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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1925
Page
2
Associated Press dispatches cover Doheny oil case developments Billy Sunday Winston-Salem visit and uncertain Kittyhawk airplane legacy Orville Wright plans Smithsonian donation hopes B N Duke gives 200000 to a negro college at Kittress noting possible use at High Point college and wider implications.
Report notes Queen Marie of Romania intends to write a series of articles for an American publication. The announcement is viewed with polite interest, given her recent prominence in cold cream advertisements and unrelated public image.
Dr. Emerson Fosdick will become pastor of John D. Rockefeller's Baptist church at a salary of $5,000 a year. Many small town pastors earn more for their work, yet this is his own stipulation. If he can live in New York and preach to millionaires without demanding more, he proves a worthwhile philosophy for shaping others.
A mine explosion and subsequent blasts at a Carolina coal mine wipe out all workers underground. Red Cross crews and neighbors respond, but rescue efforts fail, despite experienced management and extensive safety devices. The tragedy unsettles families, mine owners, and readers worldwide.
An observer praises High Point NC growth and urges planning. The piece argues for a city planner or engineer to guide zoning, building lines, and school site selection, warning against unplanned expansion and continuing oil lease scandals.
High Point welcomes aviators for pay flights or other uses but a recent flyer has disturbingly skimmed rooftops and repeatedly swept the Country club area. Club members feared a mishap as the machine buzzed the course, prompting calls for higher altitudes or restricted flight. The piece notes possible local ordinances to curb such danger.
The North Carolina Building and Loan League fifth district reports assets of $14,996,946.98 for 1924, a rise of $2,934,255.39. Bo and EL. J. F. P. Stevens of Greensboro notes many loans totaling $4,506,000 and 1637 new homes built in the district across Guilford Forsyth and neighboring counties.
High Point leads with 547,945.35 dollars and Winston-Salem close behind at 539,239.31 as regional assets rise. A letter from Mr. Stevens urges educating the public on the advantages of building and loan stock, noting a 6 percent average 1924 yield and the steady demand for loans.
Judge McCormick holds the Doheny lease on Elk Hills California oil field was obtained by fraud and sealable. He says Doheny paid 100000 dollars to Albert Fall, secretary of the interior, in a fraud upon the United States and that Harding overstepped his powers transferring naval oil reserves authority. The article hints at a pre-presidential conspiracy to control reserves through Fall.
Rescue efforts at the Sanford mine involve women volunteers from the American Legion auxiliary, Fort Bragg medical staff, and soldiers. Rescue cars bring out victims while ambulances and food caravans gain priority through traffic as relatives and nurses assist in identification and care.
City officials, including a police chief pledged to discreetly handle bootlegging, were guests of the Rotary Club. The meeting covered ordinances and a resolution to push Southern Railway trains underground through High Point after autumn. Burlesque relieved tension as Dean Harrison spoke and a plan to aid High Point College with Duke’s education fund was endorsed.
Court declares leases and contracts null and void in a move seen as blocking rivals to Pan American Petroleum and Transport. Doheny and affiliates ordered to surrender leases and contracts to the government and pay court costs.
Court states that negotiations for Pearl Harbor storage contracts were kept secret not for patriotism but to prevent Congress and the public from knowing actions taken. Defendants are entitled to credit for money spent on constructing storage facilities for crude products at Pearl Harbor.
Officials and Red Cross leaders in North Carolina conferred to plan aid for 40 widows and 75 orphans after a mine disaster. Despite ongoing body recovery, rescue crews faced continued dangers with 26 bodies believed in the deep workings near the 2500 foot level. Relatives lined police barriers as a giant fan supplied fresh air to the lower levels.
Washington May 29 Assistant Secretary W W Husband former Immigration commissioner said illegal European aliens from Cuba are being diverted from Florida toward New Orleans and Charleston due to heightened border patrol. About 700 immigrants have been arrested in Florida since July 1. He compared patrols to the northwest mounted police and Texas rangers. Some immigrants cross in small bootlegging craft from Cuba, using Tampico as a possible crossing to the Mexican border. Deportations exceed 8 000 this fiscal year. The Justice Department and Immigration authorities are conducting investigations into illegal entry.
The freight station of the Southern railway will be closed all day tomorrow May 30 a legal holiday. Raleigh May 29 All narcotic cases on the federal court docket here have been set for trial June 22 They were originally set for June 2.
The North Carolina Improv ed Order of Red Men held a large, well attended annual meeting in High Point. The Pocahontas resolutions thanked citizens and Sheraton hotel management, while Col D H Milton received a silver loving cup for services. O R York named to the state orphans board for three years.
Chicago May deliveries on month end settlements spurred early downtrend in wheat with prospects of a double holiday. Opening prices moved mixed, then generally fell. corn and oats followed while provisions declined.
West End Baptist Church will be dedicated with services Sunday. At 11:00 a.m. the history of the church will be presented, detailing its establishment and growth. At 2:00 p.m. Mars Hill College president Prof. R. L. Moore will speak on Christian education. Dr. Lloyd T. Wilson will deliver the dedicatory sermon at 3:00 p.m. Former pastors and members are invited. a church grounds dinner will follow.
Floyd Cummings negro charged with the murder of Bahnson Hill here more than two months ago. no date yet for preliminary hearing. Joseph Byerly shot and seriously wounded by Cummings, recovering from wounds after leaving High Point hospital a month ago. Thomas Turner High Point attorney retained for Cummings. trial date likely soon. Cummings held in Greensboro county jail. Hill killed instantly. Byerly intestines perforated but improving and expected to recover.
London reports R W H Bloxam of Blackheath an amateur radio enthusiast intercepted daylight signals from John L Reinartz of South Manchester Conn on 20 meters. Royal Geographical Society places the distance at 8334 miles and the reception is believed to be a daylight record for the low power age. Transmitter power was one kilowatt far less than a domestic electric heater. Bloxams receiver used a standard two valve set with 20 meter reception.
New students and others are invited to a welcome dinner at High Point College in the dining hall tomorrow at 6 pm. Speeches by Coach Brown and Coach Boylin, who will share future roles, will accompany athletic monograms and medals for baseball basketball and football players. Silver medals funded by Hayes Jewelry and Odell Hardware will be awarded, with gold medals for players earning three monograms in a sport.
RALEIGH May 29 Governor McLean says he will not interfere with the Williams case of Scotland county whose electrocution for murder is set for June eighth.
Raleigh May 29 The Southern Retail Furniture Dealers Association closes a three day Raleigh session and votes to hold the next meeting in Charleston in 1923.
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