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High Point Enterprise

Location

High Point, North Carolina, United States of America

Date

Apr 06, 1928

Page

2

Salvation Army Youth Division Opens State Conference

The third annual state conference of the Young People’s Division of the Salvation Army opens at the high school with 400 delegates from 22 towns including Winston-Salem Greensboro Durham and Raleigh. A noon parade through the business district accompanies sessions, group councils, papers, and a 7:30 pm pageant at the American Theatre. Delegates camp on the grounds awaiting tomorrow’s aero encampment photo.

Young People’s Division The Salvation Army Winston-Salem Greensboro Durham Raleigh Salisbury Hendersonville Henderson Charlotte Asheville Gastonia Mt. Airy New Bern Wilmington Hickory Wilson Fayetteville Statesville Greenville Goldsboro Burlington Rocky Mount Kinston Hoe Halpin Hopkins Ensign Evans Marshall Life Saving Guards Scout Jones Street Lindsay Church Main High Wrenn Washington McIntyre Willard Evans Doris Baker C. C Florence O’bierne Brigadier Hopkins Edgar Hoe H. Purdum John O’bierne A. Young Simon the Cyrenian W. A. McIntyre

Hoover Delegates Favored For Hoover In North Carolina and Kentucky

North Carolina republicans claim two more Lowden delegate votes for the Kansas City convention. Willis Briggs and Ezra Parker named for the fourth district with a total of 20 NC delegates. Kentucky Republicans vote 29 for Hoover with instruction to back him at Kansas City. party unity urged.

Lowden Raleigh Wake County North Carolina Kansas City Lowdon Willis G. Briggs Ezra Parker Benson Johnson County London A. A. Whitner Hickory W. J. Bragg Boone C. F. Poole Taylorsville Hoover Kentucky

Man Admits Killing Friend in Alabama

Lee Cobb, 25, a Skinnerton farmer, walked into Monroe county jail and confessed to shooting and killing Sterling A. Brown, 35, a mail carrier and lifelong friend. Cobb faces murder charges. grand jury will hear the case. Officials could not determine a motive for the killing, which occurred yesterday as Brown placed a letter in an R F D box. Both men were married.

Monroeville Ala Lee Cobb Skinnerton Monroe County Sterling A. Brown Cobb

Medical advance guard to tackle cancer meets in Washington

The first group of medical specialists surgeons and technical personnel mobilized by the United States government to fight cancer will assemble in Washington next Monday following a call from Surgeon General Hugh S. Cumming.

Washington United States Hughs. Cumming

A Sap's Fables Grief In Days Gone By

Vergil Pollock mourned his wife with public scenes rather than private sorrow. He learned sympathy from his boss, who had not attended the funeral. Pollock exclaimed that he raised hell at the grave, noting people judge grief by display. The tale ends with a proverb about misreading depth by appearances.

Vergil Pollock Mr. Connolly Vergil

Fire at Regla Standard Oil refinery rages after attempts to contain

Fire at the Belot oil refinery in Regla across Havana harbor raged for seven hours with multiple explosions after an initial blaze at 10 pm. Two hundred U S battleship Wyoming sailors aided, twelve later treated for minor burns, while Havana and Cuban forces fought outbreaks. Fourteen tanks destroyed. by morning three tanks still burning. A second outbreak occurred after an apparent containment.

Regia Havana United States Wyoming Red Cross Burna Belot Oil Standard Oil Company of Cuba New Jersey Standard Oil Company Regla

Convicts and boy sought in California abduction case

Police pursue nine year old Walter Collins and eight ex prisoners from Folsom penitentiary amid fear of a feud provoking the alleged kidnapping. Officers link the father's prison reporting duties to possible reprisal by releasees. A reported sighting of a dead boy in a car strengthens the abducted narrative.

Los Angeles California Walter Collins Folsom Penitentiary Folsom Collins Walter J

Ancient crab lineage traced 25 million years in Grand Canyon find

A fossil report by Dr. Charles W. Gilmore of the Smithsonian notes North Carolina sand crab lineage dating about 25 million years. Tracks were first found in 1903 by Walcott in Coconino sandstone, with a second specimen found twelve years later by Prof. Charles Schuchert.

Washington North Carolina Grand Canyon Charles W. Gilmore Smithsonian Institution Colorado River Charles D. Walcott Coconino Grand View Trail Charles Schuchert

Fossil trackway likened to living sand crabs in Permian study

Yale and Dr. Gilmore interpret a sandstone slab as a Permian trackway with two parallel lines of four imprints, three regular tracks and a fourth inward offset. Remington Kellogg of the US Geological Survey noted the similarity to living sand crabs observed on Hatteras Island, North Carolina.

Yale Gilmore Remington Kellogg United States Biological Survey Hatteras Island N. C

First Woman Leads Prayer at Massachusetts House

In Boston Rev Flora M Neagles opened a session of the Massachusetts house of representatives marking the first public prayer by a woman in 148 years of General Court history. Neagles is pastor of Bethany Memorial Christian Church.

Boston Flora M. Neagles Massachusetts House of Representatives General Court Old Commonwealth Miss Neagles Bethany Memorial Christian

Death probe widens after woman found dead in car near Hornado

Officials investigate the death of Mrs. A F Carselle whose body was found slumped at the steering wheel of a car in a clump of oak trees north of Hornado Florida. Identified by letters from Commerce Georgia and Birmingham and Mobile Alabama she was from Commerce Georgia and had spent winter near Limona ten miles east of Tampa.

Tampa Fla A. F. Carselle Hornado Commerce Birmingham Mobile Ala Limona Here

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