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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1924
Page
2
A jumble of editorial notes, quotes, slogans, and ads from a city paper column. It includes remarks on politics, education, travel, and social life, with references to breakfast bacon, tax policy, and a furniture show committee seeking female attendees for a Sheraton hotel dance. Local humor and promotional snippets fill the passage.
Community anger rose after High Point city hall barred newspaper men from a joint city council and health department session held last night. Mayor Hedrick said reporters would be allowed at regular meetings but not at special sessions, prompting cries for open government and public access to city affairs. The Enterprise notes the press is essential to inform citizens and warns officials against sealing doors to transparency.
In Greensboro Judge T P D Bryson told the Guilford county grand jury that if prohibition fails it is due to the people not officers. He praised Sheriff Stafford and deputies while urging residents to stop drinking privately and aiding enforcement. He called on all law abiding citizens to act, warning that failure rests on their shoulders. The address was described as one of the most forceful in recent memory and urged a community effort to uphold prohibition.
In Judge John R. Caverly’s courtroom the crowded scene opened with defense counsel Clarence Darrow and Benjamin Bachrach consulting with Crowe as Samuel Ettleton joined. A Black man accused of murder pleaded not guilty as Leopold and Loeb sat apart. Elbert Allen restarted the stenography of the interrogation and the record of the Decoration Day events, with Leong Ke-heneget quoted as ordering one more week.
The record covers May 21 testimony with Crowe Bachrach and Judge Caverly, detailing Leopold’s statements about the Franks murder. It notes the glasses’ owner, the confession links, the plan for kidnapping, the car abduction, and the fatal head strike to Bobby Franks, plus postmortem disposal steps.
The men sought a $10,000 ransom from Jacob Franks, father of a boy, then targeted a young woman sketching them and reviewed her work. The note passed via telephone from the Franks home under the alias George Johnson and later ransom letters were sent to Mr Franks. Leopold said they kept the plan after news of the unidentified boy’s body, with three other lads named as potential victims. After disposing of Bobby’s body, Leopold and Richard drove the rented car to a garage to remove bloodstains, interrupted by the family chauffeur England who said the stains came from red wine.
Nine year old George Little, son of Mr and Mrs Thomas Little of 709 South Hamilton street, remained unconscious at 3 PM at High Point hospital after he jumped from a Blair Dairy delivery truck on Ray street yesterday. He was employed to deliver milk and his condition showed no improvement.
Rome authorities ordered seven Milan dailies to suspend publication over articles on the disappearance of Deputy stat footti. Premier Mussolini rescinded the order, calling it a broad interpretation of the press decree.
July 29 U S government bonds closed with quotes for Liberty 01.15 first 45.10 2 bid second 4s 01.20 bid first 44 4s 102.16 second 44 45 101.80 third 54 4s 102.19 fourth 34 45 102.20 treas 48 105.24 markets report tight bid and ask levels for listed issues.
New York July prices slipped as heavy selling pulled futures down from early gains, with October at 28.87 and December 28.08 amid spot-house activity. By close, cotton futures steadied as traders weighed recent crop prospects and lingering demand, while a broad list of industrials and utilities moved in varied directions.
Wall Street reports profit taking and irregularities at the opening but the overall price trend moved higher. Copper stocks including Kennecott hit a yearly high while sugar shares remained firm. Rails showed mixed results with Lackawanna opening slightly higher on the day’s trading.
The New Orleans cotton market opened weaker with first trades down 17 to 22 points. After the call the market eased further, with October around 28.18 and December near 27.85, as a 70.05 condition report weighed on pricing, while futures closed steady with net declines of 6 to 43 points.
A compact note lists closing quotations for Allied Chemical and Dye American Can American Car and Foundry American International American Locomotive among leading industrial names, reflecting market sentiment.
A prescription for treating malaria chills and fever, dengue, or billows fever. It targets germ elimination and aims to kill the pathogens causing the illness.
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