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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 29, 1930
Page
7
U S Department of Agriculture reports cattle 300 on hand with heavies up 1.00 to 1.50, yearlings 50 to 1.00 higher, stockers and feeders 25 or more up as kill ers take most cattle. Sheep and hogs show varied gains and declines with top lambs at 8.85 and hogs steady to down slightly in late trading.
Chicago grain prices edged higher led by corn amid poor corn belt weather and light offerings. Buyers expect readjustment after a 4 cent drop from the week’s high with corn finishing up about 1 1/4 to 1 7/8 cents.
Bernard Paelt of South Africa was killed in Pontresina Switzerland while filming his automobile when struck by another car during a recent visit.
Bears closed short contracts as market steadied after a week of slow declines. turnover around 650,000 shares marked the smallest Saturday total since August, with many prominent stocks up 1 to 2 points. Copper prices firmed, Burlington plans an extra dividend, and retail trade showed hints of recovery ahead of holiday funds deployment.
Liverpool spot cotton slips as prices ease across grades with American middling at 6.94 and sales of 3,000 bales including 900 American. Receipts total 3,000 bales, futures closed quiet and steady with December at 5.53 and January at 6.57.
Cotton prices fell in New Orleans as Liverpool cables declined, with December at 10.37, down 10 points. Early rally faded amid continued liquidation ahead of the week end and the government crop report, leaving the market steady only at the session lows.
Six inmates escaping Marshall county jail last night beat cell padlocks with bunk beds then used an iron rail to smash through the wall. One escapee, W Buckner, was recaptured this morning. others including two Asheville youths remained at large. Names not yet released by the sheriff.
Nov 29 report from Raleigh lists new notaries public commissioned at Gov. O Max Gardner offices. Names include C F Sumner Asheville D M Robinson Gastonia Mae Lee Askew Windsor A C Black Gastonia W J Baldwin Cerro Gordo J B Craigmiles Bakersville W Roscoe Peters High Point Miss Charlotte Shoaf Lexington J M Small Charlotte Miss Norma Janet Winburn Greensboro T W Albertson High Point Charles A Armstrong Troy W H H Daniel Charlotte Troy R Dillon Leaksville Miss Alice R Hodges Kinston James Hutchins Windom A M Sell Wilmington Mrs Kate Staton Hickory.
A OCR readout lists numerous stock tickers and prices across diverse sectors led by Alloy chemical and automotive firms with mixed percentage changes. Major names include Armour, DuPont, Chrysler, General Motors, Pennsy, Radio and Seaboard among others with varied gains and losses reflecting a dynamic market session.
Cotton opened steady with declines of 4 to 7 points as selling from southern and local sources hit May futures around 1996, about 125 points below late October highs. Trade buying trimmed losses by mid morning while Liverpool noted hedging and improved Indian demand for cotton goods amid rising Shanghai auction activity.
The Austrian cabinet led by Chancellor Vaugoin resigned today and President Miklas accepted the resignation.
A Rock Port Missouri chestnut branch was found bearing ripe nuts and new blooms on the same limb, indicating a rare simultaneous fruiting and flowering phase for the tree.
At 7:00 P M Young Peoples meeting in the Junior High auditorium led by Mrs Loren Jones and Rev L F Tuttle. Women meet at First Reformed Church with Rev Bishop Willis in charge. Men meet in the tabernacle annex with Ray G Upson in charge. 7 30 P M tabernacle song service. 8 00 P M all in tapernacle for service with Mr Stephens preaching.
After a praise and testimony gathering at the Stephens tabernacle on South Main Street Rev George Stephens led a prayer and consecration service with hundreds present. Rev J C Benfield from Le noir and young High Point men Wilbur Hutchins and Carl Lewis shared testimonies of spiritual dedication as 150 youths attended the junior high service before joining.
Rev R I Farmer will deliver the five o clock vesper sermon titled Sportsmanship In Play and Life at First Methodist Protestant Church corner of North Main and Richardson tomorrow evening. Special guest coach will attend the football service.
Beall's High Point College Purple Panthers coached by Buan Hackney face Coach Marlette's High School Bisons in a charity game on December 5. The college glee club will perform two selections. Morning worship at eleven features Mr. Farmer on Proud Of The Gospel. Junior church service also at eleven. Church school led by Prof. C R Hinshaw meets at 9:45.
Central Friends Bible School and Brotherhood Class convene Sunday at 9 45 with Horace Haworth as superintendent. At 11 o clock worship service Rev Tom Alderman Sykes will preach and present a children s story. No evening service.
Norfolk police report Harry Thompson a 22 year old brakeman from Rosemary North Carolina is jailed awaiting grand jury action on a murder charge in the stabbing death of David Whitson 27 also of Rosemary. Thompson waived examination and is held for the grand jury convening Monday. Whitson died November 15 from knife wounds a dying statement says he was stabbed in a scuffle with Thompson.
Washington reports the navy department will start an aerial survey of Porto Rico soon at the request of Governor Theodore Roosevelt. The survey should aid a soil survey begun by the U S department of agriculture for the Porto Rican government.
In a tense scene a man stealthily approaches a woman in a dark corner and kissing her by surprise. She berates him as he bluffs a pardon claiming she is his sister. She insists I am your sister revealing a case of mistaken identity and prompting a sharp reply.
Dare County reports its second automobile fatality in history as Tom Jones, a Black man, was killed when struck by a truck on the Kill Devil Hill to Nags Head highway. The area’s previous fatality occurred three years ago with Carlton Etheridge killed.
R Kent Beattie spent over two years seeking blight resistant chestnuts in Formosa Korea and Japan. He gathered about 250 bushels of native strain chestnuts and 90 cultivated varieties and planted them in Glendale Maryland for testing. Seventy three thousand seedlings from his 1928 collections were distributed to foresters and stations in several states for evaluation. Pathologists and foresters aim to establish blight resistant trees across chestnut growing areas. The American chestnut provides over half the nation’s vegetable tannin.
Dr. Carl C. Taylor, economist at North Carolina State College, argues tobacco growers live on a lower standard of living than the average farmer. He notes cash crop focus, marketing dissatisfaction, and lower social status among North Carolina producers, who rank fourth in the southern states for filing federal income tax returns.
During the current business depression Australia implements a rationing system for jobs. Individual working fees are reduced and work is distributed among a maximum number of employees to preserve employment levels.
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