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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1930
Page
1
AP dispatch from Neuende reports 144 killed in a gas explosion at the Wenceslaus mine in Silesia. Of 193 miners, 56 escaped and 81 bodies recovered. 49 saved, all badly burned, with rescue halted due to dangerous fumes. No hope for others.
A scorching Carolinas heat wave persists with many cities reporting near record high temperatures. Readings reached 103 in Columbia and Greenwood while Gastonia and Sumter also posted near 100 degree heat as forecasts offered only brief relief.
United States Treasury posted fiscal year figures showing 68 186 arrests and 24 373 still seizures under prohibition enforcement. The totals mark increases from 1929 by about 2 000 arrests and 7 000 stills. Data cover 11 months plus June estimates and note 8 778 automobile seizures by bureau agents.
Five men all from Kansas City Missouri were killed when a plane crashed four miles from Arkansas Pass Texas. The dead are Murat Boyle Raymond Watson Eugene Lynn Roy Deallano Gene Gabbait.
L S Franklin of Greensboro seeks consent from sixteen High Point business leaders to retire as head of the North Carolina Taxpayers' league to join a national crusade against Prohibition. He pledges full cooperation with William J Hogue of Texas and Washington in repealing the Volstead Act if allowed to leave. The list includes R R Ragan Beeson Hardware J C Cummins Veheer manufacturer H H Foust J C Hill W B Thomas Charles G Pope J W Sechrest W H Gibson J W Kearns M J Crowder W C Burns R T Amos W C Covington J W Lindsay S C Clark and W C Thompson.
Dr. Donald Laird of Colgate University forecasts a new era where industrial smells are transformed into pleasant aromas. By pairing a small amount of a powerful chemical with a foul odor, the base scent becomes agreeable, potentially boosting sales of odorless products. He cites a survey ranking perspiration, garlic, rubber, and kerosene as the worst smells and notes kerosene and rubber odors are already used as fragrance bases in disguises.
In Hot Springs Arkansas Jack Barnes a 47 year old resort chef experimented with bait to kill rats and possibly wolves. He mixed dough with yellow phosphorus and carbon disulfate causing an explosion that burned him badly and injured Fire Chief Ira Trammel who collapsed from fumes.
55 negro gold star mothers cancel sailings to France and protest to President Hoover over segregation. The first group of 61 black mothers on the American Merchant faces accusations of inferior accommodations and cheaper government rates than white mothers.
Hilda McDuffie a 15 year old girl was killed on her father’s farm near Elizabethton when struck by lightning while working in a cotton field late yesterday.
The U S circuit court of appeals in Asheville affirmed Baltimore district court verdicts against Sam Hill, George Bolton, Edward S. Murtha, and Edward Miller for smuggling whiskey into the United States at Ocean City Maryland. The court rejected appeals claiming pleading defects and noted convictions will not be reversed for technical errors.
California's $400 million grape sector faced a crisis as a drive to enroll eight and a half percent of growers in a farm board relief program teetered on failure. Night riders moved through a vineyard area terrorizing non signers.
Tully Blair, Sedgefield ace, won 1 up over Fred McCanless of Charlotte to reach the second round. Alan Smith, Asheville, defeated J W Wearman 3 and 2. Jack Wagner beat R P Mayer 6 and 4 and will face Alan Smith next. W Palmer downed N E Edgerton 3 and 2 to reach the second round.
Police raid on a Park Avenue eighth floor apartment at 47th Street exposed a lavish gambling setup with 14 rooms. Detectives seized a full gaming outfit and liquor as about 50 guests fled through a fire escape. George Herrick and his valet William Sullivan were arrested after Herrick locked the door and tossed the key.
Senate debate enters third day over a measure requesting from President Hoover the diplomatic cables and letters exchanged before the London naval conference. Senator Johnson opposes, seeking full papers, while Senator Robinson and others call them irrelevant. Johnson hints at a possible agreement between Prime Minister MacDonald and President Hoover at the Rapidan meeting.
Mrs T Holt Laird 41 a Hamilton Lakes resident is in serious condition at home with a bullet wound in her right temple. A .22 caliber revolver was found in her hand by her cook and children after two shots were heard. She had been in ill health for four years and is not expected to survive the day.
Thousands of residents see "With Byrd at the South Pole" at the Broadhurst theater praised as one of the era’s most important shows. Classified readers with High Point ties are urged to claim tickets at the Enterprise office, valid for three days.
Interlachen Club, Minneapolis July 10 Bobby Jones shoots 71 in first round of national open to lead by one stroke. He goes out in 34 and back in 37 in 100 degree sun with a 5 000 crowd watching as Horton Smith sits just one shot back with 72 and Chicago pros Harry Cooper and George Smith follow.
Gov. O Max Gardner traveled to Fayetteville to review the Citizens Military Training Camp regiment training at Camp Bragg near Raleigh during July 10 events.
The Republican conference in Washington deferred its decision on Claudius Huston's resignation as party chairman. Huston met reporters and promised a late statement while Hoover consulted with two national committee officers amid mounting pressure from eight officers and workers for his exit.
Greensboro news item reports J. W. Harris a middle aged mechanic sentenced to from one to two years in state prison after pleading nolo contendre to manslaughter for a February car crash that killed 11 year old Francis Kirkman.
Pr W P Few president of Duke University was chosen president of the lay activities board of the Methodist Episcopal church South at its annual Lake Junaluska meeting. He succeeds Judge M E Lawson of Liberty Missouri who has held the post for four years.
In a Bowery Chinese theater a staged burglar scene ended abruptly when five shots fired from the rear. A dead man, Hung Wah Hung president of Tong Ong, was found in a seat along with three theater workers. Police questioned staff but made no arrests.
Pierre La Passe, a Chicago grocer and World War veteran, rebuffed two armed robbers who entered his store. He was wounded in the hand and groin but managed to wrestle a gun away and chase the assailants as they fled to a waiting car. Doctors say he will recover.
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