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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1919
Page
1
Boston police say striking patrolmen will not be reinstated under any conditions. They deem strikers deserters and will not allow them to return to their beats. The force expects no trouble staffing polling places Tuesday.
A campaign by the Women's Roosevelt Memorial association seeks the government to re mint the two cent piece withdrawn in 1874. The proposed obverse would feature a base relief portrait of the late President Roosevelt. A letter was sent to Treasury Secretary Carter Glass.
The city council met at city hall last night at 8 30. High Point sewerage lines dominated discussion with no firm plan yet. a decision is expected at the next meeting. The council also elected Dr. T M Stanton as physician of the venereal clinic in High Point for 1000 dollars annually.
Municipal court did not convene at 9 39 this morning and was postponed to next Monday at the same hour. Chief Welch and several officers are in Greensboro with Guilford superior court this week so they cannot testify. Several larceny cases are expected to be tried when sessions resume.
President Wilson on the train today defined the league of nations covenant as a forum for self determination claims affecting world peace. He said the covenant does not bind the US to suppress rebellions or limit recognizing independence and noted Ireland’s case was outside Versailles jurisdiction. He will answer more labor questions soon.
Sept 17 Washington paraded the first division American Expeditionary Forces marching along Pennsylvania Avenue in khaki and olive drab. The massed infantry bayonets field guns French 75s and a battalion of tanks followed a living tide of sunburned fighting men. The parade epitomized the vast army forged to defeat German world conquest.
Citizens of High Point heard whistles and 47 factories resumed operations after seven weeks of idle status due to a labor dispute. Workers returned to their jobs as business activity is expected to normalize with renewed optimism among merchants and authorities.
Corpus Christi sustains a devastating hurricane and tidal wave. Authorities recount 60 plus hours of recovery with death toll rising beyond 150 and initial estimates reaching 259 for Corpus Christi Port Aransas and Aransas Pass. Destitution runs high with 3000 to 4000 homeless and 25 people reported starving at White Point.
Fiume is isolated by Italian government after Captain D Annunzios forcible seizure. In Nashville a freight train engine exploded near Springfield killing the fireman and injuring the engineer. Riga hosts talks on Baltic federation with a common currency and customs union among Letvia Esthonia and Lithonia. Boston unions deny imminent general strike as police votes are examined after next central union meeting.
Cardinal Mercier of Belgium led a solemn procession into St Patrick's Cathedral for a high ceremony marking the first anniversary of Cardinal Farley's death. Bishops and other dignitaries joined the service as a capacity crowd watched in New York.
Cotton opened steady in New York with futures showing October at 29.99 cents and December at 30.40, with January at 50.25, March 30.50 and May 30.55 cents per pound.
About 600 cotton producers bankers merchants and other business leaders gathered in Atlanta invited by the American Cotton Association and the chamber of commerce to discuss economic conditions in the south. The first business session was set for 2 p m with W P G Yarding governor of the Federal Reserve Board as speaker.
Governor Hobby received appeals from Rockport Port Aransas for outside aid after tremendo us damage. Three lives were lost at Rockport one at Aransas and four at Port Aransas. A relief train will be sent.
W L Prince longtime Henrico county schools superintendent was appointed state supervisor of high schools at the state board of education meeting in Richmond on September 17.
United States service uniformed men searched Socialist headquarters in New York's 17th Assembly District. Police reported the intruders destroyed pamphlets and broke up furniture during the incident.
Pittsburgh report says John Fitzpatrick, head of the national committee for organizing iron and steel workers, warned reporters that a strike would start September 22 unless a last minute telegram from Elbert Gary, head of the steel corporation, arrives.
In Barry's restaurant eight Department of Justice agents raided the venue during a live jazz performance charging prohibition violations. They arrested a barkeeper and three waiters as musicians kept playing, preserving the diners’ sense of theater. President Wilson arrived in San Francisco by special ferryboat, entering a square formed by Presidio soldiers with the presidential escort in view.
Washington dispatch notes the Hampstead committee to inspect cantonment camps and aviation fields will depart for Fayetteville tonight to tour Camp Bragg. Representatives Godwin and Robinson of North Carolina will accompany them.
Paris reports the government authorized experiments with a benzol and alcohol mix as a gasoline substitute amid high fuel costs. Benzol alone offers more power but has odor and can degrade engines. mixing with alcohol or ether may reduce these drawbacks.
Johnny Kilbane of Cleveland, the world featherweight champion, defeated Frankie Burns of Jersey City by knockout in the fifth round of an eight round bout at the Jersey City baseball park last night.
Government repair work at Brooksy shipyards shifted to southern ports after a lockout of 4,000 workers. Employers state all who took a half holiday to push for a 44 hour week are strikers and will not be rehired. Strikers' executive committee to meet tomorrow.
The funeral of Mrs. Sarah H. Hedrick who died at a local sanatorium Monday night was held at 11 a.m. from the home of Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Hiatt with Rev. Charles P. Coble Rev. J. M. Willard and Rev. Black officiating. Interment followed in Oakwood Cemetery with pallbearers J. A. Herndon T. S. Bute M. A. Fogelman J. R. Pless J. D. Adkins and J. L. D. Wood. A large number of sorrowing friends attended. Floral tributes were many and beautiful.
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