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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1931
Page
6
Mrs. Nettie Brehm, former wife of D. C. Stephenson, once a Klan leader in Indiana and Ohio now in life imprisonment for a murder, declares she may aid his bid for freedom. She says he was railroaded.
Mr and Mrs D L Bouldin announce the birth of a son Eugene Korner this morning at High Point hospital. The Piedmont Women's Golf Association will hold its weekly tournament tomorrow at High Point Country Club starting 9 o'clock. Mrs A H Cox has returned home after an operation at Guilford General Hospital. Mary Etta Rutledge and Marvin R Oakley wed August 6 in Danville Virginia. The Willing Workers class postpones their watermelon feast to Thursday night at 7 15. Relatives of A Lincoln Fulk celebrate his 24th birthday at a Dayton street home in San Diego Cal. James Hinkle recovering after an appendicitis operation at the High Point hospital. A lengthy list of visitors and members from many towns attend the social notes and society items. The Susanna Wesley class plans a Tar Heel Inn picnic Thursday evening. Debutante ball invitations issued for High Point girls to attend state event at State College.
Details of conditions under which students may smoke will be decided at a campus council meeting in Hanes near here on September 7.
The state highway commission announced that the new sand asphalt pavement on Route 121 from Kinston to Richlands is complete and the road is open for its entire length.
After hours of troubled operation in Arctic seas a broken engine stalled the Nautilus. The Polar craft finally got under way again shortly after 4 p m and continued toward Spitzbergen despite earlier difficulties.
In Kansas City at 400 Main Street, a three story brick building collapsed trapping several people today. Initial reports gave no confirmation of any fatalities as rescue operations began. In New York a volatile stock rally followed a dull session with brisk late trading lifting the market for the day and pushing volume above a million shares.
People Miss Frances Eshelman visits Winston Salem relatives. Mr and Mrs W J Fraley and children travel to Lake Junaluska. Elizabeth Newlin from Mebane visits Eleanor Blair in Reading street. Adelaide McAnally returns from Myrtle Beach. Mrs B Ridge spends weekend in Harrisonburg and other Virginia points. J D Rogers and Mrs H C Pitts vacation at Virginia Beach. Catherine Gibson visits relatives in Baltimore. Edna Bigham from Huntersville, a city schools teacher, weekends here. Fay Cunningham and Alma Virginia McCain at Lake Junaluska. Cutie B Ridge returns from Harrisonburg. Annie Rhue Stanton and Helen Bonner Eshelman attend Ride-a-Week camp at Lake Junaluska for ten days. C P Neese, Jr and Betty Lou with Jarold Setzer visit Clinton, Carolina Beach and Wrightsville Beach. Hobart Bryant and family end two weeks at Wildwood New Jersey with L E Bryant of Greensboro visiting Wilmington friends.
Henderson, Aug. 11. One of the largest damage suits in Vance county was filed by Mrs. Eva Ross Phillips for her sister Miss Grace Ross. She seeks 50 000 against Mrs. Norman Gholson and Mrs. C M Evans for an auto accident near Henderson on June 3 that left Grace Ross critically injured and allegedly partially paralyzed with no chance of recovery. The suit states the vehicle driven by Gholson and Evans struck the Phillips car as she repaired a tire on the highway.
Chicago dispatch reports seven people died when a Chicago Milwaukee St Paul and Pacific passenger train demolished an automobile at a suburban crossing. Victims: Bruno Woods 23 his wife Helen 22 and their six month old son David of Chicago. Also David J Rutowski 29 wife Martha 29 aunt of Mrs Woods plus their children Henry 10 and Dolores 7 of Milwaukee.
Former Peruvian provisional president Luis M Sanchez Cerro arrived in Lima after months away and led a supporter parade through the city. A street altercation erupted when beer was hurled from the crowd, injuring one person before police quelled the disturbance. Sanchez Cerro declared his candidacy for the upcoming election.
Cuban gunboat Habana overhauled the yacht Coral near Cape San Antonio but found only three sailors aboard. Former President Mario Menocal’s location remained unknown as police pursue him amid revolutionary unrest prompting martial law in the republic.
Mrs Polly Lauder Tunney wife of former heavyweight champion was taken to a hospital in Damariscotta Maine a week or ten days ago to await the birth of a child after a fall at the motorboat landing on Johns Island. Gene Tunney has been in attendance at the hospital and two nurses attended Mrs Tunney. Her condition was not considered dangerous.
Coroner M. S. Kearns ruled the Cincinnati to Atlanta airliner crash an unavoidable accident caused by mechanical defects possibly in the propeller. Four passengers including a woman and two pilots died, six perished in the Sunday crash.
A city committee led by Representative Bacharach Governor Larson and Senators Morrow and Kean formally invited the Republican National Committee to choose Atlantic City as the 1932 convention site. They presented the invitation to Senator Fess, chairman of the national committee.
Salem College trustees announced that women students may smoke at home with parental consent and at the Moravian school for women in Winston-Salem. Smoking is framed as a home problem and not forbidden on campus provided students are open with parents and the student government.
Leo Rhodes and Jake George of Eureka Kansas embarked from their home town in a rowboat and completed a voyage to New Orleans, detailing a remarkable inland water journey by two residents.
James Fagan of Mutual Tire and Battery suffered only slight bruises when a Ford truck rented by a Black worker reversed into a Ford coupe at the battery yard. Dorothy Dean Davis, 10, narrowly avoided being crushed as the truck pinned Fagan against a wall before stalling its motor.
A severe earthquake, recorded at Harvard University seismograph station, is believed to have originated near the Kurile Islands north of Japan. Seismologist Prof. Don Leet said the event's intensity matched that of the 1923 Japanese quake.
After three black prisoners ripped a hole in a chain gang cage near Florence South Carolina on Sunday night two German police dogs stood guard at the break and prevented further escapes until guards reached the scene. The trio was captured on Monday and detained.
Dr. Victor Ross of the New York City Bureau of Laboratories proposes a preventive technique by feeding pneumonia germs killed with hydrochloric acid to an empty stomach, claiming protection against pneumonia.
Robert G. Schultz, second vice president of the United National Association of Postoffice Clerks, was arrested in Memphis on a charge of stealing a letter postal inspectors used to trap him. He had served at the Memphis post office for 15 years and was seen taking the letter before destroying it.
Raleigh Aug 11 report says about 25 to 30 counties and cities have not yet filed their budget requests with the state. The article notes ongoing compliance efforts and potential implications for local funding.
The board of equalization will act to set up school allotments unless information arrives by tomorrow. Secretary Leroy Martin said 193 budgets remain to be determined and 15 of 100 counties and about equal numbers of 93 cities have yet to submit requests as required by law.
In Denver an ashpit yield unearthed a satchel left by a thief. Ted Stallsworth located the bag containing three human skulls stolen from a medical school. The grisly find emerged in a dark moment and sparked curiosity.
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