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IATLEY promoted ;y LEDER COMPANY ;jna| Details Of Change from Partnership To Corporation Complete ^ITSVILLE, Aug. 1. — Final Ljjs of the change of Leder Lifters from a partnership to a E-rooration have been completed and announcement of officers and a. board of directors was made this morning. J- Herman Leder and Morris Leder, who constituted the original partnership and founded the parent store in Whiteville more than two decades ago, will be president and vice president of the incorporated firm. Paul Hatley, who came to Whiteville five years ago to take charge of the home office and ac counting, was moved up to secre tary and treasurer in the new set up. He was also placed on the board of directors. The full board of directors of WHEN IN WHITEVILLE we will appreciate you visiting us. WETHINKWHITEVILLE is the best market and the best town in the U. 3. A. Braxton Enterprises Braxton Auto Parts Corp. Wholesale Auto Paris and Supplies Braxton Motor Sales Corp. Olds and G. N. C. Sales-Service Goodyear Tires Braxton-Warren Co. G.E. Appliances Radios and Everything Electrical Columbus Finance Company Anto Loans and Financing Sell Your TOBACCO In Whiteville, N. C. — VISIT IJS — DEPENDABLE MERCHANDISE f PRICES ENTIRELY RIGHT Sundial Crosby ■ Square AH Leather Shoes Shoes QUALITY MERCHANDISE FOR LESS OUTFITTERS FOR THE ENTIRE FAMILY KRAMER’S DEPARTMENT STORE WHITEVILLE, N. C. TWP PROGRAM AIDS FARMERS Ten Families Are Entered In Better Farming-Living Program SOUTHPORT, Aug. 1 — Ten Brunswick county families are en tered in this year’s Better Farm ing -for Better Living program. The contest covers nine North Carolina counties, served by the Tidewater Power company of Wilmington, which inaugurated the program early in the year. The object of the competition is to stimulate interest ' better farm living conditions in the farm homes living conditions in the farm homes. Prizes are offered for new ideas and new methods. County Agent J. E. Dobson -nd the Home Agent, Mrs. ElwooJ Mintz are tak ing active interests. J. E. Cooke, cashier of the Waccamaw Bank and Trust company at Shallotte, is chairman of the county commit tee. The farm families engaged in the competition are Mr. and Mrs. Grover Gore, Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Grissett and Mr. and Mrs. James Bellamy of Shallotte; Mr. and Mrs. Thompson McCracken, Southport; Mr. and Mrs. O. P. Belamy and Mr. and Mrs. O. P. Bellamy and Hickman’s Cross Loads; Mr. and Mrs. Carl Ward and Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Lennon, Bolivia; Mr. and Mrs. Earl Thompson and Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Clemmons, Supply. Nablus is a town of Palestine which stands on the highest part of the pass, between Mts. Ebal and Gerizim, that leads from the Mediterranean to the Jordan. In the same valley or gap are Ja cob’s Well, the Tree of the Sanctu ary and Joseph’s grave. Leder Brothers, Inc., will be com posed of J. Herman Leder, Mor ris Leder, Joe Leder, Sam Leder, Leon Leder, Julius Segarmen and J. Paul Hatley. The Leder Brothers partnership, founded by J. Herman Leder and Morris Leder, was later joined by Joe, San and Leon Leder. With the exception of Herman Leder who has been head of the business since its organization, all the brothers are active managers of various stores with Morris at the Goldsboro store, Joe at the Clinton store, Sam at Jacksonville and Leon at Wilson. Whiteville Gets Tobacco \ Marketing News Service WHITEVILLE, Aug. 1. — Full market news information on North Carolina and South Carolina Bor der Belt flue-cured tobacco mark' ets, scheduled to open August 7, will be made available through the establishment of a unit of the Production and Marketing Admin istration Tobacco Market News Service in Whiteville. W. A. McElveen, of the United State Department of Agriculture announced in Florence, S. C., that headquarters were to be set up in florence today and that a unit would be located here. Mr. McElveen did not specify the date for opening the White ville unit, but it was indicated that the units of the news service would be established within a few days. Mrs. Mary Garner, of Raleigh, will come here in charge of the news service, his announcement said. Both daily and weekly market GEORGIA-FLORIDA PRICES WAVERING Fluctuations Feature Day On Flue-Cured Market All Day Friday VALDOSTA, Ga„ Aug 1 — There was considerable fluctu ation in prices today for Georgia Florida flue-cured tobacco, the United States Department of agri culture reported. Practically all grades, except better quality, showed changes up to $5.00 per hundred. The increas es ranged from 50 cents to $5.00 and occurred more frequently than the losses which were mostly $1.00 to $3.00. Several grades hit a new season peak. An occasional basket went for $50.00 but the practical top was $54 00. General quality was not as good as Thursday. Leaf grades replac ed lugs as the principal offerings and there were less cutters mar keted. Low to good leaf, low and fair cutters, and fair to fine lugs constituted bulk of sales. On Thursday gross sales total ed 8,256,857 pounds and averaged $44.34 per hundred. Average was 29 cents above that of Wednes day. Gross sales for the season stand at 48,623,075 pounds at an average of $44.55. news reports will be issued by the service, McElveen said. He pointed out that the daily price reports also will carry the sup port price by grades as well as the auction averages. “With this information,” he said “a grower, when selling his to bacco will have one of three choices. First, he may accept the auction price offered; second, he may reject the bid and deliver his tobacco to the Stabilization Cor poration, or third, he may reject the bid and offer the tobacco for sale again at auction.” 25TH ANNIVERSARY OF MANN’S STORE W h i t e v i He Department Store To Celebrate Quar ter-Century Mai-k WHITEVILLE, Aug. 1—This year marks the 25th anniversary of the Mann’s Department store in White ville. It was in 1932 that Joe S. Mann came to Whiteville. His first busi ness location was in the old John George Thompson building where he occupied the store vacated by the Melvin Hardware Co. Not only is this firm one of the better known places of business in Whiteville, it has been operated at its present location since 1932. This gives this firm a record not only of a quarter century service to the public, but 15 years at the same stand. Mr. Mann says that in Novem ber he will officially observe the anniversary of his business open ing in Whiteville. Thames Tag Has Been Seeking Action In Vain For 50 Years By ROBERT MUSEL United Pi ess Staff Correspondent LONDON (U.R)—For h„lf a cen tury a tug with full steam up has been moored in the Thames wait ing for an accident th. 1 never happens. Its crew of six stokes the fires. Its skipper—now .1 his 70s—hope fully scans the waters. Its engi neer—also a septuagenarian—put ters around the boiler. But the tug never leaves the dock. How can such things be? Re member, this is the country where Lincoln's Inn still pays an annual sum of nails for the right to have knights L- armour joust on wha now busy Fleet Street—five cen turies after the last such event was held. And the tug was ordered In an act of parliament regulating the use of the Tower Bridge across the Thames in 1894. The bill said a tug ought t be held ready to aid any ship which might get into difficulties with the bridge. No ship ever has. Quit® probably no ship ever will. The bridge is no more complicated than any other bridge—it just looks that way. But good Queen Victoria’s parliament decided to take no chances. That little item in the 1894 bill cost the Corporation of the City of London a neat $1,000,000 since then, at the rate of $400 a week. By tardition the tug always has 27 tons of coal in ;ts bunkers, ino one knows exactly why. Captain Richard Hollingum, 73, spends most of his time trying to stave off claustrophobia. All day long ships slip by on their way to Baku and Mozambique and Tonga in the South Seas and far away ports that all sea captains chat about over mugs of ale in water front cafes. Captain Hollingum avoids such places. It is embarassing to an old “sea dog” to have to admit that he isn’t going anywhere and prob ably never will. Engineer William Adie, 72, who joined the operators of the tug when he was demobilized after the Boer War 50 ears ago, is more optimistic than his skipper, prob ably because he is younger. He still feels the tug will take off on its great adventure—half a mile to the bridge. Actually this is the second tug to have the watchful waiting as signment. The first did take a trip. A buzz bomb hit it one night dur ing the war—and it travelled thirty fathoms to the bottom. New Navigation Device Makes Landing Safer SEATTLE, (U.R) — Sand Point naval air station here soon will be one of the safest all-weather landing filds in the world, Navy officials predict here. A ground-pulse navigation unit and na air-surveillance tower now undergoing tests will enable plane “spotters” to pick up aircraft ts far as 90 miles from Seattle. . Bascially radar-types of instru ments, the new units are only two of numerous safety devices at the station. Other landing aids already in use are a ground-controlled ap proach unit, an instrument-land ing system and high-intensity field lights. The new navigation units was thoroughly tested at the Souht Pole by the Admiral Richard E. Byrd expedition. Basking Sharks Suggest New Fishing Sideline MOSS LANDING, Cal. (U.R) - Harpoons are in style in Monterey Bay again, but basking sharks, not A-hales, are the targets fro today. Basking sharks are deep-water monsters that grow to a length of 15 feet and a weight of four tons. However, they are vegetarians and never have been known to attack man. Sardine packing companies have been pioneering the shark fishing in the hopes of establishing a new industry. Basking shark-liver oil is used in leather tanning and the carcasses are reduced to fertilizer. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, German composer, wrote 624 compositions, among them 41 symphonies. WHEN YOU SELL IN WHITEVILLE... Bring your tobacco check to the Waccamaw Bank where yon can deposit all or any part oi it to your account in any Waccamaw Bank. For Complete and Dependable Financial Service See The Nearest WACCAMAW BANK & TRUST COMPANY In . . . Whiteville Fairmont Clarkton Rose Hill Kenansville Southport Shallotte Clarkton. Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. GOOD LUCK... FARMERS AT THE WHITEVILLE TOBACCO MARKET A As Your HIRED HAND I HopeTou Find A PROFITABLE SALE F FOR THIS SEASON'S TOBACCO CROP! And Remember . . . Electrical Farming Is Progressive if Farming ... Through Greater Use Of Electricity You In crease Farm Profits, Save Time And Labor . . . And I'm One Hired Hand Who Never Lea ves, Never Tires, Never Grumbles — And, My Wages Are Low! Tide Water Power Company SERVING SOUTHEASTERN NORTH CAROLINA