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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1926
Page
1
A court review found the Shenandoah disaster not caused by lack of staff, with investigators unable to determine the exact start of the destruction. The report notes personnel availability but cites unresolved ignition or initiating events. Special correspondent Wilbur reports from the Enterprise.
The naval court of inquiry reported the Shenandoah disaster resulted from unbalanced aerodynamic forces in high velocity air currents, not crew fault. It criticized reduced gas valves, praised officers for discipline and courage, and noted the commander was fully consulted and did not oppose the mission.
Barney C Jinnett, born March 27 1846 in Eastern Carolina, died suddenly at 5 30 yesterday at his home 514 Park street of organic heart disease after weeks of illness. He lived in Guilford County over 50 years and worked for Snow Lumber. He is survived by two daughters Mrs George N Coulter of New York City and Mrs D R Swing of Marshfield Missouri and a foster son Earl Williams of Whittier California. Funeral arrangements will be in tomorrow morning papers.
Restoration of Fort McHenry Maryland begun to return the site to its 1814 condition that inspired Francis Scott Key to write the Star Spangled Banner. War era structures around the fort are being removed and land scape work and road improvements will prepare the site as a national historical memory. The flag still flies at the spot where Key saw it by dawn's early light.
At the Tournament of Roses in West Pasadena California a privately owned grandstand collapsed during the parade killing two women and injuring more than two hundred. Among the dead are Mrs. Bessie Barish and Mrs. Caroline Sherman with hundreds treated and many in critical condition. Authorities seek Paul Mahoney owner of the stand who disappeared after the crash. A second fatality occurred when Mrs. C W Bowen fell from a building while watching the parade.
Eighteen holes of qualifying play start the $2,500 Long Beach open at Virginia Country club Long Beach Calif. Stars including MacDonald Smith Joe Kirkwood William Melhorne Al Watrouse George Van Elm Willie Hunter and Bob Cruickshank are entered Sixty four finalists will be chosen for 36 hole championship play tomorrow The 6223 yard course par is 71 the record is 69 held by local players The event serves as a lead up to the Los Angeles open next week with a $10,000 prize sought.
Police search for a taxi believed linked to the death of Mrs. Mary Sullivan, 43, whose bruised body was found early New Year’s day in a vacant lot near her home. Snow tracks suggest a struggle during the ride.
A bomb exploded today at the archbishop's palace in Lisbon causing extensive damage but no casualties. Police hunt the bombers as investigations begin.
In Chicago on January 2 AP reports Mrs. Eliza Nusbaum, 58, expresses hope John Walton Winn, 37, will be hanged for the murder of her husband Albert Nusbaum. She, in custody for complicity, attends the funeral as Winn alters his account blaming Edward Goff and Marion Stringham while Delilah Martin’s home is tied to the plot.
At Brown University’s Ladd Observatory attempts will be made to photograph the Quadrantide meteor shower visible across the eastern United States from midnight to dawn tomorrow. Observers will record brightness, path, and other phenomena as meteors, scattered fireballs, and meteorites are reported in New England.
Funeral services for three Lexington firemen killed on New Year’s Eve will be held tomorrow with interment in local cemeteries. Daniel C Cape and his son Edward will be honored at the First Methodist church at 1 pm, followed by J Howard Michael’s service at Reed’s Baptist church at 2 30 pm. Pallbearers will include six men from each of the High Point and Thomasville fire departments and six from the social department. The condition of Henry C Gibson Henry Yarborough and another injured fireman remained unchanged.
A featherless fowl called a Turken, resembling a buzzard but crowing like a rooster, wins attention at a Boston poultry show. V. Nepher of Green Harbor owns Turkens from Pennsylvania and displays varieties, tracing the bird to a freak from southern Europe.
Grace Matthews 23, vaudeville performer with a Salisbury troupe, took poison in her hotel room around 1 AM and died about an hour later. No reason given by company members. She traveled with her father, brother, sister, and in-laws. funeral set for Sunday afternoon in Salisbury.
Alabama defeats Washington 20 to 19 in the Rose Bowl to claim the East West game's first southern victory. Pooley Hubert and Johnny Mack Brown sparked the rally as Washington star George Wilson left with injuries and Guttormsen missed a late conversion.
In Raleigh, following the coroner jury's inquiry into Preston B. Rogers Jr. death from a gunshot, Lolita Clark, cousin of the deceased, was placed under $1000 bond as a state’s witness. Four others—Ralph B. Branch, Bonnie Bate, Everett King, and Hugh Osborne—also faced bonds as investigations continue with a Monday jury meeting.
The report notes Meredith moving out ten new slits from the old residence as plans unfold for a country property. The article mentions the college location on the new campus west of the city.
Old Meredith College moves three miles from Raleigh to a new site near Raleigh Durham and Greensboro road. The YWCA buys the Meredith site for a million dollar plant and sells the downtown hotel for 67800 dollars. Four hundred students will relocate to dormitories on the college site next week after repairs and a freeze delay.
William Pinkney Flinchum, 63, farmer, died at 12 o'clock today at his home 502 Tate street after six months of illness. Survived by widow, two sons Walter and Isaac of High Point, four daughters Rosa Fliinchum, Mrs. Ellis Denny, Mrs. Isaac Denny of this city, and Mrs. E. J. Flinchum of Pilot Mountain, three brothers Byrd Thomas J. J. Flinchum of Carthage. Funeral from home Sunday at 10 to Pilot Mountain for Cedar Grove Cemetery burial.
Dr W S Glass sheriff of Coahoma county pleads guilty to failure to return an offender in the Coleman lynching case. He is fined 500 dollars, kept in office, while another charge of failing to perform his duty remains pending.
The skeleton of a man about 5 feet 8 inches tall, believed to be a member of the so called canal builders who shaped Arizona irrigation, was unearthed by excavators for the American Museum and National History. The dig suggests two rooms beneath the chamber where the remains lay and notes that this race often laid heads on the floor, covered with earth, and built anew in the same dwelling.
Farmers in the Imperial Valley California spend nearly a million dollars annually to dredge silt from irrigation systems. Engineers estimate the Colorado river carries about 196.7 million tons of silt each year past Yuma and about 185000 cubic yards enters the Imperial Valley monthly.
Firefighters were called at 8:30 to extinguish a fire near box 416. A six foot portion of the roof on the building burned, causing about 35 dollars in damage after a spark ignited the shingles.
Colonel Charles R. Forbes, former director of the Veterans Bureau, lost his appeal from a conspiracy conviction for defrauding the government in hospital contracts for disabled soldiers. The U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the district court’s conviction.
C Singleton Green secretary of the Southern Yarn Spinners association based in Charlotte forecasts strong cotton spinning activity in southern states soon after the inventory period ends in the next weeks. He notes prices are higher than a year ago, with current levels kept by curtailment and demand-based production regulation. He says yarn stocks in America are low and cannot predict how long the brisk period will last, but it may continue for several months.
Little Virginia Jackson, a one year old daughter of Dr and Mrs W L Jackson, who had been critically ill for more than two weeks, is reported past the crisis today and her parents are hopeful of recovery. She is one of the popular twins known to many locals who welcome the improvement.
Floods in the Neuse Waal Rhine and Lek valleys have become a catastrophe with waters still rising. Railway dykes have collapsed and more failures are feared. Damage delays railway traffic for a long period. Several villages are flooded and more may follow as authorities work around the clock to aid residents.
New York January 2 The actual condition of clearing house banks and trust companies for the week shows a deficit in reserve of 11 949 610 dollars. This is a decrease in reserve of 37 200 760 dollars from last week when excess reserve of 25 391 150 dollars was reported.
A 34 year old man and a 17 year old girl reportedly eloped to a volcanic crater to end their lives. The man is survived by a wife and three children. Local authorities investigate the death as a tragic self inflicted act with few details available.
London and New York stations broadcast New Year greetings and music heard across 36 states and beyond. John McCormack and Lucrezia Bori featured with Big Ben and Park Avenue bells as WJZ linked to 2LO before static interrupted the London signal.
Red Grange and the Chicago Bears left Tampa after a 17 to 3 win over the Tampa Cardinals in Jacksonville. Grange played 25 minutes earning 100 dollars a minute, ran five times, and scored a 66 yard touchdown in the fourth quarter. He fractured a rib tackling Grenete and retired.
Cologne Germany was without electricity last night as Rhine floodwaters reached underground cables. The floodwaters began to recede in the Rhineland as conditions slowly improve.
Belgium on January 2 reports a national subscription drive opened via newspapers and the Belgium Red Cross to aid flood victims. The disaster has reached catastrophic proportions, with widespread damage and needs for relief funds and supplies.
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