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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1922
Page
1
More than 100 chiefs of the six federated shopcrafts voted to accept President Harding's proposal to end the strike. A committee was appointed to draft the text of acceptance and send it to the president. Thomas A. Heeley of the oilers' union said his group would concur.
A picnic party of 24 returning from a mountain trip overturned near Grandfather Mountain. Hallett Sawyer, 14, of Shulls Mills, is fatally injured and in a hospital. Ralph Cayinessi of Wilkesboro has a broken leg, six or eight others suffer minor injuries. Rev. H A Dobbins of the Caldwell County Episcopal school led the group. The crash occurred yesterday after the truck ran off the road and list three hours after the accident. Cox sustains a badly crushed head and is not expected to recover.
Governor Morrison denounces Greensboro papers as unfriendly to his policies at the North Carolina Farm convention in Raleigh. He criticizes the Fourth Estate while defending his program, and hints at support from War Finance Corporation funds for cooperative tobacco marketing.
New York Aug 2 rail executives say they reject the third section of President Harding’s plan to end the shop men strike. They emphasize the labor board’s stance on seniority rights and permanent employment for workers who refuse to strike and affirm the railroads will act as a unit.
New York Central lines reported a flood of shop job applications within three hours at division points this morning. Many applicants were strikers awaiting the railway executives response to President Harding's plan, signaling renewed labor interest and action.
Topeka Kansas Aug 2 Notices posted by Topeka and Santa Fe railroad officials assure all employees their seniority rights will be fully protected.
In Van Buren Arkansas August 2 a clash near the Missouri and Pacific railroad yards left Carl Shardley dead and Will Shardley fatally wounded. A crowd of about 100 forced entry into guarded non union workers’ buildings, triggering more than 150 shots in about 20 minutes. Authorities placed extra guards around the property.
Washington August 2 22 federal prohibition enforcement officers have been killed since the dry laws began. A statement by Commissioner Hanes notes officers died in 12 states while trying to halt illicit distilling and liquor trafficking. Texas leads with four deaths followed by Georgia Alabama Tennessee and Oklahoma with two each.
Seven hundred fifty soldiers of the 151st Indiana Infantry were ordered home to Indianapolis from Camp Knox Kentucky by Adjutant General Smith of the Indiana National Guard. Smith declined to say whether they will be sent to support Governor McCray's coal mining plan under stake supervision.
Three barbers from Smith and Moser shop off Main Street walked out after C. I. Smith cut commissions from 70 to 65 percent citing rising rent and steady supply costs. Smith moved to replace strikers, saying he would hold the cut over until next Monday and has already hired one new barber while negotiating with two others.
Moscow reports the overland telegraph route from London and Western Europe to the Levant Persia and India will be reestablished. England to Emden then through Poland and Russia to Odessa and by rail to Constantinople where Indian connections will be made. Most of the Russian section is in fairly good shape.
The Suncey Sunday school and church members plan the annual picnic tomorrow afternoon. They will meet at the church at 1 o clock and depart at 1 30 for Oak Ridge for the event.
Reported returns from about two thirds of Missouri precincts show Senator James A. Reed leading Breckenbridge Long by 15 098 votes with Reed at 159 730 to Long 144 632 as Sacks leads Brewster in the Republican race. Oklahoma City Mayor Walker tops Wilson by 8 000 with less than a third counted. Reed’s margin has slipped from a high point as precincts report.
In Delaware river shipyards two former mine sweepers, the Pioneer and Discoverer, are being refitted for the U S Coast and Geodetic Survey. They will sail after summer through the Panama Canal to the Pacific coast and Alaska to sound uncharted areas. Eleven officers and 53 men per ship, plus a third minesweeper Flamingo, complete the crews.
Sydney Aug 2 Dr Alexander Graham Bell inventor of the telephone died at 2 am on his estate near here after a brief illness. He had been in failing health for months but remained active. He will be buried atop Mt Bevin Breach. Bell's labs near Baddeck Cape Breton conducted material locomotion experiments and housed a private museum. He promoted Langley and the airplane and helped found the Aerial Experiment Association in 1907. During WWI Bell and Baldwin built a hydrodrome jetting 70 mph, intended for submarine work but the armistice halted use.
The court handled multiple prior offenses. N S Edwards paid half costs for auto light violation. P W Pinfuller Ed Cecil J W Crouch and Walter Poteat paid half costs for same offense. Joe Branson and Bertha May Kelly had illicit relations and case continued. W M Horney guilty of issuing worthless checks and ordered to fix all bad checks. J E Gordon and Arthur Brown paid half costs for operating autos without licenses. Braymond Veneer Co. paid costs on similar charge. Hobert Keen fined 10 dollars and costs for drunk and disorderly conduct. Walter Steele found not guilty on two charges including assault and carrying concealed weapons. Gay Bank jailed on $309 bond for immoral conduct. trial likely Thursday.
Building permits issued in July totalled 149 655 dollars for High Point with large projects incl John Broadhurst North Main street store 30000 Elm Street school addition 25000 Fairview street school 39000 and many single family homes. The report notes a housing upturn and calls for home ownership while council defers street petitions and investigates sewer and water projects including a proposed sewer line on English street and a water link to Mery E Byerly's orphanage.
Yesterday morning the 80 foot lifting boom of the large derrick used in constructing the Commercial National bank building snapped in two. A log arm narrowly missed a group of workmen as it fell to the ground while lifting small girders. No one was hurt and the crowd dispersed after the crash.
Miss Ila Pitts daughter of the late Wesley Pitts died yesterday at the state hospital in Morganton where she had been an inmate for 18 years. The body was to arrive in High Point today and funeral services will be held at Springfield tomorrow morning at 11 o clock with Rev O L Ruth officiating.
The Rotary Club schedules its regular weekly luncheon at the Sheraton Hotel tomorrow at 12 15 PM.
In a Senate speech Senator Heflin claims a small Alabama bank paid 87 and 12 percent interest to the Atlanta Federal Reserve in 1920. Senator Smoot questions the claim while Heflin vows to prove the document. Heflin says the bank barely survived and that business and customers could restore it.
Cotton futures opened steady with October at 22.18, December 22.15, January 22.04, March 22.00, May 21.90. The government report failure to spark demand in Liverpool disappointed yesterday's buyers, with an opening decline of 32 points on August closings and 2 to 17 points on other months.
Members of the High Point Life Underwriters Association will convene tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock in the chamber of commerce rooms. A special speaker will address the insurance men.
Master Melvin Hoover, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Hoover, was admitted to Guilford General hospital Tuesday night for fever treatment. He was not resting well.
President elect Marcelo T. de Alvear will live in a grand Alvear avenue residence, a Paris-based property of a wealthy Argentine. He has imported artworks and furniture for his future home. Like Hipolito Yrigoyen, he shuns the Casa Rosada, which is dilapidated and undergoing repairs.
Alex Philips, a Black man, was found dead in the yard of his Cherry street home this morning near 1:30. Organic heart disease, per county physician Dr. W M Jones, caused the death. Relatives say he died during the night and the body was not found until morning. Walter Poteat's undertakers prepared the body for burial.
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