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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1931
Page
1
Washington reports outline that America will help Europe only if Europe fixes its own problems and unites on a confident program. Hoover’s 1931 moratorium aimed to ease the world crisis and restore confidence, with emphasis that reparations talks depend on European self‑stability and unity.
In Cincinnati the sheriff revealed a stained burlap sack and burned broom fragments as possible new clues in the Marian McLean kidnapping murder. The child’s funeral drew six hundred mourners at St. Patrick’s Cathedral, while authorities ordered a chemist to test for blood.
A deputy sheriff and mine guard Owen Sizemore, 50, was killed as the Harlan county fight between law enforcement and striking coal miners flared anew. The death brings to at least four deputies, a commissary clerk, and three miners killed since last spring, with over 30 miners under murder indictments and more trials pending.
A 25 year old Baltimore wife named Edna Dennis shot herself while joking with her husband about a baby name. She pointed a revolver at her temple and pulled the trigger, apparently believing the gun unloaded.
Pope Pius XI calls for unification of Protestant and eastern Catholic churches with Rome in an encyclical Lux Veritatis. He stresses Papal supremacy and Mary’s exaltation while urging moral renewal to bolster Christian domestic life and confront modern immorality.
Hoyt B. Prichard former University of North Carolina track star was hospitalized in Louisville after a collision while racing with Allen M. Bond Jr. of Louisville a Purdue University senior. Doctors said his skull is not fractured. Bond received minor injuries and Prichard suffered scalp wounds.
Floodwaters in the Tallahatchie Delta injure and drown residents in Glendora and Sumner. A drowned man Henderson and his six year old son. The Whitten family and four children missing after fleeing their farm near Stone. Levee crews and convicts battle to raise embankments as the river crest looms.
At Dowd road crossing near Charlotte a Birmingham Special struck a light touring car killing nine people including Miss Loma Cox of York South Carolina and members of the Holton and Cox families. Identification was difficult as bodies were mangled and stretched across the car.
Santiago officials deployed several thousand carabineros to stop disturbances at a communist mass meeting protesting government policies and calling for congress dissolution. Police raided a workers club finding a red flag and Soviet material while alleging professional agitators behind the agitation.
Dr Melvil Dewey renowned for inventing the decimal classification system died in Lake Placid Florida at age 80 from a cerebral hemorrhage. He founded the southern branch of the Lake Placid club, was born December 10 1851 in Adams Center New York and celebrated his 80th birthday recently.
San Francisco dispatch reports an effort to have Albert Einstein meet Governor Rolph in Los Angeles to plead for clemency for Thomas Mooney, jailed for a 1916 preparedness day parade bombing. Einstein plans four months at Caltech in Pasadena after arriving from Germany.
Culbertson plus rose to 17 090 after gaining 2 565 points on Sidney Lenz and Oswald Jacoby in a 150 rubber match. Nine rubbers were played with Culbertson and Lightner winning six. two thirds not yet reached. Banter and bid talk flavored the session as minor misplays and psychic bidding drew comments.
Washington December 26. A high Democratic source says foreign debt slashes should be conditioned on reciprocal tariff cuts. Representative Rainey, house leader and moratorium foe, says such a plan could justify extending debt payments, though he criticizes Hoover and Republican leaders for inaction.
Seventeen dead and 13 injured mark holiday toll in North Carolina. A family of four and five friends perished when their car was struck by the Birmingham Special at a crossing in Charlotte. Walter Radford, 17, of Schefield, Va., was killed. Ruth Radford, 12, seriously hurt near Durham as their car collided with another vehicle driven by Mrs. R.
Lowell Mason captain-elect of the Duke university football team was released on a $100 bond in Monroe North Carolina after arrest on a driving while intoxicated charge. Mason, a former Charlotte high school star, had previously drawn headlines after being shot by Captain Alex West during a pursuit following a wreck.
Rioters from the red shirt movement clash with soldiers near Peshawar killing eight and wounding fifty as authorities ban the organization. Nehru is arrested near Allahabad, Gandhi visit plans canceled, and Hartal strikes spread through Bombay amid mounting civil strife.
Japan informs the United States Britain and France it seeks to avoid conflicts but will act against bandits. Reports say Japanese troops crossed the Liao river near Chinchow and moved toward Tienchangtai while Chinese irregulars attacked along the Mukden railway.
Washington December 26 Hearings on repealing the 18th amendment will begin after Christmas recess before a five member judiciary sub committee led by Senator Blaine. Members split: two for repeal or resubmission, one for referendum, others varied. The panel will consider Bingham’s repeal resolution and other liquor law modifications. Blaine drafts a Volstead Act tweak as part of the agenda.
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