05 Jan 1920
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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1920
Page
1
Government continues roundup of radicals with over 5000 dollars seized amid island tensions. Contested camps may be used to shelter radicals as authorities push to curb unrest and manage the situation.
Commercial National Bank of High Point plans a million dollar status after selling 3500 shares this week to raise capital and surplus to 500000 each. Directors authorize a 25 percent special dividend atop the regular 6 percent semi annual payout. President J Elwood Cox notes strong demand for stock and optimal expansion. Annual stockholders meeting set for January 13 to review growth.
Congress reconvened at noon after a holiday recess with the Versailles treaty as the leading issue and a presidential election next November in view. Debate on the sedition bill and other matters was expected before adjournment.
Eleven men said to be I W W members stood trial on first degree murder charges related to the Armistice Day parade shooting in Centralia Washington. Victims included Warren Grimm former University of Washington football star and three others from Centralia.
The Supreme Court ruled constitutional sections of the Volstead Act proscribing manufacture and sale of beer and wine with 0.5 percent alcohol or more. It held beer at 2.75 percent illegal, sustaining lower court dismissal of injunctions against government interference with Jacob Rupert’s beer production. The decision, 6 to 5, cites Congress power to curb liquor traffic. Justices Day Van DeMontor McReynolds Clark dissented.
Reports from Mexico City say the villages of Olopocelo and Couztlan in Vera Cruz were almost wiped out by a powerful quake last night. Ten states were shaken from the Gulf to the Pacific, center near Mount Orizaba, with heavy casualties in Vera Cruz.
Chicago officials admit a rush of cheap clothing sales by leading downtown department stores while the fair price committee sets fixed prices for suits and hose. In Washington, a crackdown on radicals continues with thousands arrested and deportation plans under way as officials push to prove membership in communist organizations.
More than 2000 delegates from about 400000 soft coal miners assemble in Columbus for talks on wage terms after a truce proposed by President Wilson. Plans aim to present final settlement terms to a three member commission within 60 days.
The meeting of the directors of the Associated Charities, which was to have been held Tuesday, has been postponed for a week.
President Wilson dispatches an important greeting to the democratic dinner on Jackson Day signaling party unity and early 20th century political intent.
Cotton prices opened firmer with January 38.60 March 37.00 May 25.50 July 33.80 and October 30.60. Strength came from high scales and ongoing buying as first prices jumped 20 to 59 points to new highs, Marek at 37.21 and July at 33.96 in early trading.
New York January 5 official reports say arrest of Arvy Weinstein chief of staff to Ludwig Martens self styled ambassador to the United States of the Russian Soviet occurred on a deportation warrant by the department of justice. Weinstein allegedly acted as an influential communist aide and went to quarters in America.
Moustaira Georgia January 5 reports authorities found the body of Mrs Susan Moon in a swamp near Sparks Militon Moon her son and F W Cooper were placed under arrest charged with murder. Robbery is listed as motive and Mrs Moon had recently sold land and reportedly held several hundred dollars.
In Chicago Randall W. Hunter, a Black banker, acted as interlocutor to Federal Judge Landis during a voluntary bankruptcy hearing. Hunter testified he arrived from Alabama in 1915 and started three banks with 1100. deposits now exceed 900,000. He noted church affiliations, saying he attends Methodist services in the morning and Baptist in holy affairs.
The van guard of the Democratic leaders arrives in Washington for the quadrennial meeting of the party's national committee and the Jackson Day dinner begins arriving today.
The Federal Trade Commission ruled that selling sugar with other goods to force purchases was an unfair practice and ordered Coke-Conrad Co. of Chicago to stop. The decision was part of a batch of similar complaints the commission had pursued.
Dispatches from Riga report Lettish forces break the Bolshevik line along the Dvina. Numerous prisoners are said taken with substantial booty captured.
In Oklahoma City a four months old baby dies, reportedly after a coroner's investigation cites the family cat as sucking the infant's breath. The infant was found dead by the mother as the father returned home from work. The Wilford family provided the details of the incident.
Frost largely wipes out the lower east coast vegetable crop with temperatures near 40 degrees. The loss in the county is estimated at 100000 dollars, but growers expect to recover during the tomato planting season.
In a London production the Russian ballet integrates an ordinary typewriter as the latest instrument in the orchestra. The device joins traditional strings and winds to provide percussion or rhythmic effects within the performance.
Marion Davis, 27, an inmate at the state reform school for women, feigned illness to skip a medical exam. She left grounds for James Fargo’s Wells Fargo Express car, rode toward New York with a guard unknowingly pursuing her, then arrived back at the reformatory and was locked up again.
One day meeting in Newport News brought 50 league rectors to draft the season schedule and review franchise applications from Wilson and Rocky Mount North Carolina Officials expected North Carolina bids to be refused and the circuit to remain a six club league.
Detroit June 7 The fifty seven Reds held for deportation in the county jail must pay their income taxes before return to Russia. Instructions from Washington to John A Grosgan, collector of internal revenue, require collecting the tax at all cost and using writs of restraint and seizure of property if needed, but not delaying deportation unduly.
A Berkeley professor urges Americanize native-born voters in a Cal lecture on education. The professor states the need to mobilize voters and reinforce patriotic civic duties amid political debate.
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