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t^LUMB xxyn—Number 28
RAEFORD, N. C. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16. 1931
$1.50 YEAR IN ADVANCE
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Four Local Scdute Receive
Badges Itf lApressiye
^remony
J. H. Auftin, Jr
Thomas
Cjaiyiercm,/ -Nat^n
■ami Paitl Dksksoiif Jr*»
Eagle BadRes;^^ Scout Exccu
tive e. |>. Brothers Presides#
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,Obe bit the prettiest ceremofiles
ever pulled bff In the Town ot Bae-
fbrd. County of "Hoke, and State of
North vCaJblina^f jiinqe Hebk was a
pup, or • his ihiifimy, for ’That matter;
was the awarding’ of - Eagle Scout
badges to' four'Raeford hOyS Tues
day evening in-the churt house, wtth
* goodiy attendatico' of “ hoft Uien
and womSn ' of • Raeford and other
Vaees,
The Aeeting Was opened by Mr.
e. C> 'Blake," of Lumberton, who^
called oh Col^^f^-^Lewln* ot this
place, one o^ th> ^st friends and
sitaundhest bacSere scout , work
,tto be found anywheTe/"°to Introduce
Scout Exequtive . C." D. Brothers, of
Wilmington, who is in active charge,
of all seoUt work in fte Cape Pear
Council, embracing a 'number Of
counties in this part of the stale
Mr. Brothersi has beeh to Raeford be
fore this time and has many friends
here who valule his friendship' and
‘ admire his loyalty and, devotion td
, ;hl8 work. All of the hoys .who .attend
ed Camp CMcagami at Lake Wacca-
maw last summer fell In love with
him and are proud to. be in his ‘boun'-
fcil. • , ' -iv .
l»jlr. Brothers made a number of
interesting remUrTis and outlined the
program for the evening. He called
on Scout Master F. B. Sexton to
take charge of a large part of the
program and Mr, Sexton in turn put
on a demonstration of first aid work,
demonstrating with three of his boys
PoPmcpr Biavidsbu ftiui Wash-
ingtoU and President to
be .kt ,” Homecoming of Old
Churcb Sunday. «
i BETHEA
BAEfm WINS OVERiSEnEMBERlBAtCOiSIIAIIt ABVANCE
IN OPENEB raU AVERAGE LOWl IN fm FBICE
J.urof i bevelops High Blood
Pressure and'Unable to
Continue; Many Witnesses
From' Raeford. ■ ,
Sea)M>n''8 First Game Results Sales Summary by Department
in 13-6 Victory For Local | of Agriculture Shows Sea-
Sr. Henry Louis Smith* , pr^ident-
einferttus of ^avldfon Coilegl' and
Washinjgton i^hd Lee Unlversltv. will
.■be!,;the mjorp’ng nreacher at tbe home-
.«binjiug>...celebration at^.'jOId,. Bp.thesda
♦'Ihrirch on S’m-iUv, October^ l8th, the
Uav,‘A L. '.Barber announced ^ this
webk.‘^^‘W-afternoon preacher will be
Tudge Thomas J. "Shaw ,ol Gr^ns
boro, a son" of the oTd church and a
brother'of Mrs. .Robert N. Page of
.^ibprdeen. His brother. Dr.- Angus
•Shhw of Charlbttei -preached at last
year’s hbtae coming. • •
.Special music will be furnished -^y
the Glee Clu'b' t^ Junior Presbyterian
College, Maxtqn, .N. C. , v ,
An all-day program^ is be^ng ar
ranged for the big home coming, at
^oore county’s^ historije e^fice oh- tlie
heights overlooking Aberdeen. , As is
the custom, dinner, picnic fashion,
will be served,on the grounds, and thp
public is cordiaTy , invited to attend
and bVing baskets of food. ® _
Bethesda’s home timing is qne of
the events of the irear looked for
ward to by residents of this' section
to whom the old^t^nrch has meant
so much, pot only tq themselves, but
to their forebears..' . No cbtii'ch has
After the state had finished its
case against H.' C. Bethea, St. Pauls
chief of Police, charged with second
'degree murder or manslaughter,
growing out of the killing of JudsoU
Dean, , in St. Pauls last ApHl, Judge
Garland B. Mydelte, presiding- at
coui't in Luinberton, declared a mis
trial on Tuesday morning because
one “of the Jurors, J.iM. Hall, ot Red
Springs, had become.-too sick to con
tinue on the- jury, after developln.?
high blood pressure.
The cade .,was jset for trial a,f *
term of court to begin November 9
Two grand juries/had thrown out the
case, hut a. third grand jury when
new evidence, was brought up, foun'l
a true bill against Bethea.
Bethea" ip a former chief of police
of Raeford; and Is well known here.
A 'huniber ot Raeford, people attend
ed the trial a? witnesses for him
Among the'm. were: Rdgar Hall, A.
K. Stevepa, DT. W M. Fairley. E. B.
McNeill,.T. p. Upchurch, A. P. Stubbs,
Dave Hodgin andi W. B. McLauchlin.
Team; Gam6 Played
New Field.
on
sonal Sales and PricM Low
er Than Last Year.
Agreement to Hold 7,000,009
Bales, Off Mhrk^ CreditedT
For Boutyancy of the Msur—
ket. '
played a greater part in the life of
the community" than this century-old
society, and it is deaT to the hearts
th^"actuUl, '%ijferation.' of splinting of hundreds of famllie|!.fin| Moore and
1 1 v^ntirfail IrnoB n.Tld Ton- afl-incfiTlt cminties. ■ ' * ^
MANY MEMBERS JOIN CO-OPS,
FAXIIIBUIIDINGS
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a broken or tinctured knee and ren- adjacent counties,
dering aid, until the patient could be.
carried to a doctor. Another dem
onstration was the resuscitation of
one wlvo is about drowned, the boys
going through with the entire oper-a
tion and answering mlnjute questions
,by Mr, Brothers as tp the work.
Both of these, demonstrations were
loudly, applauded by the audience.
Mr. Sexton then»spoke briefly of
the immense 'amount of work that
was necessary for a .'boy^ to become
an Eagle Scout, going into some de
rail ot the work required and show
ing its value throughout the life of
the boy., He introduced,.the tour
boys who were ,to receive the award
and spoke, intimately of the work
each had done. As they were called;i
each boy made a speech In the order
and Oh the following subjects: Na
than Epstein spoke on the subject,
“What a Week at Camp Chlcdgami
Means to a Scout.” Jake Austin,
spoke on the subject, “.My Impres
sions ot the Cape Pear Council Jam
boree Last May.” Paul Dickson, Jr.,
spoke on “High Lights of Scouting
. to Me From My Tenderfoot Days to
Eagle* Scout Rank.” Thomas Cam
eron conclnded the speaking with
“What Scout -Training Has Meant
to Me.” All of the speeches, were'
vigorously applauded hy the a.udi-
ence and all of the boys acquitted
’ themselves admirably.
At this juncture Mr. Brothers had
twelve of t^ Rdeford Scouts to go
to a table ra which were a number
of candles and light a candle each
and repeat a Scout Law. The chaps
doing this' were Alvis Dickson, whosO
law to repeat was “Trustworthf.”
Jack Morris, whose law ws “Loy
alty,” Jahies Gordon Currie, whose
law was “Helpfulness;” Kerr Steveqs,
whose law was “Friendliness;” Hu
bert Cameron, whose law was “Kind
ness;” Bill Lentz, whose law was
“Obedience;” Tom McBryde, whose
law was “Cheerfulness;” Walter
Barrington, whose law was “Thrift;”
Ward Whitley, whose law was “Brav
ery;" Clyde Upchurch, Jr., whose
law was “Being Clean,” and Malloy
Laniont, whose law was “Reverence.”
Each of these hoy® said his piece
.! well and their marching up one at
a time and lighting a 'candle made
a very impressive ceremony.
After this paft of the performance,
the four candidates for Eagle, awards
'were called, with all lights out save
the candles, and as they entered the
■bar of the court room they were met
by Mr. Blake and two of his Eagle
Scouts from Lumberton who ques
tioned the candidates as to their
worthiness for the high honor. They
were then admitted and faced Mr.
Brothers, who went through a beau
. tiful ceremony that will live in the
plnds of the Scouts and everyone
present. ^At the conclusion of the
ceremony the ineeting was dismiss
ed by Mr. Brothers who pronounced
'!ii.
“Cotton prices! below, ’'the cqst' of
production ' are turjilng fannerh'mdre
and more to cooperative* marketing
as the solution,” .General Manager
Blalock reniarked yesterday as he
looked over a number of new metn
bership agreements, ainqng which
was one from a 300-bale prqwer.
‘One hundired and eighty-pine *iew
members joined the association last
we,ek and many of them have already
started delivering cotton to the co
operative under the liberal ■ adyance
•pdthih „one cent'per pound of the
average open market price anji which,
in addition, jallows substantial grade
and staple prem.iums on cotton above
middling iseyen-eighths. .
Among tpe new. members joining
thfe association . last "week were two
from Hoke county, G. C. Hales, of
Raeford, R. P. D. 2, and Mrs. Anna
V. Ray, of Raeford.
CAPT. AUSTELL INSPECTS
NAT; GlIARD PROPERTY
The Raeford High School football Raleigh, Oct. 12.—North Carolina
team dedicated its new field on Pros- tobacco warehouses marketed 113,-
pect Avenue, last Friday afternoon, 647,569 pounds of producers tobacco
with a 13-6 ■victory over the team of to October 1, 1931, at an average
the Candor High School, In the first price of $10.07 per hundred pounds
game of £he season. as compared with 130,286,810 pounds
Candor received and Raeford pulled 1 sold to this date last year at an aver-
nlce on-side Vklck to gain the ball age ot $11.70 per hundred pounds,
at thC' outset. They marched down 1 The season average is 1.63 cents less
the field to score' early in the first IP®*' pound than the average to date
quarter. Big BUI Mclnnis did'most Hast year,
of the toting, and finally carried the The September sales this year,
ball over. 1 amounting to 93,35.5,452 (producers)
Candor’s lone score came in the]*® per cent less than was sold
second period, while Raeford added last September and the average price
their next tally in the third period. Pf 59 56 per hundred is 2.28 cents pe.-
Mclhnis and: Epstein did toost of Pound below last September’s aver-
the 1)811 carrying for Raeford; Me- age-
Tunis scored all of Raeford's thirteen Conditions in the tobacco produc
points. Epstein made a ni.ee return ing counties have been somewhat
of a punt in the third quarter. Davis more mvonihlqyfM crop production
featured in the llfte for the locals. this season than was the case last
Coach Padgett’s charges were very year. By September 1st, the ma
happy in their victory since It was jority of the crop had been harvest
the first game of the sdason and the ed. This was especially true in the
first game on the new field. eastern section and in tie case of
Score by quarters: *1^® Old Belt, most of the crop was
0— 6 harvested during the early part of
0—131 September.
The situation in the Old Belt this
year is almost the opposite from con
ditions wqich^ occurred last year,
Last year’s crop experienced
drought condition during the growin
Candor : P v ®
Raeford 6 0
RAEFORD PLAYS AT
LAURINBURG TODAY
.(Captain Michael Austell, Assistant
Slite Property and Disbursing Offi
cet for the Federal Government, of
Haleigh, Inspected the property , of tM
local military outfits last week. The'
equipment of Battery F was gone over
on Friday, and that pf th,e Combat
Train on Saturday. Everything was
found to be in unusually good shape.
These inspections are made twice
each .year, and give the Federal Gov
ernment a check-on- the equipment
of the National Guard units of the
state.. " ■ •
Mrs. Allan McGee and children, of
"Winston-Salem, are visiting 'Mr. and
Mrs. T. B. Upchurch.
MIDDLING COTTON
Middling cotton was selling on, the
streets of Raeford, Thursday, at from
6 1-4 to 6 3-4 cents a pound*'
Coach Padgett’s Raeford , High
team goes to Laurinburg Friday after
noon (today), to play the football
team oT Laurinburg High School, at
3: 30, The game is expwted to be a,
very close one, and should prove very
interesting.
CARSON DAVIS
LOSES FINGERS
Carson Davis,- while working an an
automobile part at the jpiner in the
shop of C. L. Stevens, had the-mis
fortune to lose the last two fingers
Of h*8 leit hand, on Thursday of last
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- Ground limestone used. under
vetch and barley in Clay county paid
profitableVields this season according
to results of the present harvest.
PaUTICS AND PERSONALITIES
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What have women reaped in the
political harvest of their November,
1928, sowing? Practically nothing,
one is forced to, conclude,- after ex-
.amining the record of the Hoover
administration. The ladies, who
proved such an electoral windfall
to the President, have received his
verbal - blesslngd---and just about
one-tenth of one per ^ent of the ap
pointments he has made since taking
office.
Even at the White House Confer-
Home on Gary Parker Place ence on Child Welfare, a project in
and Stables and Barn on which women would logically be ex
pected to play leading roles, not one
major section was steered by a
A. K. Stevens’
stroyed.
Farm De-
Stables and a bam on the farm, of
A. K. Stevens in McLauchlin town
ship were destroyed by fire about
two o’clock Sunday afternoon. The
lire was discovered after it had made
too much headway for efforts to ex
tinguish it to have any effect, Mules
in the stables were turned out, but
the barn full of oats was a loss. The
complete loss iB estimabid at $400
and is partially covered by insurance.
A house on the U. B. Parker farm
in McLauchlin township about nine
miles east of Raeford, was destroy
ed by fire Sunday morning about 10
o’clock. The colored people who
lived in the house were away at
church, and lost practically every
thing. The house was nearly new.
The loss is partially covered by in
surance.
A show of pure bred Guernsey
cattle will he held at Morganton by
Burke county daifymen on October
31.
the Scout’s benediction.
In attendance was Scoutmaster C-
B. Tlllinghast and Assistant Scout
master R. G. Smith of Fayetteville,
accompanied by Troop One of thp-t
city*' Mr. Blake was accompanied by
Mrs. Blake, and- son Elrnest, and
Eagles Crump Blake, Wilbur Phillips
and Jennings Floyd.
feminine .hand, ^rthermor/t, bu
reaucracy chose that very occasion
to stage an unsuccessful attempt to
upset the Children’s Bureau which
was under the efficient guidance of a
woman, Grace Abbott. Miss Abbott,
it will be remembered, is the most
recent of a number of notable wo
men put forward. for a place in the
Cabinet which remains consistently)
and traditionally masculine.
- Various explanations of this situ
ation are offered. ' Some people con
tend that it is the fault of the wo
men themselves: {hat when they won
the right to vote they ^stopped fight
ing for equality. Too "many women,
it is felt, are content with minor
places as aides to men politicians,
and this self-effacement is engsuder-
ing an inferiority complex aihong
the rank and file of women. If so,
the dissatisfaction now" .being voiced
hy feminine organizations over the
treatment accorded women is
wholesome symptom.
Another explauatfon is that Hoover
won’t appoint a woman leader to a
major post for fear of offending other
women leaders who are ,not appoint
ed. But this policy of "playing safe”
is hardly soothing to women who
logically expect soAe show of cour
age from the Chief Executive.
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The impending radio debate on the
tariff between Senator Pat Harrison,
Democrat, of Mississippi, and- Sena
tor L. J. Dickinson, Republican, of
Iowa, can be outlined in advance.
The Mississippian, for instance, 'Will
probably cite such facts as that our
imports during August exceeded ex
ports hy $1,000,000, thereby showing
up the devastation of our foreign
markets since passage of the 1930
Tariff Act. The Iowan will answer
that the world-wide depression, not
our tariff law, is responsible. He
may add that this million-dollar ex
cess of imports merely proves that
the tariff has not cut our purchase
from abroad. Whereupon Mr. Harri
son will retort, “But does not the
Senator believe in his party’s prom
ise to preserve the American market
for American producers?” And so on.
Already, the odds are against the
Senator from Iowa. Not only does
Pat Harrison deal in a deadly satire
language irresistible to the average
radio- fan, but Mr. Dickinson's gun
powder has been badly dampened hy
events of the past year. On the day
the Tariff Act was passed. Senator
Jim Watson exuberantly prophesied
that within 30 days, the country
would “be on the upgrade, financial
ly, econom.lcally and commercially.”
Less than 30 days afterwards the
depression canae to stay. Prices
dropped, our foreign trade sank to
almost unprecedented levels, and the
‘‘American standard of living” 'be
came a thehie for wisecracking
colomunists.
One of the worst results of the
Tariff Act which was intended,
among other things, “to promote
revenue,” is its effect on the Treas
ury. Our returns from import duties
dropped from $585,000,000 in the
fiscal year ending June 30, 1930, to
$206,000,000 for the fiscal year im
mediately following passage of the
tariff bill. The duty on sugar, wich
provides approximately one-fourth of
all our import revenue, was raised
in 1930, and the tariff receipts from
that commodity fell from $129,500,-
000 in 1929 to $95,000,000 in ,1930.
How will Mr. Dickinson answer that
argument against high tariff?
season, followed in the latter part
by a considerable amount of soil
moisture. This condition caused a
late growth of the plant and resulted
in' later devolpment, poor quality and
heavier leiaf.. This year, sufficient
soil moisture was distributed through
the season to obtain a better quality
of tobacco, and the plants matured
more nearly at the proper time for
harvesting. These conditions pro
duced a somewhat better grade of
leaf but a lighter, weight. The fac
tors mentioned above are true to
some extent of other sections of the
state, though the results of ctirings
in some eastern coubties are not
showing as good grades as was ex
pected earlier in the season. Ware
housemen in some sections report a
smaller yield than they had antici
pated.
The United tates Crop Reporting
Board estimated the condition of to?
bacco in North Carolina on October
1 at 73 per cent of normal as com
pared with 76 last' October and' a
past ten year average of 75 per cent.
This condition indicates a total , pro-,
duction for the state of 496,760,000
pounds or 15 per cent less than was
produced last year. The acreage
cultivated this year was 7 per cent
below that harvested in 1930.
Atlanta. Ga., Oct. 14,—Southern
cotton farmers, faced with low
prices and over-production, saw, a ray
of hope today in market advance*
that followed the provisional plan
to bold approximately 7,000,000 l^e*
off the market for a year and law*
restricting acreage.
Price advances yesterday at New
Yortt and New Orleans ranged a*
high as 37 points.
Exchange authorities attrihutetf
the upturn to the alignment of the
Federal Farm! Board, American Cot-*'-'
ton Cooperative Association an£
Southern bankers behind the credit
renewal and extension program to de'-
lay marketing of the 7,000,000 bales
until July 1932, and September tex
tile statistics, showing sales 5.7 per
cent above production.
Governor Ross Sterling, of Texa^
however, said he believed the im
proved market was due to the actioix ^
Texas, Arkansas and Mississippi hav®
taken to restrict cotton acreage by
approximately 50 peC;-, cent for tha?
next two years.
Meanwhile, from Atlanta, came atif ^
announcement by Haynes McFadden,
secretary of the Georgia 'Banltersf
Association, that a conference wpoiS.
be held at Macon, Ga., October 2»,.
to discuss the* delayed marketing» .
plan. The plan, he said, if adopted -
would result in an agreement by the
Georgia bankers to finance on a more -
or less permanent basis an amount-'
of cotton equal to one-fourth of the
Georgia crop. The rate of interest
wquld be left to the individual hot?- -
rower and banker. ,
The delayed marketing plan en
tails approval by Southern bankera.'*
and othel- factors.
Governor Parnell, of Arkansas*--
commended the cot’on holding* plan ;
while Harry Cordell, president of the'^•
Oklahoma board of agriculture... S3i&-
it would be a “great help.”
Governor Theo. G. Bilbo, of Missi’s'-
sippi yesterday signed the Mississippi
acreage curtailment act making it a.
law. It was praised late* by Carl
Williams, cotton member of Gw
farm board, in a sbeech before the.
Mississippi legislatule.
McFAYDEN MUSIC S^5RE
ENTERED BY ROBBERS
NEW COTTON PLAN
If Approved by State Bankers
of South T>lan Will Hold
7,000,000 Bales Off the
Market.
New Grleans. Oct. 12.—An agree
ment to hold about 7,000.00 bales of
cotton off the market until July 31.
1932, was reached by leading bank
ers from cotton states. Chairman
James C. Stone and Carl Williams of
the Federal Farm Board, and offi
cials of the American Cotton Co
operative Association tonight after an
all-day meeting, l^re.
Pledges to this effect were given
by about 40 bankers present, but the
agreement is to go into effect after
approval is given by the State Bank
ers’ Associations, meetings of which
have been called for October 20 in
all cotton states.
An additional 1,000,000 hales prob
ably will be held from the market
by other concerns, such as shippers,
warehouses and merchants, making
the total held about 8.000.000, it was
stated by Nathan Adams, president
of the First National Bank of Dallas,
and author of the plan agreed upon
■today.
The agreement provides that “the
banks of the cotton producing states
will make or renew loans to mature
not earlier than July 31, 1932, se
cured by cotton to the total amount
of at least 3.500,000 hale^.
The farm board agrees to renew
A. C. C. A. loans so that the 2,000,000
bales it now has on hand can be car
ried tor year and agrees to
Fayetteville, Oct. 12.—Scaling th®
wall of an adjoining building, tw®
white ^ youths, one of them a one-
legged boy, entered a skylight in the
McFadyen Music House-- last
and were caught by police as they
sought to escape with a portable
typewriter case filled with jewelry
belonging to P.. O. Hoffer, who has
a jewelry shop in the music com
pany’s building. Both are in jail to
day awaiting trial.
Edwin Waddell left his crutches
on the ground and went up the side
of the low building next to Me-
Fadyen’s, despite ' the handicap of
having only one leg. When the police
placed a ladder against the wall for
their descend Wad^ll came down
with the agility of a steeplejack.
Zack Smith is the name of the other
boy, who is apparently not over IT.
Waddell is a little older.
Policeman Edwards discovered
that |omeone was in the building
about 10:30. He summoned aid from
headquarters, and the men were ar
rested when they came out on the
roof of the building. Articles taken
were trade-in-watches, new IngersoQ
watches and odds and ends. Every-
thiirg was recov-ered- The maroud-
ers are said to have done more dam
age by. breakibg up things than by
pilferii^.
finance tbe cotton for an additi«Hial
year if expected acreage redpetfons
materialize over the South.
The agreement provides for th®
Farm Board automatically to centinu®
carrying its present 1,300,000 bales
of stabilized cotton for the sams
periods it agrees to carry cotton now
held by the A. A. C- A. The agree
ment is to become effective immed^*
ately upon approval by the State
Bankers’ Associations at the Octo
ber 20 meetings.
The prediction that cotton would
go up from one and one-half to two
cents a pound immediatele aft^r the
adoption of the ^agreement was nthde
by Adams shortly before leayt$4t-tUf ^
Dallas.
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