Community Chest Sets $34 342 Goal for High Point Agencies
The 1936 High Point Community Chest aims for 34 342 66 to support agencies including the Red Cross Salvation Army and local social services for 1936 37. Budget chair Mrs H A Millis led a committee that kept the target low while planning fundraising events at Wesley Methodist Church with industrial division meetings and plant quotas to earn Honor Roll banners.
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High Point
Ams Gence Ao We C. A. Boyuts
Red Cross
Salvation My
Social Service
Cies
H. A. Millis
R. T. Os
M. J. Wrenn
W. Jackson
T. Wingate Anns
H-. Hunsucker
W. Powell
Vienry V. Koonts
B. Hodgin
R. O. Lindsay
W. Price
RK. L. Brinson
O. Ter
A. Coke Cecil
Wesley Met
Monarch Textile Mills Reopens Under Guard After Strike
Monarch Textile Mills opened at 1 p m with 70 armed deputies guarding the plant. Workers were reduced to a small portion of normal staff and management offered no statement. Magistrate Greer accepted a $1000 bond for Gordon Jain after arrest on a disorderly conduct charge. George Kamenow of Washington was released on $100 bond to answer a similar charge. Sheriff Faucett reported the arrest of Jain for entering his office seeking passes and attempting to run it.
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8. C
Monarch Textile Mills
Spe
J. Byers Greer
Attor
Gordon Jain
George Kamenow
D. C
Union County
J. G. Faucett
Unionity
Enow
Kamenow
Monarch
Indian Is Sought In Robbery Case
Lumberton officers hunt Luther Thomas Pem ke Indian in a holdup last night. H B Clark travelling for a Lumberton firm says Thomas forced them to a swamp near Pem, robbed Clark of $300, clothing, groceries, and threatened to kill him before fleeing toward Pem.
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Lumberton
Thesen County
Luther Thomas
Clark
Thomas
Pem
Gaying
Adjustment Of French Franc Gets Approval
Paris deputies approved a devaluation measure after a 25 hour session by a vote of 50 to 321. The bill cuts the franc gold content from 65.5 mg to 49 43 mg, creates a 10 million franc stabilization fund, allows government power to curb price increases, and sends the measure to the senate for an extraordinary session.
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Chamber of Deputies
Associated Press
Paris
France
United States
Senate
Great Britain
Leon Blum
Roosevelt
Spirited Bidding Marks Sale Of Bank's Property
A large auction of Commercial National bank real estate near High Point drew spirited bidding. Receiver John D. Biggs ordered the sale under the comptroller of the currency, with properties including Moffitt Underwear site at North Main and East State streets and various tenant assets. Notable bids included Wilbur Jones at 11000 for the Moffitt property and Fred H. Patton at 10050 for the Pierce Rucker residence in Greensboro.
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High Point
Commercial National Bank
John D. Biggs
Comptroller of the Currency
Moffitt Underwear
North Main
East State Streets
Wilbur Jones
Pierce Rucker
Greensboro
Fred H. Patton
Perry Plywood Corporation
E. W. Freeze, Sr
Shelton Machinery Co
Jesse Washburn
Greensboro High Point Highway
Cleveland Street
High
Snow
Louisiana Sales Tax Sparks Protests Across New Orleans
In New Orleans on September 29, a heated meeting booed Governor Richard Leche while hundreds of grocers voted to close Wednesday in opposition to a 2 percent luxury sales tax. The tax, applying to most goods except exemptions, takes effect Thursday alongside a city tax of the same rate.
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New Orleans
Huey P. Long
Richard Lewhe
Boston
Mississippi River
Organizers Move to End Walker County School Strike
In Jasper Alabama on September 29, officials pressed two tracks to resolve a teachers strike. County Superintendent A S Scott refused to rehire three union teachers, while Gov Bibb Graves ordered state officials to seek an end to the walkout. Attendance declined sharply, with 10,000 of 17,000 rural children out of class.
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Jasper
Ala
Walker County
A. S.S. Scott
J. A. Keller
R. R. Moore
Bibb Graves
R. L. Blanton
American Federation of Classroom
County Board of Education
Scott
Merrill returns to work after Atlantic flight vacation
Dick Merrill, who piloted the first round trip across the Atlantic, resumed work in Newark New Jersey after a month long vacation on September 29.
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Newark
N. J
Dick Merrill
Atlantic
Nazis Expand Army to Eight Hundred Thousand Ground Forces
Berlin dispatch reports a Nazi drive to raise the military to 800000 with conscription under a two year service rule. Adolf Hitler orders 300000 youths into the labor service and 200000 to 300000 others into the Reichswehr as the system shifts from one to the pre 1914 two year model. Recruits are 21 and 22, from the 1914 and 1915 classes.
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Associated Press
Berlin
Reichswehr
Hitler
Germany
Agreement on money policy is indefinite
Secretary Morgenthau described the three power monetary understanding as a flexible arrangement among Great Britain, France, and the United States with no definite dollar to pound ratio. He noted the talks aimed at stability in foreign exchanges, not debt negotiations, and commented on the Russian bank’s pound offering and its market impact.
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Washington
Morgenthau
Great Britain
France
United States
Treasury
Elements aid fire sufferers in Oregon towns
Marshfield Oregon sept 29 elements whip ped forest fires into a fury destroying a town and causing nine deaths and 3 000 000 in damage they came to the aid today of southwestern Siena s 400 000 acre empire covered by the blazes a cooling fog from the sea and an east wind gave hope previously threatened towns would escape the fate of ban don residents began rehabilitation as skeletons of buildings remained in Bandon business areas were affected by the disaster
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Marshfield
Ore
Siena
Bandon
Waco
Tex
Brazos
Cameron
Texas
Lampasas
Toledo
Vivors
Rebe
Citates
Triphantly
Alcazar
Cazar
Fasc
Azar
Buling
Masa
Nine Black Legionnaires Convicted Of Murder
In Detroit a circuit court jury convicted nine men in the Black Legion kidnapping and killing of Charles A Poole last May 12. Seven were found guilty of first degree murder and two of second degree murder. Hershel Gill was acquitted. Mrs Rebecca Poole attended the verdict.
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Detroit
Black Legion
Charles A. Poole
Hershel Gill
Joseph A. Moynihan
Moynihan
Vincent
Stephens
Even Chance To Live Given Cop
West Palm Beach Florida September 29 an even chance for life was given to patrolman James McIntosh 38 who survived four pistol bullets during a duel with Harold Jensen who lay near death after an arrest for disorderly conduct Jensen fired first as McIntosh attempted to escort him from a residence detailing a gun battle that left one man wounded and another in critical condition.
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West Palm Beach
Fra
James MclIntosh
Harold Jensen
McIntosh
Jensen
Motorists urged to exercise care in school zones
Raleigh September 29 Arthur Falk director of the division of highway safety urged motorists to take special care when driving through school zones this year noting that 159 North Carolina children under 14 were killed and 787 injured last year.
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Raleigh
Arthur Falk
Division of Highway Safety
North Carolina
Zephir Arrives Horta Azores From Bermuda
The German Lufthansa flyingboat Zephir landed at 1 10 P M G M T in Horta Azores from Bermuda after departing Bermuda early last night.
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Horta
Azores
Lufthansa
Zephir
Bermuda
Roosevelt at Syracuse for State Meet
The Associated Press reports a heated political scene as Governor Landon launches a fourth campaign swing and President Roosevelt prepares to address the Democratic state convention in Syracuse New York. Knox heads to Grand Rapids while Winant defends pension and unemployment laws. Roosevelt’s farm and budget plans loom large.
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New York
Landon
Roosevelt
Syracuse
N. Y
Topeka
Chicago
Cleveland
Detroit
Pittsburgh
Frank Knox
Michigan
Indiana
Illinois
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Grand Rapids
Social Security Board
John G. Winant
New Hampshire
Jones
House Agriculture Committee
Admiral Sims to be laid to rest with Taps in Arlington
Admiral William Snowden Sims, longtime European fleet commander and critic of naval weaknesses, died aged 77 after 42 years of service. He reshaped US gunnery under Roosevelt, refused a service medal, faced insubordination charges, and twice escaped court martial while guiding American gunners to world leading status.
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Boston
Arlington National Cemetery
William Snowden Sims
America
Sims
Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
Atlantic
Loyalists Build Strong Defense Against Madrid Drive
Loyalist forces reinforce Toledo as insurgents press toward Madrid. Government reinforcements slow while a giant defense system surrounds the capital, described as a mounting epic struggle in the war's latest phase.
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Associated Press
Toledo
Madrid
Treasury sweep nets nearly a thousand arrests nationwide
Treasury law enforcement reports show close to 1,000 arrests and several hundred illicit stills seized in a coast to coast drive against narcotics and liquor law violators. With 2,500 agents, more than 400 narcotics arrests were recorded, led by the narcotics bureau and alcohol tax unit, plus actions in San Antonio, the San Francisco Bay area, and Richmond among others.
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Washington
Treasury
Narcotics Bureau
Alcohol Tax Unit
Coast Guard
Customs Bureau
Treasury Enforcement
San Antonio
Texas
San Francisco Bay
California
Custos
Orient
Mia
Fla
Richmond
Asheville
N. C
State to Build Four Prison Camps Across State
Os car Pitts announced work would begin at once on four new prison camps and improvements at a fifth. Plans include a new women’s prison near Camp Polk, built on the colony plan with $75,000 for the first group. Johnston county and Caldwell county will each receive $30,000 camps, Mitchell and Avery counties get a shared line camp costing $30,000, Alleghany near Sparta gets $30,000, and Bladen near White Lake receives $15,000 in improvements.
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Raleigh
Oscar Pitts
State Penal Division
Capus Waynick
Highway and Public Works Commission
Camp Polk Farm
Johnston County
Pitts
Caldwell County
Hudson
Mitchell
Avery
Alleghany
Sparta
Bladen County
White Lake
Slayer Of Former Duke U Athlete Faces Mob Slaying Case
Two imprisoned men, Tommy Jones and Andrew Hemphill, are charged with first degree murder in the slayings of William M. Simpson Jr., a former Duke University athlete, and W. W. Ingram. A mob gathered outside the Grenada county jail demanding the prisoners, who fled town with the sheriff to avoid violence. The victims were shot near Hemphill’s Avalon home along the Yalobusha river bottoms.
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Grenada
Miss
Grenada County
Tommy Jones
Andrew Hemphill
William M. Simpson, Jr
Duke University
W. W. Ingram
Ed Brunson
Simpson
Ingram
Hemphill
Avalon
Yalobusha River
North and South Regions See Cloudy Skies and Rain
Weather summary shows cloudy conditions across North Carolina with occasional rain and cooler temps in the east and south. South Carolina and Georgia expect mainly cloudy nights with showers, while winds shift from southeast to south along the coast. Temperature readings list multiple stations including Charlotte around 70s and Jacksonville near 70s with notable variations across cities.
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North Carolina
East
South
Hatteras
Jacksonville
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