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LARGEST FLOWER IN THE WORLD
Blooming for the first time in the Western Hemisphere, the Amorphc
phallus Titannm, product of Sumatra jungles, grew to a height of 7 feet
at the rate of 2 inches per hour in New York’s Botanical Gardens. It
emitted an odor that nauseated spectators and died after four hours oi
full bloom.
WAR DEBT DEFAULT
TIME APPROACHING
As Usual, United States Can
Expect Payment Only From
Little Finland
London, June 13.—(AP) —The
United States’ World war allies to
day prepared once more to give
“regretful” notice they will default
the installments due June 15 on the
obligations they incurred in war
times two decades ago.
The British government was ex
pected to make the same negative
reply it has made each six months
since three years ago to Washing
ton’s reminder that another semi
annual installment is due on the
$4,277,000,000 Britain borrowed,
which, with accrued interest, has
grown to $5,198,000,000.
Only Finland To Pay
Only from Finland, could the
United State expect payment.
Twelve other war debts already
are in default to a grand total of
$1,314,821,109, and $205,338,754 due
Tuesday will swell that to $1,520,-
159,863.
(Finland notified the state de
partment May 29 its debt install
ment of $163,143, would be paid on
schedule.)
Most of the debtor nations at
tribute failure to meet their obli
gations to unsettled war eco
nomic conditions.
British Attitude
Britain’s position is that so long
as her debtors fail to pay what
they owe her she can not further
reduce lser .obligations to the
United States. Still there have been
recurrent reports that the ticklish
question of war debts would be re
opened by Britain or another of the
debtor nations.
Sir John Simon, chancellor of the
exchequer, recently declared in the
house of commons, however, that
any discussion of war debts would
have to take into account all rele
vant factors, including those con
nected with the other inter-allied
war debts and reparations as well
as the “relationship between the
pound sterling and other currencies.
Government leaders have indi
cated willingness to resume debt
discussions “if such discussion
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DEPOT STREET PHONE NO. 6
Motorists Prize
Lowly ‘Hot Dog
WASHINGTON, June 9—(A. P.).
The American Automobile Associa
tion offered some vital statistics to
day on that gastronomic mongrel of
the highway—the hot dog.
Motorist spend $700,000,000 for
food, a large portion of which goes
for frankfurters.
The organization’s statisticians
said the hot dog is an offspring of
the sausage that adorned the ban
quet tables of ancient Greece. The
late T. A. (Tad) Dorgan, newspaper
cartoonist, they said, nicknamed
the frankfurter the hot dog and
made it stick.
Figuring the average hot dog is
five inches long, if laid end to end
the annual American consumption
would reach 90 times around the
world.
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Advertise in the Times
For Immediate Results
would be likely to produce results
of value.” Thus far no one has
believed that such results would
fellow.
Britain has already repaid $2,-
025,000,000 but interest piling up
has brought the total still owed to
$5,198,000,000, which is more than
the original loans.
Englishmen discussing the diffi
culties of the situation point out
that all the gold in London would
r.ot liquidate the debt, and more
over the United States, already
holding the largest gold stores in
the world, would merely have to
stow more bullion in vaults out of
world commercial channels.
Payments in raw materials or
manufactured goods, those observ
ers say, would only add to the jum
bled trade situation, since both na
tions are attempting to sell more
to the other across a complicated
set of tariffs and quota barriers.
Three years ago “token” pay
ments —small sums paid to indicate
good faith—were discontinued
since they failed to lower the
British debt appreciably or to ad
vance a solution of the inter-gov
ernment debt question.
PERSON COUNTY TIMES ROXBORO, N. G
RURAL PROSPERITY
VIEWED AS LIKELY
TO BOLSTER TRADE
Industry Slows But Business
Hopes For Billion Dollar
Farm Income Boost
By FREDERICK GARDNER
New York, June 13—(AP)—The
latest twist in fortune’s wheel has
left the farmer riding high in busi
ness calculations for the second half
of the year.
Industry, beginning to fefel the
wear and tear of a long recovery
run, may pass the prosperity touch
to the farmer or. the next stretch.
So many business observers con
cluded last week as more rains
in erstwhile dry areas and crops re
ports invited contrast with indus
try’s heavier price.
With larger crops to market, the
farmer was seen coming to the res
cue of urban workers hit by higher
living costs and merchants who
stocked goods in anticipation of fur
ther business recovery.
Farm prices have suffered from
improvement in crop prospects.
* But statisticians have figured lar
ger marketings should offset lower
prices, with probability total 1937
farm income may be about $1,000,-
000,000 larger than last year.
For the first time in several years,
railroads are looking for substantial
traffic gains on agricultural prod
ucts, including grain hauls to sea
board for re-opening of wheat ex
ports. The government’s crop es
timates last week pointed to the
largest wheat harvest since 1931.
Other crops, including cotton, also
have benefited, nourishing hope for
expansion of exports and curtail
ment of food imports.
More striking than recent diver
gence between farm and industrial
prospects was reversal of the out
look compared with a year ago. Then
drought cast a deepening shadow
over farm fortunes and business of
the nation.
But industry, with Uncle Sam
pouring a torrent of soldiers’ bonus
dollars into the spending stream,
continued to move ahead. Indus
trial recovery made notable head
way through the summer and au
tumn while drought cut the harvest
and food prices rose.
Seeing industry lexpaiqdiiig and
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THE DIMPLE MACHINE
Retnrn of short skirts has popular
ized dimpled knees, produced by a
machine shown at the New York
Gadget Show.
The State Unemployment Com
pensation Commission, in its Un
employment Compensation Divisi- 1
on, now has approximately 75 em
ployees, including 15 field men,
and in addition to about 25 machine
operators on temporary work (for
two or three months. The Employ
| ment Service Division has 215 em
ployees in the headquarters in Ral
eigh and about 50 offices over the
( State.
the business curve advancing in face
of the farmers’ misfortune, many in
the financial district questioned
whether the farmer was still the
keystone of economical structure in
the United States. The country, it
was pointed out, had become high
ly industralized and expansion in ex
ports of manufactured goods tend
ed to offset losses in farm exports
the last few years.
Now, back in the spotlight, the
farmer is widely depicted in finan
cial comment as the backbone of the
country’s business and a bulwark of
strength for the immediate future.
Employers with less than eight
employees are exempt from the
provision of the State Unemploy
ment Compensation Act. If an em
ployer has as many as eight work
ers who work as many as 20 weeks
in the year, one day in a week be
ing enough to make it count for a
week, then he and his employees
are covered by the act.
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The North Carolina Unemploy-*
■ ment compensation. Act is admini
stered by a commission composed
| of Charles G. chairman,
Mrs. J. B. Spilmfan and Major A. L.
Fletcher. E. W. Price is director of
tlie Unemployment Compensation
Division and R. Mayne Albright is
acting director of the Employment
j Service Division.