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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1929
Page
2
Dr. R. M. Andrews, president of High Point College, spoke to the First Baptist church Men’s Club at a monthly supper. He warned that the teacher’s character shapes instruction and noted a shift from a ministry‑oriented past to modern broad preparation for many careers.
Tokyo May 24 AP reports torrential rains in Fukushima that killed twelve people and caused major damage to property and crops. Over 5,000 houses flooded, 88 bridges destroyed, railways damaged, with losses estimated at 3,000,000 yen and seventeen fishing boats missing.
A well attended club gathering last night emphasized instruction to mold members into good men and women. A splendid supper was provided by a circle of the Woman's Missionary Society.
Ricardo Villalobos, president of the law students association, visited the home of Dr Manuel Puig Casaurang as firemen police and students were drenched amid the unfolding disturbance.
Dr. Puig Casaurang rushed to a campus stand off, ordered the police to stop firing, and entered the building to guide students to exit safely. The crowd lifted him on their shoulders in a show of gratitude before he drove to Chapultepec castle for a conference with President Portes Gil.
Farnham of Peat, Marwick in New York spoke on mergers and consolidations and chain business. Dinners and discussions followed on factory organization, employment, training foremen, waste elimination, safety, and price discrimination by Henry Fowler of the US Chamber. Next meeting in November to elect officers.
May 24 Newspap ers were recommended as the best means of reaching the public and paid advertising in the press urged for U S churches in the annual report to the United Presbyterian general assembly. Walter Irving Clarke national director of publicity said the church should use paid space. The business world spends millions for publicity while the church spends dollars.
Cantonese government officials credit air attacks by Cantonese aviators for recent wins against Kwangsi forces. Colonel W. J. Chang says over 100 100 pound bombs were dropped on Wuchow in the past week. Six new planes are en route from the United States to bolster the Canton air corps.
A Havana brown cardigan silk suit features a yellow handkerchief lining and a matching gilet. The ensemble is completed by a brown felt hat adorned with yellow quills through the brim.
The Graf Zeppelin arrived at dawn in Friedrichshafen from Cuers France after an emergency return from an Atlantic crossing attempt. The crew included 14 passengers plus seven French naval officers honored by Dr Hugo Feckener. Local Kiwanis luncheon featured insurance talks and plans for Camp Uwharrie. Memorial Day events were postponed due to illness.
Chicago May 24. Mrs Helen Johnson files for divorce from Arthur Johnson. She alleges Scotch habits: forbidding vacuum use, turning off alarms, moving clocks to save wear. July 4 he shouted boom, she left after a face strike. He also filed suit, charging desertion. Influenza germs are not visible under a ordinary microscope.
In Paintsville Kentucky May 24 lawyers for six and a half year old Carl Newton Mahan filed a motion for a new trial and for a writ to stop sending him to the Greendale reformatory for manslaughter. The county judge overruled the motions and the writ action heads to Lexington for a hearing tomorrow morning. The boy shot eight year old Cecil Van Hoose after the older boy snatched a piece of iron intended for sale to a junk dealer.
Marjorie Dowdy a 10 year old Lynchburg Virginia girl who spent 70 days in a coma after a car crash is rapidly recovering doctors described a brain lesion she is learning to speak again and has begun eating solid food after eight weeks fed through a nasal tube her mother Mrs A C Dowdy reports.
The federal census of 1910 recorded 265 OSs among Indians in the United States at the time of enumeration.
Carl Daredevil Burns, famed stunt flyer from Hollywoods Black years, will headline a Sunday air show at Myers landing field one mile west of Thomasville under R M Minkle. He will hang from a landing-gear trapeze and perform on rope ladder as Hinckle flies an Eagle Rock plane. Burns, a former Royal Flying Corps Canada gunner, served in WWI earning Croix de Guerre and two Canadian medals, with battles including Argonne and Chateau-Thierry.
At Francis Marion field in Marion North Carolina the article notes Paris May 24 French aviator Lemoigne set a new world height record for a plane loaded with half a ton reaching about 31 500 feet surpassing the prior record of just over 30 900 feet held by German Schinzinger.
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