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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1931
Page
7
A concise record noting CALL 4313 refers to the W. C. Brown horse shop located at 128 North Wrenn Street. The entry records a business contact or advertisement style reference without additional context or actions.
Durham school teachers face a possible ten percent salary reduction as Attorney General Dennis G. Brummitt advised. County education officials had said the plan would not affect Durham, since it does not share in the state equalization fund, though it could save Durham County about 756000 dollars.
Cotton in New Orleans slips at the open with March 10 10 and May 10 4 late gains offset by shorts covering for weekend. Prices rebound to near the prior close as trade buying and lower South fertilizer sales help support future contracts. Market ends the hour near yesterday's close.
Spot cotton closed steady in New Orleans on January 10 with unchanged quotations. Sales totaled 0.07 above low middling at 8.80, middling 9.80, and good middling 10.30. Receipts were 2,883 and stock stood at 759,462 across the market.
New York dispatch reports cotton opening lower by 1 to 5 points with March near 1018 and July around 1061 as selling eases. The market steadies into midday with limited buying, while Liverpool cables note continued Continental and Bombay interest. Prices show slight gains in new January and mixed moves across maturities, alongside Caracas orders to paint all vehicles and buildings for Bolivar’s hundredth death anniversary.
Two thousand years before Christ Hammurabi issued stern rules against rapacious money lenders. The code prioritized protection for widows orphans and the vulnerable as core moral and legal principles.
The senate urged President Hoover to withdraw and reconsider the nominations of three power commissioners, a move after five days of debate by a 44 to 37 vote. The action targeted Chairman George Otis Smith and Commissioners Draper and Garsaudbe.
The recall motion targeted three commissioners and the firing of Solicitor Charles A. Russell and Chief Accountant William V. King. Senators argued over power trust influence while others said dismissals were routine. Hoover’s stance unclear, with impeachment as a possible route.
The mayor of Camberwell England wearing a silk hat and morning coat won a race around a cycle track alongside EB. T. Campbell a member of Parliament, in a notable local event highlighting civic figures and public sport.
The stock market closed the week in strong hands despite late selling. Light activity totaled about 800000 shares with gains led by Allied Chemical and U S Steel amid expectations of a favorable steel report. Several rails slipped on profit taking while U S Steel announced higher December orders.
Raleigh January 10 A report to Captain Charles D Farmer of the state highway patrol shows North Carolina ranked fourth among ten states in fatal auto accidents for the first year of 1930. During the period 662 North Carolinians died, with California 2135, Pennsylvania 1707 and Massachusetts 721 ahead of the state.
Two men abducted Levi Cole assistant cashier and his wife from their home at 4am and robbed the First National Bank of Canyon Texas of 15000. They overpowered Sheriff Fry and other staff upon arrival at the bank and forced employees into locked rooms as the vault opened.
Wilmington Del Jan 10 Five men convicted of larceny and in Newcastle county workhouse were brought to the prison yard and lashed at the whipping post under court order. Two received 20 lashes and three 10 lashes each. Delaware uses this old deterrent openly though rarely full 60 lashes. Whippings occur at Newcastle workhouse with rules governing lash counts by offense.
San Francisco January 10 The California Supreme Court will decide Monday on a challenge to an old state law holding a saloonkeeper liable for damages from a husband’s liquor purchases despite a wife’s warning The suit by Mrs Joseph C Wheeler of Los Angeles seeks 100000 from Shell Oil Company claiming the husband was an inveterate drunkard and that Shell’s agent entertained him with an unlimited expense account The Los Angeles superior court denied dismissal and Shell sought a writ of prohibition to prevent the hearing in that court
Washington January 10. The first six months under the new law saw 305 890 former soldiers file applications for postwar disability allowances. Of 139 000 claims acted on, 52 percent were granted. If sustained, about 160 000 would receive roughly 20 dollars a month totaling around 40 million annually.
Durham county today filed suit to recover 176400 from the estate of late Sheriff John Harwood and his bondsmen for alleged shortages in his accounts over five years. The state sues ex-officio heirs and United States Fidelity on Guaranty, Harwood bondsman, claiming 139334 of the total appears in 1929. Deputies J J Thaxton and J M O’Bryant await trial on embezzlement and misconduct charges. The case cites statute on county tax collections and bond payments to the state.
Raleigh Jan 10 Governor Gardner discussed his proposal to cut salaries by 10 percent for all public officials and employees in North Carolina. He chose salary reductions over layoffs, arguing the annual lead cost of 100 million dollars, with 16 percent for salaries, was excessive. He believed state, county, and city governments were not overmanned.
U S Dept of Agriculture potato and grain quotations show dull, very low trading with potatos at 62, round whites Wisconsin 1.60 to 1.65, Idaho russets 1.70 to 1.85, corn No 3 67 1 4, No 1 yellow old 72 3 4, rye 5, oats No 3 white 38 1, barley 41 64, barley prices 8 60 for lard ribs 11 62 bellies 11 62, Timothy seed 8.75 to 9.00, clover seed 14.75 to 22.60.
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