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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1925
Page
1
Raleigh dispatches report Governor McLean rejects clemency for the Asheville mob defendants. He says punishment must follow violence and that sentiment alone cannot decide the case. Mrs Lucie Carter has drafted clemency appeals for Mansel and others involved.
Army court martial proceedings hurdle Colonel William Mitchells claim that wartime neglect amounted to treasonable conduct by the War Department in failing to provide air defense planes for Hawaii in 1923. Major Lester J. McNair showed a 1923 plan existed and was revised while Mitchell inspected Hawaii. Defense notes Mitchell was told no plans existed when he asked the top Hawaii air officer. Rep Frank Reid said defense case should end next Wednesday and the court will meet Saturday after a holiday.
Superintendent T Wingate Andrews reports progress on plans for a new High Point high school. A key meeting Tuesday will include city school board members, Harry Barton of Greens and Dr N L Engelhardt of York to review architect drawings and advise on the western site at Jones and Chestnut streets.
Petersburg and Newport News will quit the Virginia League for the 1926 season, announced by William G. Bramham president of the Old Dominion League. The clubs plan to rejoin in 1927 while the league continues with six clubs next year.
President Coolidge approved the court martial sentence dismissing Captain Frank M. Niho of Montgomery West Virginia from the 42nd Infantry at Camp Gaillard Canal Zone for embezzling funds he custodied. He criticized substituting the term unlawfully converting by borrowing for wrongfully converting to his own use and called embezzlement a trust violation regardless of intent.
The Peacock Bible class meets at 1:30 in the Broadhurst theater on North Main Street as it pursues a goal of 500 members. Dr. Dred Peacock resumes talks after a long absence, and the class has moved to larger quarters to accommodate its growing membership.
City tax books for 1925 are ready, announced by City Collector David Bullard. Taxpayers are urged to pay early since the city needs the funds.
The measure enters a crucial test in Congress with twenty hours of debate ahead. Supporters predict passage within the week as the bill faces scrutiny from allies and opponents.
Senator Lenroot defends US policy at the World Court arguing the court serves justice and national interests. He faces opposition from critics who claim the court usurps sovereign decision making while urging restraint and adherence to treaty commitments.
At a national republican club luncheon in New York lawmakers clashed over the world court. Senator Irvine Lenroot defended joining the court as non binding and funded, while Congressman George H. Tinkham and Princeton professor Herbert Adams Gibbons attacked the court as a tool of the League of Nations and a threat to American sovereignty.
F M Snow, 46, a wood cutter from near Stephenville Texas, confessed to authorities that he shot and beheaded his stepson Bernie Connally on November 30. He said the body was left on a mountain top and the head taken to the Snow farm where it was found in a ruined cellar. Snow denied harming his wife or her mother and said they had left for Waco days before the killing. He was being taken to the suspected location for examination.
The 22 men aboard the barge Altamaha were rescued by the U S coast guard cutter Tallapoosa after drifting nearly nine days with provisions for six. Most crew members from Mobile, some saved from the sunken Gwalia, towing gravel from Mobile to Tampa.
The 325 million tax reduction bill cleared a test stage in the house with broad bipartisan support yet to face at least a dozen amendments next week. Key fights target life appointments to the board of tax appeals and the inheritance tax repeal movement amid charges of nonpartisan intent and industry-backed intimidation.
The Christmas display on North Main street at Emerywood office turns the entire space into a festive scene with a large decorated tree and decorative borders. The lively windows serve as holiday charm and an advertorial element for the Emerywood office amid city lights.
St Petersburg Florida and New York connected by airplane freight service as W H McMullen pilots a plane carrying women's clothing valued at 2000 dollars arriving in St Petersburg at 10 this morning. The flight originated in New York on Wednesday and stopped in Washington then Fayetteville Savannah and Inverness before reaching Florida. Weather and fueling delays extended the trip.
At Princeton on December 12 the national collegiate world court conference dissolved after Mabel Halloway of Howard University was elected to the south on the executive committee. Southern delegates quit, Kiser and Webb withdrew, the group altered representation to include two southerners per section, and the meeting adjourned after prayer.
Welfare workers search for a permanent home for nine and thirteen year old boys whose parents have separated. Their mother wishes to keep them and will help support them, seeking a town or country placement. Interested parties should contact Miss Susie West, city probation and truant officer, at phone 2897.
A roof fire broke out yesterday on the old Joe Huffman house owned by Mrs. Peter Penn at South Main street. Sparks from a chimney caused the blaze. firefighters responded quickly and extinguished it with no major damage beyond the roof.
Raleigh December 12 AP two men were arrested and authorities recovered clothing valued at several hundred dollars. The report notes the incident as part of a larger city crime sweep and mentions no further details about suspects or exact locations.
Plain clothes officers from High Point traced a wave of thefts across Danville Virginia Greensboro Winston-Salem and High Point. They arrested two Winston-Salem youths Walter Haston and Bill Young after a 48 hour sleep‑deprived stakeout and recovered overcoats suits medical bags and various items including a trunk and a porch stolen trunk. Police say the pair confessed and led to more recoveries across the four cities.
Governor McLean announced the six member board for the Department of Conservation and Development, led by Major Wade H. Phillips as director. Appointees include S. Wade Marr, John H. Small, H. L. McClaren, H. B. Shaw, Dr. D. D. Carroll, and James McClure Jr. The department aims to broaden the old survey by linking natural resources to industry and preparing a yearbook on the state’s geography and resources.
The B. C. Johnson home place in Trinity was auctioned by United Auction Company. About 50 home sites were created and sold for about $6,000. A large crowd attended and one buyer won a Ford car.
Winston Salem reports Camel Coach Line will operate buses linking Winston Salem Mocksville Statesville Mooresville Davidson College and Charlotte with an auxiliary Salem Martinsville Virginia service. New larger yellow coaches will replace current High Point line motors as soon as equipment arrives. Formation of the new concern, not yet complete, will elect officers Monday.
Fire Chief A. B. Horney issued five building permits for new residences in the city on Saturday. The approved projects include four five room dwellings on Gazelle Jefferson Winslow and Hinsell streets and repairs to a Gurley street dwelling, with costs ranging from 1,100 to 3,500 dollars.
Detroit. Dec 12 AP. Hotel magnate E M Statler expresses concern for crew of his private yacht Miramar and Miramar Junior, a forty foot fishing boat, lost in the Atlantic off Charleston. Coast guard aid is sought as eleven aboard the yacht and two on the fishing sloop remain missing since November 30. Weather may have forced them to harbor for repairs.
The High Point Enterprise Ten Neediest Cases fund reached 415.50 with eleven contributions in a day, the largest yet since the campaign began two weeks ago. The paper notes the goal remains 1,000 and expects increased giving before Christmas, with checks payable to Ten Neediest Cases mailed to The Enterprise.
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