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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1920
Page
1
President Wilson plans a nine member wage board under the rail wage law. Unions and railroads nominate six each. the president picks three from each side and three public representatives. Board decisions require a majority with one public member, and acceptance is not mandatory.
Washington reports outline by the American Legion calling for broad veteran relief measures. The testimony urges liberal treatment to aid disabled former service members and push for home aid, vocational training, and compensation, with 45 bills pending. Representative Lassiter accuses major packers of breaking agreements and seeks investigation into packing industry practices.
Representatives of the railroad unions voted today to give the new wage law a trial as a means to settle wage demands. They also decided to hold in abatement plans to test the law's constitutionality and not to refer the dispute to union members for a vote until the law has had a fair trial.
Washington March 2 Agents of the Republican Congressional Campaign Committee have begun an inquiry into the recent special election in the Ninth North Carolina district Representative Fess Ohio committee chairman said no plan to contest Hoey’s election but to report charges of illegal voting and voter intimidation by section boards The agents started work in North Carolina a few days ago Union officials say they support cooperation with the president and a calm period ahead
The council will hold a regular session at 7 tonight to address light and water charges for residents. Previously, an extraordinary session rescinded an emergency crowd ban and debated rates, with speakers split on flat versus usage-based pricing and aiming for action this evening.
In Petersburg Indiana a dry well produced a strange intra household voice from a two inch pipe. Dode Smith plus brothers George and John Watson pulled the pipe and learned a coal miner friend had tunneled beneath their well causing the shaft to collapse and dampen the water.
In Martinsville Indiana March 2 robbers blew a vault with acetylene torches at the First National bank in Morevanstown. Their escape cars left the scene as a poison gas flare exploded forcing the men to abandon the job.
The Leyland liner Bohemian ran aground near Sambro ledges during a snow storm while heading from Boston to Liverpool. Sixty four passengers were rescued as the ship broke up and sank after she was abandoned at 4 AM. Seven crew members are believed dead and several injured.
Harry E Field known as Jack Field has been named manager of sales at Gunley Coal Mining Company of New York. He started two years ago as a clerk in the West Virginia fuel administration office and soon advanced to an inspector with the federal administrator in Washington before moving to New York with Coale and company.
Washington March 1 The only army worker paid by aircraft is Private Tankersley wireless operator at Tfester's ranch ninety miles down the Rio Grande from El Paso Texas He is with the One Hundred and Fourth Aero Squadron Payroll is couriered to the ranch by patrol plane signed for and forwarded back and then paid by the same method.
David Croker, High Pointer, discovered a misspelled word in a Wachovia Bank advertisement circulated Saturday by the Liberty Flyers. He received 5 dollars. Also noted, Thomas Nicholson rode in the plane with Aviator William Clark during stunt flights over High Point.
Cotter futures opened steady with March at 38.10 May 34.95 July 32.28 October 29.92 December. Unsettled trading driven by softer Liverpool quotes and Alexandria market failures. Evening cables show declines of 4 to 14 points with March firm but weak demand. March at 38.00 and July at 22.40.
A Soviet communiqué claims General Denikin’s army is trapped on the Kuban peninsula southeast of the Sea of Azov after Soviet forces defeat Denikin’s corps. The report circulated after a Moscow dispatch received today.
Chicago March 2 Maclay Hoyone state s attorney said he believed he had a list of names and addresses of nearly every IWW member in America Detectives seized papers from four men who gave Alex Galvin as their contact as they planned to deliver them to a safe place
Jefferson City Mo March h After four months on the loose Lee Williams twenty five year old convict is back in prison to finish his two year term He says a sermon by Father Dempsey at his Workingmen Hotel in St Louis prompted his surrender Williams escaped from a prison road gang near Columbia in October and found work as a machinist before taking a room at the priest run hostelry He told Police Captain Doyle the surrender came after the sermon and he would complete his term and then go straight Williams had served eleven months of the burglary sentence before escaping
Philip Ruppel of Garwood New Jersey weighing 400 pounds was buried in a specially built coffin placed on an open wagon. The 36 year old banker born in Newark died after influenza illness. He had recently worked in motion pictures.
Jeames Henry Jackson, a Black man from Browns ville Tennessee, was hanged in the District jail after killing Miss Lillian Hood during a daytime burglary. He dragged her from a bedroom window into the yard during a struggle.
Mrs. F. Mantooth may receive replacement for 275 dollars in currency she burned by mistake in Denver. After banking hours she hid the roll in a newspaper. While burning newspapers the purse burst into flames and charred the money. Treasury agents and affidavits assist the case.
Five year old William Gaber Jr of Prospect Avenue in Kansas City tested a found stick of dynamite with a rock. He lost his left hand index finger and sustained eye injuries. surgeons fear blindness as his condition is described as critical.
At 3 pm the embargo on all freight in and out of High Point on the Southern railway remained in place. Officials reported no freight movement as all negro truckmen quit over wages, leaving only two workers to handle loads. The local agent said efforts to hire more truckmen were underway and hoped to resume acceptance within a day or two.
In Kansas City, Charles Wahle died leaving about 375000 from farming. Once in debt for a 50,000 farm purchase twenty years earlier, he built a large 2000 acre plus empire free of encumbrances. He owned the original farm and additional land at death.
W. Kimball, engineer on the second engine of a northbound L and N freight train, was struck by a mail crane at a small Georgia station and brought to Atlanta in a dying condition with his head crushed.
Deputy Sheriff J E Wagner Chief of Police W H Welch and J A Cecil attend ecourts at Lexington today to observe proceedings.
J J Farriss departs tonight for Raleigh to attend the state democratic executive committee meeting.
A Philadelphia meeting of Pennsylvania railroad shop crafts and other employees and officials discussed establishing a wage dispute tribunal. G L Peck vice president and director of personnel attended along with company representatives. The plan envisions a board of employees and company reps to hear wage appeal cases.
The Senate naval committee ordered a full investigation into charges of gross immorality and indecent practices tied to naval intelligence activities at Newport R I training station. John R Rathom of the Providence Journal asserted the allegations.
Washington March 2 killing frosts were reported in southern Florida with a minimum of 34 degrees in Miami the lowest March temperature on record. Forecasts show high temperatures expected across the Atlantic and Gulf coast states.
Damage estimated at over 5 million dollars menaced south Florida fruit and vegetable fields as lows of 34 degrees swept March nights. North of Miami vegetable fields were nearly wiped out with reports showing about 75 percent damage across areas.
Mexico City march 2 another request that Mexican consuls in the United States vise the passports of Americans who testified before the U S senate committee investigating Mexican conditions has been presented by the Mexican embassy. It says the government maintains its stance against granting such vises.
Senate rejects the Republican peace treaty reservation on domestic questions. Senator Huchene offered the measure, but it failed 26 to 44 amid a disputed vote on March 2 in Washington.
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