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Watch Tha Label On Your Paper. As It Carries The Date Your Subscription Expires THE ENTERPRISE Advertisers Will Find Our Col umns A Latchkey To Over 1.600 Homes Of Martin County. VOLUME XLIV?NUMBER 12 If illianitlon, Martin County, \orth Carolina. TandsY, February II. 1141. ESTABLISHED 1899 Waive Preliminary Hearing: In Attack Case Last Saturday Justice Hassell Books lalley Godard C-ase For Trial In Superior Court ? Charged with assaulting Carlton Reason and Nathan Cole with deadly weapons with intent to kill, Alton Lilley and Joe Lanier Godard. Sr., of Jamesville Township, were ordered placed under $500 bonds to guaran tee their appearance for trial in the Martin County Superior Court on March 17th. The defendants offered no testimony. Godard. getting his signals mixed, failed to appear at the scheduled hearing and his ar rest was ordered by Justice John L. Hassell. Godard. released under bond more than a week ago, waived his rights to a preliminary' hearing at that time and was released under bond in the sum of $200. He was to have appeared in the court last Sat urday, and failing to do so he was arrested. Bond was later arranged Lilley was released under bond sign ed by Andrew Hardison. Attorney R, L Coburn, represent ing the private prosecution, asked that the bonds be fixed at $1,000 each. AH the witnesses, including Ber tha Morgan and Minnie Owens, com panions of Lilley and Godard at the time Reason was nearly carved to death by Lilley and Cole was badly sliced on the face and chest, were present, but no testimony was heard by the court. Charged with public drunkenness, Minnie Owens was fined $5 and tax ed with the costs. She entered no plea in the case. Ordered held as a material witness in the knife attack case, she was released under bond which was arranged by a friend atyj her parents. The Morgan girl, bright and cheery even after two weeks in jail, plead ed guilty in the case charging her with an assault and driving an au tomobile without an operator's li cense. She was alleged to have struck her girl companion, Minnie Owens, with her fist and scored a knockout. The Owens girl declared to the court that her friend and temporary as sailant merely pushed her down. Justice Hassell. working before a fairly large crowd _ in the county court room, recognized guilt and fin ed her $10, the $6 costs being added. Her boy friend, unable to mortgage a credit company-financed car, had to return to his home in Norfolk alone, but bond was promised just as soon as he could effect arrange ments with his banker Reason, appearing for the hearing, is recovering rapidly but his condi tion continues weak. Cole, suffering from an injury received prior to the knife attack, is apparently recover ed 1 Two Teachers Quit In County Schools ??? R. B. Cobb, principal of the local elementary school, tendered his res ignation to the district board last Friday on account of ill health re sulting from an influenza attack week before last Coming here to fill the position made vacant by the resignation of M B Dunn after the school term was well advanced, Mr Cobb returned to his home in Rocky Mount. James E. Watson, of Kenly has been appointed to the vacancy, and will assume his duties next Monday Mr. Watson attended Atlantic Christ ian College and Appalachian State Teachers College and comes to Wil 1 isms ton from Hickory, N C where he has been in private employment Arthur Benton, agriculture teach er in the Oak City school, resigned there last week to accept a position with the Farm Security Administra tion with headquarters in Lumber ton. John Hassell, Jamesville young man and a student at State College, is teaching temporarily iq the school. He will be succeeded next Monday -by A, T. Hix, of Oxford. mkaing a very creditable showing during his temporary teaching, will return to State College. Mr. Cobb's resignation is the sixth in the county school system since the beginning of the 1940-41 term. While positions in other professions are beckoning to school teachers, not all of those quitting in this county are entering other employment. Lights On Fishing Machines Needed Extensive logging is taking place up and down the Roanoke River this year and Saunders and Cox, local lumber manufacturers, are handling huge rafts of logs on the stream. Due to the fact that the rafts of ten swing from one side of the river to the other, Mr. Saunders stated this week that he would appreciate it if fishermen would place lights on their machines when the season be gins. Unless this precaution is taken, Mr. Saunders pointed out, the ma chines may be destroyed or badly damaged. If the lights are visible, "our employees will do everything possible to keep our rafts away from the machines," Mr. Saunders said. Outlook for Tobacco s''ri?,>n\"'k-,'n(li . 1 Widents Reported Growers Brighter Mow i? Martin County n l\.. I k.. SEED LOANS Opening an office in the coun ty agricultural building. W. B WatU up until today had receiv ed 21 applications for seed-feed loans. The supply of application forms has been exhausted but additional forms are expected shortly, Mr. Watts said. No accurate check could be gained, but it is believed the ap plications handled so far will average around $150 each. Last year approximately 1*0 loans were made in this county, the to tal approximating slightlv more than $10,000. Mr. Watts just as soon as ad ditional application forms are received will be in the agricul tural building each week day from 9 a. m. to 3 p. m. arm Bureau Holds li-Weekly Meeting lere Last Evening onveiition Report U Heard; | New (lotion Stamp Plan I* Explained Holding the first in a planned ser s of bi-weekly forums, fifty mem ?rs of the Martin County Farm ureau in the agricultural building st night heard Agent Tom Bran >n tell about his trip to the Inter itional livestock show in Chicago I id a review of the American Farm | ureau Federation convention altimore by D V. Clayton, the | lunty's delegate to the annual meet g The county agent described farm g conditions and methods along the I ?Ute to Chicago and touched on the | ghspols at the stock show Farm g in the west, according to- the tent, is done without plows. ' Af r leaving Virginia, we did not see | here a single plow had been used, id row crops were apparently un *ard of," he said. Mr Clayton gave a few high lights i the proceedings at the Baltimore eeting and stated that he was eatly impressed by the importance id value of the Farm Bureau as [pressed in the program witnessed f nearly six thousand farmers. The itional organization has 450,0001 embers, the Southern Region re- j irting 113,000 members. Martin | aunty with its 600 members, leads orth Carolina and was given due' 'cognition at the national conven-1 an. While the market depends largely j i foreign conditions, the outlook >r tobacco is fairly bright, Mr. Clay n said quoting from a speech by B. Hutson, of the Department of griculture. If the 1941 yield is jrmal, everything will be all right, was declared, but if there is an lusually large yield, it is quite like that the 1942 crop will have to ? curtailed by ten per cent. A fact iat is attracting more attention was ted by Mr. Clayton. They told us iat the tobacco crop sells for 239 illion dollars and that the tax is >0 million dollars. The government, was explained, wanted to return >me of that tax to the growers, and plan is being advanced to provide ivernment grading without cost to ie farmers. During the discussion tt was point i out that the Farm Bureau, fol iwing a recent conference held by aders of the North Carolina and (Continued on page six) L E. P. Company Wins Safety Award The Virginia Electric and Power ompany for the third successive ear won in 1940 the National Safe r Council award Competing with undreds of other companies, the inner has gained recognition in ifety promotion work, not from a igh-pressure method but through systematic plan providing an unce of precaution rather than a ound of cure. During the past year the com any's 1,840 employees worked near r four million man hours with only ix accidents charged to their rec ttL L_ The Williamaton-district under the lanagership of R. H. Goodmon, was iven special recognition for its share i chalking up a record that was ecognized by the Council in mak ig the annual award. a T inflow Awning Humeri On Town Hall Saturriay * Started by a spark from a nearby himney, fire destroyed an awning ver a third-story window in the 'own Hall here Saturday morning t 8 o'clock and blistered the paint n the window frame. The fire department was called, >ut the blaze was checked with a illing station hose. Very little dam ige resulted. Plans Are Made For Removal Of Surplus! Storks Now On Hand I oIki. . .. I11<I11<I<<I ill I i-l of I trill-. I'rt'-iiltiil Ma> l.rml Or l.ca-r To Itritiiin R1 Far removed from the actual de fense boom scenes and facing uncer tain markets with top-heavy sur pluses. the tobacco-producing areas Iff this section of North Carolina]4 heard encouraging news last week when it was announced that tobac co was definitely included in the list of items the President may lend, lease or exchange with England or any other nation under the broad terms of the "lease-lend" bill. This fact was unmistakably estab lished last Friday on the floor of the House and in letters from Adminis tration leaders through the joint ef forts of North Carolina's Representa tives Herbert C. Bonner. Graham A. Barden and Harold D. Cooley Majority Leader John MeCormaek and Chairman Sol Bloom of the Foreign Affairs Committee both stat ed positively that tobacco, and also peanuts, would be considered among the commodities which may be ex changed under the bill. The issue came to a head follow - ing the introduction of an amend ment to the bill by Representative Clifford Hope of Kansas, ranking Republican member of the House Agriculture Committee, providing that Great Britain would give "em pire preference" to American agri cultural commodities and agree to resume and continue normal im ports of agricultural products from this country. Cooley pointed out that the ma jority report on the bill states that the term "defense article" includes "not only all arms, munitions, and implements of war, but also other agrieultural products which may be necessary for defense purposes." "By this specific mention of cot ton and wheat, did the committee intend to exclude or did it intend to include agricultural products, such as tobacco?" Copley asked To this inquiry, Chairman Bloom replied: "It is supposed to include tobacco also. It is all-embracing." Then, in response to a request from Representative Bonner, the foreign affairs chairman wrote the First District Congressman tins letter "With reference to the conversa tion that you and I had oh the floor and also in regard to your letter con cerning the lend-lease bill, I know how interested you are to be sure that the bill in section 2 includes to bacco. I can assure you that my im pression is, and in fact I am posi tivo, that it does include tobacco. so you can assure your constituents that after your inquiries and after a special investigation by me, tobac co is included. I want to take this opportunity to say to you that I wish every 'Congressman were as attentive and interested in seeing in legislation of this kind that the in terest of his constituents is protect ed." Bonner, Barden and Cooley brought the issue into the open when officials of the National Defense Commission declined to give a posi tive expression of opinion that to bacco would be considered as a "de fense article." The action opens the way to possible disposal of a large part of the flue-cured tobacco stocks now stored in the country If surplus stocks can be moved, farm point fH'*, niitlnril/ for tobacco prices next fall will be encouraging. It had been predicted that unless the surplus can be moved, tobacco prices would hold to a low level in the face of large stocks on hand. There is a possibility the gov ernment will continue its purchas ing policies, but it was pointed out that?the?removal of the surplus pi th would have a greater bullish effect on the markets. Steps are also being taken to gain favorable recognition for peanuts in the exchange of goods Impromptu Hearing Held For Murderer At an impromptu hearing held in the jail on Bertie County's farm yes terday morning, George Peel, young tulutetl mm', was formally charged with the murder of E W Gray, aged employee of a Windsor store, last Friday, a week ago. Witnesses were questioned and the formal charges lodged against the man before news of the hearing reached the general public. Peel, arrested in Windsor a few ftpurs after the dastardly enrm took place, was removed by Sheriff Dunstan and highway patrolmen to the Nash County jail for safe keep ing. He was brought here and lodged in the Martin County jail following the hearing yesterday to await trial in the Bertie County Superior court today. Funeral services for Mr. Gray who died early last Friday morning were held in Windsor Saturday. ?? win- ? * iiijnrtMi; i rt?|??*riy Damage Fairly Small. Patrolman Sayn A series of minor accidents mar >d the safety record in this coun l.ist week end. However, no one as injured and the property dum ?e \\;?n comparatively small, ac >rding a review of the wrecks ?leased by Patrolman Whit Saun as who investigated three of the >ur cases Edmond Lisk escaped injury when ? ploughed his new car into a '39 ode! Chevrolet parked on West am Street here at 3:45 Saturday ternoon. The parked ear. owned by arvey H Yates, professor in the cal schools, was damaged, one es inate placing tin- repair cost fig v at about $71). Damage to the Lisk it was placed at $35 Driv ing down lain Street alone. Lisk was booked i a drunken driving charge. Bond as arranged immediately?for his jpearance in the county court. Saturday night about 11 o'clock, ones WaTston, coloreiTTstruck Kob l Brown. Jr .'s car as he (Brown) arted to make a left hand turn into cademy Street off llaughton. No ie was hurt and the damage was itimated at $20 for each car. Sunday afternoon Joe Mizelle, irmer Martin County man but who now a citizen of High Point. rUck the rear end of a Model A aid driven by Mavis Lee Allen as te was making a turn into her rrd on the Everetts Head. No one as hurt Damage to the Mizelle car. Stpdehaker. was estimated at 00 The other car was damaged to ie extent of about $25. Near the Martin Pitt boundary on ie Stokes Road. James Everett arted to turn off the highway when Plymouth plowed into him. caus g a property damage estimated at .0 While this county was having four inor accidents, the State reported even highway fatalities, including ur in Wilson miliar Trend Is Featureol Work in Slate Legislature \< in|>I Tax (hi FimiiU; Favor 4 ? i v iiif? Tom tlx Sliart- of liilitnjjiltl<- Tax It Ti'gulai'ity :ind lvvt-rsals of muls mark the activities of the past w days m the North Carolina Gen al Assembly, some observers re Tring to the work as swing legis tion. While no definite trend can ? determined in the face of happen gs reported in the past few clays, is apparent at the moment that the oposal to exempt all table foods om the sales tax is gaining support ic joint finance committee yester ly voted to put a better taste in the xpayer's mouth by leaving out the x in the home table menu. Voting few days ago for giving counties id municipalities 90 per cent of the tangible taxes, that is, 90 per cent those collected, the committee re 'ised its stand- It has now been pro >sed to return 75 per cent of the irticular tax to ..the rightful own 8. The Finance Committee surprised iileigh yesterday when its report as filed, and the people were sur ised to learn that a total of $82, OrOUO will be necessary, according the committee, to run the state rung the next twa years beginning ily 1 Adjournment early in March as considered a poxsibilrty-tet-tr-re lit of the early submission of the iance committee report. However, e money question is not settled, and issible action on the part of the ap opriaiions committee cm easily im up the works. The legislators have ex pressed emselves in favor of taking care of hool teachers and other State em oyees in their retirement, the pro isal having been passed in the ouse last week and is now up for nd reading in the Senate where it being delayed temporarily by ?o posed amendments. One of the (Continued on page six) Loral Hospital Is Being Liilorded by Dr. Virtor Br mm The Hrown ('(immunity Hos pital is being enlarged here, the owner, Dr. Victor K. Brown, stat ing that additional rooms wrre needed to relieve the crowded conditions there. "We aren't un dertaking any extensive expan sion program just now, but are merely trying to provide ade quate accommodations for our patients," Dr. Brown said. Opened a year and a half ago, the iustiluliuu has handled an al - moat unbelievably large number of cases. On an average there have been between eight and nine patients in the hospital at all times during that period. Legislative Review By CountyRepresentative State Is Urged To Take Over County Road Obligations I'liKKapc ?f |ti|| |?r<niiliiiM Kxtra School Grade I* Uciii# Prnlirlnl By CLARENCE GRIFFIN Martin County Rrprrxentativr More progress was made during the past week of the General Assem-! bly than has been made during any previous period Public hearings were completed on the Appropr.a tihns hill and the committee is now | ready for an executive session to discuss the merits of (he various re utiests -President Frank Graham up poured before the committee last week and made a very able appeal on hehulf Of the Greater University ?i N. C . and the bill providing state aid for public libraries. There were a number of public bills introduced of interest. One bill introduced provided that the State should take over all obligations of "'unties on road bonds issued prior to 19JI The State, under this lull would assume these obligations as of July I, 1941 The wage and hour law was intro duced. This bill would correspond to the Federal law. but would exempt State. Federal, and agricultural em ployees. The minimum wage for first year would be 25 cents. 30 cents for next six years After than 40 cents per year An eight hour day. or 44 ' hour week, is provided for first year and second year a 40-lu.ui week All over-time would require time and half pay. This hill has just been in troduced and at this time it is hard to judge the sentiment uf the body. I he school teachers will prohably be interested in a hill to provide 5 days sick leave with pay each year. ' he eastern counties are support ing a lull which was introduced pro vidnig flu a Constitutional Amend mcnt lo lie submitted to next Gen eral election, restricting the number of reprcsentativ s any county can have to Ijiree Under the icappor tiomnent. two or three counties would have four The lower paid highway employ ees will receive a flat II) per cent pay increase under a proposed hill which came in during the past week This would apply to all employees having less income than $125(1(1 per month The highway safety division IS also sponsoring a bill h> require I ?senii annual inspection of all motor vehicles This inspection cost will he paid by the motor vehicle depart ment. Senator Isuig just before he died introduced a Senate lull to require a' fee of 50 cents hi be added to the I ear license to provide hospitalization for those injured in automobile ac cidents. file proposed slate-supported 9th month lor schools received a set back when the committee refused to report it favorajjly The hill provid ing a 12th grade received a favor able report and will likely be enact ed into law. The retirement hill to provide re moment for all teachers and State employees passed its third reading Friday and is now before the Senate for its consideration. We were able fo get an amendment through to the lull to cover highway employees who were employed hy the county prior to the State taking over the roads I hey would fa* given credit for their service with the county under the amendment. The Finance Committee seems to file-swing metlHKl ?f pnss jng on amendments to the revenue hill One day they vote to refund 90 pel cent of intangible tax to coun ties and the next day they reverse themselves. I would not guess what their final actions will be The food exemption bill extending the ex emptions from sales tax further met " fcvcriu h.foie thi Fulunu Committee, and seems doubtful of passing now. A committee is study ing the possibility of a flat 2 per cent sales tax rate with no exemptions If tills Will provide sufficient revenue, it may be presented. Tliese are the high spots in the procedure of the past week Harvey Gardner Is Arrested For Theft Harvey Gardner wan japed Here" last week-end by detectives of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Com pany for the alleged theft of coal1 from the company's chutes in Par mele. Gardner, young colored man, was the first arrested in connection with coal thefts in Parmelp during the re^j tent cold weather The coal dump when* hundreds of tons of coal are stored for use on Coast Line trains i? a popular place for those whose fuel supplies run low. However, ar rests are made rather frequently durmg the winter months each year and especially during cold spells Large thefts are seldom reported there, but it is declared that Urge quantities are carried away in buck ets during each season. <;rkkk fi \i> Acknowledging with grateful j SHM) cash dona tion iiuuit* |iuv.iblr by local citi sens. Jiayph J l.arkni. Irtourrr of the Greek W ar Relief Assocu tion, Inc., 730 Fifth Avenue, New York, pointed the Kreat need for more fund* for use in relieving suffering and want among the Greek civilians. During a special program last Saturday night in which citizens of national prominrnce partici pated. one organization pledged SAO.000 for the Creek cause. Ad I ditional donations will be recriv ed locally by Rev. John Hardy. The Enterprise, or members of Ihe committee on Creek Relief Viar Tension (grows Following Shako-n|ij [In The Balkan Vrea Ktmiaiiiii Sides \\ i||, Vxi?; Itu Igurni Warned: Willkie IVslifies Todav Battered from all sides over thous ands of miles of fronts. England yes torday accepted a new,foe when di plomatic relations were broken w ith Rumania The art tin* tyal srginfi cance of which is yet to be disclosed, adds tension to the war situation in the Balkan areas. Accompanying the diplomatic break was a warning to Bulgaria against a I trie-up with the Axis powers. It is fairly certain that Britain will not lose a great deal as, a result of the break with Rumania, j but the trend of events in the Bal kans is not considered very encour aging for the British by many ob servers. Russia has explained that she will enter no objeetion to an inva sion nf Bulgaria by Germany, and it is admitted in some quarters that I N;i'i troops are pouring into tin* lit , tie Balkan country possibly marking j the beginning of a drive to aid hard pressed Mussolini in Albania and a drive to the Mediterranean. Turkey,' while expected to enter the war on Britain s side, has riot had much to I say in the past few days, aggravating the uncertainty surrounding the Balkan situation at the present time. Late reports from Bulgaria main tinned that no immediate showdown was expected there Coupled with the grave situation in the Balkans is an apparent move by j Hitler t?> gain submarine and air I bases in Spain with the aim of at tacking Gibraltar and shipping in j the South Atlantic. Ihe Greeks are holding their own against the Italians, but it /i not likely that they will he able to/main tain their positions if Germany takes a hand in the Albanian crisis The! British forces in Africa have just ' about finished the Italians there, and a daring attack was made by British I men of war against Geneoa. Italy's! second most important scu.bu.sc Sun day. Little activity has been reported j in the aerial warfare over Britain re cently. Winston Churchill, in a world-wide address Sunday stated that during the present lull Hitler was scheming new deviltry. The British Prime Minister reviewed the successes of the forces in Africa and paid tribute to the brave Greeks, but he warned his people to prepare for trouble ahead. Referring to Ameri ran aid, he stated that American sol tilers would not be needed this year, next year or in any year ~as faF as he Could see, but that England need ed supplies Given the tools, we (Continued on page six) ? . i,. J. Dunnin<' Dies P At An knitter Home W J Dunning, father of the late A It Dunning, of Williamson, died at his homo in AulanJer last Friday afternoon following a long period of declining health Mr. Dunning wus 90 years nld and despite ins advanc ed age continued active in a varied field of affairs until a short time ago He was a great churchman and a public-spirited man, holding the respect of his fellowman. One son, Godwin H Dunning, of Aulander survive. Funeral services were conducted at the home last Saturday afternoon at 3 o'clock, and interment was in the family cemetery. Mrs Joel Muse and Miss Mary Alice Dunning were, among those from here who attended the last riles. i is ?? -?4* 1 ? M arrant l?*nail Hera In ( ana I'.harninn in?ault Leamon Taylor, young white man. was charged in a warrant issued here yesterday by Justice J. L. ltasscll with assaulting Anphus Knox, young white boy, in Bear Grass Sunday af ternoon. The warrant charges simple as sault. Support Changes In Projmsal To Control 1941 Peanut Acreage Delegation T<hIuv To (larr\ INra To Congres* maii Homier and Others Whil?- ii is fairly certain that pea nuts will be mcluded in the list of basic crops. North Carolina growers anil others in the old producing belts arc seeking amendments to the con trol law Representing the North Carolina Peanut Stabilization Coop erative. Messrs W Robert Everett, of this county; B. D. Stephenson, of Northampton; J G. Shields, of Hal ifax. L E Hassell. of Washington; J G Wood, of Chowan; R. V. Knight, of Edgecombe. M B Hobbs, of Gates; J It Fearing, of Bertie, and R C Holland, of Kdenton. are leav ing today for Washington where they v\ ill present the case of the old growers to Congressmen Bonner, Kerr. Coo ley. Burden and Clark, and a4s?^lead the case of the peanut for inclusion in the list of "definite" ar ticles to l>e forwarded '?> Britain un der the lease-lend bill Briefly stated, a bill has been in troduced in the House providing for a peanut control program The bill itself apparently has the approval of the growers, but there is a con troversy over the method proposed for determining allotments. Based on 1940 plantings, allotments would be extended to many new growers on the same basis with the old grow ers. meaning that the old peanut pro ducing areas would have to surren der thousands of acres to care for new-grower allotments. The delega tion moving in on Washington today i* .irmed with convincing fumrcs and ? will seek every support possible for basing allotments on 1935-39 acre ages Congressman Coo ley yesterday in troduced amendments to the propos ed act. a Washington report review ing the peanut situation, as follows Representative Harold D. Cooley today introduced an amendment to the Pace peanut bill to increase acre age allotments for North Carolina and other old peanut-producing states in an effort to iron out con troversies which are jeopardizing passage of the bill providing for pea nut marketing quotas. The Fourth District Congressman acted after day long conferences with Representatives Herbert C. Bonner and John Kerr of North Car olina. and Representative Harden of Virginia. He expressed the belief that tin' amendment would satisfy most outstanding objections to the bill Coo ley's amendment provides that the -acreage allotments established for any state in the first year for which a quota is in effect will not be less than the average acreage of pea nuts grown in the 1935-39 five-year period. This means that North Car olina's allotment would be increas de from 224.133 acres as recom mended for the 1941 allotment to 240,200 acres This increase of It). 067 acres would bring the State's allotment up to the 1935 36 acreage Virginia and Georgia also would re ceive sizable increases under Copl ey's amendments. The North Carolina Congiessmen have been contending that the quotas now provided in the bill discrimi nate against the older peanut-pro during states Tfcis is because cred it is given to "trends" in the new quotas. Consequently. North Caro lina received but 92 per cent of its five year average acreage and Vir ginia received but 91 per cent, while some of the newer peanut producing states had allotments which went as high as 10H per cent of the five-year average. Adoption of Cooley's (Continued on page six) _ Students Preparing Tor Music Contest The Williainston High School, mus ic organizations arc busily engaged** in preparing music for the annual district music content to be held in Greenville, March 28 and 29. The lo cal school hopes to enter ten events this year instead of the seven that were entered last year, . I\y a ruling of the North Carolina State Choral Association, all vocal contests will have their finals in the district contest, thus eliminating the Greensboro contest which has grown in the last few years to un manageable numbers. The state meeting in Greensboro will be de voted exclusively to the instrument al contests and to the training of two 500-voice festival choruses from the various schools in tne State, me to cal school plans to participate in this chorus next year. The following numbers are being prepared for the district contests Mixed chorus, "Water Boy," the,, well known Negro convict song by V Robinson Treharne; girls' glee club, Down in the Forest," by Ronald Krone, boys' glee club, "I Dream of Jt-anic with the Light Brown Hair," a popular Stephen Foster composi tion; mixed quartet, "Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming," Praetorius; girto* trio, "How Sweet the Moonlight Sleeps Upon This Bank," Caleott; and boys' quartet, "Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes." Several students are working on solos which will be sung la the Greenville competitions.