Barnhill Leaves Jury Questions About Bank Failure
Asheville August 24 AP Judge Barnhill says evidence falls short of proving Col. Lea profited from loans tied to the Central Bank and Trust Co bankruptcy. He reduces alleged misapplied total from 1,389,000 to 1,136,000 and outlines conspiracy elements as jurors hear counts and key loan guarantees.
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Asheville
N. C
Ae M. V
Barn
Lake Lea
Lea
Central Bank and Trust Company
Barnhill
Iing
Union Trust Company
Nashville
Clarence Saunders
Kentucky Rock Asphalt Company
Stewart Kritzky
Col. Lea
MacDonald forms new cabinet with Liberal aid
J Ramsay MacDonald resigned as Prime Minister to form a national government including Conservatives and Liberals to meet the financial emergency. He presented the new cabinet to King George VI and announced cooperation with Stanley Baldwin and Sir Herbert Samuel.
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MacDonald
London
J. Ramsay MacDonald
George
Labor
National
Mr. MacDonald
Stanley Baldwin
Herbert Samuel
David Lloyd George
Buckingham Palace
Greensboro Chain Store Official Robbed On West Market Street
Greensboro August 24 AP c H Baucom local chain store official was held up by an unmasked robber who escaped in his victim's car near a West Market Street store. The loss was estimated at several hundred dollars in weekend cash receipts from the chain. The thief, about 35, wore a cap and fired a pistol to seize the satchel containing the money. He drove off into the business district and vanished in traffic.
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Greensboro
C. H. Baucom
West Market Street
Raycom
Cotton Purchase Parley Planned in South Carolina
A conference of national marketing leaders will meet in Columbia on Wednesday to discuss Senator Ellison D. Smith's plan to ease the cotton price crisis. The plan would have the Farm Board buy at least eight million bales off the market and hold them until after the 1932 crop is planted in exchange for signed contracts not to plant cotton next year. Senator Smith announced from Lynchburg that he is in talks with the American Cotton Growers Cooperative Marketing Association and the Cotton Stabilization Corporation, with Benton Blalock perhaps attending and F B Creekmore unavailable for comment.
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Columbia
S. C
Ellison D. Smith
Senator Smith
Lynchburg
American Cotton Growers Cooperative Marketing Association
The
Cotton Stabilization Corporation
Benton Blalock
Raleigh
Cooperative Association
F. B. Creekmore
New Orleans
Stabilization Corporation
Federal Farm Board
Farm Board
Cooperative Marketing Association
Robber Surrounded After $1,100 Holdup Near Spartanburg
In Spartanburg County two men robbed George Mayfield of 1100 yesterday. One suspect was believed trapped in a Duncan area woods as a dozen officers plus Greer police surrounded the scene. Bloodhounds were flown from Asheville to assist the search.
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Spartanburg
8. C
George Mayfield
Duncan
Spartanburg County
Greer
Asheville
New York Plans More Glamp Lid on Hoodlums
New York officials and federal agents escalated anti crime actions as the Board of Estimates approved 127476 for police drives. The measure funds 25 added patrol side cars and radio gear while homicide charges target Murray Leonardi in a Brookyln slaughterhouse district murder. Acting Mayor McKee called a police prosecutors conference to present a definite plan of action.
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New York
Board of Estimates
Murray Leonardi
Brooklyn
Slaughter House
Joseph V. McKee
Williamsburg
Anthony Ferrari
Angelo Curianni
Curianni
Panorama of Death Fills Hankow Flood Scene
The flood wards Hankow as waterlogged streets carry corpses and wreckage. Roofs hold desperate residents clinging to survival while vendors and police struggle to aid and maintain order amid widespread hunger and chaos.
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Sampans
Ford orders workers to garden or lose jobs
Henry Ford declares that every Ford Motor employee with a family must grow a garden to provide part of the winter vegetable supply or lose employment. He will supply land and expert guidance for those lacking space and plans a nationwide trial next year to curb unemployment by self help.
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Henry Ford
Iron Mountain
Mich
Ford Motor Company
Detroit Automobile
Congress
Ford
State to Distribute Funds for Schools in New Term
The North Carolina State Board of Equalization moved to distribute 15,548,279.18 to counties and charter districts for the first six months of the new term, with details unsettled on bonds and disbursement through county treasurers or vouchers. Unpaid bills are estimated near 750,000, and 1,500,000 is set for weaker counties. The $17,000,000 six month total includes a 15 cent ad valorem levy projected at about 4,000,000 annually.
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Raleigh
State Board of Equalization
Equalization Board
Thestate
General Assembly
Tragedy in Fayetteville Auto Crash Claims Two
Fayetteville report says 22 year old meat truck driver Robert Ussery died from a broken neck after a car wreck near the city. William Holmes is jailed. both men were reportedly intoxicated at the time of the overturning crash yesterday.
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Fayetteville
Robert Ussery
William Holmes
Here
Useery
Negro Slayer May Be Tried At Lexington Within Week
Preliminary arraignment held unexpectedly Saturday night at Erlanger. Dudley Moore, 18, negro, charged with first degree murder in the August 15 death of Mrs. Jacob Berrier, waived preliminary hearing. Moore confessed, wore the bloody shirt, and admitted firing on the 59 year old woman at her farm home six miles north of Lexington. Davidson County grand jury to hear bill drawn by Solicitor George A. Younce. next court term in November.
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Lexington
N. C
Dudley Moore
Jacob Berrier
Davidson County Grand Jury
George A. Younce
Moore
Davidson Superior Court
Erlanger
L. C. Bishop
Raleigh
J. B. Terror
James A. Leonard
Leonard
Embasy aid seeks Pacific crossing permit for aviators
Washington AP dispatch reports the American Embassy in Tokyo filed an application with the Japanese government for a permit allowing Hugh Herndon Jr and Clyde Pangborn to fly across the Pacific from Japan. Asheville hearing set on 30000 acres of Suncrest Timberland for Great Smoky Mountains park acquisition. A three-member commission led by Judge Manning will hear condemnation proceedings over two days.
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Washington
Tokyo
Hugh Herndon, Jr
Clyde Pangborn
Pacific
Asheville
N. C
Suncrest Lumber Company Timberland
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
John Manning
Raleigh
W. M. Garrett
Lenoir Gwyn
Waynesville
Missing Nassau stock broker held for ransom says police
Nassau county police report that Charles Marvin Rosenthal a 24 year old missing stock broker is safe in the hands of kidnappers who have contacted the Rosen family regarding a 100000 dollar ransom payment.
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New York
Nassau County
Charles Marvin Rosenthal
Rosen
Oil man James E. ONeill dies in Cannes exile over Teapot Dome case
Word arrived in Tulsa that James E. ONeill, oil man and exile evading testimony in the Teapot Dome oil lease conspiracy, has died in Cannes France. ONeill fled the United States amid the investigation into the scandal.
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Tulsa
Okla
Cannes
France
James E. O'Neill
United States
Teapot Dome
Record-breaking nonstop flight pair welcomed home in New York
Russell Boardman and John Polando, Bay State aviators who completed a nonstop New York to Istanbul flight setting a long distance record, returned to New York and received a formal welcome.
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New York
Russell Boardman
John Polando
Bay State
Istanbul
Turkey
America
Lindberghs Accused of Straying in Kurile Flight
Tokyo dispatch reports Japan claims Lindberghs aroused suspicions by flying along the Kurile route and landing on lakes considered prohibited. Authorities say the famous aviators strayed into restricted waters near Kunashiri while following an emergency permit path issued by the aviation bureau.
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Tokyo
Rengo
Charles A. Lindbergh
Kurile Island
Petropavlovsk
Kamchatka
Nemura
Japan
Lindbergh
Kurile Islands
Aviation Bureau
Petropavlovek
Petropavlovak
Lindberghs
Kakunabetsu
Paramushir Island
Muroton Bay
Shimushiru Island
Ketoi Island
Kuriles
Islands
Kunashiri
Forest City Police Probe Skeleton Linked to Missing Men
Forest City officers examined a skeleton unearthed Saturday and searched for ties to two missing residents, Worth Early, a Forest City youth vanished over two years ago, or Willie Bridges who disappeared about a year earlier. No traces of either were found.
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Forest City
Worth Early
Willie Bridges
Gifford Forms Organization to Aid Unemployed
Walter Gifford national relief director begins establishing a nationwide relief body after meeting President Hoover. Headquarters set for the Commerce Department building with over 50 advisory members, volunteers, and experts to assist. telegraphed support from Illinois New Hampshire and California governors noted.
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Washington
Hoover
Virginia
Walter 8. Gifford
National Relief
Commerce Department
Hoover Emergency Committee
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
Fred C. Croxton
Bank stockholders in Winston are assessed
Winston Salem August 24. Assessments totaling 150000 have been made on stockholders of the People's National bank now in liquidation. The 100 percent assessment based on capital stock at closing June 25 is due by September 25, per F G Amwalt, U S comptroller of the currency.
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Winston-Salem
People’s National Bank
F. G. Amwalt
U.S
Secretary Mellon Cut On Hand In Liner Bullet Blown Flashlight
Secretary of the Treasury Andrew Mellon was cut on the hand by glass fragments from a exploding flashlight on the liner. A mistaken arrangement led to his car being provided by customs officials a rum runner’s auto. He received treatment aboard and at the Battery before continuing to Washington.
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New York
Secretary of the Treasury
Andrew W. Mellon
Europe
Mellon
Federal Reserve Bank
Washington
Cavallini
Coast Guard
Henry C. Stuart
Rewards Offered After Mansfield Journal and News Bombings
Brush-Moore Inc offers 10000 dollars for arrests and conviction of those who bombed The Mansfield Journal last week and attempted to bomb The Mansfield News last night. Five thousand dollars each for arsonists who tossed a gunpowder bomb into The News and five thousand for Journal attackers. The Journal had previously offered 500 dollars. both papers defend crime fighting and condemn the violence.
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Mansfield
Mansfield Journal
Mansfield News
Brush-Moore, Inc
News
Journal
Wilkes Ex Deputy Arrested At Still
Wilkesboro August 24 Pi F M Swaim former deputy sheriff is held on liquor charges after being found at a rum run plant during a chase by prohibition officers L G Trexler and W T Kennedy They arrested him at the brandy distillery following the pursuit His preliminary hearing before Judge John W Dula set bond at 1000.
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Wilkesboro
F. M. Swaim
L. G. Trexler
W. T. Kennedy
Swaim
John W Dula
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