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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1922
Page
2
The Chicago and Alton system stalls as engineers firemen conductors and switchmen walk out. Trackmen demand wage raises citing higher living costs and a wage board decision they deem insufficient. Grable brings a strike vote to a conference as shops reopen in New Bern.
Government tax data for 1922 shows tobacco revenue up by 15.56 million from 1921, driven largely by cigarette taxes totaling 150.13 million. Chewing and pipe tobaccos fell to 06.34 million and large cigars 44.18 million, while alcohol, candy, chewing gum, and admissions taxes declined versus the prior year.
President Harding and aides plan to use existing powers to improve fuel and transport facilities without immediate government takeover of rail and coal properties. Senate and House committees advance distribution and priority bills while considering executive steps to control roads and mines amid divided opinions.
Ten eastern railroads and the United Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes and Railroad Shop Laborers faced a hearing on boosting minimum wages from 23 to 48 cents an hour. Seniority and union representation disputes surfaced as W G Walker questioned the Brotherhood’s authority to represent workers across the ten lines amid the ongoing shopmen strike.
The Norfolk Southern railroad resumes shop operations in Norfolk Virginia and New Bern North Carolina, filling posts left by July 1 strikers. The move follows an advertising push at current pay rates and proceeds with limited former workers returning. Raleigh shops remain closed for now.
An Associated Press report from Jackson California states seventy five miners are entombed in the Argonaut gold mine after a fire in the main shaft near the 8500 foot level. Efforts were under way to reach them via the abandoned Muldoon shaft touching the vein where the men work.
The Argonaut gold mine in Sacramento County reports 75 men trapped too deep to reach by the Muldoon shaft. Officials say the only hope is to extinguish the Argonaut mine fire to enable rescue efforts.
A shabby four wheeler, rusted engine heap, and weather sieve were left on Broad Street near Main. Police towed the decayed vehicle to headquarters after circling the block for over 86 hours, awaiting claimed ownership by its tired master or any passerby.
About 1600 strikebreakers at Coster shops of the Southern railway in Knoxville Tennessee walked out and prepared to return to New York City whence they had been imported. Some alleged they were recruited by labor agents under the pretext of being taken to Alexandria Virginia and that doors were locked once they boarded trains. They said they were promised fourteen hours of work daily at 65 to 67 cents an hour and most were foreigners.
Lansing August 28 College secretary R Halladay notified state fuel administrator William W Potter that the Michigan Agricultural College faced no coal and could not reopen until fuel is secured.
In Raleigh on August 28 a Seaboard Air Line train struck an auto carrying five colored people between New Hill and Apex, killing two men instantly and injuring three men and two women. Morris Melver of Cumnock was identified among the injured.
Johnn Ey Cox a farmer near Ashboro was found hanged in his smoke house yesterday morning after leaving the house during the night. He had suffered ill health and possible mental imbalance. He is survived by his wife, several children, and two brothers. one brother lives in Morganton and once attempted suicide 17 years ago.
J. T. Wallace Hepford, president and manager of J. Wallace Hepford and Son, Inc., of Durham, was arrested in Richmond on false pretense charges. He faced a preliminary hearing in Durham recorder's court and was bound over to the superior court on bonds totaling 1600 dollars. He allegedly sold territorial sales agencies for nonexistent commodities to three complainants.
Greensboro report says Ray Gilliland a white man from Moore county was arrested on Saturday for abandoning his wife. Moore County officers are expected to take him back for trial.
Four members of J. W. Burris family from Henderson Kentucky were killed when their car was struck by a Chicago and Eastern Illinois train at Haubstadt Indiana ten miles south of Princeton.
Dublin Aug 28 Michael Collins was laid to rest in Lasne vin amid national grief almost unmatched in Ireland s troubled history Arthur Griffith was buried with full honors Collins died a national hero as crowds filled the cathedral and streets across the country for funeral services and mourners gathered in towns and cities nationwide.
Nine men are in custody over an alleged radical plot linked to the wreck of a Michigan Central train at Gary Indiana last week. Four men are named as involved and police and railroad detectives maintain secrecy while arrests are anticipated.
William Jennings Bryan calls for urgent action in a letter to Senator Walsha to authorize the president to seize mines and railroads temporarily to end the intolerable situation. The appeal stresses congressional empowerment to manage critical industries during a national crisis.
Greensboro chamber of commerce votes to study Greens boro as the site for a proposed four year medical school and supported hospital. A committee will survey the field while noting Charlotte’s campaign to secure the hospital.
William Thurman Welborn 35, Stehli silk mill employee, died after falling from the top of a box car at Hill Top station near Greensboro. He was taken to St. Leo's hospital where he died. Funeral arrangements set at Green Street Baptist Church for 2:30 p.m. tomorrow. Survivors include his widow, two children, his mother and five sisters.
In Nashville Tennessee on August 28 a fire destroyed the Federal Chemical company acid house and 2,000,000 pounds of sulfuric acid, causing about 1.5 million dollars in losses.
Will Douglas, a Black man wanted in Wadesboro for auto larceny, was arrested here last Saturday afternoon by Officer Frene. He is held in the local jail awaiting officers from Wadesboro.
A Saturday night break in at Max Samets general merchandise and pawn on East Washington Street left eight pistols and eight watches missing along with suitcases and other goods valued at about 100 dollars. The thief entered through a second story window, removed a glass pane in a back door, and escaped without triggering the lock on the front display. Mrs Samet suggests using her plan to trap the thief with police help.
Heavy freight and passenger engines cross the newly completed Ohio River bridge of the Southern Railway system in Cincinnati. The first train over the span was passenger No. 25, led by Engineer J. B. Lester and Conductor Thomas Quinlan, crossing Friday afternoon at 4 o clock.
Five thousand gallons of alleged hard cider and two kegs said to contain apple brandy were seized by deputy sheriffs at the cider mill of Harry Morgan in Amenia. Morgan, vice president of the Wellington Oil Company, was away on vacation. a warrant for his arrest on illegal liquor sales awaits his return.
Governor Morrison supports fixing a fair coal price for NC consumers using a federal distribution plan directing R O Self and the corporation to proceed. A drastic temporary injunction against striking Norfolk Southern workers faces a judge's ruling Friday. The case cites $50,000 damages for alleged violent acts by workers and notes a trusteeship involving Raleigh Savings Bank for cotton co-ops.
New York cotton futures opened steady with declines of one to nine points amid nervousness over fuel and transport outlook. December contracts rose to 23.92 on the call but prices steadied around 22.04, with bullish crop reports tempering the start. Private crop reports before the open showed conditions from 66 to 68 percent and crop hints around 11.18 to 11.50 million bales.
The Guilford County Parent Teachers association will hold a meeting Friday at 2 36 o clock in the county courthouse education rooms Greensboro. The year s planned work will be mapped out and all members are urged to attend. Information from High Point says county school enrollment will likely be larger than usual.
Miss Lois Love of Statesville visits in the home of Mrs R H Sechrest on South Main Street.
D Bones and family formerly of High Point now residing in Augusta Georgia visit friends and relatives in the city.
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