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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1930
Page
7
Trading finishes with scattered results across sectors as investors digest mixed data. Major names including General Motors, DuPont, and Penn Railroad show varied moves while utilities and tobacco stocks firm.
Harrison Ark Oct 18 Sheriff L M Martin said a man calling himself Roy H Thompson arrested for resembling George Perry Wisconsin wanted lover and accused slayer of a wife would be released this afternoon after efforts to identify him as Perry failed.
The Catholic Chapel Car St Peter is moved to a Southern Railroad siding near the Lexington passenger station and will open for services and inquiries tomorrow. Father Luke Hay of the Passionist order will lead evening services from Sunday to Friday at eight, and answer questions via a box at the car entrance. The car previously visited Lexington last spring and drew many inquirers.
State Treasurer W M Stebbins who opposed Senator George W Norris disclosed he provided the $500 bond for George W Norris a Broken Bow grocer who filed to challenge Norris in the August primary.
Josiah W. Bailey, Democratic Senate nominee for North Carolina, said he was summoned to testify before the Senate Campaign Funds Investigating committee about his campaign expenditures.
Large-scale liquidation again poured into the stock market as the week closed at new minimum price levels. Some shares held firm, losses were moderate, and a faint rally emerged in late trading. U S Steel touched a prior low then steadied, Am Popper unrelated. (Note: The summary preserves core entities and events within the readable text while avoiding nonessential filler.)
Amos W. Woodcock director of prohibition says forces are pitifully small after visits to Chicago and Wisconsin. He plans to ask Congress for a 500 officer increase and praises Chicago and Milwaukee police for cooperation with agents. He notes crime remains present but Chicago is as orderly as Baltimore.
New Orleans cotton futures opened steady with Liverpool cables stronger. December rose to 10.68 and March to 10.64 before retreating. end of hour prices held near highs. Gains of 1 to 3 points earlier reflected overnight buying on cold weather expectations.
Guilford College begins work on the fall play It Won t Be Long Now by Milton Serbert Gropper. David Parsons of High Point will lead, Dorothy Wolff stars, with a large cast including Roseland Newlin Linwood Beaman Hedward Blair Sarah Davis Charles Milner Lucille Patterson Henry Turner Austin Garner Rachel Beasley Arlene Thompson William Rodgers Ernest Dixon and James Harper.
New York reports a steady cotton start with prices near unchanged and December futures rising to 10.85 as trade absorbs selling. Weather signals frost potential and forecasts point to scattering frost at night while stock market activity briefly influences early trading.
Greenville South Carolina to hold an inquest Monday into the deaths of Mr. and Mrs. Georgia Floyd Jr. Officers believe Floyd killed his wife and then killed himself. The bodies were found at their home near the Poinsett mill. A three year old daughter was alone with the bodies for hours.
Robert Buck a 16 year old junior transcontinental flyer left Columbus Ohio for Newark New Jersey at 7:52 a.m in the last lap of his attempt to break the junior trans continental speed record Buck planned to fly at about 8000 feet where a 67 mile an hour tail wind was expected to aid his flight
Fire and police probes into yesterday's explosion at a 12 story garment building left 453 injured and caused damage rising to 1.5 million dollars. Officials now favor accidental gas ignition over sabotage as workers reported nausea from escaping gas and insurance values cited the building at eight hundred thousand dollars in damage.
Former Governor Cameron Morrison of Charlotte is due to arrive this afternoon to headline the second Democratic campaign rally of the fall at the Junior High School auditorium. He will be introduced by Mr. Burrus, candidate for the state senate.
Two men robbed the Brentwood bank in the St. Louis suburb at opening time and escaped with ten thousand dollars. The cashier was surprised as the day began.
Dr. M. J. Bonn, economics professor and finance director in Berlin, spoke in Chapel Hill on postwar Germany. He warned of Versailles induced inflation and unemployment, foreign influence, and the presence of foreign troops, noting government control debates and the political religious split shaping the nation.
A faded Mary Washington letter, written in 1748 to Lynn Washington, fetched $1450 at an Philadelphia auction of autographs and manuscripts. Other Washington items included military correspondence to Major General Heath sold for $1200 and a letter to Thomas Johnson about federal judicial organization brought $1075. An autograph manuscript by Count Tolstoi sold for $420.
Berlin reports claim the former Kaiser funds the Fascist party via monarchist groups, with Prince August Wilhelm cited as a party affiliate. The Ach tuhr Abendblatt article offered no sources, noting American support had reportedly ceased.
D. E. Rivers, wreck master of the Atlantic Coast Line, was attacked by two men in Florence on October 18. He was sandbagged and shot twice, grazed, and robbed of $6.75 but not seriously injured.
Among Georgia’s 161 counties, 33 maintain full time health commissioners. The figure highlights uneven distribution of health leadership across counties, with several areas lacking dedicated full time public health leadership.
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