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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 12, 1934
Page
1
Tokyo reports the Tomozuru torpedo boat wrecked in heavy seas with about 120 crewmen presumed lost. The vessel, completed Feb 26, carried heavy armament for its size and capsizing is suspected off Sasebo base during maneuvers. Rescue efforts underway. exact toll unconfirmed.
Greensboro March 12 Chief bank examiner Corpening denied testimony by defense witnesses that he ordered the Commercial National Bank of High Point to stay open. In the million dollar suit against bank directors he faced cross examination as the plaintiff offered more exhibits before calling Corpening as a witness.
Fourteen Japanese soldiers including two officers were killed in a fierce Manchukuo battle with 500 bandits. An oral communique noted the regimental flag was red.
Three desperate inmates at San Quentin Prison hijacked an escape using homemade firearms and prompted a large security response before they were recaptured or led away by guards.
A sharp quake struck Salt Lake City shortly after 8:00 a m. today causing buildings to sway and clocks to stop in several places. The Salt Lake Tribune office and the Associated Press bureau were affected but no damage was reported immediately.
On the Havana waterfront strikers clashed with strikebreakers, killing one and wounding nine. The violence marks the first serious incident since the dockworkers’ strike began, with soldiers having previously protected strikebreakers and reforms.
North Carolina fair tonight and Tuesday with rising temperatures. South Carolina fair tonight with slowly rising temperatures and frost from coast to interior.
Assistant Relief Administrator Colonel Lawrence Westbrook urged 12 Southern states to pursue permanent rural rehabilitation to cut relief burdens. He cited 75 percent of rural Southerners in farming communities and said 86 to 90 percent on relief are sharecroppers often not furnished by landlords. He pressed self sustenance with wage opportunities to end dependence on relief.
Robert H. Wiles, 49, confessed sole guilt in the kidnaping and beating death of Hubbard H. Harris Jr., a Columbia schoolboy. He was executed by electric chair at the state penitentiary at dawn, after stating he was ready to die, and died with a hymn on his lips. Witnesses included the boy’s 21-year-old cousin, Co. T. Harris of Atlanta.
Four machine gun bandits robbed the Exchange National and Exchange State banks in Atchison Kansas, taking about $21 000 and wounding Police Chief Willard Linville who was shot as hostages were freed. In Huntland Tennessee the First National Bank was robbed of about $4 000 with cashier C B Gatis forced into a vault.
From London and New York reports confirm Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks Sr near reuniting after months of estrangement. The pair reportedly spoke by transatlantic phone and plan to return to Hollywood to continue film work, with conditions unsettled and timing dependent on contracts and travel.
The Enterprise presents O. O. McIntyre's first column on New York Day By Day. McIntyre is described as the most widely read daily newspaper writer with an estimated fifteen million readers, supported by 20 million total newspaper readers and daily followings.
Heber H. McCoy aged 58 and a local business figure died in Kinston Saturday following an attack of appendicitis. He had connections with several local enterprises and was well known in the business community.
The 1964 case details two years seven months after conviction for banking law violations as Thomas H. Shipman and three Transylvania officials report to the state prison. They receive uniforms and numbers: Shipman 29260, Pickelsimer 29259, McNeely 29268, Fisher 29257. Warden Honeycutt announced the process.
The army grounds all airmail flights three weeks after taking over the service. Major General Foulois orders suspension until personnel and equipment are ready, aiming for a fair weather schedule by midweek. The move comes after President Roosevelt’s demand that mailing deaths stop and amid opposition over military pilots’ mail routes and weather issues. Postal officials rush to reroute mail by train as 18 routes shrink to about a dozen backbone service remains. The White House rebuke sparks congressional discussion while an emergency bill for temporary army operation may reach a Senate vote tonight.
Washington March 12 The Senate and House debated and voted on the veterans bonus payment of 2.2 billion dollars with a two hour divided debate. The measure passed 313 to 104 to meet promised veto override and move toward paying veterans in United States notes amid air mail policy disputes and St Lawrence treaty talks.
Special to the Enterprise notes public praise for the air mail plan and defends army critics while highlighting pilots as the best in the world. It quotes a Winston S. Churchill style exchange and recalls Eddie Rickenbacker’s wartime service without implying he delivered letters.
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