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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 15, 1930
Page
1
The Enterprise defeated Shamrock V on a 30-mile triangular course with a finish at 2 41 31 as spectators cheered. Shamrock trailed by almost ten minutes at 2 51 20, leaving the American defender two victories from retaining the cup after 73 years.
Guilford County Democratic Executive Committee accepted Mason W. Gant's withdrawal as clerk nominee and named A Wayland Cooke of Greensboro to run. The move follows pension scandal audits and a grand jury instruction from Judge Schenck. Cooke, a Wake Forest graduate and longtime Greensboro lawyer, led in a three cornered district race and was active in local party leadership.
Jake Vanderburg, 18, once acquitted in 1929 of murdering his family, is jailed in Gaston after a death threat against widow Gennie Green near the Vanderburg property. He also threatened O L Rhyne and others. A mental examination is ordered by guardian Paul E Monroe to assess commitment. Vanderburg recently moved from High Point back to the old home.
Charllottetown P E I Sept 15 unfavorable weather held Captain Erroll Boyd and Lieutenant Harry Connor from a planned trans Atlantic hop. They landed at Tea Hill five miles from here aboard the Columbia plane once flown by Clarence Chamberlain. En route from Montreal to Harbor Grace N F on the first leg to London they expect to try again tomorrow morning.
John Lee Coulter of Fargo North Dakota chosen by President Hoover as a new member of the reorganized tariff commission. Coulter, a Republican, joins Henry P. Fletcher as chairman and Thomas Walker Page as Democratic appointee. Incumbents to be reduced to a few retained members.
In Kinston North Carolina Herman Casey 45 a truck driver stands trial for the murder of James C Causey 53 of Suffolk Virginia. The defense wrapped up its case adding several character witnesses and the state ended its testimony. Each side will have three speeches to the jury with no fixed time limit.
Raleigh report notes Judge Thomas L. Johnson resigns as Special Superior Court judge and exits the 1982 gubernatorial race. The move boosts Attorney General Dennis G. Brummitt who gains Johnson’s potential support, though J. C. B. Ehringhaus remains a strong challenger in a contest watched for personality and knowledge.
Police and postal inspectors raided a cafe dubbed a safe blowers nest. One man was killed escaping, another, Frank Peliser, 37, was arrested. They recovered Liberty bonds, money orders worth 100000, guns, ammunition and nitroglycerin linked to robberies in Stillwell Frederick and Central City Oklahoma. Two gang members were arrested in Topeka, Kansas, providing information.
Five states hold final primaries and nominating conventions with contests in New York Massachusetts Wisconsin Connecticut and Delaware. Gubernatorial races in Massachusetts Wisconsin Connecticut. Massachusetts and Delaware nominate senatorial candidates. Wet dry battles shape the Massachusetts and Delaware contests.
Hamburg report says Captain Karl Boy-ed 58, naval attaché at the German embassy in Washington before U.S. entry into the war, died from internal injuries after his horse stumbled over a fence on his Groenwaldhof estate. He had been riding on his birthday and was taken to a hospital where surgeons could not save him.
Adjutant General Homer C. Parker announced that quiet had been restored in Cartersville Georgia where two National Guard detachments guard John Willie Clark a black man held in Bartow county jail as the slayer of Cartersville Chief of Police Joe Ben Jenkins.
Dieudonne Coste and Maurice Bellonte, trans Atlantic fliers, landed at Brainard Field Hartford on the first leg of their goodwill flight around the country. A stirring tribute greeted the French airmen as they arrived in the Question Mark.
Washington dispatch reports Representative Charles M. Stedman of North Carolina, the sole surviving Civil War veteran in Congress, is weaker after apoplexy last week. Doctors deem his recovery outlook unfavorable at age 89.
Raleigh NC Sept 15 Col Frank D Grist state commissioner of Labor and printing loomed as a possible Democratic candidate for the United States Senate in 1982 He suggested he might enter the race against former Governor Morrison noting wealthier rivals and promising to decide later Former Governor Morrison of Charlotte announced he would oppose Senator Lee S Overman of Salisbury for the Democratic nomination in 1932
In Yanceyville North Carolina Republican candidate George M Pritchard charged Democratic politicians with siding with the wet wing of the party and said November will decide if Tammany or Jeffersonian forces control the party. He named Bailey Hoey Morrison and Gardner and defended the Hawley Smoot tariff as protecting farmers products.
In Warsaw yesterday afternoon a clash between political demonstrators and police left two people dead and two wounded. About 100 persons, many armed, were arrested during the fracas.
Bernice and Phyllis Zittenfeld, 15 year old New York twins, began their attempt to swim the English Channel from South Foreland at 6 59 a m. They face a northwesterly wind as they seek the French shore. Their mother expresses confidence in their strength and vitality to endure the long crossing aided by beef meals and support from the motorboat Spartan.
In Carthage North Carolina J W Bailey the Democratic nominee for the U S Senate denounces Republican policies as harmful to industry agriculture and business He accuses Coolidge Hoover era actions of fueling speculation and monetary mismanagement and says Republican policy drives U S factories abroad and harms export trade and prosperity.
Raleigh Sept 15 The state corporation commissioner said an audit of the brokerage firm Durfey and Marr may reveal criminal conduct by either member. Carey Durfey and Wade Marr run the firm which last week admitted it cannot meet liabilities of 125000. Durfey is executor of the Tucker estate valued at 425000 in 1969 and an audit of that estate is under way amid admitted misappropriation of 225000.
President Hoover accepted an invitation from Philadelphia Mayor Harry A. Mackey to attend the opening game of the world series in Philadelphia on October 1. He will leave Washington in the forenoon and then proceed to Cleveland to address the American Bankers Association the next day.
Governor Gardner estimates 25 to 30 million dollars from the federal farm board for eastern North Carolina tobacco interests. A tobacco relief commission will be formed Wednesday as county agents are urged to hold mass meetings to select representatives for a general meeting the next day. Dr. E C Brooks attends the conference and Dean I O Schaub directs the drive.
Harold L. Bromley told Rengo News Agency he will continue attempts to span the Pacific to Tacoma by airplane. A broken gasoline feed pipe forced a landing near Tanage Aomori, Japan, after flying hundreds of miles eastward. Bromley and navigator Harold Gatti faced fatigue and discomfort. The break occurred off Kamchatka. eyes inflamed but no permanent injury after early morning landing.
Treasury receipts for September 12 totaled 10 million 973 thousand 460 dollars with expenditures of 633 thousand 345 dollars. Balance stands at 35 million 5 thousand 2 hundred 305 dollars.
Berlin reports a dramatic rise for Adolf Hitler's Fascist party in the Reichstag, now with at least 105 seats after gains surpassing all predictions. The unexpectedly strong result prompts senators and press to seek a parliamentary majority to govern amid sharp left and right opposition.
Chicago reports R F Bashford, a detective who shadowed Senator Gerald P Nye for Ruth Hanna McCormick, was taken into custody by Department of Justice agents as Nye prepared to reopen the Illinois campaign expenditures inquiry.
Philadelphia, Sept 18 AP Thetty O'Doul hit a home run drive powering the Philadelphia Phillies to a 12 11 victory over the Chicago Cubs in the first game of today’s double header. O'Doul did it again after another strong contribution the previous day.
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