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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 04, 1934
Page
1
A Shannon Georgia vigilance committee, likened to old time watchdogs, expelled nineteen agitators from the mil village warning them as very undesirable to leave and not return. The action underscores local unrest during the period.
North Carolina soil erosion leaders and notable guests gathered in a Greensboro area luncheon. William B. Umstead and J. Walter Lambeth attended, with Dr. R. Y. Winters, Dean L. Schaub, and Dr. Korstian among speakers. The Deep River area project showcases extensive cooperative work under the Interior Department and UNC units.
Betty Bloch 24, daughter of a Wheeling tobacco magnate, was the target of a conspiracy to kidnap her for 25000 ransom. Harry Thornton and Thurman Bowen admitted complicity, were arraigned and held on 50000 bail each. The plan aimed to move Bloch from a friend’s home to cross into Ohio for ransom.
District Attorney Samuel J. Foley disclosed that Bruno Hauptmann’s trunk contained Jersey road maps to Lindbergh property and an English German dictionary used to verify ransom word spellings. He noted Hauptmann could map New Jersey sections accurately and that the extortion trial proceeds alongside potential grand jury action in Hunterdon County.
In Detroit at Navin Field on October 4 Lynwood Rowe pitched brilliantly as the Tigers beat the St Louis Cardinals 3 to 2 in twelve innings. Goose Goslin delivered the deciding hit in the twelfth scoring Charley Gehringer for the walk off victory.
A typhoon swept northern Luzon Island halting communications and causing heavy property damage. Death toll pending as reports reach Manila.
The Alabama Supreme Court denies a rehearing for Heywood Patterson and Clarence Norris, two of nine black defendants in the Scottsboro case. They were convicted and sentenced to death in Morgan County last December, with execution set for December 7.
Paul Stewart 88 a local mechanic was fatally struck at Wendstead airfield when he stepped into the path of a whirling propeller. The accident occurred in Rocky Mount today.
A note saying I an make it preceded the death of B I Frierson aged 20 of Conway who shot himself this morning in a downtown office location.
Mrs Vare defeats Mrs Burt Well of Cincinnati in the fourth round to claim the Ohio state title, finishing 6 and 5.
In Columbia on October 4, three men pleaded guilty in federal court to robbing the Harbinger post office in WN C last August 18. Thomas Williams Winslow of Elizabeth City drew a three to five year term, Norman Hampton Cooke of Norfolk received five years, and Earl Hamlet Allen of Norfolk was sentenced to three years.
North Carolina: Cloudy with rain likely Friday coast and western areas tonight. Carolina: Cloudy with rain in northwest tonight. winds. Sandy Hook to Hatteras: NE winds fresh to strong. overcast tonight and Friday with occasional rain in south portions. Overall: NE winds may strengthen. overcast with rain Friday in extreme north. Charlotte AP: official Bureau records show 24 hour temperature and rainfall in main cotton growing areas and elsewhere.
United States Attorney Dwight Green outlined in Chicago that Insull and 16 co defendants used Corporation Securities Company to dump stock and mislead the public. The case charges Halsey Stuart & Co sold allotment certificates to friends and customers as jewels of the Insull Empire while inflating assets and profits.
The Winston market in Winston Salem reported yesterday sales of 939 851 pounds of tobacco at an average price of 29.03 dollars per hundredweight.
Bridgeport, Pa five sheriff officers were charged with homicide after Ellwood Quirk 23 was shot dead during a textile strike disturbance at James Lees and Sons mill. Deputies Howard White Joseph Smith Wilbur Parker Robert Pinkerton and Harry Hildebeitel fled to Norristown jail for protection as thousands gathered. The Lees mill strike began September 4 over rehiring discrimination with about 1300 workers still at the plant.
Florida Bullock and Rufus Kelley, both Negroes, were resentenced in Henderson after the case reached the supreme court. Convicted last year of kidnapping and assaulting an 18-year-old white girl, they now face six to 10 years instead of life. Judge Hunt Parker noted that the original life terms followed the then new North Carolina Lindbergh law unless the high court ruled otherwise.
Jerome Dean of Holdenville Oklahoma, sent by Alfalfa Bill Murray to quell a riot, calms the scene with a tired head in place of an arm. He speaks of a forthcoming test between High School Boy Rowe and Grammar School Boy Paul Dean, and notes Henry Ford paid $100,000 for the spectacle.
In San Francisco on October 4 the AFL faces a heated dispute as the building trades department balks at seating delegates from carpenters bricklayers and electrical workers. Leaders deem no compromise likely while President Green urges unity to avert war and curb power driven factions.
Letters from Robert Allen Edwards to Margaret Crain were admitted as evidence in his trial for the murder of Freda McKechnie in Wilkes Barre Pennsylvania. The state contends Edwards killed McKechnie to wed Crain while prosecutors read sentimental notes dating from 1933 to 1934. Hurriedly read passages moved the courtroom as McKechnie’s mother cried and Edwards listened, slouched.
In a baseball game, Detroit defeats St. Louis 3 to 2. Orsatti Martin Fox and Goslin drive runs for Detroit. Rogell Fox and Medwick collect two base hits. Pitchers Hallahan Greenberg and W Walker work through tight action with 2:49 game time.
In a tense play sequence Rothrock bunt, Frisch and White denied runners while Medwick lined a single past Rogell to score Martin. Medwick then took second on the throw, giving the Cardinals another run in this series contest.
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