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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 18, 1922
Page
1
President Harding plans to telegram operators of all bituminous mines shut by strike to resume work immediately and asks state governors to provide military protection if needed. If states cannot cope federal troops may be used. Cabinet backed the move as essential to public interests and orderly execution of the plan.
Forty three men are under arrest at the Wellsburg mine and the workers and their families are ordered to leave the tent colony nearby. The action follows a dispute at the mining site involving labor organizers and local authorities.
Striker families abandon the Cliftonville tent colony after sheriff and state troopers order moves amid ongoing alarms. Police report 43 arrests with 7 more expected as violence spiked near the Clifton non union mine and the Hedgecock embezzlement case advances in Greensboro court.
Rien Ane reports a railroad workers strike at Rocky Mount with picketing but no untoward acts by noon. Train service remains on schedule as railroad officials demand protection and partial manning of shops and stations continues under limited supervision.
Buyers arrive from across the country for the Southern Furniture Exposition. Dealers report stronger sales than all June shows, with six floors of the building filled and orders pouring in. A dealers meeting is set for 8 pm at the Sheraton hotel to plan the January market.
At noon the White House announced an imminent communication from President Harding to state governors. The note will target coal producing states urging unified federal action on the coal and rail strike situation.
Dr O B Bonner eye ear nose throat specialist formerly of Raleigh has opened offices above Mattons drug store on North Mall Street in High Point and joins the High Point Hospital staff to treat cases of eye ear nose and throat. He studied in New York City and at St Lukes Hospital. He is related to local and Raleigh doctors and will handle all ENT cases at the hospital.
Reginald Dunn and Joseph O'Sullivan were condemned to die at the Old Bailey after a trial for the murder of Field Marshal Henry Wilson who was shot in front of his home last month in London.
New York, July 18 Charles R. Miller longtime editor of the New York Times died today after a months long illness He was 73 years old
An Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Stockholm cites Svenska Dagbladet saying Lenine was murdered and buried in a river on July 3. Moscow says Lenine improves with doctors allowing visits every other day, contrary to foreign generals who claimed his death.
Governor Morrison envisions a 1 million dollar plan to develop North Carolina as a premier fishing ground with 350 000 aimed at key ventures and the remainder for stream stocking He expects a Chesapeake Bay like fishery and oysters within the state plus thriving roads and schools Seaboard workers replacements in Virginia divisions seek to avert strike impacts while Raleigh readies for potential tensions Col A D Watts returns from the mountains amid questions about Bailey the former revenue official and political figure
In Richmond on July 18 striking shopmen picketed railway plants and photographed non union workers in the shops with names attached. Union officials say the photos will be sent to labor journals for wide publicity to deter hiring non union men by union shops.
A warehouse blaze in the heart of Greenwich Village sent flames and dense black smoke. By noon two dead, about thirty injured, and three missing as 200 families evacuated. firefighters faced heavy smoke and searched with limited access.
Edgar Mabe of West Hickory shot his wife in the home of her father W. H. Shooter and then killed himself with a 35 caliber pistol. The double tragedy occurred Sunday night. Mabe died at 7 am and Mrs. Mabe at 11 am. Marie Mabe had recently left a local hospital and the couple had been married about six months.
The Tip Top Bridge club will meet tomorrow afternoon at 4 o'clock at the Tilden tea room in Jamestown. Miss Vera Kings will host the gathering.
Stanton Kentucky July 18 William Rice of Nada remains speechless and weakened on the 64th day of a voluntary fast. Doctors do not expect him to live much longer if he refuses food. By his bedside are a Bible cross fan trumpet and a likeness of Christ. Rice vows to fast 40 days to purify his body as Christ did but will not eat, saying eating would condemn him to hell.
An irregular opening in the New York cotton market gave way to a general strength and a sharp upturn of about 16 points. Trading was buoyed by absence of rain in the southwest, Wall Street and New Orleans buying, and firmer European exchanges. July futures opened at 21.75 with other contracts at 21.90 21.83 21.57 and 21.55.
Herman Fischer and Edwin Kern, both sought by German police for the Rathenau assassination, shot themselves today as authorities closed in, according to Halle dispatches. Their deaths halt the pursuit and close the case.
Sid Simpson a Black man was shot and killed in Madison during an altercation. Percy McAdams a white man was seriously wounded and transported to Athens hospital in critical condition.
On the Biltmore estate near the Shiloh gate three men entered seeking to harm guard Walter Brooks after he killed a dog. Laurens West and Emory Lance died from gunshot wounds while Price Summer was fatally wounded. Brooks is jailed without bond after a coroner’s inquest blamed him for the deaths.
Three companies of the 12th Georgia infantry boarded a special train in Brunswick heading to Waycross on orders of Governor Hardwick and Adjutant General Van Holt Nash to take control of the strike situation after disorders yesterday.
State guardsmen moved from Camp Glenn at Morehead City to Wilson Durham Rockingham and Raleigh. They are held in readiness to respond to any violence at railway shopmen strike centers, with no disorder reported at the governor’s office this morning.
Fresh disorders were reported in Waycross as Sheriff Sweet asked Governor Hardwick for troops to curb shopmen’s strike violence. Men in cars roved the city staging scattered fights. state troops from St Simons had not arrived by noon.
Governor Cameron Morrison published telegram exchanges between the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers division 435 at Hamlet and Felix Cannon president of the Federated Shopcrafts at Hamlet. The engineers claim engines are being run in Hamlet under dangerous conditions violating the law and resist state troops in Richmond County describing them as unnecessary and resented.
Chicago July 18 Peace negotiations in the railway strike returned to the fore as E F Grable president of the maintenance of way union met with railroad labor board members to avert walkouts and seek a settlement basis. About 15000 stationary firemen and oilers were added to the strike list yesterday with no new joiners expected until after the Detroit maintenance of way meeting.
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