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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1925
Page
2
The item notes youth political ambitions of Young LaFollette and his light comment on leg, while reporting a riot in Sing Sing tied to politics. It mentions Baltimore's $4000 jewelry case and a North Carolina woman as involved, plus Winston-Salem considering more library facilities amid local interest in High Point libraries.
In 1924 North Carolina logged 299 homicides with only 138 charged inmates sent to prison and 13 condemned to die, eight executed. The article argues law is not enforced, compares to England, and warns of a dangerous drift toward lawlessness as typhoid gains in health context. It notes a decline from the prior year’s homicidal tally and urges reform.
The report notes President Coolidge may recall the value of regular dental visits as prudent preparedness. It mentions a state hospital for tuberculosis and the possible labeling of its order to send patients home as propaganda. It also cites a Swampscott statement of expected Belgian debt payment terms to the United States, sounding convincingly firm.
Raleigh commissioners plan to end the fiscal year June 30 1926 with a 1.15 tax rate. The Times praises the administration for frugal spending and growing city revenues, noting Raleigh’s continued expansion should help exceed budget estimates. Delegations to request new spending have been quiet.
A University of North Carolina commerce scholar reviews textile plant expansion across North Carolina and the South. He notes ongoing building of new factories and enlarging existing ones, driven by southern resolve to gain advantage in cloth production, despite profits pressures in textiles.
A long hours sleep experiment at George Washington University tests 60 hours of wakefulness followed by 12 hours of sleep. Students dance walk and perform tasks during wakefulness as researchers study how sleep loss affects body and mind to weigh night burning versus early to bed theories.
The passage discusses how sleep influences vitality and health, noting that sleep loss, while historically common, affects people differently. It argues for scientific study of sleep to better understand human needs, while acknowledging factors like drinking, worrying, and work complicate the effects of sleeplessness.
A letter from the Peasants International to Marcus Garvey, then imprisoned in Atlanta, is dismissed as misinformed and insulting. The piece asserts Garvey’s ambitions for a Black Star empire and a federal fraud conviction, stressing there is no affinity with Russian peasant ideals and denouncing the narrator’s contemptuous phrasing.
Witnesses recount Disse threatening to kill Carter and firing on Vivian Tomlins Disse shot Willis Britt and Detective Burke, then Carter during noon rush. Defense cites drug use and juvenile romance, while the president’s Paris visit is noted in a separate paragraph about a White House meeting and security.
President Coolidge weighs Belgian debt settlement as Belgian and American commissions prep talks in Washington. Officials seek terms for refunding the 400 million dollar debt while avoiding precedent for France Italy and Britain. Brussels dispatches note possible arbitration and inter allied debt conference amid delicate negotiations.
Asheville August 17. Judge N A Sinclair of Fayetteville leader in the Martin county mob trial at Williamston and other North Carolina cases endorses the Prison Reform association of Asheville. He pledges to modernize and humanize prison conditions, calling for abolition of flogging, improved sanitation and sleeping arrangements, and faster physician examination after commitment. He offers to serve as a humble worker and to educate the public as part of the reform effort.
Chapel Hill Aug 17 Henry Holt and Company announce The Lord's Will by Paul Green assistant professor at UNC. The volume includes five other one act plays. Publishers laud Green as a leading southern playwright whose works, tested by performance, resemble Eugene ONeill in impact. The No-Count Boy won the Belasco cup at the Little Theater Play competition.
An Abyssinian leopard that escaped from Paris zoological garden remains at large in the Bois de Boulogne as hunters, guns, and dogs fail to capture it. The animal has not harmed people or livestock, though Sunday foot traffic declined and park policing is under question.
John C. Donahey, father of Governor A V Donahey, died at the Cleveland home of his son J H Donahey. The elder Donahey was reported to be aged about 4 dollars in the strange phrasing of the source, indicating a possible OCR error. Funeral arrangements were not announced.
Dr W F Clayton says the American Dental Association will establish a world scope dental chautauqua in Asheville. Initial investment could top 100000 and later rise to a million. Clinics would run daily 9 to 1 with recreation after, and a large tract near Asheville would host cottages and central buildings for demonstrations.
Road sentences were meted out in municipal court by Judge Mc Rae. Earl Green, negro, four months on the roads for beating his wife in front of a church. the wife required medical care for head wounds. Clarence Taylor, negro, 60 days on the roads for stealing clothes from Sidney McNair. J. D. Fuller, heaviest sentence, 90 days on the roads for assault with deadly weapon and drunkenness, allegedly drawing a gun on his wife. Charlie Spencer freed on reckless driving after evidence showed he was not responsible for a local street auto accident. Two non-support cases dismissed when witnesses withdrew warrants.
Mrs. L R Sawyer of Morehead City travels to this city to find Vernon Sawyer believed to be 17 year old, tall, who ran away three months ago after leaving a Greensboro restaurant. He has used the name John Davis and is thought to be in Hight Point. The mother says the father is ill and unemployed, needing the boy at home.
Ashland Kentucky August 17 Elliott Hall the large brick residence of Judge W H Flanery at Catlettsburg was partially wrecked by an explosion believed to be dynamite. The blast ripped out the front porch and shattered windows in the house and nearby homes eight people asleep were thrown from beds but escaped injury.
Senegalese heavyweight boxer Battling Siki was arrested in New York on immigration charges for overstaying his six months permit. He was released on $1,000 bail pending a Friday hearing.
With nominating petitions due Friday the New York political scene thickens as William M. Bennett calls for a real republican conference to nominate a mayoral candidate to replace Frank D Waterman. Gov. Smith to campaign boroughs for Tammany. Democratic women back Walker against Hylan. Primaries Sept 15 and potential independent contests in November.
Washington reports that high ranking naval officers will conduct an exhaustive study of air dirigibles to gauge their defense value. Admiral Eberle says broad use is unlikely soon and 1927 budgets show no major dirigible funding while Shenandoah conducts trials. Captain Gherardi has been linked to predictions of a lighter-than-air squadron backing by Shenandoah and Los Angeles.
Dr. Leo S. Rowe, head of the Pan American Union, urged two policy changes at Williams College. He called for extending federal jurisdiction to shield authorities from violence by Mexicans and other aliens and strengthening national laws to grant wider federal powers to prevent conspiracies against Mexican authorities from American soil.
FEZ French Morocco August 17 A French communique reports Rifian rebels rallying north of Ouezzan around Cald Haddou Er-Riff after earlier actions in Djebel Sarcar. Front activity is routine with Skiffa and Bab Taza posts revictualled. A few rebel prisoners were taken. Dissident tribesmen who asked for ammunition were asked to pay 50 francs per family.
Riga August 17 Russian Peasants' Internationale sends Garvey in the Atlanta penitentiary a letter of sympathy and urges followers among American Negroes to join their ranks against imperialism. Garvey serves five years in Atlanta for using the mails to defraud investors in plans for an Ethiopian Empire.
Chicago grain notes a listless opening as weather reports influence the session. Wheat shifts 1 4 cents higher to lower before a later rebound. corn opens slightly higher then declines. oats near unchanged to 2 cents down. provisions dull and somewhat lower.
Washington Aug 17 Mizell Bryson was appointed regional manager of the veterans bureau at Jacksonville Florida effective September 10 to succeed Robert G Glover who resigned.
The Eastern North Carolina Branch of the National Federation of Federal Employes has been reorganized under H. H. Ford who led during the war. A new charter comes from headquarters as votes by mail fixed the officers with Paul Heas of the U S Weather Bureau Wilmington as president Harry L. Shaffer of the Bureau of Animal Industry Wilmington as first vice president Frank D. Perry U S Engineers New Bern as second vice president and Herbert I Ford of the U S Court Wilmington as secretary treasurer.
A violent rainstorm flooded districts across Japan causing several drownings. Estimated damage ranges from 15 to 20 million dollars. A typhoon hit Osaka Kyoto Kobe and surrounding areas with damage figures not yet determined.
Executor H F York notifies all claimants to present claims by September 17 1926 or be barred. Creditors asked to settle debts promptly. This notice dated September 17 1925 Guilford County North Carolina.
An advertisement urges mothers to give Mc Coy's Cod Liver Oil Compound Tablets to thin children. It claims the tablets are a pleasant, sugar coated alternative to oil, rich in vitamins, and says a sickly nine year old gained 12 pounds in seven months. Available from Hart Drug Co Randall's Pharmacy Mann O Drug Co and other druggists for 60 tablets at 60 cents.
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