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Sttne ^ Agagment
With Some Holding
Dissenting1 View
Raleigh* May "12.?After finally
enacting the highly controverted
three per cant general sales tax into
law by ?Ayt?>g the conference reve
nue bill report on its third reading
yesterday, the Senate last night sent
the public school machinery bill to
conference by refusing to concur, in
the 25 House amendments.
Although there are some with dis
senting views, it is generally ex
pected that the conference report
will be of such a nature as to post
pone sine die adjournment until next
week. The conferee? are expected to
report today.
Conferees were appointed by the
two presiding offices as follows:
Senators A. D. Maclean, of Beaufort;
Lloyd E. Griffin, of Chowan, and
Hay den Clement, of Dowan; and
Representatives Ernest Graham, of
Robeson; R. F. Beasley, of Union;
Allison. James, of Forsyth; J. C.
Smith, of Martin, and Brantley Ay
cock, of Wake.
A majority of the confrees from
each branch are personally favorable
to the Aycock amendment adopted
by the House, which permits a vote
of the people in each administrative
unit on the question of a nine months
term.
That measure was in the original
bill and was stricken out on the
floor of the Senate by an amend
ment offered by Senator dement
Both Senator MaeLe&n, chairman of
the committee and Senator Griffin,
the author of the bill, opposed the
amendment and Governor J. C. B.
Ehringhaus is actively opposed to
the Clement amendment.
Strong resistance on the part of
Senate confrees is generally looked
for on some of the other House
amendments, generally regarded as
violating the spirit of the original
bill. One of these changes the defi
nition of "cities" which may form
a separate administrative unit from
those with 2^XX> pupils to those
with 1,000 pupils. Another changes
the minimum requirement for a I
high school from 80 to 60 pupils.
The Senate confrees are also ex
pected to look with disfavor upon
amendments making a special dis
trict in the town of Wise and limit
ing the salaries of employes of the
newly ereated School Commission
which will replace the State Board
of Equalisation.
The Senate is expected to yield
on the amendment, restoring profes
sional requirements for teachers,
regarded as highly important by the
teaching profession.
Considerable doubt was expressed
last night a* to the outcome of
House amendments for supplements
for vocational education and barring
supplements in districts in default
at the tame of the supplement.
The House amendments exempt
ing Cherokee, Currituck and Martin
counties from supplement provisions
were expected to remain in the bill.
Elimination of y those amendments
would require additional readings in
the House, where the problems of a
quorum may become acute next week.
it is not expected that any con
ference report adopted will require
additional readings in the House, but
prwaidiug officers of both bodies have
held ? the wvoth amend
ment is material, which means that a
report embodying that provision can
not hs finally paved in the Senate
hidhse Monday, even though the re
port be adopted by both bodies today
or tonight and tbe Senate remains
in searinn tomorrow, which it has
dome on only one Saturday this ses
Miss Taylor Chosen
Pitt Health Queen
tflt^ Wtl 1 > f?n ,f , It,,,
I Ml muBMrn ImyW,, rMOQII
jodgm as Pitt County Health Queen
is Iks contest to JbIbix*u? a winner
Raakerry erf this eity nrnnrng- second.
Miss Taylor was cboesn froin more
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Hour Shifts
Ferty-Four Week Plan
Has Support Of Textile
Chieftians
New York, May 10.?George A.
Sloan, president of the Cotton Textile
1 Institute, sent a telegram to Presi
dent Roosevelt today announcing that
the institute's directors had recom
mended to the industry a work-week
in cotton mills not to exceed 40 hours
during what Sloan referred to as the
"emergency period."
The directors also recommended to
the members of the institute that
productive machinery in cotton mills
be operated not more than two- 40- t
hour shifts per week. The cotton tex- '
tile industry is at pregent the largest
manufacturing industry <fet the Unit
ed States from the standpoint at the
number of people employed.
"When the recommendation re
ceives the support of two-thirds of
the industry," Sloan said, "President
Roosevelt will be informed with a
view to determining what further
steps may be nm iisamji to insure the
adoption of adherence to this pro
gram by evarjr cotton mill in the
United States;"
The FORTY-bour week plan was con- (
ceived by the executive committee of j
the institute when it -met dxv May j
8, Sloan said, and it received over
whelming support from the board of
directors, which includes 70 cotton
textile executives. The directors ap
proved of the plan by telegraph.
Sloan said that the plan had at .
the outset the support of 10,000,000
spindles, one-third of the industry,
and that a preponderant part of the
remaining two-thirds was expected, to
extend prompt approval. .
He said the plan was in pursuance
of the administration's program for .
stabilization of employment, preven
tion of overproduction and self-reg- 1
ulation of industry.
Present at the executive commit
tee meeting which launched the plan *
were T. M. Marchant, of Greenville,
S. C., president of the American Cot- *
ton Manufacturers Association and
representing the industry in the
South, and Ernest N. Hood, presi- j
dent of the- National Association of
Cotton Manufacturers and represent
ing New England. ? '
In the telegram to the President
Sloan said:
"It is the opinion of a majority 1
of executives consulted that an in
terim of perhaps eight weeks should *
be allowed after we are assured that
the plan is to become effective in r
order to permit readjustment of or- 1
ganization and clearance of orders (
taken on present costs, based on c
existing longer operating schedules." *
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Melodist Meet- i
Ing Closed Wei
Successful JFiom -Poutte ?
of Interest and Attend-\
anoe
The ten days series of meetings <
being held tin the Methodist church* i
came to a (successful close on WdW ]
nesday night of this week. Much j|fe j
terest was Manifested in the meettag? <
by the entite community and thftftili? '
tendance was good at both motttag 1
and evening services: f':
The meetfeg was .conducted bjrJtav. ;
H. L. Hendricks, pastor, witkflBev.
E. J. Rees,f pastor <? the BMtKUUst
church in Washington ther pwiafcer.. |
spirting hia hearert to a better ' e^f
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"lowinsr AH; H1116SS of rtvp months rpt
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Scenes from the tenter of disturbances in low*, brought about whsneowt ;
action on farm foreclosures continued, finally result&g tatti WWW
ordering tl>? militia out to restore and maintain onto at Idfao ml j
Primghar. Above, fanners fordid deputy sheriffs and attttfillrto tigu
the flag. Below, right, John Shafer and his ton, Edwin, who lost ami
court actions v-Llch decisions started some 500 farmers rioting. IA
above, Judge C. C. Bradley who was beaten and manhsrtdlcd but ?tOI
refused to agree to sign "no more farm foreclosures".
Recommendations to
Board of Commissioners
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A Complete Report of
First Meeting Held by
Newly Elected Mayor
And Board of Town
Commissioners
Mr. Commissioners, ladies and fren
;lemen of the Town of Farmville, I
lonestly recommend that we first
ook to the moral safety of our boys
md girls, and second to ihe economic
stability of our community as a whole.
And we should call on all the towns
people and rural neighbors to cooper
ite with us in our efforts to carrect
he moral laxities into which we have
irifted. Our, future citizens are too
7<xwg to vote, but are old enough to
?e and hear and be impressed by
he presence of crime. Their charac
er will be moulded by the examples
jet for them by their elders. Each
ndividual person stands as an exam
)le to all of the children-of the Town,
md all of the citizens stand as an ex -
imple to each individual child. Do
;rou and your Town enjoy the moral
reputation that you would like for
pour children to enjoy as future citi
zens?
It is not the desire of myself or any
>f your commissioners to depreciate
he income of any person,.but there
ire some moral values that we think
rou should recognize are more neces
tary than material returns. As in
he instance of the slot machine, I
vould suggest that they be iramedl
itely destroyed or returned to the
I listributors?their purpos^i^twCT
I 'old (1) to take a great deal of money |
I Tom our community and leave noth
ing in its place (2) to mould the
iharacter of our young people on the
langerous principle of getting some
thing for nothing. Honest and con
Imriltm progress has never been
I nade except by hard work. If the
I nonoy placed in slot machines was
ised to buy merchandise, you who
Rave them would receive almost as
Inuch profit and would immeasurably
Rpneffc your customers. Section 4433
lind 4433a has the following to say]
Relative to slot .machines. jl
Reart of our community- is infested I
Rvitb gambling; * a is my opinion that I
hose taking part are-not really crim-1
I nals Aough they are^ committing a II
RrinriMidMt, Wrfteyour conscience I
Riay' aot*hriktyj^y?owouH not be
Rroud and you would be I
Rhaftpdr bo have your wives or chit-l
Rrec jpr^E^t on such occasions. The
R ill H il^i^Hiiiiiii mi to your families,I
lo "fxhir^lhwn, and subsequently to I
RouneWes if you will give up ?ech I
Rracttato. In relation thereto, I will I
?uote the laws of North Caroline, I
mi. !
influence on tie morals of youx townj I
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Reports of Pick
up in Business
Decided Improvement
! In Record of Business
Failures Reported
i New York, May 10.?Increase of
ten per cent in the wages of all em
ployes of the Gossett Mills,/of An
derson, S. C., the Chadwick Hoskins
Company, of Charlotte, N. C., and the
Martinmlle Cotton M31 Co., Inc., of
Martinsville, Va., was announced to
day by B. B. Gossett, of Charlotte.
Gossett is president of all three con
cerns, which operate a total of twelve
units and employ 8,500 workers. The
increase is effective next week.
April industrial upturn in New
York, increased carloadings for sev
eral railroads, increased steel output,
more electric consumption, stepped
up ingot production rate, accumula
tion of a latent housing demand, new
wage increases and new employment
were scattered reports today.
The New York labor department es
timated that 16,000 workers were re
employed in - April, bringing an in
crease of 2.7j per cent in employment
and 4.4 in payrolls?and this at a
time of usual seasonal decline.
"Iron Age," heralding an increase
in steel output to 31 per cent of
capicity from 29 per cent last week,
reported that buying was stimulated
by rising prices and coming from an
ever-widening circle of consumers.
The increase in electric output, re
ported by the Edison Institute, was
at a higher rate for the first time
in three years. With the ingot pro
duction rate up to 54 per cent more
than 5,000 workers were called back
to mills in Cleveland and Lorain, 0.,
and another 5,000 were prepared to .
receive larger pay envelopes because
of increased hours,
i The Notional Steel Company at De
troit was . preparing to start work on
a construction program to cost 250,
000 and~?mploy 300 men.
Dem and Bradstreets reported a de
cided 1 improvement for the past sev
eral months in the record of busi
ness failures in all geographical sec
tions.
The United States Department of
Coatmetccy reported the latent hous
ing demand, pointed out that new
house* and apartments being 'com
menced now will -pot be sufficient
to keep up with increasing popula
tion.
- Officials of the Milwaukee railroad
saidthat today for the firsf time the
foad saw a chance to get out ojf the
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Members of the Southern Bakers
Association, meeting in annual, con
vention at Atlanta, Ga., pledged
ThoJwSr^ S^ea went to
work - today ^vfth Ughter step and a
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The Fannvffle High School wilt
dose die present year of eight months,
the shortest in die history of its
(Sfpded School system oh Sunday,'
May 14L Examinations started lest
week and will be continued through
this week.'*; .r .
The closing exercises really began
with the annual High School play,
"Here Come Three Knights" which
was presented Friday night, April 17,
in Fhrinns Hall and was officially the
first event Of the finals. %
The Junior-Senior banquet took
place on the following Friday eve
ning and the piano recital of Miss
Serene Turaage succeeded that on
Friday of the next wigfc
On Sunday morning, May 14, at
11:00 in Perkins Hall, the baccalaur
eate sermon will be preached by Prof.
Frederick F. Graham, head of the De
partment of Education of Atlantic
Christian College, Wilson. Prof.
Graham is one of the outstanding
leaders of the College and will be
heard with great interest on this oc
casion. Music will be furnished by
the various choirs of the town under
the direction of Frank? F. Hufty, not
able musician 'and director, who has
recently moved his residence . here
from Wilson.
The 7th grade program and the
piano recital of pupils of Mrs. Hay
wood Smith will be given jointly on
Thursday evening, May 18.
? The graduating exercises of the
class, one of the largest in the history
of the; school is made up of the fol
lowing members:
Ruby Carr, president; Hazel Monk,
vice president; Earl Quirin, secretary
and treasurer; Serene Turn age, Mary
Lee Allen, Etta Gray Carraway, Ruth
Carraway, Helen Eason, Geraidine
Gardner, Vernice Lang Jones, Fran
ces Joyner, Cieo Lewis, Edith Nor
ville, Mary Louise Rumley, Sara
Smith, Edith Teele, Catherine Teele,
Madeline Wainright, Mary Williams,
Thad Carraway, Frank Carraway,
Harvey Carraway, Eli Joyner, Jr., A.
J. Moye, Tom Hughes.
Nine Duplin farmers sold two cars
of finished hogs cn the Richmond
market | last week. '
Veteran's Economy
Order To Be Made
Less Drastic
Payments To Veterans
For Service-Connected
Disabilities Would Be
Reviewed
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Washington, May 10.?The White
House announced tonight that econo
mies to be effected through reduction
of payments to veterans for service
connected disabilities would be re
viewed with a view to making the
cuts less severe.
A statement issued by Stephen ?
Early, secretary to the President,
said:
"As a result of conferences be
tween the President, the national
commander of the American Legion,
Louis Johnson and the director of
the budget, the following conclusions
have been reached:
"As a result of the application of
the veterans' regulations, it now
seems that the cut in compensation
of service-connected World War vet
erana with specific injuries has been
deeper than was originally intended.
The regulations and schedules in this
respect will, therefore, be reviewed
so as to effect more equitable levels
of payment Careful study also will
be made of the other regulations
anid their efferts. - ...s > V
"By reason of the burden incident
to re-rating and In order that! endue
hardship will not be imposed upon
veterans in their appljcntioii for
adjudication of their cases, regional
offices of the' Veterans' Administra
tion will not be closed as has been
reported* except where it has been ;
clearly demonstrated that regional
ftpfties are not necessary. |
? "It is not contemplated that gov
ernment hospitals will be closed
pending a careful, studious survey of
the entire hospital situation. This,
of necessity,, will require consider
ate time.
"These conclusions ere in line with
the President's original statement
Farmville Club Women!
f Are Justly Proud i*
Past President
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? Thetwo year - term just completed
by MmL J. X. Hobgood as president
ff the State Federation <rfW0?Sto'8
Clubs, will go down in the Wftoi'y
of the Federation as one of its most
successful adminitrations. ?
Mrs. Hobgood mapped out a pro
gram of olossal achievements in the
interest of the club women of thh
State and has succeeded in not ei^y
attaining these goals but has brough
prestige to the State along General
Federation lines.
?; No woman in the State is as
familiar with Club activities as she
and in addition she qualifies in an ex
ceptional way as an able as well as
a charming presiding officer. Else
where hi tide- issue will be seen ac
complishments of the Federation dur
ing the past two years under her ad
ministrations brought to fruition In
this meeting.
Farmville club women are justly
proud of Mrs.' Hbbgood and demon
strated their interest and enthusiasm
by their attendance and loyal support
at the Raleigh meeting, during which
it Was estimated there were between
60 and 75 women from this city pres
ent.
Trade Body To
Moot At Ayden
district Session Cham
ber of Commerce Will
iBe Held atPitt Town
Ayden, May 11.?The fifth of a new
series of district meetings of the
Eastern Carolina Chamber of Com
merce will be held in Ayden Tues
day night, May 16, in the Hotel
Ayden. While the program is not t
completed at this time, the speak
ers-will bring messages of interest
to those in attendance. Lloyd Turn
age of Ayden, is chairman of the !
local committee that is looking after
the local arrangements. He is N?ing
assisted by T. G. Worthington and i
S. M. Edwards. The meeting will :
be in the form of a Dutch supper I
at 7:30, and is open to the general
public. ? President Guy Elliott of
Kinston, will preside. Towns expect- i
ed to send delegations are: Grifton.
Winterville, Kinston, Show -Hill,
Greenville, Bethel, Scotland Neck, i
Farmville, Fountain, LaGrange and
others. <
Fred I. Sutton of Kinston, was the
principal speaker at an enthusiastic I
meeting held at Warsaw Tuesday <
night of this week. 7. 0. Bowman, <
superintendent of county schools of "<
Duplin, was toaetmaster. Others on <
the program included T. R. Thigpen,
president First National Bank, Mount .
Olive, who spoke on The Effects of j
Inflation on Eastern North Carolina;
Judge D. L. Carlton of Warsaw, on
The Upward Trend; J. T. Gresham,
J?., of Warsaw, who welcomed the i
guests; Judge Guy Elliott, o? Kins
ton, who responded, and J. E. Jar
rett, county chairman of Duplin
county, on Safety. 1
At the close of tfco meeting, the
Warsaw unit elected officers for the
ensuing year as follows: Norwood i
West, chairman; N. EL Walters, sec- >
retary. The Kenansville unit elected
J. O. Bowman chairman and C. E.
Quinn secretary. Both of these j
towns have local units of the sec
tional organisation.
The 18 free trips to the World's
Fair that are being ottered by the <
organization are creating considers- .
ble interest i
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MRS. ROBERT ANN KARRIS 1
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Mrs. Robert Ann Harris 75, died 1
at nine o'clock Thursday morning at J
her home near King's Cross Boards
after an extended illness. She was '?*
a Widow of the Alex Harris, who died i
about 16 years ago. Funeral services 1
wffl be conducted ?rou her late home 1
this (Friday) afternoon at t o%iodc i
by Rev. B. 1* Manning and interment 1
will be made in Nobles graveyard in
the Redy Branch community. Sur- i
viting are two sons, Alex Harris of <
Cross Hams^
president of the North -Carolina Fed
eration of WonMiAte Club yesterday.
She succeeds Mrs. J. H. Hobgood of
Farmville who wu elected Cpm *1
Federation director. ,
Other officers named wet*: Mrs. J, *
N. Eritt, of. Lumberton, first vice
president; Mrs. H. G. Ethridge ?f
AsheviR* second vice, preside**;
Mrs. J. W. Bonn of Raleigh. third,
rice president; Ms* Guy MgsfcfiK M
Winston-Salem, corresponding ?pr.
tary and Miss Adelaide. Fries of:
Winston-Salem. m.?mh?r of the hoard
Of trustees.
Delegates to the General Federa
tion Council meeting to be held in
Richmond this month were elected
as follows: Mrs. E. L. McKee, Sylva;
Mrs. George Marshall, Mount Airy,;
Mrs. Thomas 0'Berry, Goldsboro;
Mrs. Eugene Davis, Statesville; Mrs.
J. D. McCall, Charlotte; Mrs. H. G.
Ethridge, Asheville and Miss Annie
Perkins of Farmville. Alternates-will
he: Mrs. Fred Bahnson of Winston?
Balem; Mrs. Frank Spmill, Lexing
tpn; Mrs. E. S. Paddison, Nashville;
Mrs. O. J. Moneyham, Henrietta;
Mrs. D. S. tioltrane, Greensboro;
Mrs. Rt E. Labberton, Madison and
Mrs. Curry Loftin, Asheboro. Those
Who will attend the meeting by vir
tue of their office are Mrs. E. M.
hand, Mrs. Palmer Jorman and Mrs.
J, M. Hobgood. ??
Both sessions yesterday were pre- ,
aided over by Mrs. Hobgood. The
morning session was opened with the
singing of "America The Beautiful,"
led by Mrs. Wiley H. Pittman. T?a
was followed by the reading of the
Woman's Club Collect and the min
utes of the previous session.
; In giving the report of the Ju
nior cldbs, Mrs. D. F. Giles stated
that 11 new junior clubs had been
federated during the year, that the
Greensboro Junior Club had done
the most outstanding work of the
year and that the five dollar prise
for the best scrapbook was won by
the Raleigh Junior Club, the junior
club of Garner receiving honorable
mention. She also pointed out the
fact that North Carolina junior clubs
had received three valuable prizes
at the General Federation conven
tion in Seattle.
'In pving the report of the Sally
Southall Cotton Loan Fund, Mrs. W.
J. Brogden stated that the present
value of the fund is $26,548.65 and
ti^at the total loans since the estab
lishment of the fund amount to $50,
2$2,88, a total of 141 girls having
been -aided by the fund. Pledges
amounting to $18.06 were received
for the fund at yesterday's session,
making a total of $510.06 received
fpr the fund. *
;Miss Jesse Moye gave the report
of the Department of Musk; Mrs.
Plalmer Jerman reported on the sta
bus of the Foundation Fund; Miss
Isabel Busbee made the report of
the Garden Department and Mrs.
Ifne S. McKimmon reported on the
cooperation between the Home Dem
onstration Federation and the Fed
eration of Woman's Clubs. Mrs. E.
L. McKee made a brief talk a more
active interest in the affairs of the
government
Reports from the following dia- \
trict presidents were heard at the
tqorning session: Mrs.-A. J. Mooney
ham, No. 4; Mrs. D. H. Tillett, No. 1;
Miss Ethel Parker, No. 6, and Mrs.
H. G. Ethridge gave the report of
No. 2 in the place of Mrs. C. W.
GraybeaL
A boys' double quartet from the
Raleigh high schools, under direc
tion of W. A. Potter, sang a group
of songs at the morning session.
Resolutions Adopted
At the afternoon session, the re
port of the resolutions committee
made by Miss Adelaide Fries ef
Winston-Salem, sets as objectives for
the Federation the urging of local
clubs to study the problems of wel
fare and health by giving them a
definite place on their annual dub
programs, and to aid^n arousing pub
tic interest and - local responsibility y
for fee bettering of coadL^ons re
lating to these aspects of the wel
fare health .of the community, to
recognize the need of effecting econ
omies in government wherever prac
ticable and prudent, this to be done i.. .
without sacrificing the social serv- * '
ices of those brandies of government
deeding with distinctive human
ralttee-*-publ)c welfare, public health
and puNfc education; the consider
ation and stddy of ndfcstires con
ductive to a mora effective use M f
radio ? htttnraient
bo urge upon local chibe the responsi