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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 05, 1931
Page
1
Police declare the largest ring in the city disrupted. Eighteen men charged as principals agents and employees tied to a scheme handling about 25000 dollars daily.
In Philadelphia on July 4 at Independence Hall, Secretary of War Hurley denounced efforts to extend federal power and warned of the breakdown of local self-government. Mayor Mackey presided as Hurley urged preserving state and local authority against federal police regulation.
Paris and Washington report a near complete accord on applying the Hoover plan to Germany. France would forgo principal payments for a year and place unconditional funds into the Bank for International Settlements to relend, with credits to Russia Poland and Czechoslovakia limited by new assurances from major banks.
The United States Weather Bureau records three inches of rainfall in Raleigh between 9 and 10 PM with total precipitation exceeding four inches since 6 PM. The downpour follows a severe heat wave, marking the heaviest rain in the area.
Charles Rosenthal, once a tobacco maker and department store owner, died today at age 94 in New York. A German immigrant who arrived in 1853, he endured cholera, mutiny, and a shipwreck during his Atlantic crossing, later retiring about 15 years ago. He also played billiards with President Ulysses S. Grant in Galena, Illinois, in the 1850s.
Nashville July 4. The fate of Rogers Caldwell a former investment broker charged with fraudulent breach of trust was placed in the hands of a jury after three weeks of testimony in criminal court.
The twenty-eighth world peace convention opened in Brussels with debates on armament limits. Delegates argued for partial disarmament with fixed quotas or for full disarmament under League of Nations control aided by a multinational army. Beaduin noted Belgium’s stance on reparations and possible goods payments to aid Germany's recovery.
Claude G. Bowers keynote at the 1928 Democratic National Convention address at Tammany Hall on Independence Day was broadcast and pressed on phonograph records for reuse. He criticized the national administration for tariff policy and alleged blunders that worsened poverty and hampered recovery.
A railroad inspector found beer inside a freight car in Oak Point yards. Police say about 300 half barrels spilled as the car, traveling from West New York New Jersey to Bridgeport Connecticut, leaked amber liquid.
Thousands join Greensboro and Guilford county in a grand Fourth of July tribute featuring a Battle of Guilford Courthouse re staging with Revolutionary War era uniforms and a parade by National Guard units. Major General Frank R. McCoy lauds hero worship and preservation of founding ideals in speeches at the battleground.
A deadly rip tide along Southern California's coast leaves fourteen known drowned with fears the toll will rise. Lifeguards answered hundreds of calls as several bathers remained missing. Victims include William Nagata a 25 year old USC student and Susumi Sago an 18 year old from Glendale, among others in Los Angeles San Pedro and Laguna Beach. A girl unidentified by officials is missing after cries for help were heard. Coast guard cutter 259 searched the area for bodies.
The body of Joe Gibson, 14, of Nichols, N. C., was recovered from the Lamber river near Fair after he drowned while swimming with other boys. The incident occurred last night and was reported from Wilmington.
Senator William E. Borah told an Independence Day gathering in Parma Idaho that a one year moratorium on war debts and reparations would not restore prosperity without restoring silver's purchasing power. He urged leading nations to act to lift silver value to improve global purchasing power and curb gold's dominance.
In Paris on July 4 General Pershing and President Hoover were praised during the Fourth of July celebration. A Parisian street will be named for Pershing, while Hoover was hailed as the war time revictualler of the allies by Edouard Renard, prefect.
North Carolinians celebrated independence day with orderly events and holiday trips. The Guilford Courthouse sesquicentennial at Greensboro, an American Legion rally at Murphy, and races at Rowan county fair grounds highlighted statewide observances.
Daily prayer meetings for rain are held in Bladenboro and surrounding Bladen County towns as a six week drought persists. A light sprinkle Friday barely eased the dust while heat and dryness threaten crops after past flood losses.
A Warrenton North Carolina collision between a Norfolk Durham bus and a light coupe left one man dead Harvey Weldon of Norlina who rode on the coupe running board. Five others from both vehicles were injured including Billie Lanier Walter Parish Mrs W P Harrison R D Rowe and M Fox with injuries ranging from cuts to broken bones.
Negotiations in Paris yield a basis for an accord on the Hoover moratorium plan and transmit it to Washington for U S approval. France and the United States seek final terms on funding and guarantee provisions with a 12 year period agreed.
More than 175 lives were reported lost as the nation observed its 155th Independence Day. The Midwest led with 19 deaths, while traffic crashes caused over half the fatalities amid a two day holiday. Ten drownings were noted nationwide and burns from fireworks remained a significant injury source.
Rome July 4. Observers discuss possible withdrawal of the Papal Nuncio as the Vatican and Italian government clash over control of youth education spelled out in Pius XI encyclical. Diplomatic rupture not expected but tensions rise as Mussolini resists Vatican demands.
Fred P. Harrison, 29, arrested in Greensboro, confesses stealing 33500 from The Chemical Bank and Trust in New York ten months earlier. He lived near Guilford College, previously ran a Winston-Salem filling station, and was linked to a $1000 cash and $750 valuables robbery claim. Fingerprints led to re-arrest after a July 1 prohibition case.
Mexico City reports government circles say the foreign office asked Ambassador Tellez in Washington to seek a US state department report on the investigation of the June 8 Ardmore Oklahoma shootings of two Mexican students. The president’s sons were ordered to leave the US for Canadian college courses.
Ralph T. O Neil national commander of the American Legion urged curb of pacifists at a Fourth of July rally in WN C. He called for expanding naval strength under the London treaty and for renewed pledge to defend the country. regional delegates from North Carolina South Carolina Georgia and Tennessee attended.
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