Flights Over Ocean Planned for Fall
Officials announce upcoming ocean air service with flights set to begin in the fall. Plans include multiple routes, increased coastal connections, and expected passenger demand growth across the region.
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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1918
Page
1
British air chief in Washington pushes Atlantic flight plan
Major General Brancker of the British air ministry arrives in Washington to arrange a pioneer trans Atlantic flight. He says big American air and seaplanes should reach the front by next summer and that cooperation with US officials is sought. The initial flight may launch this autumn from Newfoundland, via the Azores and Portugal, to Ireland.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
British Air Ministry
Washington
Atlantic
Brancker
British Air Council
United States
New Foundland
Azore Islands
Portugal
Ireland
Laughter on Tap at High Point Auditorium Tonight
The Merry Minstrel Maids perform at High Point High School auditorium this evening in a light hearted show. Proceeds go to the Red Cross for ongoing war work. The production features notable women from the area and volunteers from Winston-Salem and nearby, directed by Miss Lillian Hall. Tickets are sold citywide through cast members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
High Point
Old Kid Gloom
Kaiser Killjoy
Tar Heel
Children of the Confederacy
United Daughters of the Confederacy
Red Cross
Cra
Winston-Salem
Lillian Hall
Marr Goes to Heavy Artillery in World War I
Weaver M. Marr former High Point schools superintendent now serves in the 316th Field Artillery Battery FE at Camp Jackson South Carolina. He writes that his unit will help in hitting the Bocie and requests careful mail delivery to Weaver M. Marr 316th field artillery Battery FE Camp Jackson S C.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Weaver M. Marr
High Point
National Army
Uncle Sam
Marr
316Th Field Artillery
Battery FE
Camp Jackson
8. C
Boss American Ace Missing After Battle
Par's June 21 report notes First Lieutenant Frank L Daylies of New Bedford Massachusetts, a leading American ace in the front flying corps, is missing after a duel with four German aircraft in open combat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Par
Front Flying Corps
Frank L. Daylies
New Bedford
Mass
Italians Repel Austrians On Montello Plateau Front
Rome reports Austrian forces halted by staunch Italian resistance on the Montello plateau the key Piave line. Germans crossed rail lines near Nervesa briefly but were stopped with limited gains while American aviators fly on the Piave front and raids continue on the British front. French improve positions southwest of Soissons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
MonteBelluna-Luzgana
Nervisa
Nervesa
Soissons
Fire guts Hinshaw building in Winston with hefty losses
A large blaze in Winston-Salem at the Hinshaw building damages Meyers Brothers company stock and fixtures. Losses are estimated between 75 000 and 380 000 with Meyers stock at about 50 000 insured 90 percent. Fire crews battled flames after midnight and by afternoon had them under control.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hinshaw
Meyers Brothers Company
A. A. Meyers
Baptist Minister Is Pilot of Automobile
Rev. James A. Clarke, pastor of the First Baptist Church, has died after a motor bug took hold and friends secretly funded a car for him. The plan, kept quiet, aimed to surprise the popular minister as he learned to drive in a 20 acre field on North Main Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James A. Clarke
First
Mr. Clarke
Clarke
Tim
Four Thousand Men Called From This State
Raleigh reports a War Department call for 4,274 North Carolina men. About 1,000 will join general service and be sent to Camp Greenleaf Fort Oglethorpe Georgia between July and 10. 247 grammar school educated men with skilled trades go to Clemson College July 15. Seventeen hundred travel to Camp Meade Maryland and 1,300 African American workers to Camp Dix Maryland.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raleigh
North Carolina
War Department
Young
Camp Greenleaf
Fort Oglethorpe
Clemson College
Clemson
Well Known Thomasville Man Suffers Paralysis Stroke
Bentley Lamber a resident near Thomasville and brother of local manufacturers suffered a severe stroke of paralysis this morning. Friends in the city have been notified.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomasville
Bentley Lamber
Thomasvile
Would Resurrect Bill in French Senate
Paris June 21. The French Senate is urged to resurrect a bill passed two years ago requiring that every defendant before a court martial have at least two judges of his own rank. The proposal seeks to restore dead legislation to the table and influence military justice proceedings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Chamber
Bread ration dispute blamed on Dr. von Seydler in Austria
Dispatches from The Hague quote Vienna's Arbeiter Zeitung accusing Premier Seydler of causing unrest by favoring agrarians and traders. The article notes Austrian resentment over bread cuts while Germany and Hungary have adequate rations and highlights heightened tension in Vienna.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Austria
Hague
Seydler
Arbeiter Zeitung
Vienna
Germany
Hungary
German Church Review Attacks Moral Laxity and Bigamy Proposal
The German Protestant Creuz Zeitung from Berlin laments modern German morals and condemns Cologne’s proposal to legalize bigamy. The review notes Emperor William’s piety praise and treats the Cologne proposal as a serious yet freakish notion once dismissed by eminent Germans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cologne
Empire
Amsterdam
Church Review
Creaz Zeitung
Berlin
William
State Board Nominates Marghal in Third District Race
Raleigh reports the state board of elections declares Marghal as the Democratic nominee for Congress in the third district over C. L. Abernethy. Other items note wartime deaths and local official movements, including George C. Tudor Jr. in a wreck aftermath and Harry Watson once reported killed in France.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raleigh
State Board — of Elections
Marghal
Harry Watson
France
Citizens’ Bank
Russellite Speaker Not To Visit City
City council members unanimously refused permission for a Russellite speaker to appear in High Point. A citizen asked to have a pastor Russell's followers address the public at the auditorium, but officials moved to block any such event amid recent Russellite activities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
High Point
Ctizen
Pastor Russell
Auditorum
Senate committee to investigate statement
Washington June 21 after a three hour session the senate agriculture committee postponed action on the Jones prohibition rider to the agricultural appropriation bill and agreed to reopen hearings to investigate further statements by Bainbridge Colby of the shipping board that removing beer from shipyard workers would cut output by about 25 percent in some yards.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate Agriculture Committee
Bainbridge Colby
Shipping Board
Hungary Faces Deep Food Shortage Across Provinces
Budapest dispatch reported by the Exchange Telegraph cites former Premier Tamas de Szá to declare in parliament that many Hungarian provinces have only one third to one fourth of the food needed for the population, signaling a severe supply crisis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Hungary
Ta Sza
Budapest
Exchange Telegraph Company
Local men arrested for larceny of automobiles
George Wilson manager of the Wilson Motor company left for Baltimore to retrieve six employees from jail after the group had been in New York to bring six cars back to the city. In Baltimore the drivers were arrested and Wilson traveled there to resume the return journey. The incident is called another bull by Baltimore police.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Wilson
Wilson Motor Company
Baltimore
Berlin Residents Flee In Two Airplane Escape Attempt
Four Berlin residents attempted to flee Germany on Thursday in two airplanes. One plane landed in Denmark with two occupants including a Berlin University reserve officer. the other was forced down in the Baltic Sea by a German guard ship. The escape was spurred by worsening conditions and food shortages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Copenhagen
Berlin
Germany
Denmark
Baltic Sea
University of Berlin
Predicts Increase in New Cotton Crop
New York city reports active cotton selling driven by favorable weather maps bearish acreage figures and news that part of the new crop has arrived at Galveston. First prices held barely steady with declines of 14 to 3% points as new crop months rallied after covering. A local estimate puts this season’s cotton acreage at about 41 million acres, up 30.5 percent from last year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Galveston
Worker Struck By Train Breaks Leg at North Main Crossing
L. W. Franklin, yard master for Southern Railway, suffered a broken right leg and minor bruises after being struck by a southbound No. 45 train while overseeing track elevation at the North Main street crossing. He was taken to High Point hospital where the fracture was set and he rested for the night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. W. Franklin
Southern Railway Company
High Point Hospital
Marr
Bohemian Situation Threatens Revolution
Copenhagen dispatch reports Prague unrest and Bohemian industrial centers growing dangerous. Neue Freie Presse warns Austria may boost bread rations to quell protests or risk widespread revolt with possible railway shutdowns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Copenhagen
Stuation
Prague
Bohemia
Neue Frie Presse
Vienna
High Point Furniture Market Members to Meet for Smoker
Members of the High Point Furniture Market association will gather Saturday at 2 PM for a smoker at the Tomlinson Chair Manufacturing plant showroom. The group, composed of furniture and allied industries, has built publicity and expanded markets during a period of need, transforming the local industry into a national mecca with daily buyer visits and occasional national missions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tomlinson Chair Plant
Tomlinson Chair Manufacturing Company
Market Association
High Point
America
Uncle Sam
No ruling on baseball players in draft order
Washington June 21 new regulations issued to draft boards do not explicitly rule on the status of professional baseball players or other affected classes. The emphasis remains that games and sports are classified as non-useful occupations under the work or fight order.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Binford Heads Quaker School
Binford leads the Quaker School as a term opens with a meeting held here. The article notes leadership and ongoing activities at the school and community gathering.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Binford
Dr Raymond Binford Named Guilford College President
At a Guilford College trustees meeting held at Friends church in Greensboro Dr Raymond Binford professor of biology at Earlham College Richmond Ind was chosen president of the Quaker institution He has prior Guilford ties and earned a Ph D He is regarded as a leading United States biologist and is expected to boost the colleges prospects for 1918 and beyond
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raymond Binford
Richmond
Guilford College
Frienda
Earlham College
Ind
J. 8. Cox
Dav'd White
C. P. Frazier
Greensboro
N. C
N. C. English, of Trinity; Henry A. White, W. T. Parker, Charles F. Tomlinson
J. Elwood Cox
Eri. C. Mendenhall
High Point
L. L. Hobbs
Mary K. M. Davis
Mary Petty
Gertrude Mendenhall
Friends College
John Hopkins University
Baltimore
The
United
H. H. Brinton
Binford
North Carolina
Three Carolinians Among Marine Casualties
Washington reports a Navy Marine Corps casualty list with 127 names. Ten killed in action, one percent died of wounds, ninety eight percent wounded severely. Included are Private Joseph L. Orr Mathews North Carolina who died of wounds Gunnery Sergeant Oscar Kk Jordan Ore Hill North Carolina and Corporal Ethan McCloud Charlotte North Carolina both severely wounded.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Marine Corps
Worands
Joaeph L. Orr
Mathews
N. C
Oscar Kk. Jordan
Ore Hill
Ethan McCloud
Charlotte
Army casualty list shows 38 names on June 21
Washington report lists 38 army casualties as of June 21 with 6 killed in action 1 died of wounds 3 died of disease 25 wounded in various degrees and 1 wounded undetermined noted by officials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Crowder Calls 8,976 to Join the Colors
Washington report Provost Marshal General Crowder issued a call for 8 976 draft registrants qualified for general service to be sent on July 15 to various schools for special training. The call remains open for volunteers until July 1.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Crowder
THE
Colors
Washington
Varous
Ing
Americans Hold 38 Miles of Front on Western Front
Washington reports American troops hold roughly 38 miles of front across the western theater. Members of the House Military Affairs Committee say the line extends about 3 and a half dozen miles as of the weekly briefing with Secretary Baker and General Pershing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
House
Ceuit
Baker
Also Mentioned on This Page
Western Front
Pioneer Flight
Stomt
Monteto Pla
Fense
Rome
Winston
Winston-Salem, N. C
Nissen
G. W. Hinshaw
Master’s Church
von Seydler
Emperor
Kaiser
George C. Tudor, Jr
Ruth Tyree
Hickory
Charles W. Cloninger
State Bank
Hickory Banking and Trust Company
Wilmington
Arthur Blumenthal
New Bern
Ben
Lathal Leary
Pamlico County
Decatur
Oscar Flowers
Durham
Carnegie Library Fund of
Winston,Salem
City Board of Exemptions
Frank N Snipes
Snipes
Pascagoula
Miss
Albemarle
J. W. Harris
Uncle Sam’s
Senate
Committee
Conmurree
Times
the Hague
Kropp
Essen
Furniture Market
High Point Furniture
Tomor
Guilford
Private Orr
Matthews
Gunner Jordan
Corporal McCloud
Army
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