. in I iii \\ i i i i i as WHO HAS NOTHING TO ADVERTISE HAS NOTHING TO SELL & W< fS^Sn^'^/w ?rf':?P - cj'; %-. .,?. ?.., ?.?, I. mliwij M iiiw ? #|: PLAY SAFE?PATRONIZE THE ADVRTISERS 2 DJ '1MB ENTERPBISH i ?. ' :| J . i i t r -' ?? ? ?* ? ' * >? ; . ? I I t r - T ^ ?'??? ?? '0,?_ ij ?" ,f v' V1'"*'' ?*' -i"i' Vi"."" ''T'; '?' K""Y? ^ ''-ty'' J|^WjtT"I."^'^ ji " y. r ? ? rr, . j ; : ?r 3 *? . " ' 11 1" ??????.'" ' .?W VOL. TWENTY-ONE FARMVILLB, PITT COUNTY, NORTH CABOI^NA, FRIDAY. MARCH 20th, 1931 ? NUMBER FORTY-FIVE ? ?? ? ? " *'? ?? " v . ? ~/;?? . Two Women Missionaries From U, S. Slain In China Members of Seventh Day Ad ventist Mission Beaten to Death by Chinese Servants. Peiping, China, March 18.?Mrs. Vera Mosebar White of Battle Ground, Wash., and Mrs. Victoria Marian Milter, whose mother lives at Spokane, Wash., were slain in their sleep Sunday night at Yunnanfu. They were missionaries of the seven th Day Adventist Mission. The crime was attributed to Chi nese servants at the Mission who were discharged. The husbands of the women had gone on business to Talifu, 150 miles away. A message to the United States le-: gation here from Consul Harry Stev-1 ens brought word of the killings. The skulls of both women had been fractured by hatchets. Two children of Mr. and Mrs. White were mo lested. Yunnanfu authorities were looking for the assailants but had made no arrests. Shanghai, March 18.?Mrs. Vera Mosebar White and Mrs. Victoria Marian Miller, American missionaries slain at Yunnanfu, came to China with their husbands in 1926, and were at Nanking during the incident of 1927 in which undisciplined soldiers beseiged a house occupied by Ameri cans and were driven off only after two United States destroyers opened fire in defense of the foreigners. Local headquarters of the Seven Day Adventist Missioin received a tel egram today saying Mrs. White and Mrs. Miller were murdered during the night of March 15. Mr. Miller and Mr. White and the latteris two children are at present at Yunnanfu. Find No Trace j Missing Woman Warrant Issued for Two Young Men, Charging Abduction of Widow. ed without word of Mrs. Normal Ship man, Translyvania county authorities today launched an intensified effort to locate the two young men with whom the wealthy widow was last known to have been seen. Formal charges of abduction were filed against the two, Joe Bradley, who helped Mrs. Shipman in her bus iness affairs, and "Happy" Brown. The warrant was sworn out by Dep uty Sheriff Tom Wood, and descrip tions of the two were broadcast to police throughout the south. Meantime, Sheriff Ed Patton awaited word from state chemists at Raleigh who had been asked to de termine if stains found on a eloth sack in Mrs. Shopman's home were blood, as they seemed to be. At the time he found the sack, the sheriff said he found evidence that the home of the widow had been rifled of sil verware and other valuables. Com mon report, the officer said, was that Mrs. Shipman kept about $7,000 in cash in her home. Mrs. Shipman, 40 and plump, but locally considered a handsome woman, went to visit her brother, J. R. Glaz eper, at St. Petersburg. The latter said later, however, that she did not arrive. Bradley ran the restaurant for a week, and on March 9 he and Brown disapppeared, taking the restaurant keys with them. Bert Mitchell, a ' rmer, reported he saw them leaving Brevard early in the day, each driv ing an automobile belonging to Mrs. Shipman. Nothing has been heard of them since. Neighbors became alarmed, and at their instance, Sheriff Patton made a search of the widow's home, finding the stained sack. The warrant sworn out today charges that Bradley and Brown "did, by the use of opiates or drugs, weak en Norma Shipman, and while in this condition, she was abducted by them with the intention of robbing her of her money and other valu ables." It was explained that a warrant was sworn out in order thrat the two young men might be brought back here for questioning if they are lo .csted Mrs. Shipman was widowed when Sheriff W. G. Shipman 3 to 46 it adopted an amendment striking out the section of the bill to j ?eorganize the state department of igriculture which would make the of fice of commissioner of agriculture ippointive. Thus emasculated, the bill passed ts second reading without a record rote, but proponents defeated a move a suspend the rules and put the . STSrWmtt reading, carryi&g ? iver until today. 1 Following adoption of the amend nent. Introducer Swing sought to 1 irevent the second reading, but the ] >pponents seized their advantage and iressed on to a vote in which no one ( vas interested in enough to call for t roll call. At its morning session it passed , he Hood-Parker bill requiring a 10 < ier cent cut in the tax levy for per- ; sonnel in counties, cities and towns, , rat excluded 35 counties and the city ] >f Raleigh. The Moss-Cherry bill placing motor j ieense fees on a weight instead of j lorsepower oasis was passed on sec- i >nd reading, after being amended to j rat the fee3 per hundredweight from i 10 to 55 cents. J This would reduce the revenue re- \ :eived by the state from this source >y about half a million dollars. Sherwood Upchurch, Wake's repre- < lentative, stated he would offer an .1 intendment today to the department >f agriculture reorganization bill call ng for reimbursement of the city of Raleigh the $200,000 it sunk in the State Fair plant. He said that it took showmen to ran a fair, not State College profes sors, and held no bright optimism for he success of the fair as it would be idministered under the new law. The agricultural department bill vould abolish the entire present set lp, substituting a board of six, one :o be the chairman. All would be , ippopinted by the governor. MRS. MARTHA SKEENES DIES AT THE AGE OF 108 , Kinston, March 16.?Mrs. Martha , Jkeenes, 108, died early today at the , iome of her daughter, Mrs. George). Collins, near Deep Run. She ^ was iorn in 1822, the daughter of Shelton ( Case, who resided near Kookerton. Her husband was the late Jesse S. , ?keenes, who fought in the War Be tween the States. She is survived by ;wo daughters, Mrs. Mattie Harrison, , >f Kinston, and Mrs. Collins; seven grahdchildren and many great grandchildren and great-great grand children. Only five presidents, Washington, John Adams, Jefferson, Madison and Monroe, had been inaugurated when Mrs. Skeenes was born. She was a grown woman when the Mexcan war was fought FIND FOSSILS IN WEST * I Northampton, Mass. ? Professor Howard A. Meyerhoff, of the depart ment of geology and geography, an nounced that two rare vertebrate fos sils, one of an animal which ranged the great plains of the North Central States several million years ago, have been brought back by the Smith Col lege group that studied in the Black Hills last Summer. More Money Needed For War Vet Loans ' . - _ , -v. ? \ 1 'T ; / -?'>??> i" . '? ? % V. - I . * - 2 Hundred Millions Necessary Demands by Ei-Sfcrvice Men Thrusts Job Before Treasury. Loan Madrfnety| limbering. Washington, Ma?b&8.--Demands if World War veteran^for loans has thrust before tha treasary the neces sity of raising $200,OCfD,000 in less than a month. Likewise, Director Ij#s of the vet erans bureau, believes Jjbat within a short time loan checks will be going out at the. rate of 2OO&D0 weekly, a sharp increase, as Hid 4?w machinery limbers up with use. .j Secretary Meiflon ainiuncled yester day a request by VetJbins adminis trator ffines for $50b,?(J,000 to cov er payments on 1^72,?? applications received to March 16. 'ft had been es timated $360,000,000 would suffice and 1 1-2 pter ceht tJfeaaury certifi cates were isSued to gp that sum. Hines said, howeve$ the half bil lion would be. needed'fcy April^ 11. was not announced sttberday. The veterans adnapstrator also told Secretary Me|roWL>000,0000,000 He estimated 7S JmXrit of the 3, 500,000 adjusted atioin certif icate holders woul&*? advantage of the oppoltW# jP?row half the face value of th^^^^^^cates. ^ President's veto'^^increased^ the this afternoon passed the Moss-Cherry bill to charge the basis for automo bile license fee charges from horse power to Weight. The bill was amended to change 60 cents to 55. The bill goes to the Senate. Under the mleasure cities may not exact a fee of more than $1 from each individual passenger automobile. Formerly some cities have charged for city license tags and for city drivers' license. As originally written by the Reve nue Department, on the 60 cents per hundredweight basis it was estimtaed that the measure would result in an increase of about $30,000 annually in the fees for license, which total about 57,000,000 yearly. This will be more than eliminated by the amendment. S atnarcand Women To GoOnTrial Fifteen Young Women Charged With Firing Buildings at State Institution. Carthage, Mar. 16.?Fifteen young women, inmates of Samarcand, State institution for deliquent girls, were bound over to Superior Court on charges of first degree arson this af ternoon following a prelimentary bearing in connection with the des truction of two buildings at the in stitution Thursday. First degree arson is" punishable in North Carolina by electrocution. The crime is described as the burning of a dwelling house, Frank Nash, assist ant attorney general, said this after noon. Walter Siler, of the Attorney Gen eral's office at Raleigh, was present to assist in the prosecution of the cases. The two buildings were totallyj de stroyed by fire late in the afternoon of March 12. . One of them, Cham berlin Hall, was twice fired before it was destroyed. Evidence at the hearing was to the effect that each of the fifteen giris bound over had admitted some part in firing the building. Girls Held ? Those bound over wtere: Josephine French, Delois Seawell, Mary. Burns, Margaret Pridgen, Wilma Owen, Es telle Wilson, Cloae Stillwell, Virginia Hayes, Rosie Mull, Margaret Aberne thy, Miriam Spencer, Thelmer v;y,-- : i'"1 Jo e Robinson Passes Away Old Time Editor of Goldsboro Daily Argus Dies Tuesday - Morning. Goldsboro, Mar. 17.?Joseph T.Rob inson, 77, for 44 years editor of the Goldsboro Daily Argus until his re tirement two years ago, died early to day from complications resulting from influnza. Funeral services will be held at II a. m. Wednesday at St. Mary'3 Cath olic Church here. The veteran editor was an alumnus of the University of North Carolina, where he studied law, and was ad mitted to the bar at the same time as the late Governor Charles B. Ay cock, but abandoned the bar for a newspaper career. He is survived by- his widow, who was Miss Ada Humphrey before her marriage, and a sister, Mrs. Morris, of Goldsboro, W. S. O'B. Roberson, prominent Charlotte lawyer, is a nephew. Youth On Trial For Killing Man Two Brothers of Burke County Charged With Having Killed Father's Tenant. ??? 1 Morganton, March 18.?Sutton Ab ernathy, 16 year old boy charged with ' the murder of Shorty Tallent, tenant on his father's farm, two miles from J Hildebran, in the eastern part of 1 Burke county, took the stand in su perior court this afternoon to offer ! evidence to substantiate his claim that he killed Tallent in self defense. hTe boy, who voluntarily gave him- - self up to officers soon after the tragedy, told much the same story ? tbat.be related then. ^ iiS6ulie^hig*"tfiyotiT[gelr" brother, Frankie Abernathy, who was ' with him on what he claims was a 1 rabbit hunt when he shot Tallent, 1 has been included in the indictment and in the effort being made by the j state to convict the two of second degree murder or manslaughter evi- j dence was introduced to bear out the claim that the killing was planned. j The younger boy will likely be put on the stand tomorrow.. Their j story in brief is that Tallent had j threatened Sutton with whom he had , a disagreement about a bale of cot- i ton and that white they hunted rab- ^ bits in the woods near their own ^ and Tallent's house he ran them, ^ throwing rocks and cursing them, and that Sutton fired to save, so he claims, his and his brother's life. 1 More than thirty witnesses were sworn in by the defense this after noon and it is expected that the case will not go to the jury before Frirday. ^ THINK HENRY ABRAMS HIGHWAYMEN'S VICTIM Greenville, March 16.?Henry Ab rams, aged white man whose body was found on the highway Saturday ( night in Belvoir township, this i county, is thought to have been a J victim of highwaymen. This is the j belief of Coroner Williams and other ] officers who have been at work on < the case. A pay envelope contain- ? ing an -undertermined. amount of < money which Abramk^ad received t durftig the afternoon was missing when the body was found. i Examination of the body 'disclosed i that the man had been* hit on the ' head just above the temple with a 1 blunt instrument of some kind, and 5 the blow is said to have caused his < death,1 Mr. Abrams was a resident of the * Belvoir community and held in high 1 esteem. He is survived by one son. * Funeral and burial services were con- ' ducted Sunday afternoon. * ^ i READING CLERK 1 STRIKES A SNAG. 1 Raleigh, March 17.?Fritz Smith, Senate reading clerk, has wagged his tongue through many bills contain- . ing all kinds of legal and technical words to the satisfaction of ths mem bers of the upper House but at last , he was stumped?and who besides a doctor would not have been? Spnator Buirus of High Point, an- , thor of the bill amending the work men's compensation Act to include oc cupational diseases, had to relieve Cleric Smith and read Ms own bill. "Ankylolsotomiasis, Amidoderiva tives, tetraeholormenthan gonioma amassi, mystagums, burejtis" were 8om? of the medican terms in the 2**em Wore This Crowr^ ' It it made ot solid pore gold and wai found by the Spanish conquerors of what is now Colombia, South America. Miss Lillian Birdsail is dis playing it for visitors to the -Uni versity of Pennsylvania Museum. ? 1 : ? Rap All Forms Of Sales Tax Merchants Again Meet and Con demn Proposed Revenue Rais ing Measures. Raleigh, Mar. 17.?Opposition to any and all forms of sales tax was again expressed by the board of di rectors of the North Carolina Mer chants Association Monday afternoon. Characterizing the porposed as "a tax on property," the merchants, headed by President Jas. H. Blount, of Greenville, adopted a resolution in peighing against the enactment of a bill providing for a general sales tax in any form. ? "The North Carolina Merchants As sociation is heartily in favor of tax reduction, but real tax reduction can only be brought about by reducing the enormous expenses of the govern ment," the merchants vind. As expressed in the resolution the board ^directors belidve that any tax ugairj and unwise and favors the large cor porations while burdening the poor man, "It is an economic impossibility to reduce taxes by levying more taxes," he resolution reads. "Under the pro oosed plan of the legislature, there is oo tax reduction but merely a tax shifting from the pockets of one man x> those of another." The merchants' resolution drawn Monday is a renewal of an attack jegun at a February meeting of the j issociation, at which time a state ment was issued which censured the proposal as being not only inimical ;o merchants but, even in a greater measure, a burden upon the public. Teachers To . Change Date Move Up Time of Annual Meet on Account of Prolonged Term of Legislature. The annual meeting of the North Carolina Education Association^ched jled to be held in Raleigh, March 26, 27 and 28, has been changed to \pril 9, 10 and 11, it was announced Monday, to avoid meeting in Raleigh luring the session of the General As sembly, which gives every indication >f continuing in session until the ;ime first scheduled for the meeting. When the hotels' crowded with leg slators and others interested in bus ness connected with the General As sembly, it was feared that there would ye difficulty in obtaining comfortable iccomodations for the teachers. The Chamber of Commerce put; its rooms yureau organization at the service of ;he assembly, but the executive ? com nittee, deemed it inadvisable to at ;empt the meeting under those con iitions, decided to change the date ;o April 9, 10 and 11. The teachers Jneeting is usually marked by an attendance of fifteen lundred or more teachers and educa tional leaders of the State. LIBRARIAN DIES Boston, March 18.---William CoSl ;dge Lane, librarian emitus at Har vard university, died today in his 71St pear. He was credited with having seen instrumental in building the Harvard library from one of 200,000 volumes to one of over 2,000,000 vol umes. BLISSFUL IGNOARNCE - His uncle was giving him a lecture. "You modern boys want too much," he said. "Do you lmbw what I was getting when I married your aunt?" "No," replied the nephew, "and Hi bet you A -vW/TvSv