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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 07, 1931
Page
11
We thank friends and neighbors for sympathy during illness and death of our husband and father. We also express appreciation for the beautiful floral offerings.
A surge in buying pushed General Electric and American Telephone higher amid broad gains in utilities and industrials. Cotton and bond markets rallied while curb trading showed blocks changing hands as investors welcomed Hoover’s plan to curb deflation.
The annual state convention of the Baptist Student Union will be in Durham from October 30 to November 1. Principal speakers are Dr. Louis D. Newton of Atlanta and Dr. John L. Hill of Nashville, with W Herschel Ford of Wake Forest presiding. About 400 delegates from state colleges are expected.
The federal erosion board will meet in Wilmington October 22 to finalize its report on Fort Fisher damage and to make recommendations on preventing further erosion.
Enterprise Bureau Raleigh reports Dean I O Schaub of North Carolina State College warns 8000 tenant cotton farmer families may lose homes food and work as farmers slash tenants to survive. He blames market prices and competition with Texas Iowa, urging public relief and plans to keep tenants fed housed and employed.
Shanghai dispatch reports Colonel and Mrs. Lindbergh abandoning their Far East aerial tour after learning of Senator Dwight W. Morrow's death in Englewood New Jersey. They will sail home by steamer and rail from Kobe to Yokohama then to Nagashi on Shanghai Maru, with arrival in Seattle planned October 24 aboard President Jefferson.
The Western North Carolina Hardware Dealers association will hold a one day meeting in Asheville on October 13. Local merchants are invited to discuss trade issues, supplier relations, and upcoming regional events.
President Hoover unveils a sweeping relief plan during Laval's Washington visit, seeking extension of the debt moratorium beyond June and mobilization of banking resources. He urges rapid, national support from both parties and real estate and banking leaders to back a $500 million private loan fund to aid insolvent banks and restore confidence.
About 1600 educators from Western North Carolina are expected to attend a two day meeting in Asheville on October 16 and 17 hosted by the Western North Carolina Education Association.
The Mississippi House approves a reduction plan to limit cotton cultivation in 1932 to thirty percent of current lands while an alternate fifty percent cut for 1930 acreage is proposed for delta long staple farmers. The measure requires passage by other southern state legislatures before taking effect and returns to the senate after house amendments.
Special session called by Governor Harvey Parnell convenes in Little Rock to tackle cotton relief and an investigation of highway funds expenditure. A cotton acreage reduction bill modeled on Texas law would cap planting to one third of current cultivated area, with Representative Paul Clark of Grant County planning a Louisiana style prohibition on cotton production in 1932.
In May 1925 Long paid 106,530 under protest after hearings in Washington. His lawyer Dr. Dred Peacock testified that Long had not included stock sale proceeds, believing tax already paid, and advised waiting for government decision. Long seeks repayment arguing statute limits bar recovery. the government contends fraud and tax evasion.
Raleigh October seven. The state supreme court heard arguments on the motor liability act requiring fore hire auto operators to post a bond to show financial responsibility before licensing. Plaintiffs J. B. Kirk and W. A. Nichols, representing others in the for hire field, challenge the act against A. J. Maxwell, commissioner of revenue. Lower court upheld validity.
Fayetteville plans a celebration for Henry L. Stevens Jr. of War Saw, new American Legion commander, passing through Friday en route to Charlotte for the state welcome. He will be greeted at the old market house by local officials and notables, then fly to Charlotte with Wiley Post and Harold Gatty for the all southern air pageant.
Tuesday evangelistic service at First Reformed focused on youth. Youth led singing, a Rosa Long and Na omi Miller duet performed Living For Jesus. Rev W R Shaffer preached on ideals and thoughts shaping actions, urging Christ as the highest ideal. Tonight features a boys quartet and children’s singing. services at 7 30.
Oct 7 Fairview reports Henry Garren, descendant of William Whitaker, owns a Bible printed in 1606 on a hand press in England. The historic volume arrived in colonial America and now belongs to Garren.
Elisha Kent Kane III a University of Tennessee Romance Languages professor and son of Dr Evan O Neill Kane faces a December 8 trial in Hampton Virginia for the murder of his wife Jenny Graham Kane. A grand jury indicted him after eleven witnesses spoke at the county circuit court proceeding and coroner's verdict termed the death premeditated. The defense offered no evidence at the preliminary hearing.
The Bruning cabinet resigns under mounting crisis as Reichstag is dissolved by President Hindenburg and cabinet decrees curb expenditures. By year end new economy decrees tighten budgets and raise taxes on certain goods amid rising unemployment and fascist gains led by Adolf Hitler.
On October 7 correspondence notes 222 Pellagra cases last year in Richmond county down to 110 this year. Mrs Anna Lea Harris home agent says club women and local authorities have united to seek out cases and aid in supplying proper diets.
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