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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1937
Page
9
President outlines a federal framework to standardize hours and wages, with a general maximum workweek and time and a half for overtime. The plan empowers a labor board to tailor limits per industry and excludes products of child labor from interstate markets. He calls for state action alongside federal measures to reach fair employment standards.
New Orleans cotton markets show futures closing steady to down 5 to 7 points. July 12.81, October 12.78, December 12.87, January 12.81. An unrelated note mentions a belief that girls' faces stop growing by ages 13 to 14 while boys continue longer.
Hawaii produces about 216 million cans of pineapple annually. Placed side by side these cans would reach halfway around the world. The sun’s temperature exceeds 14 008 degrees.
Aboard two planes are supplies and scientific gear for four of 11 explorers to establish a yearlong polar camp before handing over to a second team. The ice floe drifts 1212 miles from the Pole as weather clears. Levaneffsky awaits word to begin the Arctic journey after weeks of test flights.
The aviator Levaneffsky, returning from the United States where he studied and worked in aviation factories, had previously attempted a point to America flight from Moscow in 1935 but failed. In 1936 he completed a successful California to Moscow route via Canada, Alaska and Siberia.
Arthur Clyde Edwards aged 39 a former lumber company employee died at his home in Butters North Carolina last night from a pistol wound to the heart his death certificate records as death by own action.
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