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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1923
Page
4
A collage of quotations and notices touches on religion democracy and crime public opinion and wartime era concerns. It cites Mecklenberg Resolves Day Florida resort rumors and debates over Islam Darwin and contraception while noting property lists and attitudes toward foreign goods and airships.
The piece portrays Governor Cameron Morrison as a courageous but polarizing figure amid prison reform agitation. It notes his power and positive contributions to state development while criticizing his focus on hostile opinions and personal annoyances rather than broader issues.
The article argues High Point should develop a retail market by improving roads and merchants while attracting rural visitors. It proposes establishing one or more community rest rooms to welcome out of town shoppers, especially country ladies, noting current lack of comfort for visiting customers.
A Raleigh report questions the state tuberculosis hospital superintendent Dr. L. B. McBrayer. It argues the legislative committee lacks authority to indict and urges the grand jury or the hospital board to act if laws or humanity are violated. The piece condemns sensational hearings.
Delegates at the 27th annual convention of the American Cotton Manufacturers Association in Richmond Va heard the secretary report and discussed officers. If tradition holds, W Beattie of Greenville S C will become president and A W McClellan will rise to vice president. William H Barr spoke on Americanism and committees reported as delegates were entertained.
Student officers at Fort Benning infantry school begin eight days of simulated war testing tactics learned in weeks of training. Dawn field tests feature day and night attacks on unannounced objectives using land and air weapons.
A colossal aircraft, the ZR-3, grows inside the Zeppelin shed at Lake Constance for the American navy. It aims to fly to America by fall or next spring and will surpass the size of the giant dirigible 10W at Lakehurst, New Jersey.
American officers inspect a German plan built airship far larger than the ill fated B 88. The ZR 3 at over 300 meters long and 131 feet high aims to travel Berlin to New York in about 60 hours with speed around 100 kmh. It will depart from Friedrichshafen to Berlin for ambassadorial inspection before crossing the Atlantic.
Memphis May 17 reports say Clarence Saunders president of Piggly Wiggly Stores Inc reached a cash sale of the Chicago 97 stores to Chicago financiers for more than a million dollars. Purchasers named were not published by Saunders and terms call for cash within seven days after overnight conferences of the pool members.
In Lausanne on May 17 representatives from the United States and Turkey took preliminary steps toward negotiating a treaty of amity and commerce. No negotiations have started, but general conversations have outlined the treaty's scope to define mutual relations and aim at resuming regular diplomatic relations.
Miss Amelia M. Larhart of Atchison Kansas received the National Aeronautic Association license after test flights in which she piloted her plane to an altitude of 11 600 feet a height believed to be the highest flown by a woman.
Four dancers completed a grueling marathon run in Wilmington setting a new state record near midnight, surpassing the previous mark of 75 hours set by J. P. Lewis two weeks earlier.
President Harding will deliver the principal address at the dedication of the Alexander Hamilton memorial on the south terrace of the treasury building. Secretary Mellon will preside as the life size statue of Hamilton is unveiled by Eleanor E. Hamilton. Relatives Edgar A. Hamilton and Edgar L. Hamilton are to pronounce the invocation and benediction. Coast Guard detachments from cutters Attache and Manning will salute the unveiling.
Berlin reports the fourth installment of 58.5 million gold marks paid to cover treasury bills for Belgium's 1922 claims. A shipment of 60 million gold marks is en route to America, to be accounted for in the Reichsbank statement. Final payment of 60 million gold marks due June 15.
Hundreds of provincial Russians are volunteering to serve the Soviet government in case of conflict. With no war in sight, this signals a strong patriotism nationwide. The press emphasizes the risk that disputes with Great Britain could spark hostilities.
Police say proper dancing is a fine. The fragment notes a minister from Ohio involved in a dispute over conduct described as dancing, with authorities labeling it a fine matter.
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