Arguments Continue in Case Over $60,400 Burge Suit
The municipal court re convened at 1 30 this afternoon for continued arguments in the $60 400 Burge lawsuit filed by R J Burge and A Burge against Columbus Ebber and W B Scales. Jurors would review two more arguments and may visit the Winston Salem high school scene of the accident.
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Adil A. Burge
Columbus Ebber
Scales
inaton-Salem
Dge Lewis EB. Teague
Presid
Nael
Winston-Salem High
Man Jailed For Stealing Money From Small Son
WILMINGTON June 11 AP George Best of Whiteville was sentenced to 6 to 10 years after pleading guilty to embezzlement and perjury in New Hanover Superior Court. Best had guardianship of his ten year old son who had won $1,800 in an accident suit but only $88.42 remained. He claimed illness and unemployment and said he spent the money on his wife and five children. Judge Parker condemned guardians who steal from orphans and vowed to stop such crimes.
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Wilmington
George Best
Whiteville
RK. Hunt Parker
New Hanover
Best
Parker
Compromise judgment awarded in Burge death case
The proceedings stem from the death of Garrell A. Burge after a September 15, 1935, auto wreck. Judge Teague signed a compromise judgment directing J. W. Welborn to recover $195 from Mrs. George F. Wilson, nothing from Mrs. Sallie McElroy, with the plaintiff paying court costs.
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Ingram
Garrell A. Burge
Teague
J. W. Welborn
George F
Fannie) Wilson
Sallie McElroy
Wilson
Spark Plug Servicing Improves Car Performance
Cleaning spark plugs and resetting gaps to prescribed thousandths of an inch noticeably enhances engine performance and responsiveness.
Platform Draft Supports Surplus Relief and Tariff Protection
The draft urges relief payments for domestically consumed surplus crops, promotes cooperative marketing and foreign trade disposal, and opposes new irrigation while surpluses exist. It backs free-list imports not grown domestically, demands protection against foreign subsidies, and endorses limited regulation via independent tribunals.
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United States
Modern Etiquette Q A Advice From Roberta Lee
Reader questions cover male self focus and social habits. Advice notes ill breeding marks popularity failure. Napkin use described to wipe mouth and dry fingers before finger bowl. Engagement news reserved for the fiancé’s parents only.
Look and Learn by A. C. Gordon
Answers follow the prompts in order: 1 grocery business leads in workers with second being filling stations. 2 Edward Everett joined Lincoln at Gettysburg Cemetery dedication. 3 a polyhedron is a figure formed by many faces. 4 hydrogen is the lightest gas. 5 Pennsylvania earned the Keystone State title as the center stone of the original thirteen colonies' arch.
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Gettysburg Cemetery
Pennsylvania
Keystone State
Edward Everett
Landon Platform Talks Highlight Rifts At Convention
The nomination process for Landon intensifies as the platform committee debates wage reform and other planks. Borah opposes joining the League or world court while Landon pushes for pay as you go social security funding and utility controls. White defends wage amendment as a potential full resolutions item.
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Borah
Ainst
League of Nations
World Court
William Allen White
Kansas
John Thomas
Idaho
Governor Ehringhaus Seeks James Lynn Requisition
Governor Ehringhaus honored a requisition from Virginia for James Lynn, held in Durham, said by papers to be wanted in Norfolk County Virginia on murder charges.
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Ehringhaus
Virginia
James Lynn
Durham
Norfolk County
Abernethy withdraws from Lincoln ton presidency bid
James A. Abernethy Jr. vice president of the State Young Democrats clubs, said other duties keep him from running for president at the Greensboro convention on July 17.
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Abernethy
Lincolnton
James A. Abernethy, Jr
State
Young Democrats Clubs
Greensboro
City Fathers Consider Tax On Historic Trees
Tarboro may impose a five cent tax increase on 100 to fund preservation of historic trees in the town common as city commissioners review the proposal.
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Tarboro
Jane
Girl Recovering From Snake Bite in Bolton Home
Miss Odessa Little, 15, is recovering today from a rattlesnake bite on her hand. The injury occurred when the snake, coiled against a wall, bit her at the Little family’s new house in Bolton.
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Bolton
Odessa Little
Miss Little
Little
Thomas to Resign From Parliament
London June 11 James H Thomas, forced from the British cabinet by the budget break scandal, told the house of commons today he would resign from parliament at once.
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London
James H. Thomas
House of Commons
Power to tax dangers warned by NC banker official
Willis Smith of Raleigh, general counsel of the North Carolina Bankers association, warned at the 40th annual convention that the power to tax is dangerous if in hostile hands. Delegates traveled home aboard the Reliance from Bermuda. the ship docks in Norfolk the next morning.
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Norfolk
Willis Smith
Raleigh
North Carolina Bankers Association
Bermuda
Smith
North Carolina
New York
Pennsylvania
Illinois
Ohio
Federal Reserve Bank
Farm Loan Bank
Home Owners' Loan Corporation
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Parole Commissioner Updates on Executions for Two Murder Convicts
Parole Commissioner Edwin Gill said final decisions had not been reached on the cases of John Horne of Chowan county and John Pressley of Gaston, both under sentence to be executed June 19 for murder, as of today.
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Raleigh
Edwin Gill
John Horne
Chowan County
John Pressley
Gaston
Nease Unopposed For State Councillor At Liberty Meet
Greensboro’s Carl Nease ran unopposed for state councillor as the Sons and Daughters of Liberty closed their convention in Winston-Salem. The 1937 meeting allotted to Durham.
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Nease
Winston-Salem
Carl Nease
Greensboro
Sons and Daughters of Liberty
Durham
New Telephone Line Granted in Forsyth Township
Raleigh June 11 The utilities commission granted J Lee Keiger of Forsyth County permission to construct telephone lines in the northwestern section of Old Town township Forsyth.
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Raleigh
the Utilities Commission
J. Lee Keiger
Forsyth County
Old Town
Forsyth
Slot players outsmarting machines in Southport
Southport reports slot machine operators faced trouble as players cut discs from wooden spoons to use as nickels in machines. Operators say players claim it is legal for them to outsmart the machine as the machine outsmarts them.
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Southport
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