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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1929
Page
1
The report notes a Sanford filling station holdup resulting in three fatalities and a failed escape attempt. Investigators are reviewing surveillance footage and interviewing witnesses as police pursue leads. The incident has shocked the local community and prompted a temporary increase in patrols.
Three men died in a Sanford area shooting at a filling station. Ola Birdsong and his brother Lee Birdsong, both said to be from Kentucky and Georgia, were killed alongside operator Gaither Edwards. Mrs. Edwards was seriously wounded, and Mrs. Buelah Montgomery held in jail with her 18 month old baby aboard. Edwards fired on the Birdsongs after they demanded money. a passing motorist transported Mrs. Edwards to a hospital. Montgomery said she was visiting Kentucky.
Los Angeles DA Buron Fitts disclosed that William Jobel man publicity agent for Alexander Pantages vanished the eve of a preliminary hearing on charges of criminally attacking 17 year old Eunice Pringle in Pantages' offices. Three other witnesses were detained after reports of Miss Pringle's screams. Police sought a woman accused by Pringle of aiding her escape. A guard was posted at the Pringle home and a direct line set to police after threats against Dr Pringle and his daughter.
Greenville South Carolina Aug 14 Harmon Moore former deputy sheriff and Blair Rook the accused slayers of Sheriff Sam D Willis are at large Moore absent from his Pickens home when officers arrived a countywide search was underway The case centers on a confession by Rook who admits killing the sheriff during the midnight attack near the garage Two others were previously charged but acquitted including Mrs Ethel Gray Willis and Henry Townsend
Jack Webster of Hadley Field Dunellen New Jersey aboard an air mail plane bound for Buffalo New York escaped death when forced to land in an orchard near Susquehanna Scranton Pennsylvania in heavy fog. He suffered minor head cuts and the plane struck two trees before rest. One wing was broken.
Everett Ferree of Greensboro and his nephew Paul Ferree of High Point were ordered held without bond for superior court after a preliminary hearing in Ramseur. Police say stolen goods were found in the wrecked car tied to the July 1 Carter Mercantile robbery and a Siler City burglary. detectives link the pair to multiple crimes as the case proceeds.
A. H. Guion and Company of Charlotte is the lowest bidder at 171000 for a new western sewer disposal plant. Seven bids were opened by the city council with R G Lassiter Company of High Point and Raleigh bidding 231875 and Northeastern Construction Company at 223800. The contract will be awarded Friday at 2 30 after a 48 hour table period.
Emory Bronte and Jack Reid started a cabin model monoplane endurance flight from Long Beach at 6:94 a m to set a nonrefueling record for the United States. The current world record is 65 hours 25 minutes held by German fliers. The craft uses 300 horsepower and carries 830 gallons of gasoline.
Graf Zeppelin prepares for its second lap of the world tour from Friedrichshafen Germany with Dr Hugo Eckener stating takeoff for Tokyo is planned by 5 am local time. Weather reports and meticulous inspections accompany final loading including mail cargo and supplies.
T A Wilson was unanimously re elected president of the North Carolina Federation of Labor at the 23rd annual convention in Raleigh. Alfred Hoffman of the United Textile Workers attacked the national union and praised the Marion strike as pivotal for southern organizing. Officers named include W L Plemmons vice president, Marcus Sauls secretary treasurer, and Dan Elliott chaplain. Wilmington won next year’s convention site.
The second bombing of the year struck an automobile sales agency in Chicago last night, shattering glass and damaging buildings and cars. Police found no satisfactory explanation. The agency is led by Bruce Willie Strong, purported son of Edward Strong, a General Motors director.
In Ocilla Georgia the state seeks to tie three men to an insurance murder plot by exhuming a grave thought to hold Harry Loving of Huntington West Virginia. Harry K Sligh Aubry Hoover and James Hoover are charged with killing Loving after a scheme to collect life insurance.
A Soviet military plane named Land of the Soviets en route from Moscow to New York made a forced landing 170 miles from Irkutsk in Siberia. The fate of the two aboard was not disclosed and Tass said the crash occurred in an uninhabited region after departing Krasnoyarsk Sunday afternoon.
In Minneapolis a girl about 12 or 13 was found bound in a gunnysack in south city. She appeared strangled. Two ice-men, William C. Hoag and William Stokes, found the body and notified police who sought to identify the victim as Dorothy Anne, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew K. Anne, missing since yesterday.
In Ramseur a gasoline filling station and a nearby store owned by J R York were wrecked by dynamite. Buddie Gunter was arrested and held on the evidence from a hearing. Lacy Kivett is wanted. Gunter testified Kivett ordered the act. The York warehouse supplied the dynamite. An alleged confession and a mental-derangement claim were presented at the hearing.
J Wesley Gable former Enchant Church of God pastor and Mrs Haul Miller choir singer rejoined families at old homes in Pennsylvania after confessing conscience stricken on a Florida trip. They asked forgiveness to return home to their spouses. The couple cited reconciliation with their mates.
Ray McKinley an 11 year old from the Blue Ridge met President Hoover at his Virginia Rapidan camp. He presented a fatt ened possum and praised the president while sharing hill country tales. The president offered birthday cake, sang with the guests, and gifted novelties and puzzles to the boy and party.
In Chicago on August 14 a juror heard that Abraham Lincoln freed a man by almanac knowledge while assistant state's attorney Duane Reed jailed a man by calendar insight. William Emmerling testified he could not be the holdup suspect because he was in St Louis on a February date that proved to be a Thursday, per the calendar shown by the prosecutor.
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