Judge Lyon Highlights Grand and Trial Jurors in Elizabethtown
The Elizabethtown court session opened with Judge Lyon outlining grand and trial jury roles and the four capital offenses punishable by death. He avoided vagrancy law discussions, stressed swift docket handling, and adjourned after brief proceedings with the Dickman embezzlement case awaiting grand jury action.
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Superior Court
C Lyon
Elizabethtown
Lion
Jufige Lyon
Bane
Jarge Lion
Lyon
R. R. Stone
L. H. Shew
H. T. F. Wrede
Henry Kirkman
W. F. Buck
J. C. Strothers
John Dickman
Ai. W. Divine Company
Dickman
Negro plurality tops arrests in month as crime widens
Police figures show 165 arrests, 28 whites, with Negroes holding the majority in a dozen offenses. Gambling led with 42 arrests. whites led on disorderly conduct and prohibition violations while Negroes dominated drunk, trespass, fornication, and running disorderly houses.
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Brank
Isrycony
Onan, Oa
Dee Benena
Wvretang
Actua ‘Save Seeees FY &K
Were
Soessie
Ce Ce BT
Thirteen Whites Entrain Tomorrow for Second Draft
The city fixes its second draft quota at 320 with 16 men enlisting tomorrow for Camp Jackson leaving 304 to be called. Credit for voluntary enlistments reduces the base, excluding navy or naval reserves. Tomorrow’s group includes John Franklin Wolff Gordon Othneal Perry George Thomas Fowler and others amid prior colored registrants.
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Camp Jackson
Navy
John Franklin Wolff
Gordon Othneal Perry
George Thomas Fowler
Dorsley Leonidas Williams
William Arthur Spooner
Ernest Clyde Whitley
Fred Strickland
John E. Silva
John Q. Swann
Thomas Pritchard Taylor
Chesley B. Sellars
Leonard B. Mills
George Martin
Mayo James
Willie John Kerr
Ephraim Coleman
James Pinkney Caston
Campaign gymnasium drives to win back members
The Young Men's Christian Association maps junior and senior campaigns in Wilmington with teams from British and American divisions led by Shephard Bryan and Malcolm Little. A 6:15 p.m. meeting at the Association finalizes plans, with a 7 p.m. session for senior membership as wartime conditions push business men to join through gym work.
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Young Men’s Christian Association
Wilmington
Durham
Charlotte
Greensboro
Winston-Salem
Columbia
Tampa
Fla
Messrs
Shephard Bryan
Malcolm Little
Association
Charleston
Trump
J. B. Huntington
Henry E. Bonitz
Col
Walker Taylor
Jesse F. Roache
The
Home Savings Bank
W. B. Cooper
C. VanLeuven
Hugh MacRae & Co.,Inc
Harry Wollecott
Tidewater Power Company
John C. Wessell
W. H. Sprunt
E. R. Pickard
Queen City Cycle and
Victoria Music Company
I. F. Cates
Wilmington Dispatch
J. M. Wells
First Presbyterian Church
M. T. Cockey
Cockey Lumber Company
Harold W. Wells
Citizens
Hyman Supply Company
Thomas H. Wright
Wrightsville Beach
J. ©. Williams
Belk- Williams Company
United States
A. 5
Haman Takes Editor Post for Fort Oglethorpe Weekly
Mr J Blansing Haman, longtime telegraph editor of The Morning Star, becomes editor of Trench and Camp a weekly for soldiers at Fort Oglethorpe Ga published through The Chattanooga Times. He previously worked in Greenwood Mississippi and has many local friends awaiting news of his new role.
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J. Blansing Haman
Telegraph
Morning Star
Trench and Camp
Fort Oglethorpe, Ga
Chattanooga Times
Fort Oglethorpe
Haman
Greenwood, Miss
New Interest Quarter Begins at American Bank & Trust Co
The New Interest Quarter at the American Bank & Trust Co. begins on April 1. Deposits made on or before April 2 will earn 4 percent compound interest from April 1.
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American Bank & Trust Co
Wilmington Weather Bureau to issue daily cotton bulletins
Beginning this morning the Wilmington weather bureau will issue daily cotton bulletins with general weather information for the South. The service will run throughout the entire cotton growing season.
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Wilmington Weather Bureau
South
Wilmington shipyard bid seen as unlikely
Washington dispatch in The Raleigh News and Observer reports the U S Shipping Board will concentrate shipyard development at established points and refrain from new large projects. The policy deemed unfavorable to Wilmington North Carolina and its bid for a shipyard. local delegation returning from talks with the Emergency Fleet Corporation are unlikely to improve prospects.
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Wilmington
Washington
Raleigh News and Observer
Shipping Board
United States Shipping Board
N. C
North Carolina
Emergency Fleet Corporation
Death of Mrs Jordan after brief illness
Mrs Nannie Jordan 30 wife of L T Jordan of 91 Delgado died at James Walker Memorial Hospital this morning after a brief illness. Funeral services will be held tomorrow at 3 PM from the residence conducted by Rev J T King with burial in Bellevue Cemetery. She leaves a husband and three children Arnold Goldie and Luther.
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Nannie Jordan
L. T. Jordan
Delgado
James Walker Memorial Hospital
Preacher to Speak Tonight at Bladen Street Methodist
Rev. J. H. Miller will preach at Bladen Street Methodist church this evening at 8 o clock. The public is cordially invited to attend.
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J. H. Miller
Bladen Street Methodist Church
England Introduces Light Motorcycles for Women Under 100 Pounds
A new class of motorcycles weighing under 100 pounds has been developed in England aimed at female riders. The compact bikes are marketed as accessible for women, promising easier handling and reduced fatigue.
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England
Decrease Shown in Flagler Estate Value Drops Over Million
The New York Herald reports Mrs. Flagler widow of M M Flagler shows the estate fell by over $1 million in the past year due to securities market turmoil. An accounting was filed in Supreme Court by Cornelius J Sullivan and Guaranty Trust as committee. Justice Weeks approved the accounting and allowed $450,000 in fees to lawyers physicians and others.
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New York Herald
Herald
Justice Weeks
Special Agent Phillips Recovers From East Carolina Outing
Department of Justice agent Dorsey Phillips completes a weekend operation seizing 600 quarts of whiskey, a barrel of wine, and 90 volumes of The Finished Mystery, underscoring a crackdown on illicit goods and materials.
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Phillips
East Carolina
Dorsey Phillips
Department of Justice
Whiskey seizures and book seizures during scouting trip report
A report recounts whiskey seizures on Atlantic Coast trains between Goldsboro and Rocky Mount totaling five hundred quarts. Copies of a tabooed book were taken from D. T. Howard and George E. Perry in Henderson who pledged to cease circulation. Additional liquor seized at a vacant Battleshoro house and sent to a Ral Noan. tests conducted.
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East Carolina
Goldsboro
Rocky Mount
D. T. Howard
George
E. Perry
Henderson
Battleshoro
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Patent
Baltimore Re
Wilmington Savings & Trust Company
Princess Street
Flagler
Yealune
Spcumeus
Trip
Tive Popular Department Store
Ficers
E. F. O. Banck
J. Haughton James
Wilmington, N. C
U. A. Underwood
V. Pres
K. O. Burgwin
Sec
Treas
Board OF Directors
C. E. Hooper
P. Q. Moore
H. F. Edgerton, Kenly
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