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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 23, 1933
Page
13
E. L. Bennett of High Point filed an answer in Guilford clerk of court to a suit by John D. Biegs as receiver for Commercial Bank High Point. The action seeks 5000 dollars on 60 shares of Commercial Bank stock alleging false and fraudulent sale by J Elwood Cox in 1931.
Miami February 23 AP reports Mayor Anton Cermak's condition was more hopeful after a night with two physicians at his hospital. The mayor's painful colitis, a longtime complication, appeared diminished, and Alderman James Bowler said he seemed brighter this morning.
E L Bennett sought to set aside a land transfer to Claude and John L Bennett as fraudulent against a bank. Bennett testified Cox claimed the bank prospered with large dividends and he paid 10000 for 60 shares. Bennett later alleged false prosperity reports. Claude and John L Bennett say the land was paid for and the transfer made in good faith.
Laurinburg reports four children of Mr and Mrs A M Stewart with perfect Sunday school attendance. Martha eight has a five year record. Mary Lee eleven and Eloise nine also have five year runs and A M Jr four has a three year record.
N M Redwood of Asheville was chosen as chairman of the 9th annual Diocesan convention of the Western North Carolina Episcopal churches in Morganton.
Horace G. Mderton Incorporated will hold a formal opening tomorrow at Commerce and Willowbrook with a full line of Dodge sixes and eights and Plymouth cars on display. Mderton has 15 years with Dodge and seven in the city, and the firm adds new service machinery and departments as it launches one of the most modern motor companies in the state. About 1200 Dodge vehicles are already in use locally.
CHAPEL HILL Feb 23 Coach Bo Shepard announced a ten man Tar Heel basketball squad to represent North Carolina in the Southern Conference tournament starting Friday afternoon in Raleigh.
High Point Rotarians postponed half an hour to hear a Chicago radio broadcast marking Rotary’s 28th anniversary. Planned remarks by Paul Harris Ches ley Perry and Clinton P Anderson were interrupted by static. Rev Tom A Sykes urged members to embrace Rotary’s wide global impact as youngsters from Mrs W B Davis's class presented readings and dances.
Central Stone Works files certificate of incorporation in High Point to manufacture design and sell granite and marble memorials mausoleums and monuments. Authorized capital stock 75000 with 300 subscribed by O W Forrest W L Forrest and Walter Criseaman. Plant to be on Tryon Street and office on Commerce Street with operations in about a week.
Out-of-town shoppers are urged to visit the city for two days of low price sales across merchants. Local store owners expect strong turnout despite rising costs, aiming to meet needs at unusually low prices amid the Davis case and related promotions. Davis faces trial with three co-defendants including Theodore G. Miller Bernard McGuire and Raymond Walsh.
Four Aiken County men Stamp Floyd Jim Patterson Jim Hancock and W M Hitt were jailed on murder charges in the death of Herman Jeter a Black man who said he was beaten after being accused of stealing whiskey and left in the woods. Jeter died Sunday from pneumonia allegedly caused by exposure.
United States Attorney George Z. Medalie announced that Judge Johnson Jay Hayes of Greensboro North Carolina will preside at the lottery trial of United States Senator James J. Davis of Pennsylvania. Hayes, appointed federal judge in 1927, is brought in due to crowded local courts. The second trial follows the first.
The Enterprise window this morning shows a flexible rock owned by W. H. Grissom a horticulturist living off Forrest avenue Grissom obtained the rock from Laura town mountain near Moore's Spring about two years ago He notes the stone is common in the area yet abundant on the mountainside He recalls a Moore's Spring resident who profits by selling polished rock fragments to curiosity seekers for fifty cents each.
Jake Sunshine Jones, 20, a Wake County resident, was condemned for the murder of J. Pool, a local filling station operator. Governor Ehringhaus commuted the death penalty to life imprisonment after an independent mental evaluation deemed him an infant despite being dangerous. His execution had been delayed by reprieves and an appeal loss.
Greensboro, Feb. 23. Eugene Jones of High Point was found guilty of disorderly conduct in superior court. Sentence had not been passed this afternoon.
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