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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 20, 1930
Page
11
A bustling scene review notes the comedy Feet First at the Broadhurst theatre prompting laughter and suspense. also listed are local sale items including dry pine stove wood and a water heater offered by Jan Mar Mey and Fourth Street listings. New York cotton market report follows with steady but uneven prices and industry activity.
Treasury receipts for November are 154 billion 440 million 548 395 dollars with expenditures 124 billion 553 million 787 21 dollars and balances 104 million 156 thousand 793 12 dollars. Co-eds at North Carolina State College have increased 690 percent within five years.
New York November 20 The stock market showed bullishness as prices hit new highs for the recovery begun 10 days ago. Gains were modest but volume increased with professional trading led by the motion picture merchandising and motor groups. Major movers included American Water Works Macy General Electric and Auto Lite among others while GM Coca-Cola and Union Carbide posted solid gains.
A man shot his wife, Mrs Marion, five more times after she grappled for his revolver. He fled toward Thomasville in his car after the fatal shot. The state questions witnesses to challenge the defense and notes the couple’s extended family presence in court.
Washington reports the Anti Saloon League expanding a high level business leader campaign to promote prohibition through newspapers magazines radio and films. The effort aims to present pro prohibition merits while noting past saloon problems as Prohibition Director Woodcock backs a St. Louis grape juice case but warns against broad action against juice sellers amid gangster threats and California grape growers seeking justice department protection.
Cotton markets in New Orleans opened fairly steady as early losses in Liverpool were offset by shorts covering and transfer from December to later months. December touched 11.00 and March 11.41, with January at 11.09, then closed with modest declines, while December months saw strong selling absorption by spot interests.
Rome authorities list four land and seaports where civil aircraft can land and receive customs services. Additional airports without facilities are named as possible landings, while landings at other airports are forbidden.
Marion told Gray and police he was traveling with his wife toward Thomasville when a black assailant robbed him of about $20 and shot his wife. He reported leaving the car, a confrontation at gunpoint, and the assailant demanding money before the wife was killed.
Nelson C. Bowles a 384 retired capitalist and Mrs Irma Loucks Paris a 25 former secretary were arrested in Portland Ore on murder charges related to the death of Bowles wife Leone Bowles 33. Police say a knife was driven into her breast at Paris apartment on November 12. Both suspects claimed Bowles wife stabbed herself though District Attorney Stanley Myers cited Dr Paul D Cooper admission as pivotal to the case.
The 1931 North Carolina general assembly will have 172 Democrats and eight Republicans, the smallest minority ever seated in the legislature.
Public auction sale of property under a 1928 deed of trust by J Vassie Willson and wife Lucy K Wilson to W C Idol trustee. Sale in front of High Point Municipal Building December 22 1930 at 11 00 AM for cash with ten percent down. subject to taxes and street assessments.
Asheville on November 20 Dayce Z. Miller a baker at Purity Bakery interrupted a store robbery at 230 Patton Avenue by leveling a finger as a weapon and forcing three men Charlies Porter George Holbert and Eddie Simon to surrender They were arrested along with a fourth man Ben Holbert and held for links to several Asheville store breakings.
Dr W C Wicker of Elon College was re elected president of the Eastern North Carolina Christian conference at its annual closing session at Catawba Springs. The conference plans to meet next year at Shallow Well Christian church near Jonesboro. Rev J H Lee pastor of Cary church was ordained. All officers were re elected.
President L. M. Vaughan of Raleigh and secretary W. J. Ballentine of Fuquay Springs join treasurer in naming nine delegates to attend the congregational Christian fraternal conference. The gathering next spring in Salisbury aims to perfect the union of two churches.
New York reports a Bell Telephone Laboratories device that scrambles speech to stop eavesdropping during trans Atlantic calls. Demonstrated by Sergius P. Grace at a science forum, the system uses an electric transmitting brain and translating brain to produce a language no human speaks.
Miss Katie Daffan of Ennis Texas, attending the United Daughters of the Confederacy convention in Asheville, declares that modern Southern girlhood is as fine and sweet as ever though shaped by a new environment. She cites mothers and teachers as crucial in guiding youth and upholding Southern womanhood’s enduring reputation.
The article analyzes three questions from a deal: optimal play for Y across tricks, the best opening lead by B, and correct auction and contract. It argues Y should trump with hearts at trick three and outlines a sequence leading to game, cites five spades lead as best, and presents auction lines with Z opening one no trump and Y bidding two hearts or four hearts depending on hand strength, ending with six no trump as a maximal contract.
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