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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 04, 1937
Page
2
British Foreign Secretary Eden outlines a firm position against dropping the non intervention patrol in Spain and granting belligerent rights. He stresses safeguarding Spain's territorial integrity and maintaining a firm stance despite domestic divisions and international pressure.
A months long dispute over WPA dismissals led 6000 marchers, mostly women, to the mayor's office calling for a conference of mayors to oppose WPA cuts. The protests included sit downs at project headquarters and clashes with police resulting in over 100 arrests and widespread hysteria at a sewing project office.
About twelve thousand WPA workers plan a protest next Tuesday called by the city projects council. Disorders followed the dismissal order, as several hundred demonstrators freed Harold Stein, the administrator of the federal writ.
Secretary Perkins declares labor sit-down strikes are being abandoned as dangerous and disordered, notes they have declined except briefly, and defends organized labor while urging peaceable resolutions during disputes. She asserts wage earners are not revolutionary and do not seek to upend civil government or private property.
A delicacy made of bat meat is greatly enjoyed by Poly nesian islanders. Fifteen months are required to season the wood contained in ordinary safety matches.
Japanese artillery sank a Russian gunboat and forced another to flee as Moscow pledged no warcraft in the disputed reach of the Amur. Some leaders demand firm guarantees to prevent a repeat clash while most Japanesepremier Konoye signals a crisis end by taking a weekend retreat.
Rescue teams chased the missing twin motor plane of Earhart and Noonan as weather hampered search efforts near Howland Island. Amid reports from amateur radio operators, officials doubted any signals proved survival while conditions and sun glare threatened rescue chances.
Bruce Catton reflects on how Americans once opposed George III’s tyranny yet now celebrate George VI with national pride. He argues that the decline of the absolute boss figure since 1776 underpins the value of Independence Day and the shift toward liberty worldwide.
Amateur wireless operators report signals from a missing plane guiding searchers to an atoll in the south Pacific. Messages at 1 45 a m and later times raise hope while Itasca bases and radio broadcasts from Oakland attempt to locate Earhart and Noonan as the 32 570 mile flight continues to unfold.
In a 38 day steel labor stand off, 23 200 workers idle while back to work groups plan four mass meetings in Warren Johnstown Youngstown and Canton to rally support for the strike. Philip Murray is to address 40 000 miners at Faiths Grove amphitheater near Johnstown amid reported recruiting of strike breakers by agencies from Philadelphia Pittsburgh and southern Ohio and West Virginia.
High Point police reopen case after John Gifford alias Frank Travers alias Eddie Welch, 22, linked to multiple cities and checks. San Francisco police confirm an April 1935 forged $100 account and describe a prior suicide attempt in Los Angeles. Gifford was jailed here June 18 after claiming four murders, later released when South Dakota dropped the case. He then moved to New York to work for a magic apparatus firm and plans a book revealing gambling tricks.
The investigation targets the shipment of strike breakers under the Byrnes act with officials turning over information to government agencies. Bethlehem officials declined comment as another probe links to the C I O dispute with independent steel producers Bethlehem Republic Inland Steel and Youngstown Sheet and Tube in Chicago.
The article notes that Chinese planners built Shanghai’s streets with deliberate curves to deter devils that supposedly travel in straight lines, reflecting a belief in protective urban design.
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