14 Jun 1937
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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1937
Page
1
Thousands of coal miners join a walkout against two independent steel corporations amid labor tensions. The stoppage disrupts mining operations and signals a broad industrial labor push as unions mobilize for better wages and safety.
Low flying insurgent war planes from besieging forces raided central Bilbao as residents fled for shelter. Anti aircraft fire and air attacks strained the city’s wounded evacuation while Basque forces reported a counter attack near a mountain northeast of Bilbao and deep in the outer defenses near Santa Marina.
A hundred searchers fanned out around the Alice McDowell Parsons home near Stony Brook Long Island to uncover clues in the disappearance of the society matron heiress.
The state’s cotton products were valued at 233,737,776 in 1935 with a lead of about 56 million over South Carolina. The industry employed 93,964 workers and paid wages totaling 56,169,703, though 1935 output remained about 76 million below 1927.
The Associated Press reports the coal strike by United Mine Workers under John L. Lewis tightens across Pennsylvania and beyond. CIO leaders threaten to call out craft workers while steel firms face embargo threats. hundreds of mines, including captive plants, are affected as state troopers monitor the situation.
Governor Hoey named five members to a governor's committee on interstate cooperation authorized by the 1937 legislature. Attorney General A. A. F. Seawell was named chairman with R. G. D. Bidget Capus M. Waynick Timan London and J. Wey Dorsett as members. The governor also appointed Mrs. George B. Frahall as a Stonewall Jackson Training School trustee and L. H. Coley to the state board of boiler rules, while Ben L. Barndon was named a member of the Rowan county board.
Hendersonville sheriff deputies jailed Carl Dill 30 of ville 8 C after he reported the disappearance of Miss Bobbie Burns 25 of Greenville. He said the woman walked off from his car near a high bridge south of Hendersonville on the Henronville Spartanburg highway by peaches. Officers searched the vicinity to locate the young woman described cripple.
The Senate approved a nationwide study of unemployment and relief by a commission to be approved by the President. The action was nonvoted and followed recommendations to shift more of the $1.5 billion relief to local communities in the next fiscal year.
A new relief measure advances in the Senate with an appropriations committee recommendation to raise local contributions for Works Progress Administration projects. The bill would require governments after September 30 to cover 40 percent of costs, with the president empowered to set percentages if needed. An amendment by Senator Hayden would extend the PWA two more years and authorize 300 million dollars from the revolving fund for grants and loans.
Eva an three and a half ton elephant belonging to a circus died Sunday night in Detroit from eating a pair of shoes lost by a keeper who had removed his footwear for a nap. The circus sold the carcass to a Detroit reduction company.
James H R Cromwell and wife Doris Duke were detained for an hour and a half in Moscow for taking pictures near the Kremlin Walls. Films were confiscated and all non proscribed images to be returned. The couple planned to depart for Helsingfors from Leningrad with no intent to return to the Soviet Union.
Van A. Bittner of the Steel Workers Organizing Committee said steps are taken to cut coal supply to all struck steel plants with mine strikes possible if shipments continue. He warned 600,000 United Mine Workers may be affected by Saturday as coal operators are told any mine shipping to struck steel plants will be shut down.
W G Willoughby of Mansfield Mills testified to a federal labor relations board examiner in Lumberton that pamphlets about the Wagner Act were distributed to inform workers who feared the John L Lewis union would force them from the mill. He recalled only one pamphlet headed Facts About the Wagner Act. He described discharging one employee, Mrs Frank Sutton, over a plant rule issue involving a union leader. The Mansfield mill opened without incident and defense witnesses planned to finish shortly.
Oscar Pitts, acting director of the penal division, announced the death of Dorsey Hamilton, 19, a Tarboro-ward convict serving three years for assault with deadly weapon with intent to kill. Hamilton was shot while attempting to escape last week near Henderson county prison camp.
Mrs. Mary Jane Lowe, mother-in-law of Mayor W. A. Bunch, aged 82, fell in her room yesterday afternoon and broke her leg below the hip. She is hospitalized and resting as well as could be expected.
Cliff Bolton leaves today with Detroit on their eastern invasion after signing a contract Saturday. The High Point N C native joined the Tigers to bolster the catching staff amid Red Hayworth’s broken arm and George Tebbetts already on the roster. Bolton was acquired from Washington following an earlier Beaning incident at Yankee Stadium.
A deputy sheriff was killed and six others wounded during a gun battle at Owen's Chapel Church six miles from Moulton Alabama. Deputy Andrew Dutton, 45, died from five bullet wounds. Bert Retherford was critically wounded and charged in Dutton's slaying. Sheriff G C Byars cited the incident as stemming from Dutton's prohibition enforcement in Lawrence County.
President Roosevelt nominates Louis A. Johnson of West Virginia to be assistant secretary of war. Johnson, ex national commander of the American Legion, would fill the post left by Harry H. Woodring, who became secretary after George Dern's death. The President also sent Senate promotions including Captain Andrew C. Pickens to rear admiral.
Amelia Earhart departs Otumlo airport Massawa to Assab Eritrea at 7 30 a m en route to Aden aiming for a nonstop to Karachi if weather allows She arrives in Massawa from Khartoum after a 450 mile flight welcomed by aviation officials ahead of the Red Sea crossing toward India and a possible Karachi leg
Washington June 14. Representative Boren of Oklahoma urged a fixed five dollar hour day for oil workers as a solution to labor problems and to align chiselers. He said 70 percent of oil firms already follow it and without federal 36-hour week rules, competition may erode standards. John D Battle of the National Coal Association sought coal exemption, citing established bargaining and higher wages.
War debt installments totaling 1.5 billion dollars fall due tomorrow from 13 European countries, but only Finland with 163,143 dollars has announced prompt payment. All others have defaulted since 1933.
Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain told the Commons the time is not ripe to call a World Disarmament and Trade conference. He spoke in London on June 14 as AP reports.
Twenty eight persons were convicted and executed at Svo bedny in the Soviet Far East for wrecking the Amur railroad. They were charged as part of a Trotskyist Japanese spy and terror organization. The executions followed earlier trials that produced sixty six additional deaths. Separately, eight Red Army generals were shot for treason, underscoring the regime’s broad purge.
The senate judicial committee harshly denounces the Roosevelt court plan calling it a dangerous, centralized power grab that would undermine judiciary independence. The 10,000 word report cites seven hearings and urges rejection while noting delays in advancing any five new Supreme Court seats.
Paris June 14 Bank of France lifted the discount rate to 6 percent and increased other rates by 2 percent for the first time since January 28. Official moves aimed to curb gold outflow as France seeks 20 iron francs budget needs before year end. Premier Blum’s cabinet debated extraordinary measures to save finances and punish capitalist treason, with bills to be sent to parliament.
Four Bilbao government officials travel to Bayonne to meet Basque representatives in France. Sailors ferried them in a sun boat as Basques say they will press insurgents quarter by quarter house by house to keep Madrid in charge. Insurgents are reportedly miles away from Bilbao.
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