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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 01, 1922
Page
1
Reports from districts show a general one day walkout of United Mine Workers members as 600000 miners, including 100000 non union workers, stop work to push wage demands. Mines in Indiana and other fields are reported tied up with limited production only in Kentucky under contract.
Wright Rouse a 72 year old Negro awaiting execution for first degree murder in the Whitley killing received a sixty day reprieve from Governor Morrison after three state insane hospitals declared him mentally deficient. Efforts to commute the sentence to life imprisonment continue with no decision until all sides are heard. Mrs Whitley and Hayes remain serving life terms as accessories.
Wilkes Barre reports indicate a total coal field shutdown as the United Mine Workers suspends operations in 58 companies running 260 collieries with about 165000 workers idle. The pause lasts two weeks to two months while wage contracts are negotiated, with district officials directing orderly conduct and no picketing.
BENTON Ill April 1 Shooting occurred today in various parts of Southern Illinois as the miners strike is said to be complete Two people were injured Jess Henson chief of police at Duquoin was seriously wounded and a policeman was slightly hurt when fired on by a miner.
An automobile was slightly damaged this morning about 9 30 o clock at the corner of Hamilton and East road streets when grease about the motor caught on fire. A runner alerted the fire department but before the truck arrived the blaze had been extinguished.
Belfast reports sixty four fatalities from factional disorders in March the deadliest month in the city's history. Francis Flynn died from injuries after a bombing incident. An arson attempt targeted a large east Belfast engineering works and three unexploded bombs were found in its yard.
In a record month for violence, 37 people were murdered in New York City from April to March, per the chief medical examiner. Twenty-nine victims died in Manhattan, eight in Brooklyn, including three women among the dead. In the last 48 hours, a woman killed, four bandits captured during a payroll robbery attempt, and a department store sub station manager shot while resisting a $9,000 robbery. three bandits also clubbed a guard and looted $1,000 from a newspaper counting room.
The cotton futures market opened steady and edged mixed as labor unrest and coal strikes influenced expectations. Weather maps showed recent rains in the eastern belt clearing, with favorable outlooks and ongoing weekly fluctuations.
Washington April 1 President Harding proclaimed April 22 as the golden anniversary of Arbor Day. He urged officials and civic groups to unite in educating the public about the wasteful forest fires and the need to conserve forests and increase tree growth for ornament and use.
Washington April 1 The French government states in its reply that it never intended to contest the right of the United States to be fully reimbursed for army costs on the Rhine, aligning with the American note on army cost reimbursement.
Former Emperor Charles of Austria Hungary dies in Funchal Madeira after a brief pneumonia illness. He and his wife were exiled to Madeira last summer after his failed bid to regain the throne.
Mor ty candidates for the Mt. Carmel high school football team of next fall were indulging in spring practice yesterday when George Robertson, drilling in zigzag running to evade imaginary tacklers, stepped into a hole and fractured a leg in two places.
A nationwide contest awards $20,000 for a plan to develop character training in public schools. The winning committee, led by Prof. I Starbuck, proposes student participation and school government as core methods to boost moral impulse and collective judgment.
In Brookline Massachusetts the Rev Edwin Curtis of the Presbyterian church faced formal charges over alleged baptism of a dog and a controversial grace. The Boston Presbytery ruled against his installation after a disputed probation period. The decision sparked a split with the congregation and a meeting to decide whether to accept the ruling. Curtis said the congregation's reaction would determine his status, not the presbytery.
In a municipal case, Olie Alford and Mary Smith faced charges amid testimonies from local residents who mocked propriety. Alford received three months, Mary one, while witnesses described alleged romantic intrigue and community gossip surrounding their visits and marriages.
Washington reports a near peak in postwar crime with a gradual drop ahead. William J. Burns, DOJ chief investigator, says it may take over three years to return to normal as prisons overflow and Camp Grant Illinois is repurposed. Hold-ups burglaries and blackmail rise with murder following.
Fayettville Ga April 1 Gems Cofield a Negro in court said he preferred hanging to five years in the penitentiary He stabbed his nephew who had turned State s evidence on a burglary charge The wounded man died Tuesday Cofield was found guilty of murder and sentenced to be hanged May 5.
A court recounts Mary and Alford in a tense case. Logan defends virtue as Alford is repeatedly jailed after alleged assaults and drunken behavior. The judge proposes separate sentences to keep them apart.
Local Nobles are summoned to a 8 PM meeting at the Sheraton hotel to conduct important business. The session aims to organize the spring ceremonial planned for High Point and invites visiting Shriners to attend with permission of temporary officers.
A joint Chamber of Commerce and Woman's Club committee led by A. E. Tate asks Guilford County Commissioners to approve cattle tuberculosis inspections. The plan, backed by the state agriculture department, would fund tuberculin tests with half costs to the state and half to the county, citing widespread cattle infection and links to human tuberculosis.
Fisher, injured yesterday at Central City park when a blazing airplane he was piloting crashed, caused the deaths of Les Costa, 22, of Anthony Kansas, and Ray Roundtree 32 known as Jules Devereux of Portland Oregon an automobile race driver currently in critical condition. An inquest will be held today.
In Plattsburg New York on April 1 a seven inch thick snow layer on the roof helped inhibit spread as the Cady block a city landmark was destroyed by a fire causing about 250000 dollars in losses.
Cambridge won the annual Putney to Mortlake boat race finishing five lengths ahead of Oxford on the Thames. The Cambridge crew led from the start and clinched victory in the traditional contest reported by The Associated Press.
Jackson April 1 The special committee investigating Governor Lee M. Russell's charges against fire insurance interests for a alleged pernicious lobby and a $100,609 seduction suit filed by former stenographer Miss Francis Birkhead reported to the Mississippi house that the inquiry failed to substantiate the allegations.
Frankfort reporters say the Kentucky general assembly in the closing days of the 1922 session passed a law that classifies burglars and murderers together and fixes the penalty for breaking into a dwelling at night at life imprisonment or death by jury choice. The act also denies parole to embezzlers from banks bank robbers willful murderers arsonists highway robbers and persons convicted of crimes against women.
The March report by local observer A. Bu. Horney records 11 clear days 12 cloudy days and 8 partly cloudy days. Total precipitation was 7.57 inches with 1.47 inches in the heaviest 24 hour period. Fourteen days saw rainfall over one tenth of an inch.
Reports indicate portions of a levee near Helena Arkansas were breaking after the Ida storm. Sub levees of sandbags hold back flood water as crews assess damage overnight and monitor river levels.
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