North Carolina Newspapers

t L- V 0- tH''- Cotton Farm^ C^perative Manager Sees Bet ter Lint PricesJm View* M. Gr. Matin,, general manage of '^e North Carolina Cotton Gr6w^ Cooperative association, in an address to Hoke county farmers at their an nual meeting here Wednesday, call ed for a program of parity income for farmers rather than parity prices. _ “Such''a program will be accom plished through increased consump tion rather than decreased produc tion,” Mr. Mann said, declaring that -^e one bright spot in &e pres.ent dark picture is the possibility teat ^ch a program will be worked out [e lauded the new Secretary of Ag- ture Claude R. Wickard as “a mAi who knows farming as a farm er.” Mr. Mann pointed out that 60 per cent of the farm people in the South depend upon cotton for a living and he further added, that the one-half of the Nation’s farm population liv ing in the South receives only one- third of Uie Nation’s income. Turn ing to cotton prices, Mr. Mann said the outlook is good for somewhat higher prices for cotton since there are at present only about one million, bales of free cotton in America and at the preset rate of consumption the mills will need an additional five million bales before the new crop .is harvested. . He pointed oUt that thC 6,18S,0Q0 bales of 1938-39-40 cotton owned by the ^Government would have to bring a niinimum. of 12c a poutid and a maximum of '15.90c a pound to get out.of the Government pool', without loss.- The almost--five million bales'belonging to the |arm: ers.. would have to average. bette]r than lOc a {k>\md for nrtiddling 15-16 to justify, being withdrawn ftem the pool- “Ail of this;” Mr: Mann said, ’’adds up ti> What looks like a ti^ spot situation .wMch more than likely result in jnmewhat higher pitices .for ' " Mr. MUnn eipphasized the impor tance of pl^tii^ improved seed and said that tiie -best investment any grower can make wiU be in poisoning for boll weevil, I “This year we must not oidy grow mor^')|lti teed and food at home, but in addition we must cooperate in purChaeW our farm supplies and in marketing our farm piquets if we are ever to increase oUr cash income from its present average of $723 per North C^oliha farhi per year' to a figure more.in keeping with other professions,” Mr. Mann said, adding that one-half of one percent of the nation’s population—some 65,000 peo ple in tiie upper brackets—receives more income than all of the Ameri can, farmers cennbined, representing more than one-fourtii of the total population. Reporting on the past year’s ac tivities of the Association Mr. Mann sfitid that the cooperative has already received more than 95^000 bales of cotton. He praised the -farmers of Hoke county upon the support they have given to their own organization and pointed to the “Re-Purchase Pool” as an absolute guarantee to tiie farmer for the highest price for his cotton.” Mr. Mann said that the association in a strong financial position and that it is now borrowing from 35 North Carolina banks more than $4,- .090,000 for use in advancing funds k> delivering members on their cot- tan *FOOTUm I^Vm”-rlltttV the of nto A1 Alan Mowbray-Dohald AIaieBlMo>E!li8abeth Risdon comedy of atage life in which IQyse Knox and Lee Ronnell j^wide the roman tic biterest, ’The pietnre is a follow up of the immensdy entertaining “Curtain Call.” Aid Bill Passed; FDR Gives First Anns Order Washington,.- March 11.—In breath-taking burst of speed, Ctm-r gress rudied the lease-lend bill to tiie White House today. President Roosevelt signed iti and four minutes later ordered an undisitiosed list of war materials sent to Itogland and Gheece. ' '‘0, Then, he told a press conference he would ask Congress . Wednesday for the nation’s biggest peace-time appropriation—$7,000,000,000 —to fi nance. tile hMp-Britein program, and that so/toe time- Within a week he would make a radio talk bn the sub ject. Final congressional approval, took the .forin of a 317 tb 71 hoUse vote accepting amentonents attached to the bill by the senate, and the ac companying debate . produced ^par tisan pledges of nation^ uhi^i now that a majority of hotii houses had lipb-Dp Is Near One of toe features of toe meetihg was the election of delegates , to rep resent Hoke county at toe district convention of the Cotton Association which Will held at a later date for the purine of nominating can didates for directos of the district. Thew. candidates will then be voted ^by the entire membership of the ict by postcard ballot and the reiving the hij^est number of mtes'Wilt represent the district for the ensuing year. IK^. $ 15»000,000 Meurine Base Fund Approved 'w " ' ' Washington, March 11.—^The house agreed today to a $15,000,000 auth- brlxation for the constntotion of . a miffine base in eastern North Caro- lltia. This item had been written into a naval works bill by the senate. Previously, the house had included ohliy $1,500,000 fpr the purchase of lalid tor the bgse and a nearby iha- rkto air tratoihg station. 9lie hopiA rejected another sen- lept and the whole bill to toe senate. App^t- .OQoferaiBt k> repres^t the M hbiise^ may become rie- 9 iteuit4hterence8. - :ls eaqpMcted later to $tk delegitibii voted iwlidly for bill.) s 'The speed started at that point Vice Pr^ident Wallace, brushing age- old formalities aside, went to the house end-of the' capitol and he and Speaker Rayburn signed it Chair man Kirwan, Democrat Ohio, of the house committee bn enrolled bills, slipped the elaborate linen-paper document into a brief case, and hail ed a taxicab. At the White House he turned it over to Clarence Hess, a veteran derk in the executive offices, who signed a receipt for it. At 3:40 p. m. Mr. Roosevelt was waiting at his desk, surroimded by photographers. At 3:51, a White House official, signalled to newsmen, with a wave' of his hand, that the measure which mi^t conceivably shape the whole history of the world had become law. A list of war supplies, the^roperty of toe army and navy, had already been drawn up, in omsultation with high officers of the two services. At 3:55 Mr. Roosevelt ordered It on its way to England and Greece, and at 4 o’clock, reporters filed into his office for the regular semi-weekly press conference. Telling the newsmen what he had done, Mr. Roosevelt made it clear that, for the time being, he would not^ disclose either what the list in cluded, or the value of the supplies involved. The latter, he said, wm not large, and the totid original cost 'tvould not necessarily be the billing pribb. This, he added, was for toe rea son that some pf the equipment in volve was out of date or was sur plus or did not have the same mone- tory value as of the time it was' nanufactured years ago. Much siib^cance attached to the valpe placed upon the articles, be cause toe new law imits transfers of equipment already on hand or pre viously appropriated for to a total value of $1,300,000,000. The ques tion of what'formulas would be fol lowed in deciding the value of such things wds prominent in the con- congiessibnal debates. Poes of toe bill argued that Mr. Roosevelt could, apd advocates of the measure replied that he'would not, set turbitrary low prices for equipment transferred. But, while the President would not dlsblbse toe details of toe trmis- actiqp, he said he would urge the appropriations committees of the houses to appoint a joint sub-com mittee, to jhe House from time°to time knd receive all infor- matioif on the . progress of the pror igram. ■"Hjr" RiiweT Ifc .Sdinyler'' . WiljtiimspQrti;^., Mainto 13.--T[me flies and the advance of . the Wil liamsport Grays on their spring train ing rendezvous will soon be bn. In another week they will begin arriv ing in Williamsport—practically all of toem, except the meii from south ern points, who will go direct from their hoipes to Raeford. Secretary J. Roy Clunk, who for fourteen years has handled the bus iness affairs of the Williamsport base ball club, is receiving the signed contracts of the players who will respond to the call of Manager Spen cer Abbott on Monday, Mardi 24, at Raefprd. The squad will be a little smaller than usual because Abbott has his ball club already picked, subject to a chaise or two. The men to whom contracts were mailed included: Outfielders—^Ron Norths, Ken Richardson and Dave Goodman. Infielders^Irv Kilberg, Jack Rid ings, Jerry Lynn, Hal Quick and Don Richmond. Catchers—^Harry Chozen and Rudy Laskowski. Pitchers—^Roger'Wolff, Leon Kyle, Pete Blumette, George Klivak, Nick Butcher, John Cordell, Charley Gtoorge, Orrie Arntzep, Herman Drefs and OlUe Byers. . Northby, Richardson, Kblberg, Lynn, Wolff, Kyle, Blumetie, Butdi- er, Cordell and Gkiorge are holdovers from Fresco Thompson’s 1940 edition Of the Grays. Ck>odman and Quick were purchas ed outright from toe Springfield Na tionals, whom Abbott piloted last sea son. Chozen, knovm to the fans as “Harry, the Horse,” because of his capacity for hard work, 'was bought from the Albany Senators, and Lask owski from the Montgomery (Ala.) club of the Southeastern League. Arntzen was obtained in a trade 'with the Wilkes-Barre 'chto for Outfidder Samm l^berio; ^ .RiflingSL chasbd outriitot from P( the Piedmont League. Richmond and Khvak were out on option last sea son, the former with Batavia, N. Y., of the Pony League, and Klivak with Wilmington in the Inter-State League. The last to join was Drefs, who sign ed on the dot^d line last week. He comifs recommended by Earl Bruck- er, veteran catcher and coach of the Philadelphia Athletics, and Roger Wolff, who played against him in the old Western League. Pitching for Statuville, N. C., in the TarJleri League in 1940, ha post^ an en viable record of eighteen wins against only six losses Qioke For rrine Cburt Washingtou, March 11.—Now that the soiate has disposed of the lend- lease bill it is hssumed that the Pres ident will riiortly transmit to the capitoi the nomination of another member of the Supreme court, to fill the vacancy caused by the re tirement of Mr. Justice McReynolds. A few^^ ago the President said he had in mind the name of the man to whom he expected to tender the appointment, but there was no in timation as to the person chosen. Speculation has generally turned hi the direction of Senator James F. Byrnes, of Soutii Carolina, the Presi dent’s close friend, wko has fre quently been called upon^vr aid when legislation of special interest to the White House was imder consi as tion. It was to a large extent Byrnes?, strategy, it ^was said, that resulted in^ ditching the original EUender amend-^ V ment to prohibit the use of land and ^ navM forces outside the western^ hemisphere, and when the Louisiana ^ is--' CAROL HOGUES, pretty ingarae, portray* one of the important lead* in “Srattergood Baine*” vUeh *tar* Gay Kibbee fat the title role. Mia* Hnehes i* oneJialf of a romantie team that provides some of the bn* this first of t*- / nCiy Clarence BndiidirC > > > ' abont the * Kiwantt May Sponsor Fonm S^es Hwe Dr. Ralph Thursday; efi. mactlo«al«j_ Officers nay’ be Ralph A. Macdonald, former p natorial candidate and diredP adult education for the UNC, Sion division, was tiie meeting of the Kiwat*^ week at which army ' here were the spe dub. Rev. H. F J. E. Reamy wr dub. The half or* >. aSlLIZERS senator rmi out on his own amend ment, which he had advocated so eloquently, it left the forces opposed to the lend-lease bill demoralized. It was the beginning of'the end, and when it was all over there was fre quently heard an expression of the £ belief that Senator Byrnes’, reward would come in the form a Supreme court appomtmeht ^ Outside the drdes of friends ofite those “mentioned” in connection witb.M* this appointment there has been lit tle interest in the McReynold’s suc cession.' The Supreme court has ex hibited a distinct nejv deal slant, and has largdy abwrbed the Felix Frankfurter philosophy. Doubt is felt whether tiie Byrnes aiqsoint- ment, if made, 'Would affect this new judicial trend, one way or another, albeit he is quite generally regarded as .a conservative. % * t- up. It Wl mornmg sessions, ^ ..uiabe suspended by a two-thinis‘*voite but its adoption would he a step toward adjournment Both houses planned ye Today For Linioir Job Bight-of - Way Superintendent For Lumbee Co-Op Will Be Advisor For Caldwell Co-Op. Roger M. McGirt, right-of-way superintendent for the Lumbee Riv er Electric Membership coiporation, has resigned this position and will leave today for Lenoir where he has J. tuoacD. OlMe educational ad- is a yoiihg^Williaipsp^ athlete with his brother. Jack, saw ha© SWIFT’S PEARSA ,/■ .Jnal«y public ^'bu^KNlt >>rsliip of tiie UNC extension and Throng ititm program participates, are paM fay tee and tiie local ity where tiie i0&ys the otiier half And this will be another “ ^__^4Joke farmert than woifidprob. - .,al»&n, and it is expected that the of new bills flir.f^Tdub will agree to underwrite a series for Raeford and Hoke county iriien the matter eomes, up for action to- ni^t A number of Hate eoonty people^ have been partidpating in tiy “iqye-fiwsty^ FiMMy nlghf tilC' Committee action, however, con tinued to dear the ■way for adjust ment. Sid Eninig, concrete expert with Hoke concrete wtodcs, and his mother have )^BcenfIy had an apariteent Mci.. but giyen it up. Mrs. Bhinig is leavhig for her homgvifi. MMwb .|3iu Aft h«>.S0jDe fpTr hatte^ service with the Bassett, Va., chdil the Bi-Stale League. At present'I.. Is teaching in a high school aboui; twenty-five miles from Williamspor: and may not be able to report to the Grays before May 20, but if release ^m his teaching job can be negor tiated he will go with the squad to Raeford. Unless all signs fafi, the Grays have, in. Richmond, the best major league prospect in the Eeastem Lea- ^e. Raeford fans will remember to as-alternating at the shorts posi tion with Russell Maxey during the 1940 .training period. Before the Pony League’s season was half over scouts were converging on Hatavia from no less than sixteen major lee- gue clubs. Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, the ./^iletics and Buffalo made tempting offers for the lad, and the Grays coi^ have sold him tor a handsome prire, but they figure he’s worth more to them this year thim they could have realized at the close of the 1940 season and believe he wfll bring double the original offers at the dote of the coming season, provided he : mproves at the rate he did last sum- Grays suffered a disappoint ment when Second Baseman Lou Bush was caljed to*the colors and 'r^ ported for duty at Fort Benning, Ga. Bush, regarded as one of the finest Riding second sackers in the Sou- toem League, was bought outright from Memphis. The battle for the keystone position will now be be- twren Jack- Ridings and Jerry Lynn, although there is a possibility that Jeny’s draft number may be ct^ed at any time. ~ The presence of Hal Quick at short stop is expected to be helpful to who failed to function prop erly alongside the erratic Maxey last season. Quids was voted tiie short stop berth on the Eastern League’s all-sto teaip last year. He Is one one of the flashiest defeushre Short stops.in the, minor leagues. It is antidpsted that Pitdigr Or- ne ^ntzen win help to streiurlhen ^e Grays’ pitching staff. cdtoet h«nty recommended by Boggr was a teanufidte et OtOar in T939, wtm be wdn ihirta^i -rural eletric projects in the South. Mr.. McGirt, formerly superinten dent of schools of Maxton, came to Raeford when the four-county co operative was in its formative stages and was the superintendent of the project during the organization per iod. For the past several mcmtiis he has. been in charge of easement pro- curence for the right-of-way for the 450 miles of electric lines now near ing completion in Hoke, Cumberland, Scotland and Robeson counties. Pierre van Paassen Speaks At F. M. C. A large and enthusiastic audience from withiii a radius of 50 miles of Red Springs heard Pierre van Paas sen at Flora Macdonald college Tues day evening. Fresh from Europe’s battlefields this famous 'war correspondent anti experienced observer of men ani^ events brouifiit to his audience a hrilling account of what is going on nside Europe today and interpreted ts mighty consequences for the fu ture. Mr. van Paassra’s eloquence, his convindog presentation and above all, his penetrating judgment of the real issues involved in this interna- lional cri^ made a profound impres sion upon those teho heard him. | Many people from Raeford heard this wonderful speaker. Lij^t Docket For Court Tuesday In recorder’s court Tuesday Colon Chavis, Indian, was senteiced to four months for assault on his 'wife with a deadly weapon. Judge Mc Queen suspended the sentence upon payment of costs and put Chavis on his good behavior for a year. James McPherson, colored, was or dered to pfiv the costs of repairing damage donS to the truck of Angus Stubbs or serve 3 months on tiie roads. All other defendants pleaded guilty to (barges and were fined court costs in lieu of 30 day road sentences They were:' Lacy McNeill, Antioch, charg ed with careless and reckless driving; J. B, Rainey, white, violating road laws; B. F. O’Quinn, white, and Clay Helm, white, drunk and disor derly; Fred Ferrell, Indian, violating road laws; Woodrow Sports, drunk and disorderly; and Roberta Ward, colored woman, drunk and disor derly. Correetiott Last week Charlie Gtoodman, young soldier stationed at Fort Moidtrie, was erroneously classified as colored in the weekly review of the court proceedings. The Ne'ws-Journal re grets this error. Goodman -vrog jn_ voly^ in a highway accident while visiting his relatives at Shannon Gus Parker Hurt Seriously When Train Hits Car year and ^lis year at Red brings when such leading men as Dr. Herfoot von Beckerath, of Duke, Drs. Woodhoine and Buchanan, of Chapel 1^ Prof. Heiuy Brandies, of duqiel HiU and Dr. Walter L. Lmgte of Davidson, have led the discussions of vital prob lems in/which every dtizen to to- terested. Ft. Screveo Ihit Manemrm Gus Parker, of near Rodeflsh, is in a Fayetteville hospital in critical con dition as the result of driving his car Ft Screven, Cte, Mkrdi 11.—The second battalion of tire ssami Comt Artiltey. under tiie ot Lieut Cot Ralph Itewis, yestoniay began a three-day feneiner tiiat to the first of a series of maneuvera this battalion will have fer tiie next few montiis. Lieutroant-Colond Lewis to *««>*■# assisted by Maj. E. L. FsiilcaBer, Captains E. K. Patterson, THDiain Bloxton ahd E. R. Betts, who are in charge of their respective outfito. The battalion is bivouatddng en Wilmington Island. The ^ps have set up cookbm gas stoves in tiieir tru^s, amp Seed to now pr^iajced vdiile tiie battalton to on the i^e. Sack Exhfliif To Be Salt To Washingtoii “A request bas come from ICaa on the A and R trate near his home Current state borne demonstra-* &turday in the path of a train haul- for tiie cotton sadt dto- Press Association Met Saturday Members of the Central Press as sociation of North Carolina met in Fayetteville Saturday afternoon lor a program arranged by Bob Gray of thd Fayetteville Obsover, vice-presi dent of the assodation. On the pro gram were a trip of inqiec^ through Fort Bragg, a trip dosm tile river on O. P. Breece’s yadit Florida, and a c(itiB«c after the boat trip at Bnwee’s t.atiAing ^ Soiy mwalte* iu*ati ware ■f ,r- ing supplies to Fort Bragg. It was stated that the view at the point where the crash happened was clear and no explanation for his ac tion could be obtained. Engineer Fred Blue brought the train to a quick stop and Parker was picked up and carried on the train to the hospital where he has been in an unconsdous condition since. Fayetteville To Get Recreational Piroject ^ Fayetteville, Mtordi H.—A $3S0l- 090 defaise''recMational pndeet will he inaugurated hen by FMeral and municipal co-9erait)on. The board of aldermen latt nWit voted unanimuody to pftMMilSik sitw' on tehidi tite'gteoteilisi'teB^ erect- fbor ncreattonji’- ^ Ttey wffl be used by a«UliM plax prepared by tbe Pine Fhnek bonm dmnoostratlQn dub,” says Jb»* ephine Hall, home demoostratian ag ent . Mte Current, says: “In Aprfl an exl^it in coition with the cotton mattress program to te be put bn ki Washingtoo, D. C. Nfartii is doiding a mattress made by one «g tile femilies in tiie cotton mattress ivognm, also a 'home studio ‘ coudi and various ettier artidks qf interest I am wondering if you could send us your exhfldt bf tides made from cotton hegi^ so we may send it to Wtebtogton? I am i sure it would be of tatenst to many ’ pe«]e. The Pine Ihnet dub women eset delighted wifii the: lAv teMOBgOCI wni