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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1931
Page
7
Brigadier General Robert H. Dunlap of the Marines, who died in France on May 19 while trying to rescue a French woman from a landslide, was buried at Arlington National Cemetery with full military honors. Major General Fuller, Major General Smedley D. Butler, and Rear Admiral Frank B. Upham served as honorary pallbearers.
Cotton prices opened steady with May down two points while other months held, as Liverpool cables showed limited buying and profit taking emerged. July eased to 8.88, December to 9.19, with favorable weather and a softer stock tone aiding a cautious session.
New York court style report notes stock market moving slowly for two hours with a small early decline. Ralls shares fell 1 to 4 points while others, including US Steel and American Telephone, slipped about a point. some issues like Warner Brothers and General Motors edged higher. Mack Trucks rose on profit hopes. savings banks in New York state held over 5 billion dollars, with talks of lower deposits rates to 3 percent possibly shifting funds to bonds or stocks.
Cattle offerings 600 with fed steers and yearlings up 25-50 cents. most heifers also higher. Dry cows up 26, but grass cattle variable. Vealers strong, stockers light. top yearling steers 8.90, heavy beef 8.25-8.65. Sheep 3,000 mostly nominal. lambs down sharply. hogs 6,000 with mixed all regions up 50-75.
About 63 percent of Australia's more than 6.3 million residents live in cities or towns, highlighting urban concentration across the nation.
Trading showed varied results as textile and automotive stocks moved. Major names including Chrysler and Goodyear posted gains while Hudson Motors and Packard slipped. overall activity reflected cautious investor sentiment in midweek trading.
In New Orleans on June 13 cotton traded barely steady with July opening up 9 points and later months rising 3. The market eased after weekend liquidation ahead of May domestic mill consumption data, seen bearish. Futures closed steady with declines of 4 to 6 points.
Chicago on June 13 reports new crop and old stock levels with Triumphs and cobblers in Alabama Louisiana Mississippi Texas and North Carolina. Prices range 1.60 to 2.85 per unit with weak demand for new stock and fair trading overall. An unrelated note mentions a German invention of an alarm clock that switches on an electric light when the bell rings.
The North Carolina Medical Society begins a campaign to trim the 14.7 million dollar annual cost from grade repetition caused by illness or mental and physical conditions. A committee will study repeat rates and report to state school officials. The society accepted Dr. J. M. Parrott’s resignation from the state board of health. Dr. Grady J. Dixon of Ayden appointed to succeed him through April 1932.
Lincoln Nebraska reports Karl Ullman a University of Nebraska agriculture bachelor who left for Latvia after World War I. He became Latvia’s first president leading a peasants party and implementing dairy and road modernization after a long disappearance.
In Greensboro on June 13 the North Carolina Federation of Business and Professional Women's clubs met to consider committee reports. Mrs Helen Schularoff, an officer of the national federation, spoke on aspects of her organization. The convention closes with officer elections.
Dispatches report Salama plundered by rebels as General Gregorio Ferrera is said wounded in a skirmish with federal troops under General Toribio Ramos. The government confirms the clash and the injury to the rebel commander.
Mortimer L. Schiff, banker and philanthropist who died a week ago in Oyster Bay, left more than 1 million dollars to charity and 1 million in bequests to his son and to his daughter and son-in-law, with their shares of the residuary estate.
June open renews grain market gains as dust storms in Canada spur early price upturns. Southern Saskatchewan reports severe dust clouds. wheat opens unchanged to ½ cent higher and then advances. Corn moves from unchanged to gains.
S I Bugg of Durham North Carolina was elected president of the Southern Hotel association at its Charleston convention. Richmond Virginia will host the 1932 convention. Vice presidents named include R T Rosemond South Carolina BE Spence North Carolina W E Hocket Virginia. Executive secretary H C Thomas and treasurer E R Branch were reappointed. Board members chosen span Virginia North and South Carolina with representatives from Lynchburg Asheville Greensboro Wilson Norfolk Spartanburg and Greenville.
A 1795 deed showing George and Martha Washington transferring Roman Rock estate in King William County to George Washington Parke Custis was found in the Rhode? old state land office papers. The document dates to Washington’s second term and when he was a Philadelphia citizen.
Odell Spease Robertson, 15, son of C. E. Robertson, was struck and killed by a hit and run driver today. Officers were in pursuit of the suspected motorist in the hours after the accident.
The Clarke case against M. Clarke, former assistant at Home Savings, moved toward verdict as jurors began deliberations after Judge Garland E F reviewed the state and defense contentions. No word from the jury room by 2 30 p m in Wilmington.
Istanbul June 13. Archives spanning centuries of Turkish history were mistakenly sold as waste paper after a two year official drive to classify and prune documents. A large shipment of one hundred tons of material deemed highly important was bought by a Jewish buyer in Bulgaria. the government seeks recovery.
English terms unique to New Mexico and the Southwest emerge from the blend of Spanish, English and Indian dialects. University of New Mexico students, guided by graduate researchers, contribute to a historical dictionary of American English directed by the University of Chicago. Early papers and diaries fuel the study.
Mrs Marion Turple Lake of New Orleans defeated Mrs Harry Dodge of Jacksonville four and three to reach the 36 hole final against Mrs Ruth Reymond of New Orleans in the 1931 southern women's championship at Virginia Beach. Reymond beat Mrs Leon Solomon 2 up to advance.
The Rumanian legation released a dispatch denying press reports that Queen Helen planned to leave Romania. The agency said such stories from Bucharest are absolutely untrue and that the queen remains in Bucharest with no steps taken toward departure.
Under a 1930 deed of trust M L Holton and Pearle Holton defaulted on the note. The public sale in High Point NC will occur July 14 1931 at 12 noon at the municipal building for the Holton home place containing about 12 acres and additional lots from Guilford County records.
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