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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1933
Page
1
New York traders pushed stocks higher as gold rose to 30.49 an ounce and international dollar rates slumped. Homestake led gains with a sharp climb, mining shares overall advanced while utilities trimmed losses. Some hesitation faded as currency expansion hopes reeled in bids before close.
The bituminous coal code was signed tonight by operators from producing regions after long negotiations and a White House meeting with President Roosevelt. The agreement ends years of dispute, though wage differentials and marketing terms remained points of debate, with follow up details to be published.
A vicious hurricane swept the Virginia coast after devastating North Carolina, flooding Wilkes-Barre mines and trapping four men. Two drowned in the Carolinas as warnings stretched to New England and Red Cross chapters mobilized across New Jersey and Maryland.
NEW BERN Sept 16 A tropical hurricane roared up the Atlantic seaboard leaving an unestimated toll of death and devastation in Manteo Camden and other parts still unreported as the storm swept through the region.
Relief agencies and Red Cross mobilized to aid northeastern North Carolina after a tropical hurricane struck Pamlico Sound towns. Gov Ehringhaus ordered state forces to standby while supplies are organized for Oriental and Vandemere. Two deaths reported and widespread damage feared with New Bern and Morehead City isolation.
In Vance County 11 910 acres pledged by 848 owners, with about 97 percent signed, signaling near completion of the federal acreage reduction program. County agent W F Sanders announced the result. In Oriental the church fronting a street was blown around by wind and floodwater, shifting to face a different street.
High winds swept Tarboro during the storm last night and today but no damage was reported.
David A. Lamson was found guilty tonight of murdering his wife Allene Thorpe Lamson at their Stanford campus home last Memorial Day. The jury recommended the death penalty.
Louis F, longtime referee in notable agricultural ring matches, died tonight at Rockaway Beach Hospital in Queens from a throat ailment.
A coalition of cotton farmers senators and business leaders heads to Washington to urge a 15 cent minimum price for cotton and $25 a ton for cotton seed. They seek abolition of the processing tax and a marketing holiday until the price goal is reached.
Havana reports show thousands marching against the U.S. government and Ambassador Sumner Welles amid accusations by Antonio Gutierres that American business interests seek to overthrow Cuba's new leadership. Cuban business leaders vow 24 hours of closures to protest violence by workers and call for a united revolutionary government.
Storms caused two drownings off the Carolina coast and left a man dead with four others trapped. Wilkes Barre area faced severe flooding that isolated fishing villages and changed coastlines. In the Mexican coast north of Tampico at least six died, 50 injured, and 2,000 homeless.
A holiday outing near Arab Alabama ended in tragedy when a passing truck sideswiped a vehicle carrying 30 people. Three were killed three others fatally injured and two more seriously hurt. Among the dead were Eva Aldredge and Willie Mae Denney and Earle Mitchell. Injured include Lydia Nations and Bessie McAdee both amputated legs. Willis Black, driver of the truck, was charged with murder in Blount County.
The War Department allocated 10000 dollars for storm damage repairs at Fort in North Carolina from a Public Works Administration fund.
Fireman L. Pulcher drove five family members toward safety as a 50 mile per hour gale drowned out the car engine. Undaunted he pushed the vehicle four blocks to the fire department building with doors open to create wind resistance.
Wall Street brokers move to form The National Stock Exchange in Newark to escape New York emergency levies. Col William Freiday leads the effort, citing tax savings and cooperation with the New York Stock Exchange. Cadwalader Wickersham Taft reportedly studies a Jersey City subsidiary exchange.
New York dispatch reports Edward Doran a national secretary from London will urge Parliament to send the Prince of Wales to the United States to cement Anglo American friendship. Doran plans a Washington visit to discuss with President Roosevelt a meeting of the two nations.
A group of New College students from Columbia University returned from Wayneeville North Carolina where they spent the summer farming and studying. The coeds grew spinach milked cows dug kitchen gardens and learned about local life while preparing to become teachers.
Raleigh Sept 16 Bids on ten road construction projects totaling about 300000 will be opened Sept 29 by the state highway commission to begin a 2000000 program approved this week by the federal bureau of roads Most projects are in western North Carolina with further bids expected in October The state's building program before completion is expected to cost 11000000 and will be financed by the federal government.
Governor Ehringhaus announced the reopening date for Eastern North Carolina tobacco markets previously closed during a sales holiday. He urged government efforts to ensure fair prices before markets resume, with growers anticipating price improvements. A flue cured reduction campaign aims to cut 1934 35 production by 30 percent of the three year average, extending to small planters.
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