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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1931
Page
2
Monarchist factions unite to present a consolidated front in Spain ahead of the June 1 national elections. Leaders say a divided monarchist cause failed in April, vows to organize campaigns with offices in Madrid Seville Barcelona and other cities to register supporters for future wins.
Daniel Mills, 29, an amateur pilot and Youngstown fire salesman, fell 700 feet from an open cockpit plane in Youngstown. Witnesses say he appeared to jump, but his widow and brother insist there was no reason for self harm and believe it was an accident as the airplane returned to Youngstown.
Late yesterday a Cleveland bound flight inspecting a ship lurched near Niles, leaving passenger David Mills missing. Pilot William Jo and Mills suggested the brother with heart trouble may have lifted to breathe and been swept overboard by the propeller. A coroner's inquest is planned in Warren.
Dayton Ohio May 21 1930 cadets from Kelly Field led 600 army planes on an eastward drill to Buffalo Valley Stream and Rochester as part of Atlantic coast defense tests. The operation aims to test moving large air fleets and protecting the Maine to Washington sector with New York City as the concentration point.
One of Memphis oldest citizens Captain C A DeSaussure is noted as the candidate most likely to be elected commander of the Confederate Veterans at their annual reunion in Montgomery Alabama on June 5.
Edward Morgan a 26 year old Jackson business man and social leader was freed of murder charges after a jury acquitted him for the death of his friend George Rice at a party. Morgan testified the killing resulted from an accidental discharge of his army pistol. Attorney Jeptha Barbour condemned the incident as an indictment of modern social conditions.
The Rev. Thomas F Pardue known as Thunderbolt Tom faced eight months on the county road for liquor selling. He offered to leave Mississippi to avoid the sentence, after confessing to possession of liquor for sale. Judge Wilson Warlick weighed the option as Prosecutor Fitzgerald urged consequences for the defendant and his wife Morgan.
Police confiscated a gasoline pump converted into a still in Pittsburgh. Ten gallons of whiskey were seized. the operator escaped.
A select group of convicts is being trained at Parchman Farm to operate an experimental station linked with Mississippi Agricultural and Mechanical College. The program aims to study agricultural methods under supervision at the state's penal farm.
Stockholm reports the Swedish state railways mark 75 years and the railway administration board plans a memorial volume detailing the history and achievements of the system.
The report traces Sweden’s railway expansion and modernization over the last quarter century. It highlights line construction, rolling stock upgrades, and service improvements, noting impacts on regional connectivity and freight flows while outlining ongoing integration with broader Nordic transport networks.
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