?c\w. ' '?? i in mm man rigim .- - ?- ? ? ?* 'Xj" 2^' ? v? - ? ' ~ HJB WHO HAS NOTHING TO ADVERTISE HAS NOTHING TO SELL { t - ? "* '*>,<.-? -"4 .J ? ?"? * v. Mil ?"?? ?? ' : ? I I I 11 ? '? "v ' 1 . . ' . . ?' y a "? " ~ ? -onnwnvi? FARMVILLE, PITT COUNTY, NORTH cAjfeQUNA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY Stju NUMBER THIRTY-NINE^ ? '?- v- -??- ? ? ??: ? ?? -~r h ^ 5* - yQ*.. - *itZl ritM' ' ' '?&_ v\ ' ? ?* 'i VUU mani SMEDLEYBUM WILL FACE TRIAL AT PHILADELPHIA H Secretary Adams Announces Monday, February 18th As Date For Proceedings To Be gin; Nature Of Charges Still Kept Secret Washington, Feb. 3.?Philadelphia, which has seen Smcdley D. Butler leading its drive on crime and has heard him as a virile speaker, will see the dashing Marine as defendant in court-martial proceedings and hear ' him discuss Premier Mussolini for the! second time. Secretary Adams today fixed Mort_ day, February 16, as the date for the i court-martial to start there. Major General Butler went to I Philadelphia in 1924 as Director of j Public Safety and spent1 two years! trying to clean up vice conditions. On January 19* .19&* hf made the speech before the Contemporary Gut" in. which he Allegedly described Premier tary triaLf' cision h n r?'TWiS--'besar' XWWlMiffr eially. At a ceidb*ea#*i^villMQOSMpa?Si' men, Secretary Adam? said -th*t "un less we be open." Charges i and- specifications" fof which Butiw wttt bfr*tri6d have not been compf*tsA?Th#|^stiii are being considered by.Reas-sA<&nJralDa vid F. Sellers, Judg* Advocate General of the Navy-" When-"finally- drawn up, they must'receive the - approval of Secretary AdsWS Major HSmry-Leonardf of' defense counsel, is awaiting service vi charg es on his client. It was expected Ad miral Seller# would submit the charg es either toswtew craextday. They will not bet made-pob&e without con sent of General BdUtel*. Officials >of the Italia*- government at Washington todayeaid they would not be represented at the trial. They reiterated that the apology of the American govemment'to" Italy had closed the: incident*'so' far as they were concerned. Cornelia*- VprtderfeiK^ Jr.f-aS-Phoe nix, Ari., said he might have "a good many things to say" regarding the case at the proper time. There have been reports that he supplied General Butler with the Mussolini an ecodote. Meanwhile, General Butler had asked for and received permission to leave the confines of the Marine post at QuantiCo, Virginia, to confer with counsel. Permission was granted by Major General Ben H. Fuller, Marine commandant Vand*rhilt Indicates That He WiH Talk Phoenix, Ariz., Feb. 3.?Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr., may have ."a good many things to say" concerning the incident involving Major General Smedley D. Butler, of the Marine Corps, and Premier Mussolini, of It aly, if circumstances "change suffi ciently." Vanderbilt, credited in some quar ters with having supplied the ma terial for General Butler's recent charge that the Italian Premier was quilty of a hit-run motoring offense, made this known late last night. His announcement came during discussion of a statement by the Ital ian foreign that Vanderbilt, a former .newspaper publisher, once had been granted a "brief audience" with Mussolini. The foreign office statement was in the nature of an amendment to one issued by it last week to the effect that Mussolini had never met ^poung *'~v Viin f ftQCKfvlzvt "They seem to be backing down a bit, doat they?" the young former publisher said. Told that a visit he had with the Italian Premier was characterized in the latest foreign office statement as a "brief audience such as hundreds 01' foreigners have been granted," he laughed. "That audience, resulting in a pub lished interview in 1926," be- said, "was- 4,M6 words long. Anyone can exercise his own judgment as to whether 4,000 words is "brief.' " Asked if ever would have any thing definite to say regarding Gen eral Butler's story of the hit-run in cident, which wiH bring the general before a court martial soon, Vander bflt said : "I have nothing to say now, but if gbrumstancee change .sufficiently, I may have a good many things to ' T-- -i,. .'v. >V WfcOe pursued by a big black bear in the mountains, near Reading, Pa. Ifcpfif Sagas and Peter Keppley dis i anted > |inl>n.e oaf con tend "bet dog" sandwiches. When the aateai smelted the hatch H hate ed to taveetfeste and the mra-escap a4 - ? ^ An^appV tree betaagfag to Helen . ?*? i ' ? ri SENATE JBUS MOVE FOR MORE MEDICAL DRINK Drastic Search Provision Strick en From Howell BIS, How ever; Want Physicians Given Free Hand In The Presort tk? of Liqpor. .Washington, Feb. 4.?The . Senate is cold to the Wkkersham Commis sion's recommendation- ttarf physi cians be given a free hand in the pre scription of liquor. A-proposal tof lift the present re strictions, insofar as they apply to the Dfetriet of Columbia, was defeat ed yesterday by a vote of 45 to 25. A move to-reconsider this vote-also-Was defeated, 39 to- 29. The proposition was In the form of an amendment to the District of' Columbia enforcement act sponsored' by Senator Howell, Republican, Ne j braska. Debate indicated many ol \ the senators were viewing the matter {From the national aspect rather than. as a loch! issue. !' The anti-prohibitionists, incidental ly, pointed-'out the minority favrfricg the amendment was the largest re i corded for liberalization of the prohi bition" laws since enactment of the Eighteenth Amendment. Today the Senate expected to lay the biQ aside again to consider an 1 other of the pending supply bills, but other amendments awaited votes, a ' mong them one by Senator Bingham, 'Republican, Connecticut, under which ?doctors would be permitted to pre ' scribe -alcohol in the form of beer or ! ale as well as whiskey and wine. Pres ent limitations as to quantity of alco hol prescribed wdbld govern. Before laying aside the Howell bill yesterday the senators did take from It the most controversial feature, a drastic provision for the search of private homes to or from which liquor had been transported. An amendment was adopted, regarded by some al most as stringent, which would per mit search in homes used fbr liquor manufacture or storage for sale. Sheriff H. W. Culbertson failed to find anybody "at home" when he ralli ed a big whiskey still at Speers Ferry, Va., because the bootleggets were warned of hirfHspproa&whejr all th# church bells in the vicinity were toll ed. DESIGNATES WEEK OF UVE AT HOUr Governor Gardner1 Sets Aside Week Beginning February 16 For Second State-wide Observ ance; Says School Children Can Be Great Help. Raleigh, Feb. 4.?Asking that spec ial emphasis be placed again this year upon the efforts to convey to students and their parents a true picture of the agricultural situation in the State, Governor Gardner has designated the week beginning February 16 as the second annual "Live-at-Home Week." During the week efforts will be made by more than 24,000 teachers in 6,000 schools to carry to 875,000 pupils and their parents the basic idea of "Farm to Make a Living in 1931." "Last year school superintendents, county and local, supervisors, princi pals and teachers participated in the program. The teachers of vocational agriculture in the public high schools not only worked in the schools in which they were regularly employed but also rendered valuable services throughout the entire country and often 4n adjoining counties," the-Gov ernor said, adding "the-live-at-home program has for its main purpose the encouraging of all of us engaged in AntMAlvAa QTlH fft 12U~IXIiU? vv giVTT v~ supply ourselves with all the food and feed-stuffs and live-stook-producte necessary for family and farm coo sumption the year round- It would al so encourage us to grow enough sur plus to supply the small towns and the cities which are our logical mar kets? and it would encourage the city folk of this state to give a preference to the North Carolina farmer in their purchase of the supplies' which he grows." Governor Gardner, in his message, states that the school children should be interested in and should support the live-at-home program because: . 1. They > can become acquainted with the agricultural conditions -and needs of the State. 2^ They can help secure the'good will of the parents and neighborsior .the movement. 8. The lhre-at-home progrsas means Tetter living for the A reporter recognised Bishop Dar lington-hid called him by name'. - "My-name- is-Jonee," said Bishop Darlington with a broad smile, as he shook hands. ? 1 Bishop Cannon, Jr. of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, today boh- [ bled into the Mount Vernon Metho dist church on crutches to face charges. The doors were locked im mediately. Bishop .W. N. Ainsworth, who has charge of the proceedings, stent word to reporters by a uniformed police man, who was standing guard at a side door, that he would see them. He informed them "this is an ec cleiastical prooteedings carried on as a church law prescribes Shd nothing will be given to the public until it~"is over. When a conclusion is reached, I will give out the results as well as the names of the men who art con- ' ducting the hearing." He then stepped back into the church, the door was closed and the policeman mounted guard. Cannon is facing charges filed by four prominent pastors of the church. What the charges contain has never been disclosed. The Bishop evaded reporters and photographers by entering * base ment door at the rtar bf ?^the thurch. That dpO* *l*o was loek^l'^miiediat Whan thf twflve pan appointed fey charges, had aisembW i? the church, Bishep- Ainswerth caBed the hearing to order and opened it with a prayer. , His voice could fee heard out on the street . Bishop Ainsworth said the hear ings probably would last two or three 1 days. Bishop Cannon, in a statement given to the American Press, said he would have nothing to do with making the charges public, as it was his un- 1 derstanding the hearings would be private. riatv, ah liiiliniriWT HHSUT WH1MVM I TOLDTOGETBUSY Temperance Workers Organiz ing For A Nation-wide Cam paign; State President Sends Out Order For Members To I. "Gird For Actoin." Charlotte, Feb. 3.?Confronting a rising tide of wet agitation in the North and East and with the shadow of another Presidential battle loom-1 ! ing on the horizon next year, prohi bition forces in North Carolina are called upon by Mrs. Wv B. Lindsay, of this city, Stahe president of the Ww - C. T. U.r to gird for actiojr~m the' most* intensive* campaign*, -of* oj-4 ganizat!6rti?v^beg?t% its history. Throughout the State and the nation the union-opened Sunday a campaign-that will last-throughout I thia month and duHngwhlcih fnflit&ut W. C. T. U. leaders hbpetoadd 200,-1 000 members to its membership of I 600,000. ' I Leaded' of thfe tadfrfemief already are in the field in North-Carolina, and Mrs. Lindsay is 'calling upon all members of the union in North Caro lina to begin work and to continue j until the campaign is carried to a| victorious close. J Strategy of the campaign is focns ed upon two primary objectives?ut-j ter route Uf^thSiiwetifMTR<# j^.??!??. ~I>t,5 from fine EKi.7. WAMANifHfflTSI fffiDTOJttES ON City Dads Cttt K^^Afid Farm- i ville Now Paying Less Than Several Larger Ttowna in This SeiftioirOf Statej^PWnt Is On Paying Bteis. fV * V At the regular meeting of the City Dads on Tuesday night the rates on Water, Light1 and I^^serviee were , reduced, and are now as follows: On Lights: First 60 K. W: H., 0 | cents; Next 160 K. W. H-, 7 cents; Next 200 K. W. H., 6 cents; All over 400 K. W. E, 5 cents. No discount, j Minimum Charge $1."26 pet month:. On Electric Ranges and Heaters of 2000 watts rating or more: First 800 E. W. H., 3c; all above 800 K. W, H.. 2%c. Minimum rata tof each connec tion, 52.00 per month. On Power: Rate of 6c per K. VCTH., with following disobudts: BfllyTe&s than |60,10%; Over/350T>ui lea than ' 31(K>; 15%; Over ( nM;my . ; On Witter: Ffiit ^0? gallons, , $1-25; next 10,000 gallons, pap thousr j and, 35p; next 40,000 fhjflons, per ] thousand, S0c; next 47,000 gallons, per ( thousand, 25o; next }00,000 gallons, per thousand, 20c; all ajx>y@ 000,600 gallons, pep thousand 15c. Minimum rate of 31.25. , Farmviije should be proud of its ? Water & Light Plant. It is not only j furnishing lights, power and water j cheaper than several larger nearby , towns, but the revenue derived from | its operation Is almost sufficient to pay the running expenses,of the town. Elsewhere in this paper will be seen ^ the financial statement of the Town . of Farmville for. the month of Jan- , uary, and from it we tafce the follow ing figures: Water A Light Revenue, $4,160.04; Tptal'disbumwnents, 34,- 1 717.22,' whlch shows that the revenue from the Light and Water plant was only $566:28 less than the total ex penditures for the months The Plant also forotehe* "water for the fire Department, current for the J fire alarm system, currant, water and heat- for the Municipal building, for which- no charge is made. Another thing Farmville citiaens may- boast of- is the-continuous ser vice -givenr by -the plant. Since 1924 thj total shut-off8 of-the plant has amounted-toleas -than six minutes. 1 t - FARMVILLE TO | BMTOMAMT I GfflS 4 MILLION * T- ? * J Make Sales -of 23,205,290 Pounds' ?: Past Season, A Gain Of 4,365, * 71& Poantis Oter Fonde* Sek F son ; Price Average Of $12.58. For Season. The FarmviUe Tobaoco market clos ed for the season with Friday** sales,, and west on Tecord w selling-more than 23 million pounds, the-largest .total in its history.. Pieces continued good on-all of the hotter grades until the doaingf.. . . The fcmr warehouses here sold 18, 839,572 pounds, last season, making a with rales amounting to The average for 1929-30 was $18.0$, She average^ season tefog $12.58, r&Mt loss in averAge of |f48. local TteliaT Association. Farpvffle ROBESON MAN IS KILLED BY NEGRO ? Fdr Third Time In Three Wee$s White Man Has Been Shot Down In Comity By Negro; Two Dead And One Now In Hospital. Lumberton, Feb. 3,?A jury sum moned here yesterday by Coroner D. W, Biggs found that Duncan Davis, 88, came to his death from a gunshot wound inflicted by Robert Perkins and ordered Perkins held for super ior court, expressing the opinion that he is guilty of second degree murder. Davis was" shot down in the yard of his home neft.Fairmont late night before last after fcb.h&d ordered the Negro away from his home. A brother of the dead man said the Negro was cursing in the home and that Duncan forbade it. Perkins shot from the Davis is the third wfrj^man ghot HdCkmald} Aberdeen contractor,-is-in a LumbMon sahatoriumin?:hftihhs' condition"as" a result" of being shot doA^n by Booker T- Currie, colored labbzeF at Orrum Saturday.Posses beaded by x?fficerr are locking for Cuirie and Perkins, ? ' During the last. 14 years, more than 200 babies have been born in the Maryeville (0.) State Reformatory for Women. One 33-year-old inmate is the mother of 17 children, all born at single births,' and another 28-year old prisoner is a grand-mother. Ludwig Johnson, of Wapello, Iowa, bas been exempted from jury service because he: is the town's only shoe repairman, GET BROODER IN READER EARLY Best To HOve Brooder Going At Least Three BOys Before The Chicks Are Taken From The Incubator, Says State College Poultry Expert Sin' i ? - - .1 . . :. ? ? havei a good litter about two inches ieetf m tha\floon Btodr cut'in tw