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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 21, 1930
Page
1
Dr. Harry Woodburn Chase accepts the Illinois presidency, with salary doubled, sending word to H. E. Cunningham. In North Carolina, Gov Gardner schedules a March 4 trustees meeting to name a successor after Chase resigns to lead Illinois.
Senate Republicans are chided by Senator Harrison over a Kansas City Star report claiming President Hoover favors the coalition tariff bill. Senator Grundy earlier circulated the article. both invoked unconfirmed rumors as they weighed Hoover’s potential stance amid party divisions. In Florida, John Morgan fights extradition for a 1892 North Carolina slaying, with Florida witnesses placing him in Middlesburg.
Dr. Harry Woodburn Chase resigns from the University of North Carolina presidency after a decade of rapid growth and national prominence. He has been chosen to become president of the University of Illinois, which enrolled about 14,000 students, with Urbana trustees naming him to succeed Dr. David Kinley. Governor O Max Gardner, UNC board chair, will forward the resignation to the board.
Washington February 21 William Howard Taft remains about the same today with doctors and caregivers anxious over slow improvement. Family members away from the city are summoned back to be at his bedside while Mrs Manning and sons Robert P and Charles A along with brothers Henry W Taft and Horace Taft travel to Washington.
Vienna dispatch reports Bucharest papers voiced fear of imminent conflict with Soviet Russia. Romanian troops reportedly set defensive lines along the Carpathian/Bessarabian frontier amid warnings that war danger is greatest.
At North Carolina State College, four students were dismissed by the student council for hazing. Names listed include J A Ramsay of Salisbury J M Leroy Jr of Elizabeth City H W Clarke of Fulala and Jerry Moore of Harmony. Earlier three students were expelled for similar conduct.
Lakeland Florida February 21 The state republican committee will meet March 8 to refine plans for the June primary. Chairman E E Callaway plans to introduce a platform plank seeking repeal of the eighteenth amendment and a common sense alternative. He says prohibition is a failure and questions the national party stance warning of a disaster in the 1952 elections. He adds he is not a drinking man and favors state rights to handle the issue.
Two people died in a train automobile collision at a grade crossing near Salem, Virginia. The victims were Mrs. Frank Oakey and Miss Margaret Oakey, both residents of Salem. An eastbound Norfolk and Western passenger train struck their car.
The Federal Radio Commission extended station KWEH Shreveport Louisiana license for sixty days after finding Henderson had eliminated objectionable remarks from his program. The action was announced in Washington on February 21 by AP report.
Chicago business leaders unveiled an anti crime program funded by business profits to prosecute gangsters. Col Robert Isham Randolph led a six member secret committee to deploy investigators and prosecutors to gather evidence and lock up racketeers. The plan includes a cross investigation system to curb lawyer manipulation and political influence.
Beverley Payne Jr., five, was found dead from choke marks in Charlotte. His grandmother Mrs. John R. Ashe Sr. was found unconscious with a cord in her hand, and coroner Dr. Frank Hovis suspects she choked the boy and attempted suicide. The family had recently relocated from Rockingham and Rock Hill.
Vera M Gingell a 36 year old actress and Sigurd Bjorne a 38 year old musician were shot to death in a downtown Los Angeles apartment by Augustus Gingell her estranged husband. Gingell a Glendale merchant surrendered to police after the killings.
Chairman Britten of the house naval committee argues for American parity at the London conference and rejects building large cruisers as proposed by Britain. He warns the talks may fail due to British obstinacy and calls for arms reduction over expansion. The statement was made to the Illinois Manufacturers association.
Washington February 21 Mabel Walker Willebrandt pleaded guilty to speeding in traffic court paid a ten dollar fine and exited through a side door. A crowd of cameramen waited in front of the courthouse for an hour before concluding she would not use the front entrance.
The state corporation commission today ordered the Durham and South Carolina railroad to build a side track in or near Durham for the American Tobacco Company's use. The tobacco company will bear the building costs and be refunded from track revenues during the first five years of operation.
Four seventh grade pupils in Kansas City admitted running a speakeasy behind a billboard, selling stolen whiskey from a basement cache. The youths, aged 13 and 16, planned profits for candy and cinema funds, fixing prices at whatever the buyer valued, promising 100 percent profit before any sales.
Five power naval conference delegates in London show unease over French political turmoil and its impact on proceedings. Officials fear a prolonged crisis, with Stimson and MacDonald voicing concern over world opinion and possible early resumption of talks if Paris stabilizes.
J W Bailey candidate for the Democratic senatorial nomination announced C L Shuping of Greensboro will open campaign headquarters in Raleigh on Monday and start the Bailey campaign. Judge J S Manning said offices may be in Bailey's law office. Simmons campaign also to open in Raleigh and Greensboro with Charles A Hines managing.
In Biloxi Mississippi a federal grand jury returned 218 indictments most for prohibition violations. Jurors were weighing a presentment against O D Sullivan a former prohibition agent and informer arrested midweek on a prohibition charge and listed as a government witness in several liquor cases awaiting trial.
AP dispatch reports Keb Chautemps, radical socialist leader, will call on President Doumergue with his new ministry at seven this evening. In other items, Savannah Open lead race sees Ken Smith and Ed Schultz tied atop 146 after second round. protests in Georgia over unemployment. garment workers strike at Imperial Dress Co with injuries. five federal radio commission nominees confirmed. Coolidge veto influence discussed. Great Northern Railway control approved. Ohio Supreme Court to rule on Snook stay request next Tuesday.
J L Thompson a New York financier and moving picture expert arrives with Prince Herbert Romanoff to launch immediate filming of a silent picture in Asheville with a $250 000 Southern Pictures Corporation. Five sound productions follow after the first release and a studio will be built using Western Electric sound facilities. The project promotes Asheville as an eastern motion picture center offering lower studio rentals and nearby scenic locations.
Mrs Eva Dugan 52 was hanged at Florence Arizona for the 1927 murder of A J Mathis. She walked to the gallows smiled and said she would take her medicine clasped Warden Wright's hand and warned the crowd she had not a last statement. The case fuels debate on capital punishment and humane methods.
Washington reports the House Judiciary Committee resumes hearings next Wednesday on repeal of the eighteenth amendment. Wet and dry sides plan extended testimony with witnesses to be heard, while Senator Norris weighs a general prohibition enforcement inquiry and promises testimony on violations.
Moscow reports the bodies of Pilot Carl Ben Hissson and Mechanic Earl Borland were taken aboard the plane of Soviet pilot Slopney near the southeast Siberian find site. Once weather allows, the Soviet airmen will move to the fur trading ship Nanuk icebound at North Cape to recover the remains.
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