1 fe* THE COUNTY THE THE STATE UNION fime; WATCH THK LABEL ON YOUR PAPER / Renew Your Subscription Before Expiration Date To Avoid Missing An lasue. VOLDMN IiM SUBSCRIPTION 91.50 ? I< (EIOHT PAGES) NUMBER 25 J. Fuller Malone, 59 Ends Life With Shot Funeral Services Held For Retired Tobacconist; Largely Attended J. Fuller Malone, 59, of Louis burg and Wilmington, died Tues day morning about/ 6:30 at tlie home of his sister, Mrs. S. J. Par ham on North Main Street, of a -^elf-inflicted pistol wound. Mr. Malone bad been tn bad health for several months and recently suf fered a nervous breakdown. A 3'on of the late Dr. Ma lone and Afrna Puller Malone, he was a retired tobacobnist, recently of Shanghai, China, and was pre paring to make his home In Wil* mington. He is survived by his widow, Mrs Virginia H. Malone, who was with him visiting here at the time of his death; a son, J. Fuller Malone, Jr., of Shanghai, China; two brothers, E. H. and J. E. Malone, of Louisburg; two sis ters, Mrs. S. J. Parham, of Louis burg, aitd Mrs. E. L. Best, of Charlotte. The funeral services were held from the home of Mr. and Mrs. S. J. Parham, at 11 o'clock Wednes day morning, conducted by Rev. J. G. Phillips, pastor of the Louis burg Methodist Church, Rev. L. F. Kent, rector St. Paul's Episcopal Church, and Rev. E. H. Davis. In terment was made in Oakwood cemetery. A large number of relatives and friends attended both services and the floral tribute was especially large and pretty, speak ing a beautiful sentiment of sor row and esteem. The pallbearers were: W. D. Egerton, A. W. Person, Thornton Jeffress, F. R. Pleasants, S. Bruce Berkeley, Paul W. Elam. The family has the sympathy of the entire public in their sore be reavement. Warrenton Wins Tennis Match -Warr?oton won two of (."he three singles tennis matches played on tbe local courts last Wednesday afternoon. Other matches were not played because of the lateness of the arrival of the Warrenton players. The finesti exhibition of tennis was played by John Tucker, who defeated Taylor of Warrenton eas ily by the score of 6-2-; 6-1. A1 Williams of Warrenton finally won out over Neal Allen in three long, hard-fought sets by the.score of 6-2:6-8:8-6. The match between -Bob Johnson and-flHV Wat k ins ? -of Warrenton was also hard-fought and drawn out, Watkins finally winning by the score of 3-6:6-4: 8-6. These teams will play next Wed nesday afternoon in Warrenton. MRS. I LA W. PEARCE Youngsville. ? Mrs. Ila. W. Pearce, wife of the late S. E. Pearce, died at her home in Youngsville at 4:14 p m? Wed nesday following an illness of sev eral months. Funeral services were held at the home Thursday at 4:30 p. m., conducted by the Rev. E. M. Car ter. Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. H. H. Underwood, of San ford, and Miss Catherine Pearce, of Youngsville. TOBACCO AVERAGED 914.75 FIRST FOUR DAYS IN GEORGIA Atlanta, Aug. 1. ? Tobacco sales totaled $3,985,575.62 at Georgia's 15 market centers last week, av eraging 14.75 cents for 27,024,786 pounds. Tbe official figures on 64 ware houses in the state compiled by tbe state department of agricul ture covered four days of the 1939 auction season. They compared with the two days of sales In the first week last year, when 14,097.350 pounds sold for $3,771,482.55 at an average of 26.75 cents. PROGRAM AT THE LOUISBURG THEATRE The following Is the program at the Loulsburg Theatre begin ning Saturday, Aug. 6th: Saturday ? Double Feature? 3 Mesqulteers In "Three Texas Steers" and Rita Johnson and Tom Neal in "They All Come Out." Al so 2nd chapter ofDarederlls of The RedClrcle." Sunday ? Walter Pigeon, Vir ginia Bruce, Ann Devoralc and Lee Bowman in "Stronger Than De sire." No shows Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday. Thiysday-Friday ? Mickey Roo ney, Lewis Stone. Fay Holden, Ce cilia Parker and Ann Rutherford in "Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fev er." Last Times Today ? Friday ? ? Ire?e .Dunne and Fred McMutray id "IOTitatioQ to Happiness. ,v Farmers To Hold Meeting The overplanting of tobacco in the bright leaf belt from Florida to Virginia has cost* the tobacco farmers of the belt $100,000,000. This was the sentiment of E. F. Arnold, State secretary of the North Carolina Farm Bureau, as he stopped off at Wilson Tuesday on his way to Raleigh from the recent conference in Washington between tobacco farmers and Washington officials this week. Arnold explained that he did ' not mean that the entire loss was ^the cause of the present crop but was bused on t>he '"hang over" from last year also. The Farm bureau head announ ced that a meeting fcfr growers in the state would be held at Me morial Auditorium in Raleigh at 11 o'clock on Friday morning to discuss the tobacco situation with Washington officials who will also attend the meetings. R. M. Evans, head of the AAA in Washington, and J. B. Hutson, head of the to bacco division of the AAA, will attend rtie meeting and discuss va rious things with t>he farmers. "I hope that every farmer will be able to come to the meeting," I said Arnold here today," and at that time they will be given the opportunity to say to the Wash ington officials whether or not they want a referendum and if they do when it shall be held." It was pointed out by Arnold that whatever action the farmers took on Friday would undoubted ly influence the actions of the Washington officials at the meet ing that will be held there next week with the tobacco buyers in an effort to see if tobacco prices cannot be upped this year. Arnold came back from the Washington meeting after a reso lution had been passed up there to hold a referendum this year on control but no time was designat ed for t?he time to hold the vote. LOUISBURG METHODIST CHURCH The sermon topic for the morn ing service is. "To the Pure All Things are Pure." The other ser vice of the day is Sunday School at 9:45. There will be no evening ser vices during August. Rev. J. G. Phillips will conduct the services next Sunday. ST. PAUL'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH This will be the 9th love for Jesus." Therein lies his great power. He says we must keep ears and eyes wide open at the trend of the times In the American life to day. The battle for religious free dom is won but It must be ketft. He discussed In no uncertain voice the move on part of the govern ment to include denominational workers and leaders in "old age pension act" (which Baptist B U . \ .1... nn^t ? # Dr. ; luu^ui;, biiusbic uu pai i ui uu ; man Catholic parochial schools, denominational schools recleving government monies leading toward linking of church and state, re cognizatlon of papal representa tive at the seat of government, the setting aside of certain pro perty .for Roman Catholic church to be free of all government Juris diction. That/ great voice, repre sentative of a great group of peo ple, was heard in Washington. A great pageant of Baptist His tory was presented in the stadium on Monday evening, by the chur ches of Atlanta. This was no doubt) the largest religious gath ering in America. Many were turned away. The Congress Sermon by Dr. A. T. Ohm of Oslo, Norway came on Tuesday evening. He spoke with a depth of earnest sincerity using as a background text, "I am cru cified with Christ yet not I but Christ liveth in me." In conclusion Dr. Bagby stated several realms In which t>he Alli ance has influence: tfrst, upon self-seeing those Interested in a great cause helps one to realize the greatness of Christ's state ment "The gates of hell shall not prevail against it"; second, tihe Impact on Atlanta; third, the Im pact on the country and govern ment for good; fourth, need for a World Proteste and Alliance. Witnessing such a BapMst World Alliance as has just con i vened, one may be reassured that there are those ready to live and die. for tholr fundamental convic tion* and belltfta. * Germany Boasts of Armed Power Berlin. Aug 2. ? Germany is prepared to strike "with lightning speed and undreamed of force" it ; she is driven to war again, the I army, navy and air force were told ! today In proclamations marking I the 25th anniversary of Germany's *ntry into the World War. The proclamations were issued j by Field Marshal Hermann W. Goering, commander-in-chief of I the air force; Admiral Marshal I Eric Raeder, commander-in-chief \ of the navy, and Col. Gen. Walther I von Bfuchitsch. army leader, as j the Reich's 2,000.000 men under arms observed a nation-wide holi day. "Born of the spirit of t>he Ger man fliers in the World War and sworn to the ideals of our Fuehrer and commander-in-chief, the Ger man air force stands today ready to carry through with lightning speed and undreamed of force every order of the Fuehrer." Goer ing's manifesto said. Meanwhile, the air force which World War Ace Goering built to what he contends is the greatest aerial strength possessed by any nation, carried out laiWe-scale maneuvers over northwestern Ger- j many across 15.000 squaijB miles of territory. s The maneuvers, described offi cially as having revealed "an enor mous degree of efficiency," were in the form of an imaginary war between an invading "Blue" force, and its defeat by a "Red" force' east of the River Elbe. l'laying War Between the two aerial forces, S bounded by the rivers Wespr and | Elbe, is a neutral "green" state whose neutrality thus far has been respected by both combatants In | t-+H~all Mie rain, heat and storms. Battery "B's" well-trained men withstood the weather and toil and by fulfilling their duties to the utmost extent made the best showing in many years. Instead of going into camp at ' Forte Bragg proper, camp was pitched on the reservation on Monday und by. moving to differ ent places each day that type of life prevalied'through Friday mor ning when the barracks were Wie destination. During this stay , on the reser vation every section was well oc cupied by taking care' of its du ties. The motor section under ' the direction of Lt. E. C. Bulluck and 8gt>. Sidney Holmes did ex cellent work by keeping every : truck on the move which helped | to put Battery "B" first every | time. All three gun positions did ex ceedingly fine in firing the prob lems sent down by the officers. These were under the supervision of Lt. F. W. Wheless, Jr. and Sgtfl. C. E. Spencer, P. B. Wilson and M. M. May. The signal and instrument sections under the su pervision of Lt. J. A. Wheless ful filled their duties as no other ones Leonid The signal section under Sgt. W. T. Debnam obtained and I Kt'pi ciiiuiyuiiiuauuu iui uio uai I tery and lb might be said that thlB section did better work than be fore. The instrument section un der Sgt. J. S. Pace figured out the data (or Bring and plotted same on the maps (or the officers. On Saturday of the first, week the battery joined in wtth the rest i o( the batteries in a regimental parade and field Inspection o( property and also personal inspec tion. Monday. Tuesday and Wednes day firing took place and Wednes day night the men moved back on tihe range taking part in a night maneuver. ' Also Thursday nightt night-maneuvering took place and Friday morning coming back off the range to have another regimental parade and inspection on Saturday. With the pay-off immediately a(ter lunch on Saturday this con stituted the end of the two week's "war" (or Battery "B" and pre paring to come homq on Sunday was begun. ? Capt. Cbas P. Oreen expressed the greatest satisfaction (or the behavior and splendid work of the boys, and efcch o ( the boys were likewise In high praise o( the One and master(ul leadership o( their Captain, who never (orgot the wel fare of bis men. Hatch Bill, Law Washington, Aug. 2. ? The Hatch bill barring Federal em ployes from political campaigns became law with President Roose velt's signature today and imme diately legislators fell into dis agreement as to whether the bill would prove a bar to a third t^rm candidacy. One school of thought as typi fied by Senator King (D.-Utah), was that the measure would tend [to obstruct any third term drive by making it impossible for Fed eral officials to be delegates to party conventions. Another, as represented by Sen ator Murray (D.-Mont. ), contend ed that the act would have no bearing on a third term. Murray argued that such a movement! de pended little on the activity of Federal officeholders. While "Senator Bridges (R.-N. , H.) interpreted the President's action in signing the measure as "the first definite indication that Mr. Roosevelt will not be a candi date for a third term," there was i still no word from the White House as to the President's"' 1 9 4 0 I intentions. However, some interest was cre ated by a conference which Mr. Roosevelt held this afternoon wtlh officers of the Good Neighbor League, Democratic party officials and others. The word was passed ? that the conference reviewed the status of the Good Neighbor Lea gue, which was formed in 1936 to battle for Roosevelt principles, and which was credited widely with helping swing a large part of the Negro vote to the Roosevelt standard in the 1936 elections. Among Conferees Those at the conference includ- ( ed Walter Jones, Pittsburgh finan cier and head of the League; Char les Michelson, publicity director ' of the Democratic national com mittee, and Lowell Mellett. head of the National Emergency Coun cil, a White House-supervised agency. The conferees refused to say whether the League, inactive for some time, was about to be re vived in preparation for the 1940 j campaign. In signing the Hatch bill. Mr. Roosevelt adopted the uuusual procedure of sending a lengthy message to Congress in which he expressed approval of the nieas | lire's aims and. in fact, declared that it had its "genesis" in a re commendation he made to Con gress in January asking penalties 'to prevent political manipulation | in connection with relief. I>|{. KOYNTKK DEAD Dr. Thomas Sampson Royster, 48. prominent physician and sur geon, died suddenly at his home on Belle street here at 12:35 a. m. today aftera very brief illness. He had appeared to be In his us ual good health and was about his duties Monday at Maria Parham hospital, and his unexpected death was a surprise and shock to the ^community, which learned early today of his passing. Pr. Royster was a native of Vance County and born October 31, 1890, in Townsville, the son of 'the late Dr. Thomas Satterwhite Royster and Mrs. Sallie Alston Royster. He was educated at' the University of North Carolina and in the medical school of the Uni versity of Pennsylvania. During the World War he ser ved as a naval surgeon in the Vir gin Islands, and was later station ed at Charleston, S. C., and Key West, Fla. It was after retiring from the naval service that he came to Henderson fifteen years ago to practice his profession. ? Henderson Dispatch. Mas. W. H. AYESCUE DEAD The funeral services for Mrs W. H. Ayescue. who died in a hos pital at Rocky Mount Friday night, following a severe Illness, was held from Nkpuntain Grove Bap tist Church Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock, conducted by Rev. ? ? . Qreen, her pastor, and inter ment was made at the old Carroll burying ground near Gold Sand. A large crowd attended both ser vices and the floral offering was especially pretty. ? Mrs. Ayescue was 53 years old, and is survived by her husband, and seven daughters, two sisters | and two brothers. She was a most estimable woman, who will be greatly missed by her many friends and admirers. The bereaved family has the sympathy of the entire communt :ty BECOME NURSES' AIDER Mrs. Lillian Sykea, of Louis burg; Miss Hazel Joyner, of Louls burg, and Mrs. Eva Coggin. of Rocky Mount, are employed at the Sanatorium as aides to the nurs ing staff. ? Sanatorium Sun., | It appears from a preliminary survey, says Farm Agent C. R. Ammons, that Harnett County growers hare orerplanted their to bacco allotments by 35 per cent, while a majority have stayed with \ In their cotton Allotment. Marriage may be a union of sexes ? but It doesn't pay union wages. ' ' ' . ' Japanese Agita tion Protested By U. S. Tokyo. ? The United States was reported Wednesday to have pro tested to the Japanese foreign of fice that the anti-British move ment in China evidently had broadened into generaj anti foreign agitation. Eugene H. Doornail, U. S. charge d'affaires, was said by reliable sources to have submitted a pro test on seven receno assaults on Americans by Japanese in China and to have told Seijiro Yoshizawa chief of the foreign office Ameri can section, that it was a "rea sonable assumption" anti-British activities had been converted into general antil-foreignism. The seven assaults were said to have involved stx missionaries and a naval warrant officer, R. A, I Baker, who waa manhandled at | Hankow July 24. British Ambassador Sir Robert i Leslie Craigie, meanwhile, waa said to have threatened to break lup the British-Japanese conference ion Tientsin unless Japanese placed ! the anti-British movement) under controj. ' British Prime Minister Cham berlain announced Wednesday that Sir Robert Leslie Craigie, am bassador to Japan, had been In structed to make a "further vigor ous protest" against) the continua |tion of anti-British agitation in I North China. Chamberlain told the House of Commons that Britain was main taining the closest possible contact with the United States and France on developments in the Far East. Denied Report The Japanese foreign office de nied the report and the British I embassy refused to comment be yond stating Sir Robert had talk ed with Sotomatsu Kato. Japanese ambassador at large in China who i is here for the, conference on Tien tsin. The report was interpreted in Japanese circles, however, as a ease of Great Britain and America acting together in the Far East. Japanese have contended the Brit ish attitude has become stiffer since the United Stakes served no tice July 27 of abrogation of the litll commercial treaty with Ja pan. Evidences of a stiffened British attitude toward Japan coincided 4 with disclosure ill official quarters that Britain, with her land, air and naval forces already at a peacetime peak, was planning im mediate construction of a "num i ber of smaller type vessels" to augment her seapower further. Officials said that Japan had assumed responsibility for preserv ing order in the Japanese-occupied areas of China and that it was on this understanding Britain agreed [to the Cralgie-Ai'lta formula i whereby Britain recognized "cer i tain requirements" of the Jap ! anese army in the occupied terri tory. On the basis of this formula the Tokyo conference proper open ed. ? "This anti-British agitation is clear demonstration that order is i not being maintained," one offici al said, explaining the Britistu view as submitted to the Tokyo government by Crjigie. "From that one can infer that Japan cannot preserve or does not want to preserve order," the of ficial continued. "In either case the Japanese should nob hava agreed to do so if they could not carry out their agreement.'' The official position was that conversations to Mttle the Tient sin issue were proceeding smooth ly through the question of the policing of Tlnetsin but that there was difficulty over Japanese de mands that Britain withdraw her support of Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek's currency. PROMPT APPROVAL I Washington, Aug. 2. ? With the passage yesterday by the senate of the four amendments to the tobac co title of the AAA act, the first step In the program for the stabili zation of tobacco prices adopted at a meeting of growers and AAA officials here on Monday has been taken. The amendment*, which hare already passed the house, now go to the President for executive ap proval. One of the amendments, which provides that the Secretary of Agriculture may call a market ing quota referendum at any time instead of at the fixed date 4f No vember 15, forms one of the key proposals the three-point stabiliza tion plan tor tobacco dratted by the growers. E C. Spruill of Windsor open ed his silo containing about TO tons of molasses silage recently and found It in a good state of preservation. He also found than his cows like this stored feed. An enterprising middle western grocer sella a "fresh fruit salad" packed In a 3-pound cellophane bag. each bag oontalnlng on? orange, one banana, a bunch of grapes and a pear, enough for a salad for four people. I msXL lSiyn