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""'? *"* ? ' v! .-'.V' i' jV'\ ; '-,! \*".,^. V"1''^"'?'^^?^^h.'lLl> "? fl)^ir^*?^'>?'55!!l"^^'','?v ^ '??'?^^,*r'iriJ?ili*S'<.i^^*l*: '* ?'" *?''"'?tW'i"?T'?'*'^SCJtktk' ?V'' '?J'SJ^J'1"" IWlCT**"* >i?HWt;*iiii>i4 I' Vs**-'n . WIC1. . -s- _ .. I VOLUME THIBTY-ONB FABMVILLE, PITT COUNTY," NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, JULY 26, 1940 " V . . NUMBER TEN . . _ . , ., ' . -, ===== " ' I ^ ? m mm v m <m m # I 1 ? t ~^f ? Registration To Begin On September 1 Under Proposed Conscription ~ ( Date Tentatively Set By War Department With F i r s t 400,000 Con scripts To Start Train ing Month Later ? State Draft Machinery Ordered To Be Put In Shape Washington, July 24.?Registration under the pending conscription pro- I gram has been set tentatively for about September 1, it was learned i today, with the first 400,000 con scrips expected to start training a month later. ? Although Congress has ydt to act on the necessary legislation, a War department official disclosed that , agencies in the 48 states already . have begun preparations for the se _ lective service plan. The initial trainees probably will be chosen from men between 21 and 31 years old. The Senate Military committee started the compluaory training is sue toward a congressional decision by voting yesterday to recommend enactment of the Burke-Wadesworth bill. Committee members thought it would be ready for Senate debate next week. Vigorous opposition has been forecast. The committee meanwhile worked to perfect details of the measure, which provides for registration of all males between 18 and 64 years?a J total of 42,000,000. Only those be tween 21 and 45?some 24,000,000? would be liable for active service. The War department officials who disclosed September 1 as the tenta- | tive registration date, said the joint army and navy selective service committee had notified existing state j agencies that Congress may soon pass a training bill. The agencies were instructed to overhaul their draft machinery in anticipation. Some states have started prepar ing lists of doctors, lawyers and other civilians needed to register and clas sify the 11,000,000-odd young men between 21 and 31 who probably will be the first enrolled. Washington Foftn News Recommendations For 1941 Program Follows General Outline Of AAA Plan More emphasis on soil conserva tion, increased opportunity for coun ty AAA committees to adapt the' AAA program to individual farm re quirements .and staengthing of the Ever-Normal-Granary have been rec ommended for the 1941 AAA Farm Program by a national conference of State AAA committeemen and offi cials, the Agricultural Adjustment ; Administration announces. The recommendations, which will form the basis for specific drafting of program provisions later, do not change the general outlines of the present AAA program. The recom mendations were adopted at a four day meeting attended by approxi mately 200 State AAA committeemen and field officials. Representatives of the State Agricultural Extension Services and Vocational Agriculture brought together the recommenda , tions of previous State, county, and also attended. The national meeting community groups of farmers. Important recommendations in clude: 1. Addition of new soil-building practices which farmers may adopt. 2. - Extension of the plan undet which farmers receive advances oi lime, superphosphate and other ma terials necessary for soil conserva tion, against payments that are earn ed under the program. This previ sion is especially , important to smal farmers who ordinarily do not hav< enough funds to purchase these ma terials. 3. Extension of the special wind erosipn prevention program to a larg er area in the Southern Greet Plains 4. Tfcat fazmers.be permitted t< earn portions of tfcair payments onl; ' ' , and an enric'ied soil. "Participation in the program this year of more than 6 million farmers is the highest in the history of the program. The manner in which far mers in each community elect their own committeemen to administer the program locally is an example of working democracy which has attract ed worldwide attention. It is proof that national unity may be achieved by democratic methods and machin ery." The Agricultural Conservation Program provides for establishment of national allotments for soil-de pleting crops which are broken down j to individual farms. A soil-building practice goal is also ! determined for each farm. Determi nation of national acreage allotments for crops other than wheat will be i made later in the year, after the out i come of the 1940 crop is more defi I nitely known. I __________ ( Rates of payment bo farmers for J cooperation in the program will be determined in part, by the size of the acreage allotments. Farmers who plant within the acreage allotments for their farm and who put specified I soil-building practices into effect are eligible for payments under the pro !gram. I | In the 1941 program tftere win De two payments, the conservation pay ments and parity payment. The con | servation payments are contingent upon the appropriation authorized for the program by Congress. An appropriation of $212,000,000 has al ready been made for parity, with these payments to producers conting ent upon their planting within their I acreage allotments. | ______ The following paragraphs sum marize the principal recommenda tions of the national conference which will provide the baais for drafting the 1941 program in detail: Soil-Building Practices: That in designated areas a farmer if he maintains 50 percent of the crop land on his farm in perennial legumes or grasses, be permitted to earn a part of his soil-building al lowance by carrying out supplemen tal practices not normally carried out on the farm. This would allow far mers to use practices needed on the farm, but which are not provided in the program. That a woodland fire protection practice be adopted. Allotments: That peanut acreage allotments be established for all farms producing peanuts Sat market in states having peanut acreage allotments. ? That no payments be made on "new farm" cotton allotments. That allotments on farms consist ing of newly developed or cleared land be limited by State Committees to make them relatively smaller than I allotments on nearby "old farms" (Continued on page 2) Near Unanimous Vote Cast Here For VIM Mot ? Only Three Farmers Against Three Year Program ? Farmville Polls Give 9&5 Per centage Favoring Con trol; ~ County Has 98 Percent .? 'f Tobacco farmers, land owner* and ? tenants of Farmville township went ' to the polls on Saturday and voted ' an overwhelming majority in favor ? at the three year referendum, the ef ficial count reported by Registrar C. I A? Tyson being 681 for the three - year control and 3 against, with no k votes cast for the 1 year plan. Pitt county - farm leaden were ? jubilant ever results as gpowera join t ad with others of the State in ex * pressing approval of Federal control > of their cropaOo help bolster prices f from last year's sag, with 6,58* far - men favoring the plan; 20 for the 1 one year plan-and 188 again*, con trol. , A o^vBSS^of b*^ta c^ injhe Many Proposals Against Fifth CsbmnActiriliiit % ' --V * ? . Presented By Various Pan - American Dele gates Havana.- July 24.?An Imposing array of proposals to combat fifth column activities and build defense were offered to the Pan-American conference today by the United States and various Latin-American delegations. The United States delegation pro posed inter-American machinery to suppress firmly the activities of any group acting upon orders from abroad designed to produce inter national disorder or establish re gimes not acceptable to the Ameri can way of life. A convention binding Western hemisphere nations into a strict pact against recognizing any re gime established by exterior vio lence in the Occidental world also was proposed. The number of projects submitted amounted to 12?many of them de fense measures. It was learned that the United States delegation had given increas ing attention to the possibilities' of subversive activities being directed within American nations under the protection of diplomatic immunity. One United States proposal would involve the investigation of the status of diplomatic and consular agents in the United States .and pre sumably in Latin-American countries as well, seeking to weed out foreign agents whose diplomatic status gives them protection. Guatemala was understood to be preparing an amendment to eliminate British Honduras from the joint trusteeship for European possessions in this hemisphere which has been proposed to the conference by the United Sates. Guatemala long has had claims against Britain for British Hondur as and was understood to be prepar ing to insist that her claims be hon- j ored in any future change in the I colony's sovereignty. . Farm Tenants MayGet Help PSA Loans Available For Purchasing Land Farm tenants who failed to get loans trom^he Farm Security Ad ministration to buy farms during the past fiscal year^ may be able to get loans this year, according to Robert L. Edwards, County FSA supervisor at Greenville. tlongress appropriates money for tenant-purchase loans by fiscal years and the new Fiscal year started July 1st. Applicants who could not be reached on account, of limitation of funds may be considered along with new applicants during the present year. Mr. Edwards further suggests that many applicants ipay find they are eligible for a Rural Rehabilitation loan. The Farm Security Adminis tration makes Rural Rehabilitation loans?repayable in 1 to 5 years?to farmers who need credit to buy work stock, farming, equipment and other things necessary to get in shape to do good farming. Teriants with sat isfactory written leases as well as owners can get these loans. With the loan FSA supervisors give full assistance in working out a sound farm plan. This type of loan gives the tenant a chance to accumulate stock and equipment so that he does not have?to get such a big loan when he finally goes to buy his farm. While working under the Rehabili tation program the tenant also has a good chance to show what he can do and thus improve his credit rat ing. "It ia true loans to buy farms must be approved by the county committee," Mr. Edwards said, "hut because you are .not qualified now does not mean that you cannot some dav aualify yourself for one of these loans! In approving loans to buy farms preference is given to ten ^nt.W By taking advantage of the rehabilitation loan program, many Snna^Ncwds the time for fiana famUies to begin making ptaw i.... ? ? ? i I By HUGO & SIMS (Washington Correspondent) BILLIONS FOR DEFENSE. ' CONGRESS WAKES UP. PREPARING FOR WAR. 1 LOSING TRADE ABROAD. 1 AGGRESSORS ENCOURAGED. < U. & ABANDONS RIGHTS. |( MISTAKES FOR "PEACE." PUBLIC OPINION CHANGES. |J When President Roosevelt, on Jan- j uary 4th last, sent his bucket mes-' 1 sage to Congress, there was surprise ' in some quartos at his proposal, to 11 spend $1,800,000,000 for national de- J1 fense. How fast events have moved since that day, a little more than six I' months ago, is seen by the fact that 11 Congress has not only voted this ex- 11 penditure but, on May 16, added an-11 other $1,182,000,000 for national de-11 fense and two weeks later provided 1 an additional $1,277,000,000. To-l< gether with increases provided by P Congress itself, something like $5,- j1 000,000,000 have been voted for na- < tional defense. >? 1 This week, upon its return to work, ] after the recess for members to at- < tend the Democratic National Con- \ vention, the Congress finds before it < a proposal from the President which < .virtually doubles the amount already i voted. Under .the program, the na- H tion is expected t? have a two-ocean I < navy, seventy per cent larger than ( that hitherto contemplated; a com- p bined army and navy air force of 50- |i 000 and complete equipment for a ( land force of 1,200,000 men in time of war, with reserve stocks to equip \ 800,000 additional soldiers. ( The fact that these fiuge appro priations for national defense have ] been voted, almost without-objection j on the part of Republican, as well as \ Democratic, members of Congress, in dicates a sudden realization. on the j part of legislators that something 4 is happening in the world ? _ ~ i The position of the United Staes, j I cut off from Europe and Asia by two , I oceans, is not as safe as we have be I lieved it to be. The striking success I of German arms in Europe and the j I steady encroachment of Japan in the j I Far East has caused congressmen to . I do a loft of thinking. Even the belief j I of xthe most pronounced isolationist ( I that "the United States is immune ( I from attack" has vanished in the , I light of actual events across the I waters. Thus we find the United States I today, while at peace with the world I and announcing an intention of keep I ing out of the wars of other nations, I spending more money in preparation I for war than for an unusually high J I budgetary expense for domestic af- J fairs. Americans might as well real- j I ize that the huge expenditures made I I for military and naval purposes are J I being made because of the danger of J I war. No one believes that the Unit- J I ed States will begin a policy of ag I gression against any nation, but I practically no one believes that all other nations will hesitate to attack I the United States in the future. ? ? I I While the United States continues I to have domestic problems, it begins . I to be apparent that the great issues I of the coming years will relate to I foreign affairs. With Germany rap- \ idly organizing Europe into an eco nomic bloc, directed and controlled by Berlin for the benefit of Germany I alone, it appears certain that this country will use valuable markets in I Europe. * I In the Far East, where Japan is steadily attempting to duplicate Ger man achievements by establishing ex clusive economic control of that iih- I mense area, the probability is that I this country will likewise lose im-| I portant markets. In hemisphere, in South I America, them is, the prospect of a titantic ?donomic conflict betwasii I the totalitarian etates, operating un der the barter syBtem of controlled economy, and the United States, prac- I tically the last important advocate of normal commercial intercourse be* foyeen the nations of the v^orid. I ?r? The importance of defending on* I economic interests cannot be over estimated. The World is now familiar with the tactics of Hitler, whose I nomic blitzkrieg proceeder his mili I derstood -that an economic clash in I ? republic* in t^tffnistfws. In this HtfkhULRalfl mbnlo H Dora ? War Chest For ?nW: PSZr? \ t' CoM Way, Cotton firms and cotton farmers I Farmville and surrounding area h were called on today by President I ] Oscar Johnston of the National Cot-It ton Council for "100 per cent allegi-11 ante in cotton's total war for in- < rreased consumption." i In a message addressed to local i producers throughout the county i President Johnston declared, thath "the raw cotton industry is arming j as never before in its history to i smash down the blitzkrieg of sub-1 statutes, surplus, and foreign compe- [( tition." < The message came simultaneously I j with the National Cotton Council's II announcement of a "universal ser-1: rice" plan to provide funds with [i which to carry on the fight during the coming year. The new plan, toll ?o .into effect August 1, calls for a < iefense fund of five cents on every I aale of lint and three cents on every I / ton of seed, mobilized with the help < it each of the five primary raw cot-1 ton interests. < Under the new plan, arrangements 11 lave been perfected enabling the pro- I iucer to make his nickel-a-bale con ribution at the first point of sale, < iither to the cotton merchant, large ] >r small, or the ginner or warehouse nan acting as merchant. This ten .ribution is carried on from merchant O compressor, who remits the ac :umulated funds to the Council when die bale is first compressed, or from nerchant to textile, mill which remits I1 m uncompressed cotton. P Similarly, contributions on seed, r which are made by the ginner and * :rusher, are assembled and remitted 1 x> the war chest by the oil mills. "For fifty years we cotton farmers 1 lave been talking about an organiza- 1 don like the National Cotton Council ? defend our markets and find new >nes through judicious advertising, intelligent research, and organized )pposition to restrictive legislation, i At last we Jiave it, and in two years, 1 equipped with modern weapons, it las accomplished more than any of us ] ;hought was possible in so short a period- - | "Domestic consumption has been I. brought back virtually to the all-time i ligh, with every indication that a new record can be set in 1941. Plans are ] ready for a vigorous attack on the acute problem of foreign trade. Conn- [? cil scientists are on the trail of new h uses. A united cotton industry has gone to war." |< J * -II Birds Declared As j Good Insurance ?.? - \ Whenever there is a green and Living thing an insect enemy always i comes along to attack it One reme- 7 dy is the encouragement of more birds* Many towns have now de- ] :1ared themselves as bird sanctua- L ries. This is the cheapest form of in ject insurance and a fine means of bird protection. These are the main reasons why ' Parmville became a bird sanctuary i recently. Besides destroying many 1 inserts, birds sing sweetly, they are beautiful to lo6k at and are busy, cheerful little bodies. The merry little songsters are really our best friends. Without them the forests, the trees, the flow ers, and everything that grows would soon disappear, and we humans would vanish off -the face-of the earth as well This seems hard to believe but it is really ^ trua The birds would so willingly .'be our friends, these beautiful, flutter ing denizens of the trees and the air, if we would only let them. They fear us because we hurt and kill them ( without mercy. We can be their friends hy making our gardens sanc tuaries^ where notheing molests them, where there are trees to nest in and j food and water, and the quiet, they*. like for themselves and protection ? for their baby birds. . Remember, the only cat that will j not kill a bird is a dead one. To pre-s, vent the destruction of birds by cats keep them well fed and confined at: night, and watch- them during the.. day, for they purr in the house but kill when out doom. Study the birds, how they live, where they nest, when theyfeed and their menu. Make, your garden a happy homeNfor them and help Farm* ville in its efforts to protect our feathered friends. l Although primarily designed, for families, freezer lockers are rapid* becoming accepted "food hanks? for city residents, who find tbevlookups cut down on food bills. ' " ' V " ? ' . \ : " 1 1 ' '1 _ ' EUROPEAN SUMMARY London.?British air and sea de fenders smash at Nazi sea weapons. British torpedo boat disperses six German torpedo boats in channel. British planes loose aerial torpedoes >n German naval concentration, hit ting one ship; Germans flee after masped air battle over Thames Estu ary; Lord Beaverbrook, minister for aircraft production, says enormous airplane help ; coming from United States. Berlin.?Nazi air force reports 31, XX) tons British commercial shipping ieatroyed in 48 hours, British * sub marine, mine sweeper and two pa trol boats sunk; Nazi propaganda rises higher in preparation for total, ^slaughter on Britain. ' Havana.?American foreign minis ters urge firm measures to stamp >ut "fifth column" activities. Bucharest. ? Rumania's pro-Nazi government takes over nation's larg est oil company, British owned. Vichy. ? Authoritarian regime of :onquered France pledges punish ment for men who "plunged our coun try into war." Jerusalem?Forty-six civilians kill id, 88 wounded in raid on Haifa in British-mandated Palestine. ? Approves Project For New Water Lines i ?? The W. P. A. today notified Repre lentative Lindsay Warren that the President had approved a water, sew ?r and drainage'project for the Town >f Farmville with the Federal fdlot nent of $13,882.00. A cemetery project for Ayden was ilso approved with a Federal allot nent of $4,187.00. WHO KNOWS ? 1. What position did Prime Min ister Winston Churchill hold during he World War? * 2. What is the size of the U. S. public debt? . 3. What is the Townsend Plan? 4. The President of what South American country retired from of fice in July? 6. When did the British acquire Song Kong from the Chinese? . 6. Mexico held - an election for President last week. When will the results be proclaimed? 7. British-French warships fought jff the coast of Africa last week. How long had it been since British and' French fleets fought each other in a major nayal engagement? . 8. When doe* the fiscal year of the Federal Government begin? 9. What three supply routes are available to Chiang Kai-Shek in his war against Japan? 10.. How much money does the Federal Government collect through taxation? ? (See "The Answers" on Page 8> A wordy argument between two opinionated editors is what we con rider a waste1 of time, space and energy. 37th Farm-Home Week Will Start IMk July 29 "?: ? j The 37th annual educational, en economical vacation for rural people , of North Carolina; will start at N; C. State College in Ral eigh on Monday. July 29th. It is Farm and Home Week, an event which is expected to attract 3,000 (aim man-audi women .to the. campus of their own agricultural college. John W. Goodman, assistant Ex tension director, and Miss Ruth Cur rent,, State home demonstration Mpnt, are in charge of arrangements and . they have planned programs which will be of interest to all rural people?men and women, young and old' 'i The registration fee of^only *1 will entitle a person to a roem in a dormi tory for the, entire week, and meals Will be available at a reasonable cost in the ooHege cafeteria. From ly gyudllg The nineteenth annual meeting of the N. C. Federation of Home Demon stration Clubs will be held all day Thursday, with the- feature address by Ber. John C. Glenn, Methodist ipiniater of ReWgh.; Other special programs will-inelude the annual con vention of the Ni C. GinnerB' Associa tion all day Wednesday, and the an- k nual meeting of the N. C. Poultry ! * Advisory Council on Tuesday after noon. i j ?' i WHEAT The domestic wheat supply for the 1940-42" season now seems jSlMy tp total about one billion bushels, shout . ; r the same as for the querent market ing season ending June 30. 4 No American patriot will stir up * ' ' i * ' , k Nazis Use seizea Americani Warplanes Against Britain - 8 *ff:* _ Germans Raid Isles In Relays; Britain Claim They Bombed Cornier Factory London, July 26.?Germany sent American dive-bombers, captured from the French, against the British Isles in relays of bombing and ma chine-gunning attaeka yesterday aft er British fliers struck deep into the Reich and "partially destroyed" the great Doraier airplane works, the Air Minisfcery reported. In the English Channel, the first squadron of German motor torpedo boats to be sent against the British Isles was said to have been turned bffpy Wednesday in a pre-dawn bat tle with a lone British motor tor pedo boat. Furious Battle. More than 10 planes battled furi ously over the Thames estuary yes terday when 12 German planes were shot down against the loss of only two British planes, it was said. In one of the many air battles a squadron of British Spitfire fighters was said by the Air Ministry to have shot down an American-made Vought 156 dive bomber. Other American planes seized by the Germans in the military collapse of France were said to have partici pated in the attacks. ? . The Vought "Corsair" V-156 scout bomber monoplane is an export ver sion of the Vought "Corsair" planes used by the U. S. Navy and made by the Chance Vought Company, a division of the United Aircraft Cor poration at East Hartford, Conn. There are two types of the U. S. Navy Corsairs, fitted with 760-horse power Pratt - Whitley twin-WASP engines. The Air Ministry, in a communique shortly before last midnight, describ ed as follows German air attacks on the British Isles extending through out .Wednesday: .""Since the small hours of the morning our Spitfire and anti-air craft guns have been beating off at tacks by German bombers, fighters . and mine-laying aircraft against ships and shipping routes around our coast, ' . "Twelve enemy -aircraft are known to have been destroyed, 10 by fight ers and two by anti-aircraft guns. Two of our fighters are missing but the pilot of one is known to be safe. All Types. "Flying sometimes in heavy rain storms between layers of clouds, pilots of the fighter command fought Heinkel, Dornier and Junkers bomb ers, i Messerschmitt fighters, a new Heinkel-113 fighter and even Ameri can aircraft captured by the Ger mans from the French. < "Ahti-aircraft gunners "saw a Dor nier-17 and a Dornier-215 crash after they fired at them. The Dornier-17 was caught by searchlights over the northwest coast of England at 3 a. m. and one battery reported the 'our second burst pushed its tail up.' "The enemy aircraft then fell into a dive?burst into frames and crashed eight miles from the gunners who had brought it down. "In the second anti-aircraft success on the south coast our gunner saw their Bhells hit a Dornier-215 and watched it crash "into the sea." ' The Air Ministry said the Royal Air Force bombers,' streaking low over their German objectives in ad verse weather Tuesday night, partly demolished the .vital Dornier air craft works near Wcnzendorf which turns out the famous "Flying Nencil and other types of planes which have staged repeated bombing on Britain. . "Salvoes of high explosives fell on the buildingB and others struck- sheds hidden in an adjoining woods," it was stated.. ? "Direct hits with four heavy bombs on the main factory buildings stated a large fire and caused an explosion whose force could be felt by the crew (of British attacking plane) flying several thousand feet above the tar get." * .