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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1929
Page
4
The quote contrasts sun scorch and withering without roots with a Bible verse from St. Mark 4 6 and a Segur remark on brilliance needing sustained character. It presents two maxims about growth and virtue and their resilience or fragility.
Southern Publishers at Asheville condemn newspaper ownership by power and newsprint interests as a threat to free press and institutions. The resolution urges open ownership and independence, arguing a kept press endangers autonomy and caps the industry to general commercial service.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle aged 70 says he is about to die yet unafraid and confident in personal survival after death. Clarence Darrow aged 72 believes personal consciousness ends in the final sleep and is unafraid, awaiting whatever the great pool of life holds beyond.
The piece argues the Democratic Party faces a critical choice for its next presidential nominee. A conservative, impeccably charactered candidate could restore southern alignment but risk another broad defeat, while a different outcome could alter the party’s future for years.
The piece weighs 1932 party prospects, naming Roosevelt of New York and Owen D. Young as leading contenders with South and national faction implications discussed. It also criticizes local traffic noise and reflects on Gettysburg memorials and their meaning for national memory.
The transatlantic flier who died near Roosevelt field was intoxicated, post mortem tests show. Alcohol saturated his brain and organs, marking a case of drunken flight that cost the pilot and two passengers their lives.
Bruce Catton discusses the North Carolina memorial on the Gettysburg battlefield carved by Gutzon Borglum honoring NC troops from the 1863 battle. He notes the profusion of statues, tablets, and markers across the field commemorating regiments brigades and valorous deeds.
Across the nation pilots pursue record flights seen as aviation's laboratory experiments rather than mere stunts. Movable coastal forts with rail mounted 14 inch guns promise flexible defense, while golf shows democracy in victory as a self taught youngster defeats a wealthy champion.
Premier MacDonald may visit America in July. A New York iceman completed a global trip in 34 days 3 hours 55 minutes. Bishop Cannon’s stock market play is noted as within his crusading stance.
Washington July 6 Republican senators facing re election in 1938 grow wary of a tariff bill like the house measure. They fear blame if unpopularity rises while Hoover’s stance remains unclear. The Hawley bill criticism spreads as industry rates surge and farmers face higher costs on hides and shoes, with sugar tariffs rising too.
Hack Wilson of the Chicago Cubs was fined 100 dollars and suspended three days for attempting to attack Ray Kolp in the Reds dugout during the July 4 Chicago game. National League President Heydler announced the punishment by wire, stating the provocation did not justify leaving the base or risking a riot.
Enterprise Bureau reports two year studies begin soon in eastern North Carolina and Virginia. Conducted by Forest Products Laboratory and Appalachian Forest Experiment Station with State Department of Conservation and Development cooperation. Areas of twenty acres will be logged with logs tracked from tree to lumber to determine profit and post logging growth and reproduction. If feasible, similar work may extend to upper coastal plain and Piedmont regions in 1930.
In New York a sea going cat named Plebeian Olaf fell from the liner Sud Americano as it cruised at 17 knots. Six crewmen launched a lifeboat and Olaf swam until rescued off the coast near CHAZY New York. A trooper reports signs on cars near the Canadian border led to a liquor seizure and fines.
Paris sees a growing congestion clash as Place de l Opera rivals Forty Second Street and Broadway in traffic jams and calls for a remedy amid urban gridlock.
Mary Ruth Beirman, a 1928 Columbia University graduate with BSc and MA, is setting type for ten dollars a week at the Lighthouse, an institution employing the blind, after unsuccessfully seeking other work.
New York Mayor Walker shows off a red white and blue square pattern tie. The sole similar piece is worn by Southampton's mayor in England. The gift came from haberdashers who opened a shop on the liner Aquitania.
In Llanes Spain a bricklayer removing a house uncovering an old box containing 60,000 gold pesetas dating about 200 years back led to celebrations paid with the loot. Police initially suspected robbery but the coins are valued at about 8400 dollars in American currency.
George W. Byars of Welcome Davidson County has filed for a patent on a roller window screen adaptable to current and future windows. A working model was built at J. W. Wagner’s shop where Byars works, and display displays at J. J. Hedrick’s furniture room. Contractors carpenters and furniture manufacturers praised the invention and Byars plans wholesale production now ready.
On July 6 1415 John Huss Bohemian reformer was burned at the stake for heresy after a long clash with the church. Huss advocated reform following Wiclifs ideas provoking excommunication and a council confrontation in Constance. His death sparked Bohemian sorrow and the Hussite wars.
A stone tablet will be installed at Chiz well Church Essex to honor George Shillibeer London's pioneering busman who started the city’s first horse drawn bus service. The dedication recognizes his contribution to urban transport and public travel in the capital.
An estimate suggests that Britain's entire first class road network laid out in a single line would reach around the globe. The claim highlights the vast scale of the road system and national infrastructure.
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