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Newspaper
Thomasville Times Enterprise
Location
Thomasville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1929
Page
2
Hackensack New Jersey June 15. Principal Edward T Marlatt ordered all girls at Hackensack high school not to attend classes wearing bare legs or sunback frocks. He said if he did not draw the line, students would come to school in bathing suits. Offenders face dismissal.
Principal Channing H. Greene sent home 25 Mary F. Wells high school girls after lecturing them on immodest dress. He ordered them to return decently clad and said they must makeup the time lost after school hours next week. He warned that if parents fail to enforce proper dress, the girls will not remain students.
Clyde Van Dusen, winner of the Kentucky Derby, remained the last minute favorite for the $50,000 American Derby as 50,000 to 60,000 spectators crowded Washington Park Chicago. The afternoon was clear and warm with sun beating down on the racing strip.
Owen D. Young head of the American delegation to the Paris negotiations rushed to Cleveland to attend the wedding of his son Charles to Miss Marie Christensen. The couple will honeymoon in Honolulu and reside in Schenectady New York where Young conducts experimental work.
Eddie Lewis at 322 West Jackson advertises a broad assortment of hats for both ladies and men, signaling accessible headwear options for diverse tastes.
Downtown Macon traffic slowed to a crawl as more than three inches of rain drenched the business district in two hours. The downpour began before noon and lasted until about 1 20 p m, overwhelming storm sewers and open drains. Water covered floors of two cars stranded in a gutter lake and knee deep water flooded several stores and a theater on a main street.
Dr Thomas A Spears a prominent surgeon was killed and Patrolman O M Morgan wounded critically in a confrontation at a lunch stand as officers tried to disarm him. Mrs Spears the estranged wife testified he had come to her apartment said to be seeking guns after a drunken outburst over infidelity.
An army board reported to Secretary Good that carbon monoxide and oxide of nitrogen released by burning X Ray films caused most fatalities in the Cleveland hospital disaster. Gases were not battlefield agents and arose from nitro cellulose products. X Ray films ignite when heated by pipes or lights. Good noted legal questions about federal equipment used by Tennessee police and National Guard members acting as state police.
American league results include Detroit and New York games with incomplete scores and a 103 050 00x line. Cleveland versus Philadelphia shows 0 to 1 with Hudlin Myatt Earnshaw Cochrane noted. St Louis defeats Boston 3 to 1 while Brooklyn tops Cincinnati 4 to 0 with McWeeny Picinich May Sukeforth. National league games show New York 1 to 2 at Pittsburgh with Fitzsimmons Hogan and Brame Hemsley Jackson listed.
A string of social notes lists visitors and travels including Mr. and Mrs. R. Evans of Tampa and Mr. G. A. Doss of Canton. Mentions include trips to Atlanta Savannah and New York, and plans for summer work and study in Jacksonville Beach Niagara Falls Paris and the Sorbonne.
Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Thompson and son of Fort Worth Texas visit Mrs. Thomp son’s mother Mrs L V Rigsby for several weeks. Miss Eunice Wimberly heads home tonight after relatives in Atlanta and Vanderbilt commencement in Nashville. Mrs Mack Mrs Wimberly and Mrs Wahl depart to spend a few days at Jacksonville Beach. Miss Dallia Baker travels to Birmingham to visit her sister after time with her mother.
Miss Theora K. Hix 25 a medical student at Ohio State University was found dead near Columbus. Her parents Mr and Mrs Melvin Hix live in Bradenton Fla and she had not been home for years. Friends recalled she kept to herself and had recently been seen with a man about 40 in a small automobile.
The French pilots said their test flight was complete and planned to depart for Le Bourget after three or four o clock this afternoon. In Portland Maine the parents of Arthur Schreiber rejoiced at news the Yellow Bird plane landed with their son aboard ending an anxious wait.
Members of the T. L. Spence Jr Post American Legion who can attend the State Convention at Brunswick June 20 and 21 are asked to notify Dock Harper or Roy Hay to secure reservations and credentials. The local post has fifteen delegates and seeks full representation at the upcoming convention.
Herbert F. McCulla of Lincoln Nebraska was unanimously chosen as national president of the United States Junior Chamber of Commerce at the convention in Flint Michigan.
New York reported June 15 that 22 year old Pau line Parker later Mrs Jean Assolant wife of the Yellow Bird pilot who left her on a Maine beach will sail for Paris to rejoin her husband. She said the fliers landed safely in Spain and that the number 13 was lucky for them noting the plane took off on the 13th day and they were married 13 days after meeting. Their courtship used French English dictionaries. She does not understand French and his English vocabulary is limited to three phrases.
In Comillas Spain on June 15 a Portland Maine youth 22 is blamed for the Yellow Bird monoplane failure to reach France. The stowaway’s action provoked debate as officials insist the incident contributed to the jet’s abort.
A fleet of six express cruisers led by the flagship Pilgrim departed Jacksonville Florida heading to New York for a leisurely 1000 mile voyage via inland and ocean routes. Twenty five people including owners guests and crew members aboard. They expect to reach Columbia Yacht Club on the Hudson River in New York by the afternoon of June 25.
Busy Bee Co announces quick cleaning and repair services for typewriters sewing machines and phonographs with contact via phone 238.
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