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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1930
Page
2
Britain’s Foreign Secretary Arthur Henderson urged the League of Nations to pursue a universal disarmament plan and a general treaty, rejecting the view that disarmament must precede security. Briand spoke on European federation and naval limits, drawing strong applause from the assembly.
French Foreign Minister Aristide Briand presented his concept for a federation of European states to the League of Nations assembly in Geneva. He emphasized European collaboration and declined to dictate the plan, urging nations to determine its definite form themselves.
James Hamilton Lewis launched his campaign for a Senate return from Illinois. He emphasized farm relief unemployment and prohibition. He urged liquor regulation to return to the states government loans to banks in farm areas and jobs on public works and the return of income tax revenues to the states.
In Norfolk Virginia investigators linked domestic difficulties to the death of Mrs. Mabel B. Carter whose mutilated body was found on Davis Island. Her husband Solomon Dawson Carter also known as Clyde D. Carter is held on murder charges after he claimed she shot herself. Coroner and detectives believe the body was burned after the killing.
In Santa Fe New Mexico on September 11 two lions named Queenie and Duke, left due to a $200 debt, roam the city raising alarm as a meat bill grows. Mayor Jim McCondery and residents hear nightly howling, creating a city problem for the humane society and local officials.
Fr W Lantner, aeronautical inspector for the Commerce department, visited the Charles Kenner Flying field on Greensboro High Point highway near Five Points. He found the planes in first class condition and traveled on to inspect sites in South Carolina before returning to Atlanta. Two Thom asville students joined the local roster, totaling 26, with Paul Davis, chief pilot, saying new pupils arrive daily. C L Amos serves as president of the service.
Governor Gardner urges patience and individual action for tobacco price support. He promotes standardizing leaf grades and hints at a state supervised tobacco exchange, akin to grain and cotton markets, under federal farm board oversight. Crowd around 2 000 hears proposals. H S Ward proposes $100000 residue from Tri-State Tobacco Growers to fund a new organization.
Perry robbed a New York train, fought the messenger, and hijacked the express car. After a running gun battle, he was captured following a chase by locomotive, and later sentenced in Syracuse to a long term. He became insane and blinded himself before dying or being committed.
W S Green, field representative of the federal farm board, spoke to Forsyth and neighboring counties about the tobacco situation. He stated the board does not aim to organize cooperatives but to present facts and encourage growers to act, stressing economic factors, production and marketing problems, and the need for expert purchasing of commodities. He warned there is no relief for this year and cited poor quality, mismanagement, and overproduction as causes. He outlined a remedy focusing on certified seed and careful growing practices.
The report highlights the type of tobacco in greatest demand and stresses using well adapted land, experiment station guidance on fertilizing cultivation insect control and bacterial diseases, plus diversification and retention of crops.
South Carolina farmers received an average of 9.64 per hundred pounds for tobacco in August. The 1929 August average was 13.34, with total sales this year at 33,271,161 pounds across markets and 27,612,925 pounds through independent warehouses.
United Textile supported Shipstead anti injunction action and backed extending workmen's compensation while opposing yellow dog contracts. Josephine Barron said sympathy for a 40 hour week is the most feasible in current conditions. Michael McHugh argued a 30 hour week could curb unemployment as labor saving machines cut jobs in upholstery weaving and knitting, with three of four Philadelphia weavers out of work.
Opening the morning session Thomas F. McMahon and Francis J. Gortman rebut statements by David Clark of the Southern Textile Bulletin. Clark claimed the union is discredited in the South, but McMahon asserts the United Textile Workers are stronger now than ever as the southern drive begins.
Milton Wood, principal witness for the state, set to testify in Herman Casey’s murder trial. Casey is charged with killing James C. Causey, after witnesses placed him near the scene on July 3, the day before Causey’s body was found burned. Wood testified at a coroner’s hearing he rode in Casey’s truck during the events.
Crowds packed the courthouse as Wood took the stand amid the murder case linked to Casey. Solicitor Powers announced the state would rest after Wood and a few other witnesses testify, marking a key phase in the trial.
Alexander Grier of Mecklenburg County, serving 23 1/2 to 29 years for second degree murder, was paroled today by Gov. O Max Gardner. Also paroled were Tom Hill, sent to county roads in Jones County for 18 months for assault with a deadly weapon, and Carson Autry, a Sampson County youth convicted of second degree murder in 1929 and sent to Morrison Industrial School, who escaped and was recaptured.
In Winston Salem on September 11 an iron bar left on the rails toppled the engine and a coach of a Southern railway passenger train traveling from Charlotte to Greensboro via Winston-Salem. Special Agent Sardett broke an arm and baggage master Jornigan suffered minor bruises. No passengers were hurt.
Cumberland county coroner Dr. R A Allgood disclosed a badly decomposed human head found a week ago near the Fayetteville city limits. A negro child found the head behind a vacant house as officials investigated the disappearance of a woman long missing from that area.
Winnifield J. Nicholls, who filed a divorce suit against Barbara Rutherford Hatch Nicholls, daughter of Mrs. W K Vanderbilt, Sr., at Reno, refused to deny or confirm reports he received 100000 dollars from Mrs. Vanderbilt to end the marriage.
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