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State Completes Testi
mony. Against Thorn p
> son'lGatling and Eu
baiks in Peel Case
New Bern, Sept. 9:?The Peel mur
der trial was started here today in
superior court, the state at the night
recess resting its case against Ben
"BrSwaie" Thompson, of Golds bo ro,
charted with second degree murder,
and Lawrence Gatling and Richard
En banks, of Raleigh, charged with
- being
accessories before and after!
- the fact by taking Thompson away
'from the scene shortly after
John F. Peel, Pamlico lighthouse ten
* < der, had been killed early on the
.* night of Friday, August 7.
Selection of the jury was not com
pleted until 4 o'clock this afternoon,
many of the 76 men called for serv
ice having previously formed an opin
? ion regarding the guilt of the defend
ants. > ?' . ? :V
During the morning Solicitor D. M.
Clark had announced that he under
stood that one of the defendants
would submit to a charge of second
r.V<rr?><> murder. When attorneys for
the defendants objected to his state
ment, failing to specify the defend
ant to which he referred, he named
Thompson.
Hugh Dortch, of Golds bo ro, attor
ney for Thompson, Bart Gatling and
T. D. Parrish, of Raleigh, attorneys
for Gatling and Eubanks, and George
T. Willis and V. B. Derrickson, of
New Bern, also attorneys for the de>
fense* insisted that there had been a
misunderstanding and that none of
the defendants would plead guilty to
any charge, Judge N. A. Sinclair,
presiding over the court, instructed*
the jury to disregard any statement
relative to any defendant submitting
to any charge, as apparently there
had been a misunderstanding.
The state put eight witnesses on A
the stand during the late afternoon:
Henrietta Pelham, operator of a fill
ing station where Peel and the de
fendants are said to have been just *
prior to the murder; J. Simmons, ne
gro boy, who was at the station;
Mary Cannon, who was , riding with
Peel on his truck at the time of the ?
murder; Dr. J. R. Latham, county
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coroner, woo vjeweu uuc uvu;, ^ uuu
*. Hadder, resident of the section, who
heard the shots; ConstabTe"James S.k
Bryan, Sheriff R. B. Lane and Dep
uty Sheriff C. Lupton, who made the
arrests.
These witnesses offered practically
the same testimony given at the cor
oner's hearing. Despite efforts of
Hugh Dortch, of Golds bo ro, attorney
for Thompson to get her mixed up,
Mary Cannon stuck weB to the same
story she has told ever since the mur
der. She said she had been swim- '
ming with Peel during the day. At
night they went to the Pelham fill
ing station, where there was a Ford
with Thompson, Gatling and Eu
banks is it. One of the men, whom
she identified as Thompson, asked
Peel to bring him to New Bern, this
was agreed to and on the way she said
.? that Thompson made to her an im
proper proposal which she declined.
Thompson ordered Peel to stop the
truck, she stated, and upon refusal
there was a brief argument, during
which Thompson took the key from
- the. switch. Upon Peel's insistence
that the key be returned she declared
Thompson reached into his blouse, L
pulled out a pistol and shot Peel.
ThomD8on ran to the woods, the |
Cannon girl testified, bat within a
minute the same Ford they had seen
at the Ailing station came by and the
two occupants picked up Thompson
and earned him away quickly.
Cross examination of the Cannon
girl gave aa idea of the type of de
fense that will be offered tomorrow
foe Thompson. She was asked to
tell of her relations with Peel, of her
attire in beach pajamas with one
shoe and of an old preacher who gave
h?r two dollars that day. She denied
that she had taken a revolver from
Thompson and started playing with It
and that it wwt off as. he attempted
to take it Iran her. She said that
a scar on her hand. had. been there
flwe months and 'was not th* result
of recent powder bwns.
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WEST POINT APPOINTMENT
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To Aid Jobless
During Winter
Governor Calls Meeting
for Next Week to Map
Relief Program
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Raleigh, Sept 9.?Governor Gard
ner yesterday called a meeting hare
for Friday, September 18, for the
purpose) of outlining a state program
for the relief of unemployed this
winter.
The governor's action follows the
nation-wide movement of President
Hoover to provide concerted aid for
the army of jobless, now estimated
at more than six millions. The Pres
ident appointed Stuart W. Cramer,
prominent Republican who was men
tioned for but failed to land a cabi
net job, to represent North Carolina
on the Federal Council, headed by
W. S. Gifford, president of the Amer
ican TeleDhone and Telegraph Com
pany.
Mr. Cramer was the only North
Carolinian to be included on the
committee of 84. He is expected to
be present at the state conference.
R. W. Henninger, employe of the
state personnel department, who act
ed as secretary of the unemployment
council last fall, will conduct the re-j
lief forces, Governor Gardner said.
The* meeting is expected to be at
tended by state highway, agricultu
ral, health and welfare officials, as
well as prcsninent citizens engaged
in agriculture and industry.
The first meeting would be of a
preliminary nature at which plans
for setting up a permanent organi
zation to operate during the winter
will be laid.
"Last year the efforts of the coun
cil of relief and unemployment deal
ing with this were concentrated on
unemployment and relief was inci
dental," Governor Gardner said in a
statement.
"This year it will be the policy of
the administration to emphasize re
consciousness of the state to a prop
er. realization of the obligation to
Eef and to undertake to arouse the
provide for theunfortunate in this pe
riod of depression."
Many home demonstration, clubs of
the state have engaged in canning
operations during the summer, stor
ing up food for the winter. The
state's food crop this year was good,
it was said, but organized distribu
-?* will Ko npipdpfi to I
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prevent suffering in some instances
of unemployment.
Closes Morehead
Bank; Shortage
Bank Commissioner Or
ders Warrant Issued
for Assistant Cashier
Raleigh, Sept. 9.?As the result of
an investigation started shortly after
examination of the bang by state e7
aminers on June 10, Gumey P. Hood,
state commissioner of banks, yester
day ordered the Marine Bank of
Morehead City closed and a warrant
sworn out for its assistant cashier,
W. U. Malliscn.
Commissioner Hood said he had
been informed by telephone that Mal
lison's shortage amounted to $10,
244.90 and that he had instructed 'St.
Georjc T. Abrams, accountant who
discovered the shortage, to swear out
the warrant as a representative of
the sLita department. ,
The bank was a small one, report
ing deposits of only $72,000 on the
last call date. ? Total resources were
placed at $91,000, with, capital and
surplus of $19,000 and loans and dis
counts of $42,000.
Dr. K. P. B. Bonner was president
and E. A. Councilx cashier.
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New York taxicab drivers received
about $26,000,000 in tips last year.
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Pacific Aviators
On Missing List
Allen and Moyle May
Have Been Forced to
Land on One of Aleu
tian Islands
Seattle, Sept. 9.?Don Moyle and
Cecil A. Allen, California avia
tors attempting a non-stop flight
across the North Pacific, were mis
ing late today somewhere along the
4,400 mile Great Circle route between
Japan and Seattle.
The most optimistic aviation ex
perts agreed the fuel in the single
motored monoplane in which the fli
ers risked their lives and their for
tunes could not have lasted longer
than about 48 hours, or until 3:80 p.
m., eastern standard time, today, un
der the most favorable conditions.
Moyle and Allen left Samushiro
beach, 375 miles north of Tokyo, at
3:30 p. m., Monday, eastern standard
time. They expected to set their
wheels on the airport here in from 39
to 44 hours.
Npither flier had extensive experi
ence as a navigator, and a slight mis
i TOnnlH Vmvp Iprl them far
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from their course. Their margin of
safety was only" several hours. They
' carried no radio. If they landed in
water, their plane was expected to
float not longer than 35 minutes.
Last reported at Point Erimo, Hok
kaido Island, 110 miles from Samu
shiro beach, the fliers got off to a
promising start. ?i&V'
Although numerous ships vjdong
the Seattle-Oriental route
report the plane and radio stations
from Dutch Harbor, Alaska, onward,
also scanned the skies in vain, hope
was not abandoned until the fuel sup
ply was known to be exhausted. The
most economical route the fliers could
follow misses most of the ships and
land wireless stations.
Miss Frances Bresson, fiance of
Moyle, who flew up from her home
in Riverside, Cal., to greet the fliers,
reluctantly left the airport this after
noon. She said she could no longer
hope that the fliers would reach
their goal in one flight, but was con
fident they had landed safely at some
point along the route and would con
tinue to Seattle without delay.
She planned to return to California
by plane tomorrow if no word was
received before that time.
Meanwhile, W. W. Connor, gover
nor of the Washington chapter of
the National Aeronautical Associa
tion, requested the Coast Guard to
begin an immediate search along the
Aleutian islands for Moyle and Al
len.
Dutch Harbor is the most wes'terly
radio friction and the fliers could
have , made a forced landing on one
of the mountains and islands to the
westward and be isolated in some na
tive settlement ? or fox ranch for
weeks or months before being heard
from.
Major Frederick L. Martin, one of
the American 'round-the-world fliers
1 in 1924, was lost for 11 days after
his plane crashed in the fog against
j a mountain peak on the western end
| of the Alaska peninsula, despite or
! ganized efforts to find him.
I' " Highest yields of sweet potatoes in
Currituck county this season, as in
the past three years of experimental
tests, were made where the fertilizer
was applied after the sprouts were
set.
"JUDY O'GRADY AND
THE COLONEL'S LADY"
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New York, Sept* AH women
are the same, whether they come
from Africa or Broadway, in the
opinion of John Laufer, Jr., of New
Brunswick, N. J., Who at the age of
15 has just received the degree of
master beautician. .>
" The young beautician, who has
been described as a> genius at his art,
told interviewers-he; get# no "kick"
whateeji out .of guis,
"I cats look at on? on the street,"
he explained, "anrf vtell you just
what, has on her.eyes, how much
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SCHOOLS TO .RECEIVE
PORTRAIT OP WASHINGTON
Washington, N. C., Sept 9.?An
nouncement was jnade today by Con
gressman Lindsay C. Warren that
every school rooip of every school in
his district will* within a few weeks
after the opening of the new school
term, receive a beautiful portrait
poster of George Washington, exe
cuted in colore, f]
The portrait fo> be used in these
posters is a reproduction of the fa
mous Gilbert Stuart Athenaeum;
painting and will be 22 inches by
28 inches in siife. This poster was
selected after a good deal of study,
and is considered the finest example
of poster making available.
TTie poster - pictures featuring
George Washington are being distrib
uted by Congressman Warren in co
I operation with the United States
George Washington Bicentennial
Commission of Washington, D. C., in
order to stimulate interest among the
thousands of school children of the
district in the coming nine-months
celebration of the two hundredth an
niversary of the Birth of the Father
of Our Country.
Congressman Warren is in constant
touch with the activities of the
United States George Washington
Bicentennial Commission which was
created by congress to formulate and
execute plans for the great celebra
tion in 1932.
The United States Commission is
placing a good deal of emphasis on
the cooperation of the school children
of America in this historic event.
This poster-picture is just one fea
ifi ibnvif.
bUig Vi i VU ?TV?M>
Congressman- Warren announced
that he will see to it that the schools,
-dubs, churches,and fraternal and pa
sttfetic Jitamt^-to be issued by the
United States George Washington Bi
centennial Commission.
Tbe George Washington Bicenten
nial Celebration will begin on Febru
ary "22, 1932, and last until the fol
lowing Thanksgiving Day.
THINGS WORTH KNOWING
To iSteara Velvet
As the winter months approach we
are all thinking of clothes. Some of
our old velvet dresses or good3 could
be economically put to use if we only
knew how to steam them. Here is a
method:
Heat an iron and place it on its
side. Fold several thicknesses of
wet cloth over the iron as soon as the
steam begins to rise, draw the velvet
3lowly back and forth across the edge
of the iron, right side up. As soon
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as tne mara causeu uy uruamng ui?
appears place the velvet on a smooth
surface to dry.
$50,009 Bribe
Taken From
Kidnappers
Investigator Claims Of
ficers Took Two-Thirds
of $75,000 Ransom
Chicago, Sept. 9.?A charge that
police had demanded and received a
$59,000 bribe from the kidnappers of
James Hackett, wealthy Blue Island
gambler, last May, was made today
by Pat Roche, chief investigator for
the state's attorney, following the ar
rest of five men m Decatur, 111., in
connection with the abduction.
Roche declared that Hackett's kid
nappers were stopped by the police
shortly after they had freed the gam
bler for $75,000 ransom paid by
Hackett's wife and a friend late at
I night on a country road in Cook coun
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ty. 'l ne ponce, rtocne saia, iuuxiu me i
money in the men's car, recognized j
them as possibly being connected!
with the Hackett abduction and de
manded two third? of the $5,000 to
free them. ^ h 'frl):' ? H
Pressed for details, Roche said he
was not prepared at this time to give
out further information-, bht propos
ed vigorous prosecution will follow.! 11
"I cannot reveal whether the of
fending officials are city, county or
state police, bat my information,'I
am convinced, is correct/' he said. ^
?i- Those arrested at Decatur early to
ri ^y are Monte' Moore, Morris Lu
tK"' wrn UMwT Jo6p.h? Yate
mobile after Hackett, police said had
identified Moofcs 'm one of Ws ab
ductors. Hackett Was taken to De
catur by" police as seen as the ar
rests were made known, Hafckett
previously had identified Moore's jiie
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Wicted Trio
Arrange Bond
Ex-Employes of Wilson,
Under Embezzlement
Charge, Surrender
Wilson, Sept 9.?Theodore A. Hin
nant, former city clerk, his son, G.
G. Hini\ant, former assistant city
clerk and" tax collector, and Miss
Mary B. Boger, former collector of
street paving accounts, returned here
from Ocean View, Va., last night and
voluntarily surrendered to county au
thorities and arranged appearance
bonds pending trial on charges of
embezzling of town funds.
A Wilson county grand jury in
dicted the three former city em
ployes late Monday afternoon on
charges of embezzling more than
$30,000 of town funds during the
years 1929 and 1930. Auditors in
vestigating the city's financial affairs
tentatively firmed the apparent, short
age of funds in the street paying de
partment at $41,500 yesterday. The
Hinnants gave $5,000 appearance
bonds each and Miss Boger gave a
$2,500 bond pending trial on the
charges against them. The bonds
were fixed by Judge Henry A. Grady
1 of Clinton, who is presiding over
the term of superior court this week,
when he ordered capiases issued for
the three defendants immediately
after the indictment was returned
by the grand jury.
Court officials were unable to say
today when the case will be set for
trial, but intimated that the trial
date would hinge on the completion
pf Qje. detailed, special investigation
being miuie ihto the city's ffftaneial
affairs by Charles N. Goodno and K.
W% Parhnm, certified public account
ants of Raleigh. The investigation is
expected to last several weeks longer.
PIT"!' rniTNTY WILL HAVE
TAX COLLECTOR
Greenville, Sept. 8.?Carrying out
their plans of relieving the sheriff of
the responsibility of collecting taxes,
the Pitt county commissioners in ses
sion here yesterday decided to place
such duties in the hands of duly ap
t -inted tax collector with an effii
eient assistant. R. L; Barnhill, of
Bethel, was . selected to fill the posi
tion of this newly created job and C.
P. Pearce, former deputy sheriff, was
named as Mr. Barnhill'g assistant.
Mr. P. L. Stone, who has served for
two years as tax supervisor, has ten- <
dered his resignation effective Oc
tober 1, at which time the two new
officers will assume their duties.
OLDEST INMATE OCCUPIES
CELL ON DEATH ROW
Raleigh, Sept. 9.?The oldest man
ever to face death in the electric
chair in North Carolina occupied a
narrow cot in a white washed, iron
barred cell on Death Row in the
state's prison last night.
He was John Henry Hauser, 82,
Davie county man sentenced to die
on November 2, for the murder of
his son-in-law, Pred S. Styres.
A white haired, bewhiskered wisp
n* a man Vie arrived hv motor from
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Mocksville yesterday. It was his
first trip to the prison, but he was
calm as he met reporters.
. * "I've been getting along for 82
years, and I guess IH get along here.
What was to be had to be, I guess,"
he said, declining to discuss the crime
for which he is sentenced.
Hauser scorned reports that he was
Wealthy, stating that he owned 111
acres of Jand and recently sold home
to President S. Clay Williams of the
R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., whose
country home is near his homestead.
The wife of his slain son-in-law is
making her home with his wife, who
is 78, he said.
An appeal to the supreme ^ourt
will prevent his electrocution taking
place oh the scheduled date. Should
he fall to get a new trial there an
appeal to the governor may savej hLm
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Boy Bus Driver
Ignored Signal
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Coroner's Jury Gives
? Verdict pit School Bit?
Fatalities?Shearon Is
Still Alive
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Wak* Forest, Sept. 9.?The coljis
liaion between train and school bus,
which wiped out the lives of two bdys
here yesferday morning, apparently
was due to the failure of the young
bus driver, Cameron Shearon, to ob
serve the burning red lights and the
ringing bell of the railroad signal,
the coroner's jury found here tonight
Young Shearon now lies fighting for
his life in a Raleigh hospital but
some improvement was seen" in his
condition today, it was reported here.
The jury's verdict follows: "We,
the jury, find that John Caddel, Jr.,
and Robert Garner, Jr., came to their
deaths by a collision between a Sea
board Air Line train and a school
bus and that this collision was ap
parently caused by the failure of the
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Dus arrv ?r ior some reason lunitnqwu
to us, to observe the crossing signal."
It was signed by W. R. Timberlake,
James L. Lake, L. W. Smith, H.;H.
Pearson, S. W. Brewer and R. W.
Wilkerson, Jr.
Coroner L. M. Waring said tonight
that all the evidence showed that the
railroad danger signal was operating
when the accident occurred.
Attending physicians, when operat
ing on young Shearon yesterday
found that his bladder had been rup
tured. But despite this and his other
injuries, including a broken pelvis and
several broken ribs they believe i he
had a fair chance to recover.
Both the Caddell and the Garner
boys were buried near here today.
The funeral of the former, who was
18 years old, was held at the Caddell
home a few miles south of Wake
Forest. In tribute to the boy who
was a son of John Caddell, baseball
coach of Wake Forest College for
years, the Wake Forest football squad
of 41 men suspended practice this af
ternoon and attended the funeral in
a body.
The funeral of Robert Garner, who
was 17 years old, was held at the
Foreatgllb Baptist church. .iZJ
The acreage to alfalfa will be in
creased in Moore county this fall de
spite hard times as a result of dem
onstration fields now being grown in
the county.
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Needy Workers
Stage Hot Riot
Police Called to Quell
Disorders Incident to
Scramble for Jobs
i Cleveland; Ohio, Sept 9.?More
than 13,000 unemployed men, seeking
2,500 jobs offered by the county as
a means of relieving distress, en
gaged in a wild riot today at two
county store yards where applications
for the work were being taken.
Fighting started after late comers
tried to wedge themselves into front
positions in the long lines of appli
cants. Special police squads, regular
riot squads and deputy sheriffs were
called out before order was finally
restored.
Several thousand - applicants stood
in line all night in order to be near
the front when registration started.
The county has offered the 2,500
highway ditch diggers' jobs in an ef
fort to aid in solving the unemploy
ment problem, and the first applica
tions were taken yesterday.
-? Fred C. Wilkins, supervisor, said
that 4,000 applications were received
yesterday before the books dosed.
Those who did not get their names in
yesterday therefore waited all night,
and at dawn today more job seekers,
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impatient from their long wait, bo* ?
came uimily after the late comers -
started trying to get front places in
the lines.
When the fighting started windows
were broken, several men wore in
jured and a large number fainted
from weakness, superinduced by han
ger and lack of sleep. Many raided
a nearby apple orchard, stripping the
trees of fruit.
The special squads of police carried
tear gas bombs and riot dubs but
were not forced to use them In quiet
ing the rioters. ; *.
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^me minister who has formed a
new cabinet from all the big parties,^
has been read out of the .Labor
Party '%hich mad* him great;
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Sept. R. E. Boyd Getting
^werything in Shape
toBegSnBlght Months"
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- The necessary _ arrangements for
opening the Farmville High School
are being completed ver^ rapidly and
Superintendent R. E. Boyd ia plan
ning and effecting the execution of
every detail, bo that when the stu
dents walk in on Monday morning,
September 21, at 8:30 o'clock, they
will be able to adjust tlemselves
promptly to the proposed schedules
and work may begin with the least
confusion possible.
?The Farmville High School has
for years been considered as one of
the very best of the state, holding
aloft as it does the standard of thor
ough preparation. Its graduates have
been exceedingly fortunate in being
able to enter colleges of the east,
west, north and south, on their cred
its and merits of the school here, and
they have been outstanding in their
class work and attained honors which
may well be viewed with pride by cit
lzeiiB ui uie community.
The people of this community have
expressed themelves as unwilling to
sacrifice the education of their chil
dren on the altar of the groed of Big
Business, and have made what might
almost be called a covenant with each
other to support the eight montha
term.
This cannot be achieved unless the
covenanters pay their taxes this year
as promptly as possible How can
they do this? We do not know. A
great deal of cutting, !he practicing
of a strict economy that pinches and
sacrifices that hurt will probably be
the result of keeping that covenant.
But it will be eminently worthwhile,
this training of your child's mental
faculties.
The attention of High School pu
pils, v-ith the exception of those en
tering the eighth grade, is called to
the registration day, September 14.
-Those expecting to enter the nin:h
grade will be received at the super
intendent's office from 9:00 to 11:00
a. m.; for the tenth grade, from
11:00 to 12:30, and seniors from 2:00
to 3:00 p. m.
SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR VETS
AUXILIARY ENTERTAINS
An enjoyable social event of the
week was that of Wednesday after
noon when the Auxiliary to the Cap
tain James Thomas Smith Camp
Spanish-American War eVterans en
tertianed at the home of Mrs. H. C.
Anderson, having as special guests
the local members of the camp, Mrs.
W. Parker, of Charlotte, Mrs. Lil
lian Parker and Mrs. Eliza Tyre, the
latter being made an honorary mem
ber of the Auxiliary with three new
members, Mrs. Addie Moore, of Ay
den; Mrs. Sudie McRae, of William
ston, and Mrs. Ray West, of Wal
stonburg, being cordially welcomed
as new members.
Interesting talks were made by
Mrs. Nonie Barrett, president of the
Auxiliary; Miss Emily Gayle, histo
rian; Watt Parker, camp commander,
and others. Prizes in the amusing
contests, which furnished entertain
ment were won by Mrs. Nonie Bar
rett and Mrs. Watt Parker.
Miss Virginia Adkinson assisted in
serving refreshments consisting of
punch, ices and cake, and rendered
severa lpiano solos. Old time tunes
were played by Mrs. W. Parker, of
Charlotte.
Out of town members and guests
included Mr. and Mrs. S. M. Pollard
and Mr. and Mrs. T. G. Willis, of
Washington.
BEBE AND BEN H^VE
A LITTLE DAUGHTER
Hollywood, Sept Barbara Bebe
Daniels Lyon, weight five pounds, 14
ounces, was born today to Ben Lyon
and his wife, Bebe Daniels, featured
film players.
"We are very happy and proud,"
said Lyon. '"Both Bebe and Barbara
are getting along fine."
Mies Daniels was given an exten
sion in her motion picture contract
to prepare for Barbara's arrival. ' ^
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"?he curb market established .for
the convenience of summer visitbra
at Morehead City netted Carteret
county farmers and farm women an
average of $200 a week this reason.
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