Some means for distributing the aero grams in the city of Durham will have to be devised other than from an airplane. The operation of a plane over the city Saturday form which were thrown many circulars and the paper called the aero gram is a violation of the law and because of the act warrants have been sworn out by the police department against W.H. Filmore, pilot of the plane, Robert Porter and S.W. Guyes, the later manager of the United Dollar Stores, charging them with distributing circulars over the streets of the city.
A quantity of the circulars were thrown from the plane while it was circling over the city Saturday afternoon and some of them fell into the hands of the police. Hundreds of people witnessed the scattering of the circulars and many of them were picked up only to be thrown down on the street. Others fell upon the tops of the business houses of the city. The scattering of circulars on the city streets is in strict violation of a city ordinance.
Other warrants will be issued, also, according to police headquarters, with the manager of every store having an advertisement on the little paper or on circulars scattered during the afternoon and others being the recipients of the undesirable papers from the police.
The case against the three men against whom warrants have already been served is expected to come up for trial before recorder’s court Monday.
From page 10 of the Durham Herald, Sunday, Nov. 2, 1924
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