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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1926
Page
4
A skeptical note on the world court and foreign involvement circulates in Linden and Cherryville with strong local opinions. The piece also mocks car danger comparisons and links the administration tax bill to global adhesion measures amid debate.
The president declines to discuss the controversy over George Washingtons personal habits. The remark hints at criticism that he avoids engaging in tabloid style gossip about public figures.
Six North Carolina cities petitioned to host a Richmond Federal Reserve Bank branch making a site unlikely to be established. The move reflects debates over regional economic access and administrative fit for a new regional office.
The parent teacher associations in Charlotte press school authorities for improved lighting after reports that defective light injures children's eyes.
Count Salm struggles to locate his wife Millicent Rogers in Palm Beach. He warns hotels may be pressed to act as advertising assets or he may abandon the pursuit for financial reasons.
The U S attorney slated to furnish the liquor exhibit for the prohibition celebration tonight has refused the task. Bootleggers in New York are ready to fill in as substitutes.
North Carolina women press federal action to place prohibition enforcement with trusted allies, signaling broad critique of current state efforts and calling for reform.
The passage argues that George Washington remains a yardstick for Americans resisting foreign entanglements. It notes that opponents of the League of Nations can cite him to argue against involvement abroad.
Cole Blease condemns liquor at Washington embassies saying his stance risks alienating constituents by appearing not fully attentive to visitors welfare and indifferent to their conduct.
Al Smith states retirement from New York politics drawing doubt from his Democratic colleagues. He hints at pursuing a role in national politics, provoking skepticism about his future influence.
A man feeling he owes the government gives Secretary Mellon two hundred dollars. The donor is unnamed and no link to tax dodging is suggested. The story emphasizes an act of personal restitution rather than official policy.
Governor McLean says he fears no trouble over the state old reconstruction days bonds while bondholders hold a glimmer of hope. The piece links the Italian debt settlement to Washington’s sympathy for Italians in this country and those abroad.
Two mine disasters in three days highlight extraordinary dangers in U S mining. The piece argues American coal mining casualties are higher than in England and suggests rock dusting could reduce or prevent explosions, urging federal and state action based on statistical claims.
The piece notes a New York banquet by dry agents to celebrate six years of national prohibition. It criticizes stances praising prohibition and highlights bootlegger crime, contrasting national and state bans, and cites North Carolina’s earlier prohibition era as problematic but different.
Movement to free Mrs. Ida Ball Warren gathers among New York Salvation Army workers, with Raleigh correspondent noting distant interest. Warren, convicted of murdering her husband, faced the electric chair, but Governor Locis Craig commuted the sentence to life imprisonment, as North Carolina shows reluctance to execute a woman.
Mexico welcomes outside capital for national resource development, says Finance Minister Morones. He notes Mexican law keeps alien investors anxious while Mexico faces international controversy. the United States has not shown a tendency to hinder European private investors, whose equities remain protected.
The author contrasts U S and Mexican practices on property rights. Mexico is blamed for yielding to American concessions yet retroactively invalidating titles and contracts. While acknowledging corruption exists in both nations, the piece argues Mexico harms its own development by correcting one wrong with another.
A Chicagoan composes a jazz opera that draws praise and jealousy from highbrows. The piece, staged with grand opera trimmings, proves popular with audiences who kiss the composer in the lobby. The piece signals jazzed opera as America’s evolving taste while Beethoven and Wagner fade from favor.
Boston businessman Joseph S Donovan retires at age forty five after earning his million dollars vowed in youth to quit once he reached that sum. He says he has earned a rest and looks forward to leaving the harness, noting money buys all he needs and further work offers little value.
A Cleveland police court judge arraigned a girl accused of a nude dance and stated nudity is art if motionless and obscenity if it moves. He claimed obscenity depends on the viewer’s mind, noting that if the naked body were inherently naughty, humans would be born clothed.
Pat Crow once famed for kidnapping a Chicago millionaire’s son and collecting a 50000 dollar ransom is detained as a vagrant in New York. He begged on the streets and faces an ironic twist as a reformed man fallen on hard times.
Party members criticize the current effort as too conservative and accuse colleagues of curtailing liberal aims during the nationwide campaign. They urge bolder policy stands and public messaging to energize supporters.
Building and engineering contracts in 1924 totaled about 6.6 billion dollars, a record across 36 states with December alone at 510.9 million. Residential work led with 2.67 billion, public works 885.7 million, commercial 835.7 million, industrial power 462.7 million, educational 413.2 million, and social recreational buildings surged 98 percent to 243.2 million.
Washington Jan 16 The Senate debated a Copeland resolution urging President Coolidge to take action to resume anthracite coal mining, arguing imminent danger to public health. The White House signaled no intervention without new congressional legislation. House members from Pennsylvania mining districts met Labor Secretary Davis, voicing doubt on federal intervention.
The largest transfer was H W Kronheimer selling a lot to Lucille Goldstein for 6000 pounds. Daily totals reached about 21000 dollars with numerous deeds filed across Higgs Point, Morehead, Jefferson, Clay and Gilmer townships including transfers to B Welborn, W R Wilson, I B Teague, J C Boulding, L R Gibson, J L Welborn, J L Newton, Burtis Mabra, Mabel Griffith, J W Hunt, and others.
Associate Justice George W. Connor released Mrs. Preston Rodgers, Mrs. Lolita Clarke, and Mrs. Bonnie Baste under habeas corpus after they refused $500 bonds as material witnesses in the Preston B. Rodgers Jr. death investigation. Coroner papers were found defective and the solicitor would not drop the case. The coroner ruled homicide with unknown perpetrator and the grand jury proceeding continued.
Senator La Follette of Wisconsin introduced a resolution asking the secretary of state for details on how American recognition of Mexico was granted. The measure seeks information on petroleum concessions and other resources, amid tensions over the Mexican land law and petroleum bill. Senator Curtis blocked immediate Senate action.
The Belgian war debt settlement was approved by the house in a 314 to 24 vote. The measure sends a resolution to the senate authorizing acceptance of terms recommended by the American debt commission.
In Enniskillen on January 15 1915 issues William Rutherford Cooney’s will states that if his son Edward abjures the Church of England a large sum will be paid to him. The provision hinges on Edward declaring his return to the Church of England.
Senate debate centered on President Coolidge and the anthracite suspension. Senator Copeland urged the president to act to resume mining, citing Theodore Roosevelt’s approach, while Senator Reed questioned the use of a weakened “big stick” and supported lawful action.
In Belgrade a professor who argued that man descended from apes faces trial in Vranja for undermining religion and morality. Karadjic, a school teacher, leads opponents of evolution amid rising press interest as the minister of education vows to support any sentence.
The gray cotton goods division reports firm activity in print cloths and many sheetings. Finished goods stay busy while production remains high. Prices in primary markets show print cloths at 6 1/2 to 9 1/4 cents and staple ginghams around 9 cents, with lower costs driving declines in colored goods and tickings.
A Chicago clothing maker outlines 1926 golf dress code with knee length British shorts called plus fours and four to six inch knee bands known as plus fives. Colors proposed include cedar wood silver rust sherwood and onion with Tartaran clan patterns. The piece notes the comic tie to learning bridge.
Agricultural Director BD H Otis argues farm accounts act as a road map to better business. He notes profit gaps of 1000 to 2900 dollars between average and top farms and urges use of college studies and farm accounting groups to set practical community standards.
Minnesota bankers helped boost attendance at the Northwest Dairy Exposition linked to the State Fair in September. About five hundred Minnesota Bankers Association members received letters from the agricultural committee chairman urging them to recruit delegations from their communities to attend the show.
The Atlanta Clearing House mobilizes a statewide poison war against boll weevil. It sent letters to all Georgia bankers urging support for a wholesale pest control effort. A Department of Agriculture report says infestations are heavier than ever and require immediate, extensive action to protect crops.
Iowa bankers will study farming and farm problems at Iowa State University for two days. They will sit as students under agricultural professors and dig into subjects of mutual concern to bankers and farmers. Over two hundred bankers participate.
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