Merger Plan Denied as Premature by Rand and Wilkinson
Marine Midland Corporation plans to acquire 16 North Carolina banks and join them with 17 existing banks, with a $60 million financing and $25.6 million for a Marine Trust of New York. Rand and Wilkinson issued a statement denying the reports and clarifying the use of the funds and capitalization.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Marine Midland Corporation
North Carolina
W. C. Wilkinson
Merchants and Farmers National Bank of
Charlotte
N. C
George F. Rand
Wilkinson
Marine Midland
Marine Trust of New York
Wall Street
Bankers
MacDonald to Sail for U S on a World Peace Mission
Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald sails from London with his daughter Ishbel and a small official party aboard the Berengaria to seek disarmament with American aid and world peace, a voyage likened to an exploration aimed at inspiring faith. Dawes will not accompany the party.
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London
Ramsay MacDonald
Ishbel
Hner
Berengaria
Southampton
Hoover
Imperator
MacDonald
United States
Number Ten Downing Street
Miss Ishbel
Rose Rosenberg
Augusta High Choked Off After 6.88 Inch Rain
Augusta sits behind a new nine mile levee as the Savannah River swells to a record 43 feet after 6.88 inches of rain in 24 hours. Hamburg across the river floods while roads and railways remain impassable and trains are halted for at least 56 hours. The weather bureau warns of dangerous river rises statewide. The trial of Burley Adams for staying a prohibition agent is halted by floodwaters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Augusta
Savannah
South Carolina
Hamburg
Savanah
Atlanta
Georgia
W. E. Hopper
Union Depot
Greenville
S. C
Burley Adams
Marketing Body For Livestock Is Denman's Plan
C B Denman member of the federal farm board tells the senate agriculture committee that the board contemplates organizing a gigantic national cooperative marketing corporation for livestock to control surpluses. He notes the plan would help organize and finance the venture and assist in disposing of any future surpluses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Federal Farm Board
C. B. Denman
Senate Agriculture Committee
Denman
Charlotte Police Chief Sued Over Arrest of Strikers
Three of eight labor leaders arrested in Charlotte on September 12 sue for 50,000 dollars against Police Chief Alex West and Sheriff John R. Irwin. They claim the conspiracy arrest was fictitious, trumped up, wicked and malicious.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charlotte
Alex West
John R. Irwin
Mecklenburg County
U. TW. U. meeting billed tomorrow in South
Marion North Carolina September 27 union officials announce the southern textile labor conference at Rock Hill will discuss the Elizabethton Tennessee and Marion North Carolina unsettled strike terms. William Ross says the issue will be fully debated with invited leaders from North and South Carolina and other southern states.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marion
N. C
Elizabethton
Tenn
United Textile Workers Union
Southern Textile Labor Conference
Rock Hill
William Ross
North Carolina
South Carolina
Ira C. Blackwood
Spartanburg
Thomas P. Stoney
Charleston
Roswell W. Heninger
North Carolina State College
Raleigh
Frank Graham
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill
B. B. Swift
North Carolina League of Woven Voters
Francis J. Orman
South
Paul J. Aymon
Tennessee Federation of Labor
W. C. Birthwright
T. A. Wilson
North Carolina Federation of Labor
Dowell E. Patterson
South Carolina Federation of Labor
R. T. Bowden
Virginia Federation of Labor
Carolinas
Virginia
Tennessee
Alabama
Supervisors Named for 1930 Census District Coverage
The census bureau announced supervisors for the 1930 census. Oliver M. Perry of Greensboro manages Alamance Caswell Durham Guilford Orange Person and Rockingham counties with headquarters in Greensboro. Charles M. Setzer of Charlotte covers Cabarrus Gaston Iredell Lincoln Mecklenburg and Rowan counties with headquarters in Charlotte.
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Washington
Census Bureau
Oliver M. Perry
Greensboro
Alamance
Caswell
Durham
Guilford
Orange
Person
Rockingham
Charles M. Setzer
Charlotte
Cabarrus
Gaston
Iredell
Lincoln
Mecklenburg
Rowan
Cesare Rossi Sentenced to 30 Years in Italy
Cesare Rossi, anti fascist leader, was sentenced to thirty years by a special tribunal for conspiracy to overthrow the regime and to foment attempts on Mussolini's life. The Matteotti case linked the affair to the 1924 kidnapping and murder of socialist deputy Giacomo Matteotti.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cesare Rossi
Rome
Mussolini
Matteotti
Giacco Matteotti
French Airman Seeks Long Mystery Flight Record
Dieudonne Coste and Maurice Bellonte, aboard the sesqui plane Question Mark, launched eastward from Paris aiming to break a world distance record. The two French aviators, stripped of wireless and packed with fuel and fishing tackle, reportedly planned a sequence toward Irkutsk and Lake Baikal before a possible hop to Tokyo.
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Coste
Bellonte
Siberia
LE Bourget
Paris
Dieudonne Coste
Maurice Bellonte
Atlantic
New York
Soissons
Laon
Crepy-En-Valois
Russia
Irkutsk
Lake Baikal
Tokyo
Naval delegates summoned over Geneva arms talks probe
The Senate Naval Investigating Committee will call American naval experts tied to William Shearer to answer charges from Drew Pearson that they were connected to a Scotland Yard record and a jewelry theft. The panel will also review secret government files for any evidence of Shearer. If witnesses do not respond, the committee will compel them. Pearson named Rear Admiral J M Reeves as a frequent hope for a failed agreement among Britain Japan and the United States.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Sept
Geneva
Senate Naval Investigating Committee
William B. Shearer
Senate
Shearer
Scotland Yard
Drew Pearson
Pearson
J. M. Reeves
Great Britain
Japan
America
Alvin E. Johnson
New York World
Kid McCoy
Postponed protest meeting on Wiggins slaying to next week
Charlotte report says International Labor Defense postpones a Sunday protest mass meeting over Mrs. Ella May Wiggins death due to lack of an auditorium. Meanwhile, second trial preparations proceed for 13 men charged with first degree murder and three women charged with second degree murder in Gastonia Chief O F Aderholt’s June 7 death.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charlotte
Ella May Wiggins
International Labor Defense
Liston M. Oak
O. F. Aderholt
Gastonia
J. Frank Flowers
Tom P. Jimison
Jimison
John G. Carpenter
M. W. Barnhill
Peacox Murder Trial Defense Says Evidence Insufficient
Sidney A. Syme, defense counsel, argued in summation that the evidence against Early Peacox, charged with his wife’s murder, was insufficient to convict. He condemned the prosecution’s key witness as a cheap cop and accused him of lying to secure a death sentence for the boy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
White Plains
N. Y
Sidney A. Syme
Peacox
Tax Returns Sought From Lumber Firms For Tariff Review
About 130 lumber corporations from the South Great Lakes and a few Western states were submitted to the treasury for Senator Walsh of Massachusetts to obtain information from their tax returns. The list supplements a revised 400 firm roster already sent by the Senate Finance Committee. Names include Current Lumber Co Beaufort NC Buetler's Lumber Co Boardman NC Goldsboro Lumber Co Dover NC Jackson Bros Co Fayetteville NC Deep River Lumber Co Gulf NC Mayor and Loomis Co Herford NC Hyde County Land and Lumber Co Swan Quarter NC Hilton Lumber Co.
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Washington
Great Lakes Region
Treasury
Walsh
Massachusetts
Senate Finance Committee
Current Lumber Company
Beaufort
N. C
Buetler’s Lumber Co
Boardman, N. C
Goldsboro Lumber Co
Dover
N C
Jackson Bros. Co
Fayetteville
Deep River Lumber Co
Gulf, N. C
Mayor and Loomis Co
Herford
Hyde County Land and Lumber Co
Swan Quarter
Hilton Lumber Co
Mrs Pantages Hovering Between Life and Death
Mrs Lois Pantages, under orders to appear for sentencing in a manslaughter conviction linked to a fatal auto collision, was declared by physicians to be hovering between life and death and too critically ill to attend court in Los Angeles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
Lois Pantages
Juro Rokumoto
Cooking School Ends After Record Attendance in High Point
The four day cooking school at the American theatre drew over 3,500 women from High Point and nearby areas. Mrs. S. R. Dull of Atlanta led sessions 2 to 4 pm daily with prize drawings and a large baking demonstration including a White Cornfield ham. Prizes went to Mrs. A J Cargal and Mrs. Earl McFarland after a staff-family eligibility rule was applied.
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City
High Point
American Theatre
S. R. Dull
Atlanta
Lue Crown
Loveb Theatre
C. F. Allen
White Oak Street
Carolina Public Service Company
Bell Furniture Company
Public Service Company
A. J. Cargal
Reid Street
Tropical Storm Lifts Its Threat Over Cuba
The tropical storm near Cuba weakened as it moved 50 to 60 miles southeast of Key West, veering west toward the Gulf of Mexico. Cuban observers noted no menace for Cuba. Havana reported NW winds, heavy mist, and rising barometer readings. Shipping remained tied up as fishermen stayed at port due to squalls in the Gulf.
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Havana
Key West
Bahamas
Cuba
Malecon
Gutierrez Lanza
Belen Observatory
Gulf of Mexico
Belen
Nassau
Cuban National Observatory
I Pir
Bahaman
Havana Harbor
Wide swings in high priced stocks trigger market rout
New York reports wide open breaks in over a dozen high priced stocks, sliding from $10 to $825 a share and erasing hundreds of millions in quoted values. The drop follows federal reserve brokers loans totaling $192 million, announced after yesterday’s close.
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New York
Federal Reserve
Robinson Attacks New Tariff Bill In Senate Debate
Senator Robinson of Arkansas assailed the flexible tariff provisions as unsound and inconsistent. He argued the measure fails to deliver quick emergency relief, noting the tariff commission often takes two years to report and that presidents frequently do not act on such reports.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Robinson
Arkansas
Senate
Tariff Commission
Hoover
Reed
Pennsylvania
Argument In Hall LaVarre Case At Halfway Point
In Macon Georgia the Hall LaVarre newspaper suit neared its halfway point as five attorneys spoke for about an hour each by noon. The case centers on equal operating control of the Augusta Chronicle Spartanburg Herald and Journal and the Columbia Record with Hall claiming employment and ownership details disputed by LaVarre. International Paper Company financed the papers with about 876000 dollars. Hearings began August 22 and testimony concluded yesterday.
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Macon
Hall
Spartanburg Herald and Journal
Columbia Record
LaVarpe
International Paper Company
Salisbury Adopts Easy Tax Payment Plan
Salisbury residents may pay one fifth of the total assessment in five monthly installments starting October. Discounts apply for payments in the first three months, under city manager P. P. Pilcher's initiative. The plan, following Burlington's adoption, marks Salisbury as possibly the second state city to use this method.
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Salisbury
P. P. Pilcher
Burlington
Lindbergh Plans Air Study Of Vanished Maya Ruins
Charles A. Lindbergh will undertake an air expedition sponsored by the Carnegie Institute to study the Maya ruins and other ancient civilizations in the Yucatan Quintana Roo Guatemala Honduras and British Honduras. He aims to locate lost cities hidden in dense jungles and to extend exploration beyond prior white incursions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Charles A. Lindbergh
Central America
John R. Merriam
Carnegie Institute At
Christ
Yucatan
Lindbergh
Carnegie Institution
Quintana Roo
Guatemala
Honduras
British Honduras
Belize
Carnegie
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Charlotte Banker
Rachel Tarver
Memphis
Miss Tarver
Mississippi State College For Women
U. S
Savannah River
U. TW. U
General Rossi
Italy
Mrs. Pantages
Clinard Milling Company
Earl McFarland
Clyde Street
Frances and
Josephine Wood
Vernon, Tex
Santa Monica
Calif
Burdette Fuller
Havana Sea
Hall Lavarre
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