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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1930
Page
9
Cotton market in Liverpool shows dull spot trading with steady quotes from American middling to good ordinary. Sales reach 2,000 bales including 700 American. receipts also 2,000 bales. Futures close quiet and steady with July at 7.13 and later months around 6.8 to 6.93.
Chicago July 15 potatoes trading slow with market steady. Kansas and Missouri sacked Irish cobblers 1.59 to 1.75, mostly 1.60 to 1.85. Eastern Virginias barrel Irish cobblers 3.39 to 3.40.
Chicago reports indicate growing liberal export demand for U S wheat via the Gulf boosting the wheat market. Corn prices remained comparatively high against wheat, narrowing the spread to its tightest since 1895, with oats and provisions also showing gains as trading closed higher.
New York July 15 Cotton opened steady after a morning drop of 5 to 9 points due to easy Liverpool cables and showers in the eastern belts. July led the losses, with contracts around 12.81 for July and 12.59 for October, while December rose as buyers covered. Domestic consumption for June stood at 405,181 bales versus 569,144 last year, broadly as expected.
Wall Street struggled as bear pressure checked a renewed bull push led by American Telephone and DuPont. Gains in Electric Auto Lite and U S Steel contrasted with declines in General Electric and Eastman Kodak. In earnings news National Biscuit and Commonwealth Edison posted drops, while Missouri Kansas Texas declared a July dividend signaling confidence ahead.
New Orleans July 15 The cotton market opened easy in line with lower Liverpool cables due to riots in Egypt. First trades fell five points. Prices briefly rallied three points on covering but eased as favorable belt weather appeared. October touched 12.62 and December 12.81, down six points from yesterday. Futures closed steady after a 1 point advance.
Berlin reports the death of Professor Ludwig Stein an internationally known philosopher and author at age 70 following an operation. He passed away today in a Salzburg Austria nursing home after his treatment.
The peak of this season's European travel rush is expected tomorrow with 13 000 passengers across nine liners. About 2 090 travelers will be aboard each ship including Columbus and Bremen of North German Lloyd, Leviathan of United States Lines, Berengaria of Cunard, and Majestic of White Star.
The 18 month old child of Mrs. Vesta Baswell was killed by a lightning stroke while the mother held the baby in her arms near Marietta Georgia. Mrs Baswell was slightly burned.
Morristown New Jersey July 15 14 year old Harry Woolsey Jr son of a Ridgewood family reenacted for state police how he killed his mother's maid on Green Pond mountain after claiming she insulted him He said he would have dyed his hair and escaped if he had money and quoted the maid asking what she was doing as he stabbed her several times.
W D Alexander of Bloomington Illinois testified at the senatorial inquiry that he spent seven thousand two hundred seven dollars of his own funds to support Ruth Hanna McCormick's primary campaign. He directed McLean county activities due to friendship, without formal reporting.
Greensboro police chief announced plainclothes officers will patrol college campuses to nab flirting men described as Asphalt Arabs and roaming Romeos. He plans to rotate deployments to prevent spotting and will arrest any man who attempts to pick up female students.
County Solicitor George McCaskill announced that two perjury charges against Al Capone would be dropped because they cannot be successfully prosecuted. Capone was acquitted Saturday by a directed verdict in the first of three perjury charges stemming from his arrest in Miami.
Evelyn Eagen the film actress was released on her own recognizance and faces a preliminary hearing on July 24 for driving while intoxicated. She was arrested on a principal street in the film colony wearing only a bath robe after claiming she had drunk carloads of liquor on her way home from the beach.
Virginia authorities warn against hiring out of state unemployed to run state funded projects. Governor Pollard and Labor Commissioner Hall urge prioritizing Virginia residents for all state funded work. The influx from North Carolina and other states challenges local hiring. Hall plans to suspend his semi monthly report on industrial projects for a period.
Lieut. Edward S. Guthrie chief of the state highway patrol in this district showed slight improvement today after a motorcycle and an automobile collided on the Hendersonville highway Saturday night. Dr. R. W. Locher of Baltimore, a University of Maryland surgeon and Guthrie’s brother in law, helped in treatment here with local physicians.
In Kinards South Carolina a one year old girl named Josephine Smith daughter of Mr and Mrs John Earl Smith drowned in a tub of water late yesterday. The mother was in the backyard when she discovered the child head foremost in the tub which had six inches of water.
In Sumter South Carolina on July 15 the state demands the electric chair for O E S Howell and his wife after their indictment for the murder of E Hart Williams. Prosecutor R H Jeffries opened with the argument against the defendants while Howell testified he shot Williams in self defense after Williams reached for a pistol. Mrs Howell’s defense claims she was forced by her husband to identify Williams and claim an attack on June 18. The judge set two hours for each side to argue before the jury receives the case late today.
In Camden South Carolina on July 15 Hills of a fatal shooting left Stephen Owens 24 dead and James Owens 26 wounded on the Ker shaw road. Henry F Clyburn 25 of Weetville is jailed on the case and withheld statement. Coroner W F Russell expected to hold an inquest.
In Washington a 25 year old man Ross Golden shot 14 year old Mary Raff and his sister Lula Mills then killed himself. Mary Raff was in critical condition. Lula Mills expected to recover. Golden left three notes claiming he loved the girl.
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