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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1930
Page
13
J Parker Smith a former blue sky stock salesman in Asheville was granted six more months to raise funds to reimburse investors who lost in the tax Pax stores scheme. He must show 19000 dollars by then or face two to three years in prison. nearly 10000 dollars has been refunded so far.
Detroit notes say Scott Dillingham once a high powered Asheville real estate promoter and alleged blue sky violator linked to Florida and Cuba. He avoided North Carolina, and his return for trial hinges on Buncombe County prosecutor decision.
A station operator Pearl Lewis, 30, left a note blaming bad women and liquor before shooting and killing himself near here. F W Williams, a Negro lawyer, indicted for charging over $10 for aiding in veteran benefits from the U S veterans bureau. Robbers stopped Hugh Mobley of Rutherford as he traveled to Hendersonville and took his valuables. Fay Metteville Presbytery meeting at Axton favored organic union with the United Presbyterian church.
One hundred Winthrop college girls depart from Ock Hill South Carolina for a Washington trip sponsored by the government and the history department of the college.
Elizabeth City Mary W. Harris of Elizabeth City named state councillor for next year by the Daughters of America during the state convention held here.
D J Roberts engineer for a Raleigh fuel firm was electrocuted when a metal rod he was using touched a high tension line. The incident occurred as he worked near the line, leaving the cause under investigation.
Under Prof. Alois F. Kovarik at Yale University a team of researchers will determine the earth’s age. The work involves chemical experiments and tests aimed at a precise dating of the planet’s formation.
The article notes Guglielmo Marconi born April 25 1874 in Bologna to an Italian father and Irish mother. It covers his early interest in electricity after reading of Hertz waves and his wireless experiments, Italy’s initial rejection, move to London, and success in cross Atlantic wireless telegraphy before WWI and Nobel Prize in 1909.
Wilma Jane Stephen 17, senior at Pine Bluff High School Arkansas, is named class president and sorority president. She wins the state French language contest and is elected to Quill and Scroll and National Honor Society.
A playful mix of crossword style clues and fashion notes. Guidance suggests wearing a small flower with a V neckline and replacing old wallpaper for neater results.
Philadelphia April 25 two of America's top young athletes Barney Berlinger of Pennsylvania and Leo Lermond of the Boston A. A. sparked the 36th Penn relays opener. Berlinger eyed a sub nine minute decathlon and possibly the American record while Lermond sought Tommy Connett's 3 24 5 for three quarters and aimed to boost chances in a one mile race against Ray Conger.
Long Beach California April 25 heavy seas continued to pound the waterfront baffling harbor officials. The rollers swept from the calm ocean and broke through the breakwater. A branch estimated 150 to 300 feet wide was opened at nightfall yesterday.
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