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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 02, 1930
Page
1
An army of 120000 census enumerators begins the 1930 census, visiting homes urban and rural to gather data on population employment illiteracy home ownership and farm conditions. Each worker carries a map and long questionnaire, with modern machinery aiding speed of the nationwide count.
Dr Charles Haddon Nabers to leave Pensacola First Presbyterian to become pastor here. He will finish duties Easter Sunday April 20 and preach first sermon April 27. committee says second call was unanimously approved and the decision was deemed a call from the Lord. Nabers has served Pensacola church since 1920s, with 50 percent membership growth and more than double charitable contributions in seven years.
An overcrowded Wakato Maru ferry with about 200 passengers capsized off Wakamatsu Kyushu in high seas. Forty eight bodies were recovered and search efforts continue as officials fear more fatalities.
Paris reports say Wakatsuki told Stimson and MacDonald of Japan's reply to the tripartite London agreement. Tokyo signals virtual acceptance, with reservations not expected to derail the pact. Briand and Grandi joined the talks at St James's, with further discussions planned.
Washington April 2 three Wagner bills to relieve unemployment moved forward as the Senate commerce committee subcommittee favored their passage. The bills propose a federal agency to plan public works over long periods and accelerate jobs during downturns with a 150 million dollar appropriation. They call for federal unemployment agencies to work with states and expand unemployment statistics gathering. The subcommittee asked Wagner to confer with Jones on a tied prosperity fund proposal.
In a memorandum to the senate lobby committee J. W. Worthington predicts President Hoover would veto a Muscle Shoals government operation bill. The note argues that pursuing government operation is futile if a veto awaits passage, leaving lawmakers back at square one.
A telegram from Bishop John A. O'Shea reports 16 American Catholic missionaries besieged by bandits in Kanchow. Relief troops have not arrived and local garrison is unable to guard against marauders led by communist leaders. The bishop urged Nanking to take the situation seriously.
Miss Nina E. Gemmell former Tacoma and Girard resident and the Rev and Mrs R W Porteus British missionaries captured last Thursday when bandits raided Yuanchow are held for 20000 Mexican dollars each. Abducted workers location unknown and three others who escaped are believed to be hiding in East Changsha Hunan province.
The American YMCA secretary at Hanchang Kiangsi telegraphed that the danger from bandit and communist forces in the city has eased slightly. Foreigners remain prepared to depart on short notice if threats return. Two missionary families have already left for safer districts.
Stockholm reports the National Bank of Sweden lowered its discount rate from 4 percent to 3 4 percent today. The move affects monetary policy in Sweden.
Washington April 2 city chieftains urged prohibition enforcement and a Hoovers plan for stronger city laws as hearings closed on repeal measures. McBride of the Anti-Saloon League pressed education and enforcement while others urged retaining the eighteenth amendment and urging rebels be treated as violators of the law.
Mrs Lucy H Robertson President Emeritus of Greensboro College is critically ill in the college infirmary. She served for many years as president and is widely known in the community.
Immigrant officials report about 780 Russians in the United States hold deportation papers though no place exists to send them. Madame Anastasia Tchaikovsky challenges czarist lineage as authorities struggle with a decade of unresolved cases after Russia closed its borders in 1921.
In Monticello Iowa residents cast fifty write-in votes for Al Capone for mayor. The famed Chicago gangster drew no formal opposition to incumbent Mayor B First, and officials noted the votes were only symbolic, with Capone receiving no real chance at office.
The national Catholic welfare conference informed the state department that members of the American Catholic mission at Kanchow China, who were reported endangered by brigands last week, are now safe. The notice was released from Washington on April 2.
Five year old Buddy Gilreath of Piedmont died in a local hospital from injuries after being struck by an automobile near Piedmont.
Lebec report says the Quebec legislative assembly voted 52 to to approve granting separate schools for the Jewish population on the island of Montreal.
Raleigh April 2 state bank examiner John Mitchell issued the call for the condition of state banks as of March 27. The report will cover each bank's assets liabilities and earnings and provide a snapshot of the state banking system.
George S. Harris of New York City was named a member of the board of directors of Lima Locomotive Company Inc at a stockholders meeting held in Richmond on April 2.
The restaurant owner who served bear meat to patrons a few days earlier died today from trichinosis. He becomes the tenth victim linked to the repast, as reported from Germany on Apr 2.
King Albert and Queen Elizabeth arrived home from their Egyptian trip. They were greeted at the station by Prince Leopold, Princess Astrid, Burgomaster Ma and government officials. In a separate report, John Vitale, 35, was killed in a gunfight with two youths suspected of attempting to shake down an alleged speakeasy.
Lee Schoenhair landed in Newark from Miami at 2:30 p m carrying photographs of the Byrd Antarctic expedition for the Associated Press New York Times and Paramount News. He flew the Goodrich monoplane Missa Slivertown took off from Miami at 5:34 a m completing the flight from Balboa Panama Canal Zone after refueling in Richmond Virginia. The pictures are among the first to reach the United States after the Byrd expedition ended its exploration.
In Wadesboro on April 2 Richard Knotts 12 was run over and killed by a car driven by J A Walker justice of the peace of Ellerbe. To avoid hitting the boy Walker drove into a lumber truck which overturned injuring passengers John Dunn and Lee Price.
Carl Laemmle announced Universal Pictures has voted a 22.6 million dollar production program for twenty pictures. Officials said the budget covers all costs including development, photography and post production for the slate.
Washington April 2. Senator lobby committee hears telegrams asserting Josephus Daniels of Raleigh may back Franklin D. Roosevelt for president on a platform favoring government ownership and operation of power, specifically Muscle Shoals, while remaining committed to Norris policy.
Dublin report states a motion in the Dial Hireann to elect Eamon de Valera Fianna Fail leader as president of the Free State council was defeated by 93 to 74 late today. The result reflects party leadership changes amid ongoing political maneuvering in Ireland.
Henry Ford and Mrs. Ford arrived in Charleston this morning in a special railroad car from Detroit. They will stay a day or two and visit the Magnolia and Middleton Place gardens.
Captain Frank Hawks arrived at the Oklahoma City municipal airport in a glider attached to an airplane at 12 39 today. He departed Wichita Falls Texas at 11 a m.
The American monoplane Pilot under Captain Lewis A. Yancey and two crew members, W. H. Alexander and Zeb Bouck, arrived safely at Hamilton after a 750 mile flight from New York. The craft, equipped with pontoons, spent the night at sea and was towed to a buoy off the dockyards by the motor launch Gregory.
Mrs W Thomas Bost of Raleigh assumed the post as State Commissioner of Public Welfare the second woman to hold the job in North Carolina. She succeeds Mrs Kate Burr Johnson who led for nine years and has moved to New Jersey to head the state home for girls in Trenton. Bost spent time acquainting herself with duties and was active in the North Carolina Federation of Women's Clubs.
Fifteen hundred artillery men joined forest fire fighting near Fort Bragg in Fayetteville North Carolina when a stubborn brush fire threatened powder magazines. The troops were deployed about 9 pm and gained control before midnight, preventing danger to the ammunition storage.
In Ottawa on April 2 the senate debated the government bill to ban liquor exports to the United States. Senator Willoughby urged a special committee to study effects on Canada's economy and relations, but Senator Dandurand resisted, arguing against the amendment. Willoughby warned Volstead act enforcement and possible continuing smuggling despite new law.
The opening of Dixie's first school for negro domestics in Atlanta promotes responsibility among maids and butlers. The program teaches not quitting without notice and honesty, with free training in a model home funded by the Atlanta Community Employment Service and the Julius Rosenwald Foundation plus local contributions.
The government asked the Supreme Court to take jurisdiction of Albert B. Fall's bribery conviction without awaiting the D C Circuit's ruling. Government lawyers Owen Roberts and Atlee Pomerene argued only law questions are involved. They contend Fall lacked authority for Doheny leases and raised issues over juror exclusion, evidence, and instructions.
George M. Dever an Oakland barber filed in superior court for 101800 alleging he was permanently crippled from an initiation into Oakland lodge No 103 Knights of Pythias in October He claims two broken knees and other dislocations.
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