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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1931
Page
2
Congress eases toward relief compromise as Senate and House leaders announce a $20,000,000 drought relief loan plan to aid agricultural rehabilitation. President Hoover aligned with the agreement, while critics like Representative LaGuardia condemn the measure as impractical and politically risky.
Witness testimony at a veterans bonus hearing touched on direct relief funding while Democrats shifted stance. Legislative action moved through committees as the Gardner road dispute produced new legislative arrows. Several major developments emerged after yesterday’s introduction of minority and majority road bills.
Fire started from a defective chimney about 11 this morning burning the kitchen roof of the home at 305 South Hamilton Street formerly Fred N. Tate now C A Sebastian. Damages estimated under 1000 covered by insurance. Firemen from Companies One Two and Six kept flames from spreading as a crowd gathered.
Legislative action split over divorce and present law while advancing administration proposals for a reorganized banking department. Highway bills seek higher gas tax. one plan abolishes the highway commission, creates a state maintenance body, and uses prisoners. Buncombe County gains absentee ballot exemption after failed amendments.
Democratic leaders hailed a veterans compromise as enabling about 1.2 billion in new loans to former soldiers, replacing a 500 million figure. Republican independents and some Democrats balked that the Red Cross relief substitute lacked specific food loan provisions. Senators Robinson Caraway said loans for drought area farmers and food purchases could be covered. Connally urged a Hyde affirmation before loans for food could proceed.
In Winston-Salem on February 7, counsel for both sides in a $150,000 alienation of affections suit brought by Mrs. Alexandra Hankins against her husband's parents rested their cases. The judge set Monday for closing arguments with three and a half hours allotted to each side. Hankins testified she had not been misquoted about her mother-in-law and said her husband urged her to terminate the pregnancy. She claims her parents alienated her affections due to a dislike for her.
In Knoxville Tennessee two families recall a century old promise made when Leonard Barnett and Rachel Marcus were born. Now both reach age twenty on March 24 and the couple plans to wed to honor the original betrothal. Their families uphold the oath as the teens prepare to celebrate their coming of age and the anticipated marriage.
Gus Sonnenberg former heavyweight wrestling champion demonstrates his "lock" on Marie Dorothy Elliot of Belmont Massachusetts. The ex-Dartmouth football star and Miss Elliot a Leland Powers student are to be married soon.
Prominent missionary Dr. S. A. Stewart of Durham will visit High Point to deliver the night sermon at Wesley Memorial church. Sunday events include more services across First Reformed, Central Friends, and First M. P. churches with choir performances by Guilford college A Capella choir under Prof. Max Noah and an ordination of elders and deacons.
First Reformed holds annual ordination and installation of elected elders and deacons on Sunday morning. Stewardship Sermons continue with The Christian Steward and His Personality. Choir and youth programs, catechism class, and church membership prep at 6:30 p.m. Evening service at 7:30 p.m. for foreign missions under the theme At Thy Word with a special missions offering. All welcome.
Wesley Memorial Methodist Church resumes worship with Rev G Ray Jordan preaching at 11 am on Sunday on The Christian's Most Despicable Enemy. Dr B A Stewart, missionary speaker from Durham, will address the evening service. Church school starts 9 45 am with age-segregated groups. Peacock Bible class nears 200 enrollment and high male attendance.
Pastor Dr. A B Conrad will speak at both Sunday services with morning subject The Assuring Vision and evening sermon The Spirit or Power For Service. Intermediate and Junior Y P A meet 6:30 Sunday. Wednesday night Senior Y P U conducts midweek prayer service with no topic announced yet.
Rev. O. A. Elmore, pastor, will preach at both services. The Radical Cure, final in the Covetousness and Its Cure series, will be the morning subject, and The Last Days will be the evening topic at Southside Baptist Church.
A Berlin comedy snippet shows a welfare worker teasing a prisoner about craving a drink. The prisoner retorts that he would not mistake the cell for a saloon, underscoring a wry exchange about temptation and confinement.
Albin Johnson of the United States Shipping Board told the Associated Press the wreckage sighted near Corvo Island on January 31 may be part of the Tradewind plane. The Tradewind carried Mrs Beryl Hart and Lt William MacLaren who vanished after departing Bermuda January 10 en route to the Azores. no trace was found despite searches.
New York Feb 7 A 29 year old Mrs Victor Bruce crosses three continents in a compact two seat Honeymoon model. She uses a dictaphone to narrate the world from Hungary to Persia India China Japan Canada and back to New York. Fifty records will delight her son Tony who studies geography.
Children plant bulbs in city apartments the writer says this growing life is cheery and fragrant. The piece notes the simple joy of bulb culture amid urban living.
Thirteen inmates escaped during a fire at the Central State Hospital for the Insane in Nashville. Six hundred occupants were freed. 24 fled, with eleven recaptured. Notable escapees include Arnoldo S. Riggio and prisoners Luther Anderton and Norman Winchester. Damages about $2,500.
A Tennessee legislative committee probing the closed Bank of Tennessee recessed after state Superintendent D. D. Robertson affirmed that bank deposits bore the same safety as funds set aside to gamble with. He explained Caldwell and company could repurchase bank securities, implying the state money was controlled by the investment house. The bank held over $3.0 million in highway funds and $336,645 in general state funds at closing.
Amelia Earhart the trans Atlantic flyer and George Palmer Putnam publisher were married at the Noank Connecticut home of Putnam’s mother. Judge Arthur Anderson officiated as witnesses included the groom’s mother and Anderson’s son Robert. Earhart will keep her maiden name and continue with her aviation company duties while Putnam remains at Brewer and Warren in New York.
A proverb notes that red-haired persons are seldom found in insane asylums, reflecting a belief about temperament or behavior linked to hair color in historical stereotype.
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