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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1930
Page
1
AP dispatch from Tandon notes an experts' committee forms to draft a Mediterranean pact. It would be a new guarantee of French security without extending Britain's commitments beyond League covenant Articles III and XVI. France leads the talks and Britain’s role remains limited.
Chicago and suburbs faced the heaviest continuous snowfall in city history with 19.1 inches, ending today after a Tuesday storm that began early morning. Slush and drifts remained as crews cleared icier accumulations.
Lila Jimerson testified she knew Nancy Bowen planned to kill Mrs. Henri Marchand in Buffalo on March 6. District Attorney Guy Moore cited Lila's statements and letters as evidence, noting Lila accompanied Bowen and claimed no belief in witchcraft but did not stop the plan.
Tear gas bombs and clubs drove 750 convicts from the dining hall at the Missouri penitentiary in Jefferson City. About 20 prisoners were injured as guards and a National Guard company moved in to quell the second mutiny in as many days. Ring leaders were being singled out as officials worked to restore order.
London delegates at St James's palace plan a plenary session next week to discuss options for a Mediterranean security pact. Britain and France and possibly Italy negotiate terms while Briand signals France could curb naval tonnage if a mutual guarantees pact emerges. Senate members warn against a consultative pact as potentially interventional and unwelcome.
Bloodhounds search for a hitch hiker who shot Charles Latham a New York lodging house proprietor in his car near Christiansburg Virginia. Latham said the stranger forced him back into the car after a pistol shot and beat him. a passing car interrupted the attack and the assailant fled.
In Harriman Tennessee Mrs Dorothy Welsh 28 killed her three young sons Freddie 7 Edgar 7 and Sherman Coolidge 5 and died by hanging in her home in D Amond Minear within two days. Sheriff Will Davidson and Chief John Hedrix opened an investigation. Mrs Ellis the mother found the scene and guided officers to recover the children's bodies from a nearby pond.
The Senate lobby committee under Chairman Caraway will launch a probe into wet and dry organizations after completing the Muscle Shoals inquiry. First witness may be Rep. Tinkham of Massachusetts who urged the investigation, followed by leaders of anti prohibition groups and others. A decision hinges on Tinkham’s testimony.
Greenville March 27 A Centennial observance of the North Carolina Baptist convention marked by calls to press forward with “a foundation laid in sacrifice and love.” Dr Arch C Cree of Atlanta spoke at noon on The Challenge of These Paths of Progress while Dr J Clyde Turner led debates on Deeper Consecration to the Present. Dr Richard J T Vann delivered the convention sermon With the theme We Have a Kingdom That Cannot Be Moved.
On the New York Stock Exchange the day saw violent price swings and heavy turnover totaling 5,290,000 shares, the second straight day above five million. Early buying pushed blocks of 5,990 to 25,900 shares, then profit taking and selling dampened gains. By midday some favored issues fell $3 to $6, but late trading regained strength as industrials and copper issues led a recovery, leaving closing quotations irregularly higher.
In Mexico City on March 27 Didel Zamudio was found in the street believed dead after catalepsy. The body was sent to a clinic for dissection but revived during a postmortem procedure as students watched, leading to medical efforts to save his life.
Guns of customs men flashed along the International border at El Paso for the seventeenth time this year. Francisco Velarde, an alleged liquor runner, was killed last night when struck by buckshot as he ran for his waiting automobile. His companion, Jesus Jaso, was captured and a large quantity of liquor was seized.
Upper South Carolina's peach crop was not damaged by cold weather the past three days in the opinion of Major R. F. Watson, one of the leading growers of this section.
A committee of the American Association of University Professors calls the dismissal of three William Jewell College professors for modernism a grave academic wrong. The 1928 action against Dean H C Wayman, Professor Harry George Parker, and Professor Lorenzo Dow Weyland followed the trustees decision amid a heated controversy involving modernism. Wayman later left for Des Moines University, which soon faced student unrest and closure.
BULLETINS ERLIUN MAR 27 AP President Von Hindenburg today accepted the resignation of Chancellor Mueller's coalition cabinet. RIDGEPORT Conn Mar 27 Barn S Fogarty of Fort Worth Texas today withdrew his 8500,000 alienation of affection suit against James J Gene Tunney retired heavyweight boxing champion. The withdrawal was accepted by Judge Edward M Yeomans at a hearing in superior court.
Twenty one people are hospitalized after a Pickwick transcontinental bus skidded on an icy highway and turned over near Tecolote, fifteen miles southwest of Las Vegas New Mexico.
Nanking dispatches say the Kiangsi provincial government telegraph to the foreign affairs ministry that Wan Chow bandit communists have been completely routed by government troops and that American and French missionaries are safe.
Harry Peck says three men in a downtown building lobby pressed revolvers against him and stole two wallets containing diamonds valued at 100000, in Chicago on March 27.
In Russeuls Belgium the Young plan for reparations is now before the senate with ratification expected by the end of next week. In Aris the senate voted confidence in the Tardieu government by 145 to 124 on credits to fund new under secretaries of state in the new ministries amid opposition.
Gene Tunney former world heavyweight champion and his wife Polly Lauder were in an automobile collision near Tuart Florida last night but both escaped injury.
O L Bodenhamer national commander of the American Legion told the South Carolina general assembly in Columbia that human life is the cheapest commodity in America. He condemned crime focus over education and urged a public shift in law observance and youth citizenship.
Miss Maureen Orcutt of Haworth New Jersey held a four stroke lead after 15 holes of the mid south golf event at Pinehurst. Her 87 gave her 241 total with Mrs O S Hill of Kansas City next at 245 after an 85 today.
Treasury officials announced that income tax receipts reached 542,432,341 by March 25, predicting the month would exceed 550 million. The figures support earlier estimates justifying a possible continuation of the 1929 income tax reduction into the 1930 fiscal year, depending on congressional expenditures for 1931. Experts noted stock losses hit few individuals, while corporate returns showed strength.
Paul Runyan former Little Rock pro and new Bloomfield NJ assistant led the North and South Open after 18 holes with a 72 while Horton Smith struggled with 79 in gusty conditions. Espinosa Kerrigan and McLeod posted high rounds, Dudley and Homans also chased the leader as wind disrupted scores.
Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler president of Columbia University was received in private audience by Pope Pius XI. The pope gave the apostolic blessing and awarded medals commemorating his jubilee year to Butler his wife and daughter who attended the interview.
In a Michigan Central Chicago Detroit limited downgrade toward Ann Arbor engineer Floyd Finch of Jackson was killed when a loose brakeshoe hurled into the cab. Fireman R H Van Order halted the train and, with a brakeman, guided it into Ann Arbor station safely after the accident between Jackson and Ann Arbor.
Crown Prince Humbert, newly married to Princess Marie Jose of Belgium, is ill with measles in Turin. Doctors report fever waning and note the palace residence where he and the princess are staying has been refitted for their arrival.
Daytona Beach report states British racing driver Kaye Don will request more time from the American Automobile Association if he cannot attempt the world speed record within the four days left of the March 15 to 39 period.
The Prussian Academy of Sciences heard Einstein and W Mayer present a paper in Berlin on two static solutions of the uniform field equations. The work ties gravitation to electricity, describing spherical charged mass and systems of uncharged masses at rest as key cases. Dr M S Vallarta of MIT comments on its significance.
Cambridge report from March 27 notes Einstein presents practical proof of a gravitation electric link. He outlines equations claiming to demonstrate a fundamental connection between gravitation and electricity, marking a significant theoretical advance.
About 500 inmates in five Missouri penitentiary factories joined a strike demanding better food and working conditions. Previous day 750 mutinied over meals. Prison officials report no violence but deploy guards and threaten national guardsmen if needed.
GREENSBORO, Mar. 27. A pack of dogs attacked a 490 head flock on Thomas D. Hardin’s estate in the north western suburbs, killing nine sheep and wounding eight. Hardin fired after hearing the distressed bleats and says he found dogs in the pasture and believes he wounded one.
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