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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1930
Page
14
A Rome report details how a uniformed officer visits bookshops three times weekly to deliver lists of forbidden titles. Booksellers remove banned volumes and cancel publisher orders, while the Vatican Index bans heresy related works. The government and Vatican Indexes cover different spheres.
A government index of forbidden books includes many titles as expected and strikingly lists Mussolini himself. The text notes the irony of the name appearing among works banned for other grounds.
An Italian duce-backed purge bans specific works including The Cardinal's Mistress and All Quiet on the Western Front. The list targets antiwar titles from Remarque and Barbusse, with officials relying on booksellers to enforce suspensions as licenses hinge on compliance.
The Chinese Dramatic club of Shanghai staged The Merchant of Venice in translation with a long run and broad appeal. The amateur group drew patronage from both rich and poor alike in Shanghai.
A recruit wearing No 14 shoes enlisted in the army. One day an officer asks if anyone has seen O Halloran. A voice replies that he has gone up to the crossroads to turn around, per the Vancouver Sun.
ASHEVILLE August 1 An inquest was scheduled to determine responsibility for a head on collision eight miles north of Asheville on Mountain highway. A light truck carrying mountain folk and a heavy sedan with sightseers collided killing four: Mrs Cindy Jones 76 Miss Tessner 38 Cecil Anderson 14 and John White 21 all Paint Fork valley. Five others were injured and hospitalized including Ada Wecker Miss Mignon Wright from Moline Illinois while Miss Alice Good and Miss Josephine Wolfe of Cincinnati were not seriously hurt.
Wilbert Privett and his bride from Black Creek North Carolina began their honeymoon in a Wilmington hospital after their car overturned near Jacksonville on the wedding trip to Wilmington Beach. They wed in Black Creek yesterday morning.
Mrs J W Neal 904 Sixth street fell dead this afternoon around 3 30 while canning peaches. Doctors attribute death to a heart attack. a head injury from the fall caused a laceration not considered fatal. Mrs Neal moved here from Durham six months ago and is survived by 12 children.
The Swedish American line's Kungsholm now offers trap shooting with two cannons to launch clay pigeons over the sea. Guns are available and a clay pigeon expert instructs passengers aboard the ship.
In Galveston Texas Lillian Willworth a 20 year old Portland stenographer is Oregon entry in the Miss Universe pageant. She was chosen Miss Oregon in a Lions clubs beauty contest statewide.
The High Point Civic band will give a concert Sunday night at 7 45 in City Park at North Main and Church streets. Auditorium chairs will be placed around the band with a stand to seat the crowd and parking provided on the Elm street school playground. A 10 minute religious talk will be given by Dr A B Conrad of the First Baptist church.
The monoplane Greater St. Louis passed 264 hours of sustained flight at 7 11 a m Aug 1 local time en route to a new endurance mark. Pilots Dale Jackson and Forest O Brine, both former record holders, began the 12th day aloft and reported all systems go.
Rhine highway officials abandon white tree trunks for phosphorescent bands on trees along roads. The glowing trunks aid nighttime motorists by marking roadway edges in darkness.
Detroit inventor M. R. Zimmerman applies for a patent on an automatic variable pitch propeller. The device uses springs and cams to adjust blade pitch during takeoff for maximum climb efficiency.
Leonard Osbaldiston aimed to set a record, succeeding with a feat rooted in London, though details remain fragmentary from the source text.
A roller skater rolled for 24 hours straight setting a world record by covering 200 miles and 1000 yards without a stop. The feat demonstrates exceptional endurance and pacing across the continuous distance on wheels.
The New Zealand Supreme Court recently ruled that operating vending machines does not violate laws governing store closing hours. The decision affirms that vending operations do not conflict with the mandated closing time.
Within thirty minutes of cows being fed garlic the milk shows detectable garlic flavor and odor. The observation notes a rapid transfer of aroma from feed to milk, indicating garlic compounds pass into dairy output quickly.
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