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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 24, 1933
Page
1
The petition of the Atlantic and Yadkin railroad from Mount Airy to Sanford is indefinitely delayed, announced by Corporation Commissioner Stanley Winborne.
In Jatunonicu Camaguey area reporters describe troops preparing for a new campaign against the Cuban rebel leader Juan Blas Hernandez. Despite surrounding reports, soldiers show excitement as they resume field preparations off the coast with a destroyer nearby.
Hazelton Pa Sept 28 three miners trapped by tons of earth in a Glen Alden Coal mine shaft at Teschow were rescued unharmed standing in shoulder high debris tonight.
In Reidsville a car rammed an embankment at Leaksville killing Gladys Odell, 16, and injuring her companion Herbert Winn who suffered serious injuries. Authorities investigated the wreck as an AP report filed today.
A head on crash two miles from Dillon, South Carolina, killed Fd Rogers, 45, Mullins tobacconist and farmer, and injured three others, including two women, in heavy fog. Rogers' wife Mary Wiggins and four sons and two daughters survive. Coroner delayed inquest until the injured women can testify.
State 7 Catawba 0 and Davidson 6 Elon 0 led by Clemson 6 P C 6 in a sequence of scoring. South Carolina 31 Wolford 0 observed with Clemson also listed at 6 and P C at 6.
Chicago Sept 23 Hopkins federal relief chief announces plan to move transient unemployed to concentration centers nationwide for care and education. Local authorities will transfer tramps and hoboes to federal centers while combatting hitchhiking and freight train riding. Centers will offer food housing clothing medical care and education by white collar workers to restore life prospects and improve relief morale.
The fourteenth League of Nations assembly opens in Geneva amid European political unrest and global economic strain. Germany aims for real arme equality with other great powers, while Japan and Russia miss the gathering. The body may expand to 15 members with Portugal or Turkey as new entrants.
South Carolina Representative Gasque plans an early next Congress resolution to probe profits of domestic tobacco manufacturers versus growers. He notes high executive salaries and bonuses and cites a government marketing contract under negotiation as a compromise with R. J. Reynolds officials.
The Hamilton stood off Oriente to aid 16 captives from a Cuban sugar mill strike while negotiations with strikers stalled. Three women and five children are among the prisoners amid food shortages. Havana’s security measures and army probes reflect a growing crisis as U S figures seek release of the captives. In Camaguey province, Juan Blas Hernandez is noted.
A nurse Virgins Antoinette de Palma and filling station manager James Medley were arrested in Yonkers after authorities traced threats to kidnap Helen Batcheller Dougherty, heiress and bride to be, and extort $10,000. Federal agents charged the pair with conspiracy to violate the Lindbergh act as the planned wedding was halted.
Federal Judge Edgar Vaught boxes out demurrers for Harvey Bailey Albert Bates and others in the Urschel kidnapping conspiracy trial. Bailey and Bates get no consideration. Wolk Blumenfeld and Valder await jurors Monday. Kronick Skelly Berman Kozberg get no relief. Shannon family may face case ruling.
The Shelby dynasty splits on the 18th amendment repeal with E K Yates Webb and Clyde R Hoey opposing repeal while former Gov Co Max Gardner stays noncommittal. Webb predicts Cleveland County will go dry by 5000 votes, a forecast disputed by Peyton McSwain.
Raleigh report shows 284380 individuals aided in August, including 56680 families, 500 non family persons and 8782 transients. Tyrrell county tops with 34.7 percent on relief while Macon County records 1.2 percent and Columbus 1.7 percent. Over 59 of 100 counties are under 10 percent on relief.
Representative Lynn B. Horner of Clarksburg West Virginia died in Washington at age 57 after several months of illness. A Democrat he served in Congress from 1930 and 1932 and worked for years in West Virginia natural gas before politics. He died at the home of his brother in law Colonel Henry Jewett at the Army War College after a heart ailment relapse.
The First National Bank and Trust Company, a new Winston-Salem bank, is set to open by November 1 with 200000 dollars in capital and 20000 dollars in surplus. J R Fain will be president as it absorbs the Farmers and Trust and Morris Plan banks. Deposits over 1 million will be paid in full through the new institution.
Vanderbilt freshmen lead a 50 to 0 victory over Cumberland University in the debut. Mississippi tied 6 to 6 with Southwestern at Memphis. Presbyterian tied Clemson 6 to 6. Wofford lost 31 to Mercer as Spring Hill preps in Mobile.
Washington reports the American Newspaper Publishers Association code hearings ended with calls to revise sections to curb employer discretion and ensure factual grounds for code provisions. Elisha Hanson urged sole reliance on facts amid factional debates as Roosevelt weighs broader economic moves.
Federal economists monitor Roosevelt plans to boost purchasing power amid rising industrial costs. They see freeing bank deposits as a key step to narrow the gap between living costs and buying power, while the NRA shifts to a permanent structure and code modifications. Labor, credit, and distribution concerns run through the period.
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