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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 10, 1931
Page
6
Announcements include the birth of a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Wade Coggins on November 9 at 524 Flint Street and a son to Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Kearns on November 10 at 506 Ames Street. Also hospital news, club meetings, a marriage, and a church supper with details of times and locations.
A large gathering celebrated W. G. Hutchens’s fiftieth birthday at his home on Hansell Street with a surprise dinner and fifty candle cake. Attendees included relatives from Greensboro and nearby towns, with a picnic style meal and a friendly evening.
The Senior Y W A of Green Street Baptist met Monday evening at 00 East Commerce Street with Miss Bernice Stallings hosting. The program titled Thanksgiving featured Miss Sadie Doss with assistance from Mrs. W L Campbell and others. thirteen members and two visitors attended.
In Madison Wisconsin the University experimental college may end after its sixth year as freshmen and sophomores were treated as guinea pigs. President Glenn Frank defends the venture saying it cultivates initiative and a questioning mind, while critics within the faculty doubt its lasting value. Students study with advisers and engage in group discussions rather than traditional classes.
Mrs Sara Wagger departed Sunday for New York City to shop ready-to-wear for Wagger's Ladies shop for ten days. Mrs Joe Pell of Rocky Mount Va visits her parents Mr and Mrs Charles F Long on Elm Street due to her father’s illness. Mr Long is improved. Ernestine Asbury and Marjorie Sprye spent the weekend in Gastonia as guests of Mrs Lloyd Spargo and attended the Charlotte High Point football game.
A stranger stole $614 from J F Ball after asking can you see without glasses. Ball wandered to a police station an hour later. A missing screen extra girl smashed a store window to talk and faces 130 jail companions for 15 days in county lockup.
William Gaines surveys rapid modernity in New York art and cinema circles. painter Enrique Dorda, once royal portraitist to Alfonso XIII, juggles urgent commissions for American stars like Lily Damita while Adolph Zukor ushers new theater ventures.
In Los Angeles a burglar stole a quantity of neckties, socks, and the best suit owned by wrestler and film villain Bull Montana, seen in a dresser photograph. The incident references the famous screen figure and occurs amid the era’s sensational crime reporting.
Richard F. Rademacher, 15, Romeo, confessed stealing three cars to court authorities. Deputy Sheriff C. L. Stockton jailed him after the admissions detailing three distinct automobiles used to court his daughter.
In Norman Oklahoma a special children's show on Saturday charges one potato for admission. Proceeds from the potato matinee go to charity.
Waxahachie Texas stunt flyer Carroll Ward who had parachuted daily for a year and a half without injury wore an arm splint after breaking it in a fall from a pecan tree. The incident halted his routine briefly but he planned to resume later with precautions.
Mrs Josephine Clover returned from a two week vacation to find her home missing. Investigation found neighbors, fearing a hard winter, had burned the house for kindling wood.
Chicago records list Mary Hogan as 105, though she claimed to be nearly 125 and the city’s oldest woman. Her death marks the end of a long life bookended by curiosity and community stories in Chicago.
A Chicago thief attempted a bold heist by taking 106 shoes from Ole Forde, a traveling salesman, but all the footwear recovered were left shoes leaving clues of the misstep in a city still adjusting to a rash of odd thefts.
In New York a novel gambling event saw 3,000 pigeon owners release 10,000 birds to test social influence. Each bird tied to a double or nothing wager, aiming to predict how many pigeons would lead others home.
Thomas Ward 18 and Joseph Regele 14 followed a coin toss to decide their fate then surrendered two pistols at a Boston police station. Ward explained the younger boy’s safety was his priority and that he planned to keep him from trouble.
Italian Foreign Minister Grandi rides an electric horse on the ship toward America as it plummets at sea S800. The former president Coolidge used a similar horse on a voyage, and Grandi replicated the ride during the perilous crossing.
A former academy building at South Salem Ohio once used by former Senator Fokker is now a library and museum preserving his legacy.
Manchester New Jersey residents can attend movies and football games on Sundays after last week’s voter approval. The measure became effective yesterday, removing blue laws and permitting Sunday activities.
Winnie Ruth Judd 27 will be tried early in December by Superior Judge Howard C Speakman on murder charges in the trunk murder of Mrs Leroi Samuelson 24 and Hedvig Samuelson 24 whose bodies were shipped to Los Angeles in trunks Arraignment in superior court is tentatively set for November 16 in Phoenix Arizona.
Billy Townsend of Vancouver outpointed Andy Saviola of New York in a ten round fight. Paul Pirrone of Cleveland scored a knockout over Marty Collins of Philadelphia in the third round.
Seven lettermen are available for the University of Minnesota's basketball team this year. Indiana and Illinois universities had not met for 10 years prior to their clash this season.
Kathleen Norris, novelist, suggests America give ten million extra Christmas gifts this year to jolt unemployment. The plan would create substantial extra work but hinges on widespread gift-giving.
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