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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1923
Page
4
Rev Edwin Penick wraps up a high profile mission at St Marys Episcopal Church High Point urging Christians to take a definite stand. He contrasts gatherers and scatterers and condemns the indifferent majority as hindering Christian progress.
Elyria Ohio March 5 a stranger brought a dying man to the Broad street Halt homestead nine days ago telling Miss Julia Hull to care for him saying the doctor gave him one week to live The man died Saturday night The missing John Hulf vanished December after his wife was found stabbed in Cleveland years ago
The La Follette oil investigation reports that without reforms the public may face gasoline at a dollar per gallon. It accuses Standard Oil of dominating pricing through pipelines, interlocking ownership, and market division, urging global and domestic regulatory steps and contempt proceedings for price fixing.
Major Follett Bradley, injured when Lt Stanley Smith was killed in an army airplane crash, remained in serious condition at a hospital. The Martin bomber he piloted fell from 5,000 feet over Brooklyn on a flight from Mitchell Field to Chanute Field, with four enlisted men escaping serious injury.
James 3. McNary of New Mexico refused a recess appointment to the comptroller of the currency after the Senate failed to confirm his nomination. President Harding offered the position today but he did not accept.
Miss Frances Collie a 17 year old Greensboro girl who vanished last week was located in Tampa Florida. She arrived Saturday night and is under care of travelers aid until her father can travel there to bring her back to Greensboro. The mother says a planned marriage to a former Greensboro resident now in Tampa was the motive for the visit and the parents opposed the match.
Henry Davis was injured yesterday in a cutting scrape at Ellington cafe on Russell street. He suffers wounds to back shoulders and arms and is being treated at Guilford General hospital. Police pursue Henry Tuggle, suspected assailant, after officers Friddle and Stout arrived too late to capture him. Davis resides on Prospect road west of the city.
Washington on March 5 faced a nine month hiatus with the 67th Congress adjourning after four sessions. Members and former members evacuated as Washington settled into a quieter routine. The Senate gav el fell at noon and the House followed six minutes later after a brief session. The House adjournment included Marine Band performances and a sing along by lawmakers and spectators.
Raleigh March 5. After prayers the senate and house conferees announced agreement on the solicitor salary bill setting 4500 with 750 expenses, effective Oct 1 1924. Debate over salaries and printing controls continues as lawmakers linger past a legally dead session. Representative Edgar W Pharr announces candidacy for 1925 speaker while D G Brummitt is eyed for attorney general.
The cotton market opened irregular with March and May 3 to 5 points lower while July and later deliveries rose 1 to 17 points. Firm tone aided by Liverpool cables and reports of better March business and covering by new crop shorts. May surged from 30.72 to 30.86 and October climbed to 26.98 early.
The market opened firm with March at 30.65 cents per pound and May at 30.75. July traded at 29.85, October at 26.95, and December at 26.45, reflecting a steady uptrend in early trading.
Raleigh march 5 the senate followed the house lead in conference on the general appropriations bill for state institutions adopting the conference report to make the appropriations absolute rather than dependent on state revenue senator varser had backed a conditional cut but did not oppose concurrence the senate also approved the solicitor salary bill setting state solicitors at 4500 dollars per year plus 750 dollars expenses effective october 1 1924 the house report reflected a flat 4500 annual salary and moved the effective date to october 1924 the house majority approved the conference as reported by representative warr en and representative murphy the senate amendment to raise annual provisions from 4000 to 4760 was rejected by the house and the conference committee recommended receding from that amendment.
President Harding and Mrs Harding depart Washington with a party for a month long Florida houseboat vacation. The trip marks Mrs Harding’s first departure from the White House since illness last September and seeks to aid her recovery. The party includes Secretary Weeks and former Senator Frelinghuysen among others, with guests joining the McLeans in Florida.
W L Scott, former professor at the Jefferson school, stopped here today en route to Ramseur.
The local ministerial association met at the Commercial club and formed a committee to outline a 12 weeks Bible lesson program for the high school. Dr. E K McLarty Rev C P Coble and Dr George R Brown were named to plan the work and select the first lesson preacher. Merchants are urged to close stores earlier on Saturdays to aid clerks.
Raleigh March 5 The Associated Press reports provisional figures from the U.S. Census Bureau show North Carolina leading the nation in births for the first nine months of 1922 with a rate of 30. The state compares 22.8 for 1922 versus 26 in 1921, while Washington records the lowest rate at 18.3.
Manila report says Silvino Jamita earned a judges decision after 15 rounds against Marcaria Villon to become junior fight heavyweight champion of the Far East. The referee’s ruling followed a closely contested bout in Manila.
Attorney General A. V. Coco traveled to Bastrop to present to the Morehouse parish grand jury the state's open hearing testimony on last summer’s masked gang kidnappings and related offenses linked to the slayings of Watt Daniels and T. F. Richards. District Judge Fred M. Odom plans a comprehensive charge. Coco to lead the state’s case with other aides arriving.
The week end brought its usual harvest of minor cases to the municipal court. Accused included Emma Williams and others in an automobile party and several white men led by Rob ert Foust for reckless driving. Judgments varied from fines and costs to suspensions, with many African American defendants noted.
Richard Briggs of Amesbury Massachusetts attended a stockholders meeting of the North Carolina Wheel Company in the city this morning. Only routine matters were discussed. Briggs, with an interest in the firm, is here for the day with Charles Blake.
Paris report states Miss Marie Norton daughter of Mr and Mrs Sheridan S Norton of New York will marry Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney this afternoon at Holy Trinity church Only a few friends attend The couple plan to honeymoon in Italy after the ceremony
Babe Ruth, much improved after his influenza bout, plans to leave Hot Springs today for the Yankees training camp in New Orleans. His physician doubts the advisability of moving him before Wednesday, per dispatches.
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