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K >> rnmMO*m Aatadanrrvw , First National Sank Cannot Re-Open Until Depositors Sign—Sign Now pateway to ’Ventral CAROLINA. [ nineteenth year CURTIS, ACCEPTING NOMINATION, SLAPS REPEAL PROPOSALS Opposed to Return of Saloon Or Repeal of Eighteenth Amendment, He Says In Address MAKES NO MENTION OF HOOVER'S PLAN Q (>. P. Vice-Presidential Nominee Discusses Plat, form Planks, and Advo-r catfs Cooperatives To; Help Farmers; Lauds Hoover's Relief Efforts I 7 ; < . A- »_! IS APi Voic ng his ' t ion to repeal of the ' r Amendment and express- ; . - •• :i i-.-i .n c .en ful success of i IT -. r:i efforts to bring relief i - - r;e deprwsion. Vice President , C . «i iy accepted rervomrna- 1 , Sv • ire Republicans. 7- Km.-'in. in h;s formal address' < • ••p* mce said he felt the peo-j ; .-iviUi it a3l > imes be given full •: —jn •> t,i express their opinion j . -S' Cons' tution or amendments j : ■%. bT that personally ‘I am : j o*d • > he return of the saloon | 1 am opposed to the repeal of nth* Amendment.'' y- C-jt :s m id- 1 no mention in hi t I : -;a: 1 iddrcss of President Hoov- j t proposal for a change in prohi- i \ n unde which each State would I !>* gv-'-n the r sht to dea Iwith the | a# ■■ may determine, aub-! • to Federal constitutional guar- , *o pro- e<- them against in-j • bv 'heir neighbors and ! ar- r-’ r-'-jm- the saloon system. rin pla'form. he said. ?• ' h a r ’oe people ehould have pr'"iin:'v fer expression o' i .n the (|m,.t:on of amend-J c 'ns'itution “and makes n as *o the Republicanism (Ontinupd on Page Four) Alnrrmnce County Jury Refuses To Indict Couple sur:n?'e P . Aug. 18,-iaPI- The A ttnanc® county grand jury today ■Cu-H to te’urn an indictment ait - • Mn. Duncan Stewart and > re« Mr Be® in connection with the j 1 '“it'd p«.t-ton death of Duncan Stew- j Mtv .’2 ami the pair was freed, t ”- v * h id in jail here since I ’ jury ordered them held | -t .. ! uty invf.-tigatton. l " , ‘’ I 'i 'net's inquest followed an I ‘ ' *n of two month.-., which j ’**■" whet. funeral services fort note halted at the grave and •' hi - body sent away for ?'=■ -!- 7t ■«>; of poison were found. '•v.-nr* and Mcßee. the latter 1 • m Stewart's home, were t - •. .he at Greensboro and Mc r Haw River. 'v—Mgation dragged on, end - ‘ t 'he verdict of the coroner's 81.100 Loot L Taken By Bank Bandit Cashier At Cibsonville Held p: Robbers Flee In Automobiles Me Aug 18—( API— A cj ; ,:,r dit today held up Miss u 'goner, cashier of the Bank ' '‘die and forced her to turn between $l,lOO and sl.- , ' bunk s money. A <gon n r said the man enter-; v!„ ’ cik alone pointed a gun at 1 j ' forced her to put all avail ■-/ . >f'"r money into a bag. which ' -pvd and fled. , . " <l ,h t re were two or three le ' occupied by two in front o fthe bank, and • h, ‘ bandi* leaped into one of "•'i ail the cars sped away at -une time m the direcUon of ‘‘■n shorn. reports said there were two , r of the hank, one con ' ■ m * n Piloting the other *.• after the bandit# rot in - 1 »■# driver. HrnJirramt Bmlu Utaimfrh rOLL. LBABIU WIKI UUtVICB OF TH* ABB* w tUThn Seeking Record *-> -A. • ,V- v^l I l . \ .-«* .• . Ii i \ . L * < With their plane, the “Flying Boudoir”, droning on over Curtisa airport. New York, Mrs. Louise McPhetridge Thaden and Mrs. Frances Harrell Marsalis, women flyers, believe they will break the existing women’s endurance flight mark of 122 hours. The plane ig shown above, in the air, with Mrs. Thaden and Mrs. Marsalis, the former on the right. STATE UNABLE TO TAKE ROAD BONDS Would Make Its Debt Larg er Than Is Allowed by The Constitution WOULD REQUIRE VOTE Same Organic Law Provides Thai Such Aid Can Be Extended Only After Referendum; Sug gested by A. D. Mac Lean Dully ni.palrk Karma, In the Sir Wnltrr Hotel. BV j. C. BASKKHVIM.. Raleigh, Aug. 18.—Those who may be hoping that the 1933 General As sembly will follow the suggestion of A. D. Mac Lean. of Washington, Beau fort county, and enact another “law whereby the State will take over all the present indebtedness of the coun ties incurred for the consruction of highways and amounting to more r mtinued on Page Six) Fire Losses $362,966 lit N. C. In July Much Lower Than Usual But Big In crease Over Last July, Boney Says Raleigh, Aug. 18 (AP)—Xxms from fires in North Carolina in July aggre gated $882,968 in 177 btaxes, an in crease in amount of damage suffered of $144,187 over the July 1931 lorn of jOpattnaod os Pag* FlmJ newspaper published only daily Capt. Lancaster Is Acquitted by Jury * ‘ >r f% ''' BwKl v ■ . MW Miami. Fla., Aug. 18.—( AP) -Cap tain W. N. Lancaster, British flier, was freed of a charge of murdering Haden Clarke, young writer and his rival in love yesterday by a verdict which precipitated a courtroom de monstration that threatened to go be yond the control of baliffs. The 12-man jury deliberated four hours and 48 minutes before acquit ing him on one complete ballot. He had been on trial since August 2 in one of the most sensational hear ings in the history of south Florida —a trial that brought out the secret love lives of himself, Haden Clarke and Mrs. Jessie M. Keith-Miller, the Australian aviatrix, in full detail. Fashionably gowned women wept and shrieked in delight as E. B. Lea therman. clerk of court, read aloud the jury's verdict of “not guilty.’ Near-pandemonium followed, with baliffs, deputies sheriff and police vainly striving to control th ; crowd that surged toward in an effort to grasp h.s hand. RENOMINATION OF MRS. (MAY MAY EGOPSE ROBINSON $ “ Huey Long's Aid To First Elected Woman Senator Seen In Washington As Significant MRS. CARAWAY AND ROBINSON DIFFER They Have Voted on Oppo site Sides of Most Issues Since She Succeeded Her Husband; Moreover, Rob inson Was Still as a Mouse During Her Campaign By CHARLES P. STEWART Washington, Aug. 18.—Mrs. Hattie W. Caraway’s renomination for the United Stages senate not only is in teresting. record breaking, et cetera, in itself. It promises to be followed by reverberationa of impor tance in themselves also. Although Mrs. Caraway is not the first woman senator ( Mrs. Rebecca Felton of Georgia served one day by gubernatorial appointment in 1922, be fore Judge Walter F. George took over the seat by election, to complete the late Senator Thomas E. Watson’s un finished term), she is the first one ever chosen directly by the voters. It will b* recalled that originally she, was designated by Gov. Harvey Parnell of Arkansas in November, 1931, to fill the vacancy created by the death of her husband, the late Senator Thaddeus H. Caraway, until his successor had been named at a t (Continued on Page Four) Piccard Rises To New Stratosphere Heights; Goes Up Over 10 Miles Rohm, Aug. 18.—(AP>— Professor August* Picard landed at 5 p. in. today at-Egolo in the Camonica, near* ly 00 mi lee north of Biesca, ending hie second balloon ascension into the stratosphere. NXW WORLD’S ALTITUDE RECORD 18 ESTABLISHED Dubendorf, Switzerland, Aug. 18.— (API —Pyofeasor Auguste Piccard, the conqueror of the etratqephere, estab lished a new world altitude record to HENDERSON, N. C., I IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. THURSDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 18,1932 WALKER ATTORNEY ASKS DISMISSAL OF CHARGE ON MAYOR Curtin sions Upon Which Re. moval of Executive It Being Demanded EVIDENCE DOES NOT SUSTAIN CHARGES ? — Seabury Protyats Curtin's Reference ta, ‘“Snoopers”; Seabury Clakps 15 Charge* Brought Prove Walker Used Office For His Own Personal Gain AWany, N. Y, Aug. 18.—(AP)— A ceart order accompanied by a stay rvatraining Governor Rowe vett from ruling In the Walker caae until the order had beta ar gued waa procured for Mayor Ja r.ee J. Walker today and served on Governor Roosevelt, Thn order, signed by Supreme Court Justice John T. laughran at Kingston, waa asked by John J. Curtin, chief of the mayor's counsel. It Is returnable tomorrow morning before a special term of Supreme Court at'Albany. Executive Chamber Albany, N. Y,, Aug. 18.— ( AP) -Attacking the 15 conclusions upon which. Mayor Walk er’s removal is demanded. John J. Curtin, counsel to the mayor, today asked Governor Roosevelt to dismiss the charges and retain Mr. Walker in his $40,000 job. Curtin, red of face, and in emphatic tone, asserted that the evidence did got sustain the charges. Curtin’s reference, to “Judge Sea bury’s snoopers” brought Seabury to (Continued on Page Five.) TT3* - Jas. J. Davis U. S. Senator, Is Indicted He and Six Others Accused of Lottery I n Conspiracy I n Fraternities New York. Aug. 18.—(AP) —Seven individuals, including U. S. Senator James J. Davis, of Pennsylvania, were indicted today charged with participa tion in a lottery and conspiracy. The others indicted are Bernard C. McGuire, head of the B. C. McGuire Merchandise Company, of New York; Theodore G. Miller, head of the Moose ,hart Navigation Department; Ray mond Walsh, an employee of Mc- Guire; Conrad H. Mann, of Kansas City; Frank E. Herring, publisher of the Eagles Magazine; and M. J. in charge of the package de livery department of the Western Union Telegraph Company. The charges against the defendants were contained in four indictments handed down by the Federal grand jury. The Indictments grew out of an in vestigation of fraternal organization (Continued on Page Seven.) .WEATHER FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Cloudy, probably showers to night and Friday; slightly cooler In north and west portions Fri day. day by rising 18,500 meters, more than ten miles above the earth, In the aluminum air-tight ball attached to his stratosphere balloon. He took off from the airdrome here at 5:D6 o’clock yesterday evening- or 11:06 EBT., after weeks of waiting for suitable weather conditions, and at noon today his headquarters at Zurich received a radio message saying he bad smashed hi* previous altitude record The altitude record set by Dr. Piccard was the first received from the the stratosphere- _ ■ _ Price Os Tobacco Advances In South Carolina; Georgia Opening Is Well Over 1931 LINDBERGH TAKES TO AIR AGAIN r "N j ;-L HkJKbW , m * c :": . It H v m fHin v - -y-• . ,- Just a few. hours before the birth of hts second son at Englewood, N. J. Colonel Cliarles A. Lind bergh appeared at the Newark, N. J., aironrt fer his first flight since the bedF es his kidnaned and British Flier Round Trip Senator Indicted United States Senator James J. Davis of Pennsylvania (above) was one of seven men indicted in New York today for conspiracy and lot tery. RELIEF FUNOMUST GO OUT AS WAGES Cannot Be Uted As Direct Dole, Nor Can Equip ment Be Bought Daily DUpitrh Bare**, la Ike Sir Walter Hate!. BY J C. BASKERVILL. Raleigh, Aug. 18.—Either the State or local units, such as cities, coun ties and towns, may use relief funds obtained from the Reconstruction Fi nance Corporation through the gover nor to pay wages to the needy for doing work either for the mate or lo cal units, but none of this money may be spent for materials or equipment, according to Dr. Fred W. Morrison, who has been appointed as felief dl (Continued on Pag* Sewn) PURUBHKO KVCRT AFTUMOOK KXCEPT SUNDAY. murdered child was found months ago. Lindbergh Is Shown here after the flight * He took a low wingod, all-metal monoplane for an hour’s trip into the *i*uds over the Newark port Off Upon Over Ocean Mollison, Distance Airman, Hopes To Complete Hop In Two and Half Days Cort Maronock, Irish Free State. Aug. 18. (AP) —J. I. Mollison, native Britirh distance flier, took off from here at 11:35 a. m. on a trans-At lantic flight to the United States. The time of his take-off corres ponds to 5:35 a. m. EST. He plans to make his firset stop at Harbor Grace, N. F„ and, after refueling, to pass on immediately to Roosevelt Field, Long Island. The schedule calls for a quick turn-around and a dash back again, this time without a stop, to Crodon, England. If Mollison suc ceeds, it will be the first trans-At lantic solo flight from east to west and the first North Atlantic cross ing in a light airplane. Mollison is piloting a tiny plane weighing a little more than a ton. similar to the one the Prince of Wales is using for pleasure, and to those other British amateur fliers who skipped across the English Chan nel for week-ends at D Coquet. The plane, however, has been con verted into a flying gasoline plane. He said he hoped his round trip across the Atlantic would not require more than two and one half days. 1932 AUTO PLATES NOW BEING SHIPPED Going to Various Distributing Point* Over State; White Numerals on Blue Background Raleigh, Aug. 18 (AP)—The North Carolina Motor Vehicle Bureau has begun the ahipenent of 1933 Automo bile licenses tags to distributing points over the State. The new plates have white numer als jpd letters on a blue background. Tbe 1931 general assembly adopted the colors of tbe University of North Carolina —blue and white—for the tags - In 1984 they will be blue let ters sad numerals on a white back ground. Thg new plate* go on sale tn De cember. This year’s plates were gold and block. , j. 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COP* TIFTON AVERAGES 510.47. COMPARED TO $6.64 IN 1931 Prices For Belter Grade* Range Considerably . Higher There, First Reports Indicate HIGHER PRICES IN SO. CAROLINA ALSO Market Begins To Settle Down To Normal Pace; With Inferior Type* About Same; Darlington Farmer* Still Are Dissatisfied (By the Associated Press.) Increasing prices for the offerings of South Carolina tobacco growers were reported today as the market began to settle down to normal pace after the oreaks of the first two days. Dillon, ,S. C., reported a consid erable increase in offerings of the bet .er grades, with total sales of all grades reaching 30,000 pounds at an average price of $9.05 per hundred pounds. Increasing prices on better grades, with little change in bids for medium and low grades were reported at Kingstree. Prices of the better grade tanged from 30 to 40 cents a pound. Farmers at Darlington continued dissatisfied, with prices averaging about 8 1-2 cents a pound. THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND POUNDS SOLD AT TIFTON' Tifton, Ga., Aug. 18.—(AP)— Ap proximately 00,000 pounds of tobacco were offered for sale at the opening if the Tifton tobacco market thia Homing. Prices for better grades ranged considerably higher or better than last year, averaging $10.47 p*r hundred pounds, compared with last year's opening prices of $6.84. Lower grades also were selling better than last year. t 9 _ •* National Bank Is Robbed In Beloit 1 By Seven Thugs Beloit, Wis,, Aug. 18. —(AP);— Seven robbers armed with machine guns and pistols, held at the Second Na tional Bank of Beloit today, abduct ed three girl employees and escaped with an undetermined amount o£ money. The girls, apparently taken a* shields against gunfire, were forced from the car three blocks from the bank. Ship Sunk In 1912 May Be Located $6,000,000 In Bullion Lost Off Norfolk Sought By Salvage Ships Novfolk. Va., Aug. 18 <AP>- Ths salvage tug Salvor, seeking to locate the wreck of the liner Mre Ida with the wreck of the liner Merida with vur.iken treasur eoff the Visin'* coast la expected to come into Norfolk Sat urday for supplies, it war said today at the offices of the ..orfotk Coal and Oli Company, her agents Trawlers assisting the Salvor’s man agement was satisfied that the hulk located on the floor of the ocean eras the Merida. The Merida, when she sank 20 years ago. had on board $8,000,000 in sti ver bullion, currency and other val uables. according to reports although estimate* have varied from time to time. (
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