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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1920
Page
1
Berkman and Emma Goldman, labeled leaders, plan to return to America after deportation to the Russian frontier. The United States evacuated 249 radicals aboard Buford to Hango Finland where German pilots assisted docking. Both leaders discussed the move with reporters before crossing into Soviet border areas.
London reports the supreme council decided to resume commercial relations with the Russian people soon. The move, not an endorsement of the Trotsky Lenin government, will ship clothing medicines and machinery into Russia in return for grain flax and other exports. Meanwhile in Washington NC, funeral services were held for Churchill L Godley who was executed in Raleigh for an alleged child assault.
Chicago January 17 Lucy Page Gaston longtime anti tobacco campaigner launches a run for the presidency on a platform of clean morals clean food and strict enforcement of law aimed at national reform through a reformist agenda.
Mrs William Rockefeller dies at winter home on Jekyll Island near Brunswick. The Rockefeller family has been wintering on the island for some time. In Washington, an immediate Navy Department inquiry into charges of immorality among Portsmouth prison inmates will be conducted by naval authorities per Justice Department agents' October transmission, announced by Assistant Secretary Roosevelt.
Paul Deschanel won the French presidency with 734 votes in Versailles as he becomes the second candidate to secure the post. Deschanel, 1857 birth Brusse ls, Brusse ls born, is a noted statesman, author, and long time head of the Chamber of Deputies. He joins the French Academy and has authored works on social and political topics.
New York January 17 Momer S Cummins chairman of the Democratic National Committee arrived to preside over a conference on arrangements for the national convention set for San Francisco next June.
C C Carter of Winston Salem traveled to High Point on a business visit, staying for meetings and observations related to local commerce. No further details are provided in the readable text.
Washington January 17 Prohibition becomes law nationwide as the 18th Amendment goes into effect at midnight enforcing the ban on making selling or giving away beverages with more than half a percent alcohol. The Justice Department and the Bureau of Internal Revenue issue final instructions and prepare enforcement details.
Four minutes after the Eighteenth Amendment took effect an Brooklyn cafe owner was arrested by an internal revenue inspector for selling a glass of brandy. A bartender was arrested a minute later as enforcement spread through the city.
Tyree Marshall accused of killing four members of the Mitchell family in Amory Mississippi was hustled from Lee county jail to an unknown destination as a crowd gathered intent on harming him He was moved from Amory to Aberdeen then to Rickashaw county jail in Oklahoma and finally brought to Tupelo Mississippi for safety.
London Jan 17. The Jewish population worldwide is 15,430,000 according to Davis Trietsch the Jewish statistician.
A Piedmont Building and Loan Association stockholders meeting was held in the Wachovia bank building last evening. Reports showed assets and liabilities at 325 340 and directors were reelected with officers named George A Matton as president FE A Snow first vice president R B Terry second vice president W Idol secretary and treasurer Wescott Roberson attorney.
Washington January 17 Wages paid organized labor were the largest on May 15 1919 in U S history per a bureau of labor statistics review. Across union trades weekly wage rates rose 15 percent since 1917 22 percent since 1916 28 percent since 1914 30 percent since 1913 36 percent since 1910 and 42 percent since 1907. Working hours fell slightly with 1918 regular hours down 1 percent from 1917 and 2 percent from 1916.
Fred Owens an exhibition flyer was struck by a plane propeller while changing planes in mid air over Tampa Florida. He lost half of his right foot but climbed back to his trapeze and back into his seat before a quick landing and hospital treatment. He calmly asked for a cigarette and joked with doctors.
Paris reports the supreme council has dispatched a formal note to the Dutch government demanding the extradition of former emperor William. The letter was sent officially during the night.
Raleigh dispatch reports Governor Bickett increased the reward for W B Kettles of Farmville from 100 to 250 dollars for information leading to the arrest of the wife murderer. TASTONIA January 17 two more textile companies are to be formed locally. Winston-Salem January 17 city council bans fortune tellers. Wilmington January 17 Luther Smith, a black man, arrested with a gallon labeled Garretts Imitation Rum.
Wilmington dispatch reports the Mexican schooner Saunce is in distress off Frying Pan shoals as of January 16, with crews possibly seeking aid or rescue.
An explosion at the C. L. Newton tea and spice mills in Cincinnati injures 13, eight seriously, and kills four firefighters as a wall collapses in the riverfront district early today.
In Concordia Kansas nine workers at the Metz Packing company plant are affected by a mysterious illness doctors describe as similar to blood poisoning. The first case began after a worker was spurred by a rooster, with others claiming similar incidents followed.
In New York on January 17, cotton futures opened steady with Jan at 28.15 and March 36.05 and rose after Paris reports that the supreme council would allow trade in some commodities with Russia. By midday, March reached 36.45 and July 33.05 before closing steady with Jan 38.33 and October 30.42.
John Barrett director general credits Pan American Union with preventing six wars in thirteen years among 21 American governments including the United States. He cites the Mexico crisis as one example.
Austrian warships slated for Allied turn over under the peace treaty have undergone a second sea check at Cattaro. Reports say hulls remain, key machinery stripped to disable navigation. repairs projected to take months. Fleet includes battleship, cruisers, torpedo craft. towed to Toulon and Marseilles for work.
The chamber of commerce seeks a Carnegie hero medal for C. E. Nabors of High Pointers who saved a child from an oncoming train. Nabors risked his life by placing himself between the child and the locomotive at the Southern railroad yards. The Carnegie Hero Fund's T. M. Wilmot asked for affidavits and indicated awards are likely in the near future.
The Massachusetts jail population has fallen sharply with county jails in Lowell Taunton Newburyport and Fitchburg ordered closed. Twenty five county institutions once holding 6400 prisoners now house an average of about 2500 daily in the last month.
Private John Hiatt of Lexington, serving with the Old Hickory division, suffered a severe facial wound when a shell exploded near during the German drive on France. surgeons rebuilt his nose jaw and teeth using skin grafts and bone fragments restoring his appearance. He will receive further treatment at Walter Reed hospital in Washington.
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