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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1930
Page
2
In Asheville North Carolina the Rhododendron Festival opens with a coronation to crown the queen Miss Julia Webb of Asheville with Charlies S Dunlop as king. Governors from eleven southern states selected attendants for the royal procession and a rhododendron pageant will follow the ceremony tonight.
Senator Thomas D. Schall won the Republican nomination for reelection in Minnesota by a large plurality in Monday's primary. Returns showed Schall with 225,931 votes, Gov. Theodore Christiansen 49,405, and John F. Selb 22,049. Both main rivals opposed the Smoot Hawley tariff bill.
The Chicago Tribune refutes rumors about police reporter Alfred Lingle and his ties to gangsters. It pledges a complete investigation into his murder, insisting his personal honor was never in doubt and that editors will pursue answers wherever they lead.
The report notes State's Attorney John A. Swan, directing the grand jury in the investigation, with John H. Alcock serving as acting police commissioner guiding the proceedings.
In Mexican City on June 18 a Sandino representative said insurgents returned to Nicaragua and defeated U S marines in two encounters. Pedro Jose Zepeda said Marines lost a sergeant and an aviator and the rebels seized ten thousand rounds of ammunition and several guns.
Davidson College will offer in the fall a physical training course for juniors and seniors, aimed at future secondary school teachers. Prof. Norton G. Pritchett will instruct, with studies in recreation, sport fundamentals, kinesiology, diet, first aid, and related topics, plus gymnastics and calisthenics demonstrations for academic credit.
Miss Hannah Heptinstall of Aurelia Springs high school won first prize in the North Carolina Cotton Growers Cooperative association essay contest. In York, W E Morton was re elected mayor defeating Joseph Hart 284 to 135. Bennettsville received electric current from Carolina Power and Light under a municipal service lease contract ending local utility ownership.
In New Bern North Carolina officers pursue Wash Brown a Black man for the shooting death of Sol Manning another Black man during a dispute over 25 cents. The incident occurred in public in the town center leading to a manhunt and an official lookout.
The first term enrollment at the University of North Carolina summer session reached 1,865, up 215 from last year.
In New Bern North Carolina AP Wallace Boyd age 12 died from injuries suffered when a log truck collided with a school bus several months earlier.
Norman Goss, 20, was freed of murder charges in Raleigh after a hearing before Recorder James Patton Jr. The plea related to a shooting in which his father Julius Goss attacked him with a knife.
The text praises Elinor Smith as a pioneering flyer, noting her eighteen years and claims she has risen higher than any other woman in world history with pilots calling her "Born with wings."
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