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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1932
Page
2
North Carolina officials say bootleg gasoline evading state tax will be checked. Commissioner A J Maxwell and L G Sears note the state and dealers will not permit the racket to start and have organized to combat any emergence.
Joe Truitt of Memphis was brought to Wake County Superior Court in Raleigh for trial on a second degree murder charge linked to the slaying of Gilford Brown of Corning New York. Judge W A Devin denied a continuance and set the trial start for today after weeks of police work.
Ann Fenwick, 28, cannot marry Phil Ecroyd after eight years engagement. Cecily, 22, refuses a wedding date with Barry McKeel. Mary Frances, 15, meets vaudeville actor Earl Dearmount and considers joining his act. Tensions rise as Letty King hints at affection for Phil.
Mary Frances faces a life choice as Earl DeArmount presses for a secret elopement before his Denver bookings. She weighs family expectations, a possible inheritance, and her own plans with Ermintrude while debating whether to run away or stay. The pair negotiate a Tuesday night promise and a future that could upend both couples.
Dr. Albert Bushnell Hart of the George Washington Bicentennial commission visited Uniontown Pa and confirmed the Fort Necessity site for a replica. He called the location exact noting a nearby water stream and open country aided defense. Cannon balls found in the ground suggest the siege origin.
A North Carolina Gasoline Tax Evasion Committee is organized to cooperate with Commissioner Maxwell and the Department of Revenue to trace tax evasion and gasoline bootlegging. H. P. Dortch of Goldsboro Texas Company is chairman. The executive committee includes C. C. Beasley of Pure Oil and L. F. Manning of Gulf Refining. Other leading refiners are represented and invest millions in the state.
Wilbur Daniel Steele, American short story author from Charleston, South Carolina, married Norma Mitchell known as Norma Talbot in a ceremony at the Princes Row register office. Mitchell is a Connecticut native.
Dallas Texas. Judge Cavin Muse reads to traffic violators from The Parable of a Reckless Speeder by Haven Harter of Independence Iowa, increasing penalties as a poetic admonition.
Louise Green, a University of Oklahoma student, was brought to class on a stretcher with influenza after a professor told her missing class required a fractured neck. The class was canceled as Dr. S. M. Salyer reported a headache and did not hold the session.
In Philadelphia Leopold Stokowski introduces a mechanical critic named Oscar. The robot listens with a precise ear and renders frank, sometimes harsh judgments on music and performance.
A New York report notes that funding 91 Jewish Allied Philanthropic societies costs $11 per minute. The calculation reflects collective financial support commitments across the city.
Ole S. Quammen, former Lemmon mayor, gathered hundreds of tons of petrified trees and fossilized bones to create a public park near the town’s main street. The centerpiece is a castle built from petrified wood slabs, with other wood structures and spires forming the surround. The building uses over 300 tons of rock in its construction and stands prominently in Lemmon.
A fragment notes a structure measured at feet long by feet wide and feet high. The text provides only dimensional placeholders without complete values, suggesting a catalog or plan reference for a building or exhibit. The precise measurements are not fully stated in the readable portion.
On January 15 1918 the British Labor Party issued a message to the Russian people and appeals to Central Europe. It aligns with Russia against German and Brest Litovsk denials of self determination. It calls for no indemnities and victory over militarism by moral fair dealing.
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