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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1930
Page
1
Hoover appears to be uniting Republican factions ahead of the party’s upcoming campaign pushes. Observers note his outreach to key lawmakers and donors as he shapes a cohesive GOP front.
Ruth Hanna McCormick revealed spending 500 of her own funds in Illinois Republican senatorial nomination, prompting Senate campaign funds committee Chairman Nye to pledge a thorough investigation and plan trips to Illinois after digesting her detailed statement. She cited family support and two Cook County groups and urged broader campaign finance scrutiny. Early May Day reports across the world described mostly peaceful protests with police and troop precautions, including Paris and Berlin deployments, and restrictions in Mexico City. Senator Watson said a Parker Supreme Court confirmation vote likely won’t occur before Monday.
In a Senate hearing William H. Stayton, head of the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment, claimed President Hoover is beginning to doubt enforcement of prohibition. He said six cabinet members may be convinced that the dry law is a failure.
Sydney Y West of Little Rock warned at the Cotton Manufacturers convention that the federal farm board's actions and the debenture plan could ruin the American cotton yarn and goods export business. He said the board has cornered May July positions, raised premiums, and hurt dry goods buying and spinner output. Slayton noted Hoover commission members discussing alternate liquor distribution plans. Cabinet members including Stimson Davis Lamont Mellon Adams and Brown were cited as viewing prohibition as a failure.
British women beat the United States 81-2 to 61-2 in an all day golf event at Sunningdale England. The victory came from two foursomes and six singles with the Americans taking two foursomes and four singles. Notable results and close matches are noted for Miss Collett captain and other players.
Mount Airy on May 1 reports a public library planned in the community building. The Mount Airy Woman's Club donates two remodeled rooms to house the library as civic groups push fundraising to support the project.
Miss Madeline Lubetty, a 26 year old actress, filed a breach of promise suit alleging engagement to Olympic sprint star Charles W. Paddock announced in Cleveland last August and to be married in October. She says the engagement was broken in September after a visit to his Pasadena, California home.
Greensboro officials announce formation of the North Carolina Industrial Bank as a subsidiary of the North Carolina Bank. The new institution will have a capital of 1 million dollars and E. G. Michaels of Greensboro named as president. Directors plan to meet next week to finalize details.
Washington May 1 Chairman Legge of the Federal Farm Board said his challenge to wealthy Chamber of Commerce members to match him dollar for dollar in supporting an agricultural foundation still holds. He urged a national foundation with a $10 million fund for land resource classification and study of industrial use of farm products, to be run by business leaders and farmers.
Greensboro bankers Angus W. McLean and W. S. Ryland left Greensboro for Monroe to confer with local bankers about resolving financial difficulties after three banks closed in the prior week. The leaders of the North Carolina Bank and Trust Co. aimed to secure a stable solution for the Monroe financial situation.
New York May 1. Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes and Mrs Hughes announce the engagement of their daughter Elizabeth Evans Hughes to William T Gossett an attorney with the firm Hughes once led.
In Battle Creek on May 1, Mr. Cox's spring wanderlust horse Old Ironsides evaded damage as two cars, driven by George Thunder and Walter Mitchell, collided with the animal causing damage to both vehicles. The deputy sheriff pursued but the horse remained unscathed, leading Cox to pay for damages and leave the scene with the famed horse grazing nearby.
The London Naval Treaty was delivered to the Senate by President Taft in a letter under 100 words. Maurice C. Latta presented the document as the Foreign Relations Committee prepares to begin review within days. Senator Borah’s renewed support boosts hopes for swift ratification.
Philadelphia reports a campus disturbance at the University of Pennsylvania with more than 240 students arrested for disorderly conduct as police and safety chief Lemuel B. Schofield clash over releases. Schofield was briefly jailed before being released on own recognizance as authorities clear the scene.
Raleigh May 1 Wilbur McLeod of Lee County and Lonnie Parker of Alsons on County face execution by electric chair unless clemency is granted. Supreme Court upholds lower court rulings. McLeod convicted of murdering an elderly woman Rebecca Matthews and Parker convicted of killing his wife.
Burlington was chosen as the next meeting site for the Woman's Missionary Society of the North Carolina Conference of the Methodist Church South, edging Wilson. The 18th annual session in Rocky Mount ends today with officers still to be elected. Mrs Henry Faison and Mrs W C Chadwick were re elected. The committee on mission and Bible study urged greater study and a mission study circle in each auxiliary.
A boat of the Imperial Life Saving service manned by fishermen rescued nine crew members from the Japanese freighter Luzon Maru after it ran aground on rocks near Cape Inubo yesterday.
Mrs Herman S Meredith of Tampa Fla a High Pointer by birth but away for 25 years was among many out of town entrants in The Enterprised census guessing contest The deadline will be reached automatically 48 hours before the city population announcement Oliver M Perry district census official will disclose figures
Raleigh May 1 The merger of the Christian and Congregational churches in the southeast was approved by the Southern Christian Convention after a joint committee report. Leaders praised harmony and freedom of belief as key principles guiding theunion. Officers were elected including Dr L F E Smith as president and Dr N G Newman as vice president.
Colonel Charles A Lindbergh lands his Buenos Aires to New York air mail plane at Porto Cabezas Nicaragua completing a 395 mile leg from Cristobal in four hours and two minutes. He will overnight at Port Cabezas and depart tomorrow for Havana and Miami along the Miami Cristobal air route.
The National League of Women Voters announces sixty nine inductees to a Women’s Hall of Fame honoring the suffrage movement. Each nomination includes a foundation gift aiding a new fund totaling about 75000 dollars. Notables honored include Dr Harriet B Jones from West Virginia and Carrie Chapman Catt from Iowa and New York.
Washington May 1 AP Friends of Judge John J Parker of North Carolina claim gains in the Republican ranks for his Supreme Court confirmation but final outcome remains unclear. President Hoover may be seeking to unite Republicans while opposition from organized labor and the NAACP persists. Senator Hebert of Rhode Island argues Parker must uphold the Red Jacket injunction amid Democratic uncertainty as Senator Robinson keeps silent. In Albuquerque a local engineers meeting passes a resolution protesting Parker’s nomination to the high court.
Lena Pozell testifies in Wilmington at the trial of Captain Paul Neilson and Richard Peacock for prohibition violations. She corroborates Captain Olson that Neilson did not load whiskey or equip the yacht Bolis with secret compartments. The vessel, headed Miami to New York with liquor, was seized off the Carolina coast.
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