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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1936
Page
1
The French Senate votes to devalue the franc and suspends part of the June monetary law. Debates focus on separating price setting from the bill, with opposition to extending the measure to salaries and tax on gold holdings amid finance sector scrutiny.
Shanghai reports say Chinese authorities told Tokyo they will not relent on indemnities and will counter with further actions. Listed Chinese demands include recovery of Manchoukuo, cancellation of the 1932 Shanghai truce, a Chinese embargo on Japanese goods, suspension of Japanese troop moves in North China, and curbing Tokyo's control of northern provinces. Chiang Kai-shek vows to defend sovereignty amid Sino Japanese crisis.
The Reichsbank board met to decide the fate of the mark amid wholesale devaluation of currencies. High officials deliberated how to address the currency crisis and restore confidence.
Washington reports the Civilian Conservation Corps will take in 109,276 men during the first two weeks of October to maintain a 350,000 strength. The enrollment includes 7,525 youths, 7,120 veterans, and 4,991 local experienced workers, with 16,200 added from drought-affected areas. North Carolina, Tennessee, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana will contribute from the drought states.
The campaign enters a busy October stretch with less than five weeks to the November 3 vote. Roosevelt criticizes anti communism charges while Landon reshapes his message in Kansas and Ohio. Knox and Winant join the drive on the campaign trail in pivotal states.
A. Sherrod, a longtime High Point figure in furniture and real estate, died suddenly at 1:50 this morning at his home 1100 North Main Street after suffering a heart attack during the night. Born November 18 1860 in Martin County he moved to High Point in 1898 and founded the Best Chair factory later led Union Furniture and became a key real estate operator and president of the High Point Insurance Realty Co.
Reports from Burgos detail General Francisco Franco being formally installed as chief of the insurgent Spanish state. Madrid begins evacuating children toward Valencia as rebels push toward the capital, with a rear guard said to have cleansed Toledo of red influence and reaching Illescas, about 22 miles from Madrid.
President Roosevelt on the way to Washington launches his re election drive by repudiating any communistic support and attacking Republican evasions on social security and taxation at Syracuse. He denounces communism as a false issue and calls for its prompt burial.
San Francisco reports a threatened coast wide strike as working agreements near expiration. Employers and unions debate contract terms and potential 60 day extensions while vessels in San Francisco and San Pedro race to depart before midnight and the maritime commission weighs arbitration options.
Earl Browder communist presidential candidate and two New York associates were arrested in Terre Haute Indiana as they stepped from a Chicago train. Police Chief James C Yates cited vagrancy charges to prevent Browder from speaking that night. Browder, Waldo Frank and Seymour Waldman were held pending investigation and Browder vowed to speak if allowed.
Greensboro reporter notes Henry Odum 26 faces a preliminary hearing in Guilford County jail on a highway robbery charge tied to the January 18 1933 Bank of Gibsonville robbery. Identified by bank cashier R L Walters and customer H L Waynick, Odum is linked to three others blamed for the $1200 theft. four men were reportedly executed for murder. Odum was moved from Ashburn Georgia to Guilford yesterday by a deputy sheriff.
In Grenada Mississippi two Black men Thomas Jones aged 45 and Andrew Hemphill aged 43 were convicted of murdering W. W. Simpson Jr a Duke University athlete and W. R. Ingram 21. The jury condemned them to death with execution set for November 6. A state witness said the shootings happened as the pair moved out household goods from a Negro tenant after warnings to leave the plantation.
Thomasville Sept 30 Special Struck by a truck late yesterday afternoon five year old Thomas Albert Thornburg died last night at City Memorial Hospital from internal injuries and a broken leg. Driver Lee Jordan was not charged the accident deemed unavoidable. The child, son of Mr and Mrs Reid Thornburg, survived by five sisters and two brothers. Funeral Thursday at Unity Chapel with Rev W R Jenkins. Interment Fairgrove Cemetery.
The state board of health reports a weekly rise in chickenpox diphtheria and typhoid fever in North Carolina. There were 13 chickenpox cases up from five, 81 diphtheria up from 53, and 31 typhoid up from 28.
James Hill Nekro suffered critical burns after slipping into a waist-deep vat of boiling water at the Atlas Plywood company in Goldsboro. He was helping lower logs into the boiling water for veneering when the accident occurred late last night.
Coroner John A. Sergeant says evidence shows no foul play in the Lake Murray drowning of George W. Hart, 29, formerly of Asheville. Hart's body was recovered yesterday four days after he disappeared from a farm near the lake.
Crew members prevented the United States liner President Roosevelt from sailing for Europe today with a sit down strike. The action halted departure as workers protested aboard the ship. The incident disrupted plans for the voyage and drew naval officer attention aboard the New York harbor.
An armed posse led by Sheriff Clyde Stephenson of Northampton County and Sheriff Charlie Grizzard of Greenville County Virginia pursued four Negro suspects after a daytime robbery and a fatal shooting of Atwood and Billy Smith near the Virginia line. Billy Smith died while asleep on a cot.
Captain Halse led the England to Johannesburg air derby before crashing outside Salisbury, 678 miles from the finish. He was rushed to a hospital, Reuters reported from Cape Town.
Heavy rain did not interrupt patrols as armed deputies guard Monarch mill area. About three quarters of the usual shift returned to work while conciliation talks with federal labor officials yielded no progress. The mill, closed earlier this month, reopened yesterday with guards and plans to run a single shift until further notice.
In a soggy Polo Grounds debut, Big Red Ruffing and the Yankee infield faltered in the eighth inning as the New York Giants, led by Carl Hubbell, defeated the Yankees 6 to 1. The delay and field moppings paused play before a World Series crowd as Crosetti and Dimaggio opened for New York.
Reverend T. Ande of Jonesville Va died after being bitten twice by a copperhead and once by a rattlesnake during a Sunday faith demonstration. Dr T B Ely said the delays in treatment and illness worsened his condition. the preacher had been a former schoolteacher and political candidate.
Cloudy conditions prevail across North Carolina with cooler spells tonight in the extreme southeast and a milder drop in the western north portions on Thursday.
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