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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1932
Page
1
AP dispatch from Fargo reports North Dakota Democratic and Republican precinct returns incomplete but Roosevelt leads Murray 6 868 to 4 214 in Democratic race and France leads Coxey 4 089 to 2 536 in Republican race with 230 of 2 235 precincts counted.
The House leadership, after unanimous floor approval of the debate closure, scheduled a 8 to 10:30 p.m. night session to discuss a 24 percent levy on manufacturers sales. Labor opposition cited, with Crisp noting tradeoffs. Friday, committee work begins under five minute rule as section by section review proceeds next week.
Raleigh dispatch reports Solicitor Thomas A. MacNeill of Lumberton will not seek the Democratic nomination for North Carolina governor. His withdrawal leaves three declared would‑be rivals and leaves Ehringhaus, Fountain, and Maxwell as the remaining candidates after Ehringhaus spoke in Kinston last night.
Police investigated a teletype claim that the Lindbergh baby was at 136 Green Street Syracuse in Callie Folz’s house. No basis was found after searches and authorities were alerted to interview Otto Nelson in Brooklyn for information.
Early returns from North Dakota show Franklin D. Roosevelt leading William Murray by nearly two to one in the Democratic presidential preference with 5,283 to 2,762 from 178 precincts. J S France leads Republican rival Jacob Coxey in early returns, with Hoover receiving 18 votes though not a candidate.
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AP reports 508 of 2235 precincts counted in North Dakota Democratic presidential preference with Gov. Roosevelt leading at 14,893 votes to Murray with 142. Additional precinct results pending.
Sixteen men were rescued after a floating ice floe they were on broke away and drifted into Lake Erie. They had been on the ice since dawn and were saved today at Pinehurst New York area.
Federal Judge William E. Baker denied a writ of habeas corpus for Harry F. Powers the so called Blue Beard killer. He must die on the gallows at Moundsville West Virginia Friday at 9 a m for the murder of Mrs Dorothy Pressler Lemke of Northboro Massachusetts a divorcee.
Four men pled guilty to robbing the City National Bank in Clinton, Iowa of 106000. The loot was recovered. Clifford Edwards 22 Clinton Earl Jeffries 19 Lester Stanley 29 Guy Edward Morris 19 Louisville Kentucky were sentenced today to life imprisonment at Anamosa and will be moved there later.
Orpha De Busk an 18 year old Huntington Beach girl was kidnapped from a car by a young slender assailant who forced her escort Clarence Double from the vehicle and drove away with her. The pair were later found in the Baldwin Hills where she was freed and told to go home. Authorities say the kidnapper may be the same man who earlier held up five garages and stole a car in Fullerton.
New York leads with 23,850 workers placed in jobs as 8,045 more people exit unemployment, bringing the national total to 237,365. The United Action campaign aims to create a million jobs for the jobless.
BRYSON CITY March 16 Will Dills of Swain county was sentenced to two and a half to five years in state prison after being convicted of manslaughter in the death of Ray Dehart who died in an automobile wreck near Nanatahala September 19.
Geneva reports a secret Sino Japanese armistice proposal reached by the League of Nations nineteen committee. The plan calls for a pause in fighting, a peace conference, and troop withdrawals to Shanghai and Hong Kong under foreign supervision at the international settlement.
Dowell Hargraves, charged with kidnapping for extortion of 12-year-old James DeJute Jr., was sentenced to life imprisonment in Warren Ohio. Common Pleas Judge Lynn B. Griffith found him guilty without a jury after a bench trial, as Hargraves and co-defendant John Demarco were linked to the abduction from Niles and discovery of the boy in an abandoned gambling house near Youngstown.
W. D. Rives aged 41 an automobile accessory salesman was found dead in the cellar of his home in Rocky Mount today with the jets of a gas heater. Police pronounced the death a suicide.
Tokyo dispatch reports continued clashes between Chinese forces and the Manchurian state amid delays in Premier Inukai’s cabinet reshuffle. The war office dismissed rumors that a Japanese plane was downed on the Manchurian frontier while Home Minister resignations ripple through the government.
Greensboro reports two more of eleven escapees from the Stokesdale prison camp are in custody. Lonnie Holt, a black man, was seized after knocking at a cafe door. Sample Temple was arrested in the city. William Jackson had been captured the day before. The escape began when a guard was blinded by lye thrown by an inmate.
In Salisbury North Carolina a school bus caught fire while being fueled at Dukeville school. Sixteen pupils were burned cut or bruised four severely and transported to a local hospital. driver J B Cornelison also injured. The flames trapped riders except for smoke filled windows and door.
The Hare bill to provide Philippine independence will be submitted to the House next month. Sponsored by Representative Hare of South Carolina, the measure, approved by the Insular Committee, would grant freedom within eight years after a new government is established.
Betty Bronson, motion picture actress, and Ludwig Lauerhaus, Beverly Hills resident, were expected to marry in Santa Barbara this afternoon.
In New Windsor New York a family of six was killed by gas as they slept. Across the street a father and three sons were overcome and hospitalized in serious condition. Mrs Weygant opened windows and prevented further deaths. gas mains were laid last fall and a possible leak is suspected.
Oscar Seachrist, 38, admitted writing two letters to Col. Charles A. Lindbergh demanding a $50,000 ransom for the aviator's kidnapped son. He was committed to Bucks County jail without bail. Seachrist, employed at a Croydon mission, was arrested Monday and charged with attempted extortion.
Beverly Hills dispatch reports Will Rogers arguing that dry congressmen supported keeping prohibition off the ballot to avoid voter decisions. He says veterans resent not being allowed to vote on it, predicts drys may win a general election but risks four more years of delay, and notes the political maneuvering shifts power away from the people.
P S Rogers appears on the Paramount Screenplay Friday and Saturday in Business and Pleasure. The screenings highlight Rogers in a versatile role with the film drawing local cinema patrons.
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