North Carolina Newspapers

^"" ^ ^ ^^ ________ ? ?I-?-????? v ..l ? ? ?-? Vqt~TWENTY-TWO " FARMVILL& PITT COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1981 ? NUMBER THIRTY-ONE : * I ! : . -A New Economic Council Head Outlines Program for South Hugh MacRae, ofWil-l mington, Says There Must He Changes in the Tilings We Buy Wilmington, Dec. 9.?Hugh Mac Rae, president of the Southeastern Economic Council, today asserted that there must be radical changes in the things we buy, the sources from which they come, and the chan nels through which they are "han dled. Mr, MacRae, who was elected head of the council at the organization meeting in Savannah, Ga., several weeks ago, outlined four things whictt he said he believed to be necessary before the south would take its right ful place. TTiey are: First, prevent the de structive effect of an adverse bal ance of trade; second, protect all eco nomic interests now fairly sharing the common burdens; third, construct a better economic system, particular ly as it refers to basic rural life con ditions; and, fourth, to become ag gressive and in many lines of indus try make successful use of the souths recognized natural advantages. In accepting provisionally the pres idency of the Southeastern Council I realize that a responsibility, the greatest of my life, has been placed upon me, said Mr. MacRae. Without success and until there is success, any honor which may be thought to go with this position is non-existent This should appear only as the fight to maintain our civilization, and should be held in reserve to be equit ably divided among those men and women of the south who are willing at this time of emergency to become members of an economic army. The opportunity to win a southern cress is not restricted. We have no hesi tancy as to the things to be done nor as to their urgency. ? - * * * - T 1 Above all the south s aaverse us ance of trade must be stopped. It can be compared to the bleeding of an artery. While the cure is simple, the task is imposing a major opera tion. The forces which brought about present conditions are definite and through research can be disclosed. Under universal law they must be removed before any beneficial-change can be expected. There must be radical changes in the things we buy, the sources from which they come, and the channels through which they are handled. There will be opposition, insidious and tremendous, the opposition of habit, tradition, inertia, selfishness and even of greed. It is fair to assume that in every human life there is a divine spark. In leaders there must be not only a belief in this but the ability to devel op and combine the better impulses and aspirations of people until a new code of action becomes a normal plan, j This crisis warraants our thinking ig! terms .of general welfare as being the' highest form of enlightened self interest; but more vital, the thought must be a guide to action. The president of a leading south ern college recently made to the student body, said: ' j? K;?._ "What the state neeas uxuiy u? wS minded men: We are today in an eco nomic labyrinth, an economic debacle, for want of a genuine liberal minded leadership, a leadership regardful of the rights of others, generous toward the heeds of others, courageous enough to speak the truth and intelli gent enough to know the truth. We still have the seats of the mighty, but too many sparrow hawks have build ed in the eyrie of the eagle.' There are men and women of the type of this college president and with such ideals who will constitute the committee of five hundred and accept the responsibility of bringing the south to a better era. We must recognize that our eco nomic institutions which are solvent and still show some degree of pros-: perity mutt as far as possible be con served and protected, if only for self ish reasons. We can see that they need strength to bear the burdens of taxation which are called for if our present institution, educational, pro tections! and governmental, are to continue to function. As a main approach to an accepta ble condition of well being, we must face the fact that our system of ag ricslture must be completely, though perhaps gradually, revolutionized.' A change most be gradually mode from the present tenant system of fo*"* Council, it is first to organize South , . ? .. . .? ... mew m iTwii rt jjpaiiyu wwhwmuww, pcopte The Ideal Secretary Katherine Kramer, 19, Des Moines, wp - chosen by the JtmJor Chamber c >mmerce as the most beautiful and good stenography at its national convention. Sale Dark Fired Tobacco Begins Approximately 9 0,000 Pounds Offered on the Kentucky Markets Madisonville, Ky., Dec. 9.?Sales of dark flue cured tobacco from the stemming, or Henderson district were opened here today with a price range of $1.50 to $8 a 100 pounds on leaf, $1 to $2.50 on lugs and 50 cents to $1 on trash. Approximately 90,000 pounds of the estimated 640,000 pounds of to bacco was offered for sale today at four warehouses. Louisville, Ky., Dec. 9.?Burley averages of. $11 and dark leaf av erages of S4 were indicated as Ken tucky tobacco markets, though un settled, resumed sales today. Sales were disrupted at five town3 yesterday by demonstrations of dis satisfied farmers, but Lexington, the state's largest market, completed a heavy sale with no recurrence of Monday's disorders. The Lexington average of $11.66 per hundred was only slightly lower than the $11.74 average of Monday. Dark leaf prices in western Ken tucky took a decided drop, however, from $4.44 to $3.30 at Owensboro and from $4.60 to $4.04 at Henderson. Several burley markets coinpleted sales without disorders yesterday. The dark leaf markets at Owensboro and Henderson, which had disorders last week, also completed, but Hop kinsville's opening day and those at several smaller markets were marred by demonstrations. South Carolina Studies Problems President of Taxpayers' League Comments on Two Current Issues i i ? ?? ? r Columbia, Dec. 9.?Niels Christen 'sen, president of the South Carolina Farmers and Taxpayers League, dis cussing certain observations regard ing objections to the central purchas ing agency as well as to the post ponement of executions for delin quent taxes, made the " following statement: "The league has not decided ex actly what it will recommend with regard to the details of a purchasing agency. The general objection to the creation of a new office is well known l and deserving of all consideration. | The idea of the league does nojf in I volve the creation of any new office. (The state has centralized purchasing of all printing and office supplies through a special committee, and there are many purchasing agencies buying for the state departments and institutions, besides the hundreds scattered throughout the counties and school districts, that spend millions of money each year for supplie and ma terial It is hopeless to attempt to supervise this mixed net work of big and little buying so as to get effici ency and economy and to prevent waste and worse. By practicing con solidation, that we preach so much about, we can secure proper over sight and substitute business methods save hundreds of thousands -each year. Thirty-three other states have come to this method.' Because we did not adopt the central buying lull Of 1928 we have lost several million dol lars. Why keep on throwing away money?' Discussing the statement made by the Comptroller General relative to the plan of the league to ask the legislature to postpone all sales of homes/ under tax executions, Mr. Cfcristensen added that "Some of the sales are causing great distress throughout the state. The comptrdl must, of course, safeguard the collec tion of taxes so that imperative ob ligations may be met. What we pro pose will stimulate payment of all current taxes, and not demoralize tax collections. The privilege of having executions and evictions postponed and back taxes paid in four equal an nual instalments, will be onl7 for those who pay the current tax due. Any year the current tax is not paid, then all back taxes become due. "When we make proposals for more complete relief for the owners of small farms and homes later on. The moderate moratorium we now propose is of course only partial re lief and it may favor some tax slack ers, but those who will benefit are for the most part hard pressed prop erty owners on the farms and in the towns and cities all over the state. It is said that it is not fair to those who have paid to give more time to those who have not. What interest has a citizen so fortuante as to have his back taxes paid up, in refusing to offer facilities to the less fortun ate ? None, whatever. "Is there any sincerity to talk about sympathy for the fanner and the small property owner and the home owner of the town while we calmly watch those very -people lose their homes ? We cannot hope to do anything that so deeply affects tKe well being of the state and all its in stitutions as. the saving of the homes of the people and the avoidance of all evictions. In any consideration of our social life that is fundamental." Jailed on Various Charges of Crime % ? 't s Greenville Man Accused in Goldsboro of Sever al Violations of Law . Goldsboro, Dec. 9.?Attempting to kidnap two Goldsboro girls, stealing an overcoat, and fraudulently claim ing to be a Salvation Army inspector, were charges preferred against a man giving his name as Fred Maynor of Greenville, when he was arrested by Deputy B. G. Smith in Goldsboro at 9:30 Wednesday morning. The girls, Thelma and Annie Mae Strickland, of the northern part of Goldsboro, reported to Mrs. PauJ Armstrong, wife of Captain Arm strong, of the local Salvation Army, Tuesday night that they bad been of fered and had accepted positions to assist the man in his work of mak ing thorough investigations in the va rious cities of the Salvation Army work. Mrs. Armstrong told the girls the man was a fraud and that her husband had received warning from posts in other cities that he had col lected boxes given out in homes for Christmas offerings. Mrs. Armstrong notified Deputy Smith, who instructed the girls to phone him at once when the man | came for them Wednesday morning,! as he had said he would. Meanwhile, I Daniel Jones, who lived near the! Strickland home, reported that May-I nor had borrowed his overcoat andl failed to return it. On Wednesday morning Deputy! Smith received the expected phone! call, hastened to the place, arrested! Maynor, relieved him of Mr. Jones'! overcoat, and placed him in jail to I face trial on several charges. Maynor told Deputy Smith that! his home is in Greenville, but that! his Savation Army headquarters are! in Greensboro. OFFER TO SELL BODIES IN ORDER TO LIVE Raleigh, Dec. 9.?A 69-year-old wo man and a 21-year-old boy, both of I Princeton, Route 1, want to "sell J their bodies for use after death" to! raise money for food while they live. I Mrs. Laurena Lynch wrote a Ra-j leigh newspaper she would "take a I suitable amount for my body after! death." Israel Pilkington said, "I am with-l out a job. I have no money, so I am willing to sell my body to live. I will J gladly sell it." Both suggested some institution I might aecept their bodies for dissect- J ing purposes. Another Cfedit Plan Initiated Hoover Proposes Reviv al of War Finance Cor poration Device i Washington, Dec. 9.?Among the several steps for industrial and cred it .rehabilitation proposed by Presi dent Hoover in his ^message, there are four which belohg in a group. They contemplate the setting up of concrete new institutions or the add ing of new functions to existing in stitutions. They, added to the Nat ional Credit Corporation, initiated by Mr. Hoover in October and now func tioning, constitute a program for help to the country's credit struc ture. Because of the immediate need, these four steps will become a pro gram for prompt action by Congress. They consist of the loaning of fur ther capital from the government treasury to the federal land batiks, the facilitation of prompt advances from closed banks to their depositors, the setting up of a system of home loan discount banks and the erection of what Mr. Hoover calls an "Emer gency Reconstruction Corporation." The last named is the most urgent It is also the most important in the eyes of those familiar with the! coun try's needs. Mr. Hoover describes the proposed "Reconstruction Corporation' as be ing "in the nature of the former War Finance Corporation." The "War Fi nance Corporation" was originally set up during the war. It did not function seriously at that time, how ever, and practically lapsed. Then in 1921, when the country's credit was in a state of paralysis analogous to the present, the socalled War Fi nance Corporation was revived. It was revived chiefly through the ini tiative of Eugene Meyer, now Gover nor of the Federal Reserve system. Mr. Meyer in 1921 convinced Con gress that the then threatened fail ure of some federal reserve banks, and of the credit structure generally, could be averted. Congress revived the War Finance Corporation, provid ed it with half a billion dollars capi tal from the government treasury, and Mr. Meyer was appointed manag ing director to carry out its func tions. What Mr. Meyter did at that time is the model for what it is now proposed to accomplish by the Emer gency Reconstruction Corporation/ The function is to make temporary advances to responsible borrowers where such advances will protect the credit structure. The operation of the former insti-J tution was completely successful in [ restoring the country's credit struc-l ture. The operation waj conducted/ also with extraordinary safety. In I all, five hundred million dollars of! government money was loaned. Aflj was repaid to the treasury with in-1 terest except about two hundred thou-1 sand dollars still outstanding which! is adequatefy secured, and which ulti- j mately will be repaid. The new Emergency Reconstruc-I iion Corporation will in operating! following lines analogous to those, fol-] lowed by the old War Finance Cor poration. The old corporation made! loans, among others, to 4136 banks,! to 114 livestock loan companies inl twenty states, to many cooperative! marketing associations, and to ex-l porting and financing institutions.! The new Emergency Reconstruction I [ Corporation, in its loaning, may have I a wider list of categories of borrow-.] ers. Much of the policy must be de | termined by the wisdom of the head of the new institution. The object is j decidedly not to loan indiscriminate-] ly. It is rather to loan at carefully] chosen key points where there is a (stricture or a clogging of the circu latory system of credit Mr. Hoover in his message merely suggested the institution should be given a reason able capital from the treasury. Un doubtedly the capital will be at least half a billion dollars. J General Butler is the kind of man that can never be rendered speech ? Hi ? u ? . | RELIEF ASSOCIATION HONOR ROLL Week December 7 CASH William Lewis j ? $1.00 "Buck" Jajnes , 5 , ?| 1.00 J. M. Hotjgood K.00 Commission Football Tickets?Jack Lang and Party 3.20 ' ' - V ? . ? . . ? ? ? ? ? I ????! ' total . $10.20 PLEDGES Pepsi Cola-Bottling Works (4 months)?.,?. LOO 300 lbs. pttcans donated by the Town of Farmville exchanged for groceries by Smith Grocery Co. and JRoebuck Home Grocery netted the Association ? __ g , 1$52J0 V ? ffil" ACWVITIES : Found employment for one woman. s ? Investigated two cases Clothing needed; and old shd* which will bear repairing. Bomanus t to fix all old shoes ifo actual^ cost of material for the | in Bribery Case [? _ . T;SlS' - > .?r- ? - ' V* Asheville Papers Say They Will Pay $1,000 On Conviction i ' Asheville, Dec. 8r?A reward of $1,000 is offered by the Asheville Cit izen and the Asheville Times for evi dence sufficient to get a conviction on charges made recently by Wicks Wamboldt, city Councilman, that ju rors from Buncombe and surrounding counties have been bought by law yers. The reward was announced tonight by Charles A. Webb, president of the Citizen-Times. The plan of Asheville's daily news papers to offer the reward has been aporoved by Judge A. M. Stack, of the superior court bench; J. E. Swain, president of the Buncombe Bar As sociation. The three attorneys ap pointed by Judge Stack to assist in the investigation to substitute Mr. Wamboldt s charges, and a number of leading citizens of this section.. Mr. Wamboldt said he could see no objection to the reward if it was not used to frame an innocent person. Mr. Webb asked that any person hav ing information concerning the al leged court irregularities communi cate with attorneys appointed by the court. Mr. Wamboldt recently said in a speech that he had been assured for mer jurors could be produced who would testify that under oath they had been bought by lawyers. Mr. Wamboldt asked immunity for his witnesses. Judge Stack ruled that immunity could not be granted. I>ater Mr. Wamboldt appeared be-, fore Judge Stack and* * asked until December 18 to secure evidence to support his charge of "bought" ju rors. Judge Stack granted his re quest. BURNING OP SIMMONS' HOME IS HEAVY LOSS Maryland Property of Former Sena tor Fireswept from Bottom to 6Top Washington, D. C.f Dec. 9.?The destruction of former Senator Sim mons' Maryland country home, in which he lived for several years*.lfi a heavy loss. Fire swept it from bot tom to top, literally wiping it out of existence. The house was valued at from $18,000 to $20,000, and was the most pretentious in the Muirkirk neighborhood. Mr. Simmons bo.ught the Muirkirk farm and mansion ten years ago, and resided there for a time, but in re cent years it has been rented. The people who leased it left early yes terday for Washington, and it caught fire while they were away. Frank A. Hampton, who has looked after the property for Senator Sim mons, said today that it was insured, but not for enough to cover the loss. Senator Simmons has the policies at New Bern. Mr. Simmons is expected to come here within a week or ten days to at tend to some business matters. AUXILIARY HJiECTS NEW OFFICERS AND HOLDS BIRTHDAY PARTY At the regular meeting of the Episcopal Auxiliary held at the home of Mrs. J. L. Shackleford on Monday afternoon the following officers were elected for the new year: Mrs. J. N. Gregory, president; Mrs. J. H. Dar den, vice president; Mrs. J. Q. Beek with, secretary; Mrs. W. C. Askew, treasurer; Mrs. J. W.' Joyner, Box Work secretary; Mrs. C. T. Dixon, United Thank Offering secretary;. Mrs. .J. L. Shackleford, Educational secretary. Mrs. C. T. Di^on, who has been the loyal and efficient leader of this or ganization for the past two years, was given a rising vote of thanks for her 'untiring efforts and faithful service. . I After the business session a de lightful birthday party was held The members contributing the amount of money corresponding to their years in addition to the regular United Thank Offering, all of which will be used for the support of women missionaries. A contest on "Ages' was enjoyed and a scripture cake recipe was giv en to the members. Copies of the Sistine Madonna were presented in view of the approaching birthday of the King. ? Refreshments consisted of individ ual birthday cakes bearing a single candle served together with whipped cream and nuts. 1 ^ "My kingdom for a horse," was in ancient history. But many a coach would swap the college for "Four Horsemen." ?if i" ' >V. J The Englishman speaks in tefmsof the pound; the American in terms of ' the quart. \ The trouble between Japan and <Jhfca started ow *ra&badL May. be the Japs are fighting to keep from betaf forced to accept it Totweeo Market Blocked Monday f Rata Holds Off Volume Best of Week |h jjfm '? L* ;V > v -v ?** I I ? . Little Change .in Grade Prices as Season Nears Close for Holidays A Sales were heavy here on Monday of this week, a block being again ex perienced as on many of the preced ing Mondays during ^he. season. This was easily lifted on Tuesday and sales have been light during the re mainder of the week up to Thursday due to heavy rains and disagreeable, atmospheric conditions, which have been genera! throughout the eastern section of the state. There has been little change in grade prices this week though the Av erage which is unavailable for the en tire week will probably be low as of ferings have been principally poor leaf quality grades. This market has sold so far 19,697,120 pounds of the weed for the lump sum of $1, 928,134.90. The market will close for the Christmas holidays on Friday, De cember 18, re-openinfi in January. There are several million pounds of tobacco yet to be sold though the bulk of the crop was disposed of prior to Thanksgiving. Farmers are hoping that prices 1 * will show some improvement the holidays as has been noted at in tervals of several years previously. ROTARY CLI B Ernest Barrett, Jr., cf the local Boy Scout Troop, and whose merits have won for him national recogni tion was an honor guest at the Ro tary Club on Tuesday evening, to gether with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Barrett. The Eagle Scout badge, the first to be won by a Farm ville Scout, wa3 presented to Sout Barrett by W. A. McAdams, a mem bar of the Rotary Boys' Work com mittee. Mr. McAdams spoke with much pride and genuine feeling oh what scouting had done for the boys here; paid a high tribute to Scout Barrett and praised Scoutmaster Ford A. Burns, for his interest and untir ing efforts in behalf of the local troop. Ras Jones and Tommie Tucker also shared in the honors of the occasion, being guests of Eh*. P. E. Jones and Alfred Moore. The club has two boys as its guests at every meeting. The instructive program was in charge of Bob Boyd, whose class in Business Science enacted a one-act play staging an office scene and stressing the necessity of being thor ough and efficient in all lines of service. FEATURING THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE PROGRAM Featuring the most comprehensive announcement program ever used by the Chevrolet Motor Company, 3-355 leading daily and weekly newspapers in the United States introducing the new 1932 Chevrolet Six last week. In addition to newspapers, the program prof iced'for the use of ra jdio, poster panels, phonograph re j cords, canvas banners, dealer window displays, and several other media. First news of the new Chevrolet was flashed in teaser manner by 25, 000 posters in towns of 15,00 popula tion and over. The posters, with a total length of 118 miles, comprised a showing 50 per cent larger than any manufacturer in any business ha3 ever staged. The posters were pan eled on Nov. 28, and for one week their message was "Keep Your eye on Chevrolet" The next news of the new Chevro let came over the air. On the night of Nov. 29, ihe company began a week of spot broadcasting'over 163 stations "Keep Your Eye on Chev rolet" v. as the thetne of the radio pro pram. On Nov. 29, also, Chevrolet dealers decorated their windows with terser displays. The material for these dis plays was a part of 76 tons of pro motional matter mailed by the Chev rolet Motor Company. Included in this tonnage were eight square miles of silhouette cardboard, 30 linear miles of canvas banners, and 1,100,000 label buttons. / \ ,? : ? On the morning of Dec) 2, teaser phopoghaph records, bearing nothing more than an address and a warning to play at once, were delivered by Uncle Sam to 1,280,000 Chevrolet owners in all parts of the country. The message on the record informed them that a new Chevrolet was on the way.;. Further radio announcements, . of one minute- duration, were made over 151 stations on the pight of Dec. 2, 3, and 4. Then, on Dec. 5, the 5,365 pewspa-, pers printed the announcement of the * hew 1932 Chevrolet Six, the 25,000 posters were changed accordingly, and the public was thronging its way to dealers' showrooms. - - It Would, never do for Mexico to havejamicable relations with^ke Has Powerful Friends J Mayor Walker, of New Yor Gty, went all the way to Californ to plead with Gov. Rolph for To. Mooney's pardon. Mooney * h' i been in prison since 1?I6 for bon ing a preparedness parade in ? Francisco. ' Increase Noted In Auto Deaths Figures Reveal Fatali ties in Auto Accidents on Rise in This State Raleigh, Dec. 9.?Statistics of the Motor Vehicle Bureau of the State of North Carolina, generally regarded as the most complete compilation of automobile accidents kept in the state, show that deaths from automo bile accidents in this state increased by 11 during the first ten months o| 1931 over the same period of 1930. The. increase conflicts with the re port of the Travelers Insurance Com pany, which listed North Carolina as having a decrease of 0.78 per cent, this year as compared to last. The statistics of the state depart ment list 599 persons as killed up to November 1 this year in automobile accidents, compared with 588 during the same period last year. The fig ures show 4,116 persons to have been injured this year, an increase of 502 over the 3,614 injured during the same period last year. I Since the bureaiu installed its rec: ords of automobile accidents in July, 1927, it has listed 3,08 persons killed and 20,726 injured. We learn that the wings of a bee flap 2,000 times per second. And, brother, there is .perfect coordination between the wings and that part of the bee which spreads misery. To Get Bids on New Text Books Commission Adds One Writing Text; To Be gin Hearings Dec. 18. j Raleigh, Dec. 9.?The State Board of Education moved yesterday toward the first elementary school text book adoption since 1928 when it issued a call for bids on arithmetic, drawing and writing texts to be in by 10 o'clock on the morning of December 21, and set dates for publishers to be heard on texto recommended by the State Textbook Commission. The call for bids followed submis sion of the revised report of the Textbook Commission which met here last month and canvassed the field for new developments 3ince it made its recommendations last year. The commission reported that it found no new materials worthy of inclusion on the i*ecommended multiple list in the arithmetic and drawing fields, but did find that the Zaner-Bloser writ ing series of 1931 should- be added to its 1930 list of writing texts. The State Board is empowered un der the 1923 statute to change not more than one major and two minor elementary school subjects in any one year, but for the last two years it has made no new adoptions, the change in reading and spelling texts in 1928 being the last. Failure to make annual adoptions resulted in keeping some old books on the list, notably histories, geog raphies and arithmetics, and brought proetsts from the teaching profession as well as from some patrons, who noted that the prices they were pay-! ing Hi many instances were based on ai higher level than prevails on new books. Educators also pointed out that instead of entailfhg extra ex pense on patruis, actual savings could be effected through adoption of more modern and lower priced texts.*-... The hearings on the recommended texts Vill begin on Friday, December 18, at 10 oTclock in the morning. On Saturday morning at 10 o'clock hearing will be held on the arithme tic series, W : J*. : -r : In it? report the Textbook Com mission. recommended that no wrt? flg: be required in seventh ;>'? ' ;'Vjv ?? V-jife V - s