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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1930
Page
1
Hoover and Mellon signaled optimism that the present 1 percent income tax cut would continue. They warned new legislation may be needed to avoid higher rates and noted a $186 million surplus in the last fiscal year. Government spending cuts and anticipated tariff effects were cited as supporting factors.
Will Sloan, under sentence of electrocution for a Person county murder, confessed to killing Mrs. Elsa Marshall near Greenburgh New York on September 2 1929. He also admitted involvement in earlier Durham killings including Rev E Frank Lee but denied the alleged granddaughter assault. Sloan said the Marshall shooting was accidental and involved a cocked shotgun he carried.
Captain Wolfgang Von Gronau and three German companions, who landed at Midgetat Greenland after a flight from Iceland, will press on to Labrador or Newfoundland tomorrow if weather permits. They have not officially announced a destination, but are presumed to be bound for the United States.
In Bessemer City Aug 23 seven hundred workers at American Mills No 1 and No 2 reached a settlement after a strike that began Monday. The agreement restores wages to pre‑cut levels and drops rent cut demands. No mention was made of the mill’s general superintendent Geo R Spencer. Frank Goldberg, president of the mills, announced workers return to duty Monday.
Lon Chaney Jr. film star was reported very ill at St Vincents hospital in Los Angeles. Studio officials said he received two blood transfusions after returning from New York where he underwent throat surgery two weeks ago.
A Stokes county relief committee sub committee will ask Forsyth officials to discuss adding Stokes by annexation. The plan aims to offer tax relief at a mass meeting of Stokes citizens on the first Monday in September.
Salomon Auguste Andree the Swedish balloonist and his two companions Strindberg and Frankel are believed to have reached about 1250 kilometers from the North Pole before death. The Brattvaag captain said camp findings show long use of equipment and that Andree lived the longest with his diary and rifles at his side.
Raleigh August 23 The North Carolina supreme court announced eight or nine new lawyers after the bar examination. Of 1335 test takers forty four failed. The list of successful applicants includes Delmo Vaughan Allen and others from the class of admitted to the bar.
Weather bureaus issued warnings from Sandy Hook to Nantucket and to Eastport Maine as a disturbance 120 miles south of Rhode Island moves north northeastward. Strong winds shift from northeast to northwest late today with gales likely between Sandy Hook and Block Island and between Portland and Eastport.
Air derbies from Brownsville Texas to Miami Florida, plus women and Seattle Chicago routes, race toward Chicago with pilots speedily traversing from Augusta to Cincinnati and points west. Leaders include Jack Livingston, Art Fillips, Art Davis, George Burrell, Phoebe Omlie, Gladys O Donnell, Nick Mamer, and others as multiple events converge on Chicago for the first race day.
The Daily Sketch reports that birth of a daughter to the Duke and Duchess of York prompts calls for a special act to remove any question over succession. It argues primogeniture does not apply to sisters, risking co heirs if no male heir exists, potentially placing Princess Elizabeth and her sister in line and risking abeyance.
E. L. Gillespie, ousted leader of the American Mills strikers, interrupted a meeting called to consider a strike settlement proposed by the committee. R. C. Gregory attempted to present the settlement, but Gillespie took the floor and the meeting broke up in an uproar.
In Boston three members of the International Labor Defense were arrested for addressing an unauthorized Sacco Vanzetti memorial meeting on Boston Common. They were later released on bail.
The census bureau reports 2,598,151 unemployed Americans last April, about 2 percent of the population, who are able and seeking work. It notes state rates from 0.3 percent in South Dakota to 3.3 percent in Michigan and explains other unemployment categories to be measured later.
Greensboro news confirms J Tracey Hutchinson about 43 of Concord as one victim killed by a Southern railway shifter engine. The second man is believed to be Leon or Linwood Collins about 40 of Nash County, with W L Hutchinson noting the elder man as his uncle from Anson County.
Mrs Emma E Coggins 69 shot herself at her Greensboro home today while bathing. Coroner Dr W W Harvey said death was instantaneous. Her daughter Mrs Scott Payler found her with a gunshot wound. police arrived within five minutes. Despondency was given as the cause.
Miriam A. Ferguson and Ross D. Sterling faced off in the Democratic run-off for Texas governor. Sterling attacked Ferguson's pardon and impeachment history while Ferguson warned of highway bond plans and urged "honesty in government" as their campaigns heated up.
Queen Marie and Princess Ileana arrive in Bucharest to press another reconciliation between King Carol and Queen Helen. Authorities deny reports Helen would enter a convent.
Barbu Joesecu a friend of King Carol of Romania said the king denies emphatically he plans to marry either a French princess or Madame Lupescu his former intimate.
A serious military revolt in Arequipa southern Peru challenged President Augusto B. Leguia. The garrison seized civil and military chiefs, closed Arequipa and Mollendo to traffic, and moved aircraft against the city. The rebels arrested the department prefect and Arequipa division head with no bloodshed as the government vowed steps to restore order.
Kansas City Aug 23. John Toole foreman is missing and a black laborer died after a hill blast caused an explosion that set fire to and destroyed the Hogan Milling Company warehouse.
Camulgee Oklahoma August 23 United States Senator W B Pine attributed the nation s low business mood to the 64 men named by former ambassador Gerard as those who rule the United States He said they are responsible for the present condition in a public address yesterday.
Bulletin from Glamis Castle states the Duchess of York and the infant princess are both very well. The note is signed by Sir Henry Simson.
Ruth Hanna McCormick the Republican nominee pledges to obey voters on the prohibition referendum on November 4, while James Hamilton Lewis the Democrat supports repeal of all prohibition laws. McCormick says she remains personally dry but will follow the will of the people and act according to any proposed modifications to the Volstead act.
In Budapest on August 23 officials denied that former Empress Zita and her son Otto had returned to seize power. Despite denials, police guarded key sites as crowds buzzed with the alarming report. A woman in black and an 18 year old boy drawn from a car were checked but cleared as locals.
Charlotte, Aug 23. Mrs. Mattie Kiser emerged after 731 continuous hours in a tree claiming a world record for women. She started at 213 pounds and reportedly shed 19 pounds during the standoff as she descended to ground.
Captain Wolfgang von Gronau and three companions on board a Dornier flying boat landed at Ivigtut Greenland after a roughly 11 hour 1000 mile route from Reykjavik. The crew included Franz Back mechanic Herr Albrecht wireless operator and student Zimmer.
A Wilson County coroner's jury ruled Oliver Moore died at the hands of a mob of masked men whose identities remain unknown. Deputies and sheriff testified the jail door was breached as about 100 men gathered, with 25 to 30 unmasked. The inquest included L R Reynolds of Richmond, Virginia, for the interracial cooperation commission.
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