Bankers Trial Charge Highlights Evidence Exclusion
Asheville jurors heard Judge Barnhill outline the case against former bank president Wallace Davis and directors Dr. J A Sinclair and Dr N Brown. Much of the evidence against Davis was excluded against Brown and Sinclair as the trial opened in Asheville. Two months after the report the bank failed.
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Davis
Brown
Sinclair
Asheville
State Corporation Commission
Central Bank and Trust Company
Barahill
Wallace B. Davis
J. A. Sinclair
Do. N. Brown
Barnhill
C. M. Burnett
Madison County
Buncombe County Superior Court
Burnett
M. W. Barnhill
Buncombe County
J. Hubert Davis
Madison County Superior Court
Manhunt Ends As Autry Captured In South Carolina Barn
Wilson Autry, 20, sought for an attack on a Union county woman, was captured after a three day pursuit. He surrendered when cornered in a Lancaster county barn after tip from a farmer. Autry was brought to Charlotte jail in solitary confinement amid armed searches along the Catawba river.
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Wilson Autry
N. C. Farmer
Lancaster County
Lancaster
8. C
Union County
North Carolina
Sprindell Station
Sharif
Mehnae
Autry
Robert Mobley
Dabney
Mobley
Charlotte
South Carolina
L. F. Dabney
Conferees Report Up For Vote In North Carolina House
New report of the revenue conferees slated for a Monday vote as the 20th week of the North Carolina General Assembly ends amid bribery probe hearings. Key tests include the Ewing power bill and revenue compromise, with daylight saving time approved for Wilmington if city leaders consent.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
Marathon General Assembly
House
Senate
Assembly
Senate Committee
Senate Investigating Committee
John Hinsdale
Wake County
David H. Pope
Pope
Hinsdale
W. N. Reynolds
R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company
Reynolds
J. J. Hatch
Faison Thomson
Goldsboro
Thomason
MacLean Group
Wilmington
General Assembly
Wrightsville Beach
McLean
Polk
Tryon
Opium Seized in Antwerp Authorities Bust Major Shipment
Four boxes holding 1,600 pounds of opium from Istanbul via Holland to Belgium and bound for Paris were seized by Antwerp police. It is the largest drug find in the city. The boxes were labeled as dried fruit.
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Brussels
Istanbul
Holland
Belgium
Paris
Antwerp
Rabies Alert After Dog Bites In Los Angeles
Twelve people were bitten yesterday by three dogs later captured and found infected with rabies. The victims received the Pasteur treatment.
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Los Angeles
Prohibition And Divorce Considered By Baptists
The Southern Baptist Convention social service board calls prohibition the nation's top issue and condemns rising divorce rates. It urges a nine hour workday or 49.5 hour week, supports labor organizing, and backs Wick ersham commission findings on prohibition while warning against making it a party issue.
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Birmingham
Ala
Social Service Board
The
Southern Baptist Convention Today
Kitten Heroic Shield Saves Twins From Rabid Dog
Blackie the pet kitten sacrificed itself to shield four year old twins George and Charles Whitman from a rabies maddened dog. The humane officer found both children safe but the kitten and the dog were dead.
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Sacramento
Blackie
George
Charles
B. G. Whitman
Deaths by own action pact linked to Tadlocks tragedy
Elizabeth City N C May 16 The strange deaths of Hazel and Gaither Tadlock on a highway near here two weeks ago were ruled to result from an attempted murder suicide pact Hazel had urged with his wife He shot her infant was present and fatally wounded Gaither before Hazel killed himself The coroner jury found Hazel caused the deaths and the two bullets in the car were blamed on accident by the wife and baby unharmed
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Elizabeth City
N. C
Hazel
Gaither Tadlock
Here
Hazel Tadlock
Four Die Defending Spanish Church in Atarfe
Four people were killed and 10 injured in Atarfe Granada during an attempted defense of the church against arson. Residents gathered after rumors spread that anti church demonstrators planned to burn the church following the destruction of a Santa Fe convent.
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Granada
Spain
Atarfe
Santa Fe
Pigs Rise Only to Go Down in Hickory’s Downton
In Hickory North Carolina five pigs kept atop H W Harris store in town center are ordered down by health officer Dr RK Hamrick after an anonymous call cited a nuisance. The case centers on a local statute forbidding uptown pigkeeping.
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Hickory
N. C
Hickory Health
H. W. Harris
RK. T. Hamrick
Harris
Hoover Work Plan Dominates Rapidan Weekend
President Hoover’s Rapidan Camp weekend gathering focuses on departmental cost cutting. Sec Wilbur and bureau chiefs join to review economy measures with the aim of saving government funds. Herbert Hoover Jr. and Mrs Hoover accompany, with guests Edward H. Butler and Senator Hastings among attendees.
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Washington
Hoover
Rapidan
Wilbur
Interior Department
Hurley
War Department
Herbert Hoover, Jr
Asheville
North Carolina
Young Hoover
Edward H. Butler
The
Buffalo Evening News
Butler
Hastings
Delaware
Election Officials Will Gather Ballots for Senate Contest
Judge J. Crawford Biggs said instructions will have election officials gather the ballots from the last senatorial election and keep them at county seats until called by the Senate sub-committee of elections. Ballots will be in the charge of the superior court clerks while the contest filed by Republican George M. Pritchard against Democrat Josiah W. Bailey is referred.
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Greensboro
J. Crawford Biggs
Raleigh
State Board of Elections
Senate
Superior Court
George M. Pritchard
Josiah W. Bailey
North Carolina
Bishops Mouzon Moore Charged With Slander
Reverend Rembert G. Smith filed libel and slander suits in Charlotte and Dallas against Bishops Edwin D. Mouzon and John M. Moore for 50 000 damages. The claims arise from Smith opposition to Alfred E. Smith in 1928 and include alleged derogatory remarks about Smith to a news agency reporter.
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Atlanta
Edwin D. Mouzon
John M. Moore
Methodist Episcopal Church
South
Rembert G. Smith
Sparta
Lotte
N. C
Vales
Texas
Charlotte
Dallas
J. Ira Harrelson
Mr. Smith
Harrelson
Alfred E. Smith
Mouzon
Methodist General Conference
James Cannon, Jr
Moore
H. M. Dubose
Tex
Democratic Party
New Yorker
Smith
Hoover Watches Wage Problems in Early 1930s
Washington May 16. President Hoover tracks labor and administration responses to calls for wage cuts amid talks by AFL leader William Green that workers could resist wage reductions. Officials stress that living standards should be maintained, despite some hours cut in various industries and signals of possible labor action.
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Washington
Hoover
William Green
American Federation of Labor
Hasen
Mellon
Banker
International Chamber of Commerce Congress
Caribbean
Seven Rescued From Coal Mine Near Clearfield
Seven young men were freed after ten hours trapped in a Clearfield coal mine. All escaped without injury as rescuers brought them to the surface this morning, according to officials.
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Clearfield
Senate Kills Bill To Buy Governor Rolph Plane
Sacramento report says the senate killed an assembly bill that would have appropriated 75000 dollars to buy and maintain an airplane for Governor James Rolph Jr. The vote halted the proposal and left the governor without the requested aircraft.
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Senate
Bill
Rolph
Sacramento
Assembly
James Rolph, Jr
Fire on Eastern Air Transport Plane Forces Landing at Edgewood
Aircraft experts investigated a fire aboard an eastern air transport plane with 18 passengers on a Richmond to New York flight. The craft made a forced landing at Edgewood arsenal after smoke filled the cabin. No injuries were reported.
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Eastern Air Transport
Aberdeen
Maryland
Edgewood Arsenal
Noe
Richmond
New York
A. C. Kombat
Edgewood
G. J. MacDonald
Washington
Baltimore
Planes Arrive for Huge Rally at Dayton
Dayton Ohio May 15. The army air forces rally to the nation s greatest peace time gathering as 300 planes reach the field by noon. Brigadier General William Mitchell observes and notes only 100 combat planes are present. After all planes arrive, formations begin as groups prepare for a special unnamed mission selection.
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Dayton
William Mitchell
Air Service
Mitchell
Crippled Man Robbed at Atlanta Intersection
W. R. Skinner, a cripple who uses two crutches, was held up by a white bandit at a street intersection in Atlanta last night and robbed of $61.
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Atlanta
W. R. Skinner
Firemen Scalded as Sparrow Lumber Plant Burns in Florence
In Florence on May 14 four firemen were badly scalded while tackling a blaze that destroyed the Sparrow Lumber company plant. The plant’s dam was estimated at $25,000.
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Florence
Sparrow Lumber Company
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