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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1931
Page
8
In Chicago price activity shows wheat hitting a season low while corn climbs. Market notes moisture and unsettled conditions with fluctuating opening and closing ranges across March May and July contracts. Amos Realty Co. advertises multiple housing offerings on Lexington and nearby streets.
An 18 year old, Rosario Bruna of Thompsonville Connecticut, confessed to police that he and two accomplices killed Nick Legelis in a Warehouse Point Connecticut lunch wagon on March 9 and, days later, killed Harry Weller at a Trenton New Jersey gasoline station. He said he needed money and was afraid to surrender. He was arrested in a poolroom and admitted the crimes and the $54 taken.
A business advertises shoe repair service reachable by calling 41463. The notice gives the address 1542 English Street as the service location for the repair shop.
Rev. George T. Tunstall of Green Street Baptist church will address the First Baptist church Men's club tomorrow at 6 30 PM. Officers to be elected, with Mrs. A Sherrod and Miss Ira Hensley as accompanist. A large turnout is expected.
A production titled The Nation's Playground will be staged in the Johnson Street School auditorium tomorrow night at 7 30. Proceeds will fund enhancements for the school clinic.
New York March 18 higher stock values were driven by increased steel mill output and electric power production. The day showed a mixed session with rails dragging early gains before recovering. U S Steel American Can Bethlehem Steel Dow Jones leader list included many industrials while rails lagged at times. A U S Steel unit’s price rise and strong automotive demand supported steel, with a Rockefeller Radio City order cited as a notable structural uplift. Call money remained ample while the bond market hesitated on possible large treasury issues.
Cotton markets in New York and New Orleans opened steady with mild gains as trading remained modest. May and October futures showed small rises while Egyptian and Liverpool influences shaped early movements. a late note warned of possible increased weevil damage later in the season.
Major shares show divergent moves led by gains in chemical and tobacco issues while sugar and copper sectors lag. Industrial outfits like General Electric and Westinghouse display notable activity as investors weigh inflation signals and corporate earnings.
Shanghai reports a communist uprising along the Hueh Hupeh border results in 3000 peasants killed. Nationalist forces from Shasi reportedly launched an expedition against reds. The area north of the Yangtse river was pillaged as communists and mutinous troops cut the Peiping Hankow line and ravaged the countryside.
Mrs Jack Murphy collapsed during a local pinochle game after revealing a 1600 meld 1500 trumps and 100 aces forming a royal flush in the hand police report notes no injuries and witnesses describe the moment as dramatic but not violent the incident occurred in Omaha.
Florence Nichols administratrix of T C Nichols estate sues J E Cecil father of Mabel Cecil for 30000 alleging negligent driving and a single headlight caused Nichols death on West Broad Street November 21 1930. Nichols struck while walking along the left shoulder at about seven o clock and died at a local hospital hours later after ambulance transport. No charges were filed against Mabel Cecil at the time.
Washington reports a surge in World War veteran loan demands, with Treasury facing a need to raise 200 million dollars in under a month. Veterans Administrator Hines and Director Ijams cite rapid loan disbursements and large weekly outlays as the machinery of new lending scales up.
Two of four bandits who tried to rob the White Haven Savings Bank near Wilkes Barre were charged with murder after a motorist was shot to death and his brother wounded near Hazleton. The pair surrendered at the Weatherly state police substation and allegedly confessed. Names withheld. James Gibbons, 24, was killed and his brother Thomas, 27, wounded. Lookouts, including a woman, fired on bystanders and fled with two youths from the bank after shots.
In New York on March 18 Jean Borotra of France and Francia X. Shields of New York move toward the singles final of the National Indoor Tennis championships. They lead a field that includes Perrine Rockafellow and Cliff Sutter as four reach the fourth round.
Ernest A. Franke of Council Bluffs Iowa states a hen he owns continues to lay eggs regularly at the remarkable age of twenty seven years, a record for poultry longevity.
Washington reports a second major dispute between the United States and Canada over prohibition enforcement. Ottawa protests the firing on and seizure of the Josephine K off New York and the captain's death, seeking answers from the coast guard and prohibition bureau before a formal reply.
New York police charged Miriam Diller, 34, with homicide for the hammer slaying of her druggist husband Herman Diller in a Brooklyn apartment. A claw hammer and blood stains were found. Diller’s secretary Miss Bershow and the couple’s son Martin described marital tensions and a planned California elopement. The widow was named beneficiary on a $30,000 double indemnity life policy.
In White Salmon Washington Mrs E McFadden heard repeated hello sounds from her chicken yard and traced the voice to a parrot that had disappeared about six weeks earlier from Mrs Guy Briggs in Klickitat Washington about forty miles east of White Salmon.
Norma Newby, 37, missing since March 2, was found slain in a snow covered forest preserve near Arlington Heights. A heavy wrench lay near her body, and five men including Frank J. Murray were detained for questioning. Murray claimed to have been kidnapped during the disappearance.
Cabeden Jr a 23 year old truck driver faces murder charges in Superior Court here for the June 1929 killings of Nellie Powell 13 Frank Powell 7 and Oscar Ames 8 whose bodies were found in Knobbs Creek swamps. A venire of 100 is summoned to select a jury from 23 witnesses subpoenaed in the case.
In Omaha a hundred guests gathered to celebrate the 100th birthday of Mrs. Karin Ahistrand born in Sweden. She resides at the Immanuel hospital invalid home and does not speak English.
Chicago detective bureau face a puzzling case as Charles Wilson alias Frankie Smith, wanted in New York for desertion, reports a detached mustache. He says a lighted cigarette burned off half, leaving him unable to don a new false mustache, prompting a stay in jail to wait for growth.
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