SIX ?? , George A. Myers George A. Myers, Jr. MYERS WAREHOUSE OF CHADBOURN After twenty years in the warehouse business in Chadbourn, Myers Warehouse promises farmers of this section "the best of services and the highest market prices for their weed that can be found anywhere." "We assure you," said George Myers, Jr.,- who is afiliated at the warehouse with his father, who is well-known in Columbus county, "without fear of cantradiction that tobacco sold in Chadbourn will bring as much if not more than any other market." The Myers warehouse is one of the largest warehouses in Chadbourn, one of the leading markets in the South Carolina belt. Senator McNeill Is A Candidate Fayetteville Business Man And Staunch Democratic Worker In Cumberland County Announces For Lieutenant Governor Fayetteville, July 28.?Senator George McNeill, widely known Fayetteville business man who has been prominently connected with the political life of Cumberland County and the State of North Carolina as a staunch Democrat for the past thirty-five years, today announced his candidacy for the Lieutenant GoverVA?>th Damlina miU IIVI snip kjx iiwi ui v^aiviuia, ouu- i ject to the Democratic primary of 1936. In making his announcement Senator McNeill said, "I am a candidate for the nomination of Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina, subject to the Democratic primary of 1936. In making this announcement I desire to inform the public that I am just a plain, every-day business man and if elected Lieutenant Governor shall try to apply the same practical methods to the affairs of the state that I have always endeavored to apply to my personal business. As the campaign progresses and the issues arise, I shall face them squarely and fearlessly." Liked Treatment In Local Jail J. A. Russ, local jailor, received a post card last week from Joe Fryer, alias Joe Cheers, Jr., thanking him for the kind treatment given him while he was in the Brunswick county jail. The boy said that he missed the good things to eat that Mr. Russ furnished. The boy and Joe Cheers were recently removed to the North Carolina State prison in Raleigh to begin serving their sentences following their conviction or charges of attempting to burr the Cheers home in Southport. Seek Literature About Southport R. O. Johnson, secretary of the Port City Civic Club, last week received a communication from two ladies in California asking for information concerning South port. They expressed a desire t locate in a "small, respectabl town on the Atlantic." Mr. Johnson wrote, describin the many attractions of life i Southport and bidding the wes coast tourists welcome to thi town. The ladies making the inquir were: Mrs. George Miller an Miss M. Worrell, both of Corom California. Increase Quota For Enlistmen Young Men Who Are Inter ested In Naval Caree Should Make Applicatioi At Once At Wilmingtoi Office The navy recruiter at Wilming ton advises that first enlistment 'were materially increased July 1 and that the proposed monthl; quote for the enlistment of Ap I prentice Seamen for this distric is 60 men. This increased quota is approximately twice the number en listed the fiscal year just ending and it offers splendid opportunities to young men who are interested in a naval career. Th< recruiter states that in order foi men to be enlisted at an earlj date on this increased quoto it is necessary for them to make theii applications as soon as possible so that their papers may be completed and their names placed or the waiting list. All applicants are required tc present themselves for the preliminary examination at the Navj Recruiting Office located in roon 337 Custom House, Wilmington. Checks Received By County A gen, Seventy-five checks paying i total of $2,447.85 to Brunswicl county farmers were received thi week at the office of Count; Agent J. E. Dodson. These checks were the firs j payment on the 1935 corn-ho| ! contracts and farmers will be no I tified when to call for their mon ey. Mrs. D. L. Long Diet Tuttsdav Alnrnim c Quite a shock to the communi ty and elsewhere was the deatl of Mrs. D. L. Long, which oc curred at 12:30 Tuesday A. M at Brunswick County hospital af ter an illness of one week. Fu neral services were held at th graveside in the family burying j ground at Clarendon Tuesday af jternoon at 4 o'clock, Rev. R. N Fitts, her pastor, officiating, as sisted by Mr. Z. G. Ray. Surviving Mrs. Long are hei husband, three daughters, Miss es Eula Mae, Vera Bell and Ar rabella; two sons, Ennie and El mer; all of whom are at home. , PERSONALS Mayor John Erickson is walk ing around with a bad foot anc is unable to fish at present. Mrs. Carl Stone and Mrs. Esi telle Bridges of Gastonia, wen week-end guests of Mr. and Mrs H. W. Hood. Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth McDonald of Wilmington, spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. J. W Ruark. Mr. Joe Young, Sr., and son Banks, of Georgia, are spending a few days at home this week. Capt. Leonard Nelson, of More head City, Mr. and Mrs. A. S Mowery and children, S. A. KitI trell, of Charlotte and Mrs. J. F ' Hatch of Raleigh were Milei Hotel guests last week. J. K. Jackson, of New York and Dr. Easom, of the Stat< Sanitorium, are stopping at thf ! Howey House. Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Manning and Miss Mary Glenn Manning were guests of Mrs. Georgi Howey Saturday. .mra. B. ?. moms and Mrs George Howey spent last Tues day afternoon in Wilmington. Mrs. J. B. Church was remove* to her home from Brunswicl County Hospital Friday. I Mr. Benson Buffkin, of Chad bourn, spent the week-end wit! Miss Mary Ruth McQueen. Mr. Ernest Vitou is a patien at the Brunswick County Hos pital. i Miss Nancy Hood has return i ed from a visit to relatives i: Asheville. > Mr. and Mrs. Sam Skinner, c i Shelbyville, Kentucky, came Sal t urday to live in their summe i home. t Mr. Sasa Fodale, of New Yof i and Florida is here on busines for a few days. J. L. Houk, age 78, Burk county poultryman, has made ? clear profit of $137.10 from th sale of young chicks raised thi year. He also raised all the chi< : kens he wanted to eat and a i ample supply for breeding an laying purposes or for Bale late: THE STATE PORT PI] ?Boosters Of The E Whiteville Mart n it *$? y .M ^VH ^Hk J^r - M H| fpg:* Jh r B v B n ? & (i m b B B. ^mnfl s IT . t DR. J. A. GUITON GUITON DRUG STORE I For more than seVen years the' " I I Guiton Drug Store has served the' people of Whiteville, and Colum- \ j bus, Brunswick and Bladen coun- j ; ties. It is the Rexall Store, which | ,; enjoys a national reputation bas- j ) ed on an association with leading * j concerns all over the United States. {j Dr. J. A. Guiton is the owner and proprietor. He is a native of! y Robeson county, having been born . and reared at St Pauls. He rer j ceived his pharmaceutical license t j in 1925 after graduation from f j the University of North Caro-11 1 lina. ' j j ] h : i I 1L > L. A. MEARES MEARES HARDWARE The name of Ellis Meares has so long been connected with the r merchandising business in Colum" bus county, that its mention gen" erally calls to mind this line of " business. He has a hardware, furniture and general store at Fair Bluff, and hardware stores at Whiteville, Angler and Proctorville. His son, L. A. Meares, is man1 ager of the local store, which was opened here two years ago. This store carries a full line of hardware, farm implements and building materials. Mr. Meares is a native of Columbus county, having been born and reared in the western sec| tion, at Fair Bluff. The Ellis Meares Hardware establishment is located on South Madison \ Street. . Philippine Import Trade . In Tobacco Products, 1934 . Western Tobacco Journal. r Total imports of tobacco products into the Philippine Islands , during 1934 were valued at 5,> 853,802 pesos, an increase of 38 > per cent over 1933. Cigarettes accounted for 4,356,387 pesos and r leaf tobacco 1,020,950 pesos. Nethr erland India supplied leaf tobacco ; valued at 124,732 pesos, but the United States supplied the bali. ance and all of the cigarettes. - Imports of tobacco products in 1934 and 1933 were valued (in 1 pesos) as follows: From the t United States 5,714,657 (4,169,254 in 1933), Netherland India - 124,733 (55,785 in 1933). Others li 14,412 (15,180 in 1933), making a total of 5,853,802 pesos in 1934 t as compared with 4,240,219 pesos i- in 1933.?American Trade Commissioner J. Bartlett Richards). K n Cuban Consumption Of Weed Products, 1934-1933 >f Western Tobacco Journal, r The production of cigars in Cuba for domestic consumption k during 1934 totaled 60,973,400 is units, as compared with 51,826,125 units during 1933. The output in 1934 was 17.6 per cent :e higher than in 1933. The 186,a 307 pounds of smoking tobacco e produced by local factories for is domestic consumption during 1934 v was 11.2 per cent below the outn put of 209,790 pounds in 1933.? d American Commercial Attache r. W. J. Donnelly). LOT, SOUTHPORT, NORTIOutstanding News Continued from page one DANES GO VISITING The repeated rumors of a widespread farm strike in Denmark were hushed Monday when King Christian primised aid to the 50,000 peasants who marched to Copenhagen to appeal for relief. The peasants were received by the Prime Minister Theodore Stauning, who agreed to cabinet consideration of their plight. Later the King addressed them from the balcony of the attic, expressing the hope that they might be aided. After drawing up a resolution of their demands, which they presented to the Prime Minister, the peasants returned to their farms. DELAY SCHOOL OPENING Suggestions to that effect by J. T. Knox, state epidemiologist for North Carolina, J-1-" onpninp Of may aeiaj uio ?, c public schools in the state for a month this year. Stating that one cannot be sure when the expected decline in the j epidemic of infantile paralysis my occur, he strongly urged early this week that openings be postponed till October 1. ANTI-KIN GFISH Five determined Louisiana congressmen, incensed at the recent aehavior of that colorful demagogue, Huey Pierce Long, and particularly at his violent criticism and opposition in regard to the present administration, last Wednesday announced their intention of splitting the Democrat party in that state. The five egislators, Cleveland Dear, J. Y. Sanders, John N. Sanders, Numa Montet and Riley J. Winslow, propose to orgainze an anti-Long party from Democrat ranks in Louisiana, which will not support Long, either in state elections or n the national party convention. A. huge number of Roosevelt folowers, the friends of T. S. Walmjley, and most of the "Young Democrats" are believed to be jehind the movement, which may ind Long dictatorship in his na-| :ive state. T ( t THE CAROLII fed in Pre awl Value < Large '" J)? M = P \ 1 t < That's the Pi ji . v TieCJ r Tk? Carolina*, lac. Bos M. Charlotte, N Without obligation concerning Carolina Opportunity Bulletin Street I I CAROLINA FRUIA OF THE FLOOD Press dispatches Wednesday reported that the bodies of at least 30,000 victims of a flood i in Central China were recovered in the Hankow area alone during the course of a day. Five provinces are said to be devasted by the furious passage of flood ! waters. In northern sections, dis' astrous floods continue as waj ters subside in other territories ) The governor of one Chinese province, Shantung, alone, reported that he believed as many as 5,000,000 of his people to be homeless. With farms under water and food supplies destroyed, relief agencies announced that they may be forced to appeal to other countries for help in case of famine. SOLONS BAN NAZIS Thursday saw the third flareup of anti-Nazi feeling in the United States legislature when Representative Samuel Dlckstein, New York Democrat, classed Adolph Hitler as "the mad man of Europe." Already during the past week, two definitely hostile movements have been made which suggest that congress is opposed to the reciprocal trade treaty with the Reich. The other two movements, made by Senator William H. King of Utah and Representative Emanuel Celler of New York, respectivelyy, proposed investigation of conditions and boycott of German products. | Dickstein professed to believe Hitler's influence over Ger UiUV ? I man born residents of the United I States definitely affects economic and social conditions here. | ARGENTINE HONOR | After resigning his position in j deference to the law which forI bids a cabinet minister of the j Argentine to engage in a duel, . Frederico Pinedo exchanged shots [with Senator Lisandro Delatorre I Thursday to satisfy the insults | received by both hot-tempered | gentlemen when they hotly de| bated a question on the floor of | their Senate. The shots passed j reasonably close to the princi! pals, but neither was injured. They expressed satisfaction, and ' denied any resentment. U. S. WASHES HANDS The United States government, [represented by its presiding offi[ cer, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Friday defiintely declared that there [will be no meddling in the Italo) Ethiopian controversy, as far as | the United States may be concerned. The president told news| paper men that the country will I IAS RANK ?? duCtlOO K ifl World Ml VALUE of Carol in as is each year. North Ca all the states in raisin TfllUC KJl IIIOIIUK in the Cardinas?cif and chewing tobaccos and three-quarters of irpose of The Carolinaa kROLINAS c. j, pUue lend fall {afomatioa t, lot, and copy of the Carolina! L ? at, WE mind its own business, and will ! . not become entangled in disputes which are "none of our affair." In the meantime, American citi1 zens in Ethiopia continue the ! gradual evacuation of the country. QUARANTINED 1 Because of infantile paralysis in those states, Delaware health j; officials Friday ordered the re-, gistration and daily examination , of persons coming from North j Carolina and Virginia. The roads J are being posted with notices which warn visitors from those states to register with the nearest health unit. Examinations ( will continue for twelve days af- j ter North Carolinians and Vir ginians enter the state. j ITALIAN DISASTER 1 1 Smith munitions ! me DiuAii/iu ? ; plant at Taino, Italy, blew up ! i Saturday afternoon to take a toll j J of 50 lives from the ranks of its j employees, and to injure scores ] more. It is believed that the first i blast occurred in the packing | warehouse, where large numbers j of native girls were employed. 1 i Other explosions were feared, iand firemen patrolled the factory ' grounds, while emergency sta-1 J tions were set up for the relief of J | the injured. I HOLD RASH MAN | Because he rashly uttered a J A Real 11 1935 Chevrolet Picl This truck is in per X not been driven far. An jf farmer who wants to hi X market. | JUST INS if ... New cylinder reborir X your motor. 5 AUTOLINE PREMIUM 1 I Hood Servi | SOUTHPOI &KKKKXKXMXKKKXKM1 vcc -I THE CAR the tobacco crop in the well over $100,000,000.00 rolina ranks first among g tobacco. ictured tobacco products ^arettes, cigars, smoking ?is between $500,000,000 a billion dollars annually. >, inc -"TO TELL T SpiNC*. ' Tin newspaper* of i hare donated the *f of adrertitemenU ? purpose of bria|isi before tbeur people, informed a* to tb? industrial important tbat tbey may koc in tbe broad aaorei world lbs a at the office of thin ? 'os< Drops -k Bargain! k-up $500.001 feet condition and has m ideal bargain for some | iuI his own tobacco to u TALLED I ig bar. Let us overhaul I motor oil .. 30c qt I ice Station I n, n. c. i OLIKAS RAM I i ManafactuM xo PwAcU I argett I ?*tl? W?# > HE WORLD"] ll Morth Bad South Carolina I wee for thii aad a eerie* I 'hieh will appear for Ha 'act* about the Carolina* Hal they may be better I I reiource*, history era! * 0# the Carolina*, and I " how they can ?*?"' I nent to adverti*e to the I I ef thie farored section. I I