Two Large Banks Planned to Merge in North Carolina
Raleigh reports final approval for merging the North Carolina Bank and Trust Company and the Page Trust Company of Charlotte into a single state bank with initial capital and surplus of 1.5 million dollars. Depositors gain protections while stockholders face a 100 percent assessment and orderly liquidation under a new board chosen by depositors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raleigh
North Carolina Bank and Trust Company
Page Trust Company
Charlotte
Gurney Hood
Hood
Morrison Leaves Tax Commission For Rayon Industry Role
Dr Fred W Morrison former secretary of the State Tax Commission and director of the Governor's Office of Relief joins O Max Gardner s rayon industry group as statistician in Raleigh He has taught at North Carolina College for Women and Chapel Hill High School prior to his tax work The article notes a price drop in sericea lespedeza enabling demonstration use says O R Carrithers of Montgomery County North Carolina
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Raleigh
Fred W. Morrison
State Tax Commission
Governor's Office of
O. Max Gardner
Tax Commission
North Carolina College For Women
Greensboro
Chapel Hill High School
The
State University
O. R. Carrithers
Montgomery County
North Carolina
Roosevelt's public works push and industrial control plan
The article outlines Roosevelt's drive to launch a three billion three hundred million dollar public works program funded by borrowing. It discusses a potential sales tax or breakfast-table tax to cover interest costs, and signals Bernard M. Baruch as a leading figure in a proposed industrial control board. It explains how trade associations would set production, pricing, and labor terms with government ratification or adjustment, and notes concerns about a new nationalistic era and self sufficiency.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Bernard M. Baruch
War Industries Board
Wilson
Industrial Control Board
Congress
Mr. Baruch
Control Board
Peek
Farm Control Board
United States
Amelia
London
Secretary of Agriculture
Taxes on Beer Netted Nine Million for April Revenue
The legalization of beer added 9.14 million to government revenue in April as many taxes fell from March. Beer at 5 per barrel yielded 38.27 million, license fees for 3.2 beverages reached 0.87 million, and 3.2 wine tax totaled 0.82 million.
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Washington
Congress
Vinci Iron Tonic Promises Strength After Birth
Mrs. M. Gunstone says after childbirth she was thin and nervous and worn. The first bottle of Vinci iron tonic gave her strength and needed weight. Watauga Drug Store offers Vinci.
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Vinci
M. Gunstone
Watauga Drug, Store
Cove Creek Church Revival and Local Visits Noted
A two week series of meetings at Henson's Chapel Methodist Church led by Mrs. J. E. Steidley produced about 25 additions to the church and a revival. Rev. Avery M. Church of Wilkesboro aids at Cove Creek Baptist Church. Daily Vacation Bible School is run by Mr. and Mrs. Vaughn Johnson of Asheville with afternoon services. Local residents Mrs. Roland Davis and family visit kin, and several ministers and families visit the area over the weekend.
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Cove Creek
Henson's Chapel Methodist Church
J. E. Steidley
High Point
Avery M. Church
Wilkesboro
Cove Creek Baptist Church
Vaughn Johnson
Asheville
Roland Davis
Blanche Horton
D. F. Horton
J. A. McKaughan
A. M. Church
Herring
Powell
James B. Mast
Hattie Bingham
Johnson City
Tenn
E. F. Bingham
S. F. Horton
Wake Forest
Roy Davis
Death of Mrs. W. R. Pulliam in Lenoir
Mrs. W R Pulliam died Sunday at her West Harper Avenue home after more than a year of illness and a week unconscious. Funeral was at 4 PM from the home with Rev R E Hardaway and Rev C Excell Rozzelle. interment in Belleview Cemetery. The week features a cooking school in the new armory by the Lenoir News-Topic, starting at 3 PM Wednesday and Thursday with prizes and large expected attendance.
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Lenoir
W. R. Pulliam
West Harper Avenue
R. E. Hardaway
First Baptist Church
C. Excell Rozzelle
First Methodist Church
Belleview Cemetery
New Armory
Roland Davis
Seven Springs
A. R. Barlowe
Vilas
Barlow
Scottie Sue Barlow
Nell Parker
Hickory
J. R. Horton
Blowing Rock
Weekend Visitors and Health Update in Lenoir
The report notes Mr and Mrs A R Barlowe hosted the weekend. Mrs Alice McCrary and daughters plus Mrs Grady Farthing and Mrs Hooper Hendrix of Boone shopped in Lenoir on Tuesday. Miss Wilma Baird Nancy Taylor and others shopped in Lenoir last week. Mr A R Barlow returned to Duke Hospital Tuesday with improved condition though further X ray treatment may be needed.
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A. R. Barlowe
Alice McCrary
Grady Farthing
Hooper Hendrix
Boone
Lenoir
Wilma Baird
Nancy Taylor
Robert Glenn
Richard Olsen
A. R. Barlow
Duke Hospital
Wilkes County slayer loses appeal in death sentence
Bryant Stone of Wilkes County had his appeal rejected by the North Carolina Supreme Court last Wednesday afternoon. The governor is his only remaining recourse in the murder case of Wayne Norman, his son in law, shot on June 12, 1932, from a crack in a smoke house as he sat on his piazza.
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Raleigh
Bryant Stone
Wilkes County
Supreme Court
Wayne Norman
Stacy
Norman
Stone linked to ambush case with gun found in home
Witnesses say Stone threatened to shoot his son in law with buckshot and that the ambush was not intended to be fatal. The gun alleged to be used was found in a trunk at Stone’s home along with unused shells matching the ammunition used in the attack.
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Stone
Wrongful murder conviction tale in The American weekly
A feature recounts a man who served four years for murder he did not commit and examines how circumstantial evidence led to his conviction. The piece appears in The American weekly, distributed with the Baltimore American the following Sunday.
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American Weekly
Baltimore American
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Champion High
U. S
Wooster
Cary] Arnold
Grand Rapids
Mich
Harold Stark
Granite City
Ill
Gene Davis
Cicero
Robert Dunham
Sioux Falls
S. D
Geneva
Henry Morgenthau Jr
Farm Board
Wilkes
Hampshire
J. H. Shipley
N. C
Young Stock
W. E. Shipley
Chevrolet
Chevrolet Motor Company
Detroit
Michigan
F. O. B. Flint, Michigen
W. Fe
Servie
Easy G. M. A.C
General Motors
W. R. Chevrolet Co
Boone, North Carolina
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