Sunday at 2 pm from North Main Street Baptist Church with Rev A Lincoln Falk. burial in Mechanicsville Cemetery. The body lies at Sechrest Funeral Home until 10 am Saturday then to the home of daughter Mrs Paul Jester.
The plan adds one justice per year to the Supreme Court and permits increases of other federal judges ages 70 and above, with a 20‑judge cap. It also creates a court proctor to study litigation volume and suggests expedited appeals on constitutional questions about federal statutes. Assignments to courts outside a judge’s commissioned district would avoid disrupting current duties.
Governor Hoey embarks on a vacation while the state advances a new advertising program with a 250000 dollar two year budget aimed at attracting homeseekers farms workers and industries. He will travel from Shelby to High Hampton Jonesboro Canton Raleigh and the Great Smoky Mountains over the next days, returning to Shelby each night.
A rail line completes use of a temporary track after a Spencer terminal engine tested bedding. The final northbound trip from Monroe, Virginia to Greenville, North Carolina carries ten cars nine coaches and a milk car. Crew includes engineer H. H. Wumsden fireman E R Jackson conductor R H Stray horn flagman J F Moore. Passengers depart to Mae Wynn Thomasville Carl Knapp Auburn Ind Glen Beaver Rockwell S C Mrs E J Everhart Chicago and Robert Mattox Harriman Tenn. Arrivals at High Point include W C Hamblin Danville Va R O Cox Greensboro and A T Brady Danville Va.
Tomorrow's lineup shows Triangle vs W O W of Thomasville at Air Port with no other Industrial league games. Commercial League A features Harriss Covington against Globe Parlor at the High School and Mills Home versus W O W postponed. League B lists Hayworth Roll and Pane vs Oakdale at Oakdale with Logan Porter vs Alma Desk at Smith Diamond.
Police believe a car theft case involves the same robbers who months earlier looted jewelry from Gypsy Rose Lee, the actress. The stolen items were later found abandoned with a dented fender nearby.
The first large shipment of salt cake direct from Antwerp Belgium for the new Southern Kraft plant in Georgetown was unloaded from the ship earlier today.
Police report two local girls Iretta Britt fourteen to fifteen and Mildred Yar borough fourteen as missing after they disappeared yesterday. Names, ages, and home addresses are listed, with residential details included for identification.
Hutson argues conditions are favorable but fluctuations in production and prices persist. He notes that passage of state compact legislation to curb flue cured tobacco production would acknowledge the need, but many states failed to enact required laws.
Three Protestant pastors and a church lawyer went on secret trial in Moabit for inciting defiance of government decrees. Rev. Gerhard Jacobi of the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church and colleagues were charged with publicly reading names of church deserters, mirroring the case of Rev. Martin Niemoeller.
T S Bell of 510 Wise Street showcased small beetles he identified as destroying his weeping willow trees. He also displayed a caterpillar like worm he said was damaging grape vines, though he could not identify either species.
Germany and Italy defend four power patrols citing failure of the patrol system in Spain. They argue belligerent status would give the warring sides full responsibility under international war rules. France and Britain resist, seeking to isolate Spain. non-intervention committee adjourns awaiting later talks.
Seventeen police officers earned Red Cross first aid certificates after completing an 18 hour course run by Frank Sizemore Jr in June. Names listed include L H Baker Sergt J E Batley L A Bergman N E Carroll P M Charping N L Billott J E Hall Sergt J C House Sergt J H Hubbard George Grissett Capt N C Johnson Sergt J W McMahon Sergt J C Pike H F Richardson Sergt W B Ridge J F Shields and W F Snider.
Several hundred members from both Carolinas are expected to attend the annual summer convention of the Carolinas branch of the Associated General Contractors in Myrtle Beach July 9 and 10.
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