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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 1921
Page
3
The German note to President Harding rejecting mediation is reported as the Reichstag clatters over consultative failures. Berlin faces a cabinet crisis as Simons’s position weakens, while Paris London and Washington await Germany’s stance on gold exports and reparations terms.
A bill to exclude all immigration for one year, passed by the house yesterday, will be pressed through the senate early next week. Senate immigration committee Chair Colt said the committee would meet Tuesday to consider the bill, with Senator King of Utah offering a substitute bill.
Rev. A C Hamby of Winston-Salem delivered a sermon on five refuges essential to salvation at Green Street Baptist church during a revival. He argued for refuge from the devil and sin, from consequences and an accusing conscience, and from judgment, urging listeners to trust Jesus Christ. services continue daily at 2:30 pm and 7:30 pm with listed sermon titles.
Newport News April 23 J P Morgans yacht Corsair reported aground off the South Carolina coast arrived at Old Point Comfort at 9 30 am Two men and two women left the yacht and traveled to New York City Quarantine officers said no prior grounding report aboard the vessel The Corsair had just returned from a voyage to Cuba and the Bermuda Islands with passengers aboard
Dr Percival Hall president of Gallaudet college told Northeast H Street Business Men's association in the Northeast Masonic hall that the area along H Street will soon be a major business center. The group celebrated its first anniversary with remarks and entertainment by Edmund Burke Hary Wilhelm Paul Garner Jacob Wolt Frank Garner Miss Adele Sachs Mrs Kitty Garner and Charles H Scheer. Officers were reelected: Herbert Newsem president Myer Fisher vice president Clarence Posten secretary and H D White treasurer of the American Security and Trust Company.
Health officials ordered all city schools shut in New London Connecticut after a large cluster of scarlet fever cases appeared among pupils. Authorities said the outbreak was not alarming.
Seven United Mine Workers locals sent appeals to Governor Kilby for immediate aid to 3232 miners and families in the northern Alabama coal fields. Union officials said relief funds trickle in while hunger grows and local employment is denied to workers.
Paris April 228 final details outline French plans to enforce reparations in the Ruhr. Britain and Belgium will assist as the occupation forces, with about 100900 French troops deployed. A civilian administration would oversee the region while German industrial personnel run factories under expert oversight.
President Harding will attend the groundbreaking for the National Baptist memorial to Roger Williams and religious liberty in Washington on April 23. Prominent Baptists from across the country gather for the event as the project, begun four years ago by northern and southern Baptists, aims for about $500000 in cost. The Emmanuel church site was dedicated a year ago during the Southern Baptist convention.
Denver banker John A. Fish, traveling from Laramie to Cheyenne, battled a blizzard for eighteen hours. To stay awake he jabbed a steel pin from his coat, keeping himself alive until rescuers found him semi conscious with frozen feet and face. Doctors said he would recover.
Dr Henry N Snyder of Spartanburg South Carolina arrives in High Point tonight to deliver a union service address at Wesley Memorial church at 11 tomorrow morning and a second speech at South Main Street church at 730 in the evening. He is assistant director and president of Wofford college in Spartanburg. Also noted are Mr and Mrs W Lewis Tabb and their children Mildred and Lewis Jr Greensboro visitors attending the Virginia Carolina ballgame at Cone Park
Frederic A. Cummings, seen as a focal executive candidate, has worked in High Point for weeks and may be released by national headquarters. Directors plan an eight hundred member drive at $5 annual fee with forty canvassing teams to enroll citizens and sustain ongoing community service work.
S O Schaub a Southern railway freight agent received a letter from the U S Department of Agriculture requesting information and pictures on starting a flower garden like his near the station. The department learned of his flowers through tourists and locals, aiming to replicate his admired garden.
Washington April 23. Senate exchanges defend Col George Harvey against Mississippi Senator Harrison. Reed blasts attacks, praising Harvey's intellect and patriotism and defending presidential editor appointment. Lodge says Harvey, abroad, represents the American government, not a party, and notes his past service to the Democratic cause and Harding administration.
National Farmers' union convention in Washington urged unified railway control and condemned the Esch Cummins bill as a failure. The report argued farmers receive only 3 percent of product value while labor earns around 35 percent, blaming freight rates railway mismanagement and Federal Reserve actions for high living costs.
Washington April 23. The prohibition regulations set a maximum of four and seven eighths gallons of beer and three gallons of wine per prescription. Commissioner Kramer announced the limit awaits approval from David H. Blair the new commissioner of revenue.
At Guantanamo Bay April 23 the Atlantic fleet staged boxing and wrestling to crown champions. Theodore Roosevelt Jr. attended as spectator and urged that the navy be filled with men who are not soft or Little Lord Fauntleroys, but real men who deserve respect.
Five World War I servicemen died in France and Belgium in 1918 were brought to High Point by train No 7. The flag dog tag names include Corporal James W. Pegram Sergeant Gilbert B. White Reubin E. Davis Berth Whitehart and Sergeant Thomas J. McDowell. Albert Grover Jenkins of Camp Meade Md led the military escort. Funeral dates and locations span Wesley Memorial church Trinity chapel Marlboro and Ashboro courthouse with services led by pastors W A Lambeth J E Woosley and church officials. A double funeral for White Hart and Grant is planned in about a week.
New York April 23 a stronger tone developed in the cotton market today with greater activity among commission houses. After opening steady at 1 to 6 points advance, May rose to 12.06 July to 12.70 and October to 13.30. Cotton futures opened steady with May 11.88 July 12.50 October 13.18 December 3.62.
Telegrams from Petrograd report renewed peasant uprisings across the Ukraine district between the Dneiper and Demester rivers. Rebels aim to push Bolshevists to the left bank of the Dneiper as trains are torn up and Bolshevists retaliate with mass executions, with reports of about 2,000 killed.
North Carolina banks resist absorbing large portions of the new bond issue unless treasurer Ben Lacy shifts policy. Governor Morrison backs changing the arrangement, threatening a capitol clash if the treasurer resists. Advisors differ on selling bonds via state banks, with NY buyers offering seven percent and hopes for five percent domestically. Also reports parole for Robert P. Michael and Leake’s refusal to join the highway commission.
Richmond Virginia April 23 George G Shannenhouse longtime Bearboard Air Line conductor dies in Richmond His body to be taken to Rockingham North Carolina tomorrow for burial
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