29 Mar 1939
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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1939
Page
1
Memphis report says sheriff in Helena Arkansas informed of Miss Hope Brewster found safe after missing since Monday. Helena Gregg hotel clerk notes Brewster checked in yesterday about 9 A M.
General Jose Miaja chief of the last central authority in Republican Spain arrives in Oran with his staff by airplane after fleeing Valencia just before the port surrendered to the Nationalists.
Burgos dispatch reports radio advices say Cartagena, major Republican base, abandons resistance to Generalissimo Franco’s forces, signaling a final shift in the conquest of Spain.
Foreign circles in Warsaw report growing optimism toward a Poland Germany accord over the Free City of Danzig. Hitler is said to seek peace while pressing for full annexation of Danzig, a German created corridor road, and a broad economic understanding with Warsaw.
Raleigh dispatch reports the State Supreme Court granted a new trial to J. W. Watson Sr. who was convicted in Carteret County of manslaughter in the death of his son J. W. Watson Jr. He previously faced an 18 months to two year sentence.
The House Appropriations Committee approved a 30 million 817 thousand seven hundred seventy dollar Labor Department appropriation for the next year and recommended restoring wage hour division funding control to Secretary Perkins.
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted 11 to 9 to begin hearings next Wednesday on about six proposals to revise the Neutrality Act. Chairman Pitman of Nevada, who backed bringing munitions under cash and carry, sought committee action without hearings.
Congress approved a compromise reorganizing bill sending it to the White House. It grants the president authority to consolidate agencies and end overlapping functions but keeps Senate and House veto power over reorganization orders within 60 days. The measure calls for economy to curb continued deficits since 1951.
Three men William Young 22 Nathaniel Bryant 18 and Nettie Clinard 210 Gordy Street confessed to a string of crimes across High Point and neighboring counties. They admitted stealing a car in High Point and robbing a Montrose Hoke County filling station where Moore was killed by Young. Their arrests also link to unsolved auto thefts and break ins across Thomasville Greensboro Salisbury Danville and Biscoe.
The PA-20 flying boat departed Baltimore at 9 09 a m for Bermuda as the first leg of Pan American Airways vast passenger flight in history. Five passengers joined a crew of 14 with about 50 more to board in New York for the ocean crossing toward the Azores and Lisbon.
WASHINGTON March 29 President Roosevelt prepares a 10 day trip to Warm Springs Georgia while Congress faces heated fights over neutrality labor relief farm aid social security and taxes. In Raleigh North Carolina the House rejects a Senate marker proposal and sends election reform to conference as debates over marriage licenses blood tests and a teacher pension plan continue.
Secretary Perkins tells a House Appropriations subcommittee that CIO AFL tension cripples nearly all labor dept functions. She says the department keeps a delicate balance and acts on labor organization matters without tipping the other side. Elmer Andrews notes 7 000 of 16 000 wage hour cases need probe and farmers won’t be included in the act. Employment has risen since October, though no direct credit is given. Continued on Page Two.
Burlington reports Mayor Earl B. Horner will run unopposed in the municipal primary scheduled for April 4. The absence of opposition solidifies Horner's path to the general election as the field remains open for other offices in the city.
Former Cuban dictator Gerardo Machado aged 67 died in Miami Beach Florida during surgery for a liver tumor after being hospitalized for observation. He lived in exile after being deposed in 1933 and had been in poor health for some time.
Attorney General Harry McMullan ruled that absentee voting cannot be used in municipal elections this year. The law passed by the legislature last week prohibits absentee votes outside general elections and applies to municipal ballots. Dozens of North Carolina municipalities hold primaries in April and May under charters and local election laws.
Young Fascist conscripts reported for regular service carrying placards reading Tunis Djibouti Suez as Italians awaited France's reply to claims. The new class includes 20 year olds born in 1918 and early 1919, expected to add over 250000 to the army, joining a 1938 total of 450000 at home and abroad.
The House Appropriations Committee cut Roosevelt's requested WPA funding to 100 million dollars for the current year, to July 1, while criticizing some WPA spending. It notes total WPA funds would total about 2.164 billion, with savings aimed at broader administrative economies and disfavoring costly exhibits like the World's Fair project.
Prime Minister Chamberlain announced in the Commons that Britain will double its territorial field army to 340000 men. The cabinet discussed conscription and closer cooperation with France and the Soviet Union as part of forming an anti Nazi front.
Directors of the Piedmont and Northern Railway Company and the Durham and Southern Railway elected E. B. Hardin of Charlotte treasurer at a meeting in Greenville. Hardin will continue as general auditor. A native of Blacksburg, he started railroad work with the Southern Railway in 1895 as a water pumper and joined Piedmont and Northern in 1912 as an accounting clerk.
Warsaw reports an authoritative German admonition urging Poland to ignore foreign sirens as signs of shifting ties with Germany over the Corridor and Danzig. Berlin hints Britain and France seek an anti aggression bloc, fueling Poland's drive for psychological mobilization amid cabinet talks and consultations between Moscicki and Smigly-Rydz.
City officials rush to Raleigh after Forsyth and Yadkin amendments to the power commission bill threaten a 6.5 million dollar municipal hydroelectric project. The council, city manager and city attorney planned urgent talks to block changes, with condemnation actions for river dam land already authorized.
Thomas G. Corcoran and other administration aides reportedly scheduled for six new White House executive assistant posts under the reorganiz ation bill. The draft changes raised concerns among long time officials who fear removal in a new administration. The favored appointees include Corcoran Leador Lubin Edward H. Foley Jr Leon Henderson Benjamin V. Cohen and James Rowe.
Clyde E. Pang, the American aviator who flew solo from Japan to the United States in 1921 with Hugh Hermon, married Mile. Swan Beaucaire Duval of Paris, a dress designer and the daughter of Nemri Duval, whom Pang rescued from a snowdrift at a Swiss resort two years ago, in Southampton England.
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