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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1930
Page
4
A meditation printed for Saturday August 2 1938 reflects on Solomon’s wisdom as kings from the earth sought his counsel, citing III Chronicles 9:23.
A Virginian protests embassy liquor while Sir Esme Howard serves as Britain's ambassador to Washington. The piece notes a slow drying and a new wine cellar built by Howard, suggesting diplomacy and prohibition politics at cross purposes during a period of naval armament talks.
The Gastonia Gazette notes a bountiful Gaston County with melons peaches and crops at peak. Farmers forecast bumper corn and a strong fall planting season as nitrates boost cotton and residents plan home sustenance through winter.
A North Carolina Presbyterian missionary escapes to Hankow after the Changsha uprising. He had served in Changsha for 40 years, wires he is safe but empty handed as personal belongings and mission property were looted. The piece questions what survives of his ministry amid the anti religious flood.
The piece weighs a missionary's four decades in Changsha against possible outcomes of his exile. It notes safety in the walled city amid western political disruption and questions whether his work will yield lasting fruit or fade with time and upheaval.
The Charlotte fire department, after receiving a $500 check from merchant W. H. Belk whose store burned recently, held a meeting and discussed how to use the funds. Belk urged that the money be divided or placed in a firemen’s fund.
The Valley Line Steamers sold three Memphis packet steamers, ending the city’s long tradition of packet service. The decline reflects a shift to barges, rails, and autos, while the romance of the old steamers lingers in memory and journalism.
Four of ten men who escaped from Rowan county jail near Salisbury were recaptured early today. W M Miller, from Rowan, found on a highway six miles from Salisbury. Lee Powell Will Shehan and Paul Brittian, all of the county, were seized near Barber's Junction eleven miles away. They are jailed pending trial as safecrackers and men held for larceny. Six escapees remain at large: W G Benfield B C Travis Claude Manese Jack Brittian Earl Powers and T W Davis of Gastonia Danville and Rowan respectively.
The first volume of The Papers of Randolph Abbott Shotwell, edited by J. G. deR. Hamilton, traces Shotwell from a 1861 flight to Virginia through his Civil War service, prison, and postwar journalism in North Carolina including The Journal of Commerce and The Vindicator, with politics and Ku Klux Klan episodes noted, ending with his death in 1885.
Lenore Ulric works out daily in New York to slim for an upcoming role in a bathing suit. In Paris Gandhi tunics display winter styles that fall a foot and a half below the waist.
CHATHAM N J Addison H Day a longtime daily train passenger to New York marks his sixty second year as a commuter Sundays and holidays excluded He is a bank official who recalls the era of wood burning stoves and kerosene lamps in the cars.
Receipts aboard the steamship California during a six day voyage from New York to an unspecified destination totaled 5000 dollars. The liner carried a full load of vacationists as part of the aboard cruise.
In South Orange New Jersey members of the Orange Lawn Tennis club pay 75 dollars weekly to keep the club pool cooled. Two tons of ice are dumped daily into the new 590 thousand dollar swimming pool.
London reports the airship John Bull plans a Cunarder sized at 75,000 tons. The project aims for the biggest passenger ship yet with government underwriting to cover insurance gaps, reflecting anticipated high risk beyond ordinary capacity.
Milan resident Alberto Pela Galli claims to be 110 and the oldest living Garibaldi campaign veteran. He reports a daily routine of a thick beefsteak and half a liter of red wine.
The Austrian constitutional court ruled it cannot settle disputes over roman Catholic dispensation marriages after divorce. Some 180,000 couples were affected as the courts had deemed such marriages illegal, leaving future marriages legal unless challenged by a former spouse.
The First National Bank of Vanderbilt near Connellsville Pa closed today after heavy runs in the past two days. The runs are tied to the closing of four nearby banks in Connellsville within the past month.
Fires have laid waste to thousands of acres of western Montana and northern Idaho forests as volunteer crews and airplanes struggle to contain the blaze. The advancing flames threaten timberlands and rural communities amid ongoing firefighting efforts.
Mrs. Sarah Key aged 100 resides on the same farm near Beatrice Nebraska for sixty years. The obituary notes her long tenure and ties to local landholding.
Greensboro druggist Eugene C. Sykes 53, Charlotte railway engineer D C Henley 62, Rev William A Gourney 80, kidSVILLE minister, John Ross McClellan 67 civil engineer, Elizabeth Kerner 84 Kernersville resident.
Detroit police seek Egbert M. Hofmann political worker for Mayor Bowles in the recall drive in connection with the killing of Jerry Buckley WMBC commentator. A bank book issued to Hofmann was found in an apartment linked to Marjorie Mansell Blues singer and Pete Licavoli gangster. Mansell admits she was Licavoli’s sweetheart but offers no further details. she was arrested.
George Bernard Shaw candidly states in a new edition preface that his father was a drinker and caused social ostracism for the family in his youth. He notes his father later became ashamed and remorseful, and reflects on how such family ruins shaped his own early shyness in London.
Mrs. J. W. Neal 58 dropped dead yesterday afternoon in her kitchen on Sixth Street Greensboro from heart failure believed caused by overheating. She arrived in High Point six months ago from Durham leaving a large family and a council of relatives. Funeral services are set for 4 pm tomorrow at First Christian church with several local pastors officiating. Burial will be in Green Hill Cemetery Greensboro.
A mixed crossword style prompt lists clues and answers for horizontal and vertical entries, including references to Cromwell, Carson City, and various definitions. It presents a set of 38 horizontal clues and 39 vertical clues with brief prompts like to wander about, language, sheetlike deposits in rock, and goddess of youth.
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