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ADVERTISE HAS NOTHING TO SELL ' - '? S; i. ?. wtii> ??>rny THE AD weima& IN THE ENTERPRISE ( ? ' ? y0u TWBNTY-ONB FARMVILLB. PITT COUNTY, NORTH CAROUNA, FRIDAY, JANUARY Mfc 1.31 . , , MAY GIVE STATE CONTROL OVER LOCAL BUDGETS Committee Considers Letting Sinking Fund Commission Sell Bonds And Notes; AO Sales To Be Held In Raleigh. Raleig, Jan. 28. ? The joint sub committee of the House and Senate finance committee at & conference yesterday appealfed in substantial agreement on a proposal to give some State agency, probably the County Government Advisory Commission, budgetary control over both counties and cities, that is the right and duty to see that sufficient tax levies are made to balance the budget and meet all appropriations and debt require ments. However, no action was taken. Counties are now under much stricter requirements than cities, but the sub-committee plans to place both classes of units on a par. The conferences will continue to day when Judge J. G. Adams, of Asheville, will appear before the com mittee with regard to the situation in that part of the State. Other features of the proposed bill discussed yesterday but not finally acted on were: The act will be State-wide. Local units will be allowed to re fund notes maturing before July 1, 1933," and bonds maturing before July 1, 1933. All- bonds and notes'must be ap proved by the State Sinking Fund Commission. All bonds and notes will be sold in Raleigh by the qommission, and not locally. Unless it is necessary to save the credit of some of the sub-divisions, no bonds or note issues now invalid will be validated. Chester B. Masslich and W. H. Hoyt, New York, bond attorneys ap peared before the committee. In gen eral they agreed with the committee cn the main outlines of the refunding bill, but Mr. Masslich questioned the advisability of the sales of all bonds in Raleigh, and the policy of not val idating the bonds issued during the past two years. The boBd attorney feared especially in the case of the Asheville and Bun combe, county notes, that it wouii.be impossible to sell the refunding bonds if the original notes were not validat ed. Judge X. A. Tcwnsend, Represent atives Jeffress of Guilford, and others favored non-validation if possible without hurting the State's credit, and Representative Hanes of Forsyth, strongly supported state sale, saying political cliques controlled sale of is sues locally, and paid too high prices. FARM STUDENTS REVEAL WORTH Their Products Literally Save People Prom Hunger And Near Starvation In Western Part of State. Brevard, Jan. 28.?Irish potatoes and other truck, and hogs, produced' by high school boys under the pro ject methods in the vocational agri cultural classes of Transylvania's two high schools, are proving a means of literally saving people from hunger and near-starvation this winter. The raising of potatoes, for which soil and climate here are especially adapted, had gone into a decline because of the attractions of "public works" dur ing boom days. Prof. Julian A. Glaz ener and Prof. J. F. Corbin began to stimulate production, with the result that in spite of relatively a dry year, gocd crops were raised in many parts of the county by the boys under their - tuition. The four months of vocation in tMs eight-month cdShty-wide" sys tem afforded plenty of time for a' full crop, and the boys profited by the scientific and practical help of their teachers, both of whom are not only expert vocational agriculture teachers, but also farmers on their own account. The success in this work? points the way to the enlargement of the manual and technical functions of public school education. Properly developed, the schools might go far toward feed ing pupils and reducing operating costs. That is at least the idea now prevailing in Transylvania among all the educators who are observing the success cat these experiments. Similar results hive been obtained at the Brevard Institute of the Methodist Church under Prof. J. F. Win ton, the president, and John Bishop, the direc tor of the farm, where a large part of the Supplies for the large institu tion. an raised under the student self help principle. ? ?? Du&ag their 87 trips abroad. Mr. and Mrs. Seig Harsfeld, of Kansas CSty, traveled s total of 400,000 mi'Um - ? . .-V^o ???asjg?* J. L. Avirett, of Blakely, Gs., rode a blind mule on his 700-mile vacation trip td Naples, Florida. Avirett spent SI days ?king the journey. FARMVILLE RELIEF ASSOCIATION RE (HVG MORE CALLS * ,fAyt? 'J ?_? f Closing Down Of Tobacco Facto ries Throw Many Out Of Work; Only One Contribution Received During Past Week. The situation which was thought to be bad here in regard to unemploy ment and great need, is rapidly be coming worse as the tobacco factories close and people ejected frotn the ru ral districts move in. Calls for assist ance for furnishing food and clothing are growing more numerous every day and the Association is hard put I to answer appeals and' supply tEe J direst necessities of food, clothing, and fuel, and wishes to again call the ; attention of citizens here to condi v ? tions and ask for contributions of money or above mentioned articles. Only one contribution was received during the past week, the Association is deeply grateful to the A. C. Monk Co., for this, a gift of $25.00 Juliet Marston, 20-years old, of Montclair, N. J., was granted a pri vate pilot's license after she1 had set the unusual record of flying "her own plane with only hours of previous instruction in flying. When R. C. Holt, Ohiopyle (Pa.) merchant, appeared in the basement beneath his store room to stoke the furnace, his pet cat became frighten ed and leaped into the firebox where the flames consumed the animal. MAYFLOWER NOW ON RIVER BOTTOM Famous Presidential Yacht Goes Down At Her Dock As Firej Rages; Firemen Fight Blaze For Over Three Hours. Philadelphia, Jan. 25.?The former Presidential yacht Mayflower, upon whose decks have walked many world figures in her da^, lies fire scarred and sunk in more than twen ty feet of Tenter Jat/the Philadelphia navy ?yarcL'-T^1?11 * ? ~ The once proud ship, whose career includes that of millionaire's pleasure yacht, gunboat, flagship patrol boat anc Presidential yacht, was swept by fire last night. Tons of water were poured into the ship until she settled on the river bottom at her dock. Her stern was submerged, her bow but a few feet above high tide. The Presidential suite and officers' quart ers, where the flames i aged, were ruined, as were other quarters in the stern of the famous old yacht. Whether it will be worth while to reconstruct her interior for further usefulness remains for naval experts to determine after the vessel is raised. Ordered decommissioned in 1929 by President Hoover as too expensive to main-Main as a Presidential yacht, the Mayflower was last month ordered recommissioned when no satisfactory bid for her sale was received. She was to be conditioned as a gunboat and assigned as a flagship to the special service squadron in Central American waters. The work of reconditioning her was under way. For several months she has been lying at the yard alongside the U. S. S. Niagara. The fire Was discovered in the of ficers' living quarters by sentries and a yard alarm was turned in. For a time it was believed the navy yard fire fighting forces could control the blaze, but after nearly an hour's ef fort, the city fire department was called upon and four fire engines and a Deleware river fire boat were rush t ed to the scene. After a battle of near ly three hours the proud old boat gave a lurch and touched the river bottom. Two enlisted men, both of the Ni agara, were slightly injured in fight ing the fire. Members of wthe skeleton crew of ! the Mayflower and others today salv aged some supplies and equipment from quarters below decks forward that were not under water. The Mayflower was built by the J. N. G. Thompson Company at Clyde I bank, Scotland, in 1896, for Ogden Goelet, New York millionaire. She is 273 feet long, 36 feet beam, and has a draught of 17 feet. In 1923 she was converted from a coal to an oil burner. At the outbreak of the Spanish American War in 1898, the yacht was told to the navy yard for $430,000 and she saw service in Cuban waters as a gunboat. At the end of the war she was assigned to special service in Porto Rican waters. The Mayflower was first used as a Presidential yacht in 1902 when she took Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt from Oyster Bay to New York City. After that she saw service in; Car: be an wat ers until 1904. Admiral Dewey used her as a flag ship at Guantanamo Bay in 1904, and in 1906 she again assumed the role as a Presidential yacht when the special envoys of Japan and Russia boarded her during the peace confer ence at Portsmouth, N. H? at the end ef the Japaaew-Rwtan War. Heads Tariff Board nenry r. r kwwi^ innucr nmiMj* < sador to Roa< whose nomination as Gbaiman of <fae U. S. Tariff Crm ???tfi n bu beta confirmed by he smt " S&.' lii/t ^ -.ix-. X r. .7,;>-.> > ? American Girl English Skating ? Tourney 1 ^fiss Maxibel^Vinson, 19, medal of the British National Skating Assoaation in London recently nth an exhibition >{ speed and fancy skating which amazed the English. W~ ' u. ?I....I.UI VATICAN'S ROAD 600 FEET LONG Short Line For Pope's Private Use Has Beautiful Station; Is -Shortest Railroad In World, And Most Elaborate. Vatican City. ? The smallest rail road in the world will be inaugurated here in a few months. It is the pope's own railroadf on which he can journey to the outside world and on which visiting cardin als or heads of state or papal repre sentatives can enter the Vatican City. Only 600 feet long, it has double tracks, several switches and a big railroad station that would do justice to a railroad 600 miles long. A hundred or more workmen have been busy since last April construct ing the "line" back of St. Peter's. They have dug a 300-foot tunnel into the Vatican Hill. It will be used as the "yard" of .the railroads and. in-. it locomotives and cars, including the pope's special train, will be kept and trains made up. The difference in level between the southern side of Vatican City, where the railroad begins, and the part of Rome that touches on Vatican City has necessitated construction of a bridge connecting' the Vatican rail road with the Italian state railroad. A section of the wall of the papal city was demolished. The bridge is 720 feet long?in fact, longer than the Vatican railroad itself. Some of its arches are 35 feet high. Beautiful poli-centric arch has been built at the spot where the railroad enters Vatican City. It carries two gates of iron and bronze. The station, for its size, is one of the most sumptuous and beautiful in the world. It is built in travertine stone of a soft rose color. It is 180 feet long and has a central hall 60 feet long, which will be used as the "salone d'onore," or reception room for august visitors. The station will not be called upon to handle much passenger traffic. The railroad is not destined to car ry ordinary passengers, but merely the pope himself, papal nuncidfe to for eign countries, visiting cardinals, bish ops, nuncios, heads of states, kings, princes and members of royal fami lies. The road will do a modest freight business, as foodstuffs and merchan dise will come into Vatican City di rectly. In accordance with the Lateran treaties no duty will have to be paid on these goods. A great effort has been made to prevent the modern garishness of a railroad from conflicting with the architectural treasures of Vatican City, softened by centuries. The Vatican Hill, into which the tunnel has penetrated ,has been or namented with fountains, and land scape architects have turned it into a garden spot. New York Times Says South Will Hardly Crawl Under Cov er With Senator Morrison Of North Carolina. Washington, Jan* 28. ? Senator Morrison's views on the Democratic outlook in 1932 woo him editorial men tion in the New York Times, in sub stance says that while the South will not be inclined to "rrawl under the covers with Senator Morrison" it is resigned to sticking with the party whatever happens. The Times boldly predicts that even with a wet Democrat candidate in 1932 there will be no hooting in the South and that the party.Wl. stick together hopeful of victory, Remaining as Sen ator Morrison says^, "Democratic and After viewing toe political situa tion, in. the South itnd connecting up the Senator's statement, the Times concluded1: "The death of Senator Overman brought Mr. Morrison to Washington by appointment. This gave him an op portunity to gain publicity for his views. Were there no such thing as a lame duck session, the spokesman from North Carolina would be Josiah W. Bailey, who was elected overwhel mingly against Senator Simmons in November. "But Mr. Morrison does not intend to remain in the appointee class; a special elation is coming at which he will presumably be a candidate for the seat he now holds. It is a rare chance for him to make some hay. Even though the party wheelhorses won't eat it, North Carolina can see the stack." SWEDISH ACE IS KILLED IN CRASH Rescuer Of Nohile Cracks Up Plane While Making Test; Led Interesting And Exciting Life As Soldier And Adventurer. Stockholm, Jan. 27.?Capt. Einar Paal Lundborg, Swedish aviator who rescued Captain Nobile in the disas trous Italian polar flight, died today of injuries received' this morning in an airplane accident He cracked up in a new type plane he was testing for the Swedish Army, diving from 150 feet. Both his legs and both his arms were broken, but his physicians had hoped his strong constitution would pull him through. In June, 1928, Lundborg flew from Spitzbergen, landed on a Polar ice floe where the Nobile party was stranded, took Nobile aboard and flew back. He returned to pick up other mem bers of the Italian party but damaged his plane in landing and was unable to get away. A fortnight later he was saved by a colleague before the Rus sian icebreaker, Krassin, rescued the rest of the party. Capt. Einar-Paal Lundborg, who picked General Nobile off an ice floe in the Arctic, lived a life as romantic as that of a fictional hero." His father Was a Lutheran minis ter, but the young man joined the Swedish army When he was 19, the youngest cadet in the army school. He was an athlete of considerable ability, but after a year's service he resigned and joined the Gerifcatf army, "die Kaiser gave him the Iron Orb# for service in the field during the Wbrld War. NWhen he got home the Finns were at war with &met Russia and Lund borg became a captain ih the Planish tank corps. In one engagement he panions in his tank had heen killed. He won the White Rose of Finland for that and at the end of the wfcr he was a colonel. A few years later he was fighting with the Latvians against the Soviets and after,that he went home td joth the Swedish air force. He Was one of the foremost fliers in Sweden, hut outside his own country he was little KnoWfr? before his rescue of General Nobile. After that exploit he visited the United States and was recsived at GRAND DUCHESS MARIE ENDS FIRST YEAR REAL WORK "Woman Without Country" En joys Life of Working Woman; Watiftk To Bttbme Citizen Of The' Uhfted States. New York. ? Woman without a country though she is, the Grand Duchess Marie of Russia, is doing pretty well these parious days. She has just celebrated her first anniversary as a working woman, her memoir of her Russian life is out in book forn^and she intends to begin lecturing. The grand duchess, cousin of the late Czar Nicholas, is a princess by right of birth, as well as marriage. Her first husband was Prince 'William of Sweden, with whom their son lives. That marriage, a political match, was annulled and Marie married a man of her own choice, Prince Ser gey Putiatin, at the time of the rev olution, while she was a Red Cross nurse. She fled with him to Paris, where she had another son, who died, She and Putiatin later were divorced. The grand duchesa, who is 40 years old, came here two years ago, after finding Paris unwilling to support her embroidery shop. Her first year here, she frankly says, she subsisted by living with friendly refugees in the Russian quarter of Harlem, where her royal title was respected by the monarch ists. She met Prince Matchabelli, a perfumer, and he introduced her to Edwin Goodman, the merchant for whom she now works. She now lives in a small ,unpreten tions apartment near the Fifth ave nue shopping district. When she lived uptown, a Russian hairdresser used to call frequently to bow before her in the semblance of an oldtime court at St. Petersburg. She has no time for such regal memories now, She is pretty much her own boss, however, coming and going at the shop as she pleases. In America, and especially in the store where she works, her title has caused some perplexity among people unfamiliar with the proper way of ad dressing royalty. Those who know, including her pub-" !ishera? ^J^JL'Yfltar^IHghriess," ia. the court manner. Shop girls used to calling customers "Madame" have met the situation by settling that title on her. She is friendly with them, says she admires them. Because she is without nationality, she has difficulty traveling on what her publishers describes as a League of Nations passport. She has tried to take out Ameri can citizenship papers, but was told she would have to wait eight years and then apply under the Russian im migration quota. Her book is likely to be of consider able interests to American literary circles because of one chapter, in which she tells of her stay with a Dr, M. on the Italian island of Capri. He is obviously Dr. Axel Munthe, author of the best selling "Story of San Michele." Marie wa3 sent to Capri by King of Sweden to join the queen, who was a patient of Dr. Munthe, There they walked and talked and sang ,and the doctor, she says, endeavored to alle viate her own troubled condition, which she attributed largely to her marital unhappiness. She saw no improvement in pros pect, however, and desiring most her freedom, ran away to Paris while the annulment of her marriage to Prince William could be arranged. LITERARY CLUB STUDIES BALLADS Mrs. J. W. Parker presided at a meeting of the Literary Club on Wednesday afternoon, when Mrs. P. E. Jones was hostess, and presented the Legislative Program of the State Federation, resulting in a decision to a3k the County's legislators to en dorse same. The unemployment situa tion and practical means of relieving same were also discussed prior to the program on "Ballads", which was pre sented by Mrs. W. M. Willis, who rdad a paper, "Tragedy In The Bal lad"; by Mrs. W. C. Askew who spoke on "The Old and New Ballad"; and by Mrs. J. L. Shackleford with illustra tions of the typical ballads of Eng land and Aftericd." Miss Olive Jones, of Bethel, was a special guest of the hostess and as sisted in serving a salad course at the conclusion of the program, f . ?. ! The Chinese hoard their money be cause the/ have little faith in banks.' VETERANS'BUREAU ...? ? WARMLY REBUKED Service Called Dilatory \nd In efficient By District Legion Convention Held In Goldsboro; Resignations Demanded. ? :i Goldsboro, Jan. 28. ? Resolutions censuring the Charlotte veterans' i bureau for "dilatory, inefficient and careless service to veterans" were j made public here today by District i Six, North Carolina Department of . the American Legion. CriticisiU of the bureau was voic ed by the district meeting here last night on motion of I.' P. Davis, of Goldsboro. Mr. Davis' resolution was a substitute for one proposed by the , Kinston delegation demanding the re signation of the three officials of the , Charlotte office. !. Delegates at the meeting complain- i ed of receiving "poor cooperation" in ( securing hospitalization for ill veter- ; ans and of being sent to "cheap hotels" at the bureau's expense while in Charlotte for examination. ( The district alsc indorsed immedi- - ate payment 6f' maturity value of '< veteran's compensation certificates. , Official mention in the petition i were J. S. Pittman, director of the ; Charlotte bureau, his assistant, and J. D. Deramus, attorney in charge of ? guardianship work. , WOULD INCREASE i HIGHWAY PATROL Senator Bennett Introduces Bill 1 Calling For Drivers License Pension Increases For Confed erate Veterans Asked. j ] Raleigh, Jan. 28.?Two companion ] bills, one to provide for State exami- t nation and licensing of automobile i drivers at a fee of $1.25 for private i drivers and $5 for chauffeurs and another to provide for increasing the r ?State-Highway Jktrol from *, the patrol to be charged with the duty 1 of enforcing the first bill and to be \ supported by fees derived from it, * were introduced in the Senate yester- i| day by Senator Bennett of Swain. ] The Senate has as special order for "i yesterday's session the same school ] bill over which the House was debat- { ing but as it preferred to wait for the House to take its stand, the special i order was deferred until today on ] motion of Senator Blount of Pitt i "There are people here," said San- 1 ator Baggett, of Harnett, pointing to < the galleries, "who want to know < what we think about this. I hope this I motion doesn't pass." 1 But Senator Hicks, of Granville, j was far less desirous of speaking or hearing a speech. "They can come 1 back," he said. J The motion passed and there were no speeches or opportunities for speeches. Among the new bills introduced yesterday was one by Senators Dortch j of Wayne, Baggett of^Harnett and Ward, of Beaufort, to increase the present pension for Confederate vet erans from $1 a day to $600 a year, to be paid monthly. Senator Bennett's automobile'"driv er's license bill is based on the Penn- { sylvania law. It would allow no one { under 16 years of age to be licensed j to drive a private car, no one under 18 j to be allowed to drive a public convey- ( ance. The bill further "provides for the punishment of road law violation and for taking the license from drivers t guilty of certain offenses. The companion law relative to the ( highway patrol provides for three ^ first sergeants, eight sergeants. 10 corporate and 100 patrolmen in ^ddi- ^ tion to the captain. The present pa- > trol consists of the captain, nine lieut- ? eriants and 27 patrolmen. The driver's * license fees would support the patrol, f the Senator believes. j Local flappers want to know how * "sin" got in kissing. t ? j Would Forgive Debtors E tiabilized tod depression cured if the U. S. reduce tlie defctt other oa- t ft tQggm* ? r * ? vc Six-Months State Operated School BUI Passes Bouse '? a?? ' I.' McLean Substitute Passed By Vote1 Of- 86 to 32 After Five Hours of Debate Arid Defeat Of Two Amendments; Battle Wow Shifts To Senate. Raleigh; Jan. 28.?The- House over whelmingly pledged itself to the prin ciple of a State supported six-months public school term for revenues other than ad valorem taxes yesterday, pass ing the Mac Lean substitute for the Lindsey-Young bills 86 to 32 on second reading. The majority was so convincing that opponents of the measure ofered no objection that would have carried it over until today for third reading, and it was put on its final passage by viva voce vote. The battle now shifts to the Senate, where the bill was reported! out fav orably by its Committee on Education last week, and set for the special or der yesterday, but on motion of Sen ator Blount, of Pitt, was postponed to become the special order for the gession beginning at 11 o'clock this morning. Passage came in the House after more than five hours debate which 3tarted Monday evening, was inter rupted by adjournment, and resumed yesterday shortly after noon. For two days the school bill has monopolized the attention of the House, no other bills coming up for action. Before reaching the main question, ' the House by vote of 32 to 86, defeat ed the Connor amendment that would have added the words "insofar as feasible," to the provisions of the State support and maintenance from sources other than ad valorem taxes. and the Jeffress amendment which would have provided for a State re valuation in the event any ad valorem tax were decided upon. Representative Connor, following the defeat of his amendment, voted for the MacLean bill, but Representa tive Jefferess, of Guilford, reversed bis vote in committee to report the bill favorably, and voted against it, as did Uzzell, of Rowan. Both had an nounced in committee that they voted with reservations. More than a dozen Representatives voting for the bill did so after ex piaining Tiiat xncy ? to exercise individual judgment upon financial measures that might result, and as many opposing it explained that they did so in the belief that the proposal wa3 not definite enough and that they required a bill of specific provisions before committing them selves. Among those voting "aye" was Rep resentative Spence, of Moore, chair man of the House Finance Committee which will be charged with finding the $12,000,000 additional revenue which it is estimated will be required :o accomplish what the bill directs, aut Mr. Spence said that he was here x> find as much tax relief as possible, myway. FORD COMPANIES SUED FOR $71,500 Ford Motor Company And Fre mont Representative Defend ants In Large Damage Suit In Wayne County. Goldsboro, Jan. 28.?Suits for $71, >00 against the Ford Motor Company ind the Fremont Motor Company are jeing tried in Wayne Superior Court, presided over by Judge N. A. Sin ?lair, of Fayetteville. Monday afternoon was given to the Ira wing of a jury from a special ve lire of 40 men. On Tuesday morning headings were read, witnesses were iworn and testimony of the plaintiffs vas begun. The case grew out of an automobile vreck on the Goldsboro-Kinston high vay some time ago, following which rasper Ward died as a result of the vreck. His brother, A. S. Ward, is suing for $50,000. Braxton Johnson sustained injury to a leg and is suing 'or $20,000. G. R. Ward, owner of the ?ar, is asking $1,500 damages as pay nent for his car and as personal in ury. The plaintiff claims that the car, i Ford, was bought from the Fremont tfotor Company and that the car vrecked because of a wheel collapse. Phe suit was brought against the milder of the car and the distributor, rhe action was brought by G. R. Yard, administrator, and Braxton * ohnson. Attorneys representing the plain iffs are R. L. McMillan and R. N. limms, of Raleigh; Kenneth C. Rby tlL of Goldsboro, and L. D. Parish. Attorneys representing the defend mt companies ate Josiah W. Bailey ind William B. Jones, of Raleigh, rep esenting the Fremont Motor Com pany, and the Goldsboro law firm of jangston, Allen & Taylor and E. T. Pansier, of Charlotte, representing he Ford Motor Company. There are 28404,000 student* regist ered In the public, private and paro* hial schools at the United States.