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The Chapel Hill weekly., 1933-12-22
Baby 'Possum Captured
Infant Murderer Taken by Manning
in the Venable Hen House

Loud squaWking from the
house caused Miss Louise
Venable, one evening this week,
to go out and see what the
trouble was. She counted five
hens that was the correct num-
Der She looked all about and
could find no reason for the
noise. The stone which had
been placed against the door on
the outside was still there, in
dicating that nobody had tried
to enter.
The next evening the squawk-
ing broke out again, but it was
much louder this time. Miss
Louise was not at home Mrs.
Venable sent for her nephew
across the street, John Man
ming When he arrived upon the
scene one Of the hens was on the
floor with a hole in its throat,
dying. Crouching in a corner
was a baby 'possum, SO small
that one could hardly believe
that already it had set out upon
a career Of murder. Yet there
was the evidence. John grab
bed the 'possum and took it
into the house and gave it to the
servant.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1933-12-22
Court House Project
Improvements in and Near Building
under Direction of II d. arter

improvements in and around
the court house, all embraced IN
the description, court house
project, are being made under
the direction of II u Carter,
who is the Hillsboro assistant
of the c w A s county admins
TRAITOR, George II Lawrence.
The demolition Of the old jail
is nearly finished, and some of
the flagstones from its walls are
being laid upon the paths in the
court house yard The county s
garage building nearby is being
remodeled, and shed TO pro-
tect school busses is under con
structIon
The court house itself is to be
painted inside and out. This is
something that has been sorely
needed long time
Some highway work by CIV
A forces is in progress III Hills
boro. The shoulders Of state
highway No. 10 within the town
limits are under repair, and
about three miles Of streets are
being Ieveled and graveled
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1933-12-22
Episcopalians Troubled by Wasps

accomplishments and from
numerous pew-holders who have
been annoyed BY the buzzing,
the crawling, and the menacing
swoops Of the wasps.
One Episcopalian. in a some
what irritated mood after she
had come out Of church one Sun
day. remarked to a friend. at
looked for a while as if we might
BE rid Of those Wasps, bat they
were sWarming again today
I've been thinking that when
Lent comes maybe they might
be counted as one OF our pen
ances. in place Of some other.
Somebody has expressed curl
osity as to why wasps inhablt
the Episcopal and not the other
churches in the village Maybe
there is something about the
Gothic type Of building, with
its shadowy recesses, that is
more congenial to them than the
simpler Colonial interiors. May
be they find here a greater Sc
curity in quarterlng and bring
ing up their families Another
possible explanation of their 10y
atty to the Episcopal church is
the proximity Of the Arboretum,
which is the source Of a CON
stant and abundant food supply.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1933-12-22

This i'astime Made Possible by Long
Spell of Warm Weather

"Everybody's pickin' pansies
but me- said Mrs. Summerlin
bit plaintively the other day
as she peered down at the turf
by her front wall and found no
blooms there. But Ny this time
probably she too has her spots
of color in the yard, for the
warm sunshine, defying the
calendar, has been bringing
flowers into blossom all over the
village
Nature, we'll knowing that
Miss Josie Pritchard is a high
light in the Garden Club and is
ent to be neglected. has been
particularly lavish with her.
She has phiox, both the woods
and the Drummond varieties,
and white and purple alyssum,
and the gay red-and-yellow gail
lardias.
One of the proudest posses
sors of pansies is Mrs. R. J.
Mebane. They are blooming pro
fuseIy by the doorstep Of the
south porch.
A white nartissus at the for
mer MacRae home, opposite the
Episcopal church, charms the
pasSers-by.
Violets bloom in the Mangum
yard, and no doubt in many
others.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1933-12-22

Wasns stiu ;nfast the Fnisco-
nal church
"0S' Aiiieu = Id" e'',7 anu
'ne NeS'i Siilen nave 'iie0 'ieii
oeS' 70 ge' ilu ol 'heSe o"'ioA
win II seems that tba wasns
have their nasts IN bidino nlac-
- "a, m ,,ndar tho roof ~ tho
tan Gothic edieca and nohoav
has haan ab,o f. gat j and a.
strov tbasa nasts
= pan u "Sl's "s'' On 'i'e
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1933-12-22
ASSOCIATION WILL
AID IN FINANCING
ORANGE FARMERS
Organized under Leadership Of
Don Matheson; Will Have Its
Headquarters in HillsbOro
NO CONFLICT WITH BANKS

The Orange County Produc-
tion Credit Association, with
headquarters in Hillsboro has
been organized under the leader
ship Of County Farm Agent Don
Mathcson. It's function will be
to aid the farmers Of Orange to
finance the production Of crops
and livestock.
Production credit associations
are organized and conducted un-
der the terms Of the Farm Cred
it Act Of 1888. They are the
branches oe the Production Cred
it Corporation in each Federal
Reserve District. The one here
in Orange is to have a capital
Of S65.O00
This new scheme takes the
place Of the old seed loan
Farm agents Of Orange, Ala
nance, Durham, Chatham, Per
son, and Caswell-met in Mr..
Matheson office in Hillsboro
last Friday to discuss the es-
tabishment Of associations The
money advanced by the Govern
ment in seed loans, in these six
counties, amounted last year to
about $500, 600. and this affords
a measure Of the probable de
mand for financial aid
Worthy farmers Of the coun-
ty who can show sufficient col
lateral in livestock or crop mort
cages may obtain loans from the
association in IIillsboro Every
borrower has to subscribe to the
stock Of the association 5
per cent Of the amount Of the
loan made to him, and the sub
scription may be paid from the
proceeds Of the loan
The money for the loan is ad-
Yanced BY the Federal Intermedi-
ate Credit Bank in Columbia, S.
G Since the association must
depend upon rediscounting farm
ers' notes with the bank, the
notes must meet the bank 5
(Coatnaed on last page)
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1933-12-22

AS to weather this has been
a glorious fall in Chapel Hill
December's record entities it to
be included in the fall season.
There have been few chill
and gloomy days, but very few;
hardly half a dozen, | should
say, since September Days OF
bright sunshine have followed
one another in a steady pro
cession. A nip in the air good
part Of the last five or six
weeks, but often, around the
middle Of the day, a genuine
semi-tropical balm.
People grumbled about the
drought in the early part Of the
season; and well they might,
for it was bad. Recently rains
have come to remove this cause
of complaint
am accustomed to measure
the merit Of the weather by its
effect upon tennis. | play tennis
twice week with three profess
sors, upon a regular schedule,
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1933-12-22
Glorious Weather in the Village

and only on two or three days
has the weather interfered with
our sport and then it was wet
ness, not cold
Visitors in the village who
were never here before the
PahloWs, the Forgraves, the
Crays, and others have been
chanting paeans Of praise of
Chapel Hill sunshine. Let them
store up their satisfaction, as d
hoard against the weeks TO
come, for they may need to
draw upon it. Perhaps | should
Mt be crape-hanger in this
Merry Yuletide, but | must in
form these visitors that Chapel
Hill is capable, when in a
grOuchy mood, of serving up as
nasty winter weather as was
ever known anywhere. But let
me close with cheerful note ::
hardly ever do we have a long
unbroken stretch of sombre and
shivery days; we are more than
apt to have, every January and
February, a lot of sunshine.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1933-12-22

Orders for Christmas
Gift subscriptions may be
telephoned to No. 1881 at
any time today friday
until 5 Pm. and tomorrow
Saturday until II noon.
Payment may be made
later. New subscriptions
are offered at 81 for the
year. Renewals Of gift
subscriptions are at the
regular price, $3.50. A
gift card, bearing the name
of the giver, is sent to the
recipient.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1933-12-22

There will be a Christmas
Candle Light Service at 5
O'Clock Sunday at the Methodist
Church Members Of the Bap-
tist and Presbyterian churches
choirs will take part in the sing
ing The program is under the
direction Of Mrs Irene Fussler
and Rev II s Houk The public
is cordially invited
Rev. Albea Godbold, having
returned from Mississippi where
he was called on account of the
death Of his father, will preach
at the morning services.
Sunday school will open at
9 AS AN. with a special Christ
mas program IN the primary de-
partment to which adults are
invited
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1933-12-22
The Party at the Inn
4 Community Gathering on Christmas
Night; Music, Dancing, Games

4 Community Gathering on Christmas
Night; Music Dancing. Games
There will be a party at the
Carolina Inn on Christmas night.
In the last few years Christ
mas parties at the Inn have
been given by Mrs. Martin, but
this one is to be a community
affair. 1t will begin about half
past seven O'Clock, and around
nine OF ten coffee and sandwich
es and ice-cream and cake will
be served
AS people come in at the door
they will chip in % cents apiece.
This gathering is for young
and old Carols will be sung.
Games will be played There will
be music and dancing in the ball
room And probably the entire
company will march into the
supper room, as it did last year,
by candle-light
A committee Of women are
making the arrangements
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1933-12-22
Library Privileges Exchanged

Arrangements have been
made whereby the students at
either the University Of North
Carolina or Duke University may
borrow books from the library
of the other institution.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1933-12-22
Henderson to Speak

Archibald Henderson will ad-
dress the Mathematics Society
at Harvard in the last week in
December
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1933-12-22
A Surprise for Mrs. Graham

Alice Neal the cook at the
Presidents House, called several
Of Mrs Frank Graham's friends
on the telephone Wednesday and
told them to come around at 5
O'Clock yesterday; and to keep
it quiet, for this was to be a sur
prise party "It's Miss Marian's
birthday" said Alice. People
went or a lot about Mr. Frank 5
birthday, but nobody seems to
be sayin' anything about hers.
50 | just decided to bake her a
cake and have some Of her
friends in"
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1933-12-22

Mrs. F. P. Venable and Miss
Louise Venable will spend
Christmas in Raleigh with Mrs.
Louis Sutton.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1933-12-22
The Weekly Will Skip Two Issues

According custom the chapel HW Ieeky will suspend
publication for weeks in the holiday 1t will
not be published OF either December 10Th January 5th.
The next issue Will appear January 18th
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-10

he exhibited when he fought against
Gompers and the Wilson Government
during the war and for which he went
to jail. She worked with Ruthenberg
in Ohio and brought to us his
feminist understanding. She
Joined in Kansas the Communist
Labor Party at the time it was or
ganized. She was delegate to the
Red International of Labor Unions at
its first and second congresses; she
was delegate to all the conventions
Of our Party, and was an organizer
of our Party in many sections of the
country, working among industrial
workers and farmers.
Comrade Bloor never shirked any
kind of work the Party gave her. She
was at one time Daily Worker
agent of the Party, etc.,
at another time a District Organizer.
think she has the record in our
Party: She crossed the continent some
thirty times, having been in every
state in the union except Florida. On
two occasions at the age of IS and SO,
she did something even Young Com
munist League members can envy and
that is to hitch-hike across the coun-
try from San Francisco to New York
at this age without spending a cent
for transportation.
Courageous Fighter
Now at II. Comrade Bloor is one
of the outstanding agitators and pro-
pagandists of our Party and a general
hell-raiser against capitalism extra
ordinary. applause. She had helped
train two generations of militant
workers throughout the country who
have learned the lessons of class
struggle from her. Among workers
throughout the country, miners, tex
tile workers, garment workers and
many, many other workers have been
brought to our movement through
her work. The Party honors her today
for what she has done in the revolu-
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editorial alrady formulated the battle
cry for the new imperialist war in
the Pacific.
His program is applauded by the
whole pack of Wall Street bankers.
MALL Street is now to look upon
W Manchurja as lost AlSace-
Lorraine, to be secured only by the
shedding of the blood of millions of
American workers.
On world scale the war danger
intensifies a thousand fold. Despite
the growing i1nperialist antagonism,
the capitalist powers continue their
nnaneuvres for war against the Soviet
Union as an alternative to attacking
each other. The Hugenberg memoir
andum of the fascist program for the
colonization" Of the Soviet Union
may be pocketted for the moment,
but it still lives in the aspirations
and war programs of the imperialist
powers.
To the American workers, the
swindle Of the new deal'' Is becom-
ing clearer in the clank OF arma-
ments. The fraud Of the $4,000 ,0o0,-
900 public works program stands out
boldly for what 1t is--a huge fund for
war preparations.
billions are being spent for war
y preparations for new gigantic
slaughters, but not zone cent is pro-
vided for unemployment insurance
Instead, the Roosevelt regime plots
to kill off the jobless not only by
hunger but by armed slaughter in
the interest Of colonial plumber.
These are the realities OF the war
danger facing the American workers
on the eve Of August LIST, interna-
tional day Of struggle against war.
The struggle against war is more
closely interwined with the starvation
OF the American masses. The Roose-
welt program links up the attacks
against the workers living standard
with the struggles for new markets
and colonies.
Against this mobilization for a new
world war, every worker should press
the day to day struggles, participate
In the preparation Of a mighty Au-
gust LIST demonstration against i'm
perialist war and for the defense OF
the Soviet Union
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tionary movement and what we still
expect her to do.
just as almost a quarter Of century
ago when worked with her, I see the
same enthusiasm in her, the same in
defatigeable worker, the same cour-
ageous fighter in the interests of the
working class. In 1929 the 9th Party
convention elected Bloor with others
as a delegate to the world congress.
When the address of the Communist
International was received here, Com
rade Bloor Immediately understood
the correctness of the position of the
Communist International and Loyalty
subscribed to it and proceeded to
carry it out.
In eXtolling Comrade Bloor on her
list birthday we should not be
unmindful of what Comrade Gil
Green (Secretary of the Y. c. l.
Editor) said regarding the average of
our Party. He said that 3S per cent
are 40 years of age and over. We
are sure that Comrade Bloor is doing
her share of the work. We judge the
cIdef comrades, as we do Mother
Bloor by their activities in the Party.
A conrade is as old as he fights and
that is the test of his age.
We should note that we are cele-
brating tn list birthda of Comrade
Bloor today while she is here on this
platform as chairman of this con-
ference, as member of the Central
Committee-the senior member to be
sure-as an active worker in the field
She is still going strong as a fighter
and she will give a good many of the
younger comrades run for their
money.
We salute her as one of the stall
Wart American Bolsheviks, one of the
founders and builders of our Party.
We wish her many more years of
life. We know every year will be to
the detriment of capitalism and to
the glory Of Communism.
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aneSe advances has further shaken
the position of Wall Street in China
From the North, General Feng WI
Slliang, with the alliance Of the gov
ernor OF Shansi, Shen Shi Shan, and
the war lord Of Shantung, Han FIJI
chu, aided by Japanese imperialism,
inenaces Marking. British imperial
isms native puppets, General Chen
Chi Tang Of Canton. and HUI Han
Min, his ally in Hong Kong, endanger
Marking rule from the South. The
movement is not simultaneous one,
as British and Japanese interest con-
flict sharply, each, like mad dogs,
fighting for the greatest share of the
colonial carcass. In the ferocious
struggle for world markets, taking
place on every front. all fight against
each other.
VET within this movement for a
re-division Of China as a colony,
the armies of Marking and Canton
with the support of American i'm
perialism unite in their efforts to
crush the Chinese soviets as the first
step to make China a battle-ground to
decide imperialist domination.
Since the advent of the Roosevelt
regime, there has been more rapid
move for war preparations The
new deal which contains general
plans for speedier war mobilization
includes special program of struggle
for the Chinese markets.
Roosevelt is continuing the policy
of the Hoover Stimson regime Of re-
tanning the whole United States fleet
in the Far East. But, on the basis Of
the sharpening antagonisms, the
Roosevelt regime is moving even at
a faster pace to greater naval anna
ments and war.
Let us briefly review the steps of
the Roosevelt regime In the war pre-
parations in China, Just short
while ago, T. V. Soone finance min
lister OF the Chang Kai Shek, Nam
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Mobilize Mighty Demonstrations for Aug LIST
to Struggle Against Roosevet's War Pro-
gram for Markets and Plumber
East at least might still makes

East at least might still makes
right :"
This program for war, for imme-
diate arming to win back the lost
colonial plumber of American i'm
perialism, drawn up by this liberal
unofficial spy of Wall Street is in
full agreement with the action and
policy Of the Roosevelt regime. The
cry that might makes right after
ALL in the struggle over domination
in the Pacific is too obvious slogan
to lead hungry masses to war. Hence
the capitalist press, liberal, Demo-
cratic, and Republican, fully approve
of the Roosevelt war preparations,
but coin new slogans. The World
Telegram epitomizes it in an editorial
head: For Peace" and the Repub-
lican, Herald Tribune approves Of
Mr.. Towards proposals in an edit
orial entitled peace in the Pacific"
Under the slogan of peace" war is
being prepared in the Pacific.
But that alone is not sufficient.
Hence it is necessary to show that
Wall Strest has always been for peace
and disarmament and that Japan is
the aggressor America Is just forced
to arm to preserve peace and let the
blame be on the head of the agrees
sor. This is an old cry, and espe-
cially one used by the betraying lead
ers of the Second (socialist) Inter
national in the last world war. Lenin
in answering the appeals of the So
cialist misleaders who called for the
defense of the fatherland on the
ground that their" country was the
one attacked said:
"All economic and diplomatic his
tory of the last decades proves that
both groups Of belligerent nations
had Systematically prepared a war
Gas both the United States and
Japan are now Systematically pre-
pairing war In the Pacific--H. g. OF
the kind we witness at present. The
question OF which group dealt the
first military blow or first declared
war is of no importance in mapping
out the tactics q the socialists
Phrases concerning the defense OF
the fatherland and the resistance to
enemy invasion, war of defense, ETC.
on either side, are nothing but q
means to deceive the people"
Mr.. Howard In his World Telegram
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domination, the war in the Far East
that has been going on since Sep
TENDER, 1881, over Manchuria has
reached new stage.
This stage is characterized by the
active preparations of American i'm
perialism for major battle to de-
eide the question: which of the i'm
perialists shall gain the dominant
hand through the present dismem-
berment Of China? The very fact
that japanese imperialism has al
ready under it's control Manchuria,
and huge slice of North China
reaching down to Peiping, Tientsin
and Tangku, makes certain that
every move and attempt to gain the
dominant position in the Chinese
markets can be decided only through
war on gigantic scale
As in Latin America, where the
n rivalries Of the United States and
Great Britain lead to the first armed
skirrnishes around the smaller wars
OF Bolivia and Paraguay, in China
the first skirnlishes are now taking
place in the development of mill
tarist wars on an unparalleled scale.
The carving out Of the body of
China Of territory containing
100000 people by Japan, the
strengthening of the British hold in
South China, in Tibet and Sinkiang,
the quiet but persistent advance Of
the French policy Of colonial empire
in the south of China, in Yunrqn
and Kwangsi, is narrowing the
American market, is weakening The
position Of American Imperialism.
The policy of Wall Street has been
TO support the Marking regime,
backing its movement to undermine
the influence of japanese and Brit
;sh-supported war lords, in order to
gain the whole Of China as its mar
ket.
The weakening Of the Marking
government as the result OF the Jap
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1000 in Bronx Torch
Light Parades for
Sc0ttsb0rO, Mooney

NEW YORK.-Despite police in
reference, close to a thousand Negro
and white workers demonstrated for
the release OF the Scottsboro boys,
Tom Mooney and all class-War pris-
oners in two terchlight parades and
in a final mass rally held by the
Bronx Section of the International
Labor Defense Friday night at South
ern Boulevard and fremont AYES.
This demonstration, the first of
such series, will eliminate in a
huge Scottsboro Mass Demonstra-
ton to be held by the N. Y District
I. L. D. in Union Square, Friday,
July a. at 5 pm.
Scottsboro mass meetings in prep
aration for the mass demonstration
in Union Square, July 81 at pm,
will be held tonight at 104th ST. and
Northern Blvd, Corona, Long Island,
at 3735 Neptune Ave, Coney Island,
in the Antioch Baptist Church, 1855
Duffield St., Brooklyn The Down
town I. L. D. Dramatic Group will
stage the Scottsboro Mass Recitation
at the Antioch Church meeting.
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JAILED WORKER
PRAISES |. |. D.


NEW YORK.-In a letter from
Welfare Island, where he is serving
three months for fighting for unem-
ployed relief, Joe Clark, leader of the
East Side Unemployed Council, ac-
knowledges receipt of So prisoners
relief money from the N. Y. District
International Labor Defense, and
states that my interest in the class
struggle keeps my spirit militant in
spite Of prison conditions"
In the same letter Clark praises
the defense put up by the I. L. D.
in his case, and concludes with call
to all workers to support the Inter
national Labor Defense in the fight
"for my. freedom and against all the
frame-ups of workers fighting for
their rights
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White Tenants Only
Sigrs Must Go, Say
Workers of Harlem

NEW YORK-A mass protest
meeting to demand the removal of
the sign at the apartment house
at 274 West 128th Street, viii C h
reads, white Tenants Only has
been called for Friday, July IA, at
8 p. m. in front of the building at
that address.
The Angelo Herndon Branch, No.
1, of the International Labor De-
Tense, which is calling the meeting,
will not only demand the removal
of the sign, but will demand that
this landlord accept Negro tenants
at the same rental rates demanded
of white tenants.