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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1932
Page
10
Washington reports freight rates on cotton factory products for export or transit are slashed in places by as much as 50 percent. The reduction is approved as part of efforts to aid cotton exporters and manufacturers.
An advertisement touts Calotabs as a one nightly tablet to cure biliousness and mean behavior, claiming no taste or after effects and refundable if unsatisfied. The note warns to buy only in checker-board packages, with prices of thirty five and ten cents. Separately, Interstate Commerce Commission approves new reduced railroad rates across multiple North Carolina points to Norfolk and Newport News, effective on one day’s notice.
Scores of High Point workers halted jobs briefly to view yesterday’s solar eclipse. Crowds observed the event from streets and rooftops, noting the moon’s shadow crossing the sun and a slight temperature drop. Several recalled past eclipses while others anticipated a 1963 sighting.
The article outlines the Economy League’s push to remove large unfounded federal payouts to ex service men for disabilities not linked to war service. It criticizes presumption rules that assume war connection for disabilities and cites projections of half a million veterans receiving such compensation by 1933. It notes historical costs of G A R and WWI veterans, origins of the League, and details on Spanish War pensions and rates, with totals and casualty figures through 1898.
John J. Doty fell from grace not through crime or vice but temptations of raspb berry sundaes and films. He was arrested on embezzlement charges totaling 411 dollars from the office where he worked.
Doty, 26, married and father of a 4 year old, said he did not smoke drink or gamble and that the money was spent for the afore mentioned vices. In Chile the church is forbidden by law to perform marriages unless preceded by state marriages. Therefore all devoted Catholics who marry are married twice on the same day.
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