19 Jun 1934
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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1934
Page
1
The article reports Manhattan’s 1985 football schedule with games at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn. It notes an October 15 meeting between Southern teams New York and North Carolina and a November Louisiana game.
Representatives of the steel workers union present a four point plan to President Roosevelt to avert a steel industry strike. The plan seeks an impartial three member board to mediate disputes and to order plant level elections to determine employee representation. President Roosevelt and NRA head Hugh Johnson voiced optimism about industry acceptance and similarity to a prior industry plan.
The Raleigh Times reports a parole racket swindling prisoners at the state penitentiary. Lawyers and others allegedly took money promising executive clemency, using letters from judges and solicitors to gain influence. Governor Ehringhaus has begun an inquiry as cases like Bennie Boswell unfold and others await resolution.
Representative Burch argues the Kerr compulsory price support and production curtailment measure will raise farm prices while limiting aid to those undervoluntary adjustment contracts. The Senate added a 2000 pound minimum exemption and a 6 percent production increase cap for counties and offset allocations for long-ago planted acres. The bill, now on President Roosevelt's desk, marks a second compulsory crop program following the Bankhead cotton measure.
A Beaufort County effort in North Carolina reports full employment with state harvests providing work for able bodied residents. A. Hackney, in charge of county re employment, says some laborers remain listed but would be placed if they want work.
Weather forecast shows moderate northwest winds from Sandy Hook to Hatteras, strongest in the south with diminishing winds northward. Tonight generally fair with a shift to lighter winds. Wednesday brings similar moderate northwest winds along with fair conditions extending to Jacksonville.
James Guy Steed 63 state NRA compliance director and state director of the national emergency council based in Greensboro died Tuesday at Wesley Long hospital from heart trouble. A native of Asheboro he lived in Mount Gilead and had worked with Virginia Carolina Fertilizer Eastern Cotton Oil and Coral Gables. Burial will be in Mount Gilead Wednesday at 10 30 AM.
Berlin reports indicate tensions between President von Hindenburg and Chancellor Hitler over Nazi policies following a government blast. Observers link conservative discontent from Nadolny’s Russia ambassador resignation to Von Papen’s Potsdam speech and fear of a Franco-Russian alliance.
Vienna reports police probe into the disappearance of Agnes Tufverson, an American lawyer. Documents from Mme Zhivka tie Poderjay to past marriages and a $10,000 theft, while a trunk containing parts of a corpse abroad spawns no clear link to the missing woman.
Scotland Yard probes a bizarre case after a woman's legs were found in a London suitcase and a dismembered torso discovered in a Brighton trunk. Four letters Ford on wrapping paper guide investigators while pathologists examine ownership and link potential clues amid public sensationalism.
Hollywood columnist Will Rogers complains that murder news is endless and unreadable. He suggests labeling cases by numbers 211 onward to show brief class distinctions such as A for wife kills husband and B for husband kills wife, with C for other killings. He signs as Will Rogers.
Seven members of the motor vehicle storage and parking code authority resigned in Atlanta charging the Recovery Administration with insincerity and vacillation. Walter T. Candler announced the resignations in protest against NRA orders eliminating price fixing elements, arguing the code would lose its wage and hour safeguards and that the government fails to honor its bargain. The signers include Candler, Whitman, Peabody, Janne, Rubin, Schaaf, and Willis W. Smith.
Harold Pie Traynor veteran third baseman of the Pittsburgh Pirates was appointed manager of the club today. He succeeds George Gibeor, who piloted the team for three years.
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