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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1934
Page
1
A 10 percent wage rise was announced for 18,500 employees in the Birmingham district, covering workers at Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Co. and Republic Steel Corp. The increase takes effect April 1.
Washington reports Representative Burns says Roosevelt may seek new taxes to cover spending from the independent offices bill. Veterans leaders push the $2.2 billion soldiers bonus using new currency, now pending before the Senate finance committee chaired by Harrison.
Washington report outlines how the new independent offices law affects veterans and federal employees. Twenty nine thousand World War veterans regain permanent status at 75 percent of pre act benefits with compensation tied to presumed service origin. Permanently disabled veterans receive one hundred dollars monthly rather than eighty dollars. An undetermined number of Spanish American War veterans are restored at 75 percent of former benefits.
The Senate voted 46 to 39 to approve the Bankhead compulsory cotton control measure and sent it back to the House for amendments. It seeks to limit production to 10 million bales, set a punitive tax on excess, and would run for one year in the Senate version, with the House proposing two years and possible extension.
ISTANBUL March 29 Strong evidence the S S Maiotis with Samuel Insull aboard is detained in Istanbul harbor by Turkish authorities. The ship took on water and food within five hours and remained at anchor 11 hours after arrival. Reports say Insull may depart for Romania as Athens wires instructed.
Lawmakers push a compulsory cotton control bill toward enactment with Senate approval while the tariff bill faces House action amid partisan lines. Discussions include unemployment relief, tax implications, and a broad capital goods stimulus plan led by Hugh S. Johnson and the National Recovery Administration.
Pensacola businessman John W. Malone announced that his son George H Malone, a UNC Chapel Hill senior, has been missing since March 23.
Washington March 20. The House Rules Committee approved a congressional investigation into allegations by Dr. William A. Wirt of Gary Indiana that brain trusters were aiming to instigate a revolution.
Otto H. Kahn, banker and art patron and partner at Kahn, Loeb and Company, died in New York at age 66. Announcement of his death was withheld by the firm until after the market closed.
Paris police rounded up Gaetan L Herbon De Lussais known as Bar on, Paul Carbonne Bonaventure real name Carboni, and Francois Spirito after an all night grilling. Two Argentines sought. Interrogation aims to expose a mafia among Paris gangsters linked to Judge Albert Prince slaying.
North Carolina fair tonight and Friday with rising temperatures. South Carolina interior fair, coast cloudy with possible showers tonight and Friday, temperatures rising in the north portion tonight.
Coastal forecast notes Sandy Hook to Hatteras moderating northerly winds shifting variable later with fair tonight and Friday. Hatteras to Jacksonville moderate winds overcast tonight and Friday with occasional showers.
Official weather bureau records show temperature and rainfall for the 24 hours ending at 8 a.m. today in the principal cotton growing areas and surrounding regions.
Washington reports the administration considered possible sources for another 225 million in relief without reaching a decision. Officials weighed options and deferred a firm plan.
Henry Picard of Charleston led the 32nd North and South Open after the third round at Pinehurst with a 211 total after 64, keeping a one stroke edge over Horton Smith. George Dunlap Jr. and Smith tied for second at 212, with several pros and amateurs clustered behind.
In Raleigh on March 29 the execution of Bascom Green and his son Lester, both High Point residents, was stayed automatically after the North Carolina Supreme Court granted a writ of certiorari. They were convicted of the murder of T. C. Barnes during an attempted bank hold‑up at Taylorsville and admitted involvement. Their case brings the Greens’ appeals before the court alongside other death sentences for Barnes' killing.
Isaac Costner, an admitted participant in the November mail truck robbery, said he will spill the works about Chicago Touhy gang partners at the April federal court term in Charlotte. He named Charles Connors Ludvig Schmidt Basil Banghart Mae Blalock and claimed five people were involved. Costner was brought from Asheville to await trial.
SAN ANTONIO Tex Mar 29 Captain R H Skaggs 37 a student at Randolph field aviation medicine school fell to his death from a plane piloted by Lieut Samuel W Van Meter during a training flight to Laredo The body was found in a field near the Kerby school house Randolph field officials appointed a board of officers to investigate and commented nothing pending the report
Democratic members of the House Ways and Means Committee moved to insert a three year limit into the reciprocal tariff trade agreement bill. The amendment would cap all treaties under the measure and restrict the President’s authority to adjust tariffs for reciprocal agreements. The move was offered as the bill progressed.
President Roosevelt anchors off Settlement Point in the Gulf Stream for a fishing and swimming vacation. Vessel Nourmahal carries the president with Vincent Astor sending a brief status update. Congress overrides the veterans pay veto as the yacht heads toward Nassau and potential new ports.
Dr Ales Hrdlicka states there was no close affinity between humans and great apes. He traces human origins to at least 25 million years ago and notes a common ancestor in the Miocene era. The human and anthropoid ape lines diverged into separate branches, with one leading to today’s humans and the other to apes.
Practically all retail businesses in the city will observe Easter Monday as a holiday except grocery and bug stores. The High Point Merchants Association secretary Miss Grace Baker announced the survey of business houses. Furniture stores will remain open until 1 30 p.m.
J Leutart general manager of Welwood Silk Mills in McMinnville and other Tennessee towns warns NRA wage differentials could force relocation of plants to the north. He says northern mills run four looms per worker with skilled help while southern mills run two or three looms, making southern costs higher.
D. Henry Lewis, charged with burning his Walkertown home to collect insurance, was adjudged sane by the state hospital board and will be returned to Winston-Salem to stand trial for arson. State fire inspector W. A. Scott will present two letters as evidence showing threats to burn his house unless a sum was paid.
Will Rogers mocks Congress for thinking they know best how to run the country. He jokes that the President will go fishing but the wrong party will reel in the answers from his brain trust. He quips about Florida fish and delegates, noting Hoover once avoided the polls.
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