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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1929
Page
1
Graf Zeppelin sails toward Siberia to dodge gale winds. The airship, with 20 passengers, is north of Perm near the Urals at 7:00 a m EST and veers northeast to avoid unfavorable weather, covering about 2 100 miles of a 7 000 mile journey as reports fade.
The New York stock market surged with bullish enthusiasm as credit conditions improved. Many issues climbed to new highs, led by American Can American Machine and Foundry Consolidated Gas and others while large blocks traded and a Fed Reserve data drop influenced bear covers.
At The Hague delegates from Great Britain France Belgium Italy and Japan clash over reparations terms stalling the Young Plan talks. Britain argues its share is too small and demands concessions while France Belgium Italy and Japan unite against Britain.
Richmond, Aug 16. Deputy U S marshal C Collins was arrested and jailed at West Point on charges of shooting Peter Miller of Sweet Hall. Miller, shot in the abdomen, was reported in serious condition after Miller said two men posing as insurance agents demanded water at his King William County store. Miller said one officer tried to handcuff him and a second shot was fired three times. Collins was aided by undercover Prohibition Agent S H Eister and Capt. R Q Merrick.
Patrick O Hanlon and Cecil Crosby of the state prison were briefly free after seizing Warden Norman s car and escaping to the East gate. A gate guard fired but missed as the pair had been working in the yard and aimed to flee the facility.
Associated Press report logs the Graf Zeppelin’s eastbound route across the Atlantic to Fried rishshafen for the first lap. It shows times and distances for August 7 to August 15 including Berlin and Danzig overflight, the Soviet frontier near Dwinsk, and a crossing of U S S R airspace with the leg ending near Wischni-Wolotschok.
Williamstown report shows Professor T E Gregory of the London School of Economics warns that the New York stock boom again unsettles world money markets. He notes America reasserts a destabilizing role, with Europe needing capital while London faces strain and higher bank rates.
Oscar Olson, 29, a Duluth dock worker, confessed to police three hours after the slaying of Dorothy Anne in Minneapolis last Saturday. Police Chief R. E. Donaldson said Olson had not been in Minneapolis for months, is demented, and had attempted suicide by drowning under a railroad trestle after heavy drinking and hospital care.
FE. W. Reynolds of Augusta Georgia died in a Charleston hospital from injuries after his truck was struck by an Atlantic Coast Line train near Mount Holly in the afternoon.
Radio Corp of America announced a June quarter net profit of 1,409,229 dollars, down from 3,587,000 in the prior quarter and 1,491,905 in the second quarter of 1928.
Fire destroyed the Asheboro Chair company plant and a Way Grocery warehouse last night. J O Redding, treasurer, puts losses at 150000 with 60000 insured. High Point and Greensboro firefighters aided local crews as the three buildings burned to ruins.
The assembly of a dissident Scottish free church sect condemns the Duke and Duchess of York Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald and Ambassador Dawes for “flouting the Sabbath day” and renewing its witness to the fourth commandment. The revulsion follows the royal couple presenting medals for ambulance work at Forfar last Sunday.
The amphibian plane crew of Untin Bowler, Robert Gast and Parker Cramer, along with Robert Wood, aviation editor of the Chicago Tribune, returned to Winnipeg en route to Chicago after their craft was lost in ice near Sunday Bay during a Chicago to Germany flight via Greenland.
City council awarded the new sewer disposal plant contract to A H Guion and company at 171000 with Morris Machine Works supplying pumps at 4350 and DeLaval Steam Turbine providing water pumps at 545.75 or 848. Chicago Bridge and Iron Works to build the tank. several bids deferred. Bids opened Wednesday at 2 30 pm.
Detroit August 16. Col Charles A. Lindbergh demonstrated speed on a Detroit automobile company proving ground track. After a half hour of skidding around a concrete oval he averaged 106 miles per hour over a 2 1/2 mile loop and topped 112 miles an hour on straight stretches.
In Schenectady and Croton on Croton, engineers adapt a million volt mobile lightning generator to produce controllable bolts for testing power lines. The setup aims to gather inside data on preventing outages during severe thunderstorms. General Electric announces the first portable lightning generators on high tension lines operated by Consumers Power.
Fayetteville North Carolina August 16 Franklin Birkman remains jailed unable to post the $10 000 bail set by the state for the murder charge in the death of his wife May Davis Birkman found in a hotel room. Sallie Andrews Ralph and P Nixon are held as material witnesses in bonds of 1500 500 and 1000 respectively.
Locke R. Roberson 29 is jailed in Asheville charged with murder of his 68 year old father Ike Roberson. Body found on farm in Hominy Creek Buncombe County after a struggle over a gun. officers say shots likely fired from a distance. Family feud spanned several years and a town lawsuit was settled in superior court hours before the shooting.
The War Department ordered the ninth corps area commander in San Francisco to provide assistance to the district forester in Portland to combat the wildfire sweeping Chelan National Forest in Washington.
In Washington the senate finance committee rejected the proposed rise in the sugar duty that had been approved in the house tariff bill. Republicans indicated opposition to higher sugar duties, delaying any immediate move on the increase.
Charlotte August 16. B F Roark aged 68 longtime jeweler in Charlotte dies at his Myers Park home after months of illness. Born Gainesville Georgia September 4 1861.
Nan king dispatches report that the nationalist government has informed Kellogg pact signatories via its Washington minister that Russia has started an offensive along the Manchurian border.
Eunice Pringle a 17 year old dancer testified at a preliminary hearing on statutory charges that she struggled to escape from Alexander Pantages private office. W L Gordon, a prosecution witness, said Pringle’s screams drew him to the door and he saw a man in a blue suit rush in while Pantages was being helped to his feet.
An explosion blamed on escaping gas damaged Drury Lane offices in New Castle on Tyne injuring sixteen people, some seriously. The blast shattered town hall windows and wrecked a safe, with extensive damage to surrounding premises.
The drowned 22 year old Clayton Lyles was found several miles from the last sighting point on the Myrtle Beach shore. Friends carried the body to his Red Springs home for funeral arrangements.
Hebert B. Flowers, president of New Orleans Public Service, Inc., and 27 motormen faced recorder's court on charges of violating city safety device ordinances after a three year old child died near a street car and reports suggested safety devices had been wired. All released on bonds of 259 each pending arraignment.
Rush H. Knox Mississippi attorney general indicted by the state house for trial on impeachment charges. The first count accuses fraudulently collecting 1610.60 dollars in an inheritance tax matter. Eleven more counts pending when legislature reconvenes after recess.
Reidsville officials announce the greater harvest jubilee and community fair will be held September 25 this year in Reidsville.
Eight men arrested with four sought in a major Washington liquor ring bust. Prohibition agents and police say the ring operated from April 1 1923 to August 14 1929, using Glassman garages as depots to ship whisky into the District of Columbia. Conspiracy to violate the Volstead act cited. bonds range from 2500 to 5000 dollars. preliminary hearings set for next Thursday.
Half a million workers return to Lancashire cotton mills on Monday after a three week stoppage. An eleventh hour meeting between union reps and employers led to arbitration over a proposed 12.832 percent wage cut. In the interim mills resume and workers receive the old wage. A five member arbitration court will rule with two employer nominees, two from the operatives, and an independent chairman.
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