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
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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.
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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.
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“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.
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