^ Reduction^Made In theCounty Valuation ' ~b i i j ? New Budget - ftwides for 94 Cents Tax Rate as Agnfant $L35 Last Year Greenville, Aug. 4.?The tax rate! for Pitt county this year trill be 94 cents on the $160 valu ation, a reduc tion of 41 cents under the rate of $1.35 last year, or a total cut of $6,000,000. This decision was reached at the regular meeting of the Pitt county board of commissioners at the court house here yesterday when the budget for the year was adopted and other matters dealing with operation of the county government were discussed. The budget carries a total valuation of $38^)00,000 against $44,000,000. for the past year. * It sets aside 171-2 cents for the state support of schools as provided by enactment of the Mae Lean state wide school bill by the last legisla ture. Six cents is set aside for capital outlay, three rents for .supplementary levy for .schools, and forty-six cents for.deht services. The remainder of the rate will go for the.support of public health, poor and gauerai expenses of the county government T? fn miffinw atamD Of All AUUiuvu kv ?? m approval on the budget Xhe commis sioners nested a tax department to I take over the collection of taxes. Col lections in the past have been made through the sheriff's office. Following the meeting of the com missioners the auditing department called attention of taxpayers to the fact that a discount of 2 1-2 per cent will be allowed on all taxes paid dur ing the month of August. The rate of 41 cents was made pos sible through the state taking'over support of schools .and the excellent plan of financing adopted by the com missioners. Through attention to ev ery detail of government and paringl all expenses in all departments, the eonmussiooers were able to effect what is believed to be the largest re duction of any comity in this part of the state. Copies of the budget were being prepared today and when completed will be placed on display at the court house. It was thought work in this connection would be completed either today or tomorrow. ' Roosevelt Donates DM for Serum New York Governor Re sponds to Appeal in Battle Against Infan tile Paralysis Albany, N. Y., Aug. 4.?Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt, who ten years ago was stricken with an attack of in fantile paralysis, has given a pint of his blood to be used in a serum for combatting an outbreak of the disease in New York. Announcement of the blood dona tion was made by the state depart I ment of heaitii. ine govenioff^P I tion, said the announcement, was in response to an appeal to all who had been afflicted with the disease to give I blood for the serum. Mr. Booaevelt made a similar do nation in 1926. I The gavemor wad stricken with the I disease leas than a year after he bad ran aa the democratic nominee for I vice president in 1920. Since that time he .has recovered to the point I of walking again swimming and rid I ing horseback. A recent magjuine I article, besedon his physical qualifi ? cations dpr the poaattde democratic I nomination for president next year, I quoted a board of three medical ape I delists as saying his health would I stand any of the strains imposed by I any of the duties of poMie life. The governor's contribution to the I call for senun goesto combat an out I break of the disease within bis own York dty. Health authorities have II I . I *26,900'?mre^wiih con^tel districtabout I k? * *%> ^** " -a 2 w" ? __ - - jl?. ? ? IHllAt Khrf: KflH I I Says EfHsoB la I BHflhlpr Mood DWWUI ?Aged Inventor Sits ilp -and Reads Newspaper; Must Be Good Patient ? - ? " West Orange, N. J., Aug. 4,?Tbom-1 as Alva Edison, (IghUny a complica tion of diseases, showed more activity J and more interest in outaide affairs today than at-any time since Satur-j day, when his eon, Charles, revealed the inventor was critically ill. Mr. Edison had a good night, and slept seven hours, one more than the I previous night His physician, Dr. I Hubert S. Howe, said th? 84 year old I inventor was in excellent spirits. Lat- J | er Mr. Edison sat at his living room I I desk reading newspapers. K Dr. Howe said he would issue bul-1 letins on the inventor's condition four times daily. The noon bulletin today said: \ "There has been no marked change in Mr. Edison's condition this morn ing. He asked to see the newspapers for the first time in several days and is now in the living room at his desk. The first bulletin of the day-said :! Mr. Edison seems to be steadily im proving. ? Messenger boys made regular marches up the half mile hill onthe crest of which the inventor's home is situated, carrying messages from 1 many "points. One was from Sir J Thomas Lipton, wishing the inventor " a speeedy recovery. Among these ' calling by telephone were Harvey Firestone, Sr., and Henry Fbrd, two 1 of Mr. Edison's closest friends. Dr. Howe has revealed that his pa- 1 tient is suffering from diabetes, Bright's disease, ulcers of the stom- ' ach and uremic poisoning. Dr. Howe and Charles Edison have J ovrmxispH fear lest Mr. should refuse to follow the diet prescribed ' for him. Dr. Howe said it was vital ' that he have the proper amount of 1 insulin, and of fluid, as toowaeh-or i too little of either would be harmful. ;J Mr. Edison, long on a milk diet, six -1 weeks ago cut his routine of two glasses every two hours to one every 1 two- hours. Dr. Howe said this under- 1 nourishment helped to bring about Ins t present condition. < Dr. Howe declared careful, nursing < would be necessary from now on, as J he didnt think Mr. Edison would ever 1 be out of danger. ? i Dr. Frederick Allen ,after a visit this afternoon, likened the inventor's t condition to that of a ship. j "As long as a ship," he said^ "keeps t on its coarse, all is well. But if it < happens to strike a submerged rock, ] then complications develop." t At 6 p. irh eastern standard time, r the following bulletin was issued: . i "Mr. Edison's condition continues < about the same. He slept about one f hour this afternoon. His spirits are \ cheerful and he is looking forward to j an early return of his strength." DR. HUBERT S. HOWE. { WOMAN SHOOTS SELF IN SUICIDE ATTEMPT \ Greenville, Aug. 4.?After firing a t bullet near her heart in ? suicide at- is tempt last night Mrs. John Shackle- t ford, the operator of a small -store in j Tobacco Town, was in a critical ceodi- a tion in the local hospital today; Al- A though her injuries are of a serious 1 nature, physicians are said tohokl out t strong hope for her recovery. 4 The act was said to have resulted from depression caused by eoteessive t drinking. Leaving :the store between J 9 and 10 o'clock Mrs, Shaekleford is j said to have gone to her home, ob- t tained a pistol and fired a steel 'Jndlt 1 eted bullet above her heart Her body j was found lying on the floor' nee? t the mantel piece a short ; time later j and was rushed *to. the hospital fqr ( medical attention. I Shaekleford, authorities said this j morning, was recently arrested rfor ? violation of the prohibition law. Re. j was scheduled to receive a hearing at \ the regular weekly session of county ? court here today. . ' ? ' " : ? ; ?? ;-:?tWMoai-Meacopek mm? nunscii. > jjgcomct will probably be flamo^ 'v- ,-, L Mrs. Anne ReynMsl And Infant! ?: ** * ? ? ' $1,000,000 Comes Out of b Estate of Zachary g.1 Reynolds * . V* ' V ".?? ' * Winston-Saleu-,,. Aug. 4.?An impor tant decree was signed in the ^supe* rior court of Forsyth county at Win Btxm-Salem.late:. Tuesday by Judge John M. Qgiesby* approved a contract and trust, agreement, whereby Mrs. Anne Cannon Reynolds, and her in fant daughter, Anne Cannon Rey nolds, 12, became-the sole beneficiar ies in a 1^00(^00,trust,fund, which ? to be set -up.out of-the estate of fctfhary Smith-Reynolds, husband of Anne Camion Reynolds.and.father, of Anne Gannon Reynolds, IL The-decree was -.signed in the rourt preoeeiting. recently instituted jy Anne Xktmon Reynolds, through ler guardian and father, J. F. Cannon, I uxttheinfaot, Anne jCenno Reynolds^! ?1, throagh her. next friend, Howard | Rondthaler, against .iZacfcary Smith [ Reynolds,, and W. N.; Reynolds and R. I El Lasater. as guardians of I m ? ? w ? o ? m? ?!. w." ? 1 ?? ?? he ZTlsfohsrmy Smith Reynolds,.and f he Safe Deposit and Trust Company, ] if Baltimore^ Md.,and all of the oth-j or heirs of, the late R. J. Reynolds,! founder of the Reynolds Tobacco I he .Zachary Smith Reynolds, and! i son of the late R. J. Reynolds. ,? Pleadings filed in-the action showed j hat .Zacbary Smith Reynolds fmdl Vnne Cannon Reynolds, member of j he proarinent Cannon, family of Con-| ord, . were married on November 16,1 929> and that from this union was! ?>ra the infant daughter, Anne Can- J, ion,Reynolds, II. It was further re- j sealed by the pleadings that the par- j, ;nts were unable to live happily to rether because of incompatibility and I tave separated and been living apart i or several .months. I Pending the institution of litigation I t wu further shown by. file pleadings { he .interested partes go together and j I arrived at an amicabla settlement of ?ll property rights and obligations ex sting between. the principals. -This I lettlement was reduced to the con-j ract and trust agreement, which I] ?ttSYidea. in. wbstance that $1,000,000 ?halT be set op out of Zachary Smith I ?liynolda' estate, nore-held by the Safe upoait and Trust Conapany, of Ral- I Mmpre, which he. inherited from his 11 I It is provided by_the contract and! 1 Hruat. agreement that, the income I rtwn fHlftjOOO of the trust fund is to ?o to AnnyCannoh Reynolds for Kfe, I Knd at her death, tf*the child or, its 11 Iteirs should beftgfafa thisfumy will J ?o to thf infant, daughter. The pon-11 pact and agreement further provides ?hat theineomy from the other $500, ?OP of the fundtis to go to Anne Can-11 lion ReynoldvHr*nd when-she ar-l live* atdhe age of 25-years the entire j iuqi of $500,000 will come into tier 11 wssession. ? This ultimately mepnsll hat ifvshe Hyes, the little girt Willi The, deeree signed by Judge Ogles :ance. Then, too, the prominency of ! I he parties,involved, lends an added 11 mportance to the? litigation and: its I _ ^ ' ~ I ? ?3GS&S:iijISs|K 2. -?>? jBMK-'-r 3 Ml ? ? >' *? MFa^Sealfr leading Cttgens of the tytourtto&ive Relief Burlington, Aug<6.?The town of Mebane is tired of i* man known as "Hardrock andHo|ey" Webb, who claims to be a divjfe heater, and His companion, a Mrs. j_Yates, according to a petition begrng: 174 names which has been presented to Judge Wm I. Ward, of the general county court, asking relief. 1 According to theT petition the pair cansttutes "a nuisance" and the pet tioners believe theft operations .to .be , hurting fee relgfaat4iid^M?& thie town. They have been there about a year. Poverty strcken, ill and worried , citizens'of the town in the following of Webb and Mrs. Yates are reported to have made personal sacrfices be- , yond their means, as offerings for ( prayers and divine healng which the petti oners believe have done more j harm than good. ^ ?r Sherff H. J. Stockard, sent down by . Judge Ward to make an investigation, ( laid his cards on the table before 1 Webb and told hm these names be- ( fore him, representing leading citi zens of the town, suggested that it j mght be better for him to pack up i and leave the oo mm unity. 4 "While I was talking to Webb and f explaining my mission, a storm broke f above the town, and he reached for. his Bible and started to preach to , me, Ughtning and thunder punctuated , and placed emphasis upon his sen- ? tences," the sheriff sad. "Here is my lawyer," Webb said, ( holding aloft the Bible. 2 "There isnt a better , one," replied , the sherff. But the question was the voice of j the petitioners, men and^women whose names are testimony that his work among them is undesirable; that' in- j stead of ibeing n the nature of public welfare, or missionary work calculat ed to help, it is actually a hindrance. ?"One woman whose husband is a follower of Webb, took the last chick- t en from the yard and gave it up as, c an offering," Sheriff Stockard said he ? was informed. ] 'Webb has papers to show that he < i*T recognized by his cult or religion, i and he denies vigorously that he is < salng under a false flag of relgion or Iq bootlegging something he is* with- ] out faith in. Be beleves in hs work, i hs followers say, and beleves in the i power of diyine healing. s He can produce a paper to show, i abo that he has a right to be living ( with Mrs. Yates, who he admits isnt < his wfe. When questioned about .it, 1 he told Sherff Stockard that he has i a paper signed by her husband which i permits her to reside with him. Further action on the petiton de pends on what Webb's deposition " turns out to be. If he insists on car rying on as he has in the past, it seems likely that officials will.go into a;thorough investigation of his meth ods, JUs past record and so on. Webb tqld Sheriff Stockard he is 62 years . old. . - ? - ? ?? ; {"County Hospital to. Open Former ly on August 48," assures, a headline lit the Sanford Hendd.. .And 'Wjfe . tie opening has taken place, Ye Far agrapher presumes it can be referred pressed WnM?lf as dettg^^^ ^ Oklahoma City, Aug. 5.?Governor Wflliam H. ( Alfalfa Bill) Murray has carried out ^threat to shut down Ok lahoma oil wells under martial law in an effort to increase prices for erode oil ..He-Mined the "supreme execu tive power of the state" as his Au thority. National guardsmen, ealled out late yesterday, invaded the giant Oklaho ma City o& field without appreciate opposition and headed toward new Ob* jectives. The governor's orders are to class all of the state's 3,106 wells that have a daily average production of 25 barrels or more. . The troops under Adjutant General Charles F. Barrett and newly commis sioned lieutenant Co?Ckero 1. Mur ray, the governor's cousin, prepared to go to the greater Seminole area today. Published reports ufere that more than 7,500 persons would be left job less by the closing'of the wells. The order coming at the old of sev eral days of impatient waiting by in dependent operators: suffering from low crude prices, decreed that each well should remain dosed until pur-, chasers agreed to pay p mbrimum of $1 per barrel at the wells. Fifty cents was the top yesterday. Sinclair oil employes, against which company the governor aimed fiery re marks in his executive order,asked guardsmen for written orders to close, but withdrew-quietly when they saw: Colonel Murray Was not plannlngrto arbitrate. Governor Murray had accused the Sinclair Oil and Gas Company and their associates of judical juggling through injunction. ^ ^ tions caused low prices for crudeto increase their profits, while running smaller independent firms without such complete industrial facilities. Pipeline companies, refused permis sion by-national guardsmen ta take crude oil from leases , where about 100,000 barrels were available to run, protested today to Otto Bradford,, field proration umpire andiiaison of ficer between t^e guard and the oil :ompanies. Bradford was attempting to obtain official clarification of. the i>rder. Producers took the shutdown activ ities quietly, many with .smiles. The Wilcox Oil and Gas Company,.how ever, detailed workmen to guiurd the guardsmen. Sinclair leases also- were supplied with company men but they vere directed to aid the guard in-any vay. # ? 1 .About 60 guardsmen were con stantly in the field. A close watch was kept on one pro iucer where gates were slightly dam iged and there was a possibility it night Wow out of control. ?? ? /? WOULD CUT ACREAGE IN COTTON. BY-LAWS , ?. delegates to Texas Cotton Confer-, ence think States Should Con '^trol Production Austin, Texas,v Aug. 4.f?Most-of he delegates to the southwide cotton lonference here today asked cotton itates to curtail their produetiourhy aw. They eoupled with this i jueat that Jhe south leave no stone inturned in increasing the use of its :hief crop. The conference wps oaUed by Gov, Eloss S. Sterling of Texas, in which itate a bill has been introduced fin he legislature, meeting inapocfelees-, don, to prevent the planting of land ; n cotton two years in succession. Conferees asked that Texas, the; larg sst cotton producing state, take by he.lead by enacting this law and as-, ierted they believed other states would fallow. ' As* * ?' ? ' '?? King of ftecMe* | | Cotton Planters Proposal to Sell Cotton On. Credit to Germany Caused Storm of Pro tests in the South . Washington, Aug. 5.?The Farm Board, .which has encountered its most feverish activity in the hottest part of the summer, strove today to quiet a tumult ht the south as the latest trouble In the grain belt was taitn over its Ikead to President Hoover. Senator William J. Harris, Georgia, leader in ? the protest, against - the Farm Board's reported plan to. sell cotton to Germany ondong term cred its, was assured by Commissioner Denman that the hoard would try. to avoid disrupting the cotton market, which just this week reached a 16 year low. f {Meantime, it q^eared that Ger many was unlikely to take up the j American proposal to buy Farm ^Bfard cotton or wheat either oa long term credits, five days having laps ed without any definite proposition from Germany having been laid be fore the board. Possible station of the farm-pro-, duct purchase . problem was seen by I [some in the agreement today of New! "York bankers to extenderedit in an ' i any money so obtained, Germany could yorthaw* needed farm products hens from: the current crop through private sources.' fWs wfould meet the current pretosts against sale of government wheat or cotton, as it would helptabaorb the current crop. iBoard officials told Harris aa to cotton, and the- same applies to the wheat situation, no proposition is be fore the board. They told him that they would act for the farmers' best interests. Harris interpreted this as a victory in his protest against sale of the Board's stabilisation cotton from the 1929 c?p carryover.: But board officials sai dthey made no pledges. Agriculture Secretary Arthur M. Hyde hurriedly interrupted a vacation with his family in Yellowstone Nat ional Park today to go to Missoula, Montana, where he is to start a per sonal^ inspection of the seven north western-states ravaged by grasshop pers and- this -year's drought Agri cultural Department officials antici pate that the need for help will come in the: fall planting season in these areas. The mid-western dissension among cooperatives, laid before the Farm 'Board last week and later taken un successfully to the White' House, ap peared -to be shifted to Chicago. It was learned that the severr state and local: cooperative organisations wiiich protested' tharithe Farmer Union Ter minal . Association of St Paul was seeking to buy up: the smaller farm organisations and elminate local con trol went to the White House after thtiFam:Boardrefused to intervene. Mr. Hoover would not see the cooper ative men, however, andtheir troubles were laid before one of the Presi dent's secretaries. farmer Slays Wife andFlees ?i".' ^r-; ; Plato Edoey* of Hender son County, Said to Have Been Jealous 1> % ???? ??? ? . Hendersonville, Aug. 3.?Plato Ed ney, Henderson county .farmer,! shot and killed his wife and wounded two of his children today, firing with a shotgun through a window of 'his homft.. i-h-v; ;v The full charge-struck Mrs. Edney and she died almost instantly. Only a few scattering shot struck the children, Btbel,12,?-and Eveljm, seven; were not eeriously in jured, :??.? -?>':?&; Bh?<#gg> Bdgey.*ied;t? : the uwunUins, his trail^ng-followed fjgWor six miles bySheriff W. A Garren and his deputies with the aid j