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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1930
Page
9
The notice announces two new hit shows coming to the Broadhurst next week, Common Clay and Let Us Be Gay, inviting readers to search for their names among the audience list and enjoy the performances. A prior tease references Mrs. C. E. Stuart and Mrs. J. L. Anytime, with calls to Shaw.
Speculation for gains ran high as bulls pressed for higher prices despite weakness in copper and safety razor issues. Steel, commodities and several blue chips led advances, with notable moves in Hudson Motor, IBM, Case, U S Steel, Bethlehem, and others. Call money slipped to 2 percent as outside funds remained plentiful.
Chicago August market reports corn rising amid strong hog prices and higher livestock feed use. Hog values jumped up to 59 cents per hundredweight while domestic winter wheat receipts fall supported gains. Wheat firm, oats up, provisions mixed as trading closes unsettled.
Cotton in New Orleans opened irregularly with initial gains of 1 to 4 points before slipping to 10.91 for October and 11.19 for December. After overnight selling, prices firmed as orders cleared and rallied with the weekly crop and weather summary bearish on drought, lifting October to 11.18, December to 11.38, and January to 11.59.
The Georgia state camp during its Macon session approved a plan for a handsome new chapel at the Junior Order orphanage in Thomasville. Superintendent W. M. Shuford said a chapel is badly needed, replacing the current lecture room used for services. The camp initially considered a dormitory memorial but chose to fund a chapel instead.
Sixteen persons were injured and three others were reported missing after the western Maryland Railroad grain elevator collapsed on the Baltimore waterfront. Fire erupted and all available apparatus were sent to the scene.
Forsyth county representative J. H. Kirby was arrested in Atlanta on robbery charges linked to a July 18 American Finance Corp. holdup. An indictment named Kirby. evidence included overalls and a hotel room key found in his possession.
Van Lear Black Baltimore publisher and aviation enthusiast is believed drowned after apparently falling from the rail of his yacht Sabala off the Jersey coast Monday night. Navy dirigible Los Angeles coast guard ships and four amphibian planes joined the search. a handkerchief near the rail was the only clue found.
The charred body of Hugh Banks Cunningham, 55, a Laurens county farmer, was found in the 150 year old Rosemont place near McAdoo. Sheriff says no foul play suspected. believes an oil stove caused the fire last night around 7 38. Cunningham left a daughter Kathleen a teacher in Estill and a son Hoss in Detroit.
Anderson South Carolina August 20 ten year old Joseph Bette Jr of Charlotte North Carolina was hospitalized with serious injuries after an automobile overturned near here today.
Herbert M. Campbell , Virginia Highlands real estate dealer, resisted government efforts to extradite him to Washington DC for trial on charges of slaying Mary Baker. An extradition hearing before U S Commissioner J Barton Phillips followed a federal indictment after witnesses testified.
Edgar V. Farris of Tarboro will be the next state councillor of the North Carolina division of the junior order of United American Mechanics. He was nominated without opposition with election set at the convention business session. Also nominated without opposition were Sam F. Vance secretary Guerney P. Hood treasurer N. W. Johnson warden and the Rev. R. Paul Caydil chaplain. Invitations for the 1931 convention have been received from Goldsboro Charlotte Sanford Chapel Hill Morehead City and Asheville.
John Livingston of Aurora Illinois and W G Moore of Kansas City resume the Brownsville Texas to Chicago air derby. The Illinois pilot leads by six minutes 21 35 seconds as they head toward Waco Texas for the second day. They will stop overnight at Fort Worth Texas.
A special squad of prohibition agents hunted a Washington bootlegging ring after seven arrests, including two women, and sought the production center in Pennsylvania and Maryland. Officials hope to cancel industrial alcohol permits if evidence shows abuse. Separately the public health service linked a paralytic illness to a tainted ginger extract and possible poison traced to a phosphoric acid ester of tricresol.
O. H. L. Wernicke, chemist and inventor of the sectional bookcase, died in Pensacola at age 69 after a prolonged illness. He helped organize the Pine Institute of America and was an early southern wood pulp innovator, conducting experiments at Gull Point near Pensacola.
Poultry news from Chicago on August 20 notes steady trading across live chickens and turkeys with two carloads, 43 trucks. Fowls over 5 pounds average 22 cents, general run 20 percent, springs 25 percent. broilers under 3 pounds fetch 22 cents. roosters 15, turkeys 15 to 18, spring ducks 15 to 19, young geese 14.
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