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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1928
Page
2
The Kiwanis club endorsed the plan for a new municipal hospital following J Elwood Cox from the Duke foundation announcing a $100000 grant in support if the city bonds of $200000 pass. The club backed a new fireproof hospital at a new site and pledged its support for the upcoming election.
The Civitan club this week unanimously endorsed the project during its meeting. Rev Banks J Peeler of Salisbury spoke as a guest of Rev Milton Whitener who is conducting revival services at the First Reform church. Bunn W Hackney Jr won the attendance prize presented by J E Kester. The Mann Drug company gave the silent boost.
Severe winds lashed Rock Hill and Charlotte area gusts demolish windows topple signs and unroof buildings. In Salisbury loss ranged from minor to widespread with telegraph lines and cables disrupted. Tornadoes reported elsewhere with fatalities and injuries in Alabama as storm moves northeast.
Washington March 30 The senate met behind closed doors to consider nominations to the radio commission while the house paid tribute to Representative Green of Iowa who is to be judgeship tomorrow. Committees worked with hearings on market practices and inland waterways amid deferrals and projected profits.
Richard Henry Lee is identified as a signer of the Declaration of Independence representing Virginia. The note confirms his role in the founding era and ties him to the Virginia delegation and its independence advocacy.
A police drive targets slot machines and gambling devices with over a dozen electrical pianos and about twenty mini machines ordered locked by 3 PM. No arrests planned. proprietors told to shut down and not allow play. Operators hold county and state licenses but no city license. Pianos payout up to 85 cents, costs 25 cents to play, with $1 to $5 returns. Mint machines pay up to $1, coin is five cents. J A Cecil distributes pianos in the city.
Harry Morrow an Atlanta cotton mill operator was indicted by Mecklenburg County grand jury on kidnapping his married daughter Ella Morrow who eloped with C Cline Underwood a local shoe salesman. Officials planned to take Morrow into custody in Atlanta after the indictment became public. Underwood filed habeas corpus claiming Ella was held as a virtual prisoner.
Protesters in Italy stage a melodic street blockade as taxi horns echo in varied pitches. The quietly music driven demonstration uses sound as a peaceful statement against disruption.
The probable lineup for tomorrow's exhibition at Welch Park features Cleveland at third Stewart at second D Boone at first W Boone in right Ford at short Irby in center Young in left Bolton and Hyde as catchers Perry on the mound with Zimmerman and Eldridge also pitching Manager Dan Boone announced the list late this afternoon.
Prison guards fired today in an escape attempt at Caledonia Prison Farm as Brady Clontz and Aaron Gasperson, state convicts, fought for freedom. Authorities could not confirm if any shots hit or halted the fugitives.
The weather bureau issued a storm advisory for a northward moving system from Savannah to New York at 3 pm and to Boston by 9 pm with central pressure rise and gale force winds likely from Savannah to New York tonight and north of New York by Saturday morning.
An official communique to Irish and foreign press from Baldonnel Airdrome reports adverse weather will postpone Baron Von Buenfelds Atlantic crossing until conditions improve for the flight.
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