State Banking Liquidates 40 Banks During Past Year
Raleigh reports that 40 banks closed in 1935 were liquidated, with total assets of 10 412 71 paid to editors auditors and attorneys. Since 1927 about 185 banks have been liquidated or being liquidated, 62 remain, about 90 percent done, with hopes to finish 52 more in 1936.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Enterprise Bureau
Sir Walter Motel
J. C. Baskerville Raleigh
Gurney P. Hoodith
Stacey Wade
General Assembly
F Rom
Janary
Connecon
Hood
State Banking Department
Ice from Yellowstone Lake Reaches Massive Volume
Yellowstone Lake in Yellowstone Park freezes deeply enough to yield 180 million tons of ice. This amount could furnish every man woman and child in the United States with a single ton each.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yellowstone Lake
Yellowstone Park
United States
State Tobacco Compact Talks Stir NC Special Session Prospects
Washington reports discuss possible congressional action on state tobacco compacts allowing regional control with federal help. NC lawmakers weigh timing for a special session to join flue cured and burley programs, with key figures Kerr Cooley Chapman and Hutson shaping proposals and interstate coordination.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Congress
North Carolina
Virginia
J. B. Hutson
Agriculture Department
Harold D. Cooley
Nashville
N. C
Congressional Tobacco Committee
John H. Kerr
Warrenton
South Carolina
Georgia
Florida
Virgil Chapman
Kentucky
Furniture Group Opposes WPA Project in Massachusetts Prison
North Carolina furniture manufacturers join other sectors in protesting a WPA project to set up a furniture plant in the Norfolk state prison Massachusetts. They object to 25000 dollars allotted for machinery and worry it will depress furniture prices while Federal Prison Industries approves the project.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
North Carolina
WPA
Norfolk
Massachusetts
State Prison Board
Federal Prison Industries, Inc
Mouse in Box Trained to Pick Hole One in Cinch Game
Police reveal a trained mouse in Kansas City is biased to choose hole No 1 in a box with 12 holes. The animal was conditioned with cheese bait to ensure the predictable outcome, making the gamble a certainty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
Iit
Three Largest Electric Ships Fly the American Flag
The three largest electric ships to fly the American flag are the President Coolidge the President Hoover and the Augustus. The vessels measure 65 feet in length and reach speeds of knot s.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
President Coolidge
Hoover
Augustus
Foreign Mission Day Observed at Local Church
Foreign Mission Day will be observed at the First Evangelical and Reformed church this morning. Rev. Hoy L. Fespirman will deliver the message. A special offering will support foreign mission work, addressing long financial hardship and ongoing indebtedness. Half of Australia’s population lives in capital cities and provincial towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
First Evangelical and Reformed Church
Board of
Foreign Mis
Hoy L. Fesperman
Board of Foreign Missions
Australia
Commonwealth
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J. and W. Electric Company
Wrenn Street
J. H. Jennings, Jr
C. H. Redding
Ethiopia
Ogaden Front
Red Cross
British Somaliland
Kenye Colony
Harar
North North Carolina
Hendrix Bros
Zenith
Cereneus
Furniture Group
Foreign Mission
Ford
UCC
Ford Motor Company
Detroit
Columbia Network
Ford Dealers
Pat Brown
Ry Or
Siu
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