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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1937
Page
2
Partly cloudy tonight and Thursday with showers in the east. Cooler in the north central area tonight, warmer in the west. South Carolina experiences partly cloudy conditions with thundery showers possible near the coast.
In Canton and Youngstown areas after a strike pause 82 furnaces operate and 47 open hearth units shift to pre strike rhythm. Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co with 14500 workers returns to three shifts following Republic Steel and eight hour week restored. Canton blocks lose phone service as lines were damaged. guards report control after worker movement.
A jury found the power firm liable in a case involving the robbery of 700 dollars worth of dental gold from Anderson Dental. Dr. Flowers, formerly with R J Reynolds Tobacco, received a seven to ten year prison term. Co defendant Leroy Blackman pleaded guilty in superior court as reargument was ordered in two undecided cases from Cleveland and Forsyth counties. The court adjourned its spring term with six decisions: Blackwell vs Bottling, Peace vs Price, Johnston County Electric Membership Corp. et al, Smith vs Sink, Manufacturing Co. vs Call, and State vs Flowers.
Guilford county commissioners in special session approved monthly raises from $5 to $25 for about two thirds of county employees while leaving one third unchanged. Notable raises included $25 for T. R. Short and $10 for sheriff's deputies in the High Point branch and six more deputies in Greensboro. The board will reconvene to finalize the budget ahead of the new fiscal year as bond refunds and social security costs loom.
The lempira serves as Honduras's monetary unit and derives its name from an Indian chief.
James Town city lake pool will be drained this afternoon for cleaning and refilling tomorrow. Parks commissioner W F Bailey announced the routine annual maintenance, chosen due to predicted bad weather, with the pool reopening Friday morning.
Westchester Pa court examiner questioned Andrew Lasak of Coatesville, seeking citizenship, about past arrests. He admitted speeding in 1917 in a horse and buggy and paying a 280 fine. The court accepted his application.
Macon Georgia report tells of Fred Rawlings who believes his right leg is cursed after a decade of crashes and injuries. He sustained a broken leg in a wreck near Jacksonville Florida following prior fractures and stair injuries, all linked to recurring accidents.
Oakland police report describes burglars fleeing after a woman phoned about a roast left in the oven and a vicious dog. The intruders allegedly scratched the dog’s neck to calm it then climbed a fence, entered a window, and fled after turning off the oven and discarding the roast. The attackers allegedly fed the dog water to distract it during the escape.
In Phoenix a domestic disturbance call led to police noting a husband and wife quarrel over who will obtain a divorce. Officer W R Robertson and Claude Burk filed the report describing the quarrel as tense and unresolved.
Albany Ga June 30 Thad Huckabee manager of the watermelon control committee announced Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace has prohibited shipping green and unclassified melons from the southeastern states The order bars shipments from North Carolina South Carolina Georgia and Florida of melons that do not meet U S Number 1 or U S Number 2 specifications between 6 A M July 1 and 12 61 A M July 15 1937
A congressional committee urged restructuring to give the president full financial responsibility and to allow lump sum appropriations. It called for reorganizing the budget bureau with the treasury and limiting the treasury department for efficiency, while noting conflicts between the comptroller general and others. An adjacent city ordinance amended electric water heating rates in High Point with a 115 volt service and tiered kwh charges plus a $1 minimum monthly charge.
Cherra Punji in Assam boasts an average annual rainfall of 428 inches. In June 1876 an extraordinary 40 inches fell in a 24 hour period, marking a record burst of precipitation in a single day.
The bladder wort displays a peculiar ability to float or sink at will and belongs to a strange tribe of plants that trap insects.
E B Plummer has joined the Wachovia Bank building shop as manager. A well known city figure, he has many years in barbering and was recently connected with the Star Barber Shop, announced today.
An immediate trial was deemed necessary for Samuel Leibowitz to appear in Alabama next week for the Scottsboro case defendants. A report claimed police could not identify any of the fingerprints found in the apartment where Ronnie Gedeon, her mother Mary Gedeon, and roomer Frank Byrnes were slain on Easter Sunday. Police officials declined to comment.
Washington June 29 Jesse H Jones announced the export import bank arranged a 1 500 000 loan to the Chinese government railroad to purchase 20 American locomotives.
Mrs. A. M. Redd of Birmingham Alabama, former president of the National Pan Hellenic Congress, told the National Beta Phi Alpha convention here that the fraternity system in American colleges faces widespread criticism. She urged active adherence to fraternity principles to counteract the criticism and said fraternities should be viewed as opportunities, not problems.
Barcelona dispatch reports insurgent aircraft bombed the village of Sarria Del Ter in the Gerone district, killing residents and injuring others as authorities assess the strike.
In Burga w Ohio three kinsmen Pete Brochmalny Wassla Pete Paul and Ervin liams face a preliminary hearing on the alleged cremation killing of Paul Brochmalny a Toledo laborer The state seeks to prove they killed the cripple and burned the body to obtain 1160 in money orders he sent while in Toledo The defendants deny the man merely disappeared and say he vanished rather than died.
A report notes that current global indium supply is critically limited with less than a pound remaining in world markets. The piece discusses implications for manufacturing and potential price moves.
Five people are reported dead after a plane vanished into the sea during a government interception by bombers. The incident followed appearance of military aircraft and subsequent destruction of several cottages in the area.
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