Girl survivor recalls 80 foot fall at Glen Bernie Falls
Charlotte girl Virginia Baxter, aged 10, tells how she slipped while wading and fell 80 feet at Glen Bernie Falls in western North Carolina. She mentions teacher Lillian Arbeiger who died saving her, and recounts being pulled from mud after the plunge.
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Charlotte
Virginia Baxter
Glen Bernie Falls
North Carolina
H. H. Baxter
Lillian Arbeiger
Dorothy McFadden
Miss Arbelger
Tilinois Concrete Highway Share Cited At One Seventh
A report states about one seventh of the nation's concrete highways lie in Tilinois, highlighting the state’s substantial role in U S road construction. Local engineers note the extensive use of durable concrete and ongoing projects to expand road capacity.
Negro Arrested For Attempting To Steal Train
CHARLOTTE June 25 Ernest Byrd a negro is bound over to North Carolina superior court on a charge of attempting to steal a locomotive valued at 65000. City police judge ruled the lower court lacked jurisdiction over the theft involving such a large amount. J Parrish master mechanic at the Southern railway shops testified Byrd climbed aboard the engine yesterday and allegedly attempted to steal it. Byrd said he only borrowed the locomotive.
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Charlotte
Ernest Byrd
North Carolina
Byrd
J. ©. Parrish
Southern Railway
Sale of Washington Post Is Prevented
Washington June 26 The sale of the Washington Post was blocked in the District of Columbia supreme court when Edward B McLean vetoed the deal under his father's will Justice Jesse C Adkins halted the proceeding after a dramatic dismissal appeal The American Security and Trust Company co trustees with the publisher and guardians of McLeans three minor children had asked disposal but the court ruled nothing further remained before it
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Washington
Washington Post
District of Columbia Supreme Court
Edward B. McLean
Jesse C. Adkins
McLean
American Security and Trust Company
Publigher
John R. McLean
Bank Commissioner Hood to Visit Banks in Western North Carolina
Gur ney P. Hood state commissioner of banks will leave Raleigh tomorow to visit Asheville Hendersonville Brevard Rutherfordton Forest City and Gastonia to confer with officials of closed banks He will investigate reopening the Bank of West Asheville In Whiteville the liquidating agent of the closed Bank of Whiteville reported indictments against officers and directors including J D Maultsby J A Maultsby Jr C C Pridgen J T McKenzie Seth L Smith and L Paul Cook Four players held feet bridge hands at a party in Isville but were too excited to bid.
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Raleigh
Gurney P. Hood
State Commissioner of Banks
Asheville
Hendersonville
Brevard
Rutherfordton
Forest City
Gastonia
Hood
Bank of West
Isville
Closing Daub by Prosecutor in Deputy Murder Trial
Jurors in Ardmore Oklahoma hear Frank Dudley assail former deputy W E Guess in the case over the June 7 slaying of Emilio Cortes Rubio and Manuel Garcia Gomez. Dudley argues Guess acted cowardly firing no shots while both victims were shot. Judge Ogden instructs jury to veer verdict toward first degree murder first degree manslaughter or acquittal.
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Dudley
Guess
Cecil Crosby
Mexico
Job B. Ogden
Presbyterian Standard suspended publication until fall
The Presbyterian Standard a religious weekly based in Charlotte suspended publication today and will ask five southeastern synods North Carolina South Carolina Georgia Florida and Virginia to assume it as their official organ. A committee will present the plan at fall meetings after representatives met here yesterday.
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Columbia
8. C
Presbyterian Standard
Charlotte
Southeastern Presbyterian
North Carolina
South Carolina
Georgia
Florida
Virginia
Standard
Cases Stricken From Dockets in Gastonia Labor Roundup
Between 150 and 200 criminal cases were ordered stricken from the docket of Gastonia municipal court. Many targeted strike leaders and sympathizers in the 1929 textile strike, with charges mainly for violations of a municipal anti parade ordinance. Defendants included Fred Erwin Beal Amy Schieder Vera Bush George Carter and others prominent in the labor conflicts and the Aderholt trial.
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Gastonia
Fred Erwin Beal
Amy Schieder
Vera Bush
George Carter
Storm Warning From Weather Bureau
Weather bureau advisory reports a tropical disturbance of moderate intensity north of Progresso Yucatan moving north-northwestward. It is apparently central this morning in the south central Gulf of Mexico. Caution advised all vessels in the vicinity.
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Washington
Weather Bureau
Mexico City
Progresso
Yucatan
Gulf of Mexico
Kinston Firemen To Wear Overalls
Kinston, June 26. The city firefighters will wear overalls this summer, with full trousers baggy at the ankles, cloth straps over the shoulders, and a blue denim shirt open at the collar. The department adopted this uniform after the city administration failed to fund new gear.
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Kinston
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