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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 17, 1930
Page
1
Reported divisions within the Republican ranks over Judge John J. Parker's supreme court nomination. Some urged Parker, but fear voting for him due to comments on race, prompting talks of seeking withdrawal from President Hoover.
A reported pact unites Al Capone and George Moran factions ending gang gunfire and consolidating liquor gambling and vice operations. The merged group plans a common fund to share profits and cover protection costs while excluding two rival figures. The agreement follows talks at Capone headquarters and will reshape Chicago crime power dynamics.
Republican state convention calls for readjustment of taxation and a state supported school system. It seeks a fair tax burden for all property types and relief for land values. It also urges an impartial enforcement of prohibition and a constitutional referendum.
Henry H. Curran president of the association against the prohibition amendment testifies before the senate lobby committee. He charges some government agents reports of prohibition related killings were not complete and that agents report killings to protect themselves. Curran says the group compiles statistics on killings by prohibition agents and questions whether bootlegger caused deaths are included.
The Piedmont and Northern railway suspends construction of its connecting link in North and South Carolina on orders of President W. S. Lee while the Interstate Commerce Commission pursues a federal injunction to halt the $15,000,000 project. Plans and non construction work continue, to speed final hearing and minimize delays if the court allows work to resume. The case returns to federal court in Greenville, South Carolina, with the commission seeking to prevent further extension of the railway lines.
In Washington on April 17, Republican leaders met with Parker foes to discuss the nomination of Judge John J. Parker to the Supreme Court. The session produced dubious prospects for confirmation as calls arose to urge withdrawal or to have Parker appear before the judiciary committee regarding protests from negro organizations.
Sen Dill, Democrat, charged Owen D Young chairman of General Electric with seeking to form a world wide radio trust via GE Westinghouse and RCA affiliations. He warned the move would let GE dominate RCA and its subsidiaries and tied it to the new world bank.
Mrs Hoover sustains a painful back injury after a fall in her living room described as not serious by White House physician Captain Joel T. Boone. She rested on a couch when receiving the Children of the American Revolution in the late afternoon.
Governor O Max Gardner plans a live at home meeting and banquet in Henderson this afternoon and evening. The event was rescheduled from last week to accommodate his attendance.
HARROGATE Tenn Apr 17 The chancery court at Tazewell ruled Lincoln Memorial University students expelled after a strike may use rooms and meals they paid for in advance restoring access to campus The decision backdated to include student leader Clay McCarroll and eight others while temporary orders against the protesters and three discharged professors and their wives remain in effect pending further hearings
Yeggs cracked the safe of the Kings Mountain cotton oil company last night and escaped with about 400 dollars, 370 of which were in silver. Police investigated and no arrests were reported.
J. S. Duncan of Greensboro was swept into the state Republican executive committee chairmanship by a large first ballot victory at the Charlotte convention. Duncan polled 923 votes to 823 for Jake Newell of Charlotte with 2718 23 and O. R. York receiving 232.
A delegation of 185 adult night school pupils from Buncombe Guilford and Rowan counties North Carolina visited President Hoover in Washington to present gifts including a bolt of home spun cloth and a scrapbook. Pupils planned readings but were delayed. Frank Wright spoke of his $100 a month job after years in seven grades of night school.
Senator Borah, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, announced support for the London naval limitations treaty during a conference with President Hoover. The remarks align with the administration on curbing naval arms and shaping international maritime policy.
New York April 17 Baron De Meyer the international style expert says women's legs are the real reason skirts have lengthened. He cites Paris salons and couturiers pulling skirts down to hide knees while noting American women dress with dash and distinction despite trend questions.
Representative French of Idaho said Hoover may allow laying down three of the first five 10 000 ton cruisers within 30 days. He proposed delaying the second five until late next fiscal year, aligning with London conference terms for eight ships already under construction.
Willie Massie a black man wanted in Durham for hacking his sister Dora Moore and her husband Floyd Moore to death with an axe was captured near Monroe. He was jailed in Charlotte and to be sent back to Durham to face murder charges.
Earl Sarratt, 30, attempted a solo robbery at Merchants and Planters National Bank in Gaffney. He entered with a pistol, ordered clerks to raise their hands, but was wounded in the right hand and disarmed when clerks fired, catching him by surprise.
In Batesville Arkansas Norma Osborne testified that her high school lover John Perry Barber threatened to kill her husband Maurice Osborne and urged her to help him. She admitted assisting in the plan while her husband faced a fatal shooting at the Osborne home last July.
Charlotte April 17 The plan to endow Queens-Chicora college was set after a merger decision. Presbytery meeting May 5 will bring Granville Mecklenburg and Kings Mountain pastors and elders to Queens College campus to secure the necessary 116000 toward a 300000 endowment. Some funds will come from Chicora holdings at Columbia South Carolina.
Morganton North Carolina April 17 Mrs John Benton and her alleged lover W M Adams meat salesman West Hickory were jailed on murder warrants after a coroner s inquest found Benton died at the hands of an unknown party. The verdict noted no powder burns and a downward bullet path. Evidence showed Benton was found unconscious outside his home Tuesday and his wife contradicted herself about where she was when he shot himself. Adams denies seeing Benton or his wife as officers pursue new developments.
Twenty people are reported dead and 5000 left homeless as a saw mill blaze in Cadiz Occidental Negros province burned for two days before being controlled.
Mrs Charles A Lindbergh will assist her husband on an experimental one stop transcontinental flight to New York. Lindbergh says if storms appear at high altitude celestial navigation will be used with Mrs Lindbergh making the observations.
The annual meeting of the American Association of Anatomists opened at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. More than 100 papers on anatomical research were presented. scientists from across the United States and Canada attended.
Selma North Carolina April 17 Judge N A Sinclair of the North Carolina Superior Court is summoned to appear before U S Commissioner I W Massey Saturday to answer a charge of violating federal prohibition laws A warrant was sworn by prohibition agent C Coats after a pint of whiskey was found in the judge's handbag The warrant is filed with U S Marshal E C Geddie at Raleigh and the accused may be served in Selma where the warrant will be executed Saturday The judge called the affair a frame up while a man named William H Everett claimed he planted the whiskey as a joke before Sinclair left Williamston where he had presided over court charges have been forwarded to the U S District Attorney at Wilmington N C
In Greensboro on Apr 17 two local women Mrs. R. C. Remmy and Mrs. J. V. Hunt plus Mrs. Lawrence Carson of Philadelphia were treated in a hospital after the automobile they rode in skidded and overturned near Burksville Virginia. Their injuries were not serious.
At the state Republican convention in Charlotte on April 17 two rival New Hanover county delegations were seated with half a vote per delegate. The credentials committee refused to decide the status of two county chairmen and referred the issue to the state executive committee.
Clarence S. Darrow was requested to defend Lila Jimerson a Cayuga Indian girl who pled guilty to second degree murder in the death of Mrs. Henri Marchand. Indians from the Cattaraugus and Allegheny reservations sent the appeal via Ramond Jimerson Seneca Nation president. The girl remains in a municipal hospital awaiting arraignment for sentencing as tribes seek to reopen the case claiming she was weakened by blood loss and did not understand her plea.
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