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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1931
Page
1
A Nye committee report details expenditures of 622,928 by the Davis ticket in the Pennsylvania senatorial campaign. Davis rejects a 10,000 contribution charge as false and accuses opponents of orchestrating the lobby story through malicious political enemies.
Special to The Enterprise Greensboro March 8 reports an audit by George A. Adams showing a gross shortage of 231049.12 in Gant's accounts plus 57519 in pension check shortages. net shortage 125255.35, with possible recovery from United Bank and Trust Company assets and a state judgment against Gant and bonding firm. House votes 80 to 13 to approve Johnston Jolly six month school term machinery without funding. senate bill previously appropriated 19.6 million.
Actress Edna May Cooper, noted as a champion endurance flyer, was found yesterday in a Mon dowa hospital after police had sought her in Los Angeles. She and Trent recently set a women's endurance re fueling flight record but had reportedly suffered a lack of financial returns from the venture.
Rural Policeman Jinks Biggers received a 10 day suspension from county commissioners after firing at Speck Vinson during a foot chase last week. Biggers said his gun discharged accidentally while crossing a fence as Vinson escaped from a hospital.
Major General Smedley D. Butler will deliver an address in Raleigh on March 9, following recent tensions with Italy's Mussolini and the Washington controversy.
Johnston-Jolly school bill clears rd reading as amendments reshape funding distribution and reports. Debate centers on state support for a six month term, with supporters arguing for stricter county controls and transport cost adjustments. House members McLean, McRee, Moss back amendments amid division on last provision.
Twenty four ex service men paralyzed by adulterated Jamaica Ginger drink sought treatment at the National Soldiers’ Home in Sawtelle while county and federal officers traced the supply. Dr. Maurice Smith of the Public Health Service cited 108 county cases, noting the extract sold in drug stores contains 80 to 85 percent alcohol and violates prohibition and drug laws. Investigators under Dr. J L Pomeroy collect samples for lab tests as authorities pursue the source.
Washington March 3 The seventy first congress is noted as the heaviest peacetime spender with about ten billion dollars appropriated for current and next year. Emergency construction drought relief and farm aid boosted short session outlays while automatic permanent appropriations exceed 1.2 billion to cover debt service interest and veterans funds.
Charlotte official Thomas C Hayes, president of the Charlotte Insurance exchange, telegraphed Governor Gardner urging immediate adjournment of the General Assembly to hinder business. He asked Raleigh to adjourn both houses and dismiss all representatives, delaying any meeting for ten years, stating he sent the message as an individual.
Fire at the E W Montgomery Cotton Co warehouse in Greenville destroyed one wing and caused about 100000 in damage. A night watchman chased two unidentified black men from the building around 4 am. The warehouse stored 1000 bales of long staple cotton and the loss was insured.
Ruben Newkirk, a Black man, thought to be Goldsboro's borer robber, was captured in the grocery store of E G Outlaw. He bore a brace and bit matching tools used in recent break ins, the method being to bore holes in doors and unlock them.
World War veterans in North Carolina pressed the regional veterans bureau in Charlotte for adjusted compensation loan aid. Regional director J. S. Pittman said about 15,000 men had applied for loans since Friday, with over 2,000 visiting the bureau to file. An emergency supply of application blanks was nearly exhausted, threatening delays unless Washington sent more by tomorrow.
Washington March 3 The senate passed the house bill to establish a national military park at the Kings Mountain Revolutionary War battlefield in South Carolina. It moves to the White House. no funds or start date yet known. Charlotte reports the push began with Judge E Y Webb and leaders Bulwinkle and Senator Cole Blease, aided by the 150th anniversary celebrations.
Weather bulletin states advisories and warnings issued at 9 30 a m for an intensified storm along the Atlantic coast from Intic coast north of Virginia Capes to Provincetown Mass The cyclone near Cape Hatteras moves rapidly northeastward increasing in intensity by noon warnings shifted to northwest from Cape Hatteras to Virginia Capes.
Edna May Cooper, actress and endurance flyer, was found injured after a week missing from Hollywood and remained in a Monterey hospital. Police traced her movements as Dr Dormody reported head and body injuries, while she was identified by Ruth Morris. She used the alias Caroline Hope in Los Angeles.
Veterans Administrator Hines told President Hoover about daily handling of about 10,000 loan applications on soldiers compensation certificates with the bureau planning a rapid increase. He cited $20 million sent to regional offices and an estimated $10 million already loaned, with the Washington office keeping $20 million available and issuing about 1,000 checks daily.
Two unmasked men robbed the Clemson College postoffice in Clemson South Carolina taking stamps and cash from three employees including postmaster Louis E. Goodman J E King and clerk E C Jenkins. They escaped in a new coach toward Seneca leaving Greenville postal inspector Garling McGregor en route.
RALEIGH March 8 The Connor road bill moved to conference as house members refused to concur in senate amendments. main changes include mandatory tax levy reductions for state takeovers and county road reimbursement, but these provisions are not in the house version. The bill would abolish the present district highway system to create a state wide body maintaining all county roads.
Local committee assures High Point will host the Good Will air tour for two days March 21 and 22. Funds raised toward the $1,000 goal include several hundred dollars. remaining needed to be secured by ticket sales at one dollar each. Plan calls for 30 planes and 75 accompanying persons to spend Saturday and Sunday at the Charles Kenner airport three miles from the city after routing via Greensboro and Winston-Salem. Sauerborn and Davis will confer in Salisbury with the American Legion on a potential stop there.
Greensboro date line reports Mrs. J. A. Pettigrew a 68 year old widow was found dead by asphyxiation in the home of her son in law J. A. Barber. County coroner Dr. W W Harvey ruled death by own action no inquest to be held. She had been ill and will be buried tomorrow in Reidsville her former home.
Panama City mourns Lieutenant General Edgar Jadwin retired chief of the army engineers who died at Gorgas hospital at 5 p m after a cerebral hemorrhage. He was 65, a West Point graduate of 1890, and will be interred in the United States aboard the St Mihiel with Major General George Leroy Irwin.
In Thomasville Georgia on March 3 a Jersey cow on W. W. Bassett’s Jefferson county Florida farm produced three calves. The mother and her one son and two daughters are reported to be thriving.
In Madison on March 3, William Roark a 72 year old Watertown man was near death when hospital staff believed him deceased. Adrenalin was injected into his heart and caffeine into his muscles restoring respiration. Forty minutes later doctors confirmed his heart still beating as Rev. Peter Pritzel performed the last rites at St. Joseph's Catholic Church.
Gerard Swope, GE president, visits the Lynn plant and says the business situation will be no force with better stability ahead. He cautions against optimism and says there is no prophecy, though he believes the company will work out of the current situation nicely.
Melbourne dispatch reports millions of mice overrunning the Nullabor Plains near the Trans Australian railway. The Loongana stationmaster said vast stretches of trackside country are infested and that thousands of trains have disrupted operations while mice reportedly gnawed on a roll of pound notes in his office.
Shouting and tumult by 260 unemployed demonstrators halted the New York state assembly session. State troopers seized marchers from New York City and ejected them from the chamber while others shouted from the galleries, some waving arms.
Five machine gunners opened fire in Blue Island gambling den run by James Hackett killing William Mayer and wounding Hilario Rodriguez. A 15 pound dynamite bomb failed to explode in the coal chute. police call it an attempted syndicate takeover. Mayer died as he fled. Rodriguez survived with injuries after being dragged into the basement and later fired upon.
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