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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1931
Page
7
Chicago grain markets open with wheat at a new low for the era amid moratorium uncertainty and weak stock markets. Corn and oats follow the downbeat trend with mixed opening and closing figures across July, September, and December contracts.
Cotton spot in fair demand with prices down 12 points led by American varieties. American strict good middling 6.28 and good middling 5.93 with several lower grades quoted. Sales reached 5 000 bales, 3 400 American, no receipts. Futures closed barely steady with July 5.33 and new positions listed through May 5.67.
New York July 6 Wall Street opens the post holiday week with caution as Franco American debt agreement talks stall and markets show disappointment. Shares fall 1 to 6 points then stumble on sluggish trading while bonds drift. Outside call loans run about 1 percent and freight loading for the week ending June 27 is expected to rise.
Mrs Lakey Southern, of 119 Willig Street, says she was not the person tried in municipal court Friday. She asks the Enterprise to note the distinction and clear her name.
Sydney report notes a cyclone in the harbor area with winds to 70 mph and heavy rain. Two people were killed during the day long storm while ships remained held in the harbor.
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Elwood Cox former fifth district commissioner paid tribute to a prominent Morganton banker and longtime state highway commission member who died suddenly. Cox called him splendid and a man of fine judgment and said he would attend the funeral with Alex Hanes of Winston-Salem.
J M Caldwell state adjutant of the North Carolina American Legion announced the state’s Legion membership had reached 18 521. He said the figures were released during the national drive for one million members which reached 1 001 583 on July 1.
The comptroller of the currency issued a call today for the condition of all National banks at the close of business Tuesday June 30.
Governor O Max Gardner is expected to resume duties in Raleigh tomorrow after missing more than a week. He traveled to Atlantic City New Jersey New York City and his Shelby North Carolina home during the absence.
An unidentified oil tanker was seen in flames several miles off shore near Daytona Beach. Coastguard at Flagler Beach sent a boat to aid the burning vessel.
Judge T C Bowie said he will soon inform friends if he will oppose Senator Cameron Morrison next year. Bowie noted a strong western Jeffersonian Democrat could enter the race and urged action, while Frank D Grist has already announced as a Democratic candidate. Bowie spoke while returning home from a fishing trip in eastern North Carolina.
Greensboro officials approved buying 76 acres adjoining the city airport from Mayor Paul C. Lindley for 15000 dollars. The move follows airport manager Henry Rufus saying the current tract is too small to keep the facility functioning. A county filing clerk job was created for James H. Weatherly at 100 dollars monthly.
AMARILLO Texas AP no tangled marital affairs for Mr and Mrs Paul Ellis. Before their marriage they were Diana Brent and Alan Paull of Hollywood California. Ellis now is owner of a pipe company and Mrs Ellis keeps loose.
Geoffrey C. Brown of the American Federation of Labor surveyed southern plants, praising union strength in textiles and other crafts. He noted a long-term effort, with 20 years needed to gain a foothold, and lauded High Point’s economic and labor progress during his multistate tour.
Charles Hunt, in City Memorial Hospital with a bullet wound to the thigh after a deputy sheriff, Clifford Myers, fired as a car carrying five youths worked to free itself from a ditch. The car driver Luther Hunt is jailed in Asheboro on multiple charges.
DetroIt era showup room saw bandit suspects inverted identification as two Niagara Falls youths Dan Collins and Fausto De Lorenzo, both 19 and 20, claimed victims’ watch and eight dollars before victims pointed them out.
John W. Bulla, 70, noted writer and Asheboro native, died in Miami, Florida, from injuries after an automobile accident ten days earlier. His funeral is set for 10 a.m. tomorrow at First Methodist Church in Asheboro, with burial in Asheboro Cemetery. Survived by widow Agnes Thomas, daughter Beatrice Bulla, two sisters Nannie Bulla and Mrs. H. L. Brower, and brother L. D. Bulla.
Hubert Stanton aged 35 and Boyce Chandley 25, both of Greenville Tennessee, were wounded in an ambush on the White Rock Laurel River road near Marshall North Carolina. Chandley was shot in the leg and Stanton in the legs after a bullet pierced the car door. The incident follows a deadly gun battle Saturday night near Walnut where Deputy Sheriff Joe Shelton and Jennings Henderson were killed. John Henderson, Madison County planter, wounded last week, is hospitalized and not expected to survive. Authorities have not established a motive.
Currituck Memorial Methodist Church dedicated a large black bus named Miss Memorial to transport rural members to services. Rev. J. A. Tharpe spoke on equal access to worship, noting the bus first carried passengers from the church door. The vessel is believed to be the first of its kind in the United States.
Searchers looked for Robert K. Zinn a 21 year old climber from Portland Ore who slipped on an icy slope near Mount Rainier summit and plunged into a 1200 foot crevasse. His brother Kenneth R. Zinn continued with witnesses and guide Nelson Widman aided during the fall attempt.
Phoenix city manager George H. Todd announces a new water billing plan to replace the traditional first of month bills. Delinquent charges will no longer cluster at 10 days. billing will occur daily across districts to equalize workload and avoid peak loads.
Miss Evelyn Wilson a 23 year old musical comedy actress disappeared from her sister's West 106th Street apartment prompting police to initiate a search today. The report notes she was last seen in New York City.
In Chicago on July 6 the market lists live fowl and poultry products with varied figures for chickens and turkeys. Notable categories include fowls 18, broilers 24, fryers 26, springs 28, roosters 12 percent, turkeys 15 18, spring ducks 12, and geese 10.
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