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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 25, 1930
Page
1
President Hoover asked "people back home" to influence Congress to curb new expenditures beyond budget recommendations. He noted most proposals come from groups nationwide rather than members of Congress and urged restraint on general expansion of public outlays while supporting essential needs and existing public works.
Hector Roy, a diver at Chat's Falls hydro power site, spent five hours trapped in a deep river hole beneath the Ottawa river. Six men pulled on a line unsuccessfully before three divers built a cribbing structure that deflected the current and freed him. He suffered mainly from extreme cold.
Josiah W. Bailey disputes that Republicans will participate in North Carolina's Democratic Senatorial primary. He issued the statement with the opening of his campaign headquarters in Raleigh and did not clarify if he would seek to bar anyone who voted Republican in the last presidential election.
Major E H Brainard set what is believed to be the fastest NY to Columbia flight time, covering the distance in six hours aboard a Cessna from Valley Stream Long Island to Columbia yesterday.
High Point merchants plan a Friday and Saturday event to spark local trade. Major participants include Belk Stevens Efird s and Bellas Hess with most stores asked to mark many items at one dollar. Organizers aim to involve all merchants and shoppers in a citywide effort to boost circulation and sales.
The U S supreme court halted further argument on the 65 million road bond case in Washington raising a likely dismissal. South Carolina citizens opposed the bonds, while lower courts upheld the issue as constitutional and Chief Justice Watts criticized the act as arbitrary and capricious.
Richard H. Jones, 35, a Tide Water Oil director, fell from his eighth floor Park Avenue apartment. Police classify as death by own action after he struck his wife with an electric lamp, then leaped. Mrs. Jones received scalp lacerations and remained in her apartment. Jones was Annapolis Naval Academy graduate and member of Washington clubs.
Roy Gennaro aged 25 dies at receiving hospital after being shot in the back and head. He refused to name his assailants or speak to police, appearing to be the victim of a gangster execution. He was found in the street with injuries indicating a violent ambush.
Two men named J Foster of Smithfield and N H Cook of Florence S C are in Wake county jail on highway robbery charges with $1000 bond each. They allegedly obtained 165 dollars from Jimmie Rose by posing as police officers.
Police in two states hunted the ringleaders of a bold kidnapping ring that abducted Charles W. Pershall of Granite City Illinois. He was held two days and released after a $40,000 ransom paid by Pershall’s family via bondsman George Blockburger. This followed a spree of similar cases since January totaling large sums.
Julius Fowler, a crippled witness using crutches, identified Horace Wheelus as the man who shot Mrs. Ella May Wiggins in Mecklenburg county superior court. Fowler testified Wheelus fired a revolver from his left arm as the truck was shot at, while mob violence and searches followed the incident. Wheelus and four Gastonia men face murder charges after a venue move from Gastonia.
Washington February 25. Doctors report former Chief Justice Taft has lost ground in his illness. The bulletin says there is no immediate danger but no improvement for several days. He suffers from circulatory impairment heart trouble and a recurrence of a bladder complaint.
Rome reports Queen Victoria of Sweden remains gravely ill at the royal villa but described as satisfactory. Swedish officials say they will inform Stockholm before any public updates. Doctor Munthe remains at her side while King Gustav played tennis after learning of slight improvement.
In Los Angeles area a 16 year old died and a 17 year old girl was blinded after a drinking party in a truck. Five others survived the joy ride. police seek 19 year old bootlegger. In Norwalk, Marie Bent, 17, was drugged and blinded, with L T Eubanks, 19, charged feloniously.
Kenosha Wisconsin February 22 The reckless driving of a youth hurrying home from a date was blamed by railroad officials for the North Shore interurban wreck killing 11 and injuring more than 190 Edward R Egger Chicago chief investigator for the railway placed responsibility on Norman Shinners 21 Milwaukee who tried to beat the five car Chicago bound train to a highway crossing Shinners car was demolished as the speeding train struck it killing him and his companion Frank Tomcak The wreckage of the automobile ground under the wheels of the passenger train threw it from the track and shunted it into a north bound freight.
Evelyn Frances Edgington, 19, wife of a cloth company worker, was found slain in her bed in Columbus Ohio. Her throat was cut by a milk bottle shard. Husband Lawrence Edgington, 20, returned home and found her body. He last saw her alive about 6 p.m. yesterday. sister Ruth Edgington, 18, was visiting. Lawence was questioned by police.
In Washington Rep Patman charged the attorney general sought to perpetuate trusts in a House session. The day also heard John W Pole advocate decentralizing branch banking as the banking committee opened its inquiry. In California three Chinese men were found slain at a deserted ranch house, with investigators unsure if robbery or tong war sparked the killings.
The Senate passed a seven million dollar seed loan appropriation for farmers in stock stuck areas and sent the measure to President Hoover. A Plymouth county grand jury indicted thirteen gas and petroleum companies and eight officers for conspiracy to destroy the Keith Of corporation business. The Senate also adopted an amendment to silk tariffs reducing five percent increases in the duty on silk clothing.
Paris reports indicate the Chautemps government seeks a confidence vote after opposition criticism. Camille Chautemps defends the cabinet as debates rage in the chamber with Aristide Briand cited to reassure continued peace and support for the current foreign policy. Briand to depart for London if parliament grants confidence.
Wheat futures in Chicago for March delivery dipped below the dollar mark and touched 98 44 cents a bushel as panic selling drove prices down about five cents from yesterday's close. A brief rally surfaced near the session end as trading wound down.
West Helena Arkansas residents in a town of 3500 watched as sheriff deputies patrolled streets after a mass meeting over the resignation of school superintendent George Cromwell. Cromwell cited threats to his life by Lawrence Brown father of two disciplined girls. Brown, who once pleaded insanity in 1927 on a murder trial, on parole from the state hospital for nervous diseases, faced alleged threats against Cromwell and possible violence by citizens.
A provisional government controls central and northern Dominican Republic as insurgents surround the capital. The upheaval, framed as a civil move for freer presidential elections, sees President Horacio Vasquez briefly in refuge before returning to the mansion. American minister Charles B. Curtis offers good offices to seek a peaceful, equitable settlement.
George D. Cashwell alias Caldwell, 22, was convicted of bigamy and sentenced to four to eight years in the state prison. Mizpah Shaw, 18, testified he married her after a late-night proposal during a moving picture trip, with a brief Asheville honeymoon before they learned of a search for them. The couple wed in York, D C, and were returning to Burlington when the case was uncovered.
Duke star center Joe Croson is in the infirmary with an infected mouth and may miss the Southern Conference tournament in Atlanta. Coach Eddie Cameron said Croson, six-foot six, entered the infirmary Sunday and has not been able to take nourishment but plans to bring him to Atlanta if possible.
Washington February 25 AP James Howard Snook Rio State University professor under death sentence for Theora Hix murder was denied a Supreme Court review.
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