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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1929
Page
1
In Texas the Fort Worth monoplane continues its 6th day aloft aiming to equal the Army's 150 hour endurance record set by Question Mark. Pilots Reg Robbins and James Kelly report 124 hours in the air with about 26 more needed to surpass the mark.
The 141st general assembly of the Presbyterian church in the United States of America voted to seek organic union with five large Protestant bodies. Commissions will be formed to discuss union with the Episcopal, Methodist, Methodist South, and Presbyterian (South) churches. The assembly also named Dr. Spear to confer with the Dutch Reformed church and urged full cooperation with the South Church to avoid duplication in home missions.
Robert H. Lucas of Louisville Ky is named commissioner of internal revenue by President Hoover. He will replace David H Blair of North Carolina who retires. Lucas has been western Kentucky revenue collector for eight years and his nomination follows Republican backing amid Treasury opposition. Lucas returns to Louisville to finalize affairs before taking office.
An Adriatic dispatch says Mrs Gene Tunney, recently operated on, has grown worse but not desperate. She is said to have a rising temperature prompting her husband to summon Dr Cadre from Rivignano, who had not yet arrived by day’s end.
The semi annual gathering of the Southern Furniture Manufacturers Association opened at Sedge field yesterday morning and closed at noon today. Members praised the meeting as among the best and most successful since its founding. Key discussions covered selling methods credits pass through close out elimination reducing collection periods and net selling price pros and cons. Dwight delivered the opening address.
Senator Watson of Indiana Republican leader told the Senate that final enactment of a farm relief measure and the census reapportionment bill is needed before a summer recess. He urged a Saturday session to push the work before the break.
In Lebanon Kentucky three children were found dead near Ryder cemetery with their mother Mamie Shey Shoaf dead by self inflicted throat wounds. Coroner Marion Russell said she killed the children and then herself after despondent talks over financial troubles. The victims were Tom Porter Shoaf 2 Ina Louise 7 and Catherine 11. Mrs Shoaf wife of Carey Shoaf lumber company employee, the family has four other children aged 12 to 17.
The Church of Scotland and the United Free Church of Scotland agreed by overwhelming majorities to unite at their assemblies in Edinburgh on May 24. The formal act of union is scheduled for October.
Manila reports an immense gold deposit along the Angat river 25 miles north of the city with value estimates from 20 million to 50.689 million dollars. Discovered by George Cushing during Metropolitan Water District tunnel work, the vein extends 9,000 feet with widths from 25 to 200 feet and is largely staked by nineteen Americans linked to an engineering firm.
Washington May 24 The tariff bill moves to a 3 p m floor vote by the Republican majority after Ways and Means approved 91 amendments for consideration. A special rule limits debate and prioritizes committee amendments while preserving floor access for other amendments.
In Oklahoma City on May 24 a bank messenger for American First National was held up at a downtown corner. Charles Vowell, 25, was shot in the right arm when a robber leaped from a second car, grabbed the satchel, and fled with about $80,000 toward the federal reserve bank.
Washington May 24 The war department prepares for early submission to Congress of a bill to mobilize industry in war time on the same basis as man power is conscripted Secretary Good says the measure will be among the first matters before Congress in December The bill likely covers finance and commerce while a separate bill authorizes conscription of the manpower of the nation for immediate military service upon declaration of war
From weakened levee tops along several Mississippi valley streams floodwaters rose, killing Raymond Hays a 25 year old plantation foreman who drowned while trying to rescue horses near a crevasse on Red River near Fulton Arkansas. Crews reinforce the Mounds Landing levee as backwater floods cover about 4000 acres threatening three counties.
Hull May 24 report says a United States Marine Corps plane crashed at Cape Haitien yesterday. First Lieut. Gladden was killed and Second Lieut Rhodes, who piloted the aircraft, was seriously injured.
In Kovno Lithuania on May 24 a student named Vasylius sen tenced to death for the recent attempt on Premier Valdemaras was executed by firing squad at sunrise today.
Dowell E. Patterson president of the South Carolina Federation of Labor appealed to the South Carolina Manufactures Association and the Cotton Textile Institute to join a southeastern labor reform campaign. He urged uniform workers compensation laws across the Carolinas Virginia Tennessee Georgia and Alabama, noting only four states lack such laws and citing 81 000 mill workers in South Carolina with about 16 000 already federations members.
Senator King of Utah introduced a resolution authorizing the Senate Banking Committee to investigate the Federal Reserve System. The measure lists numerous topics, including stock trading financing, large broker credits by member banks, and possible amendments to banking laws to curb speculative use of general credits.
Washington May 24 The senate manufactures committee deferred final action on the Wheeler resolution for a textile industry inquiry until Monday on motion by Senator Hale Republican Maine who asked time to submit amendments. The committee had voted five to one to have the investigation conducted by the Federal Trade Commission rather than by the Senate as originally proposed.
Roosevelts Field New York May 24 The crew of the monoplane Three Musketeers abandoned any further attempt to set a refueling endurance record after a quarrel between chief pilot H B Clarke and Martin Jensen. Clarke landed at 6 15 pm after 22 hours 28 minutes in the air when a refueling hook tore four rips in the fuselage fabric. Jensen claimed he could have repaired the damage in flight. He said he was through unless given full charge of the flight, then Clarke withdrew after a conference with inventor A W Card. Card said another attempt would be made to demonstrate the device.
In Elizabethton Tennessee fires and a dynamite blast disturbed a strike area. Deputy Sheriff Pat Taylor said the events stemmed from a private quarrel and pranks by boys. A clash occurred when Deputy Nevin tried to serve a warrant on Howard Turner a National Guardsman.
U S ambassador to Mexico Dwight W. Morrow travels from Laredo toward Englewood to attend his daughter Anne’s wedding to Col. Charles A. Lindbergh. He declined to set a date but said it would occur during this trip north and plans to return to Mexico in July.
Louis D. Sutherland, past potentate of Oasis Temple Mystic Shrine and Charlotte resident, died of asphyxiation from illuminating gas in his bathroom. Found by his wife shortly after 6 am. death likely occurred about 1 am. Survived by his widow Adele Henderson, a daughter Adele, and his mother with two sisters in Flushing Louisiana. Funeral services set for tomorrow afternoon.
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