Seaman On City Of Flint Talks About Recent Adventurous Trip Herman A. Haddock Visits Here A Short While Sunday Night Says Germans Were Far More Considerate Than Ship Captain Released from the City of Flint, the United States freighter captured by the German pocket battleship. Deutschland. last October. Herman D. Haddock passed through here early this week to visit relatives in Plymouth and in Pitt County. Cele brating a bit. the seaman supple mented the tales that came thick and fast ffpm the City of Flint during the time it was in the hands of a German prize crew. The City of Flint finally docked in Baltimore last week after one of Uie war's strangest adventures, and Mr Haddock, a seaman, was glad to get his release from the much-publicized vessel, although he emphasized the consideration shown members of the American crew by the Germans as in marked contrast to the mistreatment he charges against the Flint's skip per. Captain Joseph A. Gainerd. dur ing the course of the 113-day voyage. Haddock joined the City of Flint after it had returned several hundred survivors of the British liner Athenla to America the latter part of Sep tember and sailed from New York, on October 3rd on its epochal voyage during which it was captured by the German raider, sailed to Murmansk. Russia, under the direction of the Nazi prize crew; restored to its own crew when Norway interned the Ger mans. and delayed by a collision with a British ship in a Norwegian har . BW ? - Incidentally, Haddock discounted tales told by other members of the crew, alleging that a plot had been hatched to recapture the ship from the German crew. He said that he knew of no such plot, although such a course was discussed briefly bv members of the crew at mess on one occasion The only thing we could do was to sail the ship as the Ger mans ordered." Haddock"said, there wasn't a chance that we could rrguln control wliile they were aboard 1 Newspaper accounts given by some of the other members of the Flint crew said that lline hnmh. planted about the ship and that the Nazis had their machine guns set up arid trained on tin* foritiRf* mid (jveks, while Haddock says the prize crew brought two machine guns and three time bombs aboard with them but kept them In sea bags In the chart room, which was well guarded and accessible only to the Germans He said the guns were not set up or the bombs planted about the ship at any time, although the captors did dis play them to the City of Flint crew when they came aboard The only weapon on the Flint when It was captured was a pistol which the captain had locked in his safe, and when the German officers board to turn it over to tliem Each mem ber of the prize crew was armed with a Luger pistol and hand grenades for their protection and to enforce their orders Claims He Has Mistreated Haddock says he contracted pto maine poisoning from eating the food on the ship after It left Murmansk. Russia, and was sent to a hospital In Bergen Norway, after the ship was returned to Captain Oatnerd by the Norwegians Claiming that Cap tain Gainerd was fnore cruel than the Oermuns. Haddock charged that after he was released from the Norwegian hospital, following a stay of 41 days, the captain ordered him to return to his regular work with the crew after only a two-day rest, although he was supposed to do. light work fot 10 days. As further evidence of the Ameri can skipper's harshness. _ Haddock said he assigned the survivors of the English freighter Stonegate?sunk by the Deutschland and its crew put aboard the City of Flint?to the cold est part of the ship and curtly told them "no working, no eating." The sympathetic American sailors gave part of their clothing to the British To the CITIZENS of EVERETTS Official* from Stute and (bounty Board* of Health, will meet with the Everett* Town (k>mini**ioner* Tuesday Night February 6th ? 7:30 o'clock In (he Sehool Auditorium. The purpose of the meeting is to bear presented plans for a wa ter and sewerage system for the town. Every voter and property owner is requested to be present for the meeting. C. B. Riddick, Mayor Smith Says Census Survey in County IsS/taping UpRapidly Claude Smith, head of the census survey in this county, says he is mak ing rapid progress in gathering the statistical data needed from the var ious business firms for the national] survey. "I have just about covered the county with the exception of Rober aonville and Williamston and next week I will begin working in these towns," Mr Smith said The work in this county was be gun January 2. and every country store and every rural and business firm, regardless of where it is locat ed. has been contacted. The informa tion obtained was based exclusively on business transacted during 1939. Mr. Smith stated. "Most of the peo World's birjiest e Airplane On Way For the IJ. S. Army Washington ? The army is build ing the world's largest plane, believ ed capable of flying to Europe and back without stopping. Authoritative sources disclosed that this was the ship which J. Ed gar Hoover was talking about when he told Congressmen recently how the plans had been stolen and then rerovered by G-men The 70-ton craft, understood to have a wing spread of more than 200 feet, is nearing completion now in the Santa Monica, Calif , plant of the Douglas Aircraft Company At Ions! one foreign gnuernm..nt was said to be interested in the plane, which would dwarf any army plane now in service. Army and com mercial engineers, who have been working on the plane for 18 months, were understood to ptan first tests next summer The plane's, new model high-pow ered motors promise a range (5.000 or possibly 7,000 miles Another development was a report that the nation's reserve of trained civilian flyers increased 37 per cent during 1939. und the number of civil airplanes 24 per cent i ennieii to knp tiiem?warm. Had dock said Incidentally, a bill was made out by the United States Line for cigarettes and food that the sur vivors received while on the City of Flint, according to Haddock, but in return the English submitted a bill for the enforced labor performed by the Stonegate survivors Ilow Ship Was Captured According to Haddock, on the sixth day out of New York, the City of Flint was halted by the Deutschland, which drew alongside to put aboard the 38 survivors of the Stonegate, previously sunk by the pocket battle ship Tile Flint was boardrd about 4 30 In the afternoon by Oerman of flei'i'ii. who found igv looking uvri tl .manifest that the American Weight ier was carrying contraband. The Navis then took over the ship and put on board three officers and 15 sea men in addition to the 36 men from j the Southgale. The officer in command of the prize crew derided not to atlempt to run the blockade of the British fleet and take the cargo. Including over 6,000 barrels of oil. nickel and other contraband, to Germany Instead the freighter was taken to Murmansk. ] Russia, where the ship was at first ) turned back to the American crew by i he Russians and the Germans tak Jen off Three days later, after , diplomats of several countries had battled vainly for the ship's release, the German prize crew was returned j to the vessel and It was ordered to I leave. On October 28 the Flint left the Russian itnrt starleri Its voyage rinwrn the Norwegian coast. It sailed within the territorial waters of Norway all the way, Haddock said, never more man three miles onshore. The ship was trailed by a Norwegian patrol boat the officers of which warned the Germans the first time they dropped anchor that If they did this pie I called on were very courteous] and cooperated to the fullest extent. Many -of those I called on kept no books or records and it was rather difficult to arrive at accurate fig ures." he said A separate and distinct schedule | was arranged for every type of busi ness and many questions had to be| asked and answered before a re port could be made by the census [ survey head "I expect to complete the business survey long before the allotted time, March 31. However, it may take more time to cover Robersonville and Wil liamston than I anticipate, Mr Smith said. , The agricultural and population | census will begin April 1. New Use Found For Aluminum Product! Chances are that when you read | in the papers that the aluminum in dustry enjoyed its largest volume in history in 1939, you visualize flocks of airplanes and fleets of air splitting. streamlined trains. True enough, these, along with electric c able, are major volume outlets. But the astronomers have found a use for the "metal of the air" that might qualify it as the metal of the stratosphere - and beyond?too. Not much, of an item where volume is concerned, but an important scien tific contribution of '?? itf """ -aHfiougli uuiy a few cents* worth is required -to coat the 12 mirrors, including he 100-inch astronomical giant, of Mt. Wilson observatory in California. Before aluminum reflect ing surfaces were employed it had been necessary to recoat such mir rors twice a year. The aluminum I coating is only 1 250,000tils of an] inch thick. When the still larger Mt Palomar telespoce is placed in ser vice in 1940, thousands of tons of steel and concrete will be used to hold in place a single ounce of alum inum. neain in Norwegian waters the prize crew would be interned and the boat turned back to the Americans. At the mouth of nm Haguesund harbor, the City of Flint anchor was dropped again, and the Norwegians immedi ately boarded her, took otr the Ger mans and informed the American skipper he was free to proceed. The ship went up the coast to Bergen, where Haddock went to the hospital. | later returning to Haguesund to dis charge the cargo The freighter then | went to another Norwegian port, where it received a cargo of iron ore and headed back home around the Great Arctic Circle route to avoid capture again. When the ship reached Baltimore last week, members of the crew were paid oW, each receiving a cash bonus of 25 per cent of his wages. Mr Haddock has been in the mer chant marine service for about six years, but said here today that he was through for the time being, at least. Married in 1936 he declared lie and Mrs. Haddock were visiting here on their second honeymoon ' He said that he might leave his wife again to work on vessels In the coast wise service, but that he was not go ing to return to ships in the North Atlantic service while mines and .sub marines and tsattleshlps were as plen tiful as they are now. Weather Men Say That A Wet G>ld Cycle ^ ill Follow ll Ha* Becu InuMiallx Hot And Dry During Paul Five Year* Washington ? There is no doubt about it, says the U. S. Weather Bureau it has been unusually hot" and dry the last few years. Thousands have written the bur eau asking "Is our climate chang ing?" "Not necessarily," answers the bureau "but the weather certainly | Many people confuse weather and climate, F. W. Heichelderfer. chief of the bureau, explained. Weather, he said, is the condition over short Periods ? days, weeks, months and even several years?while climate is average weather over a much longer period, perhaps 10 years. "During the present decade there has been a decided tendency to dry weather and for more than 20 years a tendency to abnormal warmth, notwithstanding an occasional bad flood or cold winter," Dr. Reichel derfer said. Climate does change, but it will | take records for a good many more years to prove that it has in the United States. Weather bureau rec ords. however, indicate the recent hot. dry years were just a warm phase of normal ciimate. "The present farm, dry phase as typified by three nationwide de- j structive droughts?1930, 1934 and 1936?and by a general warmth not exceeded for a century," Reichelder fer said As an example of subnormal rain fall, he brought out a chart showing,! ThalTih~tfie Dakotas the shortage of water, as compared with normal, was 3.000 tons per acre between 1930 and 1936 Those states were in the area hardest hit by the drouths The summers are getting hotter iind the winters milder bureau rtr ords showed. For the country as a whole every winter for the past 25 years, with the exception of those id 1917-18 and 1935-36. have been uni formly warmer than normal How long this warm, dry trend in weather will continue, the bureau will not even guess But on one point the weather experts are agreed It will be followed by a cooler, wetter phase, when there will be more rainfall and lower tempera tures. Higher temperatures all over the world during the past 25 years in dicate that the heat-from the sun may have increased temporarily for some reason unknown to scientists. High temperatures and deficiency in I ninKtlifl' ilgimllw Kill nnf jilni'ii'i.1 I IIHll.ilUI * , I IIU, ? ITT t, T r>, 1 coincide. fid-Year Job Seen For C.C.C. (lamps There is enough work in this coun try to keep a Civilian Conservation Corps of 1,500 camps busy 50 years, declared a report to Congress writ ten liefore his death by Director Rob ert Fechner Notwithstanding this vast field, the corps is a loaito <>r Utv 'yconomy drive" and is to be cut to 1,227 camps or an average monthlyM-nrolhnent of 280.000 men, the report said Reviewing the activities which he directed from their inception, six years and three months ago, Fech ner recalled that relief had been pro vided to 2,600,000 young men, veter ans and Indians To merely list the achievement of the forest army would take more than a column of Labor. "The greatest single accomplish ment," Fechner wrote, "has been its ability to make productive use of otherwise unwanted manpower." Mr. Farmer Wo wish to invito you to a merting to bp held at the Agri culture Building, Williamston, N. C , promptly at 1:00 P M., Monday, February 5th. At this meeting we will have Mr. Blake Fullen, of War wick, Ga., who is recognized in the South as the hog and watermelon king. Mr. Pullen will thoroughly go into the raising, care and marketing of hogs, and can give you the advantage' of his successful years of experience as a hog raiser, having over 200 brood sows of his own. We will also discuss at this meeting a grape planting pro gram in which Garrett and Company will furnish you grape rootings at no cash outlay and guarantee to buy your grapes for a period of 20 years. With the present outlook of crop controlling, we believe the above programs should be well considered as a new source of income for the farmers in this section. We are looking forward to seeing you present Monday, Feb. 5th At 1:00 P. M. Ice Co. Specialist Addresses Robersonville Group L T. Vi eeks Sjteaks Of Problems Now Facing the (Grow er Lr?- Than Half l.?-af lirop I N?'?'ih' market quotas were deter mined. As a result we will haw about 325.000.000 pounds more tobacco than w ill be consumed during the current year Due to the fact that the 1939 crop w as one-fourth larger than any previous record crop, we will have the 325,000.000 pounds of tobacco more on hand w hen the next season begins than when the market open ed last season. This means that the stock of July 1, 1940, will be approx imately 475 million pounds more than w e had last year at the beginning of the market season. As to the export markets for our j tobacco, the speaker would not ven ' lure an opinion, due to the latest move by Great Britain. However, it w as opinioned that our export trade ] looked very gloomy at thiy, time. ? -?-Titd domestic eomponica have en I ough tobacco on hand at the present time to supply their demands for three years and nine months. Britain has enough of our flue cured tobac co on hand to last'for two years and six months without further pur chases on our markets. Should they blend a larger quantity of Turkish or European tobaccos with our flue cured, then the supply that they have i on hand will last even longer. Be fore the British companies went off j the market, they were buying ap proxiiViately one third of the total ] amount of the flue-cured tobacco. The r.inmmility fVedtt Purporti lion is now holding approximately j 175,000,000 pounds of flue-cured to j bacco, which is about one half of tlie surplus. If the British companies do not take up the option on this to NOT WOKKIKI) Delayed by freezing weather. Martin County farmers are wuiiilng. As yet. about planting their tobacco beds "Between now and the middle of the month, most farmers will com plete the preparation of their plant beds and that will be am pie time." one farmer said last night while attending the Coun ty Farm Bureau forum here. bacco, tins will remain here as a surplus tu be used in some manner. In 194(1. there needs to be produced only about one-half of the crop to get the production in line w ith the con sumption The. speaker ad vised to produce the crop for 1940 nist n< t iie.tply n? "possible and ti? get as good quality as possible. He emphasized the fact that vve need a well balanced pro gram, i" Kusc our own feed crop and food and to get away from the idea of using tobacco as a cash crop to purchase all of our tit her needs of life It was suggested that we do as bur ley tobacco growers. and only raise enough tobacco to buy those things we canncrralae at home We need to pay more attention to the food crops for the tenant, e. g., gardens, potatoes, fruits, truck crops and the like which will enable them (Continued on page four) Your Valentine U itl Enjoy I Hox Of SCHRAFFTS ( A M)Y Ill l S TAKE YOUR ORT1ER \ O W. SODA SHOP Vttriilion Ford Owners WE VllE OFFERING FORD OWNERS WITH < Vlts IIV\I\<; .10,000 MII.FS OK OVER