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Declare Germaiw^?
Warship Entering
Nazi Blockade Area;
Says Patrol Craft
Aetaalfcr Engaging In
War Duties
Berlin, April SO. ? Authorised
Nasi sources said tonight that the
Germans:would fire on any American
warship entering the German block
ade zone, whether alone or with a
convoy.
The Nwri party organ Voelkischer
Beobachter said the entry into the
danger zone or any United States
ship whatever, merehaaeman or mian
o' war, would mean "nothing more
than intentionally seeking mddeols."
Commenting on recent Washington
announcements concerning the ex
tension of the United States patrol:
zone, and particularly on President
Roosevelt's remarks in that connec
tion Tuesday, the Germans .reiter
ated Adolf Hitler's threat that any
ships coming before Nazi' torpedo
tubes would be torpedoed.
"Washmgton admits that patrol
ships are intended to provide the
British with information," an inform
ant said. "That is as much a part of
the war as fighting in it.
"If an American military attache
should appear on a battleship with
the British or fly over a battle area
in a British plane, he would run the
risk of getting killed. It is the same
with American warships in the bat
tle area of the Atlantic."
The Voelkischer Beobachter said
that "aside from the matter of tac
tics, almost all American newspa
pers are agreed that the situation no
longer can Continue as it is at pres
ent, for British losses are assuming
intolerable proportions."
Commenting on a report that the
German press had been "enraged"
by recent developments in the Unit
ed States, the Boersen Zeitung said
eritorially:
"This is a misinterpretation of our
attitude. What we felt after the lec
tures and speeches was not rage, bu":
aversion; aversion toward a. policy
which represents foul play toward
its own people and sacrifices the in
terests of its own people in favor of
a small group of dangerous robber
knights and profit huntsmen,
"The strong one knows only anger,
and he who challenges this anger
only increases the energy of the
strong one's action."
To Celebrate Service
Of Full Decade Here
Rev. C. B. Mashburn, beloved local
minister, will celebrate the comply
tion of a foil decade of pastoral ser
vice to the congregation of the
Farmville Christian Church and this
community, on Sunday, May 4, in a
special morning service, ah which
time he wSl speak on the subject,
"If This Were My Last Sermon."
Augmenting the choral portion of
the service will bs selections by the
graded school glee dub under the
direction of Miss Phalyne Stroud.
During the ben years spent as
pastor in this field, the Rev. Mr.
Mashburn has delivered IfiOO ser
mons and 25 special addresses, held
10 pre-Esater meetings, officiated at
124 weddings, conducted 600 funerals
and made 10,000 pastoral calls, and
it might be stated that ha is even
of fill
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CLAUDE B* WICKARD^ : ,
Secretary of Agriculture.
PMbibi Mm)
To Be Hell Jan 7
The Annual Meeting of
Electric Corporation
To Have Several Out
standing Features
Preparations are getting underway
here for the manual meeting of the
I Pitt-Greene Electric Membership
Corporation, which will be held in
i the graded school Gym on Saturday,
Jnne 7, and president Lee Tugwall
is busy appointing committees and
laying {dans.
An interesting and beneficial pro
gram will be presented according to
B. A. Joyner, John B. Lewis and J.
C. Parker of the arrangements com
mittee, which will feature an address
by ah REA representative from the
Washington office, and an attend
ance contest, with a washing ma
chine offered *a the first prise. A
Dutch lunch will be served at noon
at 26c a plate. As plana are releaw
| ed by the committees they wSl be
I relayed to members at this group
through these columns,
Annual meetings of tip Corpora
tion have been well attended and
efforts of the officials to have a
program, both - interesting and en
lightening, have met with praise and
commendation from the members.
There were approximately 660 mem
bers present at the last meeting *nd
an increased attendance is antici
pated at this time by those in charge,
of arrangements.
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The North Carolina Symphonic
Choir, which hi recognized u* one of
the meet unique and outstanding A
Cappella. choirs in America, will px*'
sent a coueert of 'classical and semi
"Cftaesica] music at Wabtonfavg high
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scnooi auditorium on murseny nignt,
May S, at 8 tOO o'elods, There will
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Sag of the North ffcrolina Cotton
Growers Cooperative Association and'
the Farmejfc Cooperative Exchange
here Tuesday, May 18th, .f
Secretary Wickard's acceptance,
announced by M. G.Mann, general
taaasgw of the two xo-operativee,
came through the office of Congress
man Harold D. Oooley who will ac
company the secretary to Raleigh
and witt introduce him to an expected
crowd of 5,000 farmers of the two
CaroBnaa.'
The -meeting, an juuiual event of
the two co-operatives which have a.
combined membership of more than
80,000, ia expected jo tax to capa
city the Memorial Auditorium, Ral
eigh's largest assembly halL Fol
lowing the meeting, a barbecue din
ner will be served Association mem- .
bere end PCX patrons.
"This is a crusial time for agri
culture," Mr. Mann said, "and farm
ers have many questions about pro
duction, prices and. tiie part of agri
culture in the national defense pro
gram. Secretary Wickard is the one
man most qualified to- provide these
answers and wq are expecting farm
ers from every county in North Caro
lina and a representative group from
South Carolina to attend the meet
ing."
Mr. Wickard is both a farmer and
a co-operative leader. He was born
on a 3$0-acre Carroll County, In
diana, farm which he still operates.
He was one of the loaders in the up
' building of the cooperative move- J
ment in the middle West and at one
time was a director of the Indiana
Farm Bureau Co-operative.
The Cotton Association ia the old
est and largest State-wide farm co
operative in North Carolina and is
now in its 19th year of service. The
Fanners Co-operative Exchange was
organized six years ago and is now
rendering a purchasing service to
20,000 farmers in North Carolina -
and South Carolina.
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SUEZ NEXT?
London, April 30.-?A grand-scale
German attack upon Egypt and the
Sues Canal by way of Syria and
Palestine Is likely within 10 days, in
formed military circles said tonight
Mindful of Adolf Hitler's boast that
hit conquest of the Mediterranean
would be complete by Augnst, some
observers believed the attack it
ready might by under way.
These sources said a northern
flange of the throat probably would
be across, the Black Sea from Ger
man-contnolled Rumanian bases to
Batum,in the Soviet's Georgia. Sim
ultaneously, a southern assault would
be lansebad .from eastern Mediter
ranean^ Syria^^only^W?
The Nails would use both, as* and
air born troops,.with the latter per
haps playing a major role In invest-.
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fideait thai Omit Britain will hold
but and that straggle of the democ
racies can be woflfcby assuring the
frisfrw* of Knffi*nrf Mich he /'all*
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In a recent press conference the
Chief Baecvtive peiiNd ovt that the
war wiU not he won by one aeh etks
ceaa - or- a defeat in' Gipsies.',''. He in
sisted that there will be no dftnfcm
tion in the shipment of supplies .to
Great Britain and caution* the peo
ple of this country from mgytng from
pinnacles of hope to depths of de
spair because of the day-to-day
events of the fcar.
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In a previous conference, the Presi
dent pointed out that the people of
the -nation did not seem to appre
ciate the gravity of the international
situation and its implications con
cerning life In the United States. At
the same time, Mr. Roosevelt said
that, in .general, public awareness fif
the significance of the struggle was'
gradually increasing but, so far, had.
not been adequate;
In much the same spirit, Secretary!
of War Stimaon recently declared
that the most serious threat to the
nation's defense is that the average
citizen is not sufficiently aroused to |
his own responsibility. "In the pros-1
ent state of' the world, we cannot
move too quickly." Secretary of the
Navy Frank Knox, at the same time,
declared that the international gitua-1
tion is "thegravest crisis that has]
ever faced the world," and insisted I
?iM "nations survive not merely be
cause they possess weapons, but' more
because .00rale which animates
the hearts of the men who use them." j
Mudi the same tenor is foundv in I
the remarks of Directoi^General I
William Knudsen, of the OPM, who
insists that the keynote of national
defense is "to get everybody to look I
at one thing?national defense?and
them help one another to get itdrine."
Vice-President Wallace, discussing
defense production during the next
six months, says it "can turn the
scales toward a speedy peace for the
world ... or determine whether .. J
the United States will eventually
fight for its existence."
Adding to the consensus of official
opinion, Secretary of Commerce I
Jesse Jones told newspaper men that
the nation's defense effort is "bet
ter than good," but that "no matter
how fast dnfawaa production climbs,
it will not be fast enough to meet
the need or to satisfy our state of
mind?our anxiety."
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"The Army could give a good ac
count of itself today," Secretary of
War Many L. Stimson, who points!
000 men will be done in eight months
to a year faster than was required
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paring itself for war in many and
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Citizens of Farmville will go to
the poke, whieh wfll be in the store,
formerly occupied by M. Liles end
Son in tho Horton Building, 109 a
Main Stareet,,
vote l^r the tome town officials they
elected two ym :?gc?j an
nouncement of competition is Twnrfo
after this issue has beeswprinted. C.
H. Flanagan is registrar end C. A,
Tyson and T. W. Leu* wfll n*e as
poll holders,
-Y*yor George W. Darie and Hie
present board- o?r commissioners.
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composed of Dr. W. M. Willis, J. W.
Joyner, J. M. Stansill, R, O. Lsaie 1
and R. L^Roy Rollins* hftvo Mpvcti
faithfully and well during their as*-,
end and ? rapectlvf^ taenia, and ,
Famvilii citizens will have an op*
portunity osr Tuesday to poll a luge
vote a? an sxpraarioa <rf thrir apjpc*
dation for past service and confl- I
dence In the ability of these ahtb I
men to steer the course o'l the town$ I
affairs for the next two yean.
So voting: at this election mhy'Vi I
termed not only a mora! responrifati| 1
ity 'but an opportunity as well to Btijjfj 1
"Thank you"-for a Job well done. A I
heavy vote is derived and may justly
be anticipated in the opinion of this
paper.
Tobacco Farmers
Urged To Appear
Tar Heel Congressmen
|i Stress ^Importance of
Tobacco Tax Protest
Play 8th
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Waahnngton, April 80.??lans for
a maas pxpteet by farmers, 'ware
housemen and everyone interested
in the tobacco industry, against pro
posed teoreans in federal tobacco
taxes were mapped today at a
meeting of tobacco am congress
men.
Convinced that only an over
whelming show of strength can
Mock the levying of additional heavy
uxes on tobacco, the coagremnen
issued as appeal for a wholesale
turnout at the hearing before the
House Ways and Means Committee j
to be held Thursday, May 8.
^Chairrnapj Robert 1^ ' Doughton air i
suted the more than 25 tobacco area
representatives who gathered in his
office this afternoon that ample time <
posedMLncreases that would raise
cigarette cenif:per
package and doubH ^the levioa: :
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ma?e ^ggog^a^NaW* meet- !
powers may by the propos
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tary base which thelkV&'.&'lt, won
in her conqueror's peace with the
Finnish republic.
An account of the movement of
tiww fdwwNfof a size about , that of
a panzer division?was given on the
ova of another Soyiet May Day,
while the Red Army was preparing
demonstrations of its might through
out Soviet Union.
Pravda, the official organ of the
Communist party, published the re
port without comment in a nine-line
dispatch from ite special correspond
ent in Tallinn, Esthonia?now' ps*t
of the % S. S. R.
German sources in Moscow im
mediately minimized the movement
and said it was only a part of the
legnlar transit of troops from Ger-.
mariy through Finland to Norway
which has bean going on for weeks,
more or less openly.
Find Time.
Nevertheless, it warn the first time
that the Soviet press ever-has taken
cognizance of such a development
The continued presence of German
troops in Finland would forge a
new link in the Nasi chain around
Russia?following the German oc
cupation of Rumania and Bulgaria
and the German advance through
Yugoslavia and Greece to the is
lands off the DaxdeneUea
(In London,)British sources con
ceded that the German troops might
be going to Norway undo: Germany's
transit agreement with Finland, but
they asserted the landing of artillery
and tanks in Finland was a violation
of this agreement.)
The news came, too just after a
notice published in the 'magazine
Foreign Trade had diaeldeed that the
transit of war material across Russia
has been forbidden since March 18.
A decree of the foreign trade com
mission, of fret stated tilat; .peraiis
gion gbuld not be given for the
transit of armaments, munitions,
planes, explosives, poison and such
material as machinery for making
planes and muni ions. -
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Washington, April 30.?President
Roosevelt tonight ordered the im
mediate pooling of 2,000,000 toes of
merchant shipping to expedite na
tional defense , and aid Great Britain
in winning the Eattle of the Atlantic.
The order was transmitted in a
letter ot Chairman Emory S. Land
of the Maritime CommiMion. The
President said the drastic step was
necessitated by growing congestion -
of vital war materials on the docks.
He called for sacrifice and ooopsra
tion by ship owners, emphasizing
that "we must supply those ships at
once."
Two phases of the program aa out
lined in the letter axe:
"First, to arrange for the utilira
tion in routes to the combat sane
of foreign ships or ships which are
to be transferred to foreign registry.
"Secondly, to reallocate our own
flag ships, including those which
will be completed in the next few
months, in such a way as to make
every cargo directly or indirectly
useful to our defense efforts and
winning .by the democracies of the
battle now being waged in the At
lantic." .
Calls For Speed
The President expressed gratifica
tion at progress of the expanded
shipbuilding industry, bat called for
even greater speed in construction
of new merchant craft
He also suggested the appointment
of a "special person" to carry oat
the plan, and Maritime Commission,
sources said that H. Harris Robeon,
director of the commission's division
of emergency shipping, would be
given the assignment
Robeon, vice president of the
United Fruit Co., is a former officer
in tire Australian Navy.
The pool, which ultimately will in
clude 150 foreign vessels idle in
American ports winch the President
has asked authority of Congress to
requisition, had been discussed by
Land and Mr. Roosevelt at an earlier
White House conference.
Land told reporters the ships
would go anywhere and at anytime.
He, said the President wanted every,
thing "expedited like hell" to meet
Britain's plea for "ships, ships and r
more ships."
The announcement came' as the
Semite foreign relations committee
rejected 13 to 10, two anti-opnvoy
resolutions on recommendations of
Secretary of State Cordell Hull, Hull
said adoption of such a ban "would
be misunderstood abroad."
The proposals were sponsored by
Senators Charles Tobey, R., N. fLw
and Gerald,R Nye, R^.K D.? W
interventionist leaders. Tobey's res
olution would have prohibited use of
navai vessels to convoy-war materi
als abroad, while Nye's would bava
made such action subject, to Con
gressional approval.
Both said that they were not d?
feated?that they would' demand
floor debate on the issue.
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