The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-10-23
Federal Grand Jury Returns Thirty True Bills
In Record Time; OPA Violators Receive Fines


Jury returned 80 true bills out O.
% bv noon and was dismissed by
Federal Judge Don Gillian, O.
Tarboro, as a two week fall term
of Eastern North Carolina Federal
court opened here.
Today's court docket was con-
cerned chiefly with violation of
Federal liquor laws, mainly I'm
taxed alcohol.
Tomorrow Frank J. Ryan and
three associates, all charged with
using the mails to defraud in con-
nection with trading of Tide
Water Power company stock for
whskey warehouse receipts, will
come to trial before a jury.
Scheduled Immediately after the
Ryan trial is the government S
charge against David M. Darden,
former Wilmington banker, ac-
cused in a federal complaint of
embezzeling $4,000 from local
bank between 1910 and April.
1915.
Members of the grand jury
were drawn this morning as court
opened by nine-year-old RATHER
inc Graham, granddaughter of
James O. Carr, U. S. District At
torney.
Sworn as members of the grand
Jury. to serve with ]. j. Halves,
Supply, foreman, were:
Pearce Crammer, Southport;
Frank McKeithan, Bladen coun-
ty: James S. Hall, Winter Park;
Horace Williamson, Cerro Gordo;
E. C. Huband, Wrightsville Turn
pike road; F.. j. Rogers, 710 Red
Cross street; Walter Murphy,
Clinton; A. w. Ellison, Winter
Park Wander Smith, Autreyville;
Sampson county; John B. Allen,
Tar Heel: James o. Harris,
L. W. Rocks, Currie;
Amos ]. Johnson, Rosehill; John
Hinton Davis, Wilmington; C. H.
Castle Hayne; E. c.
Saunders, Tabor City.
First case heard by Judge Gill
liam this morning was the proba-
ton plea of Ben Maready, On
slow county farmer sentenced in
Federal court at Wilson last April
upon conviction of drunk driving
on the Camp Lejuene reservation
The plea was denied and Maready
was remanded to the U. S. Marshal
fo one year Imprisonment. Ma
ready was represented by Cameron
Weeks, Tarboro attorney.
W. c. Lewis, charged with the
possession of one-and-a-half gal
Ions of liquor, was found not guilty.
A Mr.. and Mrs. Carter, found
guilty of OPA price violations in
the sale of chickens in the City
Market were fined $50 and costs
each.
Mrs. Matte Carr, Chadbourn
retail grocer, was fined $500 on
four counts Of violation of the sug-
ar rationing law, having been
charged with having 1880 coun-
terfeit sugar coupons in her pos
session and total of 30.019 pounds
of sugar coupons to her credit in
the Waccamaw Bank and Trust
company which the government al
legged she was unable to explain.
A four months prison sentence was
suspended and Mrs. Carr placed
on six months probation.
Willard Anderson, convicted Of
the possession of one-and-a-half
gallons of non-tax paid liquor,
was fined $50 and cost.
The complete jury panel, ex-
elusive of those drawn for the
grand jury, was:
John T. Hudson, Turkey; E. V.
Vestal, Kenansville; W. L. Bostie,
Magnolia; Walter High, White
Vile; R. L. Fergus, 4o4 South
Fifth street, Wilmington; James
Ferger, Winnabow; Paul Shipp,
Clinton; LLOYD Sanderson, Pink
Hill; Walter E. Ashley, 7l0 Or
ange street, Wilmington; R. E.
Arthur, 1908 Wrightsville avenue,
Wilmington; John D. Grady,
Seven Springs; E. W. Manning,
RID No. l. Wilmington; George
W. Fleming, Clinton; Roland W..
Sasser, 2024 Market street, Wilm-
ington; Wilbur S. Bost, Carolina
Beach; Chris H. Buttleman, ITO
Carolina avenue, Wilmington.
James E. Wilson, Southport;
Herbert T. Kornegay, Mount
Olive; Jacob Alderman, 2l2o
I -lein road, Wilmington; Clyde w.
Johnson Elizabethtown; Lewis W.
Outlaw, Seven Springs; Dewitt
Hall, Burgaw; Abel Warren, ST.,
Garland; o. F. Rivenbark, Bur-
gaw; Edgar Kornegay, Mount
c i've; George E. Gooden, Eliza
BEETHOVEN; Tom Smith, Atkinson;
James o. Harris, Whiteville; Jack
3. Stafford, Jr., Garland; A. B.
Willis, Shallotte; L. Baggett,
Austin C. Coleman,
Nakina; William Dali, Chinqua-
pin; w. L. Gaskill, 919 South
Fourth street, Wilmington.
A. Grady Robinson, Clinton;
Richard Howard, Whiteville;
Talmadge Stanley, Whiteville;
Lamb Kornegay, Seven Springs;
William M. Hill, 112 Princess
street, Wilmington; W. L. King,
Kure Beach; Herbert H. Hall,
A. Glenn Thornton,
Clinton; D. F. Blackman, Caro-
lima Beach; ]. H. Currie, Wallace
c. S. Davis, Evergreen; ]. v.
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