II j^OO Men Work
On State Highway
| Raleigh—More than 5,500 men
I jre novv directly employed on
Jishwav construction projects be
jnl carried on in the state with
'll),500,000 received from the
federal government for higjhway
,ork, ^ ‘ ^ance Raise, assistant
I J[3te highway engineer, said here.
number of men employed on
highway jobs is expected to in
crfjse decidedly during the next
month or two as more contracts
jre R-t. But unless congress ap
propriates more money .for the con
tinuation of this work, the present
program will soon be completed
jnj ,,|| these who have had work
on these jobs will again go back
jnro the ranks of the unemployed,
Raise pointed out.
fOULDN'T PLAY RIGHT
Mv twin brother came home the
other evening with a black eye and
Roasted that he could have beaten
his opponent hands down, only the
fellow didn t keep his hands down, j
"Hope on” was the fine old'
motto, but the boy who turns it
Into "hop on” will get into trouble
nith the truck drivers.
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Designed in Sizes: 14, 16, 18, 20
with 32, 34, 36, 38 host. Size: H
requires 4Va yards 6f 39 inch ma
terial with TA yard contrast
DRAPED NECKLINE
Rntern 8219: The young miss 1
between the ages of 14 to 20 will 1
like this frock for its soft collar
'witn ruffles and the neckline drap- 1
ed high in front and ending in a ’
how at back. The panel which ex
tends above the waistline in the
front, gives a tall slim effect to the
wearer and the belt may end in a
bow instead if a twist, if desired.
This frock may be made in fig
ured vode, or in figured chiffon. '
he collar suggested is white with
yellow flower motif and a pale yel
low or white capetet.
For PATTERN, send 15 cents
in coin (for each pattern desir
ed), your NAME, ADDRESS,
STYLE NUMBER and SIZE to
Patricia Dow, The Carolina
Watchman Pattern Dep’t., 115
Fifth Avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y.
Constipation Symptoms
Soon Go Away After
Use of Black-Draught
Mrs- S. G. Ramey, of Henryetta,
Okla^ writes that she has taken
Thedford’s Black-Draught about
twenty-five years, when needed,
and has "found It very good.”
"When I have a sour stomach and
my mouth tastes bitter, and I feel
bilious, sluggish and tired, I will
very soon have a severe headache
if I don’t take something. I have
learned to keep off these spells by
taking Thedford’s Blaok-Draught.
Very soon I am feeling fine. I feel
that Black-Draught can’t be beaten
as a family medicine.” ... Get a
package of Black-Draught today.
Sold in 254 packages. ^
Farm Credit
Administrations
Lends $83,000,001
Columbia, S. C.—In the firs
year of the Farm Credit Admin
istration, which came to a closi
on Sunday, May 27, the institu
tions of the third district compris
mg the States of North Carolina
imuth Carolina, Georgia and Flor
ida. and the associations under di
rect supervision of the district ad
ministration, loaned a total of ovei
$83,000,000.
Of this total over $58,0OO,O0C
consisted of farm mortgage loan;
of the Federal Lai>d Bank of Col
umbia and the Land Bank Com
missioner; $370,850 consisrpH d
loans by the Columbia Bank for
Cooperatives; $7,213,922 of net
loans by the Federal Credit Bank
of Columbia; $7,241,542 of loans
by the Production Credit associa
tion operating under the super
vision of the Production Credit
Corporation of Columbia; $2,
094,5 32 of loans by the Regional
Agricultural Credit Corporation
of the district and $8,502,05 5 of
emergency crop production loans.
Out of a total of $57,261,988
put out on loans by the Federal
Land Bank of Columbia and the
Land Bank Commissioner, a total
of $47,821,325 was used by bor
rowers to refinance their indebted
ness. Of this $10,030,655 refin
anced farmers’ debts to commer
cial banjcs, including receivers and
conservators of banks; $2,827,42 5
went on their debts to insurance
companies; $2,899,818 Went on
their taxes and $32,063,517 went
on their debts to other creditors.
Not all of the money has been
loaned in actual cash. On March
26, the Federal Land Banks
switched from closing loans with
cash to closing them with bonds of
the Federal Farm Mortgage Cor
poration. The Federal Land Bank
of Columbia has already put out a
total of approximately $10,000,
000 irv these bonds and announces
that almost without exception
bankers and farmers’ crediors have
indicated that they are glad to ac
cept them in lieu of cash.
The bonds now being used in
closing land bank and Land Bank
L-ommissioner loans bear i per
tent interest and are exempt from
ill taxation except the usual inheri
tance, estate and gift taxes. In
terest and principal of the bonds
ire guaranteed by the government.
The money* being loaned through
:he Federal Intermediate Credit
Bank likewise is obtained from the
nvesting public and confidnce of
:he investing public in the sound
less of the agricultural paper be
ng handled by this bank has en
tbled the bank to get money at a
zery low* rate of interest.
Through the new type of perma
aent local production credit as
lociation managed by persons
phosen by the farmer-members
ind supervised by the Production
Credit Corporation of Columbia,
armers are not only getting loans
vhich are low in cost, but which
ire also accurately timed to the
production season, arranged to ma
ure when crop's are marketed and
he indebtedness can be liquidated
nost advantageously.
The Columbia Bank for Coop
ratives leads only to cooperative
irganizations of farmers in the
itates (3f North aCrolina, South
Carolina, Georgia and Florida,
rhe applications received by this
pank for loans up to this time
lave covered such products as
pecans, citrus fruits, lespedeza, as
paragus, watermelons, fern,s, truck
props, fertilizer, etc., having come
Tom all four states of the district.
A Gadget Oueen
--1
LOS ANGELES . . . Miss Doris
MacMahone (above), has been selec
ted to rule as “Gadget Queen.’? at
the annual convention of National
Inventors at their Omaha, Neb. meet
ing on June 5.
e young man s fancy is sup- The evenings spent with wine
pose to turn, to love at this time women, and song are supposed tc
°, °ut "e would better realize cheer up the sports, and probably
t at t e young lady’s fancy turns also they promote the sale of head
| t0 lce cream- _ache pills.
New Fair Midway Thrill
« .... --
From the artlst’t ee—eption, this
device, now (tearing completion for
the opening of Jirj new World**
Fair in Chtorffo May 26, would seem
to be a combination w« an elevator,
a ferris wheel, a roller coaster and
the Sky Ride. It will be on tha
now Midway on the Northerly Is
land beach. ^— - —~—„
LITTLE AMERICA, ANTARC
TICA, May 29 (via Mackay Ra
dio)—I think it is about time 1 gave
you a report on our live stock. You
know, we have a varied assortment
of domestic animals here leading
the strangest life that house pets
were ever called upon to lead. And
they are thriving on it. The pen
guins, seals, whales and skua gulls
have all had the sense to depart for
parts unknown, probably the west
coast of South America and various
other warmer places. No Anarctic
winters for them!
Yesterday a few
of us had an elab
orate ceremony in
the cowshed. We
weighed the bull!
You may remem
ber that one of
our three full
blooded Guernsey
cows, Klondike,
. _ , . had a bull calf on
.iSS *,::«!!' ry ?rou*h
„ . the Ross Sea ice
Our Commissary . ...
Boss and We c^ns"
tened him Ice
berg. Well, let me tell you that lce
berg now weighs 350 pounds! His
official chaperon is Edgar Cox, of
Arcade, N. Y., who, in addition to
being our carpenter, is also our
cowherd, or cowboy, or shepherd,
or whatever the title is for a man
who plays nursemaid to a flock of
cows. Twice a day Cox milks Klon
dike and her two sisters. Foremost
Southern Girl and Deerfoot, so we
have oodles and oodles of fine milk
with our meals and in our cooking.
He regulates the temperature of
our cowbarn under the snows, cur
ries the cattle daily, feeds them,
beds them down and even sleeps
in the barn. He has for other sleep
ing companions our two cats, Snow
shoes, who has six toes on each
foot, and Cyclone, and one of the
Esquimo dogs. We now have 119
dogs and seven pups, all in good
condition. Each dog gets two half
pound portions of seal meat a day.
The pups, which average 22 pounds
each in weight, get kitchen scraps
of seal meat and other things.
Capt. Innes-Taylor’s dog drivers
are a terrible looking crew. They
are fully bearded and, dressed in
fur parkas and fur mukluks
(boots), they look likd wild bears
or worse. I was told this morning
that they have been ordered to
shave because Capt. Innes-Taylor
was bitten yesterday in one of the
dark tunnels atnd he declares he
doesn’t know whether it was a dog
or a dog driver that bit him. About
half the men are wearing full
beards. The rest of us are shaving
regularly. I shave every day with
one of Commander Noville’s elec
tric razors so 1 don’t need warm
water. The rest of the shavers have
a terrible time getting in the cook’s
way to melt snow for their shaving.
We are in great need of a barber.
Cutting each other’s hair produces
some startling and comical results.
We are in need of exercise now
that our outside work is nearly ovei
and the storms, darkness and cold
prevent us from wandering much
out in the open. We are putting up
a punching bag and a couple of sets
of parallel bars. We also will do
some walking and skiing when the
weather permits. The doctor is
watching our diet very closely.
We are finding it difficult to keep
ourselves and our clothes clean
The popular pastime is stealing hot
water from A1 Carbone, our Cam
bridge, Mass., cook, but even when
we’ve stolen it we have to be very
careful using it for fear of sudden
chills. There is a difference of as
much as thirty-five degrees in tem
perature between the lower and up
per bunks in our sleeping quarters.
The warm air rising creates a situa
tion in which the man in the upper
bunk is perspiring, with his cloth
ing all thrown open, while the mac
below is bundled up, freezing. WheD
we wash our clothes we haven’t
r om to hang them up in the bunk
houses. They freeze instantly when
hung in the other buildings and it
is almost impossible to dry them.
Speaking of weather, we are hav
ing plenty of it here—storms, bliz
zards and cold such as I have never
imagined. But where Admiral Byrd
is, it is even worse. The lowest tem
perature we’ve had has been 60 de
grees below zero. The Admiral has
already reported 72 below, and the
winter is just commencing!
I’d like to see a parade of mem
bers of our club. It would take
hours to pass, 21,000 of them. If
you’d like to join and receive mem
bership card, big South Polar map
for marking flights, tractor and dog
team trips, all without cost or obli
gation, send your name, address
and three cent stamp to me at our
American headquarters. Address
Arthur Abele, Jr., president, Little
America Aviation and Exploration
Club, Hotel Lexington, 48th Street
and Lexington Avenue, New York,
N Y.
Meets Son Of 35
For First Time
Morganton—Returning to the
town that he left 35 years ago
and which had known nothing of
his whereabouts during his extend
ed absence, Amos "Pete” Roper
arrived here recently to visit a 34
year old son whom he had never
seen.
Roper formerly resided in the
Salem community of Burke coun
ty, but 3 5 years ago he left his
home there. Roper arrived in
Morganton and soon found his way
to the home of Will Roper, his 34
year old son, who was unborn
when the father left home, when
this strange reunion as held. His
wife died some years ago.
I Rainbow On Trial '
NEW YORK The "Rainbow**
(above), American sloop built by a
syndicate headed by Commodore
Vanderbilt, out jon one of her first
trials for the right to defend the
American Cup against the English
challenger i 1 Endeavor1' this summer*.'
—Buy in Salisbury—
SECOND LAZIEST
Employer: “I’ve called you in,
Smith, to tell you that when I’m
not here you are the laziest man in
the office.’
It is claimed that the headlines
and indolent American people are
sitting on top of an industrial gold
mine, without taking hold to ex
tract its riches, but you don’t no
tice the kid element sitting down
inactive on any spot in the back
yard while they might dig up fish
worms.
—
Fish fries reported to the homes
of the fishermen, but suspect that
in the majority of cases the fish
were caught at the local market.
There was a time when they used
to warble that tender melody about
"Love’s sweet song,” but the bright
modern girl wants that song put In-*
to writing anjd properly signed and
witnessed, so she can obtain dam
ages if the suitor doesn’t make
good.
Gokslight, white andflaly*
AMAZE A MINUTE , j
SCIENTTFACTS BY ARNOLD *
Starting
'? IN A SMALL
*) — WEIGH*
J A 200 POUND
f KANGAROO OWES
1 BtDTH TO ONE
KXtNCH, 6-OUNCE
V" BASICS.
fjte RAIN OP STARS --I
In Boston on Nov.2,iss3, over I
240,000 FALLING STARS WERE OBSERVED
IN SEVEN HOURS. At TIMES THOUSANDS A
VFBX IN THE SAME INSTANT.
y^Jf= OVER TWO MIL
LION BABIES TO BE /
BORN THIS YEAR, L
TWERE WILL BE j~
23.000 SETS ■
OF TWINS._Q
•
Hot Air—
Because air is a poor
HEAT CONDUCTOR, THE HUNAN
! BODY CAN STAND, FOR SHORT
(^PERIODS, AIR HEATED TO A TtM->
' PERATURE FAR ABOVE BOIUING ’
Point j
UNUSUAL FACTS REVEALED
r John Barrymore is
I STAR OF '0.0^CENTURY"POSSESS- 9
I ES AN EGG SHELL 10.000,000 9
S YEARS OLD. ms VALUED AT . 9
Lover a million dollars / J|
FAMOUS TR A IN ENTERS
THE MOVIES / THE TWEN
TIETH CENTURY, CRACK NEW
YORK CENTRAL TRAIN, WAS
USED FOR THREE WEEKS f
WHILE FILMING■ THE
COLUMBIA ‘
.'EVERY MOTION PICTURE SET
/ HAS TO HAVE A "FLY CHASER"/
THE SOUND OF FLIES BUZZ! NO'
IN MICROPHONES RECORDS
LIKE THE ROAR OF BOMBSf AND
FLIES FLITTIN(5 BEFORE THE , '
LENS CAST SHADOWS LIKE A '
HERD OF ELEPHANTS /
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Caiofe Lornfeam is bargaining for
S THE FAMOUS BED WHICH KING EMMANUEL
0 ^HOHTUGAL. PRESENTED TO GABVDESLYS
U CAROLE RESTED ON THE FAMOUS RED
DURING THE MAKING OF A PICTURE AN" ,
FOUND IT TO HER LIKING AA~
MUTT AND JEFF—JEFF GOT THE AIR ALL RIGHT BY BUD FISHER
IJEFF.TWlSFlRSVTRlP DOWN IS MORE OR LESS OF
A TEST! I WANT YOU TO INVESTIGATE THE A
SURROUNDING SEA BOTTOM! SEE IF YOU CAN I
FIND THE PROPER SETTING,ETC^ FOR OUR 1
-.PICTURE,"GOLDDIGGERS OFj
'S-r^a»si °sj
location^
W HELP, MUTT, HELP! X
§B I CAM'T -BREATHE) 6IMKIE
BIL. AIR1. glMMe A'R!^1
1 faster,boys,faster! he's\
NOT 6ETTIN' any air! maybe
. SOMETHIN'S WR0N6 wrrHTHEJ
V AIR uNE!^ 4
-/ any o' you 30/s S
^VSOT A HATPIN? 1
• _r?'~=r—k --_
s) VetA.BUT NOW
f i can't 6ot>duun,mutt]J
ip, I’M INFLATED/