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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 21, 1937
Page
1
Amelia Earhart and two companions survived a takeoff crash in Hawaii as her $80,000 plane rolled at 50 mph. A tire blew, the undercarriage buckled, and a wing was slashed, but Earhart cut switches and escaped unharmed, recounting a tense, near-miss in the cockpit.
In Buffalo a models guild of 50 debuts and business girls meets weekly to study posture for shorter fashions. Irene McIndoo says proper technique is needed to sit and cross legs so ankles look graceful while skirts stay four to six inches shorter and ground clearance remains modest.
Vienna March 20. Edward Duke of Windsor prepares to travel southward from Enzesfeld castle in the next few days. Assistant Director of Police Ludwig Weiser disclosed tonight that police are arranging an extended absence by the former king who left the throne last year for Mrs Wallis Warfield Simpson.
HESTER 8 C March 20 Sheriff William H Peden reports William Ainsley Darby Sr a 70 year old farmer shot and killed his wife at their home near here and then shot himself in a suicide attempt. Darby with a bullet in his temple was in critical condition at a Chester hospital. The slain woman was Darby s second wife. his first wife died about six years ago.
Two witnesses told a military court they warned of explosion hazards in the London Consolidated school heating system before the demolishing blast killed 455 students and teachers. A heating equipment salesman said he warned officials not to install a new gas regulator for the main building.
A tornado devastated four houses in Gaffney and damaged many more in Chambers Knob and western city areas. Seven people were injured including T. R. Teague and his wife and child. Mattie Dawkins was in critical condition.
News from Memphis reports James J. Martin of Bartlett injured in a car crash and using cigarettes to cope with pain after being freed from wreckage. Birmingham describes the Deep South approaching predepression production peaks with census data showing high cotton use in early 1937, expansion in steel, lumber, paper, tobacco, and textiles, wage increases for about 25,000 steel workers, and strong export demand from Gulf ports.
Berlin reports Helmuth Hirsch described as a Jew without citizenship has been sentenced to death for treasonable activities linked to the explosives law.
The Sunday Referee says Scotland Yard investigates a suspected plot against King George after a raid on a London suburb room uncovered a throwing knife wrapped with a coronation route map. Officials question an unnamed man as detectives recover the knife and over 100 clipping details about the May 12 procession.
Drexel Furniture boosts payroll by giving 300 employees a uniform five dollar bonus today. The move follows a March 20 distribution and applies to all staff at the Pittsburgh area plant.
Diplomats report that German Ambassador Hans Luther will be replaced and recalled to Berlin likely due to diplomatic frictions after Fiorello La Guardia anti Nazi speeches. Hans Heinrich Dieckhoff is named as favored successor. Luther is 68 and may retire.
In Greenville South Carolina a one year old boy died in a hotel room after his mother Mrs Chariton Shell who recently lost her husband allegedly drowned the child and attempted suicide Coroner George W McCoy said the baby was dead when help arrived and Mrs Shell was revived and later reported in good condition in hospital
Greensboro March 20 This district reports total federal income tax collections of 7 290 634 14 for March 1 to 20, announced by Internal Revenue collector Charles H Robertson. The figure marks a 2 785 952 40 increase over the same period last year and is a 60 percent gain, the largest first 20 days total since the World War era.
North Carolina General Assembly endorsed President Roosevelt’s Supreme Court Reorganization plan. The senate approved a house backed resolution urging the state’s congressional delegation to support the judiciary program. The body also set final adjournment for noon Tuesday and rejected five of six Ickes measures on urban renewal and public works.
Paris police seized Madeline La Ferriere diary detailing a liaison with a great Italian statesman and confiscated two revolvers from her apartment as they probe the shooting of Count Charles De Chambrun. Officers removed photographs of Premier Mussolini and a box indexing her correspondence while two hours of searching unfolded.
Frederick H. Stinchfield president of the American Bar Association appointed a five member committee to watch the association in Washington during the Roosevelt plan to reform the federal courts. Sylvester C. Smith Jr. of Phillipsburg New Jersey is chairman with C R Wharton of Greensboro North Carolina James D Carpenter Jr of Jersey City New Jersey Robert F McGuire of Portland Oregon and Alexander W Smith Jr of Atlanta Georgia also named.
The United States fifth circuit court of appeals ruled the Social Security Act taxing provisions constitutional in a unanimous three judge decision. The ruling comes as Birmingham's Charles Stewart Machine Co. paid $46.14 in 1936 under Title IX and then sued Harwell G. Davis, I R collector for Alabama, seeking a refund arguing the tax was wrongly assessed and the act void.
Detroit dispatch reports the United Automobile Workers threaten a general strike of auto plants if police action against sit down strikers is not halted. Homer Martin condemns evictions at Newton Packing and Bernard Schwartz Cigar Co. riot injures six. 75 women ejected. Martin says every major auto plant could close Monday.
Senator Ferdinand Pecora told the Senate Judiciary Committee that the Roosevelt court revamping bill is needed to prevent dictatorship. The New York Supreme Court justice recalled his cross examination of J. P. Morgan and joined a broader debate with Burke and Brant over the court plan.
Paris March 20 Col Francois de la Rocque rightist leader denounces persecution amid reports authorities will summon him to court on charges reviving the Croix de Feu tie to his French social party. A magistrate and informant weigh a likely summons early next week and possible four year term.
Madrid reports say a cable allegedly from Benito Mussolini urged Italian legionnaires with the Spanish insurgents. Government officers captured the message among insurgent papers at Brihuega on the Guadalajara front. Rome dismissed it as a fake and a poor trick to sway neutral nations.
In Beziers France police arrested a German aviator after he landed on a country road and spoke with occupants of a waiting car. Farmers alerted the gendarmes but the automobile fled. The pilot was seized before restarting his plane, and a nationwide alert for the car remained active.
John Dutton and Claude Uffey, both 29 and 28, residents of Chester South Carolina, are jailed in Haywood County on charges of kidnapping James Laton of Albemarle North Carolina. They were arrested by the sheriff's department and given a preliminary hearing with U S Commissioner W T Shelton who ordered $2,000 bond each.
Dust from the west obscured sun across Kentucky. In Louisville dust mixed with light rain to coat spring clothing and windows as showers weakened. Paddock and Frankfort saw dust clouds like fog over the Kentucky river valley while Owensburg reported a strong dust storm.
In Raleigh Congressman Robert L. Doughton plans a week long tour of the state to gauge sentiment for a 1938 Democratic Senate bid against incumbent Robert R. Reynolds. He would relinquish his Ways and Means chairmanship and depart from the House if he runs, with sessions in Raleigh and ongoing consultations shaping his decision.
French children raised 190 francs about 8.74 dollars for victims of a school explosion and presented the money to the American consul during an Easter street fair in New London.
Henry Ford said reports he planned to shut down one or three plants in a strike were untrue. In an authorized interview at his winter home in Waycross Georgia he stated he would keep operations going to the last man and cited the source of the rumors.
Police hunt for the killer of 18 year old Laura Kruse a beauty culture student found murdered behind a vacant house near her residence in Minneapolis. Detectives scoured muddy earth for clues noting a corduroy cloth imprint and a fragment of a license number as leads.
President Roosevelt, in Warm Springs, considered Manuel Quezon’s call for faster Philippine independence. He also met Alabama Governor Bibb Graves who backs Roosevelt’s supreme court plan. Paul V. McNutt, newly named high commissioner to the Philippines, discussed the issue at Pine Mountain. Roosevelt’s reaction to advancing independence to 1938 or 1939 was not disclosed.
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