Local weather outlook for Worth Carolina region
Increasing cloudiness tonight and Tuesday. Rain likely Tuesday or Tuesday night. Temperatures: low around 39 last night, high yesterday 66.
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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 15, 1937
Page
2
Increasing cloudiness tonight and Tuesday. Rain likely Tuesday or Tuesday night. Temperatures: low around 39 last night, high yesterday 66.
JA R Clas, assistant administrator of the Public Works Administration, resigns as head of the investigative division effective November 30 to re-enter real estate business. The move comes as the agency adjusts its investigative and oversight functions.
Japanese forces push toward Soochow from Chapoo to Paimadlou as Kunshan falls, driving about 560 000 Chinese troops toward Soochow. In a two pronged attack from Shanghai Nanking rail line and Yangtze, new Japanese units strike from the north while bombardments target Ningpo. American missionaries remain safe as US Consul Gauss reports.
Survivors recount a night of peril as the Mendota foundered with 28 hands aboard. Corrie and others describe clinging to debris and life rafts while sharks attacked. A seaplane and the Swiftsure tanker aided in the rescue as crews searched for missing men.
In Fletcher North Carolina two game protectors fined Sheriff Walter Smith of Newport Tennessee and Gordon Ramsay of Asheville $20.50 each after proving the Tennessee sheriff used another man’s hunting license in Pisgah National Forest. Licenses are non transferable and cost 15.25 for non residents.
On Luzon and Polillo, Thursday's typhoon killed 35, officials say, raising the homeless figure beyond the prior 40,000 estimate as reports come in from outlying areas.
New York trading opened with stocks nudging up as investors anticipated the president's message to congress. Early gains were limited with profit taking by late morning, while overall dealings remained light and foreign markets showed modest improvement. Bonds rose but commodities weakened overall.
The President spoke on opening congress outlining four points of his program. He urged private capital to enter housing on a large scale via an all weather surplus crop plan with new taxes if costs exceed the budget. He proposed flexible machinery for wages hours and child labor bans, government reorganization for efficiency, and regional planning boards to reduce waste and maximize national spending efficiency.
An early morning crash on the Winston Salem highway near the Forsyth Guilford line left Mrs McKenzie and Miss Lorence Burton injured. Burton was treated at Burrus Memorial Hospital for bruises and lacerations and was reported well. State patrolman J S Gaskell said no charges were filed and both drivers claimed to be at fault. The car rolled after the driver reportedly lost control on a curve.
Firemen answered an alarm at 516 West Green to extinguish a blaze caused by a tar barrel explosion. The fire occurred while workmen were roofing the house owned by Wade P. Renfrow and Ben L. Herman. No damage reported beyond a scorched edge near the roof.
Police report two prisoners fled Sandy Ridge prison camp yesterday. Dan Oakley of Thomasville and Richard Tysinger of Tomlinson Street were identified as the escapees and authorities were alerted this morning.
Chicago November 15 report shows butter totals 6 062 with grades including creamery specials 93 score at 37 38 cents ex tras 92 at 37 extra firsts 90 91 at 29 81 cents standards 90 cent centralized carlot 45 cents. Eggs 2 114 steady with fresh graded extra firsts cars and local 28 cents firsts care and local 27 cents current receipts 26 cents refrigerator 20 cents standards 20 cents firsts.
Taber Louis J. of Columbus Ohio was re-elected master for an eighth term at the National Grange gathering in Harrisburg.
Licoyd Pusey, a 44 year old itinerant evangelist, was sentenced to 15 to 20 years at hard labor in the state prison for the summer slaying of his evangelist wife in Linden three months ago.
In Jerusalem on November 16, police arrested more than 30 Jewish revisionist leaders following violence a day earlier that left six Arabs and one Jew dead.
The president urges swift action on measures to curb the recession, expand private capital and housing, reform taxation, and shore up employment. He emphasizes cooperation between government and citizens, farm and labor reform, and reorganizing the executive to increase efficiency and national income.
Friends of R E B and Madge Seward Peace mourn the death of their infant son who died Monday at 6 30 am at High Point Route 2. Survived by parents a brother Richard Peace paternal grandparents U S Peace and maternal grandfather W C Seward all of near High Point. Interment in Shady Grove cemetery Monday at 3 pm.
A local affiliate of the Southern Policy committee was organized in Greensboro with Dr. B. B. Kendrick of Woman's College named president. Brook Hayes, Democratic national committeeman of Arkansas, was the principal speaker at the meeting held at A. L. Brooks home. The group aims to promote legislation favorable to the South in Washington.
The TÉea Office of the North Carolina State Employment Service placed 58 persons in positions during the past week. Manager J A Gawthrop announced 46 were in private industry and 12 in public work.
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