North Carolina Newspapers

hm w a ^MFPB w The FarmviUe Enterprise ? ??? SELL Your TOBACCO \ In FARMYILLE And GET The TOP Dollar! MMH.fr Patronize Our Advertisers, For They Are Constantly Inviting You To Trade; With Them. I .. ? . _ . . ... - _ rOL. TWENTY-FOUR PARMVILLE, PITT COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 26, 19S4 NUMBER THIRTY-EIGHT New Tax Bill to Equal ize Burden, Remove Gaps Measure Designed To Produce an Additional $200,000,000 Nears Completion Washington, Jan. 25.?A tax bill drawn to meet administration requests for a closing of revenue gaps, a more j equal distribution of the tax burden and to produce $200,000,000 more revenue annually neared completion today in the House ways and means committee. It is designed to tighten the . in come tax law through changes in administrative provisions, but as thus far approved, it also alters the income tax rates, revises the capi tal gains and losses provisions, sub-1 jects personal holding companies to heavy levies and continues consoE-1 dated corporate returns with an- in creased penalty tax. Following a conference with Sec-J, retary Morgenthau to obtain the final views of the Treasury, the com mittee yielded to the request of the , department head to drop its plan to deduct depreciation and depletion allowances to corporations. By this actioiw about $85,000,000 of estimated revenue was dropped from the bill as originally drawn. However, various minor administra tive changes recommended by the Treasury were adopted, which, it was estimated, would round out a $200,000,000 measure Chairman Doughton (D-N. C.) an- ? nounced. the bill probably would be . formally reported to the House for ? action next Wednesday. However, . there are several major items yet j to be decided upon. Doughton said 11 all action th ic. far -was tentative. But on the major items decided , upon, formal votes were taken and ' they are expected to remain in the ' bill. ' A sHght reduction of lower in comes was effected, but those in . the higher brackets were increased on a graduating scale. This change j is expected to bring in $36,000,000 , additional. Under existing rates, , the Treasury estimated revenue from income tax in the fiscal year 1935 would amount to $1,265,000,000. Whether the income tax changes would be made retroactive so as to cover incomes of 1933- on which re turns will be made in March has not yet been decided. Long: Term Felon Is Given Palone Harry Price, sent to prison in 1930 from Rockingham county for second degree murder to serve 20 to 25 years was paroled Wednesday by Governor Ehringhaus. The Governor also paroled Willie ; Gates, serving six months for carry- 3 ing a consealed weapon in Person ] county, and Booker T. Bailey, given 60 days in Brunswich county for \ larceny. Seventeen clemency peti- i tions were declined. j Caldwell county has recently made application for the establishment of j a community center. A committee has been appointed to look after the financing and handle other details of the work. Messes Grime, Sentenced to Die April 25 Fixed For The Execution Pitt Coun ty Negro Greenville, Jan. 23.?After deliber ating less than an hour, a jury pick ed from a special venire, returned a verdict of guilty in the case of Jim Green, 25-year-old Negro, who confessed to a capital crime against Miss Marie House, 18-year-old girl. Judge Frank Daniels gave the Negro the death sentence and fixed April 25th as the date of execution. The case was begun in superior court here shortly before the noon hour today and was given to the jury about 5 o'clock. The courtroom was filled to oyerflooring with the exception of when Miss House testi fied and then thet Judge ordered the court room cleared. Green admitted attacking Miss House twice after attacking Edwards, her escort, and rendering him un conscious. Miss House gave a resume of the attack when she took the stand today, telling of the two 'at tacks which she submitted to under threat oI physical violence if she did not do- as the Negro had commanded ' her. -v v '; , No disturb anil of any kind was noted during the entire trial and the Negro was spirited away to the State Penitentiary at Raleigh un der heavy guard as a precaution " - "r'KjSiv*:^> -?' . ?>: r> X'ju -? lyv-VjV-" C^-re5 . '? C. A. Vandiford Succumbsto Pistol Wound Bell Arthur Filling Sta tion Operator Fatally Injured as Pistol Dis charges Greenville, Jan. 22.?Funeral ser vices were held near Walstonburg this afternoon for Charles Aycock Vandifoi^, 22, Bell Arthur filling sta tion operator, who died in the local hospital yesterday afternoon from in juries sustained when a pistol acci dentally discharged as he was closing his filling station last Friday. The final rites were conducted from the home of his father, N. C. Vandi ford, who lives a few miles from Walstonburg, and burial was made in ihe family burying ground near the home. Elder Jack Tyson, pastor of the Free Will Baptist Church in Farmville, conducted the service. Vandiford, who was employed by Webb's warehouse here during the tobacco season, had operated the filling station only a week when the accident ocurred. He was said to have slipped a 25 calibre automatic pistol into his pocket. As he was locking the door to the station, the pistol fell to the pavement and dis charged, the bullet striking him in the neck. Vandiford was rushed to the local hospital for medical aid but his in juries were so serious that he suc cumbed Sunday afternoon at 3:30 >'clock. Surviving are: His wife, who was Miss Beadie Britt before her mar riage; one infant son; his parents; two brothers, William and Alvin Vandiford; and eight sisters, Mrs. Wilbur Drake, Misses Florence, Min lie B., Gertie, Grace Adell, Mary and Martha Vandiford. 1 Race Clash At Capitol Rep. De Priest Wants Negroes Admitted To House Cafe; Warren To Fight Action Washington, Jan. 24.?The lone Negro member of the House?Rep resentative Oscar De Priest, Illinois Republican?served notice on the Democratic majority today of an at tempt to force a floor vote as to whether Negroes should be barred from the House restaurant. "I am going to see to it that Negroes eat there, or we can close it," said the angered De Priest. =- ~ ?1 LINDSAY WARREN Replied Representative Warren, North Carolina Democrat, who heads the committee in charge of the res taurant: "It has never served Ne gro employees or visitors, nor will it so long as I have anything to do with it." The squabble started yesterday when De Priest's secretary, Morris Lewis, wait to the grill room of the restaurant, accompanied by a Negro friend, and ordered food at the horseshoe counter. A Negro waiter refused to serve him. First the manager and then Representative Warren were called. Warren said he had given the order. De Priest immediately objected and declared later he would force a House vote on a privileged resolution to gain a decision. "If the Democrats are going to act that way toward the Negroes," he said, "we might as well have a show down now. It seems funny to me that man with money to pay for his food, whether he he Jew, Gentile or Negro should be refused fcod in a Warren maintained De Priest en# privilege to eat-there bat con tended "if we let one Negro employe mmlSSm Auxiliary Body Closes Meeting Episcopal Women Hear Rev. V. C. Franks, of Norfolk, Va., and Miss Grace Lindley Goldsboro, Jan. 25.?The annual convention of the Woman's Auxil iary of the Diocese of East Carolina closed this afternoon after a two day meeting at St Stephen's Episco pal church having been attended by about 200 women. The term of of fice of president, secretary and traesurer does not expire until next year. Officers elected Thursday for the next three years were two vice presidents, who are also convoca tional presidents, Mrs. W. S. Cara wan, Columbia, and Mrs. J. Q. Beck with, Lumberton. Delegates elected to the triennial meeting of the Woman's Auxiliary to be held in (Atlantic City, N. J., in October were: Mrs. Fred Outland, Washington, president of the Wom an's Auxiliary of the diocese, repre senting the diocese; Mrs. W. S. Cara wan, representing the Convocation of Edenton; Mrs. J. Q. Beckwith, Miss Carrie Myers and Mrs. H. J. McMillan, representing the Convoca tion of Wilmington. Alternates: Mrs. Alfred Houtz, Elizabeth City; Miss Mae Wood Winslow, Hertford; Mrs. John A. Guion, New Bern; Mrs. J. L. Shackle ford, Farmville, and Mrs. P. T. Anthony, Greenville. Following morning and afternoon sessions Wednesday, Rev. Vincent C. Franks, D. 'D., of Norfolk, Va., preached at the evening service on the text "we preach Christ Cruci fied." Today's sessions began with com munion administered by Rev. George S. Gresham, rector of St. Stephen's church, assisted by Rev. W. A. Lilly crop, of Greenville. Mrs. Outland called for reports which were given by the respective committee chairmen as follows. Miss Caroline K. Myers, Wilmington, United thank offering; Mrs. S. C. Sitterson, Kinston, christian social service; Mrs. John B. Cramer, Wil mington,* The Field; Mrs. Alfred B. Houtz, Elizabeth City, education; Mrs. P. T. Anthony, Greenville, sup uly; Mrs. Henry J. McMillan, Wil mington, publicity; Miss Jessie Peace, Wilmington, the church periodical club; and Mrs. S. P. Adams, Wil mington, the meeting of provincial auxiliary. Miss Grace Lindley, national ex ecutive secretary, New York, city, de livered an inspirational address on "Our Responsibility of Using the Auxiliary at The Present (Time." Mrs. Ernest Cruikshank, president of St Mary's School, in Raleigh spoke on "St Mary's School." Luncheon was served at the Wom an's Club building at 1 o'clock after which a business meeting was held. Decision for a place for the 1984 meeting was left to Bishop Thomas C. DarsKof Wilmington, bishop of the diocese. Farmville women attending the meeting included: Mrs. J. H. Darden, Mrs. G. S. Vought, Mrs. J. N. Greg ory and Mrs. J. L. Shackleford. Farm Agent B. E. Grant, of Bertie county, reports that he has had to keep his office open day and night to handle the rush of growers seek ing loans on their cotton options and equalization payments on their tobac co. Farm Loans Available Applications For Crop Loans Now Being Re ceived by Production Agency Greenville, Jan. 23.?The crop pro duction loan agency recently set up at Washington today was taking ap plications from farmers for loans,on this year's crops. All applications should be filed here at the farm department, E. F. Arnold director of the department said today. The loans are , being made through the Greenville Crop Production Loan Association which serves both Pitt and Greene counties. Mr. Arnold said $400,000 had beat made avail sMa to growers of the two counties in need of funds to cany on their work during the coming planting season. Mr. Arnold urged growers desirous of obtaining funds this season to im mediately apply at the office and file their application. # ?. ? i I, nntJii MkofoiiManf P " Farmvitte Tobacco Market (ptoses Today; Sates Second Largest in History of Market ,h. m m u <m n m m m n m m m . Exceeded Only by Bum per Crop of 1930 When This Market Handled 23,205,290 Lbs.;' Price Average Higher Than In Many Years The Farmville Tobacco market clos ed after sales today for the season with total sales registering second to the banner year of 1930 when this market handled 23,205,290 pounds. Although total tabulations are not obtainable at this writing the mar ket enjoyed its most successful sea son according to the crop, which goes to prove the Farmville market con tinues to grow in favor among plant ers of the weed throughout the East ern Carolina belt. Sale^ here have exceeded twenty two and a half million pounds, bring ing the farmers a gross average around $16.50 a hundred. A detailed statement of the mar ket's activities will be furnished our readers in our next issue. Itotlfs Birthday Celebration May Farmville Joins Green ville I n Celebrating President's Birthday Ball at E. C. T. C. Cam pos Building j?.? Buy ticket^ for your entire family and plan to* attend the President's Birthday BalRto be held in Greenville at the Campus Buiding at the Teach er's College oji Tuesday night, Jan uary 30. Farnj.ville, through its May or, J. B. Lew?3, as announced over radio Saturday* morning, is joining with other Pitt County towns in sup porting the G-eenville affair, andj wishes this set tion of the country to make a good showing in the amount of our donatio! to the endowment fund for Warn Springs, Ga. The Warm Springs Endowment is very near to he heart of President Roosevelt and you can make his birth day much happier if you will join in with his thousands of friends in the celebration of this anniversary. Every cent of profit from the dance will go to the Warm Springs Endowment for treatment of infantile paralisis. With 5,000 such occasions being held throughout the country on the same night, it is hard to esti mate the numl er which will attend. The ball in Greenville will be held in the Campos building of East Carolina Teachers College. This is the first time j that this building has been used for any affair except those given by the college. It is an ideal place for the ball and is large enough to accomodate the large < crowd expected. Music will be fum- i ished by Edd!e?-Pool and his or chestra. i President Roosevelt will speak to the nation dming the dance, which will be an outstanding feature. $The local sale of tickets has been I pit in charge of the Junior Woman's Club, of which Miss Lucy Johnston is president, and members will be j glad to see prospects, or they may i be obtained at the City Drug Co. Prices are as follows: participants, ?1.50, spectators, 50c. Treasury Offer Promptly Taken ' I Morgenthau Delighted With Big Overscription of Billion-Dollar Issue Washington, Jan. 24.?A big over subscription . of the treasury's billion dollar financing offering was an nounced tonight by Secretary Mor genthau. "I am delighted," Morgenthau said, as he told reporters of the result of the government's start on its task of borrowing $10,000,000,000 before June 30. The secretary said preliminary fig ures showed $2,500,000,000 in sub scriptions from the $500,000,000 note issue, or five times the offer. The $500,000,000 certificate issue fared less well, but subscriptions approxi mated $1,000,000,000. ? * i- 1 j.i r: Morgentnau expiamea uiese xi^uica were received by the treasury up to 4 o'clock. He ordered the books clos ed after one day's subscriptions, but said that offers mailed before mid night would be considered in alloting the securities. The note issue pays 2 1-2 per cent interest, will be dated January 29, and mature March 15, 1935. The certificates bear 1 1-2 per cent, will be dated January 29, and ma ture September 15. Simultaneously with announcement of preliminary figures on the two short term issue, Morgenthau invit ed bids on $150,000,000 of 91-day treasury bills. These bills will be dated January 31, the day on,, which $60,180,000 of outstanding bills fall due, and will mature May 2. The difference between the new bill issue and the maturing one will add $90,000,000 to the treasury's cash balance. It represents a continua tion of the treasury's recent policy of adding to its ready cash with each new bill, issue. > More than $1,000,000,000 in this three-month paper is now outstand ing. Every week an issue matures and a new one is sold on a discount basis. The cost to the government for this type of financing is small, usually only a fraction of one per cent. Bids on the $150,000,000 bill issue will be received at Federal Reserve banks and branches up to 2 p. m. E. S. T., Monday, January 29. Two Hundred Chinese Lose Lives In Fire Shanghai, China, Jan. 25.?Two hundred and sixteen men, women and children were burned to death or drowned the night of January 21 when tne Chinese steamer Weitung caught fire in the Yangtse River, be lated reports revealed today. The vessel exploded and sank a few minutes after the blast. Only 34 persons escaped. Ninety-five percent of the tobacco growers in Beaufort County have signed reduction contracts. Soviet Leader Warns Japan Against War ? Moscow, Jan. 22.?A stern worning ] to Japan to th ink twice before attack- < ing Soviet Ru; sia was delivered today by Lazara Ka gonovitch, Secretary of j the All-Soviet Council of Trades i Unions, in an address before the Mos- ] cow District (Conference of Commun- i ists. He told delegates: J "The situat on in the Far East is 1 very tense. I; smells of war and we must expect a Japanese attack at any i minute." I Reviewing lie Far Eastern situa- < tion Kagonov tch, a former member i ot the Communist Committee on Or- i ganization of the Red Army, said: 1 "Japanese militarists have taken advantage of the complex interna tional situation to seize Manchuria and are attempting to dominate all' China. i "They are i [reaming of conquoring > Soviet Russian territory in the Far i East and g merally speaking the i whole workL" < Pan ?Asiatic Ideas "General Araki (Japanese War i Minister who resigned last night) de- ; veloped Pan-; jsiatic ideas with the expectation t lat Japanese bayonets i wilt be used t > deliver the populations of all Asia." ^Kagonoritch reminded his hearers , Of Japan's surprise attack upon the] Russian fleet at Port Arthur in 1904, leclaring: ? "Japanese militarists aspire to re peat the surprise maneuver, but Rus sia of today is not the Russia of L904, which was ruled by a Govern - nent of fools. It is now ruled by a Bolshevik /Government which will lever be taken by surprise, i "If the Japanese generals dare to ittack our border^ they will feel promptly at their backB the might of )ur country, the might of our heroic Red Army. The Soviet Union will aever concede an inch of its terri tory." Japan Pursues Peace Policies, Says Spokesman. [ Tokio, Jan. 22.?Japan is pursuing i policy of peace and the "war cries" appeasing in Japan magazines and newspapers do not reflect the official opinion, a Foreign Office spokesman declared today. Referring specifically to the state ment of a Soviet official recently that Soviet Russia regards a war between Russia and Japan this year as a pos sibility, the spokesman said : "Our policy is known to Moscow and to the world powers as one of peace. We cannot Understand recent verbal attacks upon us," Pitt County Far Over The Top In Loaf Signup More Farms Signed This Time Than in First Drive For Tobacco Agreements Pitt County went over the top in a big way in the tobacco reduction campaign which came to a close the latter part of last week, it was revealed at the office today of E. F. Arnold, farm director. Mr. Arnold stated that more farms were included in the sign-up this time than during the first sign-up in the fall with the 2,500 contracts reported covering more than 3,000 farms as against 2,922 farms in the previous signing of agreements to reduce acreage. Rentals and equalizing payments from the tobacco reduction campaign will bring approximately' three-quar ters of a million dollars to Pitt County growers in the spring, the farm head said, along with the im proved prices for tobacco as prom ised when the campaign was launch ed last fall. Mr. Arnold said he was proud of the fine work done by committeemen in all sections of the county, and praised growers for the fine way they responded to the government effort to lift the price of tobacco and improve the economic life of the grower. Had it not been for this spirit of co-operation on all sides, Mr. Arnold said, it would have been impossible for such a complete sign-up as that just completed." A 100 percent sign-up of tobacco farmers in Martin county is expected by T. B. Brandon, farm agent. Rush Cotton Drive in Pitt Committeemen Putting On Full Speed in Effort To Make Signup Com plete With the cotton reduction cam paign scheduled to come to a close January 30, committeemen were putting on full steam ahead in all sections of the county today in the hope of making the sign-up as com plete as possible for this county. E. F. Arnold, director of the Piti County Farm department, indicated today, there was no disposition on the part of the growers not to sign the government contracts to reduce acreage, and that he expected the campaign to be one of the most complete probably ever conducted in this section. Legislation is now before con gress, Mr. Arnold said, that has as its object the licensing of gins and the placing of a tax on those whose cotton has not been placed under government contract This means that those who refuse to sign will receive none of the benefits to be derived from contract signers and will have to pay a tax on the cot ton they produce if the measure passes. The farm director said the cot ton campaign would bring approxi mately a o.uarter of a mlilion dollars in rental to growers of this county, in addition to improved prices ex pected for the next crop. He impressed upon growers the im portance of giving due attention to this important matter and to sign at once and get in line for the government benefits to be derived from the campaign. Starts Lobby War - In Washington Washington, D. C., Jan. 22?A drive to free the Federal Government from lobbist activities by | party officials and members of Congress was under way today on Capitol HilL Taking advq^tage of President Roosevelt's dramatic move to curb the lobbist evil, Senator Vandenberg (Republican) of Michigan and Borah (Republican) of Idaho pressed for early hearings on two separate bills intended to prevent "the sale of in fluence." All the cotton plow-up checks and option papers for Catawba county farmers have been delivered, except four small fractional ones. All wheat checks, with no exception, Have been delivered. More men are coming in on the raspberry project Pres. Takes Steps to End CWA Program Gently ? ? ? i ? ? ? V"t Will Ask Congress For Extra Half Billion for Possible CWA Exten sion; Takes Action To Stamp Out Politics and Graft Washington, Jan. 24.?The adminis tration today outlined a course which apparently would permit hot potato, the Civil Works Administration, to be laid down gradually and gently, and yet at the same time avoid scorched fingers. ? President Roosevelt had a message to Congress prepared which would request $850,000,000. Only $350,000, 000 would be earmarked for civil works, but the President could use some of the remaining $500,000,000 to carry on its work if it developed that present reemployment estimates were too optimistic. The announced intention of eld ing civil works by May 1 has caused probably more protest from the country than any step the adminis tration has contemplated. The organization, which carries 4, 000,000 on its pay rolls, was design ed to be temporary. C^nmnlqir?fa fliof anH crrQ-ff WIUV ^ivuvtw W**VI p^?u>w have entered civil works are being looked into with vigor, with every disposition apparent to make it un comfortable for those guilty. Joseph B. Keenan, of the Department of Justice, arranged a conference with civil* works officials regarding a uni form system of handling reports of such irregularities. Harry L. Hopkins civil works ad ministrator, said however in a state ment late today that there appeared to be a widespread misunderstanding as to the extent of graft and that it "is of small proportions in terms of the number of persons employed on civil works and of the amount of / money expended." ? Although the President apparently sought to give assurance that civil works would be continued to a limit ed extent if their cessation meant too much hardship, the White House was still optimistic that continuance might not be necessary. There was confidence, from all in dications, that enough men would be - added to other pay rolls to make the end of civil works a painless operation. President William Green, of the American Federation of Labor, who visited the White House yesterday, said today he understood the Presi dent expected at least 3,000,000 men to be absorbed by industry, public works and farming by May 1. The labor Leader was optimistic over business trends, but he said the administration figure would fall short unless NRA code were revised to shorten hours of labor materially. Hugh S. Johnson, the NRA admin istrator, has called a conference for February to discuss code revision. - Public works officials said their j latest figures showed that 750,000 men were employed on their federal and non-federal projects. This was ex clusive, they said, of Tennessee Val ley Authority, Civil Conservation Corps, administrative and other re lated employment. But is was extremely doubtful, statistical experts said,, that 1,000,000 additional men would be on public works nay rolls by May 1, although they added that a conservative figure was that two men were given employ ment indirectly by the projects for every single person hired directly. Jhe complaint sector about em ployment today spread to include the federal reemployment service under the labor department, headed by Secretary Frances Perkins. Reminded that Harry L. Hopkins, the civil works administrator, had said politicians had gained control of some civil works projects, Secre tary Perkins reiterated her distaste of intermingling politics and employ ment Regarding complaints about the federal employment service, she said some Democrats claimed Republicans were favored in certain sections and that the reverse was true in other areas. < *5 Although Congress' reaction to the President's $850,000,000 message was lacking pending its actual receipt, all indications were that the com promise outlined would suit the ma jority of the legislators, Mr. Roosevelt indicated that he wanted the $500,000,000 made flexible enough for continuance of civil' worics in the fall, if that were necessary. The bulk of the half billion is ex pected, however, to be used for re lief along the lines of *he $500,000, 000 voted the federal relief adminis tration by the last Congress. Hopkins, who is also^wief ajfenin istrator, said the system of thatch ing state funds and other methods used in alloting the first dhwgMph-; lief appropriation had proved aatfc