Indictments Move Against Lea Ramsey and Caldwell for Banking Violations
Nashville dispatch reports Colonel Luke Lea J Basil Ramsey and Rogers Caldwell indicted on conspiracy and specific banking law violations. Caldwell bonded at 40000 each indictment and two indictments named per defendant. Proceedings set with service by federal officials and Ram sey expected to return from Jacksonville to face charges.
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Luke Lea
J. Basil Ramsey
Rogers Caldwell
ston Union + National bank
Knoxville
Nashville
Lea
Caldwell
Ramsey
Jacksonville
Fla
New Trend Seen in Naval Accord
Paris reports delay by the United States and Japan in approving the naval accord among Great Britain, France, and Italy. Observers fear the agreement may function as a regional pact through 1936 without formal modification to the London and Washington treaties. Tokyo and Washington seek to avoid a new five power conference and Senate or Diet endorsements, with Japan objecting to French submarine tonnage. Dispatches from Tokyo suggest opposition may stall publication of the accord next Wednesday.
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Paris
Mar
United States
Japan
Great Britain
France
Italy
London
Washington
Tokyo
United States Senate
France Has Not Disarmed, Says German Minister
Berlin March 9 Wilhelm Groener defense minister told the Reichstag ways and means committee that France has not begun to disarm. He said she has created the strongest and readiest war instrument in the world through her new army organization.
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Berlin
Wilhelm Groener
Reichstag
Ways and Means
France
General Butler To Speak in Raleigh Tonight
Raleigh March 9 AP The famed General Butler will deliver a lecture in Raleigh this evening marking his first appearance on the platform in the region. He plans to visit several southern cities, discussing "The Truth About Many Things."
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Raleigh
Smedhey D. Joe
General Butler
van Osteen
Revaluation Debates Dominate North Carolina Assembly
Raleigh March 9 lawmakers in both houses push postponing the real property revaluation to 1933 amid low land values Governor Gardner urges delay to 1933 Neal of McDowell and colleagues file bills to extend the Neal law to 1933 Merchants push against a sales tax with petitions including the State Federation of Labor Lawmakers revive a statewide drivers license bill and Buncombe’s pari mutuel racing measure sits on the calendar Egg classification and labeling bill passes after a brief table debate House delays an inquiry into the Atlantic and North Carolina Railroad lease to Norfolk Southern
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Raleigh
Mar
North Carolina
Oral Assembly
Neal
McDowell
Gardner
Assembly
House
Pritchett
Campbell
Hendren
Senate
Joint Finance Committee
State Federation of Labor
Lawrence-Blount
Buncombe
Ewbank
Hamilton
Atlantic and North Carolina
Norfolk- Southern Railroad
Four Children Die in Woodland House Fire
CARIBOU Maine March 9 four children burned to death trapped in the blazing Woodland farm home of Robert Searles. A fifth child, Marjorie nine, escaped with severe burns and exposure, walking half a mile in the snow to summon help after waking to the flames.
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Caribou
Maine
Robert Searles
Woodland
Here
Marjorie
Jamaica ginger extract blamed in LA poisoning deaths
Robert Stevens, 49, died at General Hospital. authorities attribute his death to poisoning from Jamaica ginger extract. The incident marks the third fatality linked to the product in Los Angeles, with 170 others partly paralyzed.
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Los Angeles
Mar
Robert Stevens
General Hospital
Jamaica
Senate approves plan to build new North Carolina prison
Raleigh March 9 The senate without debate and unanimous vote passed the administration bill to reappropriate 400000 dollars for a modern fireproof central prison. A new prison plant will be erected at Cary Farm near Raleigh to relieve overcrowding and provide work for idle prisoners, funding cannery and refrigerating plant operations. The measure goes to the house. after a deadly Kenansville stockade fire the need for better prison quarters is stressed by Governor Gardner and officials.
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Raleigh
Senate
Cary Farm
Duplin County
Kenansville
Gardner
Police seek marauder in Knoxville home attack
Knoxville police and Knox County authorities hunted a marauder after a Saturday night break in. They found two women, Mrs Gladys Prince and Mrs Luther Floyd, in a blood soaked bed. both were in critical condition. Delores Floyd, two, survived a head blow and was improving. Detectives believe a blunt weapon was used to stop the girl from speaking. No struggle appeared evident in the room.
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Knoxville
Tenn
Knox County
Gladys Prince
Luther Floyd
William D. Worley
Delores Floyd
Beaufort County Allocates $600 for Firefighting
Beaufort county commissioners approve $300 for fire suppression for the remainder of the fiscal year in addition to a state grant of $300. The measure targets Beaufort County forest fire control and prevention efforts.
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Washington, N. C
Beaufort County
Grant Railroad Granted Right To Build Port Terminals
The North Carolina House approved the Hamilton bill granting permission for the Norfolk and Southern railroad to build port terminals at Morehead City. The measure moves to the senate and allows terminals to be built from earnings of the Atlantic and North Carolina State-owned railroad leased by Norfolk and Southern.
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Raleigh
Mar
Norfolk and Southern Railroad
Morehead City
House
Senate
Atlantic and North Carolina
Norfolk and Southern
McLean Fights Measure On Driver Licenses Amid Debate
The North Carolina senate debates an amendment allowing sheriffs and police chiefs to issue drivers licenses. The bill would grant a free license to one family member per household while others would pay $1 biennially. Polk’s Senator McLean criticizes the measure as a revenue scheme.
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Raleigh
Senate
Sheriffs
Chiefs of Police
Hicks
McLean
Polk
Polk County
The
Granville
Umstead
Orange
McKee
Sylva
Exp
Gravely
Nash
Robinson for Presidency Named by Arkansas Senate
The Arkansas Senate adopted a unanimous resolution urging the Democratic nomination for Joseph T. Robinson for president in 1932. It lauded his leadership and integrity and stated his election would retrieve the nation from the Great Depression and restore normalcy through his administration.
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Little Rock
Ark
Joe T. Robinson
Arkansas Senate
Arkansas
Joseph Taylor Robinson
Joseph T. Robinson
Bandits Hold Up Bank and Escape
Berlin officers and customers arriving at opening were met by two men who forced Assistant Treasurer James Fitzsimmons to open the vault. The trio escaped in a waiting car with between 10000 and 12000 dollars.
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Berlin
Conn
James Fitzsimmons
Constitutionality Of Local Measures Questioned In Assembly
RALEIGH March 9 Speaker Smith said half of local legislation in the current session may be unconstitutional. Representative Hood cited house rules limiting private or special legislation and questioned the Pitt a bill on tax listers. The bill was referred to a judiciary committee. The constitution restricts local acts on courts trails health municipalities highways cemeteries jurors labor and taxes but allows general laws on these matters.
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Smith
Raleigh
House Today
General Assembly
Hood
Wayne
House
Pitta
Bils
Judiciary Committee
World tremors and cold grip Europe and Balkans
Across Europe and the Balkans earthquakes, heavy snow, and bitter cold dominate reports. Deaths rise with Balkan shocks and a Newburyport boat wreck adds to mounting disaster as Paris Seine levels alarm, storms lash the Atlantic, and western regions dig out from a central blizzard leaving multiple towns hit.
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Associated Press
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Japan
Europe
Western Hemisphere
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North Atlantic
Great Lakes
Port Louis
Mauritus
Valandova
Hakodate
London
Scotland
France
Germany
Glam
Scandinavia
Austria
Poland
Burgundy
Seine
Paris
Newburyport
Mass
New York
Middle West
New England
Central States
Winter Stages Big Comeback Across Dixie States
A cold snap sweeps the South with snow flurries reaching Atlanta and Asheville while tempera tures drop across Georgia Florida Tennessee Virginia and the Carolinas. Sunshine returns in many areas but frost and sub freezing conditions are forecast inland.
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Atlanta
Dixie
Florida
Tampa
Nashville
Tenn
Memphis
Tennessee
Birmingham
Ala
Mobile
Montgomery
Alabama
Florence
New Orleans
Richmond
Virginia
Asheville
North Carolina
Charlotte
Columbia
South Carolina
Gasoline Price Drops in Charlotte to 17 Cents
Gas price war resumes in Charlotte with a 2.8 cent cut. The new price is 17 cents per gallon including state tax. Local stations compete as prices shift during the ongoing campaign.
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Charlotte
Citizens attend Raleigh hearings on charter issue and sales tax
Two High Point delegations appeared in Raleigh before committees this afternoon. One group spoke to the House Counties Cities and Towns Committee on the charter issue, while merchants urged against a general sales tax before the House and Senate Joint Finance Committee. Results were unavailable at 4 o'clock.
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High Point
Raleigh
House Committee On
House
Sen
Roundup arrests for Sunday groceries in Greenville
Fifty seven grocers and case proprietors were brought into court for selling groceries on Sunday. Eighteen were sentenced to pay 26 dollars or face 30 days in jail. Three cases were continued, one dismissed, others ordered back to business. further investigations and future reporting for judgment planned.
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Greenville
8. C
Menshevigs Given Jail Terms in Treason Trial
In Moscow on March 9 four teenage Mensheviks were sentenced to prison terms up to ten years after a treason trial held since last Sunday. They were accused of plotting to overthrow the Soviet government. Death sentences had been requested for seven defendants.
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Moscow
Mensheviga
Jury invokes wedding conflict delays case in Wilmington
Ohn Convaly sat on a Wilmington jury as John sought to attend his own wedding in Charlotte. After a judge’s conference John was excused and left for the ceremony while the case resumed with 11 jurors.
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Wilmington
N. C
Ohn Convaly
John
Charlotte
Dan Cupid
Mrs EK Coltrane Funeral in Salisbury
Funeral services for Mrs. EK Coltrane, wife of the Salisbury schools superintendent, were held today in Salisbury. She died Saturday and will be interred at Deep River Friends church in Guilford county. She was formerly Miss Annie Lois Henley of Snow Camp Alamance county and a Guilford College graduate.
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Salisbury
Wars
EK. Coltrane
Deep River
Rhodes Bank President Trial Postponed In Embezzlement Case
Hendersonville Mar 9 A trial of J Mack Rhodes president of the defunct First National Bank faced postponement until Wednesday after one of counsel and the solicitor requested more time. The charges allege he embezzled twenty thousand dollars.
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Hendersonville
Mar
J. Mack Rhodes
First National Bank
Death of NC Congressman Charles R. Thomas at 69 in Norfolk
Charles Randolph Thomas 69 longtime congressman from North Carolina’s third district, serving 1899 to 1911, died in a Norfolk hospital. Funeral services are set for Wednesday at Christ Episcopal church in New Bern with interment in the same city. Thomas had moved from New Bern to Waynesville years earlier and was appointed a 1926 special by Governor Angus W. McLean.
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New Bern
Mar
Charles Randolph Thomas
North Carolina
Norfolk
Christ Episcopal Church
Thomas
Waynesville
Angus McLean
Henderson Drugist P H Thomas 64 Dies After Illness
P H Thomas a druggist in Henderson for 47 years died today after a long illness at age 64. He was a longtime local pharmacist and community figure.
Robbers Take Safe From Loray Post Office
In Statesville area, robbers entered the Loray post office early today and seized a heavy iron safe containing about 80 dollars. A truck believed used in the robbery was spotted heading toward Taylorsville as authorities across the region search for suspects.
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Statesville
L. C
Loray
Here
Taylorsville
Headless body found in Sacramento River tied to tractor wheel
Sant Ram Pande, 32, UC student and Sacramento police interpreter, identified by officials as the dead man. Authorities link the case to a Hindu murder ring and arrest a growing slate of suspects. Pande had investigated similar killings and was last seen February 24. The victim, an outspoken advocate for British rule, was kidnapped from the Capitol steps.
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Rio Vista
Cal
Sacramento
Sant Ram Pande
University of California
Sacramento Police Department
Clarence
Morrill
State Bureau of Criminal Identification
J. R. Thornton
Solano County
Pande
California
Thornton
Capitol
India
Sherriff Thornton
Gandhi
Freedom Movement
Coroner's Jury to Probe Death of William Timberlake
Coroner's jury summoned in Reidsville to investigate the death of 60 year old farmer William Timberlake found shot in his heart at home. Death appears to be related to personal safety. Survived by widow who is a court stenographer in Rockingham and nearby counties.
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Reidsville
William&. Timberlake
Timberlake
Rockingham
Raleigh Merchan ts Rally Against Early Sales Tax Enactment
In Raleigh, about two thousand North Carolina merchants pressed to block the Day sales tax bill. They urged the joint finance committee to hear their protests for one hour, as telegrams and petitions flood the Capitol. The measure, introduced by Rep. N. E. Day, would tax gross retail sales from a half to one quarter of a percent, aiming to fund state school support without ad valorem taxes.
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Raleigh
Joint Committee On Finance
House of Representatives
N. E. Day
Onslow
Kentucky
Assembly
Workers Rally at Reopened Mill After Wage Cut
Two thousand workers gathered as No 2 cotton mill of American Printing reopened in Fall River mass under a wage reduction of about ten percent. A general strike had been ordered but most applicants were turned away while others were hired to run machinery full time with priority given to former employees. Police guarded the gates to keep order and direct traffic.
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Fall River
Mass
American Printing Company
Ander
Textile Council
Denison Liquor Possession Trial Postponed in DC Court
The District of Columbia supreme court trial of Edward Be. Denison, former Illinois representative, on liquor possession charges was postponed to Wednesday. Denison’s case, tied to state and federal records, remains pending as prosecutors prepare further evidence and motions.
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Washington
Mar
Edward BE. Denison
Mlinois
District of Columbia Supreme Court
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Fall River, Mass
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