Loans To N. C. Farmers Total 10 Millions Ready Cash Has Greatly Aided Farm Element Loans On Hand But Not Com pleted Will Bring N. C. To pal To Near $32,000,000 A total of $10,886,897 has been paid out to North Caroling farmers by the Federal Land Bank of Col umbia on land bank and land bank commissioner’s loans on farm mort gages from April 30, 193 3 to May 1, 1934, according to figures given out by Julian H. Scarborough, gen eral agent for the Farm Credit Ad ministration, for the Columbia dis trict. in addition to loans already paid, Mr. Scarborough said that the land bank had on hand on April 2 5, loans already approved for North Carolina farmers but rijot complet ed totaling $21,002,918.23. This will run the grand total for North Carolina up to near $32,000,000. The money, he said has been used in the payment of taxes, debts to merchants, insurance companies, commercial banks, joint stock land banks, private mortgage lenders and others. The remainder, he said was1 used for the purchase of land and1 equipment, the construction or im provement of buildings and for general agricultural purposes. "The land bank, Mr. Scarborough continued, "is now using the bonds of the new Federal Farm Mortgage corporation instead of cash in clos ing loans. These bonds bear 3 1-2 per cent interests and they are ex empt from all taxation except the usual inheritance, estate and gift taxes and they are not only readily marketable but are equivalent to bonds of the United States. These! bonds have found instanjt favor with the investing public as is in dicated by the fact that they are already bringing over par. Mr. Scarborough said that credit must be extended by the various agencies of the Farm Credit ad ministration on a business basis | funds from investors are to con tinue to be available. The success ' of the system, he declared, depends on the reputation of its securities in the financial centers and all loans must be sound. J Ready for Fair j - - ■> Eric Glabow preparing an exhibit of the circulation of the human blood for the opening of the new World’s Fair in Chicago May 26. Many new free features, lower rail road rates and low hotel rates make the Fair low in cost to the visitor this year. Black-Draught For Dizziness, Headache Due To Constipation "1 have used Thedford’s Black Draught several years and find It splendid,” writes Mr. G. W. Hol ley, of St. Paul, Va. “I take it for dizziness or headache (due to con stipation). I have never found anything better. A short while ago, we began giving our children Syrup of Black-Draught as a laxa tive for colds and little stomach ailments, and have found it very satisfactory.” ... Millions of pack- t ages of Thedford’s Black-Draught ' are required to satisfy the demand for this popular, old reliable, purely * vegetable laxative. 354 a package. 1 "Children like the Syrup.” i _ PARIS VERSION—French visitors were so ^ impressed with the giant Havoline Ther< mometer (left), landmark of both the 1933 and 1934 World’s Fair, (right) that they took \,the idea back with them. Now the Eiffel jTower has been converted into an illumi Wii nated thermometer, visible for miles. ■ .•■■■•■•■■■•■-■•■•■•jov'Wvqooooooww>a--ra>^-..v y .■•••v-xc.w JUST LIKE GRACIE ALLEN— ggj She would give George Burns a key to New York City's famous Central Park. Somebody had to | celebrate the arrival of summer | properly, but George has to | keep off the grass just the same, i IN THE SWIM. What the well undressed bather will wear this year. Left, a two-tone knit FATHER AND SON IN PRISON suit cut discreetly high in front Luke Lea! former United States SeH _ and practically backless! tor’and hls son- Luke Lea- Jr-dress«! Right, contrasting trunks and m the,r Pr,son outfits- They were cor> top set off by a swanky man- *'cted in the failure of the $17,000,000. rope belt of two colors. Central Bank and Trust C^pany cr -Asheville, N. C. < FINDS STAGE MAR RIAGES SHOULD LAST — When two wedded headliners come to grief in the di vorce courts, blame it on their tempera ments and not on their careers, stage and screen stars told Dr. M. Sayle Taylor, the Voice of Experience (left), in answer to a survey. Among those answering were: Ed die Cantor, King Vi dor, John Charles Thomas and Julia San __derson._ IN TRAINING — Max Baer, California heavyweight, is now ousy training and con ditioning himselfatthe camp he has set up at \sbury Park, N. J., to repare himself for lis coming bout with >rimo Camera, the champfon. —— MW II———————— “GIT ALONG." — A San Francisco policrt officer escorting none too gentl. one of thui striking longshoremen after he had attempt.1 ed to storm the headquarters of strike breakers. Just Before the Battle " ’ State Champion’s Cold Medal North Carolina State-wide Checker Contest at Raleigh A_•_I £.1 J •_ _? _A. _?_• I_I • .1._ The finalists in the American Nitrate of Soda Checker Contest shake hands before their match commences. On the left is Tom DePriest, 19-year old player from Shelby. To the right is B. C. McIntyre of Laurinburg. These two contestants emerged from a field of nine district champions in the recent finals at Raleigh. They played for three hours and 20 minutes before Mr. McIntyre took the deciding game and became North Carolina champion. The inset shows the gold medal which was awarded the winner by The Barrett Company, distributors of Arcadian, the American Nitrate of Soda and sponsors of the contest. In addition, both of the finalists were awarded a ton of this Nitrate of Soda. Below are shown the group that played in the State finals. . . . ...... ......,,,... H. C. McNair, Maxton, N. C.; B. C. McIntyre, Launnburg, N. C.; J. C. Ellis, Nashville, N. C.; W. T. 1 Rowland, Willow Springs, N. C.; W. B. Venters, Richland, N. C.; D. L. Edgerton, Goldsboro, N. C.; C. B. Vaughn, Ahoskie, N. C.; Joe Clark, Barium Springs, N. C.; Tom De Priest, Shelby, N. C.; M. L. Tingle, , Grantsboro, N. C. _____* FOLLIES THAT DESTROY ED FAMOUS QUEENS.” Ed nund Dulac, the Distinguished 5ainter, Portrays the Unfortunate Tench Queen, Marie Antionette. Vn Original Painting Reproduced n Color in The American Weekly, he Magazine Distributed with the 1ALTIMORE SUNDAY AMERI CAN, issue of June 3. Buy your ropy from your local newsboy or lewsdealer. | The first herd of Jersey cattle to be classified in this state by the ‘American Jersey Cattle club is the |one owned by Granada farms in Caldwell county. There are said to be 76 rooms in (the White House at Washington, but unfortunately there are not guest rooms enough to entertain ^ll the folks who feel it their social duty to go down there and renew ties with the Roosevelts. There is talk of three wheeled! automobiles, and some drivers of I1 four wheel cars seem to think they ^ have one wheel to many, judging by the way they round the corners - , The sports predict a gay summer, < but there will be some solemn mo ments when the missus confronts them at the head of the stairs at a hte hour, as they tiptoe up in their • stocking feet. < 25 SOME CEREMONYI I ITTLE AMERICA, ANTARCTI *“■ CA, May 15—(via Mackay Rad iol. My, my! What a time we had last Friday (the 11th)! Wednesday was the eighth anniversary of Ad miral Byrd’s flight over the North Pole so we planned a fitting cele bration on Friday by knocking off work and initiating all the new men on this expedition into the famous ‘‘78:’ club. This organization is made up of men who have been on various ex peditions with Admiral Byrd beyond latitude 78, north or south. We have here three men who were on that North Pole expedition, Lieut.-Com mander George O. Noville, who also flew across the Atlantic to France with the Admiral on that sensation al trip of the air plane America; William C . Haynes, of Wash ington, D. C., the _ veteran metecrol n'm'o^s'. and Pete of Durham, N. H„ Qf Wash. Deg Expert m D cb0S8 Ul UUl lldtlol fjl dUp', Lr I_| KJ L also were members of the first Byrd Antarctic Expedition. The excite ment started with a fine lecture by Haynes on a subject s./mewhut strange to us—tie North Pole. Very interesting. You know, conditions are quite different up there and down here. The North Pole Las no land around it. The South Pole is on an immense plateau of ice, with land under it, surrounded by huge, rocky mountains down which stream countless enormous glaciers or rivers of ice. with "ice-falls,” which would be waterfalls if they weren’t frozen, more than 500 feet high. The animals and birds are all different and they have many more varieties at the North Pole than we nave here. This whole celebration was broad cast to Admiral Byrd in his but down at 80.13 and he replied witn a wonderful message m dots and dasnes. He could hear all the songs we sang for him and everything but he cannot talk with us—only squd code messages by radio. We had a moonlight baseball game planned with an inaoor baseball but a np-sucrting blizzard prevented it. The initiation of “78” club members took three hours and was some-1 thing like a fraternity initiation, with much horseplay and hazing. Then came a big dinner followed by motion pictures. At the end ev erybody was very tired and piled into bed, except four of us. My bunk looked very good to me but l suddenly found myself with a new job—official meteor watcher. Alton Wade, geologist, of West Holly wood, Calif., Alton A. Lindsey, bi ulogist, of West Newton, Pa., and Ralph W. Smith, airplane pilot, of Fredericktown, O., and I had to stay up all night in the little cupola on top of the observation platform staring at the sky through an “eye piece.” Everything would be black. Then suddenly a little blink of light and a swift streak across the sky. The eye piece through which we watch enables us to plot the direc tion and course of the meteors, of which 73 have been observed in one night. On one occasion 22 were reported in a single hour Three times a day pilot balloons are sent up to great distances to check the velocity and direction of the wind at various levels. The in vestigation of terrestrial magnetism is going on constantly. In fact, our scientific work and research will continue all through the wunter night. 1 just received the wonderful news from the club secretary by radio that 242 school and college teachers have enrolled their entire classes as members and have re ceived personal radio messages from Admiral Byrd and that indiv idual memberships are coming in at a greatly increased rate includ ing several each from England, France, Switzerland and Germany. I don’t know how that happened because these stories are not ap pearing abroad. But it may interest you to know that they are appear ing in approximately 1200 American newspapers in every State in the union and Alaska and that we now have more than 18,000 members in our club. Membership is free and there are no expenses whatever. All th^t is necessary is to send a plainly self-addressed, stamped en velope, or if you are a teacher, name and address of self and home addresses of pupils with a 3c stamp for each, to C. A. Abele, Jr., presi dent, Little America Aviation and Exploration Club, Hotel Lexington, 48th Street and Lexington Avenue New York. N. Y Moonshiner Throws Cops’ j Helper Into Boiling Vat! — North Wilkesboro—M. S. Phil- 1 lips, well-knowni resident of the j Ferguson community, was thrown , into a vat of boiling mash at a distillery Monday night in Lewis Fork township as he was helping federal agents to apprehend the moonshiners. i He is being treated at Wilkes hospital where his condition is very serious. He was burned practically all over his body. According to a statement made by Phillips, he was grappling with a man at the still when the man turned on him and threw him in! to a vat of hot mash. He was un able to name the man, saying that he did not remember having seen him before. Matherly and Turner Lewis were arrested at the still and brought to Wilkesboro, where they will be given a preliminary hearing before Commissioner J. W. Dula. It was not learned whether either of the men arrested is the one who threw Phillips into the mash. A medium size distillery with all necessary materials for making li quor and a considerable amount of liquor was destroyed. Marshal W. T. Dowd arrived | to make an investigation of the af fair and to direct a search for the guilty party. Upon arriving here, The "new deal” may come i through all right, though it is now encountering the new squeal. Blue mold has appeared in the tobacco beds of Halifax county but is not spreading rapidly at this time. In Wilson county, the disease is spreading. le summoned every deputy marshal n the district to come to North ^ilkesboro to join in the search. In Political Arena KANSAS CITY . . . Former U. S. Senator James A. Reed (above), is of the opinion that he is needed in Washington again to curb Bolshevik trends and is reported as being in the race to. regain his Senate seas. The public is asked to support the fish and game organizations, and anyway we are all willing to eat whatever fish and game the portsmen present to us. Speaking contests are being held in many schools, but some of our talkative folks need to participate in a silence competition. "ASK FOR SAMPLES AND SPECIAL PRICES OF UNFIN ISHED AND FINISHED SILK AND RAYON CREPES, CAMPBELL DEPARTMENT STORE, SHELBY, N. C. NOTICE TO CREDITORS Having qualified as Executrix of the estate of J. W. Jacobs, this is to notify all persons having claims against the said decedent to file an itemized, verified statement of same with the undersigned on or before the 1st day of May, 193 5, of this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. Persons indebted to said estate are notified to make prompt settlement. This April 28th, 1934. MRS. J. W. JACOBS, Executrix of Estate of J. W. Jacobs, Deceas ed. May 4—June 8. DR. N. C. LITTLE Optometrist Eyes examined and glasses fitted Telephone 1571-W. 107 S. Main Street __ Next to Ketchie Barber Shop. Newsom & Co. 104J4 S. Main Street Salisbury, N. C. Expert Watch and Jewelry Repairing Shoes rebuilt the better way. All kinds of harness, trunk and suitcase repairing. FAYSSOUX’S PLACE Phone 433 120 E. Innes St. DJER-KISS • TALCUM