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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 29, 1923
Page
1
French occupation authorities in the Ruhr tighten control with press censorship and mass expulsions of German officials for disobeying orders. The railway strike persists while coal output holds at two thirds normal. Sunday remains quiet as Washington reports about 9,000 French troops in the region.
Lausanne Jan 29 A draft peace treaty with Turkey containing 160 articles and eight annexes was distributed semi officially to all delegations. The Turks were not shown to be more inclined to sign. The eight conventions cover the straits Thrace foreigners in Turkey debt Albanian payments trade regime armistice and exchange of populations and POWs with Greece.
Miss Gladys Stinnette secretary to R B Sams federal prohibition chief for the fifth division lost a silver pocketbook. The owner offers a reward for its return. The pocketbook was valuable both intrinsically and monetarily and its loss caused anxiety. A young lady would be greatly pleased by its return.
Former Supreme Court Justice William R. Day, now an umpire on the American German Cabinets commission, has gone to Augusta, Georgia, on doctors orders to recover from a severe bronchial attack. Recovery is expected to take a long period, and he will remain in the South until his health improves.
Small fire loss data from Southport for 1922 lists a single sizable incident, the colored school building, a new structure, with about 7000 dollars in damage. All other fires were under 800 dollars, and some months had no fires at all.
Raleigh January 29 Superintendent George Pou denies reports claiming prison staff and a woman friend aided Dr D W Peacock's Aug 9 escape from the state prison. He says a thorough investigation found the charges were fabrications.
Judge A M Stack of Guilford Superior Court will hear evidence on the Carolina and Yadkin River railroad Thursday at 9 30 in Greensboro. The case could decide whether the line is sold to High Point Thomasville and Denton or abandoned. High Point officials expect to attend and Dr Dred Peacock is spokesman for local business interests urging continued operation with a possible upset price of 100000 or less.
Ninety eight applicants sought licenses to practice law in North Carolina with five applying under comity. Wake Forest College Law School provided the largest group with 44 examinees, among them one woman.
Charlotte report says Mansel Shaver of Lancaster is not expected to survive after a collision between an automobile and Southern railway train No. 38. C. M. Steel, formerly of Lancaster, was killed. J. J. Sapp of Lancaster was painfully injured but expected to recover.
Historic high bridge built across the Harlem river in 1848 shows a four inch sag, engineers tell the board of estimate, with a recommendation that the structure be demolished.
A crippled ex soldier, waving a crutch, rushed toward King George and Queen Mary at St Pancras station as they arrived from Sandringham. Police stopped him within a few yards of the king. Reports differ whether it was an assault or an attempt to gain the royal's attention.
London Jan 29 British army authorities in the Irak have sent a battalion of troops and a few airplanes to the Mosul and Shedghat area 65 miles south of Mosul as a precaution amid Turkish posture at Lausanne concerning the Mosul district.
R. E. Barnes of Raleigh spent the week end with his sister Mrs. F. E. Sauls and his mother Mrs. B. J. Barnes.
Two unidentified men were killed and Sheriff Harry Newland wounded as a crowd including many foreigners attacked deputies in a dance hall during a race trouble flare up in Blantford Indiana. Officials began a sweeping investigation with National Guard and prosecutors en route for coroner’s inquest. The unrest followed a prior order for negroes to leave town after an alleged assault on a white girl.
Fred Lundin former congressman and leader behind Mayor Thompson’s machine plus 22 others were named in a blanket conspiracy indictment. Bonds set at 10000 each. Rohm Lundin nephew believed abroad, Rohm in Los Angeles. both linked to school funds and insurance deals.
Construction starts on the $80,000 J. J. Cox estate store on South Main between the new Commercial National bank and the theater. The two story concrete steel fireproof structure with 80 by 100 feet frontage will have four store rooms and a basement, heated by steam, driven by contracts with R. K. Stewart and son.
Archie Myatt who spent two years in Guam as a civil service clerk arrived in the city yesterday. He is staying with his parents on Wrenn street after a trip via the Panama Canal and a month in California en route home.
Washington January 29 Judge Sanford of Tennessee was nominated to be associate justice of the Supreme Court to succeed Justice Pitney who had recently retired. The nomination was favorably reported today by a unanimous vote of the Senate judiciary committee.
Aubrey L. Brooks of Greensboro renowned speaker will address the Passion Play at 3 p m next Sunday in the South Main street graded school auditorium. He speaks under the auspices of the Men s clubs of St Mary s Episcopal and First Presbyterian churches, urging public attendance.
The cotton market opened steady in New York with futures rising 7 to 22 points on covering by recent sellers. May reached 28.12 and July 27.74 before renewed liquidation and southern selling trimmed gains. March 27.85 May 28.12 July 27.73 October 25.26 December 24.956.
John Challis reports a brilliant rainbow visible at midnight in Croydon England, claiming the arc appeared under moonlight rather than moonshine during late January night.
The keeper of the Natural History Museum in London reports 3.5 million insect specimens in the entomological department, including species described as cooties.
Dusseldorf bulletins report a complete strike by German railroad workers and telegraph employees with partial impacts on telephone and postal services. In Washington the Supreme Court rules David LaMarr known as the wolf of Wall Street must begin imprisonment for delaying habeas corpus and finds merit lacking.
Harold Teegerstrom who vanished from the Southern Carbon company bunkhouse near Bastrop December 29 resurfaced in Monroe at noon today declaring to acquaintances he is back to stay. His appearance comes amid an open hearing into hooded activities in Morehouse parish.
Paymaster Eugene H. Douglass of the flagship Huron in the Asiatic fleet died by his own hand yesterday aboard the Huron. The act occurred while he mourned the ship stores missing, for which he was not responsible, Captain D. C. Stearns reported. Capt. Stearns praised the deceased officer’s devotion to duty. In London, the Labour Party seeks to convoke Parliament before February 14 to address the Ruhr crisis after French occupation, Ramsay MacDonald presiding.
Federal prohibition officers report that a whole family of seven people near Kinston in Lenoir County has been arrested on liquor charges. A stir site and whisky were seized, along with distillery equipment, in a case described as potentially record breaking. Arraignment date not provided.
Edwin J. Payne district manager of the Philadelphia Belting Company arrives in High Point to establish a distributing warehouse. He will use two rooms in the Arthur hotel basement and plans to move his family here soon.
Raleigh scene as the Senate and House prepare for a packed week with a shipping bill vote, elections of county superintendents, and a push for broader districting. Governor Morrison hints at a public appeal if the measure fails, while judiciary expansion, salary cuts, and Rockingham county battles loom large with 90 candidates in the Supreme Court exam and a Hydro Electric case shaping the legal agenda.
Raleigh Jan 20 Revenue Commissioner Watts resigns his office voluntarily amid police raid on his apartments last night in which a negro was found under a bed. The resignation has not been formally requested.
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