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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1931
Page
3
Raleigh report on the state budget crisis as lawmakers debate a senate luxury sales tax plan with referendum in 1932. House factions express dissatisfaction while representatives criticize leadership and push for ad valorem taxes and school funding actions.
Senator Dunlap and colleagues criticize a House compromise on a sales tax as a step toward a permanent tax policy. He reiterates opposition to sales taxes, supports a luxury tax only if a sales tax is adopted, and urges a voter referendum to decide. Other senators back the stance, warning unity among opponents.
In Salisbury federal court Judge John son J. Hayes sentenced five Davidson county men for violations of federal prohibition laws. Lester Davis of Tyre township pled guilty and faced a potential year and a day in Atlanta prison with a $1000 fine, but the judge offered an alternative six months in Davidson county jail with a $1500 fine. Davis may opt to serve the shorter local term.
In Salisbury federal court Fred Williams and Fate R Swicegood, both from Tyre township, receive two year sentences to Chillicothe reform school after being seized for transporting gallons of whisky in Davie county. They had been on bond since their October hearing.
A. P. Grice trustee will sell at Guilford courthouse Greensboro NC on Monday May 4 1931 at 12 oclock noon the lot in High Point Guilford County bounded Sunset Drive Council Street and described as Lot 74 Sheraton Hills Plat Book No page 33. Deposit of 100 required to highest bidder.
Mrs Rose and her young son in Seaview Crescent Essex were jolted from sleep by a loud crash when part of the cliff beneath their house caved in. Built 19 years ago the dwelling stood about 30 yards from the cliff edge and now hangs over it.
City relief agency calls citizens to call 2039 for help finding work such as cooking cleaning grounds maintenance or repairs. The Emergency Committee for Employment operates from City Hall basement with Mrs W KE Price as secretary and assistants ready to cooperate.
Lexington reports its first financing under the new local government commission. David son’s county issues $20,000 in tax anticipation notes sold in Raleigh to meet current expenses. The Bank of Lexington bought the notes at par with 5 percent interest, for a two month term.
The Right Rev Edwin A Penick bishop coadjutor of the Episcopal diocese of North Carolina preached at Grace Episcopal church in Lexington and confirmed a class of candidates during an 8 o clock service yesterday evening.
Wichita report notes Morrill Geb faces state prison and continues to battle a felon record as new legal troubles unfold. The fragment reflects a troubled life intersecting crime and punishment in Kansas.
Hart ordered by the court to pay 190 dollars monthly to his wife as alimony. The settlement has lingered in court for four years. Gebhart inherited the bulk of his father’s estate after prison in 1927, and Mrs Gebhart began alimony action immediately after.
In Calcutta and India the new sign near Karachi airport displays distances over 1000 miles and points toward London 4095 miles away as a rare guide to routes to London Bagdad Bombay Quetta and Delphi.
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