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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1930
Page
1
London report from the five power naval conference notes Paris pressing for Franco Italian parity and France seeking a proper place among naval powers. Britons and Americans want French aims clearly stated for study while talks remain advisory and unbinding.
A Smith College student was abducted near the Northampton campus by three men in a car and held for about two hours at a distant house. She persuaded her captors to release her and returned unharmed, though she could provide limited details due to a blindfold. The college president confirmed the event.
Fred E Beal and three other union members were found guilty in district court over labor activity in New Bedford Mass Beal paid a five dollar fine two others were jailed for default and the fourth had a complaint filed Manuel S Perry faced obscene language charge while Hagellas and Russak were convicted of trespass on railroad property Perry Hagellas Russak were jailed or fined as applicable final outcomes listed
Winter holds the nation in a brutal ice spell with zero to 30 below temperatures across regions from Missouri to the Rockies. Icebound towns, marooned families, and threatened levees test rescue efforts while Alaska reports mild warmth and the Yukon dives to 38 below.
Three men waived hearings on requisition papers in Richmond and will be sent to North Carolina January 30 to face charges in the Seaboard bank robbery of $100,000. The arrests come as authorities pursue a coastward series of raids from Florida to Richmond.
Brown urged awarding ocean mail contracts to ships with U S financial interest during a House merchant marine hearing. In Lum berton North Carolina the Thompson Institute for Negroes was burned by fire destroying the school with 125 students enrolled. In Columbia South Carolina the Harley bill to abolish the state tax commission and shift duties to the comptroller general and treasurer died in the house 62 to 39.
ASHEVILLE Jan 22 The United States Geological Survey reports Mount Mitchell the highest peak in the Great Smoky mountains now measures 6682 feet, down from the long cited 6711 feet. The survey also measures Clingmans Dome 6643 Mount Guyot 6620 and Mount LeConte 6593 after a summer leveling project to settle altitude disputes.
The appropriations committee reported a 1931 supply bill totaling 113 790 286 with gains for state justice commerce and labor departments. Increases fund state department foreign service salaries and missions while reducing commerce for census costs. justice expands penal institutions and law enforcement. labor gains for immigration regulation. state adds foreign service and inspectorates.
Relatives urge local police to aid in locating A. T. Brown Jr. an insurance man who has been missing since last Friday in Wilmington. Also noted is T. W. Bickett of Raleigh leading North Carolina Railway in a meeting with officers and directors. Carolina women take training steps for U S air corps schools at San Antonio and Riverside, listing several named participants.
The North Carolina Supreme Court reversed the lower court in State v Wrenn et al from Wilkes, overturning a conspiracy to defraud Wilkes County Bank of Wilkes and New York banks. Wrenn, tied to Clem Wrenn, previously took blame for the notes and is serving a state prison term.
Burlington's $195 000 school improvements bond election yesterday was almost unanimous with 849 votes for it, six against it and four dude cast. One hundred and fifteen of the total registration of 974 failed to vote. Rough weather probably kept some away and leaders for the issue, seeing it safe made no big effort to vote them.
Relatives fear Tom McMullan, a known Hertford resident, was mistaken by moonshiners active along the Perquimans river as a raider and either captured or killed. He has been missing since Saturday after leaving on a hunting trip, with friends hoping he swam ashore or found land despite a possibly sunk boat.
The University of North Carolina Chi Psi chapter has been absolved of blame for the house fire during Christmas holidays. State Commissioner Dan C. Boney released the report.
In Fayetteville the University of Arkansas experiment station farm thermometers showed 23 degrees below zero this morning. A 36 hour storm left ten inches of snow on the ground. City thermometers logged 14 degrees below zero.
A New York Central mail train struck a school bus near Berea Ohio killing nine children and the driver, with one more child seriously injured. The bus had paused for a freight train then entered the crossing despite warnings.
Silas H. Strawn of Chicago will chair a special ABA committee to arrange entertainment for lawyers from Paris Scotland Ireland and England visiting the United States in August. Other members include John W. Davis and Charles E. Hughes of New York City. The uniform state laws committee will meet in Chicago the week before the annual convention set for August 2022.
Stuart Florida January 22. The $68 000 yacht Gadabout T owned by Oliver Dunlap a retired Cincinnati capitalist burned nearly to the water's edge in Frazier Canal last night. Origin of the fire is undetermined.
Mexico City January 22 A marathon dance organized by an American was suspended in its 18th day by the federal district government. Four couples remaining were deemed physically unable to continue and prizes were ordered divided among them.
The First National Bank of Gaffney reports a 132266.04 loss due to manipulation of checks and drafts after an examiners’ review. President Mannard Smyth, found shot to death in his garage, was praised for leadership as coroners ruled the death accidental.
In Greensboro on January 22, L. Pipkin Tug Flannagan and Walter Tyson pleaded guilty to second degree burglary and received lengthy prison terms from Judge P. P. A. McElroy. Pipkin got 35 to 40 years, Flannagan 25 to 30, Tyson 15 to 20, for entering a High Point business house on December 22 and Pipkin allegedly firing at sleeping occupants.
New Bern advocates of a new high school building plan to press the project before the February meeting of the board of aldermen.
Silas H. Strawn at the head of the citizens committee declares the city county and school board are "critically desperate" and "flat broke" with no bank aid in sight. Payrolls have missed payment in Chicago and the county, and the school board faces a payroll next Friday with 1,750,000 to be paid.
Andrew Mellon testified before the House expenditures committee on January 22, urging the transfer of the prohibition bureau from the Treasury to the Justice Department. He refused to discuss personal views on prohibition and avoided answering whether it can be enforced, citing that it is a legislative matter. Doran and Lowman accompanied him as Schafer pressed for data on industrial alcohol and possible covering up of cases.
The Piedmont and Northern Railway challenged the Interstate Commerce Commission over proposed extensions from Spartanburg to Gastonia and Charlotte to Winston-Salem. The case tests federal power over electric interurban lines as the railway withdrew its application after ICC refused to dismiss it.
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