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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 18, 1931
Page
2
Albany September 18. The Republican controlled legislature refused to pass Franklin D. Roosevelt's unemployment relief bill and planned to adjourn the extraordinary session. Roosevelt was expected to veto the plan and call another special session to push his $20,000,000 program.
Former Idaho senator John F. Nugent died at his Washington home from heart disease. The report notes general trim fittings like buckles and buttons as new fashion details.
The school girls frocks this fall will feature woolen fabrics paired with linen or pique collars. The proposed style guidance emphasizes durability and neat appearance for daily wear in school settings.
In Springfield Illinois on September 18 a Federal Judge fined Fleischman Yeast Company $3000 in a liquor conspiracy case. The firm pleaded nolo contendere without admission. The case also linked Corn Products Refining Corporation, fined $10000 earlier, for supplying Tarro and a bootleg ring with products to be used in illegal liquor production.
In Reidsville a coroner's jury found Hugh Dickerson a 21 year old farmer died by his own action after a fatal shooting at his home seven miles northwest of Reidsville. His widow testified she confronted him about leaving to get whiskey and fell from the running board of his car, leading to his likely mistaken belief she was injured and his own subsequent shot.
Denver Sept 18 The general convention of the Protestant Episcopal church debates two rifts. The matrimonial canon on divorce and remarriage clashes with high and low churchmen while the American Missal sparks protest as a Romanist potential aid. Bishop Fiske suggests diocesan ecclesiastical courts for marital cases with no priest allowed to remarry divorced persons.
A fragment suggests waves discover a broker dead at sea amid a murder mystery tied to card sales and royalty figures. It also notes New York Universal Pictures chief Carl Laemmle announcing restored salaries after a prior cut, with business prospects strong.
Reported theft from the residence of Mr. and Mrs. G. E. Thayer at 451 South Main Street yesterday involved two neatly dressed men who arrived with luggage seeking a room. They allegedly took five shirts, a pair of trousers belonging to Banks Thayer, and clothing of other roomers after sharing details with Mrs. Thayer.
Tokyo authorities reportedly grant Clyde Pangborn and Hugh Herndon Jr permission to fly from Tokyo to Samushiro beach in preparation for a nonstop flight to Seattle. The pair aim to complete the long journey in a single leap across the Pacific.
East Hampton hosts a subscription dance rival after a hostess omission. New York hosts a Jockey Club dinner with 46 racehorses dining in stalls and parading on a runway. Paul Whiteman touts a weight loss after adopting a grapefruit before meals. Billie Dove reports McPherson-Huttons entering movies after a Hawaiian honeymoon. Maniwaki farmers guard sheep pens as bears raid. bounty on dead bears is $15. Culbertson returns from Russia with a tale of a Soviet card sales scheme.
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