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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1931
Page
3
The Senate Interstate Commerce Committee will investigate bread prices and sugar pricing to see if declines in wheat and flour are not reflected in bread costs and to assess potential restraint of trade. The study, funded at 15000 from the Senate contingent fund, will run alongside the bread inquiry.
The Senate approved a further 50 000 for expenses of the Nye campaign funds investigating committee with no debate. Senator Moses of New Hampshire opposed immediate consideration. Bishop Cannon and campaign finance integrity were discussed as related topics, with Glass proposing expanded power to probe false statements and fraudulent conversions of campaign funds.
Asheville North Carolina January 16 wave of sentiment from Western North Carolina world war veterans calls for immediate cash payment of face value of adjusted compensation certificates. They argue relief is needed as over 42 percent are able bodied and unemployed. A survey by the Asheville Times finds 1390 of the veterans voting report having some kind of job at present.
Funeral services for E Burke Hobgood late secretary of the Durham Chamber of Commerce who died yesterday from a heart attack will be held tomorrow at 11 a m at St Phillip s Episcopal Church with the rector Rev S B Best officiating Interment will be in Maplewood cemetery Durham N C Also a note about bumper bean crops in cy press swamps of the Everglades to Florida is mentioned.
Cumberland county commissioners voted to offer for sale $50,000 tax anticipation notes to ease financial problems. The sheriff's office denied a crisis citing tax collections $25,000 above last year and blamed auditors for the money shortage. The commission also announced...
The office of county physician and county health officer would be combined as an economy move to streamline public health administration and reduce expenses. The proposal aims to cut redundant salaries and consolidate oversight under one official responsible for medical guidance and public health policy.
Gertrude Van Loan charged her husband H. H. Van Loan an author and scenarist with marrying her for publicity. She sought $500 monthly separate maintenance and claimed his plan to have their child born in an airplane above New York to promote publicity.
Washington Jan 16 Night sessions were proposed in the senate today by Senator McNary of Oregon as a means of avoiding an extra session. He will seek passage of an unanimous consent agreement calling for sessions three nights a week starting Monday. The house debated the justice state and labor appropriations bill and the senate ordered an inquiry into bread prices while Nye funds committee was authorized to continue its investigations.
Manchester England January 16 P The weavers union prepares a vote among members on whether to back a refusal to accept the more looms per weaver plan. Mill owners threaten to shut down weaving sheds at noon if unresolved, with Lancashire awaiting the result amid fear. Burnley 25 000 workers already locked out for refusing the demand to double looms per weaver.
Glen Curtiss tested the first seaplane named The Loon in December 1908 and achieved a reliable flight in 1911 after years of development.
D C Chapman chair of the Tennessee park commission said the state will probably appeal the jury of view's report valuing Champion Fibre's 39 000 acres in the Great Smoky Mountains at 2 325 million for condemnation. A minority valued it at 1 25 million with no incidental damages. The commission has 1 9 million to buy remaining lands.
American explorer Lincoln Ellsworth arrived at the White House to be awarded the gold medal voted by Congress for his notable polar flights in 1925 and 1926. He was invited to lunch with President Hoover and Mrs. Hoover.
Raleigh January 16. Seven prisoners were paroled by Governor Gardner and Paul Bostic under two years banishment. Bostic may return to Cleveland county to start crops. Others paroled include Ernest Boswell of Wilson county and several inmates from Harnett Stokes Caldwell Polk Davidson Forsyth counties with sentences ranging from three months to 15 years for crimes such as murder house breaking manslaughter and driving offenses.
ST PETERSBURG Fla Jan 16 Marc C Rose editor of Business Week said the bottom of the business low mood has been reached the tide has turned and the year 1931 will mark a gradual return to normalcy worldwide.
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