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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1930
Page
2
Norma Talmadge makes her talking debut in New York Nights at the Broadhurst theater. Critics note her strong voice and emotion, but call the film hackneyed and fairly interesting yet weak compared with recent releases. The theme song stands out amid a familiar plot of a wife reforming a drinking husband while another man pursues.
Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd and his expedition return to Dunedin after a year in the Antarctic. Reports describe a complex radio relay linking Dunedin Sydney Schenectady and New York, with Ochs praising Byrd for expanding knowledge and claiming a new era for America.
Morgan P Moorer of Asheville, a UNC freshman, disappeared from the campus ten days ago prompting a statewide search by university officials and his family. The report weaves in unrelated excerpts about Antarctic exploration and political commentary.
The argument centers on Senator Simmons resisting Smith in 1928 over Prohibition. Langston challenges Bailey’s past statements and stresses that Democrats cannot eject loyal voters who opposed Smith. He defends Simmons as principled, citing Bailey’s 1905 stance on party conscience and loyalty.
P and N directors reaffirmed and ordered not to abandon the Charlotte Winston-Salem Durham sector. W S Lee said start of work would begin tomorrow morning after a hearing in Charlotte the ICC denied permission to extend trackage. If injunction sought, P and N will appeal to the U S Supreme Court to finish the case. The completion would connect Greenwood and Anderson in South Carolina to Winston Salem and Durham in North Carolina, extending from existing lines at Greenwood Anderson to Spartanburg Greenville and Gastonia Charlotte.
Dr. Andrews, a North Carolina native born in Orange County, was named president by the board of trustees. The appointment follows his prior leadership roles and outlines his ties to local institutions.
Dr. Andrews, a Tennessee native who joined the North Carolina conference in 1897, led several Methodist Protestant churches including Grace in Greensboro and Henderson. As president of the conference for five years, he oversaw dramatic growth at High Point College, increasing enrollment from 131 in 1924 to over 300, expanding faculty from 13 to 24, and guiding its A-1 accreditation. He and his wife Olive Harris have four children and have been active in city church, social, and educational life.
In Yazoo City Mississippi a drinking party ended in gunfire with one woman killed another shot in the stomach and seriously wounded and a youth struck in the back. Police investigated the incident and pursued possible suspects as neighbors described the violence.
Mrs. C. M. Kneece of 1919 Barnwell St Columbia S C credits California Fig Syrup with keeping her children Lois and Charles robust. She says it helps with upsets colds and digestive issues and notes seven million bottles are used yearly to prove its merit while urging buyers to seek the genuine with the California label.
Police arrest Arthur Burroughs after a fatal shooting at a drinking party on a local plantation. Mrs. Benoit Harbin, 19, is dead and Mrs. Bessie Pippin wounded in the abdomen. A boy named Horton was shot in the back and several others lightly injured amid chaotic flash of gunfire. In a separate note a prince is described driving to Entebbe and golfing after a long motor trip, detailing his plans for an upcoming elephant hunt.
Friends of the Prince of Wales report he looks well during his Uganda tour following illness. The account notes a visible recovery as he travels through Kampala and meets officials, signaling a hopeful return to duties.
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