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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 07, 1929
Page
4
A dated excerpt quotes Romans 2 7 and Fielding praising patient continuance in good deeds. It urges that one who acts rightly should not be sorry even if others err and that personal virtue remains worthy despite collective wrongdoing.
President Herbert Hoover and British Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald met on the Rapidan River banks in Virginia to discuss world peace. The open-air talk led to a joint announcement of a forthcoming meeting inviting naval powers to attend. Both leaders, seen as forward-looking, signaled a shared hope for stronger cooperation to preserve peace.
The Greensboro News notes the Tri City Airport site death on maps now showing Greensboro airport as the tri city field. The Enterprise reaffirms protest against Guilford County funding of the airport and High Point's financial stake amid map designation confusion.
The Greensboro First Presbyterian church dedicated a new building yesterday, capable of seating hundreds, with the old church now abandoned beside the tombs of local pioneers. The church, 105 years old, began with 16 founders including four African American members. Negro members remained a steady share until 1868 when 23 left to form a separate church after the Civil War.
The North Carolina senators oppose a Wheeler led investigation of industrial conditions in the state arguing surveys may not affect conditions but could expose faulty beliefs. They urge impartial surveys to reveal truths about wages and working conditions and counter propaganda with facts.
Bruce Catton argues ordinary courage and honesty can transform towns. The Borger story shows a district attorney's murder sparking Texas Rangers and state troops to clean up the town, proving virtue can leaven a city even at personal cost. Also notes a D A R precedence incident and Mexico's football enthusiasm and potential policy challenges for expansion.
Washington Oct 7 A re alignment of army engineers to carry out President Hoover plan for decentralizing rivers harbor and flood control work has been announced. Brigadier General Thomas H. Jackson will head the Lower Mississippi development with headquarters at Vicksburg. Lt Colonel George R. Spalding will run upper Mississippi and tributaries from St Louis. Colonel Edward M. Markham will oversee Great Lakes waterways from Cleveland. The reorganizations create division engineers and assign New Orleans district to Gulf of Mexico division with offices in New Orleans.
The city council urges every interested citizen to attend tonight's meeting to decide on a plan for handling the grade crossing issue. If the conference yields results, a definite action line will be indicated. waiting is unlikely to yield a solution without city initiative.
The piece argues the South will face rising labor agitation and should prepare by compiling facts. It warns that other regions will back organized labor in the South and that employers may fuel the movement to remain competitive. It calls for honest investigation and careful handling of information to avoid costly confusion.
Dr Herman Stevens preached on Onesiphorus visiting Paul in prison and bringing joy to the discouraged. He urged members to seek those in need whether sick or suffering, noting that the helper brings happiness to both the recipient and their own household.
North Carolina leaders urge careful seed drying and testing for next season and advise better church press cooperation. Henry W. Dwire, Winston-Salem editor, told the High Point Ministers association that church news needs accurate, moral coverage to raise the community’s moral and intellectual tone.
A poetry snippet notes Ethel Remigree in The Churchman describing a hermit thrush’s solitary song in quiet peaks with no audience or response.
English explorer Violet Crissy-Marcks returns to London recounting a solo Lapland trek in a reindeer pulk toward a camp 40 miles up the Lutto River. After 30 miles wolves swarmed the pulk, the rein deer cowered, and she beat the wolves with a stick while paddling to safety. The wolves retreated only when shots from Finnish guides reached the scene and she fainted afterward.
Before a radio audience Leopold Stokowski led the Philadelphia Orchestra through Bach and Mozart, wearing plus fours and no collar. He removed his coat and necktie before a Wagner overture.
A police report lists jewels worn by actress Jeanne Fagels at death, including a $250000 pearl ring and a $20000 six carat diamond ring plus other jewelry, totaling about $350000 in value. In New Market New Jersey recorder Von Minden praised football and youth, as 22 arraigned youths faced continued case.
Philadelphia football player Edward Massa died from a broken neck sustained in a game against Holmesburg on the East Falls profession team. The incident occurred during a recent match, leaving the league and community in shock.
Miss May Haizler sustained two broken fingers when a bird struck her hand during a plane adjustment fifty minutes from Toronto. Feathers found on the craft but no other damage occurred. accident blamed on the bird.
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