30 Oct 1927
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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 30, 1927
Page
1
At Houston Michigan a blast trapped seven miners 4100 feet underground in the Quincy copper mine after fire damage. A rescue team of 150 timber fallers dug frantically to reach them as officials warned little chance of survival.
A fog shrouded collision off Cape Cod sank the Avalon, killing 11 crewmen. The President Wilson rammed the schooner after a course signal alteration, with confusion over a white light and a halted liner. Only three men survived in a dory.
Moscow October 29 By AP two brothers Vladimir and Cyril Prove and brother in law Korepa noff once millionaires with high social ties were executed today by order of the soviet court for alleged espionage for Great Britain. The swift trial and rapid execution show the regime's urgency in punishing state secrets traitors.
Indianapolis Ind Oct 29 The city faces a continuing two mayor situation with two incumbents and two challengers. Judge Milner will rule next Monday on a motion by Ira M Holmes to dissolve a restraining order delaying action. A fifth claimant, William C Busher, asserts his right as mayor but lacks formal dismissal notice and reasons.
At Old Orchard Maine on October 29 the Dawn crew, led by Frances Grayson, pressed for better weather to launch a Copenhagen voyage. Pilot Charles Stultz doubted feasible conditions. if no improvement by Monday night, Grayson would return to New York as navigators weighed fog and high seas that halted last week’s Nova Scotia attempt.
Dwight W. Morrow was sworn in as American ambassador and met President Calles for the first official engagement. Both sides voiced hope for friendly ties and a mutual settlement of outstanding issues as a large crowd gathered at the National Palace. Esteemed officials accompanied the ambassador to the ceremony.
The will of S Davies Warfield president of Seaboard Air Line Railway filed today estimates the estate at 3 million dollars. The residuary will endow a woman's home in memory of his mother. Warfield died suddenly in Baltimore Monday.
New York reports Cesare Sabelli and three companions plan a December trans Atlantic flight to Rome in a Bellanca aircraft, aiming for New Year’s Day landing. The crew includes a navigator and radio operator to gather data, with Bellanca and designers asserting improved winter range.
Ben nie Boswell of Portsmouth Virginia and R F New of Dublin Georgia were sentenced to three to five years in a Greensboro superior court for highway robbery at a filling station ten miles south of the city on October 19. They helped hold pistols while another man took $150 and a watch from the Snider youths. The defense called private investigators to claim the grand jury testimony was false, prompting possible indictments for witness tampering.
In Copenhagen on October 29, the former Maria Feodorowna refuses to believe the czar is dead. As her eightieth birthday nears, she grows weaker yet remains privately housed, sharing time with Prince Dolgorouuicks and Countess Mencken as she awaits possible visits from her son.
John J. Mitchell Sr., head of Illinois Merchants Trust and a director at Pullman International Harvester Commonwealth Edison and Illinois Bell, dies after a foggy highway crash while Mrs. Mitchell also perishes. Chauffeur Bradley survives with minor injuries as the couple neared Chicago en route from Lake Geneva for a funeral train. Mitchell would have turned 74 in a week.
Quito receives word that police thwart a government conspiracy plan. Arrests include Alberto Donoso Cobo Colonel Benjamin Peralta Colonel Carlos Andrade Major Elias Paz Mino and Hermosenes Cortes. Interior minister conferred with the secret service to halt the alleged plot.
ST. LOUIS AP Prosecuting Attorney Charles P Taft Jr said he had evidence that George Amus a former bootlegger killed his wife Imogene to stop her from testifying in a divorce suit Remus allegedly killed an Indiana sheriff in 1923
Walter F. Lopp, a death by own action victim, was mourned at his West Sixth Avenue home with a large turnout from Lexington's business civic and religious community. Rev. B. S. Brown Jr led Lutheran rites, with elaborate floral tributes and prominent local pallbearers. Interment followed at the city cemetery.
Violent westerly gales sweeping Great Britain since Friday night have caused 21 deaths and numerous injuries. The storm hit southern and northern England hardest, with Ireland cut off by cables. Roofs and chimneys toppled, a tenement collapsed in Chester and Manchester, and a Lancaster sanatorium suffered drownings amid rescues. Denmark reports a west er hurricane and heavy sea pressure on dykes. train service delayed.
The weekly report shows clearing house banks and trust companies with excess reserves of 329 million 561 thousand 460 dollars an increase of 73 million 145 thousand 110 dollars from the prior week which had a deficit of 43 million 583 thousand 650 dollars.
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