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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1938
Page
1
The Senate approves the government reorganization bill granting President Roosevelt power to reorganize executive departments. In a separate vote, a motion to prolong consideration is defeated, signaling momentum for the administration's plan.
Washington March 28 The senate finance committee considered a proposal to tax aged and costly liquor more heavily than cheaper brands. A graduated levy would replace the house approved 82.25 a gallon tax, regardless of age or quality.
Members from both parties urged the House Rules Committee to approve a congressional investigation into the large power utility. Representative Maverick of Texas, a TVA ally, cautioned the inquiry could become a purge trial if biased.
President Roosevelt transmitted Hungarys settlement offer on its postwar relief debt to the United States for most careful consideration. Hungary proposed to pay 100 cents on the dollar but asked relief from any interest payments.
Eleven of 38 convicts who blasted their way from a brushy mountain prison coal mine remain at large. Officers recovered 12 sticks of dynamite from two of the four prisoners captured this morning, while 27 surrendered without resistance.
Durham March 28 UP Prof Louis William Stern philosopher psychologist who coined the I Q intelligence quotient died at his home in Durham He was 67 and a Duke University professor born in Berlin He led the psychology program at Breslau and later Hamburg and authored numerous works His widow and three children Guenther Hilda and Eva were mentioned as surviving in New York and Switzerland
The air ministry said saboteurs cut electric cables at the Fairey Aviation Stockport factory affecting four high speed bombers. Earlier sabotage attempts were reported at Ringway airdrome on the same models from the company.
The Enterprise launches Cranium Crackers with five word sets where one word is out of place. Participants identify the odd term. Next week features true or false questions and a following week a different test. Look for the first set today.
Senate opponents like Walsh warn the bill could 'overthrow democracies' and lead to dictatorship by consolidating powers, while Green argues democracy is on the defensive and urges passage to streamline government despite claims of totalitarian risk.
Sixteen major oil companies and 30 oil men renewed their defense against federal charges of conspiring to fix gasoline prices in 1935 and 1936. They had been convicted by a federal jury on January 22 and moved for a new trial. Judge Patrick T. Stone postponed sentencing to hear the motions with arguments set for this afternoon.
The treasury cut its price for foreign produced silver from 45 to 44 cents an ounce, the first change in nearly two years. The move follows fears the United States may halt purchases of Mexican silver, with oil expropriation worries and talks between four American oil firms and Secretary Hull. Senator Thomas warned the action could drive inflation in Mexico and shake world silver markets.
Robert Lee Gold about 24 of South Wrenn Street High Point was killed when the car he rode overturned on a curve near Ramseur on the Ramseur Asheboro road. Jimmy Millis of Hickory and Bob Johnson of Ramseur were injured and Millis was held for investigation. Gold had gone to Ramseur to look for a job. he was born in Wilkes County and survived by a widow, two brothers, four sisters, and his father. The body was taken to Koonce Funeral Home for arrangements.
The first train on the new railroad section will be run tomorrow morning with a group of box cars loaded with coal. The heavy cars will traverse the cut to pack and smooth the track before regular service begins. After packing and jointing, normal trains will start on the new line and work will proceed on the second track.
Greensboro report shows Johnny Revolta leading the $5,000 Greater Greensboro golf event with a 54 hole 207 after a 39 34 morning round. Denny Shute trails with 211 after a 67 in round three, surpassing the Sedgefield course record set by Carl Dann.
Richard Whitney the Wall Street broker who pled guilty to two grand larceny charges faced delayed sentencing after his firm failed. Judge Owen W. Bohan postponed the Penalty until April 11 to allow an SEC inquiry and federal bankruptcy proceedings led by Irving Kurt and William O. Douglas.
Mexico City papers report the U S Treasury will suspend monthly purchases of Mexican silver, prompting speculation on Washington’s reaction to Mexico expropriating foreign oil. Officials urge serenity while residents note new frictions as talks between Mexican authorities and U S representatives proceed.
Chicago report notes February 16 percent drop in US traffic deaths from February 1936 and 20 percent below January. States with notable decreases include Vermont 44 percent Maryland 40 Michigan 39 Oregon 38 Massachusetts 37 Wisconsin 32 Oklahoma 32 and others. Nationwide total follows 1937 peak of 39,700 deaths.
The Supreme Court upholds constitutional provisions of the Public Utility Holding Company Act requiring interstate holding companies to register with the Securities Commission and file financial statements. Chief Justice Hughes delivers the decision for the government. Justice McReynolds dissents and Cardozo and Reed did not participate. The Electric Bond and Share Company with 26 subsidiaries was the test case.
In South Philadelphia a pistol exchange during a house operations pursuit ended with one bandit dead and another captured. A third man escaped by leaping from a theater rooftop into the street. police believe he was wounded. Officers say the men tried to break into a safe containing $600.
The Northern California Newspaper Guild voted 247 to 16 to empower its negotiations committee to call a strike against four San Francisco papers and one Oakland paper. The action follows 14 weeks of failed negotiations with publishers.
Col. Edward M. House, longtime advisor to President Wilson, died in New York at age 79 after weeks of illness. Family members including his widow and daughter Mrs Gordon Auchineless were present. House was a prominent figure in Democratic affairs for many years.
Murray Levine, father of kidnapped Peter Levine, asks captors to reach him directly to ensure the boy's safety. He says police interference was not his choice and ransom delays were due to missteps, noting messaged contacts were unaware of the disappearance and reporting the calls to police.
General Malin Craig, army chief of staff, outlines plans for a rapid mobilization driven by 300 000 volunteers in 30 days and a 1917-18 styled selective draft. The program envisions 1 250 000 army and 600 000 navy by four months, with universal draft starting in 45 to 60 days.
March 28 report says Generalissimo Francisco Franco's troops occupy Fraga, the gateway to Catalonia, and push northeast along the main highway toward Lerida and Barcelona. London notes a revived Spanish civil war subcommittee to meet March 31 to push for withdrawal of foreign volunteers, with Italian troops possibly leaving the insurgent forces.
Near Lerida Hendaye March 28 movement of heavy artillery to aid insurgent airmen hammers Lerida defenses. Cavalry ford the Cinca river as pontoon bridges are awaited west of Fraga. The principal bridge had been dynamited by retreating government forces.
Italian warning to France shadows a Francoist push into Catalonia. General Franco’s land and air forces tighten control near Lerida as insurgents, bolstered by Italian legionnaires, advance toward the Lerida Barcelona corridor. Mussolini’s office warns French leftists against intervention, fearing wider European disruption.
In Atlanta on March 28 a major fire destroyed a score of one story frame houses and a three story building near the downtown area. Grady hospital was threatened at the height of the blaze but the flames were halted before reaching the nurses residence across the street.
Calling all contract bridge fans The Enterprise begins a series of 12 bridge articles on the play and bidding of 10 experts named to the all American contract teams for 1937 by William E B McKenney secretary of the American Contract Bridge League and NEA Service and The Enterprise Today in The Enterprise.
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