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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1930
Page
4
A newspaper blurb for Friday March 7, 1930 presents a spiritual thought with Proverbs 3 5 quoted and a Thoreau remark on trusting more than we do. The note blends faith and literary reflection for readers seeking guidance and contemplation.
Admiral von Tirpitz, architect of Germanys U boats, dies as nations discuss war’s end and the legality of submarine weapons. A steadfast proponent of aggressive naval power he remained unreconciled to postwar change and clung to the view that the United States helped win the war.
The Charlotte case verdict favored the defendants amid conflicting evidence. Two state's witnesses identified one man as the shooter of Ella May Wig gins while the defense offered an alibi. The jury believed the most convincing testimony, raising questions about bias and the influence of Communist rhetoric in the surrounding area.
The narrator notes a juror’s tendency to speak louder than his words and asserts jurors in North Carolina will weigh the defendant with skepticism across roles. Testimony in Charlotte was conflicted and the verdict aligned with reasonable forecasts.
Charles L. Amos proposes a conditional gift of 2000 to the Boy Scouts camp to fund a dining hall. The camp site, once private property, is held by trustees certificates with owners to be paid 2500 debt. Amos would retire the debt by selling certificates and gift 2000, giving purchasers potential ownership in an unencumbered property for a new building.
A Simmons campaign manager releases a broadside largely praising sentiments about the Senator from years past. Critics point out the futility of relying on 17 year old testimony. A Morganton News-Herald editor urges restraint and notes many politicians opposed to women’s suffrage in earlier battles.
The piece recalls politicians who kept women from voting while appealing to them as the “dear ladies” and praising women’s groups. It notes Simmons faced a Washington stance during Aubrey Brooks’s Raleigh push for equal suffrage and Angus McLean’s efforts to persuade the Senator, with Rus Watts supporting the chivalrous defense of North Carolina women. The writer asks if relying on yesterday’s judgments is wise.
In Philadelphia a desperate unemployed man, with a family surviving on 27 cents, contemplates crime before a police station. sympathetic officers secure help and a job, highlighting the plight of jobless Americans and the cautious response from organized labor. Two Cleveland unions then avert a broader construction shutdown by balancing wage bids, praising prudent action by workers.
A Follies performer who left Broadway to pursue college studies in California may now enroll solo in a class, signaling a unique career pivot for the entertainer.
New York society offers prize for most artistic botten of an ash can. They wager a collegiate flivver will win first place.
Representative Underhill of Massachusetts proposes drastic reduction of the Congressional Record, arguing a streamlined format would remove excess and leave only essentials. He warns such cuts could effectively shutter the record to minimal content.
In Morganton Burke county leaders back Bailey for the senatorial nomination with a predicted two to one majority. E. M. Hairfield named Burke county manager for Bailey and plans for county organization. Some Morgan ton leaders and Simmons backers quote wider support in country precincts.
A reader from the Enterprise urges space for a reply to a Feb 28 article on the eighteenth amendment. The letter argues repeal would be wise, cites prohibition as a wartime grain measure, and insists the nation supports the law. It claims enforcement costs harm schools and that education has advanced under prohibition.
The note argues that breweries are converting to cereals and other foods to feed the public rather than making whiskey. It frames this as a move to alleviate poverty and ruin among workers, suggesting the industry is prioritizing nourishment over spirits.
A local citizen argues the eighteenth amendment is not to blame for prisons and asserts most people drink. The writer states they do not drink and endorses strict enforcement of prohibition, signed A C Dowdy.
Berlin introduces automatic letter boxes that drop weighed batches onto a traveling belt. The belt transports letters to the sorting room where they are prepared for loading onto mail trains efficient post delivery.
Maj. E. H. Brainard reports the Raleigh base now among the largest Curtiss-Wright Flying Service schools. February flight hours reach 244, with students from New York and New England, and grading for an approved school rating progresses. Raleigh Wake county cooperates to complete extra runways, aiming to place the school between Baltimore and Miami as a top training field.
Ed Brewer of Reidsville, lieutenant governor of the Kiwanis third division, visited the Lexington Kiwanis club and urged members to focus on improving their community. Dwight Pickard led the program and presented Ellen Owen and about 20 Robbins School Mocking Bird club members who performed songs for the group.
Mrs. Moody Stroud, noted Greensboro pianist and former Smith College and Boston University student, gave a short recital during Duke chapel exercises in a weekly Friday morning concert before a large audience.
Asheville announces a bronze tablet will mark the Lynn area home near Tryon where poet Sidney Lanier died in 1881. Rev Clarence McClellan Jr leads the ceremony mid April with speeches by Rev Dr William Owen and Miss Jennie Wentfeldt. The marker funded by H L Sheip with readings from Georgia and North Carolina governors. Lanier sought mountain health relief for tuberculosis and remains famed for The Marshes of Glen.
Newport Rhode Island artists association hosts an Easter Monday ball to review the popular nineties theme favored by the summer social set. The event showcases art and social patronage with guests expected from the local cultural circles.
Rev Dr Arthur L Tharles rector of St Mark's Brooklyn says women who keep jobs after marriage foster selfish independence, and he asserts such views fuel discord among young married couples and contribute to unemployment.
The New York Times says it now capitalizes the word negro, aligning with leading southern and northern papers. It argues the change is not just typographical but an acknowledgment of racial self respect for people long written in lowercase.
The Paris municipal council seeks to name a street the Street of the Four Sons of Paul Doumer. All four sons of the president of the senate died in the war including a captain and a private killed in aerial combat a lieutenant who fell in the attack and a military surgeon gassed with fatal result.
Women students at Duke University outline plans for an independent athletic association to sponsor class competition for the co ordinate college for women next fall. No intercollegiate events are planned and outstanding players will receive awards.
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