Conferees Agree Revenue Bill Luxury Tax Move
House and Senate conferees have reached agreement on the revenue bill with a proposed luxury tax and it now goes to the assembly for adoption. Rush equipment from the well near Gladewater is being rushed after a massive oil blaze that killed seven men and left two more missing as crews work to subdue the fire.
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House
Senate
Gladewater
Tex
Sinclair No 1
Cole
Here
Longview
Bob Murdock
Bill Haroun
Murdock
Virgil Waltz
Pat Massey
Pat
Woltz
Tyler
Texas
Sinclair Oil Company
Texas Rangers
President Hoover Jr Returns Home After Health Recovery
Herbert Hoover Jr. leaves Asheville for Palo Alto after six restful months healing from incipient tuberculosis. He gains about 15 pounds, improves markedly, and had set up an amateur radio station at Blue Briar cottage before traveling to Washington for a brief White House visit.
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Asheville
Herbert Hoover, Jr
Washington
White House
Palo Alto
Calif
Cal
Blue Briar
Sunset Mountain
California
Hoover
Mrs. Hoover
Earthquake suggestion marks long South Carolina session
Will Rogers quips that an earthquake could end South Carolina's 1931 legislature after 106 days in session. North Carolina also faces a lengthy session at 112 days as debate over salaries, taxes, and school funding continues amid stalemate and shifting budgets.
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Assembly
South Carolina
Charlotte
Will Rogers
Spartanburg
Nicaragua
House
Senate
Rogers
North Carolina
General Assembly
Raleigh
Palmetto
South Carolina General Assembly
North Carolina House
South Carolina House
Bank failure cases loom as Buncombe court selects venire
A special venire of 100 men is drawn from Yancey county for the first of more than 20 trials linked to last fall's bank collapse in Asheville. Judge Barnhill ordered venue from another county and set 11 30 a m for salesmen. Wallace B Davis C N Brown and Dr J A Sin clairface trial as leaders of 27 indicted in the case involving over 8 million dollars.
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Asheville
Yancey County
M. W. Barnhill
Wallace B. Davis
Central Bank and Trust Company
C. N. Brown
J. A. Sinclair
Buncombe County
Buncombe Superior Court
del. Luke Lea
Luke Lea, Jr
E. P. Charlet
Nashville
Tennessee
North Carolina
North Carolina luxury tax fight shifts to conference report
The joint conference committee on the biennial revenue bill back a plan to adopt a selected commodities tax with Hinsdale luxury tax rewrite. The 8 to 5 vote split senators Dunlap and Folger against. Mac Spence Connor Allen plus others supported. House and Senate disagreed on a referendum. Estimates for revenue ranged from 5 to 9 million dollars.
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Raleigh
Tineury
General Assembly
Senate
MacLean School Law
Hinsdale
Wakechett
Bertié
Aled
MacLean
Beaufort
Granville
Cherry
Gaston
Mittee Today
Pritchett
Rankin
Clark
Edgecombe
Mac Spence
Moore
Connor
Wilson
Allen
Dunlap
Anson
Folger
Surry
Harris
Person
Hood
Wayne
House
Strawberries Sell Well on Opening Day Market
Wallace North Carolina April 29 AP reported three hundred crates of strawberries sold on opening day of the season at an average price of five dollars per crate.
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Wallace
N. C
Bond Posted in Perquimans Slaying Case
Bond of 1000 dollars was posted here by Stuart Thornton charged with manslaughter after the death of Miss Thelma Gray in an Elizabeth City hospital following an alleged illegal operation. Dr G B Newby of Hertford was under a similar indictment and posted bond for his appearance. April grand jury returned the indictments.
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Hertford
N. C
Stuart Thornton
Elizabeth City
Thelma Gray
G. BE. Newby
Perquimans County
Thugs Attempt To Steal River Levee
In New Orleans two men were caught hauling dirt from a Mississippi river levee protecting the city’s upper section. James Wilkinson, attorney for the levee board, said one man returned the loot while the other faced potential court action.
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New Orleans
James Wilkinson
Lost Scientist Radios He Lacks All Provisions
A wireless message from Reykjavik purports to be from British scientist Augustin Courtauld missing in northern Greenland and reporting he is absolutely without provisions. An Icelandic plane with the Odin will search from the ice edge to Tasioak and Angmagsalik and drop provisions if found.
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Augustine Courtauld
Greenland
Iceland
Copenhagen
Denmark
Reykjavik
Odin
Tasioak
Angmagsalik
Courtauld
Widow of former ambassador Whitelaw Reid dies in France
Mrs. Whitelaw Reid of New York, widow of the former ambassador to England, died at 9 50 a m in Cap Ferrat France while visiting daughter Lady Ward. She recently arrived in France after contracting a chill on the Atlantic voyage and lingered in Paris worsening until death. Funeral plans await word from her son Ogden Reid in New York.
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Paris
New York Herald Tribune
Whitelaw Reid
New York
Ogden Reid
Juniors Entertain Guilford College Seniors Banquet
Guilford College juniors host the annual junior senior banquet for the senior class at the Greensboro Country Club this evening. Ernest Scarboro of Greensboro serves as senior class president and Robert Wildman leads the junior class.
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Guilfoord College
Guilford College
Greensboro Country Club
Ernest Scarboro
Greensboro
Robert Wildman
Winston Fire Destroys Tobacco Warehouses In Winston-Salem
Fire destroyed 4,000,000 pounds of tobacco a warehouse and related buildings in Winston-Salem early today causing about 750000 in damages. No deaths occurred and investigators will probe overheating tobacco piles as the cause. Plans to rebuild await a stockholders meeting.
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Winston-Salem Leaf Tobacco Company
Winston-Salem
W. A. Goodson
Thomas W. Watson
Tobacco Companies
12Th
Oak Streets
Goodson
Disturbance in Brazil Declared Checked Without Bloodshed
From Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires dispatches dated April 29 reports say disturbances in Sao Paulo were declared checked without bloodshed by the government. The Brazil unrest concerns coffee overproduction and economic strain amid rural-urban tensions.
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Rio DE Janeiro
Sao
Buenos Aires
Sao Paulo
Brazil
Mello
Rio Grande Do Sul
Minas Geraes
Two Boys Saved From Dorm Fire At Hillside School
Marlboro Massachusetts April 29 two boys overcome by smoke were carried to safety and fourteen others fled from a blaze that destroyed two dormitories at the Hillside school for boys early today.
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Marlboro
Mass
Hillside School For Boys
Prominent physician drowns in river plunge near Lenoir
Dr W J Sevier 58 a Bristol Virginia Tennessee physician was drowned when his car skidded through a bridge railing on Johns River twelve miles from Lenoir North Carolina. The car sank in 17 feet of water and he could not escape before rescue efforts. Sheriff investigated and blamed a loss of control on a curve before the bridge.
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Lenoir
N. C
W. J. Sevier
Bristol- Va.-Tenn
Johns River
Fred Ross
G. M. Billins
Dr. Sevier
Morganton
Blowing Rock
Jeffress Measure Passed By Senate
RALEIGH April 29 The senate amended and passed the Jeffress bill requiring counties cities and towns to award contracts for supplies and construction through competitive bids. The amended bill must go back to the house for concurrence and sets thresholds for bids and advertising on purchases over 200 and 1000 dollars.
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Raleigh
Senate
Jeffress
Rector Requests Half Salary Amid Bank Closures
The rector of St Marys Episcopal Church MKinston Dr Bartholomew Huske asks to cut his salary in half due to parishioners losing money from two bank closures. The vestry has not acted yet.
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Mkinston
N. C
St. Mary's Episcopal Church
Bartholomew Huske
Thirty eight Die in Cairo Alexandria Express Fire
Cairo April 29 AP Thirty eight persons including ten children were burned to death and thirty six injured when the Cairo Alexandria Express caught fire. Only one European passenger is known among the dead as many victims were unrecognizable. The blaze began in crowded third class coaches from a hot box and many deaths occurred as passengers leaped from windows to escape.
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Cairo
Egypt
Alexandria
Royalty of Siam Visits White House in Historic Courtesy
King Prajadhipok of Siam and his queen met with President Hoover at the White House becoming the first absolute monarch to enter the executive mansion. Mrs. Hoover greeted the queen as Supreme Court justices and other officials prepared to join the president for the welcome. Vice President Curtis and Mrs. Gann arrived shortly after.
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Washington
White House
United States
King Prajadhipok of
Siam
Hoover
Hughes
Justice
Stone
Sutherland
Curtis
Edward E. Gann
Bankers Propose Cut to Three Percent on Time Deposits
The North Carolina Bankers association adopted a resolution urging member banks to reduce interest on time deposits to not more than three percent. The move, urged by John M. Miller and supported by leaders including Ward M. Wood, awaits a committee study for implementation.
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N. C. Bankers Association
Pinehurst
North Carolina Bankers Association
Moveti Wn, Parp
Aberdeen
Page Trust Company
Ward M. Wood
Charlotte
American Trust Company
R. M Hanes
Winston-Salem
Wachovia Bank and Trust Company
Association
First and Merchants National Bank
John J. Driscoll, Jr
Driscoll-Millett Company
Philadelphia
Gardner objects to transporting election boxes to Washington
Gov. O Max Gardner states the U S senate sub committee can use the 11 precinct ballot boxes in North Carolina only if the state incurs no transfer costs. He warns the state cannot pay for collecting and shipping the boxes as the committee plans to arrange. A post office inspector was sent to Raleigh to coordinate transport amid the Bailey Pritchard election contest claims.
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Raleigh
Max Gardner
U.S. Senate
Washington
Moses
New Hampshire
Gardner
Senate Committee
George M. Pritchard
Maces
Utate
Josiah W
Friends Church Hosts Two Day Missionary Union Meeting
More than 100 women members of the Friends church gathered at Goldsboro for the mid year conference of the Missionary Union. Mrs Inez Beebe Perisho of Guilford College presided while Miss Esther Basa, a returned missionary, delivered the principal address.
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Goldsboro
Friends Church
Missionary Union of Friends
Inez. Beebe -Perisho
Guilford College
Esther Bas
Raleigh Negro Killed in Truck Wreck at City Intersection
Raleigh dispatch reports Walter Green a Black man died when his truck overturned after a collision with a car driven by R. Ogburn of Johnston County at Blount and Cabarrus streets. Ogburn escaped injury.
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Raleigh
Walter Green
Blount and
Cabarrus Streets
R. ©. Ogburn
Johnston County
Ogburn
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