FRIDAY, MARCH 15, 1940.
Federal Warrants j
Issued For Eight
Warrants were served March 2
on eight Cleveland county cotton
gTowers, charging them with con- !
spiracy to violate Section 348 of the
Agricultural Adjustment Act of (
1938 by defrauding the Government \
of the penalty due on cotton pro
duced in excess of their marketing
quota.
The men, all prominent farmers,
are B. P. Peeler, Everett Lutz, Rob
ert L. Lutz, M. L. Lutz, J. G. Spurt
ing and J. A. Tillman.
Warrants also are out for Paul
Holland and 11. H. Walker of Cleve
land county, who are charged with
a similar offense.
Federal agents from Washington
spent Friday in Lincolnton confer
ring with W. M. Nicholson, assist
ant district attorney for westeni :
North Carolina, who ordered the ar
rests made. U. S. Deputy Marshal
McPoston served the papers and
the men were required to give ,
bonds of SSOO each. i
They will be given a hearing in '
Lincolnton Tuesday, March 5, at j
10 a.m. before U. S. Commissioner ,
J. Robert McNeely. ,
The case has attracted consider
able attention heere. 1
N. C. BAI’TIST GAINS IN 1939
Marked gains were made by the! ]
Baptist State Convention during
the last association year July ■
25 through November 8 accord
ing to figures compiled by L. L.
Morgan, statistical secretary.
The convention is composed of .
70 white associations, with two In- ,
dian groups as associate members.
Morgan’s report shewed a 1939
gain of $289,489.02 in gifts over
the pievious year. There was a
decrease of 1,385 in baptisms,'
however.
A gain of 41 churches and 17,098 ,
members o/er 1938 was pointed
out. In 1938 there were 2,491
churches with 489,272 members,
whereas in 1939 the convention
had 2,532 churches and 506,370
members. Fifty-four new’ church
es and 35 Indian churches were
reported for 1939.
Baptisms numbered 25,404, as
compared with 26,787 during 1938.
The 35 Indian churches showed a
loss of 59 baptisms, reporting 319.
Gifts Recorded
A total of $3,767,932 in gifts
for all causes was recorded in
1939. There are 2,301 churches
cooperating in contributing to de
nominational objects, the report
shows, a gain of 83 churches over j
1938. Failing to give to one or
more of the causes fostered by the
convention were 235 churches.
INCOME TAXES UP
Income tax collections this year
are running a little ahead of last
year, reported revenue officials re
cently. However, the big rush is
yet to come.
Through the month of February
collections for the month were
$491,181.41 as compared with $489,- j
141.61 for the same period last
year. For the fiscal year collections
have been $1,926,979.24, approxi
mately $19,584.49 less than last.
Collections for the year, however,
include some payments on last
year’s incomes- Department of
ficials predict the sum collected this
year to exceed the record amount
of $11,296,381 taken in during 1937-
39.
We are paying Easter Prices for
CHICKENS AND EGGS NOW!
We allow you good weight on new
scales. We pay 40c dozen for
Goose Eggs until Easter.
POULTRY MARKET
In Old Center Brick Warehouse
Eebulon, N. C. Phone 2351
COURT REAFFIRMS CASE
For the third time courts of
North Carolina definitely affirmed
the validity of North Carolina’s tax
of $250 upon any person not a re
tail merchant, who displays samp
les in hotel room or other rented
quarters with a view to sale. The
law was sponsored by the N. C.
State Merchants Association. The
Best Company is a large New
York mercantile concern and has
successfully beaten similar laws in
South Carolina and Louisiana. They
are expected to appeal the case to
the United States Supreme Court.
BILLIONS FOR NOTHING
One of the stock alibis for our
enormous Federal debt is that much
of the money has gone to create
valuable assets that, in other
words, it has been invested in
things which will pay out in the
future.
That makes a good story until
you go beneath the surface. There
is no denying the fact that the Fed
eral debt has increased over $24,
000,000,000 in the past few years.
The National Economy League now
publishes a statement showing that
only $3,336,000,000, or 13.4 per cent
of that vast sum, was spent for
purposes which increased the na
tion’s assets. The rest of the mon
ey has simply disappeared, leaving
behind it only a gigantic burden for
the taxpayers of today and tomor
row to meet.
This shouldn’t surprise anyone
who has given even passing atten
tion to the financial conduct of the
Federal government in recent
years. Billions of dollars have been
appropriated for relief, to be spent
as soon as received by the benefic
iaries. This money created nothing
permanent. Other billions have
been spent for pump priming pro
jects which didn’t work, and created
little save havoc. Still more bil
lions have gone for farm relief
schemes which flopped. And so it
goes, down the long tragic list.
This country has spent all those
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billions and about all it has gained
is the knowledge that you can’t
spend yourself into prosperity any
more than you can drink yourself
sober. And now, if the spenders
have their way, more billions W’ill
be spent in an identical manner,
thus throwing good money after
bad. Is it any wonder that the prin
cipal factor which is holding us
back today is fear and uncertainty
as to what the future will bring?
WAKE COUNTY’S
BOARDING HOUSE
Probably few of the thousands
of people living in Wake County
know that right in the center of
Raleigh they have a boarding
house with 91 registered boarders
today. A year ago there were 127
registered roomers and boarders.
The United States government
pays the “keep” of 36 of these.
The rest are charges of Wake
county. For the Federal boarders
who are legally called prisoners,
the county gets 75 cents a day
for “keeps”. Williamson’s guest
book this week contains the names
of 55 citizens of the county. The
county jail— to call a spade a
spade—is crowded beyond its ca
pacity. Either our citizens will
have to change their way of liv
ing or the county will have to
change their living quarters.
“Mrs. Caesar” Dramatic-
New Novel
The story of husband and wife
caught in the toils of unhappi
ness. How they worked out their
misunderstandings forms the basis
for one of the best novels of the
year.
Begins March 24 in
The American Weekly
the big magazine distributed
with the
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WENDELL
THEATRE
Matinees Mon., Tues., Wed. and
Thurs., at 3:30
Night Shows start 7 P. M.
Friday, March 15—
“GREEN HELL”
with Joan Bennett
and Doug Fairbanks. Jr.
News and “Cupid Rides the
Range” Comedy
Saturday, March 16—
“OLD LOUISIANA”
with Tom Keene
No. 7 “Dick Tracy’s G-Men”
and Comedy
Sat. Owl Show ll P. M.—
“WAGES OF SIN”
For Adults Only
Best We’ve Had or Seen!
Admission —25 c
Sunday, March 17—
A Good Musical Comedy—
“MA HE’S MAKING EYES
AT ME"
with Tom Brown
and Constance Moore
also “Mr. Clyde Goes to
Broadway”
Mon.-Tues., March 18-19
“THE DAY THE BOOKIES
WEPT”
with Joe Penner
and Betty Grable
Also Comedy
Wednesday, March 20—
“WOLF OF NEW YORK”
With Edmond Lowe
No. 8 “Mandrake the Magician”
and Comedy
Thurs.-Fri., March 21 & 22
“HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE
DAME”
with Charles Laughter
and Maureen O’Hara
Extra Friday Night—
See “Bee Hayworth and His
Vaudevillians”
A Treat for All Families,
and News
Coming—
“MUSIC IN MY HEART”
“CONGO MAISIE”
“I TAKE THIS WOMAN”
SEED LESPEDEZA NOW
Lespedeza should be seeded now
in the Coastal Plain and Piedmont
regions, and within two weeks in
| the mountains, advises E. C. Blair,
agronomist of the State College
1 Extension Service. The crop should
j be grown on medium to heavy soils,
preferably those well suppplied
with moisture.
Kobe, Tennessee 76, and common
varieties are adapted to the Coast
al Plain, and the Kobe, Tennessee
76, Korean ,and Common to the
Piedmont and mountains.
From 25 to 40 pounds of seed
per acre is sown and covered w’ith
a weeder, or the seed may be drill
ed shallow on small grain. Lespe
deza responds to fertilization with
phosphate, potash, and lime on
some soils. The only cultivation
necessary is to clip off the weeds
once or twice during the summer.
Because most soils in North Car
olina need additional fertility Blair
Strongly urges that farmers make
plans to turn under at least a part
of their lespedeza crop for soil im
provement. It should be turned un
der in the fall of the first or sec
ond year. Lespedeza will re-seed
! itself and produce another crop the
j second year. Two years is generally
long enough to leave it. A grain
crop may be put in after the first
year by discing and drilling.
If lespedeza is harvested for
j hay, it should be mowed when in
full bloom or when 12 inches high,
whichever occurs first. To wait
longer will cause loss of leaves, the
agronomist explained. Hay is us
ually cured within two days. Three
to four inches of stubble should be
left so that the crop will re-seed
itself.
REFUGEE
How One Alien Threatens Our
Native Institutions
We have no doubt that the Hon.
Robert Rice Reynolds will be inter
ested in this little story.
The Hon. Robert, like the Hon.
Martin Dies, wants to deport all
the unnaturalized aliens in the
country, to stop all immigration of
refugees. They are, he infers, Reds.
And when somebody points out to
him that it plainly isn’t so of most
of them, he counters by saying that
they are responsible for most of the j
crime in this country. And when
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somebody quotes him the figures
which show that they are in fact
the least criminal group of people
in the nation, he takes refuge in
shouting that they are ruining us
economically eating us out of
house and home. And when some
body gently reminds him that, un
der a law he himself helped to pass,
they aren’t even allowed on relief
rolls, he thunders triumphantly
that they are taking jobs away
from American workmen.
Here’s how\ When Hitler took
over Austria, one Arthur Denes,
described by the Associated Press
as a “spry little Jew," escaped to
the United States bringing with
him 200 pounds of paprika pepper
seed, the first genuine paprika seed
ever brought to the United States.
Eventually he landed in Louisiana,
a state suffering like the other
Southern states, from cotton pov
erty. He interested Horticulturist
Julian Miller, of Louisiana State
University, in his seed. And now
he’s planting a 350-acre farm, giv
ing the seed to bis neighbors. Hor
ticulturist Miller says it will event
ually mean a $10,000,000 annual
crop for the state.
A wicked alien, you see, displac
ing the good old American cotton
with foreign paprika, and making
us richer. No doubt, if you looked
into it, you would find that it is a
Red plot cooked up by International
Jew’ry. Charlotte News.
HUMANE SHOT
Bird shot made of ordinary lead
are often swallowed by birds, which
thereupon are attacked by lead
poisoning. To avoid this, an alloy
of lead with 1 to 4 percent mag
nesium is proposed in a recent pat
ent in the United States. The alloy
quickly disintegrtaes in moist air,
and spent shot are pulverized in
the process, leaving nothing for the
birds to swallow.
BIG FERTILIZER SAVING
D. S. Coltrane, assistant to
Commissioner Cates, estimates
that by switching from fertilizers
containing 14 to 17 units of plant
food to grades of 17 to 21 units,
North Carolina farmers can re
duce their 1940 fertilizer bill by
more than $1,000,000.
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