Police label suspects in Dashiell murder as bad actors
Tolson Bailey and Guy Nixon, jailed in Norfolk on murder suspicions, are described by local police as bad actors. Nixon faces highway robbery and larceny charges. Bailey reportedly not seen this season. Dashiell, a Union Street sporting goods store owner, was killed on December 19th as two masked men entered and opened fire.
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Tolson Bailey
Guy Nixon
Wilmington
Norfolk
Davis
Reese Scarborough
Amelex
Recorder’s Court
Res
Nyo
Union — Street
Brambleton
Tashiell
Ts Armine
Benton
Dashiell
Noivk
Tero Negroes
Dasnin
Pastel
Fel
Flunter Sorey
Supervising Engineer Plans Shipyard Concreting Jobs
A supervising engineer from Hewitt 5 ngeer will oversee the tilting of concrete tankers at the Lib yt Shipbuilding yards and travel to Washington tomorrow with assistants. Foxland H S Dyer drafted a contract on lodging for Ya's employees, discussed by the chamber of commerce housing and rents committee. copies will be distributed today and sent to Washington after signing.
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Murchison
Hewitt
Ngeer
Pez Board
Libyt Shipbuilding Company
Washington
Foxland H. S. Dyer
Chamber of Commerce
Home Grown Spuds Impress Local Gardener at Queen Street
WH Shes of 718 Queen Street presented Irish potatoes grown in his own garden this morning. The exhibit showed unusually large, well formed spuds demonstrating that local soil and climate at Wilmington can produce fine crops. He noted he had previously harvest two bushels of peas two weeks earlier.
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Shes
Queen Street
Wilming
Tonight discuss proposed bond issue for Wilmington schools
Exponents and opponents of a quarter million dollar bond for permanent school improvements and a 10 cent tax to raise teacher salaries gather at the Academy of Music at 8 to hear pro and con. The May 8 election looms as supporters seek a large turnout and the Rotary club remains split, with some opposing bonds but favoring the tax to raise teacher pay. All Wilmington citizens interested in education are urged to attend.
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Academy of Music
Board of Education
Rotary Club
J. C. Williams
Charles E. Newcomb
Wilmington
Darrow Appointed Superintendent of ACL System
W B Darrow, superintendent of transportation of the first division with Rocky Mount headquarters, is appointed superintendent of transportation over the entire Atlantic Coast Line Railway system during J T King’s absence. Darrow’s new headquarters will be in this city. J Lowell White becomes division superintendent, shifting from president’s office to Norfolk district.
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W. B. Darrow
First Division
Rocky Mount
Atlantic Coast Line Railway Company
J. T. King
Atlanta
Darrow
J. Lowell White
Norfolk
B. J. Hughes
White
C. M. Cobb
Capt
W. H. Newell, Jr
New Bern
Water plug caused runaway car near Chestnut Street
The radiator and major parts of Thomas R. Ames’s Buick were damaged after the touring car smashed a water plug, created a 10 foot geyser, and struck a freight car on the Water street siding. Ames moved the car under its own power to Chestnut Street before brakes held.
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Buick
Thomas R. Ames
Chestnut Street
Water Street
Mr. Ames
Murchison Building
Redpath Chautauqua opens week in Wilmington
Big brown tent rises at 14th and Market as Wilmington prepares for Redpath Chautauqua under YMCA auspices. Week features include The Chocolate Soldier, Croatian tamburica concert, Lou J Beauchamp lecture, and Capt. George Frederick Campbell story among nightly programs and 3 PM afternoon sessions.
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14Th
Market Streets
Wilmington
Y. M
John Foster Fraser
Margaret Maxwell
Dunbar
Croatia
Lou J. Beauchamp
Mr. Beauchamp
Geo. Frederick Campbell
Capt. Campbell
Europe
John N. Chambers
Chautauqua
Chambers
Redpath Bureau
Tamburica
Alfred Heils Burgen
V. Poppe
Esther Sopkin
Frank Mulholland
America
Chancellor Bradford
Margery Maxwell
Chicago Grand Opera Company
Knight MacGregor
Christine Frederick
Sir John Fraser
Chocolate Soldier
Oney Fred Sweet
Chicago
George Frederick Campbell
Fairyland
Clarissa Harrold
Smiling Jonas Leaves Post Office for Western City
E Roscoe Hall known as Smiling Jonas leaves the local post office after nine years of service. He joins poet James Larkin Pearson to launch a Good News weekly and will pursue mountain inspired writing in Western Carolina. Hall has contributed to The Dispatch and penned a final four line verse before departure.
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E. Roscoe Hall
Jonas
James Larkin Pearson
Hal
Mters
Carolina
Pearson
Good News
Hall
Dispatch
Funeral services for Robert Sellers in Augusta
Funeral services for Robert Sellers who died in Augusta Georgia were held at his parents home on Wright Street yesterday afternoon at 3 30 led by Elder H E Blackman assisted by Elder W A Bowler and he was laid to rest in Delgado cemetery pallbearers were K Smith M Wolfe Coy Faulk and G L Gain nex
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Robert Sellers
Augusta
Wright Street
H. E. Blackman
W. A. Bowler
Delgado Cemetery
K. Smith
M. Wolfe
Coy Faulk
G. L. Gainnex
Shipbuilding firms reorganize under new ownership
Reorganization of Cushman & McKown and Naul interests reshapes leadership. J. J. Turney buys Cushman stake while Henry Rowland acquires Naul shares. Naul returns to New York to pursue ship construction. The Cushman & McKown unit becomes Wilmington Wooden Shipbuilding and gains use of Queen street office site. Plan includes a five masted schooner and multiple three masted vessels plus ten ocean going barges.
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Naul
Cushman
Cushman & McKown
Captain Cushman
Cushman & McKown Company
J. J. Turney
Arthur P. S. Na
Gloomy prospects for potatoes from Mount Olive crop
Special to The Dispatch from Mount Olive reports a rise in Irish potato acreage but warns of poor prospects due to bad weather and injured crop conditions around Mount Olive. The May 3 dispatch notes the hardship despite increased planting, signaling tighter yields for the season.
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Mount Olive
Weather Woes Trim Potato Yields Across Region
Continuous rains over the past month hindered potato growth and growers fear yields will be at best half of potential if conditions do not improve. Weather has weighed heavily on prospects, with widespread concern among farmers about the harvest outcome.
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Ggth
N. H. Shew
Cay
Wilson
Newspaper
Delgado
Uncle Sam
Liberty Loan Committee
Banks of
James Francis Sullivan
Bellévue Hospital
New York
Westchester County Hospital
Desser
Lesher Whitman & CO. Inc
Broadway
Mad&ee
U.S Fest Administration
R. F. Campbell
Mgor., Nilmington
N. C
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