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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1923
Page
2
Elon College reports the administration building burned to ashes after a 6:45 a.m. fire unknown origin. Burlington firefighters aided but could not save the structure. alumni dormitory and library contents suffered heavy losses. classes to continue in two gymnasiums.
Capt George Cathey aged 74 years as a teacher in North Carolina and Georgia mountain schools died at the North Carolina Soldiers Home after a brief illness. A Macon county native, he born near Danville Virginia and later moved to Iredell then Georgia where he served as a Confederate army captain. He leaves a son in Charlotte and three daughters in Atlanta.
Special to the Enterprise Carlisle Talley stands trial today in Guilford Superior Court for second degree murder in the year old slaying of Policeman Thomas McCuiston. Jury selections completed. Lewis Edwards to testify for the state.
The Carnegie Hero Fund Commission awarded twenty four medals at its Pittsburgh meeting for acts of heroism including rescues from wells and drowning. Awards covered pensions and educational grants totaling more than twelve thousand dollars, with several silver and bronze medals bestowed on individuals from multiple states and Canada.
Raleigh reports both houses moved into mid season form with measures to abolish county offices in Davidson and Randolph, and a statewide move to end solicitors fees. Debates pressed local offices, a 16 year old marriage ban was added, and a $10 million railroad project was set for appropriations.
Mabel Luther an escapee from the county workhouse is in critical condition in Greensboro jail hospital due to swallowing bichloride of mercury tablets last night. Police found her at a gas station on the High Point road after a request to change clothes. Doctors said her prognosis is doubtful as she battles the poisoning and seeks death.
Reports claimed a North Carolina warrant for Dr J W Peacock resurfaced after his escape from the North Carolina state prison. Police in St. Petersburg Fla stated no warrant had been received locally early today. Peacock killed Thomasville North Carolina police chief before being committed to the state prison insane department.
Ruhr valley coal operators, after a night of uncertainty about French takeovers, remained in possession of mines as of morning. They learned they will face court martial rather than serial arrest for refusing to deliver coal to France under the revised requisitioning order.
The Danish steamer Newa reported overdue near Wilmington N C has been found at Bermuda. The navy department received notice that the ship is safe and the Danish legation was informed.
Exposition reports large sales with two exhibitors claiming 59 and 35 carloads sold since Monday. Attendance neared 100 buyers, many returning from Chicago and Grand Rapids shows. Officials estimate several hundred thousand dollars already spent as 100 plus carloads of product move through the Southern Furniture Exposition Building in what locals call an unusually strong buying era.
Mary Drew, Caroline and Frank Dalton mourn the loss of Pompey Ducklegs a brown dachshund with white feet and breast. The pet is daughter and son of the famed Pompey Ducklegs owned by Dean Mordecai of Trinity Law School. A reward is offered for information leading to the dog’s return to Wales.
In Essen six Ruhr coal magnates were charged by French military authorities with disobeying orders in the siege territory. Names were withheld. The proceedings were announced today by the Associated Press.
Greensboro January 18. A black inmate at a convict camp near the city was shot while trying to escape. He carried shackles and was unable to flee quickly. three buckshot struck him but his wounds were not serious. The prison official report notes the incident occurred today.
C J Templeton, a High Point insurance agent, was kidnapped at 9 pm by three African American assailants in a Ford touring car. They drove toward Thomasville, took $63, and released him near Oak Hill. Police and Thomasville officers searched two roads but found no trace.
Local manufacturers O Arthur Kirkman and R B Terry plan to buy the Carolina and Yadkin River railroad to rehabilitate it as a competitive line. A Saturday meeting in the chamber of commerce will discuss the bid and possible improvements. Receivers and Greensboro court officials will hear the case Monday, with High Point supporters hoping to prevent junking and keep the line operating.
Paris dispatch reports after a French cabinet meeting that passive resistance by Germans risks destabilizing Germany. Officials say Berlin and Ruhr industrialists may inflame nationalist sentiment and trigger strikes in Upper Silesia as secret societies push action. France aims to aid Ruhr industry, not hinder it.
Washington reports that imports will be necessary to provide southern cotton planters with calcium arsenate to combat boll weevil. A joint agriculture interior department study says domestic calcium arsenate producers cannot keep up this year, though they may meet demand in 1924.
The New York cotton market shows renewed firmness at the opening with Liverpool firm and spot sales rising. Early futures rise 18 to 20 points before southern selling eases slightly. January 27.52, March 27.75, May 27.95, July 27.72, October 26.15.
NORFOLK Va Jan 18 Coast guard officials believe all eleven crewmen of the schooner Helvetia perished when the vessel capsized off the Virginia coast during heavy storms last month. The conclusion follows an investigation begun after a derelict was sighted near a lightship.
In Bastrop Louisiana on January 18 Fred Eubanks testified at the opening hearing into the kidnapping and murder of Watt Daniel and T F Richard. He said Newt Gray was a member of the masked party that on August 24 held up Daniel Richard and several others on the highway between Bastrop and Met Rouge.
J. F. Andrews of Ahoskie North Carolina was in town today as a business visitor and took in the local furniture show.
A board of overseers member has requested a special meeting to review President A Lawrence Lowell’s decision to refuse admittance to freshman hall for the son of Roscoe Conkling Bruce petro graduate. The New York World reports the request was made but could not be independently verified.
The Department of Labor reports December wholesale prices averaged the same as November, yet the index rose by 1.5 percent. Of 404 commodities with comparable data, 170 advanced, 70 declined, and the rest were unchanged.
Dan S. Hellenga former national organizer of the American region and secretary of the Fayetteville chamber of commerce will become business manager of the Petersburg chamber of commerce on Feb 1 according to today’s announcement.
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