28 Sep 1926
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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 28, 1926
Page
1
In Ironwood Michigan on September 28 rescue teams pressed to reach 43 miners buried by a shaft cave in. Alfred Maki reported hearing distant workers alive as efforts intensify through drills, tunnels, and a hopeful diamond passage while four avenues are pursued.
Doctors nurses and relief workers report the danger of the Florida hurricane area epidemic has passed thanks to prompt warnings good weather and robust immunization campaigns. Inoculation continues as crews aid homeless and sanitation rebuilding while guardsmen depart for home.
The Asheville street car strike, tied up service since Saturday, was settled this afternoon. Motormen and conductors will return to work tomorrow morning after a amicable settlement between Carolina Power and Light officials and sixty workers. The contract offered September 13 governs wages and working conditions with changes to be implemented while keeping pay unchanged.
In a New York Republican State convention Ogden L Mills of New York City won the gubernatorial nomination. In California District Attorney Asa Keyes moves to call more witnesses in the Carmel By The Sea case against Aimee Semple McPherson and others on charges of criminal conspiracy and obstruction of justice.
Queen Marie will not grant interviews during her forthcoming U S tour. She will travel without an official press agent, and movement details will be released by a member of the Romanian legation staff in Washington to prevent misunderstandings and fanciful stories.
A letter posted in Hollywood, Florida, arrived in Hendersonville the same day. W. P. Arant, a Hollywood resident, received word that two of his Hollywood dwellings had been destroyed by the Florida hurricane.
Batavia Java Sept 28 AP Professor Heberlin of the Netherlands government medical service reports a complete skull of the prehistoric ape like creature termed missing link pithecanthropus erectus found in Trmail Central Java. The skull mirrors the earlier 1892 find by Professor Eugene Dubois at the same site. The specimen will be kept in Dutch East Indies as export is prohibited.
The left bank Bengawan River near Trinil hosts Dr Dubois discovery. Many authorities oppose his theory while others argue the creature provides additional evidence toward connecting man and ape.
An unconfirmed report says an automobile carrying detectives on a test riot call to High Point wrecked near Salisbury with one officer critically injured and several others hurt. In Charlotte five officers were injured when their car overturned near China Grove. Chief J. Orr and John M. Byers were in critical condition with others treated at Salisbury hospital.
Two Charlotte motor cars carrying detectives sped from the city to High Point at 12:12 p m in response to a riot drill announced during the North Carolina chapter convention of the National Association of Police. A trophy awaits the fastest responding group in the emergency drill.
In New York on September 28 AP reports the prosecution rested after calling its eightieth witness, Richard Merton, a German metal magnate linked to bribe payments for the release of impounded enemy shares. Merton testified briefly before sailing to Germany, and he identified the 251st government exhibit. Emanuel Harris, New York attorney, testified about the estate of John T. King.
Florida hurricane relief draws fund drives as High Point residents urged donations after Florida’s devastation. Inside the hospital topic, William Walsh warns workmen’s compensation abuses and the need for middle class hospital care at the American Hospital association convention.
About 90 passengers on the Ward Line steamer Mexico were taken off by the Rio Grava after the ship grounded on a reef off the Yucatan coast. The vessel remained stuck at Madagascar reef as of the latest reports from Ward Line offices. Passengers will sail to Havana and then be brought to New York aboard the Ward liner Siboney.
The Weather Bureau issued a storm advisory at 10 a.m. noting a tropical disturbance hundreds of miles north of Puerto Rico with unknown intensity. The system is expected to move northwest or west northwest.
A four day fox hunt from October 4 to 7 near Grand Bay Alabama is planned as one of the souths largest events. More than 150 men and 200 dogs from Georgia Kentucky Mississippi Florida North Carolina and Alabama are expected to compete for a $300 purse following National Fox Hunters association rules. Base camp at Grand Bay.
Detroit Sept 28 Fred W Green nominee for governor and his followers swept into control of the Republican state organization nominating their complete slate of candidates for state offices with no opposition from the Groesbeck wing.
The Republican state convention opened in apparent accord with no police or guards needed at the hall, contrasting with last week’s Wayne County Detroit meeting marked by rioting and security concerns.
Princess Joachim of Prussia wed Herr Johann Michael Van Loen son of Hans Van Loen court marshal of Anahilt. The ceremony followed the former emperor’s family line. Prince Joachim had previously died by suicide in 1921.
Alfred F. Smith of New York City was unanimously nominated by New York Democrats for governor amid strong show of support. Both parties support a Volstead act referendum and campaign debates center on Coolidge prosperity and Smith administration spending. Republicans favor stricter prohibition enforcement and alcohol content referendum. Democrats defer their platform adoption pending modification stance.
Madrid reports General Primo de Rivera, Spain's premier dictator, will withdraw from politics and resume his military career once a government is reestablished through the patriotic union. He says three years away from home and family increases his longing to return, but duty from 1923 remains guiding him.
Alan J. Cobham, the British aviator, is about 3,000 miles from London on his return from Australia. He flew yesterday 200 miles from Sasra Iraq to Alexandretta Syria and landed at Bagdad en route. If progress holds, he is expected to reach London after Thursday afternoon completing the 26,000 mile England Australia England journey.
President Coolidge met 200 undertakers with a crowded calendar delaying ID. An aide announced morticians as bricklayers to the president, who then learned the visitors were funeral directors as they filed past his desk.
The National W C T U convention in Los Angeles will study motion pictures as a tool to counter wet propaganda. Other measures include temperance exhibits at fairs institutes and broad use of printers ink. Dr Valeria H Parker of New York and Senorita Ernestina Alvarado of Mexico City will speak at the session tonight.
A $25 fine plus costs was imposed on the wife of M. M. Madden, a Negro minister and assistant to Bishop C. M. Grace, after she pleaded guilty in magistrate court to a speeding charge. She said she was driving the faith healer to Concord to catch a train for Washington to visit his flock.
In Jalisco near Guadalajara on September 28 troops repelled about 200 rebels at Tizapán del Alto. Nine rebels were killed and several captured as the forces claimed victory in the encounter.
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