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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1930
Page
9
Dr. George H. Crowell will address the public at the Union Tabernacle corner Ward and West Green streets tomorrow at 11 o'clock in the morning.
The Oak Hill Friends church hosts an 11 oclock morning message on June 1 by Pastor Rev J Waldo Woody titled Waiting for the Tide. The evening service is canceled to allow attendance at the High Point High School commencement sermon at the same hour.
Sedgefield Country Club plans for 1931 include hosting the Southeastern Open at Valley Brook terrain if conditions permit. Herman Atkins leaves for Nashville to compete in the 1930 event, pursuing the bid for next year and aiming to keep the club’s high standing in southern golf. Mrs Jennie Culbreth of Thomasville dies at 76 in High Point after long illness, with funeral in Thomasville set for tomorrow. Thomas Mills blanks Glenola 13 to 0 in a decisive game, led by Ragsdale and Davis.
Liverpool market summary shows steady prices for American cotton with sales of 3,000 bales including 1,000 American. Receipts total 5,000 locally, futures closed quiet with May at 8.19 and July 8.94 while Oct, Dec, Jan, Mar and May contracts range around 7.86 to 7.95.
In New Orleans on May 31 there was little trading in cotton during the first hour. One July sale at 15.84, one point above the previous close. A later report noted an October trade at 14.80, three points under yesterday's close.
AUTEUIL France May 31 Mrs Helen Wills Moody advanced to the final rounds of the French women’s championship defeating Fraulein Cecilie Aussem of Germany 6 2 6 1.
The Municipal Court of High Point North Carolina announces an action by Jane Fitzsimmons against T I Fitzsimmons to obtain an absolute divorce on adultery grounds. Defendant must appear and answer by July 28 1930 or the plaintiff will seek relief. Clerk Ingram. Attorney E H Smith. Dates May 31 and June 7 14 21 1939.
Dispatches from Amoy report thousands fleeing the city amid imminent red troop attack. Nationalist officials resign under anti-Nanking pressure and missionaries plan to flee. Reds isolate the city with trenches and cut telegraph lines. a Chinese agent for Standard Oil was kidnapped for ransom. Refugees from Changchow head toward Amoy as bandits and communists overrun areas around Shasi, Hubei.
The Presbyterian General Assembly in Cincinnati announced that women will be eligible to serve as ruling elders in local churches and Presbyteries this year. An overture approving election and ordination of women as ruling elders passed 157 to 115, though ordination to the ministry remains barred. Women will gain a voice in local churches, the Presbyteries and the Synod, and may be elected as commissioners to the General Assembly.
Raleigh May 31 John Van Liew was introduced as the new football coach at North Carolina State College. He will take over the Wolfpack program this fall, succeeding Gus Tebell who held the post since 1925. He met with his aide Butch Slaughter to outline fall plans.
Chicago Cubs face the St Louis Cardinals with a revised infield after Rogers Hornsby fractured his left ankle. Clarence Blair stepped in at second while Elwood English moved to third and Clyde Beck filled shortstop, Blair delivering two doubles and a home run in the afternoon game.
New notaries public were commissioned at the offices of Governor O Max Gardner on May 31. The list includes Emily Clark Barber Macclesfield and J B Caddell Charlotte among others across North Carolina towns such as Raleigh Gastonia Greensboro Durham Rocky Mount and Asheville. The event names several notaries including Mrs. Barber Miss Lola Jackson Julius Levitch and Miss Mabel Miller.
The highest and lowest U S points lie within 100 miles in southeastern California. Death Valley sits 276 feet below sea level while Mt Whitney rises to 14 522 feet above.
In a May report from Flagstaff Lowell Observatory director Dr. W M Slipher announced planet X now named Pluto is about Mars size and shows no cometary features. He notes preliminary orbit calculations and color tests suggest a yellowish body with inner-planet like albedo and density, possibly Mars-sized at 41.3 AU.
Eastern time listings from WEAF WJZ and others outline programs for May 31 including The Jameses Phil Spitaling's Music Walter Damrosch Orchestra Ponce Sisters and Rudy Vallee Orchestra with many station relays across NBC CBS and local networks. It details times 6:15 to 11:30 p.m. and related station partnerships across WABC WJZ WOR WCAU and more.
New certificates of incorporation were issued at the secretary of state offices. Alamance Weaving Co of Burlington seeks to spin weave and manufacture silk cotton rayon and yarn with 100000 authorized and 300 stock. Fayetteville Merchants Association of Fayetteville becomes a non stock group for merchant protection. Carolina Real Estate Co of Raleigh will handle real estate insurance loans and stock and bond business with 200000 authorized and 300 stock. Names include R Eberhart L F Winslow D Watkins W B Drake Granbery Tucker G M Connell and Edwin Fleischman J W Hinsdale W H Humphrey.
Motorists passing Union township Rutherford county should carry full gas supply and essential motoring gear. The piece notes a scarcity of filling stations and mocks their absence as an eye sore to nature lovers while recounting the need for preparedness.
Turner Cain, an African American man, died when his mule wandered off the highway at a grade crossing west of Salisbury and was struck by an eastbound freight train. Cain's buggy was destroyed and both animal and driver perished.
City Council will consider H. C. Byrum's application to erect a filling station at the corner of Ward and Prospect streets at the regular meeting on June 3, 1939. By order of the City Council the 20th day of May, 193%. E. M. Knox, City Manager.
Ida Beall Warren, granted freedom after 15 years behind bars, left the state prison at 6 am with $221.99 in commutation money and a new dress and hat. She plans to live on a farm near Winston-Salem with a daughter, after conviction in 1915 for the murder of her husband, the only woman in North Carolina ever sentenced to electrocution, now commuted to life and finally released.
More visitors from the United States traveled to Czechoslovakia last year than from any other country, reflecting strong US curiosity about Central Europe and cultural exchanges.
Public auction of Lot No. 15 in George F. Wilson properties at the Guilford County courthouse door on June 19 1930 at 12 o clock noon for cash. Deed of trust held by M P Rowland and Mabel Rowland with E P Yates Company and Union Trust Company of Maryland as trustees. Default on indebtedness. Auctioneer W S Lockhart attorney, Durham NC.
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