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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1925
Page
1
Reports say talks continue on a potential merger between Georgia Rail way and Power and the Southeastern Power and allied lines. Officials deny final agreement, while Wall Street anticipates a three-way linkage including the Tennessee Power and others.
Two men, Clay Gilbert and Henry Wright Jr., are jailed on charges of forging more than $100 in checks over ten days. Detectives traced the scheme to gives for coal and merchandise payments, with forged signatures of N C Weevil on multiple checks drawn on High Point Savings and Trust.
F L Seeley of Asheville North Carolina has filed a will suit in St Louis circuit court seeking a life time agreement made 20 years ago. The case targets E W Grove president of Parish Medicine Company and involves an alleged plan to transfer a controlling interest at Grove's death or all other Grove properties to Seeley. Grove, said to be alive, is reported extremely ill.
The Charlotte News reports a formal complaint alleging irregularities and reprehensible conduct by North Carolina Veterans Bureau staff in Charlotte. An investigator from Washington visited the bureau after complaints. Carrie W. Saxton, once dismissed, has been reinstated at Oteen hospital in a higher post, seen as vindication.
Retired Army engineer Colonel John R. Millis presented a dualistic collision theory at the American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Kansas City. He proposed two sun-sized bodies collided, forming the sun and planets, with fragments later coalescing into Earth and other bodies while heat from impacts fed long term planetary warmth. Professor Hugh Miller, urging human engineering in place of traditional professions, criticized lawyers as parasites and called for a society to advance mankind.
London dispatch says British papers push sensational tale of Princess Astrid of Sweden visiting Buckingham Palace. Court circles deny knowledge of any plan and the Swedish legation disclaims involvement. Papers associate Astrid with the Prince of Wales while highlighting her 20 year old photos and home life interests.
Chicago reports that a major golf ball maker will raise prices on standard balls from 75 cents to 1.00 and on the 50 cent variety from 50 to 60 cents. The increase stems from higher rubber costs affecting production.
A boatman is believed dead after his Ford car veered off a road and plunged into the Neuse River. Authorities said salvage and investigation are underway as damages are sought in the ensuing incident.
Raleigh Dec 30 Four days of state and federal court review fail to find a case to overthrow Willis against the city of New Bern over an $8 000 death claim. Ernest Green former assistant district attorney argues the city bore no protection from such an accident and that the deceased did not contribute to the injury. The judge held a jury must pass on the facts. The list of 115 bar applicants includes Thomas P Jimison and many others across North Carolina with various locations and backgrounds.
New York Dec 30 AP The arbitration question looms large as miners and operators resume a nine hour conference over the anthracite strike. Alvan Markle proposes a three citizen panel with a joint six-member committee and final checks by an umpire, fueling debate on wage arbitration and price fixing. The plan aims to interpret wage contracts without setting coal prices and faces miner opposition. Meetings continue at the Union League Club with a cordial tone.
In Angora the Turkish war council held secret talks after the League of Nations decision to place Mosul under British mandate. General Djevad Pasha participated, coordinating plans tied to the Russo Turkish treaty and Mosul region status.
Gene Tunney knocks out Dan O'Dowd of Boston in the second round at St. Petersburg closing the bout with a rapid finishing move.
Chicago poet and Northwestern University instructor Lew Sarrett plans to retreat to northern Wisconsin forests for a year while commuting weekly to Evanston to teach. He rejects urban modern comforts, seeking happiness in nature, clean air, and simple home life, as evoked in his verse and the Box of God.
Paris dispatch notes flood chaos across central Europe with Transylvania, Rumania, Hungary and Poland hit hard. Martial law in Romania amid looting fears. Danube and Seine rise threaten Paris. Hempel to perform in German cities as Locarno spirit softens postwar tensions.
The weather bureau reports a week of cold and freeze across the Atlantic and Gulf states damaged cabbage, lettuce, onions and other hardy truck crops. Tobacco stripping continues in Maryland while Kentucky and Arkansas face dry and cold conditions hindering outdoor work. Virginia sees a cold slice and rain, North Carolina reports hard frost hurting crops, Tennessee suffers drought and freezing temperatures with minimal plowing and weak wheat growth.
Damage rises in Bekes Hungary as 175000 acres of winter crops lie under floodwater. 317 well stocked farms are totally wrecked while artillery helps break ice backed flood waters.
Police in pursuit of a 78 year old Carson City Nevada man known as Senator A B Lewis. The case centers on Edith Burton's murder by Harry W Cowan after a $100000 poison plot claim reference and a warning letter found in Cowan's room.
New Haven Conn Dec 30 AP Charles Darwin once attacked by fundamentalists now faces critique from evolutionists Dr Henry F Osborn president of the American Museum of Natural History and Columbia zoology professor led a 500 scientist gathering at Yale to dedicate the Peabody museum arguing five evolution laws and locating mankind’s cradle in the Mongolian highlands based on fossils and paleontology findings
H. W. Anderson for Chesapeake and Ohio minority stockholders argued to the Interstate Commerce Commission that the merger would yield profits totaling 86 million plus for O P and M J Vansweringen and associates.
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