28 May 1937
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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1937
Page
1
Valencia province reports a dawn bombardment by five insurgent planes, described as Italian captains, killing about 200 people. Dozens of houses destroyed, many unaccounted for, with casualties on the English ship Catlin and steamer Pinzon. Sleeping residents swept from beds as debris rained through streets.
Senator Harry F Byrd told University of Richmond students that Washington holds the most wasteful and bureaucratic form of government known in history. He criticized federal management and urged reforms.
London May 28 Stanley Baldwin resigns as Britain's prime minister handing over to Arthur Neville Chamberlain. Baldwin, 69, quits amid criticism of abdication crisis, after 14 years as Conservative leader. He delivers resignation at Buckingham Palace and moves to Downing Street, ending a historic premiership.
A Duke of Windsor associate says Edward and Mrs Wales Warfield plan a brief U.S. visit as a second honeymoon. They may travel to America in October or November after a world trip, following a first honeymoon in Austria.
President Roosevelt vetoed a bill to extend the time for veterans to renew five year war risk insurance policies in a message to the house. He said further extension of converting temporary war risk life insurance was not warranted or likely profitable. The veto marked his third in his second term.
New York traders moved in a quiet session with fractional gains as steel issues rose on a hopeful near term outlook. Bonds stiffened while wheat fell and corn and cotton stayed tight. The French franc and pound sterling weakened.
Callander Ontario May 28 five famous Dionne daughters marked their third birthday with routine meals of oatmeal and spinach. The children who have endured a tenuous start in life enjoyed a normal day of play and bathing but did not have cake or candy, a half hour shift in supper time noted.
President Roosevelt announced plans to seek legislation in this Congress to curb both evasion and avoidance of income taxes. He said only a comparatively small number of wealthy individuals were dodging tax payments.
Secretary Wallace and Chairman Jones testified before the House Agriculture Committee on the cost of a farm price stabilization program. Jones challenged Wallace's estimate of 635 million to 1.25 billion annually to achieve parity and conservation payments, asserting higher Treasury-funding needs. Texas lawmaker argued production data support his figures, contrasting with American Farm Bureau Federation estimates of 287 million to 700 million.
Fire completely gutted the National Upholstery plant at 521 Park Street between East Green and East Russell, the second blaze in five months. The building owned by the R. R. Ragan estate and roofing material by Beeson Hardware. Fire Chief Ingram cited ample pressure despite complaints, noting city efforts to improve pumping capacity.
The coast guard cutter Taney raced 300 miles southwest of Honolulu to reach George F. Baker Jr., 59, chairman of the First National Bank of New York, seriously ill aboard his yacht Viking. Medical supplies including serum were dropped from a plane as the floating hospital pressed through rough Pacific swells.
Led by Dick Merrill and Frank Hawks, more than two hundred planes will fly over Greensboro and High Point for Lindley Field airport dedication. The federal government will relinquish airport rights to Guilford County at 2 PM, following a 1 30 PM air show. A banquet at the King Cotton Hotel precedes the ceremony.
Four persons were injured when pickets clashed with workers trying to return to the Atlas Tack plant in Fairhaven. The strike involved about 600 workers since May 13, with roughly 200 returning after President Roger D. Edwards urged a return to work and offered to rehire all on strike with wage and hour adjustments.
Cincinnati May 28 The American Federation of Labor dropped strict craft lines in its fight against John L Lewis committee for industrial organization. Federation leaders still favor craft unions but will not block efforts to grow membership this summer. They plan to organize federal unions affiliated directly with the AFL to include all workers in a plant or industry.
Adela Rogers St John and her husband Patrick O Toole were among seven arrested on simple assault charges after a melee outside Bill's Gay Nineties in mid Manhattan. Three men were injured, one seriously, as a crowd of over 100 gathered.
Cheering workers nailed strike flags to doors of offices refineries and storage depots in Mexico's $400 million oil industry as 18 000 workers and seventeen companies move to paralyze gasoline and oil transportation nationwide. The walkout seeks shorter hours higher wages and a blanket industry contract. Companies plan to appeal to President Lazaro Cardenas and the federal arbitration board to outlaw the strike and order workers back.
Senate and House conferees reached a compromise to extend the civilian conservation corps for three years. The House preferred a two year limit while the Senate backed President Roosevelt’s plan for a more permanent agency.
In Goldsboro a murder trial for Milford Exum and others, including white farmers, charging the killing of Jim Williams a 60 year old Negro basketmaker, was postponed by Solicitor C Canaday until the August term of Wayne County Superior Court due to insufficient time in the current term.
About 100 workers, discharged at the Ford Motor plant in Somerville, protested to the National Labor Relations Board claiming dismissal for union activity. Plant officials say the releases were seasonal layoffs and not connected to union involvement.
The 15th biennial session of the Carolina Conference of the Seventh Day Adventists opens at Lake Kanaga near Hendersonville tonight and runs through June 5.
Greensboro May 28 Resolutions vigorously assailing open factory show rooms and consumer co operatives were adopted by the Southern Retail Furniture Association at the closing session. Retailers opposed admission by manufacturers wholesalers or jobbers to a showroom of any person other than a legitimate furniture dealer. An official estimated about two million dollars’ worth of furniture is sold annually off open show rooms, depriving retailers of business.
Treasury officials disclosed plans to pursue legal action against scores of large tax payers who allegedly evaded income tax payments. Civil proceedings may be undertaken in some cases while fraud prosecutions could be recommended to the Justice Department.
A&A committee reports to the Presbyterian Church in the U S A that it has recovered about 1.5 million dollars of property from the Presbyterian Church of America, with 400 thousand more expected. The parent church seeks a Pennsylvania court ruling on use of the name Presbyterian Church of America.
In Death Valley Scotty case the desert rat seeks to charter a Los Angeles to Chicago flight. George Cussen, airline traffic manager, demands seven thousand five hundred dollars. Scotty offers two hundred dollars per hour for every hour shaved from his 1906 train time of forty four hours and fifty four minutes. Airline officials doubt the gamble but consider the prospect.
John L. Lewis and his militant steel unit girded the Great Lakes region to press three independent producers that have refused to sign union contracts. Seventy thousand workers are idle, including 47,000 in Ohio and 23,000 in Chicago area. Re public plants in South Buffalo New York and South Chicago show continued curtailed operations as the organizing drive tests the year-old movement.
In Pembroke Virginia searchers continued to look for Earl Brown a Sara sota Florida man enrolled at the local CCC camp who drowned while swimming in the New River late yesterday authorities said body has not yet been recovered and rescue teams remain on scene.
Friends of the Duke of Windsor said they received a phone message from Edward indicating he had lost his bid for the title Her Royal Highness for Wallie Warfield. An important announcement affecting whether the Duke and his late wife would bear the title was forthcoming.
Berlin reports that the Nazi regime announced new public trials of Catholic priests and lay brothers on morality charges. Trials will begin at Koblenz in June as officials push to resolve church state disputes, with foreign correspondents invited to travel at government expense though some declined.
Five year old Peter, son of Goldsboro publisher Tal Patrick, was struck by an automobile while on Main Street near a hospital. He died at the local hospital. He is survived by his mother and two brothers, Hugh Wayne Tyler, and others unnamed.
Cutlar Moore, chairman of the state alcoholic beverage board, left Raleigh for Edgecombe County to investigate charges that bootleggers bought legal liquor and sold after dark, which had not been poured.
May 28 report from Mexico City says a massive landslide released as 3 000 000 ton rock mass buried the mining town of Tlaltapacna killing or trapping over 100 to possibly 500 residents. Rescue workers dig through rock scarred streets as water backs up behind the slide. The town of about 10 000 people is described as largely destroyed with more than 400 houses buried in a three square mile area.
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