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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1916
Page
8
The Enterprise invites High Point schoolchildren to submit letters supporting the street improvement bond measure with cash prizes for the first 16 and 20 total prizes from 50 cents to 5 dollars. Entries advance weekly until the March 7 election and readers are urged to participate.
Washington reports from abroad suggest Turkey may acknowledge submarines sank the British liner Persia. State Department had no official word from Constantinople or Vienna on the alleged admission or Austrian disavowal. The case, linked to submarine warfare, remains unsettled with no other nations named in U.S. dispatches.
Washington reports D W Griffith and other major producers denounce a federal board of censorship for motion pictures. They back the Towner bill to control obscenity via criminal law but oppose a daily, five member censorship panel as impractical and potentially harmful to legitimate films.
Chicago January 24 Republican leaders and national committee members met to arrange plans for the party convention set for June 7 in Chicago. They did not name a temporary chairman at this meeting and signaled a desire to secure harmony by offering concessions within the ranks.
Col. D. H. Milton returned from a several days trip for the Sons and Daughters of Liberty. Friday night he presented a Bible and flag to a public school near Elm City Wilson county, and Saturday night he spoke to the Bonus and Daughters of Liberty at a local venue.
Winston-Salem patrolman H. C. Whiteheart lies in critical condition after being shot on Highland avenue and Tenth street. The assailant, described as a newcomer likely named Friday, fled. Whiteheart and Hendricks pursued but did not capture him. Whiteheart underwent surgery removing a kidney. prognosis guarded. An auto collision involving Mrs. Vogler and Mrs. Vogler near Hanes development caused injuries to both women.
Winston-Salem January 24 11 a.m. Policeman Whiteheart was shot yesterday afternoon by Sam Brooks a negro during an attempted arrest. He has an even chance for recovery according to his physician. Brooks escaped and had not been captured by this afternoon.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, assistant secretary of the navy, told a Binghamton audience on January 24 that not one dollar, ship, or man in the naval program should be cut. He urged broad, bipartisan support to meet at least the recommended program, or a larger one, for national defense.
Claud Pennel, claimed mixed heritage, is sentenced to 12 months on the county roads while Cora Jones, described as white, must serve an equal term in the Lenoir county jail. Defense witnesses note ancestral mu lattos, and the pair claim marriage in Norfolk. Superior court appeal likely. both held on bond.
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