Cashier and Bank Robbers Escape With 6000 At Denton
Bandits held up the Carolina Bank and Trust in Denton driving a stolen blue Chevrolet. They grabbed 6000 in bills, fled toward Asheboro around 11 am, abandoning the car on highway 90 five miles from Asheboro. Three men entered the bank while a lookout waited outside. Authorities later learned the car was abandoned and the robbers possibly headed to High Point or this city in a Ford.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
High Point
Carolina Bank and Trust Company
Denton
Asheboro
R. E. Campbell
Baxter Carter
Carter
Local court cases heard in Guilford Superior Court
Mrs. E. M. Knox of High Point was fined 10 dollars and costs for speeding after appealing from municipal court. A. Newton pleaded noto contendere on operating a car intoxicated with possible sentence suspension for good behavior. Roosevelt Garey failed to appear and capias was issued. Civil term jury found Aetna Casualty liable to Guilford County for embezzlements by ex clerk Mason W. Gant totaling over forty thousand dollars with partial recovery anticipated.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greensboro
E. M. Knox
High Point
Guilford Superior Court
High Point Municipal Court
A. &. Newton
Thomas J. Shaw
Roosevelt Garey
Capias
Aetna Casualty and Insurance Company
Guilford County
Mason W. Gant
Superior Court
Officials To Quiz Jean Harlow In Mate's Death
Hollywood police plan to question Jean Harlow about the death of film producer Paul Bern who died reportedly by his own hand Inspector Davidson said the inquiry aims to uncover a motive two months after the marriage to Harlow in Hollywood California.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jean Harlow
Mate
Paul Bern
Hollywood
Cal
David A. Davidson
Davidson
Miss Harlow
Bern
Beverly Hillis
Beverly Hills
Calif
John Carmichael
Trio Convicted in Murder Trial
J O Webb Charles Jones and Roy Adams were found guilty of second degree murder for the June 11 holdup killing of Fayetteville grocer A C Willis. The jury cited liquor daze as a possible factor and sentences await brief mercy pleas. Willie Jones testified for the defense.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fayetteville
N. C
J. O. Webb
Charles Jones
Roy Adams
A. C. Willis
Walter L. Small
Webb
Jones
Adams
Willie Jones
Willis
Church Critics Hoover Speech Warns of Spanking by Church
Cincinnati Ohio September records show Dr Clarence True Wilson, head of the Methodist Episcopal temperance board, denounced Hoover and anti prohibitionists as political and out of order. He claimed Hoover deserts city forces and aims to temper prohibition via a millionaire backed liquor monopoly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cincinnati
Clarence True Wilson
Hoover
Enquirer
Wilson
Methodist Episcopal Board of Temperance
Prohibition and Public Morals
Ohio Conference of the Church
Publix Theaters Changing Hands In Regional Shift
Atlanta operator R B Wilby and H F Kincey plan to transfer 15 Publix showhouses in the south to a new company linked with Publix Theaters Corporation. The move, effective September 17, involves theaters in 37 southern cities, with Atlanta Birming ham and Tennessee houses staying under local management.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlanta
R. B. Wilby
Publix
South
H. F. Kincey
Charlotte
N. C
Publix Theaters Corporation
Wilby
Kincey
Birmingham
Tennessee
Montgomery
Auburn
Tuscaloosa
Selma
Anniston
Ala
Next Convention of Moose Set for Hickory
The Loyal Order of Moose elected D E Brittain of Hickory as president and chose Hickory as next year’s convention site. Other officers elected were Thomas Cameron from Danville Virginia as first vice president Mrs Doyle McFarland from Sanford as second vice president and Marshal Fred Scott of Newton as secretary and treasurer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sanford
Hickory
Loyal Order of Moose
D. E. Brittain
Thomas Cameron
Danville
Doyle McFarland
Fred Scott
Newton
Power Rates To Be Cut By State Commission Says Official
Raleigh Sept 6 The State Corporation Commission expects rate reductions for electrical power from major utilities after a series of meetings. Commissioner Winborne indicated reductions will be ordered, with work beginning immediately, though no final schedules have been set. Wrightsville Beach residents allege seasonal rates are discriminatory versus Wilmington area customers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stanley Winborne
Sta
Raleigh
State Corporation Commission
Tidewater Power Company
Winborne
W. T. Lee
George P. Pell
Commission
Tidewater Company
Carolina Power and Light Company
Durham Public Service Company
Southern Public Utilities Company
Tidewater
Lee
Marsden Bellamy
R. M. Kerman
Wrightsville Beach
Bellamy
Kerman
Wrightsville Sound
Wilmington
Farm Board halts sales of wheat and cotton
The Farm Board and related bodies halt sales of wheat and cotton through the next year amid a 50 million dollar reconstruction loan to stabilizing agencies. Stone, chairman, said moves protect growers as markets adjust and liquidation will occur when demand rises. Wheat stocks under 3 million bushels will not be sold before 1933 except shipments to foreign buyers. cotton holdings about 2 million bales will not be sold before July 31 1933 except for foreign consignments or favorable 12 cent near-month prices. The stabilization corporation will also delay sales until March 1 1933 with similar exceptions, holding 1.3 million bales on July 1 with relief and marketing allocations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stone
Farm Board
Reconstruction Corporation
Cotton Stabilization Corporation
American Cotton Cooperative Association
Grain Stabilization Corporation
United States
Cotton Cooperative
New York Exchange
Congress
Storm shifts away from Florida may threaten North Carolina
Miami officials said the tropical storm east of the American mainland recurved out to sea and Florida was no longer in danger. The storm, east of Titusville, was expected to pass east of Jacksonville with no need for evacuation in the Lake Okeechobee area. In Washington, hurricane warnings remained for the Middle Atlantic coast as the storm had shifted northward toward Wilmington and Cape Hatteras, though likely to curve outward again.
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Miami
Fla
Miami Weather Bureau
Florida
Titusville
Richard W. Gray
Jacksonville
Gray
Lake Okeechobee
Everglades
N. CC
Washington
Weather Bureau
Middle Atlantic
Caribbean
Wilmington
North Carolina
Cape Hatteras
Bullish Rally Fails as Stocks Drop After Early Gains
New York traders saw late session selling erase initial gains with United States Steel dropping from 52.62 intraday to 60, American Telephone down 3.25, and Union Pacific and Santa Fe off 3 each. Cotton futures closed near unchanged after early strength. General Electric Du Pont and American Cap slid about 1.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Cotton Exchange
United States Steel Common
American Telephone
Union Pacific
Santa Fe
General Electric
du Pont
American Cap
Treasury Offers Record Federal Securities Sale
Washington on September 6 reports the treasury issued 1.15 billion dollars in federal securities. A 5 year note at 3 percent totals 750 million dated September 15, and 400 million in 1 percent certificates mature in one year. Proceeds retire 712.5 million dollars of maturing certificates and cover 50 million in interest due, with the remainder funding operating expenses including Reconstruction Finance Corporation needs. The treasury forecasts a 400 million dollar deficit trimmed by September 15 income tax receipts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Treasury
Reconstruction Corporation
About 6000 Workers Return To Work In Toledo Mills
About 6,000 workers returned to work today as Toledo plants reopened after a shutdown of two to three weeks. A 4,300 workforce resumed at the Willys-Overland plant while hundreds more went back to the Electric Auto-Lite and other smaller plants in Toledo.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Toledo Mills
Toledo
Willys- Overland
Electric Auto-Lite Company
Planta
Carolina Tobacco Markets Open With Double Year Ago Prices
Early sales show averages doubling and trebled from 1931 as farmers report booming demand for North Carolina’s new bright leaf. Kinston and Wilson each report about 600,000 pounds on the floors with prices well above last year’s opening, Rocky Mount opening near 13 dollars per hundred and Goldsboro selling two to three times higher than 1931.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raleigh
N. C
Tobaccco
All Carolina
Kinston
Wilson
Goldsboro
Rocky Mount
Germany ready to arm if denied equality of arms
General Kurt von Schleicher said Germany will arm for defense if equality of arms is denied. In an interview at Koenigsberg he stated Germany will do what is necessary and would defend East Prussia to the last man, with supplies by sea if required.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
Kurt von Schleicher
Europe
Germany
Koenigsberg
East Prussia
Mill Superintendents Confer Over Amazon Strike
Thomasville reports David A. Long Jr of the Amazon Cotton mills returning from Concord after a talk with Cannon Tower head Mr. Cannon. Labor Day parades passed quietly with pickets near the plant as talks continue on settlement of the strike at the Cannon Tower and Thomasville Chair mills.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
David A. Long, Jr
Amazon Cotton Mill
Thomasville
Amazon
Concord
Cannon
Cannon Tower Company
Etelbina
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A. S. Newton
Church
Publix Theaters
Atlantan
Dixie
Swiss Alps
Jerane Iberschoff
Smith College
Cleveland
Miss Iberschoff
Lebanon
Tenn
National
Nashville
Ben Northern
M. EB. Brown
Ed Climer
Robert Gan
Otho Robinson
Climer
Northern
Brown
George Oldham
Oldham
Liberty
Austin Finch
Thomasville Chair Company
Roaring Gap
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