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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 26, 1935
Page
1
Senate lobby panel questions Representative Patton over a spring bond purchase while his salary was 3100. Testimony details a box seen leaving a hotel room with Carpenter's son, and Patton claims nothing improper occurred.
Hoquiam Washington July 26 riot by 600 lumber sympathizers pelted a company of steel-helmeted guardsmen. Guardsmen dispersed with fixed bayonets after a barrage of rocks injuring one trooper. Four other wounded by earlier gunfire. arrests made in Montesano. Union lumber strike reaches Grays Harbor and Tacoma as guards maintain order.
Raleigh July 26 report that Jack Hooker a Forsyth County Black man sentenced to die by electric chair was commuted to life imprisonment by Governor Ehbringhaus on the eve of execution. Hooker convicted April 1934 for the murder of Sallie Anderson a Black woman.
Berlin July 26 report from official German Olympic committee shows no Jews among athletes chosen for Germany in 1936. Reichs sports department says hundreds trained. six Jews in Berlin preliminaries and twenty Jews nationwide. Ettlingen camp record withheld. Nazi officials claim all Jewish competitors eliminated. Governor Koch dissolves Steel Helmet under 1933 law, expanding Nazi cleansing of antisemitism, political Catholicism, and veterans groups.
The Senate overwhelmingly rejected Senator Nye’s government owned central bank substitute to the banking bill. It would have created a Bank of the United States of America with money issuance powers and value regulation as an agency of Congress. The vote marked a second victory for backers of the compromise bank bill amid brief debate.
Forrest City Arkansas July 26 Senator Joe Taylor Robinson spoke at a Young Democrats gathering denouncing New Deal opponents as a conspiracy to discredit the Roosevelt administration. He named Fletcher Hastings Huey Long and Jowett Shouse as leaders of a group with unlimited campaign funds. He warned they would abandon relief and allow farm prices to crash, foreclosures rise, homes be lost and monopolists run unchecked while the Republican Party splinters.
In Wilmington Judge J Paul Frizzelle considers a plea to modify a restraining order on liquor sales. He planned to announce his decision at 5 30 this afternoon after hearings on the case. The county voted wet in a referendum, with 15 other North Carolina counties also voting for liquor stores.
Peace held in Belfast as July 26 celebrations by Protestant Orangemen ended. Police say security measures stay tight to prevent any flare ups from the Boyne anniversary unrest. In Seabright New Jersey Gregory Mangin defeats Frankie Parker in five sets to reach the final rounds. Wilmer Hines ousts Berkeley Bell in five sets at the Sea Dog lawn tennis and cricket club tournament.
A county liquor noon today marks another opening in Halifax county bringing total stores in the county to five. Previously existing outlets were in Edgefield Scotland Neck and two in Roanoke Rapids.
Duane Howard, 28, a flying instructor, and Miss Virginia Thomas, 16, of Berwyn, Pa., died when their monoplane fell in a tailspin at Curtiss Reynolds in suburban Glenview, Chicago.
Three experts from Canadian Industries Ltd were killed when a test explosion on former plant grounds caused a massive crater and debris collapse. Willis Leighton of Halifax escaped. the victims were Joseph Cole of Rigaud Quebec, Harold M Roscoe of Halifax, and William Pitcher of Halifax.
Two armed men robbed Union Bank and Trust in Amelia Virginia shortly after opening this morning taking more than 1000 dollars. They fled in a Chevrolet sedan with two sets of license plates and headed toward Petersburg. One suspect was heavy with a mustache. the other medium built. This marked the second Virginia bank robbery in eight days following a July 18 Burkeville Bank of Crewe heist.
Senate lobby investigators heard Rep. Patton testify he bought 3000 dollars in bonds this spring while drawing a salary. EB V Cellers, an NRA employee, said Patton's nephew warned the box carried from John W. Carpenter’s hotel room likely contained cigars.
Geneva July 26 the League of Nations summons its members to an extraordinary council session to consider the Italy Ethiopia dispute and choose whether to meet July 31 or Aug 1 Ethiopian and Italian notes indicate opposition to reviving the conciliation commission and new mediation efforts are discussed by the League authorities.
Anahuac Texas awakens as eight new oil wells at the town’s edge surge production to about 700 barrels daily per well. The prospect boosts value for land at six dollars an acre and spurs talk of a courthouse school and roads. County judge Guy C. Jackson leads efforts to finance civic improvements as oil wealth reshapes the community.
Rome reports Italy plans to pursue an occupation of Ethiopia amid strong Fascist demonstrations in the capital. Premier Mussolini leads crowds shouting support for a fast African program while Britain, Japan, and Ethiopia face rising tensions over the Italo-Ethiopian dispute.
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