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ADVERTISERS DEVOTED TO THE BEST INTERESTS OP THE PEO PLE OF WALLACE AND DUPLIN COUNTY VOL. XIII. WALLACE, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, APRIL* 25, 1935 ——i No. f Heavy Sales Recorded On Local Berry Mart This Week Monday’s Offerings of Over 10,000 Crates is Heaviest of Season Thus Far. PRICES TODAY ABOVE THE THREE DOLLAR MARK j ‘Peak of Selling Season Is Ex pected to be Reached Ear ly Next Week I ' | The local strawberry market Ltook on the appearance of old ptimes this week as vehicles fringing berries to market were 'forced to wait in line for a con siderable length of time be fore they were able to reach 'the auction shed. ’■ Monday was the biggest day • bf the season thus far when |l0,155 crates were auctioned ioff. The price, however, was |not so good on that day, a Nieavy rain on Sunday night •having done considerable dam age to the fruit, much of which sWas already over-ripe after flying over in the fields Sun day. Vehicles were lined up "Tor several blocks most of the day and sales were not com pleted until after nine o’clock that night. Prices for the en-j tire day’s sales averaged, 'around $2.35, according to mar-j ket reports compiled by the' Federal inspection service. Tuesday’s sales were also heavy, although they did not teach the high mark get Mon day. Prices were also off, the 8,583 crates offered on Tues-j day averaging around the $2.40 mark. The quality wag also off although some better than Mon day’s offerings. i Offerings here yesterday > showed some improvement in quality and better prices pre-j vailed. However, offerings for' the day were more than 500 crates under Tuesday, only 8,-j 060 crates being auctioned off at an average of around $2.65 per crafe. While figures on today’s sales are not available as we go to press, everything points to farily heavy sales with an average well above any dayj this week. Bidding was spir-i ited on every load offered to-1 day and very few growers re ceived less than $2.90 per crate while the better quality sold as high as $3.40. While it is impossible to predict an accurate average for today’s sales, close observers are of the opinion that it will be above the $3.00 mark. If this should prove correct, it will be the highest average paid here this week and will compare fa vorably with early season sales when offerings were light. Figures compiled by the Fed eral inspection service show that through Tuesday 27,424 crates have been sold at this point. However, these figures are not absolutely accurate as several hundred crates of ber ries were sold here prior to the official market opening when no inspectors were present. With warm weather in pros pect for the next several days indications now are that heavy sales will be recorded here the balance of this week with the peak being reached about Mon day of next week. If warm weather should continue it is expected that Monday’s sales Will run between fifteen and twenty thousand crates or may be higher. Just what the prospects for prices #are during the remain der of the season is unknown. However, at present they look favorable, as seen at this end, but Louisiana and Alabama continue to be strong competi tors which may serve to. hold the price down on Carolina of ferings. . Buyers here are very much encouraged over the prospects of incrasing the quality of pack put up by local growers since the assistant County Ag ent has interested himself in the matter this season. Alrea dy considerable improvement ‘-us been noted and better Six) „:y WASHINGTON, D. C. . . . Mr». Flora M. • Gillentine (above), of Chattanooga, T«‘im., was the pre election favorite for the office of President General of the Daughters of the American .Revolution at their 44th Continental Congress. MERCHANTS ANTICIPATE LIVELY BUSINESS HERE The strawberry season is tru ly the time of sales h«re, judg ing from the number of signs now being displayed by local department stores. Kramer’s, Hurwitz, Turner’s and the Hub are all opening sales this week, their ads being found else where in this issue. Margolis & Liberman, however, got the jump on the others when they launched their sale last Friday. There has been a decided improvement in business noted here since the strawberry mar ket Opened last week and every merchant in town is looking forward to a good trade for the next several weeks. Every de partment and grocery store has increased their stocks consid erably in anticipation of the rush. Saturday will probably be one of the busiest days of the year for the merchants and extra sales people are being engaged to handle the extra large number of shoppers which are expected to visit town on that day. With berry prices moving up ward yesterday and today, all indications now are that this will be a successful season for all concerned. To Preach At Jones Chapel Rev. J. S. Crowley, of Wil mington, will preach at Jones Chapel Presbyterian church on Sunday morning at 11:00 o’ clock, it was announced this week. The public is cordially invited to attend the service. HIGHWAY ACCIDENTS 1 TAKE 83 LIVES IN MARCH Raleigh, April 24.—Eighty- * three persons met death in au tomobile mishaps on the state’s i Highways in Mareh, bringing to 250 the number of fatalities [for the first quarter of 1935 or ' an increase of 52 over the first three months last year, the State Motor Vehicle Bureau re ported 1 today/ ! The fatalities occurred in 385 accidents that also saw 457 persons injured. The number injured decreased from the 482 hurt during February. The 83 persons fatally injured com pared with 78 for March of 1933, the report showed. i Twenty-six pedestrians were killed and 65 injured last month, while nine children playing in the street were struck down and died from in juries. Twenty-three other children were hurt, but not fa tally. Eight fatal accidents result ed when drivers were operat ing their machines while intox icated, and there were 57 non fatal accidents attributed to this cause. | Twenty-four were killed and 242 injured in collisions of au tomobiles, one was killed and 10 injured in mishaps between cars and horse-drawn vehicles (Continued on Page Six) PUTS BAN ON MIXING POLITICS WITH RELIEF I Washington, April 20—Fresh instructions from President Roosevelt to keep politics out ! of relief last night presaged new moves by the Administra tion to nail the lid on public work and relief coffers in sev 'eral states. I Although be, declined to j comment on various Federal State tangles over relief and | work funds, the President at jhis press conference yesterday ' reiterated h>8 stand against mixing relief and politics, i A little earlier, .Harry L. Hopkins, relief administrator, ’ removed the last connection | Governor Talmadge of Georgia ! had in the handling of relief money. Co-incidentally Secre tary Ickes was considering can celling public works piojects in Louisiana. j The Georgia development cli maxed a series Of hot encoun ters between Governor and both Hopkins and Ickes. Ickes’ action hinged upon a measure j enacted yesterday by the Lou isiana legislature, called into session by Senator Long, with whom he has been engaged in an exchange of disputacious words for a week. Hopkins al ready had taken over the hand ling of relief in Louisiana. Urges Weed Growers To Be Exact In Measuring Acres COMMERCE BODY WILL SPONSOR ESSAY CONTEST Seven hundred and fifty dollars will be given in cash prizes to participants in an Es say contest to be sponsored by the Eastern Carolina Chamber of Gommerce with headquart ers in Kinston according to an I announcement made this week by Secretary N. G. Bartlett The title of the Essay, Mr. Bartlett said is: “The Advan tages of Living in Eastern North Carolina.” The Essay must not exceed five hundred words and all entries must be in the office of the organization at Kinston by May 15th. All essays must be in the hands of the organization officials by June first. The awards will be made on or before June 15. The $750.00 will be divided up into three grand prizes of $350 first; $100 second; and $50 third; with fifty prizes of $5 each. The judges will- be se lected from the schopls and col leges in Eastern Carolina and their decision will be final". No essays will be returned to the writers and all essays become the property of the organiza (Gontinued on Page Five) | (By L. L. .McLendon) Farmers are urged to be ex | act in measurements of acre age planted to tobacco this year. Before transplanting to bacco, it will be advisable for , each contract signer to care fully measure his tobacco land | with a wire, chain or some in strument that will not stretch. A rope is not recommended. 43.560 sq. ft. (4,840 sq.yds.) 'per acre will be used in calcu j lating the area of tobacco fields instead of the usual method of '44,100 sq. ft. (4,900 sq. yds.). Areas will be calculated to the nearest tenth. The acreage al lotments already mailed to con tract signers from the County l Agent’s office will be used by field supervisors in checking on acreage. Supervisors who ' work on compliance in the field I will make a close check-up, and all excess acreage will have to be destroyed, however farmers , should not destroy excess acre age until notified to do so from the county office. Measuring ! of land before transplanting will save considerable time and expense to fanners. Compliance work is expected ! to be completed this year in ‘June. ADDRESS BY LIEUT GOV. ENDS CLOSING EVENTS The finals of Clement High School came to a close last Fri day night, with an inspiring address by Lieutenant Gover nor A. H. Graham of Raleigh. The baccaaureate sermon was given, Sunday, April 14, with Dr. H. G. Bedinger of Flo ra McDonald college, speaker of the day. Dr. Bedinger was assisted by the Rev. W. P. M. Currie, the Rev. J. E. Lanier and the Rev. P. 0. Lee, pastors of the local churches. - Class day exercises, held by the seniors, took place Thurs day evening, in connection with a fashion review given by the home economics class of which Miss Mayme Rose Taylor was teacher. James Cavenaugh was president of the ’35 class, with the following members assist ing in the exercises: Secretary, Mary Frances Wells; statisti cian, Virginia Southerland; sa lutatorian, Helen Evans; his torian, Hattie Turner; prophet, Eloise Boone; poet, Martha Mc Clung; grumbler, Melva Hans ley; testator, Henry Zibelin; giftorian, C. J. Carr; valedic torian, Lottie Watkins; mar shals, 0. C. Blanchard, Jr., chief, assisted by Tommie Ad ams, Charles Farrior, Betty Blanchard and Helen Zibelin. On Friday evening, April 12, a highly entertaining play, “Here Conies Charlie” was pre sented by the junior class with the following members making up the cast: Anna Elizabeth Powell, 0. C. Blanchard, Jr., Frances Lanier, Tommie Ad ams, Charles Farrior, Carnell Raynor, Herbert Rogers, Jr., Virginia Browder, Florence Miller and Albert Hall, Jr. Much credit is due Prof. J. S. Blair, with his faculty, in making the past scholastic year one of the most successful ones in the history of the school. During the past few weeks va rious entertainments have been given by the grammar grades, with presentations of the high est performance. NO MONEY AVAILABLE FOR ELECTRIFICATION Raleigh, April 22—The State Rural Electrification Commit tee has no money or authority to give direct aid in the estab lishment of rural power lines. The committee was set up only for the purpose of making surveys and determining where rural lines would be practical, Prof. D. S. Weaver, of State College projects engineer for the committee, has explained. If the proposed $4,000,000 al lotment frnm federal funds to be used in North Carolina for financing rural power lines goes through as expected, Wea ver said, its distribution will | probably be placed in the hands j of a State Rural Electrifica tion Authority. j The committee has used up 'practically all the funds allot ted for making surveys, Wea ver added, and is not able to answer all the letters coming in from different communities inquiring about the possibility of securing aid for the estab lishment of a power line. He explained that the rural lines built in Orange county were started as a demonstra tion by federal authorities who wish to show what can be done in the way of rural electrifica tion. Federal Tunds were au thorized for the project and the State committee had nothing to do with it. MUCH IMPROVEMENT NOTED IN C. H. GROUNDS Work of beautifying the courthouse grounds at Kenans ville is progressing nicely un der the direction of the Junior Woman’s club of that place. 1 Quite a bit of shrubbery has already been seti and more will be planted at an early date. Sidewalks, which will circle the building and lead to the streets from the four entrances, have ibeen practically completed and have added much to the ap pearance of the building and grounds. I FALL RIVER, R. I. . . . Alice McHenry of Omaha (above), whose “upside down stomach’’ operation here was quite successful, is now up and about playing with her Eaater gifts. ROSE HILL HIGH SCHOOL HAS ITS CLOSING EVENTS Rose Hill, April 20.—Closing a successful year’s work, Com mencement exercises of the Rose Hill High School ended on Thursday evening. Gradua tion exercises were held on Wednesday evening. Mrs. Har vey Boney introduced the speaker, Dr. George Howard, head of the Department of Ad ministration of the University of NortE Carolina. The theme of the address was one’s phil osophy of life. Forceful in sim > plicity, Dr. Howard held up fundamental truths in the sto ry of the good Samaritan, pic turing services as tm ifrtffltesr factor in any personal philos ophy of life. Diplomas were presented by the principal, D. C. Mosteller, to the following graduates: William Blanchard, Jas. Brad shaw, Fred Bradshaw, Kelly Brooks, Clement Chestnut, Boyce Fussell, Johnnie Fus sell, Cecil Knowles, James Rog 'ers, David W. Rouse, Norwood Scott, Leroy James Teachey, James Teachey, Leroy Wood, Annie Marion Fussell, Mattie \ Lee Fussell, Ru'by Fussell, Dor othy Griffin, Louise Hardison, Estelle Harrell, Electra John son, Mattie Johnson, Sarah Riv enbark, Rebecca Robinson, Marguerite Teachey, Ruby ! Deane Teachey. t The scholar ship medal, given yearly by the 1 local woman’s club, was award 'ed to David W. Rouse. An (Continued on Page 6) | Over Four Hundred Attend j AnnualClubFederationMeet GOVERNMENT CALLING LIBERTY LOAN BONDS All outstanding Fourth Lib erty Loan 4 1-4 per cent bonds of 1983-38 (Fourth 4 1-4’s) I bearing serial numbers the fin-] al digit of which is 3 or 4 (such serial numbers in the case of permenent coupon bonds being; prefixed by the corresponding; distinguishing letter C or D,! respectively), are being called for redemption on October 15, 1935, on which date interest on such bonds called for redemp tion will cease. Full informal/on regarding the presentation and surrender of Fourt 4 1-4’s for redemption under this call will be given in a Treasury Department circu lar to be issued later. Holders of Fourth 4 1-4’s now called for redemption on October 15, 1935, may, in ad vance of that date, be offered the privilege of exchanging all or any part of their called bonds for other interest-bear ing obligations of the United States, in which event public notice will be given. CHEVROLET SALES ARE ' HIGHEST IN FIVE YEARS - I Retail sales in the United States by the Chevrolet Motor Company to the end of March were the largest for any first quarter in five years, it was announced today by W. E. Hol ler, vice president and general sales manager. ! “As compared with last year, the first three months of 1935 showed a gain of 23.2 per cent i in sales. While both trucks and passenger cars shared M the gain, the larger part of the 'increase over 1934 was in pas senger car sales which increas ed 31.5 per cent,” said Mr. Hol ler. “The quarter enuc, total for March that estauiv^... ed it is the largest March sales record since 1930, and with a bank of more than 74,500 ord ers on hand to be carried over into April. “The present demand re quires the operation of aty Chevrolet manufacturing an»«t assembly plants at their max imum rate through April, and the company looks to a contin ued heavy demand through May and well into mid-sum mer.” An individual may be ever so good and yet be incompetent in many respects. Shipman Reports On Work Of Legislature Past Week By k L. Shipman Raleigh, April 22.—It won’t be long now. The Legislature 1 is on the way to adjournment. The last stage of deliberation has been reached. Members have begun to get angry with each other, to question each other’s motives, to feel that they have been double-crossed by someone in whom confidence 'had been reposed. Of course, this simply means that the an gry member has got to make a final decision on some vital question that hurts him. In stead of taking it out on him self, or getting him a punching bag, and expressing his anger on that, a legislator is apt to do what anybody is likely to do under such circumstances, he is apt to take it out on some body who is put up as the goat. That is the reason you have been reading about the anger of some Senators. * * * The Senate got itself into a jam. It passed up various it ems of revenue put into the revenue act by the House, and, then failed to make other pro-j visions for revenue. That meant; that either the revenue bill had to be stepped up to the amount | provided for the House or else that the appropriations bill had to be cut down. This brought the Senate under a new fire. Previously it had been bom barded by various interests asking to be excused from pay ing taxes. After the taxes were voted out, the University sup porters and various citizens in terested in maintaining the State in some semblance of de cency began to bombard the Senate. So in getting out of one fire, the Senate got into an other. • * * While the Senate had taken out various items placed in the revenue bill by the House, it was apparent that if the rev enue bill went to conference in that shape, unless the appro priations bill was cut down, then the Senate would have to accept the House bill as first written, and that would have hurt the Senate’s pride. So after the bill had gone to its second reading, the Senate de cided to do some revising, and it began by reducing the num ber of Staple foods exempted from the sales tax to meal, milk, flour, lard and fatback. Then it stuck a sales tax on ho tels, restored a license tax (Continued on Page Five) | Interesting Program Carrie* Out at Meeting Held /at Ken ansville Last Friday P. M. NUMBER OF PRIZES ARE i AWARDED IN CONTESTS —— 0 Mineral Springs Club Wins Silver Loving Cup for Hav ing Most Members Present Kenansville, April 20.—The annual meeting of the Duplhs % county Federation of Home J Demonstration Clubs was held in the courthouse here Friday afternoon, with Mrs. Hubert Boney, Federation president, presiding. More than four ;| hundred club members and friends were present. Special music was rendered by L. K. Alderman, Jr., of Rose | Hill, on the xylophone accom panied on the piano by his mo ther, Mrs. L. K. Alderman. A» an answer to the roll call each of the 17 woman’s clubs and 1 the County-wide Service Club, composed of older girls, sang a song of their own selection which was judged on its merits. . A flower show was held in con junction with this program al so. The setting for the flower show was an old-fashioned lat tice fence along side of which grew yellow and orange flow ers in small pots. On each gide of the stage more than fifty lovely bowls and baskets of spring flowers were attractive- | ly arranged which further en hanced the beauty of the set ting. williams; second, Mrs. C. W. Surratt; third, Mrs. S. B. Hun- 4 ter; and fourth, Mrs. L. P. Me ^- The prize for the best | isplay by visitors wan 4 Mrs. John Croom. The 1 prizes were $1.00 for first, and 50c for second prize. Third | and fourth prize winners re ceived attractive Ivory towel | racks. These awards were pre- 1 sented by Mrs. R. V. Wells, Di rector of the Junior Woman’s ,Club of Kenansville. .'^The song contest awards were announced by Mrs. Es- | telle T. Smith, district agents with timely remarks and were to: first, Magnolia club, $1.25; second Rock Fish club, $1.00. Supt. J. O. Bowman present- | ed the silver loving cup for at tendance to Mineral Springs M I club. The Rock Fish club re winners of .the .vflQwer were: First, Mrs. Zacfc ceived honorable mention. Frizes in the winter garden contest were won as follows: First, Mrs. R. J. Ward, Rock Fish club; second, Mrs. J. L. Miller, Miller Club; third, Mrs. Zack Williams, B. F. Grady Club; fourth, Mrs. Willie Mer cer, Miller Club. These award* were announced by dent, Mrs. Boney. Judges for the flower and song contest were Robt. C. Wells, Mrs. G. V ing, Mrs. Inez C. Bom Miss Winifred Faison. The home demonstration ent was given a pantry shopp er by the club women which was an expression of their ap* preciation of what their agen'L Mrs. C. H. McSwain, had done for them. Visitors were present front the federated clubs of Rose Hill, Faison, Wallace, Kenans ville and Sampson County. Marriage Licenses Nine couples, the largest number in several weeks, se-t cured marriage licenses at the Register of Deeds’ office during the past week. Five of couples were colored while other four were white, they ing: Archie Henderson and ra Sanderson; Melveard ray and Eva Albertson; Ed D. Pollock and “-A West, all of ~ ham M. R Hawkins, u ty. >v *t ' »rr-r=:7.
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