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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 28, 1930
Page
1
Bobby Jones completed golf history by winning the United States amateur championship at Merion, defeating Eugene Vanderpool Homans 8 and 7 in the 36 hole final to seal the year’s grand slam amid a jubilant 15 000 spectator crowd.
A. Wayland Cooke of the Greensboro bar was appointed by Judge Thomas J. Shaw as clerk of Guilford superior court effective October 6, succeeding Mason W. Gant who resigned September 22. The appointment runs to December 1 this year and Cooke will devote full time to the office. Gant faced thirteen indictments for forgery embezzlement and misapplication of Confederate pension checks, with $15,214.50 alleged in one bill. He is held on $15,000 bond for October 20.
Washington Sept 27 The prohibition director Amos W W Woodcock said making wine and beer at home for personal use is immune from federal interference unless a sale is proven A home brewer can be punished if his product is intoxicating but federal authorities are not involved unless a commercial feature exists Woodcock just returned from tours in Pennsylvania New Jersey and Delaware and planned to survey Tennessee and possibly Nashville He emphasized the trips aim to promote cooperation with local authorities and not to probe liquor conditions Optimistic reports came from Pennsylvania and New Jersey while Delaware lagged briefly without a deputy administrator.
Death and a political shift thin the North Carolina delegation to the 72nd Congress. Charles M. Stedman and W. C. Hammer died, while Senator F. M. Simmons lost renomination, leaving Overman and Smoot as the Senate’s senior veterans. Governor Gardner sets November 4 for Stedman’s successor. Hammer’s funeral is planned for tomorrow.
Senate campaign fund inquiry head Senator Nye said hearings resume October 14 in North Carolina or Tennessee. He cited outside money in Josiah Bailey’s Democratic nomination bid in North Carolina and hinted at Republican involvement in the attempt on George W Norris, a Broken Bow grocer.
Chancellor Bruening plans a strict program to restore economic stability. If the Reichstag blocks it, he will seek adjournment from President von Hindenburg. Allies note the move hints at a de facto dictatorship until the policy is enacted.
Asheville judge Thomas L. Johnson says he will likely run in 1936 for North Carolina governor and denies pledging support to any candidate. He resigned from the superior court bench, left the 1932 race, and plans neutrality this year while signaling a westward nominee pattern for the party. Johnson cites his law partnership as the reason for delaying his own candidacy.
Hazel K. Groves, bank president and county treasurer, returned home after vanishing on September 19. He says he remembers nothing from last Saturday until yesterday when he awoke in a Peoria hotel, and he declined reporters but met associates about a proposed merger between Groves' bank and another East Chicago bank.
Ellsworth Vines of Pasadena defeated Gregory Mangin of Newark in straight sets 14-12 6-3 6-4 to win the men's singles championship at the Pacific Southwest tennis tournament in Los Angeles.
Coast guard crews on Lake Michigan failed to locate the fruit packet North Shore which left St. Joseph yesterday with grapes for Milwaukee. The gale claimed 11 lives across three ships including the barge Valor and the schooner Our Son, with crews rescued from water and derricks.
At the Massachusetts Democratic convention in Boston on September 27 delegates backed a platform favoring repeal of the 18th Amendment and the Volstead Act, urging state control over liquor laws. One delegate protested the prohibition plank while party unity and campaign preparation were highlighted.
At the Boston convention 1600 delegates endorsed the party platform on law enforcement and Hoover's stance on constitutional amendments. Planks urged federal enforcement of labor hours for women and children, support for a federal anti lynching law, and equal application of law, with a pledge to carry out majority will when clearly registered.
Asheboro reports funeral arrangements for William C. Hammer, seventh district congressman who died suddenly. Messages of sympathy pour in from national figures including President Hoover and Governor Gardner, as well as Mrs. Hammer and her daughter Harriet Hammer Walker. Hammer had attended the funeral of Major Charles Manly Stedman a day earlier.
Snow and freezing conditions in North Saskatchewan today claim the first fall victim. The body of Albert Irvine, 16, was found huddled in a thick el.
State and county officers seized 1,858 gallons of corn whiskey from a barn in the yard of Rev Alonzo Wilson in Columbia South Carolina. Wilson is at large as police pursue bootlegger syndicate links and believe the barn served a bootlegging operation.
Havana September 27 The Bank of Commerce a 4 060 000 institution closed its doors for readjustment and indications tonight suggested it would not reopen Monday Government aid was expected but no word from the president. Smaller depositors fled while larger ones remained calm with emergency funds from the Federal Reserve Bank. The Demetrio Cordova Banking Company also closed as a precaution and will reopen Monday.
At Geneva on September 27 Carl J. Hambro, Norwegian delegate, defended rights of small nations and praised their citizens before the league assembly committee. The debate over reorganization of the secretariat pitted Italy and Germany against France and Great Britain as small nations challenge monopolies on top posts. Hambro proposed abolishing the under-secretaries general offices held by German Italian and Japanese nationals.
Greenville South Carolina September 27 Hearings in the Piedmont and Northern railway's dispute with the Interstate Commerce Commission over line extensions are definite for October 20 The federal court term opens October 28 instead of October 7 due to the Kings Mountain battle sesquicentennial celebration.
Federal agents linking two arrested radio operators to a large rum running scheme. Cecil Molyneaux 27 of Brooklyn and Malcolm McMasters 30 of Montreal were seized at a high powered radio in a Coney Island cellar. They are charged with violating radio tariff and prohibition laws and each posted bail of 7500 dollars.
RALEIGH North Carolina September 27 J B Stroud of Durham and Talmadge Monroe of Chatham County jailed on charges of careless and reckless driving operating a car while drunk and hit and run Stroud set at 1900 bond Monroe 3500 bond posted by county officers
Senator Nye accuses American boards of trade and chambers of commerce of conspiring with foreign grain markets to depress agricultural prices and discredit the farm board. He plans to discuss with farm board Chairman Legge and predicts a congressional push to curb futures trading and to revive support for the equalization fee concept.
Searchers scoured Lake Erie's shore from Conneaut to Ashtabula but found no trace of William Meenanly and Willard Parker whose wrecked plane was located four miles west of Conneaut. The cabin was wedged in trees with the engine missing as coast guards, sheriffs deputies, and Cleveland flyers continued the hunt along the shoreline.
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