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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1931
Page
2
Methodist women push equality in church duties and leadership. In Atlanta the Ecumenical conference session saw women granted full delegates for the first time in sixty years, though their numbers remain small at 26 delegates among 550 men. Women from 23 Methodist branches, about 60 percent of total membership, advance in ordination and representation.
The denomination highlights women pioneers in prohibition, education, child welfare, shorter work hours, delinquent and dependent children care, prison improvements, social settlement work for blacks and immigrants, law enforcement, and ballot rights. Methodism backs US and League of Nations efforts in Manchuria and pursues a universal prohibition campaign.
Hawthorne has donated about $65,000 to Governor Emmerson’s relief fund for the unemployed, lifting Chicago tracks charity total beyond $100,000. About 20,000 fans attended the charity card, with admissions, reduced purses, and a Chicago Business Men's Racing association donation fueling the largest charity day of the season in Chicago.
Mrs. Martin Vizay files for divorce in Milwaukee alleging cruelty after losing both husband and employment. She had worked in his concern for $10 weekly. Court orders husband to pay $30 monthly until a lump sum of $1,126 can be paid.
In Baltimore Maryland William Spencer devised a scheme to beat low spirits by manipulating chalk marks on tires in a two hour parking zone. He moved cars to erase chalk lines gaining customers until he was arrested after moving a car and surrendered to a police officer.
Storms bring rain snow and strong winds ending California drought as unsettled weather continues. Naches Pass in the Washington Cascades reports 16 inches of snow closing a highway while stockmen and farmers hail the rain. In Memphis Lieut. Richard Lee signs about 70,000 checks this year averaging 3,000 monthly.
Four men convicted of kidnapping Charles M. Rosenthal, a Wall Street broker, were sentenced to sixty years apiece for the $50,000 ransom. The defendants were Marcus Blumenthal alias Jack Markham Albert Sileo alias John Rocco Theodore Adanolfi alias Harry King and Nicholas Rut manager of the Hotel Ven fg. A companion, Betty Green, was acquitted but admitted bringing Rosenthal to the group. In Egypt a wolf killed a priest after attacking him during dawn prayer.
Frank Miller of Washington DC and Ruth Smith of Lafayette Indiana won the long marathon event at Atlantic City finishing after 61 days and 1473 hours. They earned cups and cash prizes at a rate of 34 cents per hour, celebrating the 56 year old grandfather with his 22 year old partner.
In Bremen Germany four people were sentenced to imprisonment for spreading false rumors that caused a run on the Bremen Savings Bank. Sentences ranged up to six weeks. A woman teacher convicted of the same offense was fined 50 dollars.
December is the month to mulch the perennial border with several inches of straw or rotted manure after the ground has frozen. Snow, however, is the best mulch available.
Market notes show sliced mackerel and trout on sale with oysters priced by the quart. Limited readable text indicates seafood items and quantities available.
LENOIR Oct 23. Mrs Bea trice Phillips settles a 50000 alienation of affections suit against Mrs Charlotte Yount ending the last legal chapter in the death of T. J. Phillips. Phillips was wounded while with Yount near Kings Mountain last July and died. The coroner and jury previously found death by unknown hands. Mrs Phillips attended the inquest and cited Phillips had visited Yount for years.
The Cafe de Paris on Avenue de l Opera, famed for 64 years, will close December 1 as Banque de Paris et des Pays Bas refuses to renew the lease to expand its offices. The restaurant, linked with Pre Catalan Fouquet and Armenonville, has long been a social hub for locals and travelers.
Seattle, Washington. J P Mc Ertwine and his wife visited an aunt. Lacking sleep due to hunger he raided the icebox. A saucer broke, the aunt cried out, the steak was tossed to the cat, and he hid under the table while the aunt spanked the cat.
A four member committee of the New Zealand Parliament is examining the possibility of introducing Bible study in public schools. The discussion focuses on curriculum, import of religious instruction in state education, and potential implications for secular schooling.
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