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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1930
Page
1
Senator Reed of Pennsylvania presented the London naval conference proposal to the Senate in a sharp exchange with Senator Johnson of California. An early vote is likely as an informal understanding on the Norris resolution is expected to secure adoption of the pact.
Sacramento reports five miners died from smoke inhalation as a fire engulfed the Glenn gold mine and surrounding buildings. The cook house and compressor were destroyed, trapping workers on the upper level while rescuers failed to reach them before the lower level filled with fumes.
Senator Reed of Pennsylvania argues for the London naval treaty in the closing debate to avert American inferiority in ships. He cites a four to one British advantage and a two to one Japanese margin, as 60 senators vote in the roll call with Norris reservations looming.
After a week of record heat in the Carolinas, clouds and rain cooled temperatures. Greensboro reached 89 and Charlotte 86 with light rainfall, while Raleigh and Durham reported modest totals and Asheville stayed cooler at 74 with small rainfall.
Clarence Saunders in payview court withdraws denial of involuntary bankruptcy against Clarence Saunders Stores Inc and court plans to appoint a receiver at 2 pm. Saunders says the firm is insolvent due to banking loan pressures. Chain Store magnate says related corporations are not involved in the difficulties.
Dr. John Hill Tucker, chairman of the parks and recreation commission, said 35 ministers pressing to stop Sunday golf and tennis are overzealous. Recreational centers will stay open Sunday afternoons, closed only during church hours, until due process and a new commission decide otherwise. Some ministers privately opposed the ban.
In New York on July 15 a Bronx woman found a sleeping disturbance caused by a lumpy mattress. An employee discovered a hidden package beneath the ticking containing 3300 in bonds and cash. The woman recalled her husband hid the valuables in the bed for safekeeping.
An insurance executive spotting a living man led to a probe revealing a million dollar conspiracy in New York. Thirty nine death claims paid by Metropolitan Insurance were falsified using forged death certificates and health department seals. Two company employees were arrested for record falsification.
Raleigh reports the highway patrol collected 153264.18 from unlicensed or improperly licensed drivers and 66949.71 in fines. The unit’s operating costs were 144111.96, with 146966 warned and 4437 arrests including 539 reckless and 454 drunken driving.
Timberland fires raged across Deschutes and Cascade forests near Timberlanes Bend Oregon with about 650 workers on an 18 mile front battling fire that has scorched roughly 5000 acres in two days. Lookouts report dense smoke hindering progress and crews laid more than ten miles of trenches to halt the spread.
Raleigh July 15 North Carolina prison future should be on a 25000 acre farm in western NC with no cotton crops. J Wilbur Bunn acting chairman of the prison directors outlined a plan to relocate the central prison and produce tobacco corn wheat and truck crops along with hogs cattle sheep and goats on a large commercial scale. He will chair his first directors meeting tomorrow.
NORFOLK Va July 15 Darwin Smith 20, a transport licensed airplane pilot, was almost instantly killed in a glider accident at the state rifle range in Virginia Beach.
Berlin July 15 Arthur Holitscher German author and globe trotter says prosperity and prohibition evasion form the two pillars of American civilization in his book Revisiting America The savings bank book is the crown point of a American life work He says Americans enjoy evading prohibition and says service to God and man is a key American motto He notes the church’s dominant role and cites Sunday respite The negro is a foreign element in America Some say sports and athletics are main forces in Americanizing immigrants He singles out Col Lindbergh and Will Rogers as emblematic Americans Lindbergh and Rogers epitomize the undiluted vigorous side of the American character.
Five bandits robbed the Bank of Willmar in Minnesota taking about 35000 from 25 customers and employees. Shots fired wounded two women, while bystanders fired at the robbers as they fled, leaving windows broken and cars damaged.
KENANSVILLE NC July 15 A juror talked with Englishs cousin prompting a mistrial rumor. Judge Cowper halted proceedings for over an hour and ordered defense and prosecution to discuss irregularities before deciding to proceed. Defense witness Leroy Henderson testified he saw Mrs English afternoon of the killing but could not place his location.
Brevard July 15 J. R. Maroney mayor of Rosman Transylvania county was convicted in county court here of drunkenness. Sentence not passed pending trial of a second case in which the mayor is charged with malfeasance in office. The malfeasance case was to be tried this afternoon.
North Carolina counties see representation shifts after the 1930 census. Guilford Mecklenburg and Buncombe gain House seats. New Hanover Rockingham and Nash lose one each. Senate apportionment also changes with Guilford and Mecklenburg gaining two seats and eight counties each getting one.
Capone plans a 375000 residence near Lake Worth Florida with Vivian and Stovall to clear ground and start work immediately. The two story home is listed at 250000 with extra cost for paving and an elaborate swimming pool. The 50.2 acre Broward county tract was acquired by Vincent G Giblin as Capone attorney and trustee who declined comment.
Dolores Del Rio and Edmund Lowe star in The Bad One at the Broadhurst with a game of hearts between experts. Enterprise readers will find their names in the want ad columns as part of a new romance. High Point readers rely on classifieds for selling or renting items.
Census Bureau figures for June report 405 181 bales of lint and 58 501 linters consumed in the United States. This compares with 473 917 lint and 68 779 linters in May and 569 414 lint and 77 918 linters in June last year. Exports and imports also shifted, with June exports at 185 053 lint and 6 389 linters, and spindles active at 27 642 158.
William Gibbs McAdoo secretary of the treasury and director general of railroads under Wilson announces he is writing memoirs from his Santa Barbara home. He expects to include observations on wartime Washington as part of the work.
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