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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1933
Page
1
Washington October 19 John J T Norris of High Point was granted a patent for an extension table with sliding rails leaves and a tray for extra leaves. The invention includes notched cleats and pins to align leaf edges for supported expansion and does not assign manufacturing rights.
Roosevelt era experts plan to publish executive salaries to curb high pay. Five federal agencies will collect data on companies with over 1 million capital. The plan aims to require public disclosure of salaries with securities sales. Continuous publication is viewed as a tool to restrain large pay to bankers and corporate leaders.
Princess Anne, Md October 19 AP Responsibility for the lynching of George Armwood was placed on Judge Robert F. Dyer and State's Attorney John B. Robins by Governor Ritchie who ordered action to apprehend those responsible. Armwood, accused of attacking an elderly white woman, was dragged from the jail by a mob of over a thousand, eight police defenders were killed or wounded, and Armwood was slain after being stripped and hanged. State police and guards faced tear gas and a riot as mobs formed in the town and surrounding areas.
In Greenville Illinois on October 19 14 year old James Aken homeless but hopeful travels with Hank Farris of Conroe Texas after meeting him near Mayor Mauldins office. The mayor and city clerk give the boy a dollar and a quarter helping him start a journey to Texas.
Hugh Hawley a contract mail truck driver remained in jail as inspectors investigated an alleged bank shipment robbery. Hawley said a lone bandit held him up forced him to drive two miles to a staging spot where two accomplices looted the truck. Federal officers planned to reenact the incident.
President Roosevelt orders a coordinated federal effort under Justice to pursue Lindbergh case leads. Attorney General Cummings directs J Edgar Hoover to oversee federal activities with New Jersey authorities receiving full data from the federal division since the kidnapping law. Frank Wilson is withdrawn from the case by Elmer L Irey and returned to Baltimore duties.
The farm administration will hold a hearing on a proposed marketing agreement for the peanut industry. The Virginia Carolina peanut association and the Southeastern Peanut association submitted the plan. Peanut growers from Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Alabama, South Carolina, Florida, Mississippi, Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, and Arkansas are expected to be represented.
New York judges found Frank Pasqua and three co-defendants guilty of first degree murder in the long strangling case of Durables Mike Malloy. The group allegedly plotted to insure Malloy for 8000 and killed him with poisoned food and a gas execution after staged accidents. Judge James M. Barrett, the same official who once married Pasqua, will sentence them to the electric chair.
Greensboro real estate leaders gather for the North Carolina association of real estate boards twelfth annual convention opening at Sedgefield tomorrow. Delegates from multiple boards attend as the state real estate group begins its sessions.
Reports from Associated Press describe a sweeping Continental defense ring around Germany. Austria expands border forces to 8 000 troops while Belgium and France bolster frontier defenses. France builds a 125 mile trench chain from Metz to Laurier as part of a broader fortified front.
South Carolina outclassed Clemson 7 to 0 before a crowd of 14 000 at the State Fair Grounds in Columbia on October 19.
Washington reports a broad industrial control move in cotton textiles. New regulations require an administrator certificate before expanding machinery or starting a new mill, limiting newcomers to buying existing interests. Officials say the rule aims to curb overproduction and replace speculation with planned production.
Bureau of Census data show September auto production at 196,082 units, up from 84,130 in September 1932 and 140,566 in 1931. Total sales through October 1 reach 1,672,767 for the year, versus 1,115,066 in the first nine months of 1932 and 2,119,188 in 1931. Passenger cars total 160,891 and trucks 36,182 in September, compared with 64,735 passenger cars and 19,402 trucks in September 1932.
Paris faces sudden cabinet opposition as the finance committee warns the budget cannot be pushed through within the week. Daladier presses for a completely balanced budget or a new government, while commission debates reveal broad dissatisfaction with several measures.
Jack Moody, 22, a filling station operator, was convicted of accepting a duel challenge after claiming he fought a moonlight duel at Beaver Lake golf course. Judge Sam Cathey suspended eight months on good behavior, with monthly court appearances and proof of steady employment. Moody was wounded September 10 in the alleged duel.
WILSON N C Oct 19 Dewey Williams alleged ring leader of a gang of box car thieves submitted to charges of larceny and receiving stolen goods and was sentenced to three years in the Atlanta penitentiary by Judge M Meekins in federal district court.
CHARLOTTE October 19. Seventy three year old Mrs Laura McKee complained she waited fifteen years for nine dollars deposited in a bank that has since closed. She plans action to recover her money and confronts the bank's closure fallout.
In New York a prominent secretary elderly attorney Frederick Barber Campbell faces a high stake case over gold hoarding that could set a nationwide precedent. He could face ten years in prison and a $10,000 fine if convicted and the Supreme Court affirms the action. The case tests the Roosevelt administration's drive to surrender gold assets and shape future prosecutions.
Gastonia North Carolina reports the death of A Karesh a longtime local merchant aged 49. Born in unknown, he had run a prominent business in the town for a number of years.
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