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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1935
Page
3
Washington mourns as Mrs. dies in a hit and run taxi collision. Authorities pursue a dark sedan as details remain scarce. Funeral arrangements set for Tuesday in Chicago suburb where the family resided for years.
Republicans at the capitol sense competition for the presidential ticket. Attention centers on possible runs by Colonel Frank of Chicago, Senator Borah of Idaho and Governor Landon, with doubts about any single leader heading the ticket.
Claude B. Wolts a Gastonia attorney announces his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for Congress from the tenth district.
John Davis, a Black resident of 115 Perry Street, attempted to leave Belk Stevens with a hat he hadn’t paid for. A scuffle resulted, yielding the hat and his shirt. Davis spent the night in jail charged with larceny.
Italy welcomed Mussolini's aggressive stance as details emerged on oil concessions granted to the African Development Exploration company and a Lake Tana dam syndicate. The US Delaware corporation and British backed pursuits touch Horn of Africa oil, Nile water projects, and Ethiopia’s strategic sphere, amid fears of wider conflict.
Raleigh Aug 31 Li censes to practice law in North Carolina were granted to 59 persons by the state board of bar examiners as 71 candidates failed the summer examination. The list includes Francis Irving Anderson Leaksville and Joseph Lee Carlton Raleigh among others. Comity licenses awarded to Melvin Bayard Lane New York and Lee L. Young Missouri.
An authoritative source outlines rights granted to a company over oil and bituminous substances, including iodine from salt waters. The deal lasts 75 years, with government ownership of buildings and lands. The company would pay £25,000 annually in gold or equivalent and a royalty of one shilling sixpence per ton for 25 years, then the rate rises. A pipeline must be built when commercial. if no port access within four years, rights end. In an emergency, the government directs petroleum supply.
The statement argues the Soviet Union breached its 1933 recognition pledge by allowing Communist International activities to interfere in the United States. It condemns Moscow for repudiating its commitment to prevent groups aiming to overthrow US institutions and calls for continued insistence on adherence to the pledge.
High Point's favorite hill-billy cavalier Hill-Billy Fred Kirby performs at the Broadhurst Theater for Labor Day Midnight Show tonight at 11 30 in conjunction with the feature picture Zasu Pitts in She Gets Her Man.
The Broadhurst theater hosts a Labor Day Eve 11 30 PM program combining stage and screen. Fred Kirby headlines with new songs alongside Bob Phillips while Zasu Pitts appears in She Gets Her Man with Hugh O Connell and Helen Twelve Trees. Doors open at 11 30 sharp.
The North Carolina ERA has consolidated 31 original district offices into eight under WPA. Districts span Elizabeth City New Bern Raleigh Fayetteville Greensboro Statesville Charlotte and Asheville with named administrators and assistants listed for each division. The move aligns ERA with WPA plans to shift relief rolls to projects.
New York police questioned a 12 year old boy after the body of 4 year old Elizabeth Ponderhausen was found in a Bronx wooded gully near her home. Detectives Brady and Thompson found a head wound and the missing child had last been seen playing nearby about 7 p.m. The body lay in a Classon Point gully about 800 yards from O'Brien and Lacombe avenues.
The passage argues that ongoing interference in the United States by Soviet actions would damage official relations between the nations. It warns that such harm could impair cooperative opportunities for significant benefit, contingent on the Soviet Union's attitude and actions.
The 29th annual North Carolina Federation of Labor convention closed in Durham with Winston-Salem named 1936 site and Roy R. Lawrence reelected president. Officers elected include J. H. Fullerton first vice president and E. L. Sandefur secretary treasurer. A resolution urged Governor Ehringhaus to appoint investigators into the Belmont textile strike killings.
The group attacked the Governor for withholding action and called for a special session of the legislature to enact social security measures, remove sales tax, ratify the child labor amendment, pass an anti injunction act and set minimum wages for women and minors. Speakers included Tom D. Parrish, Mrs W EB McCainey, George Southern and Charlie Parish.
Charlotte August 31 officers arrested C Green a Negro within ten minutes after Greenville authorities requested it. Green, wanted on a charge, was traveling with Negroes in a car with a New York license. The vehicle was stopped as it sped through Charlotte and he was brought to the city jail.
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