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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1930
Page
4
A 1930s U.S. editorial argues Russia funded by American farm equipment will rival U.S. production and markets. It critiques trade cuts and notes Russia’s economic organization, while commenting on traffic law harmonization and political corruption in Illinois and Pennsylvania, urging balanced regulation and funding limits.
High Point ponders a drivers license ordinance and the equity of fees without exams. National traffic codes push toward uniformity, but local differences hinder a single law. State codes evolve to ease interstate travel while aiming for consistent driver treatment.
An investigator arrives in Charlotte to audit North Carolina primary expenditures for Senator Nye's committee but confesses no findings of interest to Nye. Senators Simmons and his camp deny involvement. Rumors of Raskob money and last minute force were floated, but the inquiry appears a wild goose chase with no substantial lead.
A North Carolina survey shows aviation progress lagging nationwide with the state ranking 28th in airports and landing fields and 52nd in licensed pilots. The piece notes concentrated activity in few centers and southern underdevelopment, citing Greensboro’s early airplane project and a missed industrial opportunity.
Mrs Ruth Hanna McCormick likely to win Illinois Republican senate nomination and possibly seat the Senate. Senator Caraway says the chamber would owe Ware an apology. McCormick confirms spending 325000 dollars on her nomination campaign and questions remain how much more was spent.
Helen Welshimer argues that apartment living harms children by removing outdoor space and the chance to grow, play, and learn in a yard. She notes 1929 data showing 48.6 percent of new housing being apartments and warns of reduced opportunities for pets, gardening, and attic reading, urging housing fit for children. The piece ends with a reflection on wartime debt payments from Europe and their soothing effect on taxpayers.
A New York man who stole a dollar watch was sentenced to twenty to forty years in prison. The thief quipped that a more expensive movement could have earned him a more correct time.
A reader requests that any future weather jokes be labeled as dry humor. The note signals a preference for plain wit over sensational weather commentary.
Salisbury hosts the sixth annual convention of the North Carolina Association of Police Chiefs as chiefs and delegates from across the state arrive for registration. Mayor J. L. Fisher will welcome attendees. P. P. Pilcher will speak. Chief J. Ross Jones presides. Friday features speeches, committee reports, officer elections and a pistol shooting contest open to full time police officers.
A League of Nations memorandum notes world population grew about 385 million from 1926 to 1928, averaging one percent annually. South America shows the highest growth, while world food and raw material production rose 25 percent and trade 22 percent since 1913.
Lexington police Chief R B Talbert and the city council police committee attend the opening session of the North Carolina Police Chiefs association in Salisbury. They will participate in all three days of the conference with other local officials.
Washington August 13. President Hoover takes direct command of the federal drought relief program, a role he has filled intermittently for thirty years. His career includes relief efforts in Tientsin during the Boxer era, Belgium aid, U S food administration leadership, and relief campaigns across Europe and Russia.
Detroit August report says Benjamin Lee, a theatre usher, bought medals including the Croix de Guerre and the Congressional Medal of Honor to pose as a war hero. Veterans questioned him as suspicions rose about his age at war start. He confessed the tales were lies to win his wife.
American soft drinks compete with alcohol in Madrid cafes as bold advertising and endorsements raise sales. Two U.S. bottling plants operate in Madrid. A usual soft drink costs six to seven cents, similar to coffee chocolate beer wine or cognac price.
New York report to the Acoustical Society of America by President Dr. Harvey Fletcher argues that both time and space aspects imprint on the inner ear membranes. He concludes that space time is the comprehensive way to explain how vibrations create sound perception.
In Le Havre Dr. A. Loir, Pasteur’s nephew, promotes cats over chemicals for rat catching. He has run a four year breed selection and will open a cat farm to develop superior rat-chasing cats. Scientific societies and shipping interests back the effort after heavy rodent losses.
Oregon's agricultural experiment station reports increased forage growth on pasture lands treated with phosphates and lime, suggesting improved pasture productivity from soil amendments and liming.
The Davidson Randolph county association of the Patriotic Order of Sons of America will meet in Lexington at Lambeth Building in Thomasville tonight at 8. Lexing ton Thomasville Denton Asheboro and Newsome lodges will be represented. National President H H Koonts of Lexington will deliver the principal address with P F Miller presiding. A watermelon feast will follow the business session.
Terrapin races are staged weekly in Scurry County Texas with local participation and community turnout. The quirky event draws residents near and far to watch shelled contenders navigate makeshift tracks.
Government expert Miss Lucy M Alexander says modern knowledge and materials let the bride improve 50 percent. In New York Jane Aubert stars in a court fight with estranged husband Nelson Morris, a Chicago packer family member, over alimony and a move to Broadway.
Callie Mae Bumgardner, 13, of West Branch is chosen as the prettiest young girl to present tomatoes to President Hoover. The fruit comes from a farm once owned by the president's grandfather, linking local pride to national ceremony.
In Hoboken New Jersey two detectives posing as drunks lured a persistent hotel thief to their room with a trap using a pair of trousers. The thief entered the room and was about to seize the trousers when the plan closed.
Ware Massachusetts reports the death of Ted Cap a 15 year old wire haired Griffon awarded as a war hero. Cap served at the front with the French Red Cross and was laid to rest with honors after being wounded and gassed. Brought to Ware 11 years ago by an American army officer Cap feared nothing except a barbed wire fence.
Ray Barbuti Olympic track star, playing bridge with his wife and Helen Hicks and Jack Mackie, received 13 spades in a hand dealt by Miss Hicks and registered a grand slam with 100 honors.
Paterson New Jersey church, Cedar Cliff Methodist Episcopal of Haledon, plans an 18 hole miniature golf course to operate daily except Sundays to pay its debt. The project aims to raise funds through the recreational course run by the church.
A humorous exchange from Hyde England features a motorist told she was speeding at 60 mph and replies with a flippant claim she only learned to drive yesterday. The brief quips showcase light local humor and a reporters note.
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