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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1931
Page
5
Members of the Sons and Daughters of Liberty are urged to attend a meeting tonight at eight o'clock. State Councilor Rev Carl Clapp and other state officers will be present. Music and refreshments are planned.
Mrs John Tucker and Misses Lulu and Jude Thompson Carlie Warner Ruby Tucker and Josephine Ferguson returned from a weekend at Carolina Beach Lake Wacamaw and Wrightsville Beach. Mrs Caleb Honeycutt of Albemarle visits Miss Bernice Mabry at 500 West Broad Street and will be in High Point for several days.
North Carolina farmers consider John W Lambeth Cedar Lodge and Gray farms after thrashings show a combined 6071 bushels. Cedar Lodge produced 3096 barley 988 wheat 865 rye plus 3000 bales of straw. a 23 acre wheat field yielded 32.5 bushels per acre sold as seed to a Statesville mill.
United States Marine Corps airplanes reinforced national guard units battling insurgents in Nicaragua. The fighting left eight dead across Rama Santo Domingo and Kisalaya as Pedro Altamirano's Sandinistas sacked Santo Domingo and a guard patrol was ambushed along the Chico river.
Dr. M L Kesler manager of the Mills Home consults with state education officials over the state taking over Mills Home and Kennedy Home schools. Kennedy Home has been nearly agreed on. High school students would ride daily to LaGrange high school. Kesler favors Mills Home becoming part of Thomasville with six months state support but wants to choose the teachers. He says Mills Home has long been an accredited high school. He expects trustee plans can be adjusted satisfactorily.
Neal G. Adair of Motor Magazine told a southern car dealers convention in Asheville that there have been virtually no failures in the automotive business in the south during the current depression. About 75 dealers attended the three day meeting that opened yesterday.
The state has let contracts totaling 6,590,009 dollars for road work including 148 miles of concrete paving 163 miles of bituminous pavement and 13 bridges.
The Winston Y M C A swimming team despite injuries and illness lost 34 to 2% to Winston at the Skyland pool Twin City. Coach Chet Smith stretched regulars but Bagby and Norman led Winston with a first each. High Point's C Smith won back stroke and breast stroke. Tomorrow Statesville visits High Point for a return meet at 7:45 p.m.
In The Hague Dr Victor Bruns argued the Austro German customs accord before the world court and chided Czechoslovakia for opposing the agreement. He warned that blocking the customs pact would require deeper changes including emigration of Austrians.
Eight states Connecticut Delaware Maine New Jersey New York Minnesota Wisconsin and Oregon have passed laws prohibiting hitch-hiking. The actions reflect widespread concern over safety and regulation of passengers and drivers on public roads.
The Labor Department reports a sharp drop in estimated building costs in June across 344 cities with populations over 24,000. Total nationwide value declined from 136,469,659 in May to 105,444,130 in June, with residential work down 16.1 percent and non residential structures down 28.7 percent.
New York July 21. Night club and dance hall proprietors must be fingerprinted by police. Commissioner Mulrooney summoned 300 owners to police headquarters and announced closures at 3 am with bans on buzzers peep holes closed booths and private rooms. He warned violations would forfeit licenses and urged high standards.
New York July 21 proposals by President Hoover at the London conference align with shared Wall Street views. Bankers favor maintaining current credits to Germany over rapid large extensions, seeing the Reichsbank’s actions as capable of carrying Germany through the crisis. They express confidence that after internal and external restoration of trust, some short term credits could be long term. Some bankers still favor prompt credit increases for the Reichsbank.
In St. Simons Island Georgia a white child in the arms of its black nurse escaped unharmed as the nurse's husband Cecil Floyd shot her three times slashed her with a knife and beat her with a pistol butt before a neighbor intervened and knocked him out with a shotgun butt.
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