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'? ,-V : ;> ?? v . -V- - WM fe The Farmville Enterprise % SELL Your TOBACCO In FARMYILLE And GET The TOP Dollar! Patronize Our Advertisers, For They Are Constantly Inviting You To Trade With M VOL. TWENTY-FOUR FABMYILLE* PITr COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 19, 1934 NUMBER THIRTY-SEVEN || ; j . . . ' ? ? ' ' - ? *-? .? i ? ? ?.. v ? T . ? Highway Deaths in 1933 Exceed 1932 Toll by 178 Total of 582 Killed In North Carolina Last Year, 102 In December; j Finds Fewer Drunks1 /"Driving Cars Raleigh, Jan. 18.?Motor vehicle mishaps in North Carolina during 1933 claimed 852 lives?ITS more than the 674"killed in 1932. In December there were 102 victims, three less than Novembers toll. During the final month of the year there were 3,009 deaths in this State; therefore, of every 100 deaths in December, three were caused in motor vehicle tragedies. The only bright spot in the State's record for December is the fact that the highway patrol found fewer drunken drivers menacing sober mo torists, the patrol arresting 97 on that account, whereas in November) a total of 115 intoxiated men and women were arrested while piloting their cars. Tar Heel births during December far exceeded deaths, the figures be ing 7,692 to 3,009. Statistics used are compiled frum reports issued yesterday by three State divisions: highway patrol, mo tor vehicle bureau, and the board of health. T? tViA in*? antnmohiifc I i.i.1 auui kivti wv v?>v ?w> fatalities in December, there were 463 persons injured in motor mis haps. There were 357 accidents in all, with 523 cars involved. Drunken drivers were at the wheel in mishaps that cost 12 lives and in jured 35. Six children were killed while playing- in the streets and 20 were injured. Autos depleted the ranks of pedestrians by 31, and, were responsible for 57 being injured. Coming after this newspaper's pub lication of a highway patrolman's quotation that Judge Dink James, of the Greenville recorder's court, "violated his oath of office" by re ducing the charge against a defend ant from drunken driving to speed ing, and then taxing him only with the costs, Capt. Charles D. Farmer, head of the patrol, yesterday issued a statement in which he said "the facts did not justify any comment whatever upon the official conduct of Judge James." Last month the highway patrol se cured a high percentage of convic tions, the courts finding guilty 517 of the 557 motorists arrested for vio lating motor vehicle laws. Arrests for improper lights, 105, led the list. Then came the S? drunken drivers, 74 for improper livence, and 69 for being drunk on the highway. Thirty five reckless drivers were taken into custody. Those found guilty were sentenced in the aggregate to 67 months on the roads and to pay $6,174 in fines and $4,242.78 in costs. The patrol extended courtesies of the road to 1,404 motorists, and warned 5,164 to observe highway regulations. It recovered 17 stolen automobiles Pneumonia proved the most active agent of death m North Carolina during December, claiming 295 vic tims Next came cancer, with 163; then pulmonary tuberculosis 148; auto mishaps, 102; influenza, 64; diphtheria, 50; diabetes. 47; syphilis, 30, and appendicitis, 29. Three died of accidental drowning, 24 of accidental burns, and 20 of accidental shootings. Sixteen Tar Heels took ttieir own lives, and 52 were killed by the hand of someone else, the suicide figure dropping four from the toll in De cember, 1932, and the homicide count being doubled. Seventeen were killed in railroad accidents. There were no deaths from air transportation mishaps. The infant mortality rate, based on each 1,000 live births dropped from 72.8 in December, 1932, to 57.6 last month. The maternal mortality rate was shaved down from 6.1 to 5.7,; 44 women dying .in labor last month as compared with the 45 in the previous December. Apologizes to Judge. Regarding the accident in which Judge-Jhmes figured. Captain Farmer said* "In two cases recently tried in Greenville by Judge James, State v. A. J. Early and State v. A. J. Mat tox, the charge was driving a motor vehicle while intoxicated. In report ing these cases the patrolman made certain comments onthe action of Judge James, which comments were entirely outside his duties in making - such report Unfortunately, without the fault of the department or with any intention to make the matter public, a report was made in The News and Observer of December 21, 1933, which might be construed aa a reflection upon the official conduct of Judge James. In consequence of this matter, in company with Mr. L. S. Harris, director of the Motor Ysfctda Bureau, I went to GreenviHe to mate some xnvesnganon 01 toe matter. I find that the facto did not justify any comment whatever upon the official conduct of Judge James, and in consequence of the investi gation, due apologies were made to him, both with regard to the report of the officer and the publication in the newspaper. I very deeply regret the embarrassment and the incon venience the matter has caused Judge Tames, and I wish to say that the officer in question was reprimanded for his report; and it is my desire that this department do everything that can be done to remove any im pression of official misconduct which the public might have gotten from this report in the published article, and this statement is made to that effect "The whole incident is much to be regretted, because of the fact there is no court in the State that has given finer co-operation ?? with the highway patrol in the enforcement of the laws than has been given by Judge James in his court." In view of the fact that the build ing is a considerable distance from the fire zone, no facilities for fighting the flames were available and the blaze had made such headway when discovered that the use of a bucket brigade would have been futile. Wheat growers belonging to the Burke-Caldwell Association received checks for over a thousand dollars from their association treasurer-last week for reducing acreage lest fall ; . . >s: ss.'SSSr? 7w ' ,*>, ??' . .-V 'X/V ? Tax Delinquents j Facing Pressure Morgenthau Suggests Door-to-Door Drive To Force Income Tax Pay ments Washington, Jan. 17.?Door-to-door pressure to force payment of federal income taxes was suggested by Sec retary Morgenthau today in setting a $200,000,000 goal for back tax col lections this year. Simultaneously, it was disclosed that disbarment from practice before the Internal Revenue Bureau and all other Treasury agencies might be the penalty for lawyers, accountants and tax experts who assist in pre paring income tax returns which contain glaring errors or hints of fraud. In the latter case, conspiracy charges probably ?will be filed. Morgenthau's proposal was mane before a meeting of more than 150 internal revenue collectors and field agents, who met to receive the secre tary's personal orders in the drive to collect all taxes owned the govern ment. * * ?v_ 1. J 1 "We snaii watcn ine worn uone uy each district every month and we shall let each of you know what the others are doing," he said. "V?e hope to stimulate an interest that will mean a considerable gain in revenue to the government" Morgenthau told his officers to de cide whether they considered a house-to-house canvass to make cer tain that income tax returns are filed was a practical proposition. If they recommended this course. Mor genthau said he would ask the Civil Works Administration for money to cover expenses. A close check on the thousands of tax experts who prepared corpora tion and individual returns was planned by the Treasury "to insure a higher degree of accuracy and care by the professional advisers who have actually prepared the return." A new rule requires these experts to sigr^ the return along with the taxpayers. In this way, the Treasury expects to find it easier to trace errors and forestall their repetition. More than 50,000 persons are on the enrollment list representing clients before Treasury bureau.?. This does not mean that all experts making returns are or must be on the list. But if the Treasury con siders a return fradulent and the r.ame of the professional adviser is on the enrollment list, it will be re moved. The purpose of the plan was de scribed as fixing "the responsibility for the return where it belongs." Morgenthau told his tax collectors that budget estimates for the collec tion of back taxes in 1934 were $132, 400,000, or approximately the same as collections for the calendar year 1933. His new figure represented a 51 per cent increase of the 1934 goal. The secretary urged weekly lunch eon conferences among officials at the Treasury's various district head quarters as a stimulus to "better teamwork." "You should be able in that way to help each other and to promote better service to the public by the Treasury Department," Morgenthau said. Ask For Excise ! Tax On Foreign Fats and Oils Blalock and Others Work to Aid the Pro ducer of Cotton Seed Washington, D. C., Jan. 18.?An excise tax^on competing fats and oils as a means toward reducing the heavy surplus carryover of cotton seed oil boosting its price was advo cated here by three North Carolinians who appeared before the House Ways and Means committee during ths sec ond week of Congress. U. Benton Blalock, of Raleigh, gen eral manager of the North Carolina Cotton Growers cooperative Associa tion, appeared in behalf of the cotton producers. The other Tar Heels were R. S. Oliver, of Raleigh, secretary of the North Carolina division of the Cotton Seed Crushers' Association, and J. I. Morgan, cotton seed oil mil ler of Farmville. "The present administration has promised us pre-war parity prices for farm products, and we believe the administration is seeking every legi timate means to bring about fulfill ment of these promises," Said Mr. Blalock, who is a cotton producer himself. "We are cutting down on the pro duction of cotton and cotton seed for 1934, but it is our opinion that we will never get out from under the heavy surplus carry-over of domestic fats and oils until we reduce the heavy importations of competing fats and oils. "As cotton producers we advocate an excise tax that will help bring about our promised pre-war parity prices." Mr. Blalock reminded the commit tee that about 300,000 pounds is con sidered a normal cotton seed oil car ryover while on August 1 of last year the carryover approached 750,000,000 pounds. Ac nrin<*inal nomco r\f this in ? iu V1IV VWMWV ?a*?w ?? ? crease in carry-over he cited the in crease in cocoanut oil and. copra? from which cocoa-nut oil is manufac tured?from an average yearly figure of 81,000,000 pounds from 1909 to 1914 to the enormous poundage of 634,000,000 in 1983?almost an eight fold increase. Importation of palm kernel oil has increased 400 per cent, he said. "The hulk of these imports come from the Phillipine Islands and there fore under the present regulations come in duty free," Mr, Blalock said. He called attention to rthe great in justice that is being done to the American farmers in calling on them to reduce the production of cotton seed oil, dairy products and hog lard, with no curtailment of production in the Phillipine Islands and no restric tions on imports from this' source. The cottonseed crushers?with Mr. Oliver and M^ Morgan representing North .Carolina?presented an array of facts and figures showing the need of a tariff on foreign fats and oils if the cotton farmers of the South are to expect pre-war parity prices for their'cotton seed. The price charts used showed that during the four years of normal car ryover of cotton seetfopil, farmers re ceived 46% cents drbushel for their cotton seed whereas during the two years of big surplus carryover the price dropped to an average of 15 cents a busheL The dairy interests and the pro ducers of hogiard have been feeling the effects of the heavy importation of foreign, edible oils and are of course giving their full support through their organized groups to the propos ed tariff Ion foreign oils and fats. Farmville Tobacco Market To Close On Jannaiy 26th The Marked Has Exper ienced One of Its Most Successful Seasons. Prices have shown a pronounced upward trend on the Farmville tobac co market this week reaching the highest mark since the holiday re opening. Sales have been light with very lit tle fancy grades - showing up during the past two weeks, the quality of the leaf being mostly ordinary to medium. A total of 57,564^>c>unds on Monday * ? ? U- An nnn An ?iL Drougnt farmers i>y,ow.yo wivn mi average of $16.31 reported. Sales for the week, exclusive of today, Fri day, totail 86,366 pounds, which sold for $13,415.57, at an average of $15.76. Prices on the better grades show ed renewed strength today, according to observers, and these are expected to continue through the remainder of the season. Warehousemen have announced this week that the Farmville market will close on Friday, January 26, and are urging farmers to market the remain der of their crop immediately . Will Celebrate The PresitfenTsBirthday Farmvilte to Join Green ville In Celebration of Roosevelt's Birthday With Ball Mayor Flanagan, of Greenville, and members of the ticket committee of the Roosevelt Birthday Ball to be held in Greenville, Tuesday night, January 30, visited Farmville this week and made arrangements to place tickets on sale here at once. R. E.. Boyd, president of the Ro tary club and school superintendent, was requested to appoint a ticket chairman and assist in selecting a committee to sell tickets locally. These will be distributed to the com mittee at once so that people of this community will be enabled to secure them without any trouble. Prices are quoted as follows: $1.60 for participants and 50c for specta tors. Receipts will be turned into na tional headquarters as has been wide ly advertised, to be used for the benefit of the sanitarium at Warm Springs, Ga. The Ball will be held in the campus building of East Carolina Teacher's College, and every effort is being made to make it an outstand ing social event in this section of the State. The committee in Greenville has been assured of the cooperation and full support of Farmville, together with the other towns of the county and surrounding territory, and the event will doubtless be the tremend ous success anticipated by those in charge. On account of the fact that lo cal affairs of this nature depend large ly on patronage from nearby towns, it was decided as best by those ap proached concerning the matter early after announcement of the Balls to be held throughout the country, that the efforts < f the local people be bent towards making the Greenville Ball a success, rather than hold one here. Mayor John B. Lewis will make a radio address relative to the Ball on Saturday morning, January 20, at 11 o'clock front station WEED, Green ville. To Date Over $50,000 In Loans Approved by Intermediate Credit Bank Columbia, S. C., Jan. 16.?The first loan made through a Production Cred it Association was approved by the Intermediate Credit Bank of Colum bia on January 3. It was made through the St Johns Production Credit Association of Hastings, Flori- j da. To date over $50,000 in loans have been approved by the Intermediate Credit Bank. The amount of loans 90 far approved equals approximately $3,000 per loan. President J. E. Cagle of the Inter mediate Credit Bank reports that his | organization is complete and that all applications for loans will be acted upon promptly. He estimates that four days!will be the maximum tinm required to act on a loan submitted to his Bank by the Production Credit Association. However, he advised farmers to\ determine their credit needs for production purposes at once -and file their applications promptly in order to avoid flooding the Bank and possibly causing delay. - ^Applications for charters for all Production-Credit Associations in the third district have now been submit ted to Washington with the majority approved and returned to the local associations. As soon as a charter is granted and local officers selected and approved the association is in position to submit its members' notes to the "Intermediate Credit Bank for approval. Farmers wishing to avail themsel ves of the facilities of the Production Credit Associations will find a com petent representative located in their County, and he will have all necessary information and can' help in filling out applications for membership. The Production Credit Corporation of Columbia supplies 80 pear cent cf the initial capital for .Production CreditAssociations while 20 per cent of the capital which equals 5 per cent of their loaalis required to be owned by fanner borrowers* a ? Bslt Final Rites Held For John R. Davis Prominent Banker and Business Man Laid To Rest on Tuesday after noon Last rites for John R. Davis, Farmville banker and business man, and one of Pitt county's most promi nent citizens, who died Monday morn ing following an attack of pneumonia, were held here Tuesday afternoon at 3 o'clock from the residence of his , brother, F. M. Diavis, on Church , Street. Services were conducted by , Rev. J. B. Roberts, pastor of the local Primitive Baptist church, assisted by , Rev. E. L. Cobb of Wilson. Inter- ( ment was made in Forest Hill Ceme- ] tery. 1 Reading the 23rd Psalm, Rev. Mr. i Roberts spoke on Christ as the Good 1 Shepherd, and of His sheep who know His voice and love the congregation < of the Lord, referring to the regular I church attendance of Mr. Davis, of i his high sense of honor and nobility i of character. 1 A quartette composed of Rev. L. R. * Ennis, Charles F. Baucom, John D. 1 and Elbert Holmes rendered two i selections; "Crossing the Bar" and I "Jesus, Lover of My Soul." < The death of Mr. Davis was re ceived with pronounced sorrow by the 1 entire town and business was suspend- : ed from 2:00 to 4:00 on the day of ' the funeral, a, large, concourse of 1 friends from nearby towns joining ^ those of this community, estimated at ' a thousand, in paying their last re- 1 spects to this pioneer citizen, and { the floral tribute was one of the larg- * est and handsomest seen here. 1 Mr. Davis ?' is survived by two brothers: R. L. and F. M. Davis, and ' 4 a number of nieces and nephews. Active pallbearers were: G. W., ( Fred and Frank Davis, C. A. Lilly, * George Ballew, and DeWitt Allen. J Honorary: J. D. Gold, Frank Hassell, W. D. Lamb, E. C. Fulghum H. D.Bate- 1 man, F. L. Carr, Dr. C. EL Moore, J. 1 C. Eagles, U. H. Cozart, E. C. Cobb, 4 S. B. Denny, Wilson; J. L. Hearne, 4 Tarboro; George Holderness, Rich- 1 mond; C. R., A. S. and R. L. Bryant, Saratoga; Connor Eagles, Pinetops; ' Ronald Mewborn," Kinston; A. M. 4 Paul, C. M. Little, Washington; E. 0. Flanagan, J. L. Little, J. R. and J. G. , Moye, L. W. Tucker, Jesse Speight, 1 W. O. Bilbro, John Mitchell, B. B. 4 Suggs, E. B. Higgs, Claude Gaskins, 4 " " M ?p Tin. :._i f J. v. narnngxon, o. i? wkimsiiui^i T. E. Hooker, K. W. Cobb, Dr. L. C. J Skinner, Dr. W. I. Wooten, Dr. J. L. Winstead, Greenville; R. W. Salis- j bury1, Hamlin; R. B. Whitley, J. J. Henderson, Wendell; J. L. Duffy, * Wilmington; Josiah Exum, Snow Hill; W. C. Cannon, Ayden; R. A. t Fountain, George and R. L. Jeffer- 1 son, Fountain; C. L. Hardy, Maury; * I. H. Bright, S. I. Bandford, New Bern; W. G. Whitehill, Baltimore; W. E. Lang, Walstonburg; J. I. Mor- c gan, A. C. Monk, J. 0., W. A. and * Mack Pollard, D. E. Oglesby, Judd ' Walker, S. A. Roebuck, G. A. Rouse. John Stansill, J. Y. Monk, J. T. J Thorne, T. E., Dr. C. C., R. A., J. B. * and J. W. Joyner, W. J., B. 0., T. C. J Turnage, B S. and W. Leslie Smith, T. M. Dail, W. C. Askew, R. A. 4 Fields, E. C., T. C., and C. L. Bea man, Dr. D. S. Morrill, Dr. W. M. * Willis, A. W. and J. B. Bobbitt, C. 1 T. Dixon, L. W. Godwin, G. S. Wil- ?* liams, 0. G. Spell, Manly Liles, J. A. Mewborn, W. A. McAdams, S. M. c Pollard, J. W. Holmes, J. W. Parker, R. H. Knott, B. M., S. T., and John ' B. Lewis, T; W., D. F., and R. 0. ^ Lang, J. M. Wheless, J. H. "Hams, . R. J. Wainright, J .M. Hobgood, R. ' E. Boyd, R. E. Belcher, Alfred Moore, Lester Turnage, M. L. Moye, Dr. P. j E. Jones, G. A. Jones, C. H. Hines, ? D. R. Morgan, H. F. Voss, Z. M. ? Whitehurst, Jr., W. P. Monk, M. V. 1 Jones, M. E. Dixon, J. T. Bundy, W. ( J. Rasberry, R. T. Norville, Rev. H. L. Hendricks and J. W. Bass. " T-.?? 1?i I 1*1 r. 118V1S suueujtiueu iu pucuiuvuia I in a Greenville hospital Monday morn ing at 11:30 o'clock, following a gen eral decline of health extending* over a period of several weeks. The youngest son of the late Jane Lang and Benjamin A. Davis, he J was a native of this section of Pitt county and had been a partner in the well known mercantile estab lishment of R. L. Davis and Bros., {_ for more than 50 yesrs. He was un married, and aside ,?rom civic in terests .devoted his attention to busi- . ness, being employed in the active , management of the Davis Bros., firm i for several years. He had served as } active vice-president of the Bank of j Farmville since its organization in , 1904. < A man of great dignity and solid ?of character, his keen business. < fment was highly respected i ughout the entire county which \ he served in various capacities, as ] well ais in the municipal and educa- ?< tional endeavors of his own com- } munity, Voices Approval Of Debt Penally Robinson Now Favors Johnson Bill Aimed At Debt Defaulting: Na tions Washington. Jan. 17.?A sharp change n sentiment toward legisla tion ain xl at debt defaulting nations was disclosed today by Majority Leader Robinson, who said he was in sympathy with the "general purposes" of a bill by Senator Johnson, Repub lican, California, prohibiting financial transactions with countries failing to meet financial obligations to the United States of its citizens. Robinson, who previously had in dicated a brief . that the Johnson bill would endanger reciprocal trade negotiations, said today that he would offer only a few amendments to the measure. It was indicated that the purpose of the measure? to penalize debt defaulters by clos ing the American money market to their securities?would not be weak ened. He plans an amendment to pro ject American holders of bonds is sued before final enactment of the sill. The measure was passed by ;he Senate last week with only a :ew members in the chamber. Rob mson announced on the same day le would move for reconsideration, md it appeared until today that the idministration majority would de feat it. Robinson also feels the bill must se amended to protect the administra ,ion's new monetary plans, espe nally those dealing with the estab ishment of a $2,000,000,000 equaliza ;ion fund. Under present plans, the rreasury would be empowered to jse this money in dealing in do mestic or foreign drafts, bills of ;xchange, bonds and other notes or >ther securities in an effort to con ,rol the value of the dollar abroad. Johnson indicated he would accept idjustments necessary to assure suc cess of the President's money plans, iill bill in its passed form would nake it unlawful for "any person vithin the United States" to "pur :hase or sell the bonds, securities ii . t. ? a ?' ^ r : )r omer ODigauons 01 any ioreign rovernment issued after passage of his act or to make any loan to such 'o reign government . . . while such "oreign government ... is in de 'ault in the payment of its obli gations." The measure, if the administra ion assepts it with the Robinson intendments, is expected to win ap >roval of both houses. With no major legislation before Congress, both houses spent the day >n routine matters. The Senate >assed the Houe bill governing sale >f liquor in the District of Cohim >ia, and( then returned to debate ?n the St. Lawrence waterway treaty. Senator Clark, (D-Mo.) charged that housands of dollars were being .pent on lobbying activities in an iffort to obtain ratification. In the House, Representative How ird, (D-Neb.) called on the nation ;o support the President in his struggle with the influence of bank irs, whom he criticised as "a pirate :rew." The House ways and means com nittee began executive sessions on ;he $275,000,000 tax revision bill. Chairman Doughton indicated that t would be reported out next week, rhe committee has before it a pro )osal by Representative Treadway, |R-Mass.) urging support for a con rtitutior.al amendment which would >ermit reciprocal taxation of Fed ;ral and state securities. Fire Destroys Club At Country Club Loss Estimated at $8, 000 With $3,000 Insur ance; Origin of Blaze Undetermined 1 ' b. ' ' - Greenville, Jan. 18.?The clubhouse it the Country Club, two tniles south vest of Greenville, was destroyed by 'ire of undetermined' origin yesterday ifternoon about 6 o'clock. The build ng was valued at about $8,000 and was said to have been insured for Ml,000. Personal effects of golfers contain ed in lockers in the basement, as well is considerable golfing equipment were reported lost in the blaze, which lad gained such headway when dis :overed that all chance of saving 4t was hopeless. The building, constructed of wood f' '"v ? v ? - j % v -J" ? ' ' . . ? built when the yh?b ;?taftftitt i;: ^ ed several years ago. It consisted of a ballroom, cloak rooms, refreshment room and basement where lockers of individual members were located. Additions had been made to the club house from time to time and it had been the scene of many important Cummings Holds New Gold Policy Adheres to Law ? ? ?? ' - X Emphatically Sustains Constitionality of Plan To Commandeer Gold * Washington, Jan, 17.?Attorney General Cummings emphatically up held the constitutionality of giving the government title to the Federal Reserve's gold, in an opinion deliver ed personally to the Senate banking committee tonight, but Senator Car ter Glass, of Virginia, who had chal lenged this phase of the Roosevelt monetary program, remained uncon vinced. "The monetary gold stock may be taken by the government in the ex ercise of its right of eminent do main," said Cummings. "Such power extends to every form of property required for public use."! He cited a series of Supreme Court decisions to back his view and as serted that every consideration of "just compensation is completely satisfied by the provisions for pay ment in gold certifcateis of equival ent amounts of dollars." /I - J _ _ ? il - . . I 1 ? _ r,ommanaeering toe goia stock is one phase of the legislative program ^requested of Congress by the Presi dent, under which he asked also for approval of a minimum 40 per cent devaluation of the dollar and the establishment of a $2,000,000,000 fund with which to stabilize the foreign exchange value of the dollar. The committee held its second hearing on the measure today, in executive session receiving testimony from Governor Black, of the Federal Reserve board, as well as the At torney General. Black, .too, endorsed the proposed gold step. Meanwhile, the measure had the approval of one House committee, but not that to which it was refer- ? red. The latter, the coinage commit tee, arranged to put everything else aside to consider the measure. Glass, a former Secretary of the Treasury, co-author of the Federal Reserve law, and an authority on banking and currency legislation, questioned Cummings sharpely on sev eral points that he raised, and indi cated he had some pointed questions to throw at Black when he resumes his testimony tomorrow. Asked if Cummings argument had changed his opinion on the constitu tionality of seizing the gold, the Vir ginian replied: "Not least in the world." Leaving the committee room, Com mings told reporters there wasn't "any doubt about its constitutional ity," adding: "It's clear as a belL" After asserting the government's power to tak? this step through the right of eminent domain, Cummings quoted the Supreme Court as ruling that this right is "inseparable from sovereignty," and "belongs to every independent government." The court has decided that exercise of this is "within the control of the legisla ture," the Attorney General said, in the following language: . ( "It is no longer an open question in this country that the mode of ex ercising the right of eminent domain in the absence of any provision in the organic law prescribing a con trary course is within the discretion of the legislature. There is no limi tation upon the power of the legisla ture in this respect, if the purpose be a public one, and just compensa tion be paid or tenered to the owner for the property taken." Miss Turnage Plays : For A Costume Silhouette Program Miss Serene Turnage, attractive daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Turn age of Farmville, and a talented young artist of the Flora MacDonald Col lege Conservatory, furnished the music for a costume silhouette pro gram given in the college auditorium Monday evening, January 15. ^ \ . In keeping with the setting for the presentation of examples of costum ihv throughout the ages, Miss Turn age played popular, old-fashioned melodies. Miss Turnage, a candidate for the Batchelor of Music degree in Piano, is considered one of the most promis ing young pianists in the Converva tory. She is a pupil of Mr. Hugh Williamson,. Dean, who has studied under Edwin Hughes, well known piona teacher of New York City. ' ? ?' ?
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