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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 13, 1936
Page
2
Wachovia Bank and Trust Co directors declared a regular quarterly dividend of 1 percent payable November 2 to common stockholders of record October 15. All five offices of the bank were represented at the meeting.
Charles Herbert Flowers 18, of A. and T. College Greensboro and Wadesboro, was arrested after attempting to pass a forged check at a local mercantile store. He was turned over to postal inspectors and a special agent of the American Railway.
A Republican gubernatorial candidate denounces honest elections as biblical theft and calls for abolition of the sales tax. He criticizes newspapers and mocks primary rivals, claiming the state is controlled by a “combine” and pledges to be a governor for the people. Several local Republican candidates were named and a district rally schedule is announced.
Berlin lodged an oral protest to the Blum government over two Strasbourg incidents during a communist rally in Alsace Lorraine. German officials cited a prewar agreement to avoid frontier demonstrations and demanded a quick explanation and ban on communist meetings.
The speaker will address listeners in Asheville for an hour and then board a special train to Louisville, Kentucky, where he will deliver an address the next day.
Flowers confessed to robbing the mail station at the A. and T. college in Greensboro and showed money orders express money orders and checks as evidence. He cashed an express money order in Greensboro earlier today and was detained by police after a J. C. Penney cashier alerted authorities. Officials released him to federal and railway express company authorities. Charges in Greensboro expected to involve robbing the United States mails.
H S Payne filed a suit in High Point Municipal Court against R B Gantt seeking 348.06 plus interest and 25 attorney fees. Payne claims the amount covered his taxes on property at 402 West Broad Street paid July 8 1931. The attorney paid the taxes and later won a judgment. Gantt bought the property subject to liens.
The Seaboard Air Line Railway Co. ordered ten deluxe air conditioned coaches from Pulham Car & Manufacturing Co. at a total cost of $500,000. The delivery is expected in the near future.
Walter J. Dickey Jr infant son of Walter J and Lucille Davis Dickey died shortly after birth at a local hospital. He is survived by his parents and grandparents J. B. Dickey of Burlington route 3 and Mr and Mrs J M Davis of Burlington. Funeral service was held at 2 PM at the graveside with interment in Oakwood cemetery.
Officers in Greenville say they are holding a suspect for the robbery and arson of the J. B. Watson store in the Fairview section, committed early yesterday.
Raleigh, Oct 138 The council of the state bar association will meet here Thursday as a preliminary gathering before the annual convention.
President addresses Kansas supporters at Wyandotte county courthouse and Kansas City auditorium. He credits federal cooperation for local progress, projects a balanced budget and debt repayment soon, and rejects claims of class conflict among farmers workers and business. He says all groups depend on each other for survival.
Figures show the average price of gasoline in 60 representative U.S. cities on July 1 was about 2.5 percent higher than a year earlier.
The United States France and Britain announce a gold accord limiting gold exports. The pact aims to reduce currency market volatility with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York selling gold as fiscal agent. Today price is 35 dollars per ounce plus a 0.25 percent handling charge.
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