Furniture Strike Nearing Settlement Amid Broad Labor Action
Settlements reached between High Point and Kearns furniture plants reduce items affected to one of the mills. The Tomlinson and Wrenn-Columbia plants resumed with wage increases and about 200 workers affected. Welch Furniture remains idle as IWA leader Bradley calls a meeting to discuss closing the strike with a proposed settlement. The broader textile and hosiery strike also shows no new developments while negotiations continue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
High Point Furniture Company
Kearns Furniture Company
Tomlinson
Wrenn-Columbia
Welch Furniture Company
D. ¥. Bradley
Industrial Workers Association
North Main Street
Bradley
Kearns
Tomlinson Praises Cooperation In Unloading Lumber
8 H Tomlinson president of the firm praised striking workers from his High Point plants and Industrial Workers Association leader PD W Bradley for unloading three cars of lumber during the strike. Workers had planned to picket but Bradley urged them to help, unloading all cars to save the company from damages. No payment was sought. Workers returned to tasks after a settlement granting a daily 30 cent bonus each.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tomlinson
High Point
H. Tomlinson
PD. W. Bradley
Industrial Workers Association
Bradley
Relief Workers Continue Projects Amid Parade Tense Standoff
About 200 striking workers from the High Point Unemployed League gathered at Blair Park to halt relief project work, but most crews remained on duty under a police guard as welfare officials promised wage review. The demonstration dispersed without further incidents, with other city relief sites operating as normal and Jamestown workers expected back tomorrow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Blair Park
High Point Unemployed League
Welfare Board
Jamestown
Services Here Tuesday For Mrs. Derrick in Bradenton
Funeral services for Mrs. P. M. Derrick were held Sunday and the body shipped to High Point North Carolina for interment. A 4 p.m. Tuesday service at St. Marys Episcopal Church will be officiated by Dr. Norwood Bowne. Surviving relatives include her husband son Elizabeth two sisters and two brothers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bradenton
Fla
P. M. Derrick
High Point
N. C
St. Mary’s Episcopal Church
Norwood Bowne
W. J. McAanally
J. P. Rawley
W. L. Tabb
C. J. Cummins
H. L. Ragan
H. A. Millis
R. B. Terry
George Hdwards
H. A. Cecil
Lester Teague
Peter Penn
Raymond Rike
H. J. Coffield
C. A. Ring, Sr
C. L. Amos
G. L. A Fred Lambert
Chester
Army Sunday School To Picnic At Lake
The Salvation Army Sunday school will hold a picnic and outing at the city lake Thursday. All members should assemble at the Salvation Army hall at 9 30 a m and bring basket lunches. Transportation will be provided by friends. They will stay until 2 or 3 p m and on return the swimming pool at the Army hall will be reserved for their use. All members are invited.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Salvation Army
City Lake
Hinson Guilty In High Point Municipal Court
M. Hinson convicted of larceny in High Point municipal court today with Judge Teague presiding and sentenced to 60 days on the roads. Other cases resolved include J J Ennis for speeding dismissed Jess Brockett for reckless driving fined costs and Walter Pinnis for driving with brakes found guilty and ordered to pay half costs. Additional cases remained on the docket not reached before adjournment.
Official Uniform Sales Tax Plan Is Adopted
Raleigh dispatch reports North Carolina adopts a single uniform three percent sales tax plan effective August 1. A J Maxwell, revenue commissioner, describes a one schedule system with tiered cents taxes for small purchases and a cumulative rule for multiple items. The July plan proved unsatisfactory due to class-based variances and stock diversity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Department of Revenue
Raleigh
North Carolina
A. J. Maxwell
Education themes in Seventh Day Adventist sermon
B H Shaw of Southern Junior College preached on Christian education at the Seventh Day Adventist church. He urged self control over self expression and argued true education restores the image of the Maker and develops body mind and soul while embracing open minded pursuit of better religious living. He warned against stagnation and urged ongoing exploration in faith.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
B. H. Shaw
Bible Department
Southern Junior College
Collegedale
Tenn
Seventh-Day Adventist Church
Iself
Ife
Pope Links Questioning Mind to Higher Faith at Weeley Memorial
Liston Pope urged that God answers only to minds that question and seek. He proposed the question mark as a symbol for the age of doubt, contrasting it with medieval periods as a period and the 18th and 19th centuries as an exclamation point. He spoke yesterday morning on doubt and faith.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jesus
Mr. Pope
Liston Pope
Weeley Memorial
President Roosevelt to speak on recovery program by radio
High Point citizens join national radio audience at 9 30 to hear President Roosevelt deliver an important message on his recovery program. The address seeks to spur adoption of a standard minimum hours and wage scale to return millions to work and boost purchasing power.
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High Point
Roosevelt
Consolidation of P O A Groups Ratified in Greensboro
A merger of district nine and the Davidson Randolph Counties association of the Patriotic Order Sons of America was formally ratified at Revolution Station Greensboro. R D Allman was elected to lead the merged body with N B Martin Fred Plummer D W McCullough G K Saunders among officers. Next meeting set for Lexington October 21.
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District Nine
Davidson-Randolph Counties Association
the Patriotic Order Sons of America
Revolution Station
Greensboro
Davidson-Randolph
Lexington
R. D. Allman
N. B. Martin
Fred Plummer
Asheboro
D. W. McCullough
G.K. Saunders
High Point
Harvey H. Koontz
J. T. Graham
Cleveland
Charles Hoover
Cooleemee
Heaviest metals list and density comparison note
The four heaviest metals are gold, osmium, platinum and tungsten. A hammered or rolled metal has greater density than a cast metal.
Cannon-ball speed blocks reach to distant star cluster
A cannon-ball at half a mile per second would need 80 billion years to reach the farthest star cluster. A single housefly surviving winter could yield six trillion descendants by the next Sept. 1.
Wiley Post Makes Secret Journey To Visit Mollisons
Wiley Post flew incognito to Bridgeport Connecticut to visit James and Amy Mollison after their crash en route from Europe. He spent time at the hospital and returned to New York by five this morning to avoid public fanfare. News of the trip leaked when he was spotted in White Plains and along the route.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Wiley Post
James
Amy Mollison
Bridgeport
Conn
Europe
Mollisons
White Plains
Opening of Midsummer Furniture Exposition Draws Large Crowd
More than 100 buyers registered by noon at the Southern Furniture Exposition Building for the midsummer market. Secretary treasurer Paul W Casey predicts one of the best first weeks in the market's history as resumed plant operations ease furniture strikes and exhibitors across 125 lines display attractive home furnishings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Southern Furniture Exposition
Paul W. Casey
Tomlinson
High, Point, Kearns
Wrern-Columbia
Mrs. Helen Blackwelder Dies After Opera tion
Mrs Helen Virginia Blackwelder age 26 wife of Dewey Blackwelder of 590 Steele Street died at a local hospital Sunday just before 11 AM from complications after a serious operation. She was born July 12 1907 in High Point daughter of Raymond and Maude Kemp and married July 21 1928. Survived by her husband one son Perry Edward her mother and step father Mr and Mrs T G Glascoe and one brother Thomas Alton Kemp. Funeral from the home Tuesday at 11 AM with Rev A L Falk and Mr Liston Pope officiating. Interment Oakwood Cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helen Virginia Blackwelder
Dewey Blackwelder
Steele Street
T. G. Glascoe
Thomas Alton Kemp
A. L. Falk
North Main Street Baptist Church
Liston Pope
Wesley Memorial Church
Oakwood Cemtery
Classifieds Seek Domestic Help At Local Exchange Today
An ad listing shows a young white couple without children seeking a home with the woman keeping house and the man tending the garden. A white man seeks yard work and gardening, a colored woman asks for mountain or family life, and others seek white housekeepers, general house workers, and a 16 or 18 year old girl to live in with a Sophia resident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sophia
Day-Old Infant Boy Laid To Final Rest
Funeral services for William Robert Ingram one day old son of Mr and Mrs M B Ingram of 804 Lindsay Street were held at 9 a m Sunday at home conducted by Mr Liston Pope associate pastor of Wesley Memorial church. Interment followed in Oakwood cemetery in Concord.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Robert Ingram
M. B. Ingram
Lindsay Street
Liston Pope
Wesley Memorial Church
Oakwood Cemetery
Concord
Clinton recovering from horse accident injuries
R. L. Clinton of Thomasville road is convalescing after being thrown from his horse two and a half weeks ago. He suffered a broken arm and other injuries, was treated at Burrus Memorial hospital, and is now able to be out again.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. L. Clinton
Thomasville Road
Mr. Clinton
Burrus Memorial Hospital
Young Signers of Independence and Goldfinch Feeding
The signers of the Declaration of Independence were mostly young men with John Hancock at 39. Goldfinches feed their young on weed seeds.
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John Hancock
Congress
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Welch
High Point Overall
E. H. Dunnigan
Department of Labor
Areo Farms
McGuinn Realty Oo
PA St
Max
N. Main &T
High Point Ice and Coal CO
Building & Loan
High Point Perpetual Building & Loan Also
W. Clanard
South Main
E, H. Blaas
Derrick
Army Sunday
Lake
City Shoe Shop
Commercial Bank
Fee Ee
Maxwell
Seventh-Day Adventists
Wesley Memorial
Japan
Lake Pontchartrain
Noxzema
Zectoonville
Norfolk
N. J
Philadelphia
Lisbo
Baltimore
Penners
Atlantic City
Southern Railway
Washington
Pullman
Southern Railway System
D. Saunders
H. D. Saunders
Sears
Ivan
Sears, Roebuck
High Point, M. C
M. L. Slate
M. D
Stanton Chime
Green St
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