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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 24, 1932
Page
1
Libby Holman Reynolds, facing motherhood and trial for her husband’s death, tells New York Sun she did not kill Smith Reynolds. She says the coming baby gives her strength to seek vindication and asserts her love for the man she lost.
Spartanburg South Carolina September 24 An inquest was set for today over a shooting death at a home near Inman Herbert Garrett 15 was killed by his eight year old brother Andy who said he picked up a gun and it discharged while Herbert was shooting at a target.
The American Railway Association reports revenue freight for the week ended September 17 at 587 202 cars, the highest since December 12 1931. Total up 85 478 cars from the Labor Day affected prior week, with increases led by merchandise and miscellaneous freight.
In Poona India leaders of caste Hindus and untouchables reach a compromise on electoral questions to halt Gandhi's fast. Gandhi weakens with exhaustion as doctors urge no further strain while a London submission awaits approval. The plan reserves 148 provincial seats for lower castes with primary elections and a ten year limit.
Roosevelt touring California en route to Los Angeles lauded Alfred E. Smith as a great citizen and governor. He spoke to 12 000 in San Francisco urging inflation reform and a return to stable economic policies. The talk followed a 27 hour San Francisco stay and a crowd at the Civic Auditorium before trains onward to Los Angeles.
Three Japanese aviators Eiichiro Baba Kiyoshi Honma and Tomoyoshi Ishita head from Samushiro Japan on a goodwill flight to the United States Sponsored by Hochi Shimbun Their route includes Nome Fairbanks Seattle and San Francisco with emergency supplies placed at Whitehorse Hazelton and Canada’s Seattle area en route Their positions were radioed from Paramushiru Island during the journey
Mrs. William E. Borah, wife of the U S senator, grew worse in Boise on September 24 under psitticosis or parrot fever. Physicians reported she was in a critical condition after eight days of illness.
LANCASTER Wisconsin September 24 Authorities said farmer Will Koehner 49 confessed to killing his eight year old son Martin because the child was feeble minded. He reportedly took the boy into a woods on September 6 or 7 beat him to death with a stone and buried the body marking the grave with an old chair. He said the boy was incurable and he could not get him into an institution.
Three factions in Rockingham North Carolina entrenched positions as presidents of two strike closed cotton mills refusing arbitration offered by Governor Gardner. About 1200 workers affected by the strike remain in dispute after the stalled talks.
Reynolds denounces Hoover reconstruction policies and praises the reconstruction finance corporation. He says Republicans aim to revive pre Depression boom days while voters tire of Harding Coolidge and Hoover. He warns of the people’s opposition to the so called good old days.
Major General John A. Lejeune superintendent of the Virginia Military Institute remained in serious condition in Lexington Virginia after a fall that caused a skull fracture and a broken arm. Doctors reported signs of returning consciousness and improving condition as he lay at the hospital.
Tobacco sales in Rocky Mount reached 650,574 pounds for September 24, averaging 11.46 dollars per hundred and lifting season totals to 2,724,962 pounds and 62.23 dollars average. Yesterday’s volume was the season’s heaviest.
Thomasville officials thwarted a planned morning strike by workers. About 60 Amazon Cotton Mills workers gathered at Amazon ball park before a march to the Thomasville Chair plant, but police persuaded mill leaders to stay out and no entry or violence occurred. A meeting last night had planned to close Thomasville Chair plants.
United States District Attorney Dwight H. Green announced an official investigation into the Insull Utilities Companies to determine if federal statutes were violated. Cook County also opened an inquiry led by State’s Attorney John A. Swanson into extradition treaties with France and Canada as Insull figures remain abroad.
Gurney P. Hood states Stokesdale Commercial Bank will reopen Tuesday after cutting liabilities to 40000. About 75000 in dividends are mailed to depositors of closed Beaufort Bank and Trust and Elizabeth City Savings Bank and Trust. Advisory banking panel to meet Monday with Stedman Wood and McLean as members.
In Lenoir North Carolina seven white men and a negro were arrested in liquor raids this week and are scheduled for early trials.
James B Duncan, North Carolina Republican chairman, says the party cannot remove Boone D Tillett from the ticket over Georgia bad check charges. Senatorial candidate Jake F Newell demanded action calling Tillett's situation a disgrace to the party. Tillett says Gov Gardner's extradition move was political embarrassment. He says no removal is possible. checks in Atlanta were for a client and the American Newspaper Union and Western Newspaper were involved.
Clyde Dunfee, renowned driver, was killed at the 500 mile British Racing Club event at Brooklands when Woolf Barnato's car crashed over an embankment. The fatal accident occurred during the fourth annual drivers' contest.
Milk strikes widen in Chicago and Georgia as New York milk flow disruptions threaten nearly 4 million quarts daily. Farmers demand living minimum prices and stabilized wholesale costs, while discussions with independent wholesalers aim to avert a wider stoppage.
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