Robbers Make Big Cash Haul Sunday (n Stokes Stores ■'aft** Crarkeit 0|>«*n Some time Between Midnight aft. 100 from both in cash and checks Both stores were broken intc between Saturday midnight and t >’clock Sunday morning, Shenf: duel Tyson reported. He coulc riot say which one was enterec first. One store is located on on< tide the street and the other a cross the street Perkins lost approximately $2, 200 in cash and $500 in checks plus a number of bonds, the in vestigating officers said. Stokes-Congleton lost about $1, 1)00 in cash and $2,500 in chocks plus negotiable and non-negoti able bonds of undetermined de nomination. In addition to the cash am checks taken, Perkins lost a 17 jewel green-gold Waltham poeke watch and a 30 police Colt pis tol which were in the safe. Som insurance papers were taken alsi W. F. Stokes, co-owner of th store, said he entered his stor Sunday morning about 0:00 o clock, found the front door ope and ^he safe doors riddled. Debri was strewn all around the flooi he said. In addition to the cas and checks, he said the robbei took half a case of cigarettes an three hsfts. Three blankets were wruppe around 1 sate, Stokes reportei to eliminate noise of the expl( sion. He thought the robbei used dynamite and nitro-glyceri for the job. Townspeople told Tyson Hu heard two explosions early Sut day morning The first one, tin said, came about 1:30 and the se ond at 3:00 o'clock. Stokes said his theft was a t 1 al loss, explaining that he h; no burglarly insurance He sa he had found about $150 in choc! and the money drawer of the sa Monday morning on the Belht Stokes highway just at the ed of the community. Nothing el lias been discovered, as yet, said. The robbers broke three axi he said, in try ing to get the mon beauty at ease Beautiful Virginia Mayo rrlaxr in a regal hostess pajama outfit designed in rollon salin by Mar garet Newman. ^ detachable skirl lies over the one-pieee cotton host ess pajama. The blonde movie star ehooses a delectable shade of par fail pink for her easy-lime en semble. Secrets Captured j'! In Germany Tell Fantastic Story (Continued from page one) i A I, n -I d d I'e 1 so If For example, the commission says that, to induce the investors to buy the bonds, the promoters “wrote up" the Polish company's assets by .juggling the "rate of ex change" between Polish and Am erican money. This made the company’s “deficit” look like a "surplus." As a result of all this, and more, the S E. C. says, Saco started in business in 11)26 with only $30,000 cash left in its treasury. Appar ently the "promoters" had made practically a clean sweep. In the prosperous 1920's, the Polish and German mining com panies made some money, and Saco paid $2,500,000 dividends, which the S. E. C. says were only | partly “earned.” Of these divi ; drawers open after the doors of ■s. the safe were blown off. The vault W> — A. M. H VI ! : T«wii of Hamilton, Martin Comity, IN. C. \i Home IMuee of tin* Utf K. NX. Sudbury I Col IIoiih-IioM c\ Kitchen Cnruilurc, imlmliiiR tin* following: 1 3-t ap Alt Klectric t ook Stove 1 Large Coal and Wood Range Cook Stove. 2 Wood Healing Stoves 1 Large Dining Kooni Mirror Side Hoard with I Walnut Wardrobe, 2 Mirrored Doors 1 tj-ft. Mahogany Hook Case 1 Oak Library Table 2 Leather Hottoin A. Hark Itoeking Chairs 1 Set (t>) Leather Hottoin & Back Dining t hairs. ! Standard Sewing Machine 1 Flcclric Itadio ti Assorted Size Wool Druggets i Stair ltunncr (Wool) 1 Klectric Water Heater 2 Silent Flame Circulating Oil Heaters 1 Large Relvinator Refrigerator 1 Large Hall Rack, with Large Mirror 1 t>-lt. Mahogany Table Desk and Swivel Leather Hack Chair. 1 Mahogany Library Table I Antique Walnut Desk 1 Settee, Leather Hottoin and back and 4 ('hairs to Match 1 Sola and 4 Kasy Chairs to Match. 5 Porch Rocking Chairs. I Single Rbl. No. 410 Shot Gnu. li Assorted Size Wool Rugs. I Set Bed Room Furniture (Oak) And Other Odd Pieees of Furniture Also the Following Store and Office Equipment: 1 Freight Flevator 2 Prs. Platform Scales 1 Set OOd. Oak Rank Fixtures 1 Burroughs Adding Machine on High F'ramc. 2 Table Desks 1 7 1-2 II. P. F.leetric Motor 1 Set Cotton Scales 1 Large Iron Safe—Direct from Factory to Office. I Oliver Typewriter. 1 Typewriter Desk. —There Will Also Be Offered At This Sale lly the Heirs of the latte R. Wr. Salsbury the Fol lowing Real Property;— I M Room 2 Story Residence on Large 1 6-Room 2-Story Dwelling on Large and Corner Lot with 2-ear Garage. Adjoining Lot. 1 Vacant Lot approx. 50 x 100, adjoining Movie Hou^s Lot, Liberty St. I 1037 Ford DcLuxe Club Coupe Automo bile. TI* Above Property May Be Inspected At Any Time Prior To The Sale By Appointment. P. L. SALSBI HY, Administrator C. T. A. of It. W. Salsbury Estate HAVE VOJJ I BOU6MT OUR EASTER SEALS YET? YOU BET I HAVE // 1 I WOULDN'T PASS ^ LIP THIS CHANCE TO HELP THE CRIPPLED 'CHILDREN FOR ALL THE CORNED BEEP AND CABBAGE DINT/ -- COULD COOK!! Kw fca.uK.-WnJ.cW, »"<■ ^ '■>*» - M4CIC CARRY-ALL COAT IV* mat ky tk« It u imacing •• a magician a clank. Daaigaml ky a U. S. Depart man! mt Agricultara clotking agncialim frgna waterproof anil wrinkle reaiatant r«uon, tka riat ia kaamn-aeM far the feminine akonper. It kae W dan pneketa in tne aieerea, akirt, and ton for kna token a, a bop ping tills, panelta, wallaU, and acker Stance needed ky a akappcc. Ike carry-afl kag in acenmpaay tke cot ten cnet keWa tke ' carer fee rainy day*. cording to the S. E. C., were "per- I sunnily acquainted with the Ana conda management,” and gave I Anaconda "confidential informa tion.” I In 1941, a “syndicate of Swiss; banks" came into the picture, with a proposal to buy, at bargain prices, the “remaining bonds” still held by American investors. “Postwar disclosures,” the S E. C. says, have established that the Swiss banks were acting in ac cordance with a scheme approved by the Hitler government.” Also, this was “known to the Anaconda officials and American represen tatives of the Swiss," who “press ed fer approval” of the proposal. That was during the recent war and Unde Sam was gettuig wise to what'wag going on. The U. S. Treasury and Alien Property Cus todian refused to “okay" the Ana conda-approved Swiss deal. Then Saco went into bankruptcy. In view’ of this and other strange history, the “remaining * American holders of the bonds, i and the S E C, are skeptical of ’ tlie reorganisation plan proposed Balls Purchased By Bertie Group Eleven Negro fanners of Bertie County recently purchased young Jersey bulls, according to M. W. Coleman, Negro county agent lor the State College Extension Ser vice. bjTthe Wall Street interests which I promoted and controlled Saco all j the way down the line. _ The bulls, all of which were two months old or younger, were j obtained from Biltmore Dairy Farms at Asheville. They can be registered at any time upon re quest of the owner. “After a year or so, we hope to be receiving some good heifers as a result of breeding our better cows to these purebred Jersey 1 bulls,” says Coleman. He adds that plans also are being made to bring some bred heifers into the i county within the next few weeks. Owners of the bulls are John Stewart, John A. Freeman, W. H. Watson, Selma Watford, Kcllev Etheridge, J. W. Bond, P. B. Bar row, Frank W. Ballance, Wendell , Bond, Bill Bunch, and Simon Bond. -1, TOBACCO -«— With the marketing of flue-cur-, ed tobacco,, which accounts for more than half of the domestic! crop, almost completed, the Agri culture Department estimates that growers would get about $530, [100.000 for their 1949 crop of about 1,130,000,000 pounds. This would be about $10,000,000—some two percent—less than they were paid for the 1948 crop of 1,320, 000,000 pounds. A careless song, with a little nonsense in it, now and then, does not misbecome a king.—Horace Walpole. SINCLAIR EXPANDS REFINERIES TO HELP GET MORE OIL NEW AND MODERN refin ing equipment like this hat been completed by Sinclair to help meet the record Re mand for petroleum'prod ucts — a demand far greater even than during the war. Foreseeing this demand, Sinclair launched a $150,000,000 expansion program. The Sinclair pro* gram includes not only new refining equipment, but also new pipelines and new pro ducing wells. 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