J L White Inc Local Office Details
J L White Inc lists contact details with office at Heed Bank Building. Office phone 2683 and residence phone 8473 are provided.
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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 15, 1930
Page
9
J L White Inc lists contact details with office at Heed Bank Building. Office phone 2683 and residence phone 8473 are provided.
Private home at 311 West High street advertises room and board near downtown for seven dollars weekly.
The cotton market opened quietly in New Orleans with Liverpool cables stronger than local quotes. Early trades showed slight declines before a rally as short covering and trade buying pushed October to 10.90 and December to 11.07, finishing near session highs and steady overall on the day.
Chicago reports U.S. Department of Agriculture data showing a weak market for potatoes. Saturday and Sunday shipments total 1,066 with Wisconsin and Minnesota prices for Irish cobblers and Idaho russets—No. 3 at 2.90–3.00, No. 2 at 2.40–2.90.
Raw sugar in New York opened steady with spots at 3.15 duty paid and 32 000 bags of Cuban sold for prompt shipment. Refined sugar held at 4.35 to 4.45 for fine granulated as refiners list only one inside, with satisfactory withdrawal demand and no new business of note.
London reports on Sept 15 with bar silver at 16 15 16 D per ounce and money at 1 1 8 percent. Discount rates for short bills and three months range from 2 1 16 to 2 1 8 percent.
Chicago grain markets report a sharp drop as heavy selling and a 7,585,000 bushel rise in the United States wheat visible supply push prices to record lows. September wheat delivery sinks below 80 cents a bushel, with oats and rye following toward new bottom levels.
Cotton markets in Liverpool show moderate demand with prices for American grades slipping. Notable figures include American strict good middling 7.11 and middling 6.21 with futures closing steady. sales reach 5,000 bales, including 2,500 American, no receipts.
DAIRY PRODUCTS NEW YORK Sept 15 Prices show creamery products above extra grade with scores 92 and 88, while whole milk flats and fresh fancy items command higher figures. Packing stock and current make No 1 and No 2 cheese prices are listed with multiple cents per pound ranges.
Naval Stores in Savannah on Sept 15 shows a purtentine firm with 38 sales 920 receipts 38 shipments 315 stock 18417 and a rosin firm with 37 sales 2146 receipts 957 stock 149734. Quotations include RB 465 TY 485 F 41, plus several grade codes and price quotes such as WG 580-50 WW 8640-40.
The bears renewed efforts as the market closed lower for the week. Utilities steel and merchandising shares led declines with losses of 2 to 4 points. High grade bonds and preferred stocks remained firm, while seasoned common shares saw modest demand below market levels.
Harold Vanderbilt in Enterprise led from start to finish as Shamrock V, skippered by Ernest Heard, finished behind. The triangular race concluded with Enterprise crossing the line at 1 hour 41 minutes and 39 seconds, signaling a likely path to reclaim the silver cup after 73 years.
Mary Jones known as Mother Jones, militant labor reformer, showed signs of failing health at age about 100. Doctors reported she had grown weaker after a cocoa intake and could not sleep as she lay in bed, refusing a special nurse while receiving general care from present attendants.
Jenny Scalia, 23, height 28 inches, wed Salvatore Coke, 28, a showman, at the municipal building. The couple, who plan to leave show business, announced their marriage in New York.
City court heard a lengthy assault docket with numerous defendants. Bill Grissett paid a fine and was ordered to return to Virginia. Bill Vaughn received four months hard labor for assault with a deadly weapon. Susie Tinsley got four months. other cases included larceny, drunkenness, and parking violations.
Three children die and a fourth remains gravely ill in Los Angeles from leucomaine poisoning linked to eating unripe fruit. The Lowe family, unemployed and near starvation, lived on goat milk and bread after a shared meal. Children named Betty 5 Virginia 38 and John 18 months died.
National guardsmen arrived in Cartersville under Adjutant General Parker's orders after crowds gathered at the jail where John Willie Clark, 22, a suspect in Police Chief Jenkins' slaying, is held. Governor Hardman directed the reinforcement as authorities appealed for calm.
Gov. O Max Gardner presided at a prison commission meeting in Raleigh behind closed doors to receive progress reports on the penal study being conducted by the group.
Raleigh report quotes Dr. G. M. Cooper linking recent appendicitis fatalities to food faddists and self prescription. He notes 1928 U S deaths exceed 18 000 despite better surgery and more hospital beds and urges public education to curb laxative misuse.
A labor committee will visit Tomlinson Chair Manufacturing again to seek an amicable settlement with striking cloth cutters over Bedaux labor measurement. Sal Hoffmann of the Upholsterers Union says the aim is to prevent wage reductions and improve pay, not to meddle or seek raises. Hoffmann notes High Point wages are 50 to 300 percent lower than other furniture centers and pledges union support, including hiring an outside engineer if needed. The dispute, including possible strikes, rests with S H Tomlinson.
BENNETTSVILLE S C Sept 15 A coroner s jury was to hold an inquest here into the slaying of J L James of Laurinburg N C found in his car seven miles from here with his throat slit He was about 40 Police seek two Negro men Tom Newton and Hilton Williams three Negro men and a Negro girl are held as material witnesses in a house near the highway blood on the porch and the body dragged to the car James belonged to a well known Laurinburg family
Wilmington, Del. Sept. 15 With returns from Saturday's primary incomplete both Bayard and Marvel claimed victory. Bayard said he had 118 of 210 delegates and expected nomination at Dover convention. Marvel claimed 111 delegates and predicted a close race for the Democratic nomination.
Annie Pearl Reece a 12 year old left her classroom to elope with Curtis Burch to York South Carolina where they wed. Her parents Owen and Mrs Reece learned of the marriage from a note and the girl is back home. The groom is held on 500 bond and taxi driver Fletch Walls who helped the flight is also bonded. Court efforts aim to annul the marriage.
A coiffure is suggested for women with semi-long hair with a middle parting. Hair swirls to the right across the back and ends in a cluster of ringlets.
A note from 1660 describes the penny with a deep cross enabling easy breaking into halves or quarters, illustrating early practices for division into half pence and farthings during William the Conqueror’s era.
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