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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 14, 1933
Page
7
The Enterprise reveals costs and scores of Waele Sam's defensive warfare against li x smugglers in the final piece of six on "Running in the Rum Runners," detailing the battle metrics and outcomes.
Washington reports 18 loaded rum-runners off the U S coast between Nantucket and Cape May with 11 yesterday and 10 the day before. Coast Guard intelligence notes 28 syndicates active while crews struggle to obtain money and liquor.
The piece details ongoing smuggling battles along the Rio Grande involving liquor from Canada and Mexican smugglers. It notes clashes between agents Davenport and Riley and Mexican drivers, resulting in deaths and injuries, and cites officials like Commander Gorman and Judge Henry W. Anderson on the broader economic impact of bootlegging and prohibition. It discusses revenue losses, tax avoidance, and calls smuggling an enduring economic practice.
Over 125 paint dealers from Winston-Salem Greensboro Thomasville Asheboro Lexington and High Point attended a dinner and program at the Sheraton hotel hosted by John T. Lewis and Brothers of Philadelphia makers of Dutch Boy and Carter's lead. J W McArthur led the event urging closer ties among producers distributors and painters to spur business recovery.
In Siam, monkeys sit beside bank tellers to bite coins paid in. Their teeth marks indicate if money is genuine or counterfeit, functioning as an unusual form of currency verification.
The High Point Lions Club heard a musical program by the Singing Four, a Washington Street colored quartet, in the Elwood hotel dining room. They sang Negro spirituals such as Swing Low, Sweet Chariot and This Train's Bound for Glory. a brief business meeting preceded the program, led by Bob Smith. Felix Brockmann will lead the next meeting's program.
A cutaway chassis of a V-8 Ford was put on display today at Pat Brown, Inc., corner North Wrenn and East Washington streets. It vividly shows all working parts as they move, including the propane starter driven by special generator equipment. The machinery, property of the Ford Motor Company, will remain on display for a week or ten days.
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