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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1930
Page
12
Alabama's Crimson Tide arrived in Pasadena ahead of the Rose Bowl, initiating practice with a focused, power driven session. Washington State coach Babe Hollingbery and Cougar players watched and prepared as both teams set plans for intensified work through the week.
Berlin reports the omnibus dirigible shows satisfactory performance and is expected to be adopted nationwide. The cigar shaped railway flyer is whale like in form, powered by a giant airplane motor and propeller, and it travels over 1000 miles an hour on railway tracks.
A German inventor creates a rescue sled enabling a person to be strapped on and slid down a ladder to escape a burning building. The device aims to speed evacuations and reduce dangers for occupants and firefighters alike.
Eddie Loos of Pasadena and Chicago leads the Agua Caliente $25,000 Open after 18 holes with a 71, the only par score in windy conditions. Dewey Longworth is close with 72 as 97 players contend for 50 spots in the 36 hole qualifying.
Hittite inscriptions in Mesopotamia indicate Horee racing was a favored sport over 3300 years ago, highlighting its historical prominence and cultural reach in ancient times.
Max Schmeling through manager Joe Jacobs plans to tell the New York Athletic Commission next week that he is ready to defend the heavyweight title in June against the best available challenger. The possible rivals include Sharkey, Stribling, Striking, or Campolo. Chicago promoters have offered 500000 for a Stribling bout, but New York appears likely.
The same woman who starred in last year’s Christmas pageant at the Farm Colony for Women near Kinston will again play the lead role. Once a hardened offender facing numerous convictions, she transformed after entering the colony, where she learned gentleness and humility, earned parole, and returned home to care for her father and brother. Now she seeks to return to the pageant and improve her performance.
Report from Tangier indicates that the tunnel proposal to widen the Straits of Gibraltar and connect Spain with North Africa is assured. Borings have reached about 900 feet in depth.
Rival northern and southern squads prepare for the bene football game at Ebbets Field Sunday. The north features Hanson Temple French Penn State Karcis Carnegie Tech Antos Boston College and others in back and line units. The south lists Bethea Hackman Davidson Georgia Bell Oglethorpe Magner North Carolina Phipps Kentucky Tulane Speer Georgia Tech Brandt Thayer Tennessee and Fulton among others.
Five teams of farm extension workers will tour North Carolina starting January 5. Led by Dean I O Schaub, they will visit eastern counties first then move westward armed with county food production data and needs for locally grown food and feedstuffs to offset imports.
North Carolina state extension workers plan county by county visits to urge landowners and tenants to reduce tobacco and cotton acreage and boost food crop production. Governor Gardner calls for a $40 million increase in food and feedstuffs supply next year to avert greater economic distress. Dean Schaub emphasizes cooperation with farmers to meet the goal.
A fragment from Der Wahre Jakob in Berlin contrasts catechism with personal conflict. A speaker denies fighting and embraces forgiving love while admitting the foe is his sin, not a true rival.
The piece reports Chicago stadium discusses paying Max Schmeling $500000 for a heavyweight show amid Striking and Sharkey debates while Stribling shows promise in the semifinals. It also notes Noel Workman resigning as Iowa State head coach after 16 straight losses and a harsh season ending. New York Daily News comments on football as a symptom of times, noting Rutgers Yale Princeton Lehigh and Notre Dame Southern California Alabama and NYU protests against overemphasis.
A large Lexington worshippers gathered for a Christmas service at the First Reformed Church. The program featured French German and English carols by the choir an organ recital and a meditation on prophecy and nativity read by Dr J C Leonard with interwoven choir music.
A terse dialogue reveals emotional distress as misunderstandings over money and love escalate. A heartbroken speaker admits sorrow while another laments the high price of unresolved questions. The exchange hints at financial strain and strained affection.
In the United States District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina equity case South Carolina Security Company and Julian Mitchell Jr as trustees are declared permanent receivers of Knox Furniture Manufacturing Co. Creditors and interested parties must present itemized verified claims by December 23, 1930, to the receivers M VanStory Jr and Knox receivers. Attorneys Brooks Parker Smith and Wharton of Greensboro, NC represent the receivers.
Notre Dame coach Knute Rockne faces possible retirement from active coaching as his physician urges a less strenuous life. Friends debate whether he will retire, take a leave, or limit duties while remaining focused on Notre Dame football. Rockne plans to stop writing and speaking but faces schedule pressures including charity games and travel.
Raleigh December 24 The Rhodes football trophy awarded this year to the outstanding Wolfpack player will be offered annually as a second prize to the Norris trophy if sufficient interest is shown Dr Co D Rhodes of Raleigh announced Sparky Adams quarterback won the trophy this year which consisted of a green fountain pen desk set with a silver football on the base Adams tied with Captain Mack Stout and Charlie Cobb for the honor and won on a hat pull Dr Rhodes a university graduate says he feels closer to State than Carolina having served State students for many years through his local drug store
Ruby Goldstein of New York outpointed Willie Cara fola of New York in a six round bout. Johnny Edwards of Huntington knocked out Luis Carpentero of Toledo in round one. Christ Akron outpointed Walter Pickerd of Indianapolis in ten rounds. The United States supplies about one fifth of the world’s chemicals.
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