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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 14, 1939
Page
2
Fair warm trend with increasing clouds in the east and central areas. Winds shift from northeast to southeast along the coast. Rain chances rise by Wednesday night over southern zones. Temperatures range from the mid 40s to the low 80s across listed cotton regions, with observed readings from 40s to 80s.
The Piedmont German Club presents its first spring quarter dance Friday at Emerywood Country Club with Earl Mellen providing tunes. Attendance is urged as Easter plans for an April 5 dance are in progress, announced by club president James E. Foscue.
The local government commission sold 104000 dollars in bonds and a 10000 bond anticipation note for sub divisions. A 55000 Columbus County Hospital issue went to Provident Savings Bank and Trust Company and Weil Roth and Irving Co. at par with 38,000 maturities at 3 4 percent and the rest at 31 4 percent. A 35000 Lincolnton improvement issue sold to Equitable Securities Corp and Vance Young and Hardin at a premium of 112.60 with 3 percent interest. The Bank of North Wilkesboro bought 14000 North Wilkesboro town hall bonds with 7500 maturities at 2 1 4 percent and the rest 2 3 4 percent. The Citizens Bank of Conover took 10000 Conover bond anticipation note at a premium of 1 with 4 percent interest.
Indianapolis March 14 ex mayor Olin R Holt of Kokomo and nine men are to be arraigned March 24 on charges they conspired to defraud the United States government by using Works Progress Administration crews in private enterprises. A grand jury indicted them last week and they were arrested yesterday freed on $5 000 bond each. An 11th defendant has not yet been taken into custody.
Denver March 14. William J Foster to serve one year in a federal prison farm after hiring a substitute to work on WPA at $1.50 a day. Judge J F Symes said he would not tolerate waste of taxpayers money and protected the program against chiselers.
Raleigh announcement says young black walnut seedlings will be sent to any North Carolina school for Arbor Day observance. Carrying charges are prepaid and the price is 1.25 dollars per 100 trees.
In Chateauroux France five more bodies were found in wreckage raising confirmed deaths to 18 after a freak train wreck caused when a cow jumped from a cattle car into the express path. The freight train was shifting cars to clear passage when struck by the Paris-Toulouse train. Two cars derailed and were struck by the express. The engine baggage and mail cars and two passenger coaches piled up.
Charlotte March 14 Lee A Patterson 55 died last night of a heart attack suffered while watching a wrestling match Survivors include two daughters Mrs W H Eubanks of Rockingham and Mrs Edward Chapman of Charlottesville Va and two sisters Mrs Anna Smith of Anderson S C and Mrs R D Harvey of Seneca S C
Winston Salem report says L C Dula was ordered to stand trial today on a charge of murdering his wife who was shot at the breakfast table at the Dula home months ago. He also faces a charge for shooting his son Richard after a sanity ruling found him sane.
RALEIGH March 14 With separate bills for teachers and state workers pending, Jule Warren of the NC Educational Association says teachers welcome including all state employees in a single plan but oppose seventy year retirement. Committees have worked six years with actuarial data. teachers seek immediate full benefits while state workers prefer federal act based reform with no current cost. The teachers hold their Raleigh convention Thursday and Friday and may act to push the program, seeking actment restoration increments and twelfth grade.
Wallace March 14. Paul Leonard secretary of the Fair Tax Association said a sales tax referendum would defeat the levy. He urged the legislature to let the people decide and warned of a voteout with large margins like Oregon and Maine. Leonard spoke at a Lions Club meeting.
Argentina plans an unofficial but reliable deal with Germany to trade 100000 tons of wheat for German railway equipment. The arrangement, valued around 175000 dollars at current wheat prices, is reported from Buenos Aires.
M Eugene Allsbrooks estimated the March 13 fire at his Leggetts store caused a $5,000 loss. The blaze, whose cause is unknown, was confined to the single building with fire departments from Rocky Mount and Tarboro assisting.
The legislature moved to fund park commissions and development projects in Cape Hatteras and Cape Fear Fort Fisher areas with appropriations of 20000 and 5000. It also approved adding teaching certificates at Fayetteville State College and expanded highway patrol duties, while rejecting a 10 percent tax on certain medicines and tangibles taxes for savings. The revenue bill aims at a 154316000 biennial program, with the house adding about 500000 to the final appropriations.
The article details Germany led dismemberment after Munich, the declaration of Slovak independence under Dr. Jozef Tiso with Hitler's backing, and Czech cabinet resignations. It notes Hungarian advances into Carpatho-Ukraine and impending German moves toward Bohemia Moravia, with population and area losses across the former republic.
Lawmakers clash over a compromised appropriations plan with several representatives condemning it as scrapped work of the committee. Governor Hoey endorses the compromise as debates continue on funding for the industrial farm colony at Kinston and adult education. The Senate approves tax exemptions for banks and junk dealers while the House advances an election reform bill regulating markers in primaries.
Thirteen factors color John Barwick Jr. case at Guilford county jail as he awaits trial for drunken driving trespassing and whiskey possession. Barwick cites 13 letters in his name and 13 days in jail along with 13 cases due for trial and a lunch served to the 13th man while noting 18 letter warrants and a South Carolina origin.
Marion Hendricks 51 of Bostic died in a hospital after a pickup struck him on a highway near Bostic. His widow and four siblings survive him.
The President argues against reopening Congress to motions and defends the six year policy to prevent starvation of the unemployed. He cites about 3,000,000 on WPA rolls, 850,000 on waiting lists, and potential cuts that could affect up to 4,000,000 people, with most funds going to wages and only 3.5 dollars per hundred to overhead.
Raleigh March 14. County school superintendents asked a joint legislative committee drafting a school machinery act for a four year tenure in office. They argued current pay discrimination favors city superintendents and urged alignment by workload units.
Raymond C. Harris, sentenced to 15 to 20 years for involuntary manslaughter in Edgecombe County in April 1936, has been paroled, Paroles Commissioner Edwin Gill said today.
Burlington and Alamance county officers resumed full patrols after a period of illness kept Police Chief Hallie Moore Sheriff W V Cope and Deputy Tim Simmons from duty until yesterday.
Claim that Siegfried Markus, a German, built a crude gasoline motor car in 1875 that actually ran, reflecting early invention debates in automotive history.
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