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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1930
Page
1
Francis M. Stephenson reports that prohibition dominates 1932 party planning as Roosevelt Reed and other leaders signal repeal. Hoover remains against repeal while Democrats split on wet planks, with Southern forces opposed and reformers like Reed and Roosevelt pushing repeal prospects.
Chicago report says a war weary son killed his elderly father whom he believed was having an affair with his mother's nurse. The incident stems from a fear of alleged infidelity amid wartime strain.
Republican leaders at Albany forge a campaign theme attacking Democratic corruption in New York City and Albany while backing a repeal of the eighteenth amendment. Gubernatorial nominee Charles H. Tuttle pledges swift action on public trust and prosecutions, as Roosevelt terms repeal. The Democratic convention opens in Syracuse Monday.
Bleacher stands collapsed at Central High School during a Central High versus Youngstown Chaney game injuring about 100 spectators. No fatalities reported though several fractures and severe injuries occurred as emergency crews treated the injured and the game resumed amid crowd unrest.
Bob Jones defeats Gene Homans 8 and 7 in the Merion final to seal a historic grand slam in golf 1930. The Georgian tops British Open and British amateur winners, earning his fifth US amateur and thirteenth national title in a dominant run at Merion.
Fernando De Rosa, 22, an Italian, was found guilty in Brussels of attempting to assassinate Humbert Prince of Piedmont and Crown Prince of Italy. He received five years imprisonment and was ordered to pay trial costs after a ten minute jury deliberation on four questions.
Wreckage of a plane carrying Pilot Willard Parker and passenger William J. McNulty was scattered along the Lake Erie shoreline three miles west of Conneaut Ohio. No bodies were found. They departed Cleveland municipal airport en route to Buffalo and Mifflinburg Pa with fuel for about five hours before vanishing. Authorities in Cleveland and Columbus launched a search after no landing reports were received.
Geneva September 27 The economic committee of the League of Nations assembly condemns the dumping of trade commodities as an unhealthy practice in a report presented by Giuseppe de Michels of Italy.
The Banco Del Comercio, a 50 year old Havana financial pillar and former Arzuelas y Cia. Bank, halted payments after an all night directors meeting. Vice presidents Sieglie and Lopez, acting since Porfirio Franca’s resignation, cited provisional suspension with no reasons given. President Machado, unaware until morning, planned immediate return from Veradero fishing trip. American interests rely on the bank for operations and payroll deposits.
Wheat prices dropped to new lows at the opening of the board of trade. December wheat opened 79 to 79 1/2 cents, September 85 1/2, and March 82 to 82 1/4 cents per bushel. Russian cash wheat at Liverpool unsettled markets and sparked domestic liquidation despite the board of trade's stance against foreign government selling. Short covering later trimmed some losses, while Soviet exports remained a key factor shaping the market.
Thousands of people will set clocks back one hour before retiring, returning to standard time. The change ends daylight saving time which began April 27, with the official revert at 2 a.m. Sunday. Some railroad schedules will be readjusted, though most lines ran on standard time all summer.
Alexander Pantages, theater magnate, convicted of criminally assaulting Eunice Pringle, 17, gets a new trial after the state appellate court reversed the conviction citing four principal trial errors. The ruling grants him another chance to prove innocence, with a potential sentence range previously set at from one to fifty years.
Mrs Katherine Stedman Palmer announced she would seek the unexpired term of her father Major Stedman. Frank Hancock Jr of Oxford is the nominee for the regular term. John F Reynolds of Wentworth is the Republican nominee.
Asheboro Sept 27 The state and seventh North Carolina district mourn the death of Representative William C Hammer aged 65 from heart trouble. Messages of sympathy poured in to Mrs Hammer and daughter Harriet Hammer Walker as leaders from Governor Gardner to Senators Overman and Simmons conveyed condolences. Hammer, a Randolph County native educated at Western Maryland College and UNC, served as U S attorney in 1914 and was first elected to Congress in 1920. Funeral services are set for Sunday at 3 PM in Asheboro.
Gov. O. Max Gardner and his wife were summoned to Shelby as Judge James L. Webb, Mrs. Gardner’s father, suffers a severe illness. Webb has been in poor health for some time.
Muskegon Michigan September 27 The Lake Michigan gale of yesterday sank the barge Salvor with five crew members dead and two others rescued after 16 hours. A third crewman drowned beneath heavy seas. The schooner Our Son also foundered off Ludington with seven aboard saved by the freighter William Nelson. The motor carrier North Shore carrying five men and a woman left St Joseph with no report yet.
Reports from the eastern North Carolina auction tobacco markets show higher prices and rising sales. Wilson posted 1,415,888 pounds at $11.34 per hundred. season total 16,928,083 pounds at $10.29. Henderson week one sales 545,408 pounds at $12.05. Rocky Mount Friday sales 5,465,478 pounds at $12.33. season total 542,680 pounds at $11.40.
A morning blaze gutted the Code Chevrolet company used car building on Main street Union South Carolina destroying 70 reconditioned autos and five new cars. fire investigators and local officials report no casualties.
Census Director William M. Steuart challenged Atlanta’s 360,692 figure in a suit seeking publication. He testified the true population of Atlanta is 270,357 and argued the higher number would be unfair to other southern cities. The bureau will keep the greater figure in a footnote.
Frank Watson, 50, a farmer and saw mill operator from Edgefield county Pleasant Lane, was killed early today when a gun discharged accidentally. He was identified by Greenwood police as the victim.
Franklin North Carolina September 27 A news crew notes Democratic sheriff candidate Bert Slagle helping a resident chop wood while campaigning. Republican challenger Sam Franks is also meeting voters. A woman tells them she is undecided as both candidates have shown kindness. The scene ends with Franks churning on the back porch.
Greensboro the 27th. Possibility of a successor to Mae son W. Gant resigned clerk of Guilford superior court would be named today. Gant faces indictments alleging forgery embezzlement and misapplication of Confederate pension funds. Judge Shaw will make the appointment as Adams hired to prepare new records.
Hugh C. Wallace former ambassador to France is critically ill at his Paris home with bronchitis. He previously served from 1919 to 1921 during the peace conference era and Wilson's visit. His American home is in Tacoma Washington.
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