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VOL. TWENTY-FOUR FAEMVILLE, PITT COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY; MARCH 9, 1984 NUMBER FORTY-FOUR
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Johnson Asserts Industry
Should Hire More Folks
Says There Are Many
That Can and Ought to
Meet President's Sug
gestion
Washington, March 7.?Hugh S.
Johnson tonight told the representa
tives of industries that there were
many "That obviously can?and ought
to?meet th suggestion" to work on
a 10 per cent decrease in hours per
week and a ten per cent increase in
hourly wages.
The NRA administration, speaking
to employers at the conclusion of
the general conference on code re
vision, did not, however, say that
this was the administration's plan.
Instead, he suggested further con
ferences with employers to work out
this problem and other connected
with the recovery unit.
In one pithy paragraph, the ad
ministrator summed up his views on
the troubled question of wages and
hours:
Wage* and Hours.
"There are some industries that
couldn't do what I tentatively sug
gested about wages and hours. There
are some where business is so little
that if they did adopt the rule, it
wouldn't make any difference to em
ployment. But there are many that
obviously can?and ought to?meet
th suggestion to work on a ten per
ir? Vmnrc rw>r week and
tciil UC\ 1 V.U JV M4 M v x
a ten per cent increase in hourly
wages. The Preside], c expressly said
that he favored resiliency in any
such Kile. We all know that some
industries cannot do this. We know
that in some it would be ineffective.
But we know that in many there is
no excuse for not doing it"
Earlier, Johnson had told the in
dustrialists that the President did '
not intend to proclaim any blanket
reduction of hours or increase in (
wages, but he indicated?as he did j
ir his speech tonight?that the sub
ject would be seriously considered at
other meetings with selected repre- '
sentatives of the business men.
Johnson said only one thing was (
"cut and dried" in advance of the
meeting, and that he was "prepared '
to defend that conclusion on purely
professional grounds to the dis
comfiture of any opponent?that, in ,
this emergency, and until pay rolls
catch up with employment?it Is .
proper to encourage increased wages
and reduced hours per week." j
Summoning selected groups to con
tinue the conference on code re
vision, Johnson said: "For the next
|
few weeks we shall be in continuous
session."
1
? Partnership Spirit.
"Just as promptly as possible," he
said, "we shall make, available to j
you-and: to the nation the results
of our investigations and condu- '
sione. But whatever action is taken, .
based on these conclusions, will be
with due regard to the partnership
spirit that has characterized every
policy and every action since the in
ception of NRA. .
"N?w then,. in closing, may I say
this: We are going to have no su- '
per-govemment of industry. The
balanced scheme of labor?industry
?consumer's representation will be
maintained. The gold-fish bowl will
still be open. Every critic will be
invited in the future (as in the past)
to come in and tell us how to do it
better:
"Nobody has any occasion to
worry as long as he is straight. In
dustry is intrinsically straight. The
essence of the New Deal is public
knowledge of methods and results.
A man may be entitled to a 100
thousand dollar salary from a cor
poration an which labor, consumers
and stockholders are all interested.
But he ought not to-object to hav
ing everybody know about it That
is the only, hitter pill to swallow.
As far'sn l am concerned, I am will
ing to swallow it I have made
more than-that in my time and
(with my abundant faith In what is
Wng . dooe fcere) 111 bet I will
mahs tt'fihi.
wmmiHah such
? ?>!?, w .
I blessed events; let's get together
let's putt ..Jagetfmr?Jet's pUy tbe
gama"
KetiewsMeetinc*.
Reviewing the meetings J>ero this
week and the conference 1?j?* week
at wtfe& complaints were- heard, the
. administrator said that it was Ha
aim ta tighten enforcement to the
codec, and also revive sentiment for
the Bine Eagle.
"Of Chorse," he ?aidt "w? cant ]
succeed without public support of
what wo are trying to do, and I want
under specific orders from the Presi
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Johnson noted that a critic saidj
the other day that the Blue Eagle
was his personal symbol and that
his faith in it was "pitiful."
He quoted" President Roosevelt's
words that the Blue Eagle was given
as a symbol of co-operation, and
said:
"Now, in respect of this 'pitiful'
affection of mine for the Blue Eagle,
may I say to my good friend?(and
I hate to say it because he has done
as much to carry forward the Presi
dent's program as any man)?that,
if we took away his Blue Eagle for
some non-compliance (which would
never happen), his great depart
ment store would collapse like a row
of dominoes in a fortnight for lack
of patronage and, dear friend, don't
advise anybody to start trifling with
that bird."
Several times during the address
the business men interrupted with
vigorous applause. The General was
given a rousing reception when he
appeared and also at the conclusion
of his address.
Havana Prepares
Far Revolt as
Rumors Fly
Machine Guns Were
Placed Atop of Palace
Roof; Soldiers and Po
lice Guards Doubled
Havana, Mar. 7.?Machine grins
were placed hastily atop the palace
roof today and guard were redoubled
is new minors of revolt flew.
Part of the army and Communists
:he rumors ran planned to join fol
owers of former President Ramon
3rati San Martin in an attack on the
palace.
Soldiers and police guards were <
doubled throughout the city. - <
Automobiles loaded with sailors
ind soldiers moved through the
streets. Autoists and pedestrians
were searched. Seven men were ar
rested during the night in suburban
Mariannao. All were charged with :
conspiring against the government of i
President Carlos Mendieta. <
It was two o'clock this morning
jefore the weary Mendieta cabinet
which sat up most of Monday night
ended a session in which stringent
measures to meet growing unrest 1
:aken by the president late yesterday '
were approved. ]
Facing perhaps the most critical
situation since he came to power i
President Mendieta assumed wide '<
powers by suspending ten cf the i
most important personal guarantees ??]
n the provisional constitution. i
He also signed the "law of nation- <
il defense" which an aide said
would "divide and break up Com
munist activity.9 In addition the ]
President ordered the immediate de- <
portation of all alien agitators.
Roosevelt
Pushes Plan
Efforts Made To Have
Industrial S k e p t i c s
Join In Own Way
Washington, March 8. ? Once
Congress votes tariff bargaining
powers to the President, winds up
the appropriating to run the govern
ment next year and enacts the $2,
580,000,000 tax bill, the administra
tion will be ready for adjournment
This developed today in confer
ence between Mr. Roosevelt and
Senator Robinson, the Democratic
leader, with the first two weeks in
May the announced time for seeking
to close the session.
In trip-hammer fashion, the ad
ministration pressed its program at
one point after another today while
attempting at the same time to
have industrial skeptics join in
their own way.
For President Roosevelt, the im
mediate objective was softening in
the House the Senate's blow at the
budget through its votes to liber
alize veterans' coompensation and re
store the cut federal pay.
Leaders of the larger branch, now
having the big money bill in custody,
were called to the White House prior
to the Democratic caucus on the ques
tion this evening.
For Hugh S. Johnson, speakeamen
for heavy industries?opposed to his
suggestion for cutting cod? hours?
gathered in committee to devise
methods by which they believe em
ployment an business activity can
be stimulated.
Long term credit stimulation and
release of investment capital were
principal subjects of interest to
this group.
? Of the many other diverse affairs
that took the- minds of the national
legislators away from the show and
rain that drenched the Capitol
grounds were the following: ^
To a House Committee Secretary *
Morgenthau favored amendment of 1
the constitution to let the govern- 1
ment tax income from future issues
of federal, state and municipal se- 1
curities. He also advocated giving '
the states the right to tax income 1
from federal securities. j *
Secretary Hull at opening of hear-i1
ings on the bill to empower the
President to make tariff deals, testa- J
fied to another committee that such |
legislation is imperative if the Unit- 1
ed States is to get back any large J
portion of its lost foreign trade. 1
I
BILL CARE HOST
Bill Carr, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. (
C. Carr entertained thirty-five of J
bis friends at a delightful birthday'i
party on Thursday afternoon in cele-11
bration of his ninth anniversary.'
Games and contests were played on 1
the lawn and refreshments, consist- 3
ing of Dixie cups and the gleaming '
birthday cake were served from a 1
table placed there. Easter eggs and
candies were given as favors.
The largest acreage yet seeded to
lespedeza i* being planted in Lincoln
County this season for both soil im- <
provement and -hay. i
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Hudson & Terraplanes
Now onDispley By the
Farmvitte Motor Co.
The New 1934 Jfodeb
Not Only Lead in Style
and Beauty, But Stand
Out In Performance
and Economical Opera
tion
The new 1934 Terraplanes and Hud
sons have arrived in this city and-aie
on display announces the FarmviUe
Motor Co., Inc., Terraplane and Hoi!*
ion distributors for this territory.
This new tine of ears, widely are said 1
to be the finest in the-history of this
company, -may now be sent by this
public.
Larger and more luxurious bodies
of ultra modern type are mounted on
-uTrrr*" duljiii il on the basic princi
ple of unit-engineering' which charac
terised the Terraplane for 198ft. It
Is this principle which was responsi
ble for the unprecedented record of
performance and ruggednese estab
lished .by this car. The Terraplane
ix is'made on ? wheelbese of 112*
and lift*. The, Hudson JEight lamsde
in two wheetbaae lengths, 116" and
128". J;?'
The exceptional smoothness for
4-8/4' to W, ?H^(IW^ai <itm?iaioa8 (
row 3" x 5" bore and stroke. ,
The new six-cylinder engine de- ,
the 116" wheelbase, there is a com
posite aluminum and iron head which
raises the h.p. to 86 at 3600 r.p.m? ,
with a compression ratio of 6.25 to 1. '
The two- Hudson eight-cylinder en
gines also have a full 3" bore this
year and a 4-1/2" stroke. This pro
vides a displacement of 254*4? ea&ic
inches. The eightrcylinder engine on ,
the standard aeries develops 108 h.p.
at 3800 r.p.m. It has a compression
ratio of 5.75 to 1. On the 1287 series
the engine also has a composite iron
and aluminum head and develops 113
h.p. at 8800 r.p.m. Standard non* ]
premium fuel can be used' with all j
theee power plants.
New Terraplane and Hudson can
aecun jbuhw horsepower ont of?a giv- ]
en aised engine than ever before in \
automobile engineering practice. yith )
the super power dome a power weight ?
ratio of approximately 1 horsepower ]
for ,every 24 pounds is achieved on
the Hudson roadster. This super ]
power dome is available on all j
cars at slightly extra cost. . It . pro-. <
vides a compression ratio of 7 to 1. ,
Independent front springing of the i
Axleflex type is available as optional
s^^Thia new'eu^ension haa been 1
subjected to rigid tests over the past I
two yean. It gives Hat so-called knee i
action to the front axis permitting
the wheels to rise and fall as the
Frr?t Lift in
Virgin Islands
Mrs. Roosevelt Goes To
St Criox Aboard Air
liner
St. Croix, Virgin Islands, March 8.
?Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Gover
nor Paul Pearson, and a party aboard
the airliner American Clipper came
here today in 28 minutes from St
Thomas.
They went ashore at 10 a. m., E.
S. T., at-the place where Christopher
Columbus is reputed to have landed
after -his iirst crossing of the Atlan
tic.
From the plane Mrs. Roosevelt went
ashore in a rowboat, She jumped
from the boat to the dock and there
she was presented by a Negro child
with a huge bouquet of flowers. .
Another present was given her
there?a bottle of a 45-year-old St
Croix rum "to take to the President"
She walked up the street to _ the
bandstand under an arch of sugar
canes, held triumphantly aloft by
native girls.
At the bandstand she made a short
speech saying: ? "
"The President has the welfare of
the Virgin Islands very much at
heart" ; -
Ford Guarded en
FishingJaunt
Edsel Ford Watched by
Guards Who Carried
Machine Guns
Miami Beach, Fla., Mar. 7.?Edsel
Ford, Detroit. automobile manufac
turer, went fishing two weeks ago
,vhen kidnapers were reported to have
;hreatened him.
But he was watched by guards who
rarried machine guns, the Aassociat- (
>d Press was informed last night bj
i high ranking "officer of one of
;he three law enforcement agencies
reported to Have supplied the guards. .
The threat, according to the of- i
"icer, was made in Detroit before
Ford came February 18, but some
indication an attempt might be ,
nade here was said to have caused ,
i request be made for protection for
the manufacturer.- ,
The guards returned to routine
iuties when the boat came back to j
Miami Beach after five days. of ,
fishing by Ford in the lower Florida (
ceys.
Officers said they did not believe
there were guards now about the ,
Ford cottage on the grounds of a ,
ictel here, other than the customary }
jrivate police of the hostelry.
Ford could not be reached.
CONTRACT CLUB
j
The St Patrick's idea was cleverly j
:arried iri\ tallies and favors at the ^
neeting of the Contract Club on Wed- j
lesday afternoon, held at the home
)f Mrs. Wesley R. Willis, which was ,
ovely with a profusion of daffodils,
rhe high score prize, an attractive
rase, was won by Mrs. Z. M. White
xurat, Jr., jand the consolation went to
Mrs. Claude Barrett Mrs. W. S.
Soyster, a. new member, was present '
it this time and was extended .a cor- 1
lial welcome by the Club. The delici- 1
)us salad course,, served when cards 4
were laid aside, carried shamrock *
jticbups. 1
Big Fleets
Are Planned,
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wavai rowers u<i.yiitg (
fclVograms to Strength- \
?n WarFleets
'^rn^mammmmrn
'
riJftaleigh, Mar. 7.?Naval powers are j
aying plans to strengthen their war
fleets. (
The latest developments include: -
1. The United State Senate passed
late yesterday a 1500,000,000 bill (
to bring the navy to treaty limits. ,
it was called back for reconsider- |
ition, but is expected to be on
President Roosevelt's desk soon.
2. The naval committee on the J
French Chamber pf Deputies ap- ,
proved a $68392,000 program. The !
:ommittee sanctioned construction j
>f a 26,000-ton man of war, two sub- ,
names and destroyer. ^ ^
d'ltalla.
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THOMAS DIXON
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Dr. Wymkoop
is Sent to Prison
Woman # Physician Is
Sentenced to 25 Years
In Slaying of Daugh
ter-in-Law
Chicago, Mar. 7.?Only a higher
:ourt or death itself can save Dr.
Alice Wynekoop from the penitentiary
iow.
A jury convicted her last night of
the slaying of her daughter-in-law,
Ftheta, in the operating table mur
ier that horrified the nation.
It fixed a sentence of 25 years in
state penitentiary. Only two ballots
vefe taken.
The murder drama that began
vhen Rheta's body was found with
i bullet in the bade on Dr. Wyne
koop's operating table last Novem
ier 21 kept its interest in a-rushing
:rescendo until the last.
With the jury in its place ready to
report its verdict, Judge Harry B.
Miller summoned the jail physician
;o stand by the 63-year-"old woman
ind be ready, to-administer to her
i strong heart stimulant less the
>hock of the verdict strike her dead.
She did not need his ministrations.
She heard the verdict as she sat in
ler wheel chair without the: sign of
i quiver. She turned to her children,
A&lker and Dr. Catherine Wyne
coop ,and said:
"Go home now, children, and sleep,
four mother is not guilty. No, no."
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YOUTH STAGES HOLD-UP
Don Taylor, 14, son of Luby Tay
lor, tenant farmer of thia vicinity,
was turned over to Juvenile court
authorities in Greenville, Monday
afternoon, by Chief J. Lb Taylor of
;he Farmville polioe department, to
await trial for a hold-up Involving
Howard Moye, son of M. JU. Moye,
prominent farmer, who lives two
niles East of town, on the Farmville
jreenvill highway.
The holdup occurred 'just after
ifoye started his motor in front of his
lome early Sunday evening, the boy,
who was hidden in the rear of the
uir pointing a pistol at his head and
forcing him to torn about and drive
n the direction of Greenville for some
listance until ordered to get out. ?
Taylor choked the engine at lani
ards Cross Ra&ds and severd >.iMn
?t a filling station nearby, when call
id upon for assistance, became su
ipicious of his actions and started to
question him, whereupon the youth
Irew his pistol and backed away,
ater being captured- in a tobacco '
)arn. ' ..,
Young Moye, Said to have acquired
i reputation as one of -the-nerViest
and bravest of students while at
State College, never had a chance to*1
;>ut up a fight as Taylor seemed in
a desperate mood, and is reported as
mapping the pistol at one time. -
? a
l)NLY one season for
NOT ADVERTISING
.^Crossroads Merchant?No, sir, I
dn't a goin' to advertise. .
Stranger?Why not?
Merchant?I tried it once an' ,it
SPOO Robbery
At Sir Walter Hotel
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Thieves Enter Room of
New York Woman On
Wednesday Morning;
Police Without Clues
.-Raleigh, March 8.? Jewels valued
by her at $6,000 were stolen early
Wednesday morning from Mrs. W. M.
Collins, of New York, while she slept
in the Sir Walter Hotel. The Raleigh
Times learned Thursday. ?<
Police said they were informed the
manager of the hotel said Mrs. Col- 1
lins had appraised them at $6,000. <
Mr. Lee, manager of the hotel said i
apparently some one had entered the i
room and stolen the jewels while Mrs.
.Collins slept. Two grown sons oc- j
cupied an adjoining room, he said.
Captain of Detectives Bruce M. j
Pool said he was working on the case
but he so far has been unable to un- ?
earth any clues. j
"I was called to the hotel early (
Wednesday morning, and made a
thorough investigation but I was ;
unable to find anything that might ,
lead to an arrest," Captain Pool -
stated.
Mr. Lee said that Mrs. Collins had ,
insured the jewels, but she was not j
?protected by the' policy in case she
was robbed while traveling.
The jewels included four rings, a
ruby and a' sapphire. i j
"It is apparent," Mr. Lee stated ;
"that some one entered the room ,
while Mrs. Collins slept, and took the ]
jewels. It has not been ascertained ^
by police whether one or more parties ,<
committed the theft." ,
Mr. Lee .saidhe knew nothing j
about -the robbery beyond the report
of; Mrs, Collins. -
"Mrs. Collins simply missed the j
jewels on arising and reported to me
immediately," he said. "I have no.]
idea feho entered, her room. The
jewels-were yalttetf by her at $6,000," \
he stated. (
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Waters Lap
At Homes j
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Scores of Deserted Farm |]
Homes in? Kansas As <
RtverRwes ,
Atchiaoo, J?a&f}Mar. 7.?Menacing !l
muddy waters lapped at the door
steps of' Moves of deserted farm !<
homes today-for 45 miles along the
ice-jammed Missouri river.
Caught by -such a sudden flood,
farmers, . their wives and children
escaped with only a few possessions j
andspent the.)hight huddled in
country, .stores on in private homes <
where accomodations were taxed to 1
the limit j
Thousands of fertile tobacco, wheat <
and corn bofctomjand acres were bum- 1
dated over ah area extending from a ,
point l&jatileajjinrth of St Joseph, i
Mo., to another lu miles south of At
chison, livestock was drowned. <
Eer* ^ndvthere, families were un
accounted for, but no loss of human ,
tffteftomzStovming was reported. 1
Famatfoai of another ice jam ,
above St Joseph late last night in- 1
creased the gravity of the situation.
Thomas Dixon, Author and Orator,
To Be Here Tuesday Night To
Present Pi es.> Roosevelt's Program
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Lectiire To Be Given in
i School Auditorium at
8 o'Clock; Public Urged
to Attend *
Thomas Dixon who lectures here
Tuesday night, March 13, in the High
Sehodl Auditorium, steadfastly main
tains his citizenship in the Old North
State, his native heath. He votes in
Fruitville Township, Currituck Coun
ty, while Mrs. Dixon maintains her
citizenship in New York at their home
on Riverside Drive, a house which her
husband gave her a quarter of a cen
tury ago. While their polling places
are widely separated they have hot
yet differed in politics. Mrs. Dixon
cast her first vote in Currituck Coun
ty at sunrise on a good ducking day
accompanied by Mr. Dixon who was
on the way to the duck grounds. He
turned to her with a grin and asked:
"Well, how are you going to vote?"
She answered with another question:
"How are you?" The author shrug
ged his shoulders: "Straight Demo
cratic Ticket!" "All right," she
agreed, "so am I." And they have
agreed eVer since.
Receives Ovation Everywhere.
The most striking feature of
Thomas Dixon's Continental Tour of
the past four months for the NRA
has been the tremendous ovations he
has received at the close of each
speech lasting- sometimes for half an
hour. He says that his hand has
been wrung with such mighty grip
that he begins to wince long before a
big.man claps his out-stretched paw.''"
But he has as yet found no way to
ease up on the ceremony. Especially
when the North Carolina delegation
gets to the foot of the/ platform. His
speech bristles with so many refer
ences to his native State that he was
dubbed by the leading newspapers of
the Middle West as "The North Caro
lina Spell-binder."
In every town and city in which
he appeared there were delegates
from North Carolina. He says the
Tarheels seem to stick to other States
closer than home. In Warren, Ohio,
he was made particularly happy by
the appearance of Ruth Poteat, neice
of his warm personal friend Ex-Presi
dent W. L. Poteat of Wake Forest
College. She was leading two lovely
little girls, behind whom stood a hand
some Ohio husband. In Cincinnati he
was greeted by Col. C. 0.?Sherrill,
now .become the foremost citizen or
the town, the man who as City mana
ger, dug Cincinnati out of the mud
and made it one of the cleanest, fin
est cities in America. Col Sherrill
was born in Catawba County, N. C.
His father served in the Legislature
of North,-Carolina of which Mr. Dixon
was a member. The two sat in ad
joining seats. President Roosevelt
appointed Col. Sherrill Chairman of
the NRA Ohio State Board.
Has Audience of 15,000.
. The greatest audience that Thomas
Dixon faced in the entire four months
for. the NRA was at Warren, Ohio,
a manufacturing city of 45,000. No
auditorium could be found that would
hold them and the. open public square
tvas used. The Committee spent
>190 equipping the speaker's stand
ivith seven powerful loud speakers
t>erfectly attuned to the orator's
voice. The crowd numbered more
than fifteen thousand. Describing
the scene Mr. Dixon said: "In all my
jxperience I never before gripped the.
1 eaoAmklv nn<]
ll?ciriflS OX fiUUl tt vcwv ooovmw*/ ?m<\*
felt them quiver in perfect sympathy
with mine. As far as I could see the
>cean of human faces stretched 'be
fore^ beside and behind me until they
nelted into the shadows. Nothing:
daible but human faces! For an hour
md a half they stood in their tracks,
aughing, crying, cheering. In their
mited heartbeat I felt at last the
rumbling of a coming avalanche of
public opinion sustaining the Presi
dent that wi)l grind to powder all
)ppoaiti(m in its path."
Citizens of Farmville and surround
ing towns are looking' forward to
tearing Thomas Dixon. A small ad
mittance fee is b^ing charged to de
fray expenses, a portion of proceeds
to go to local swimming pool
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BOY SHOOTS STEPFATHER
- Haywood Jones, Negro youth, X4, v
abeingheld by Juvenile efcrt authori
ties in Greenville, pending outcome
jf pistol wounds inflicted by him, on '
Fhmeday morning, on his stepfather,
5am Dixon, who is in * critical coa
lition in .a Washington hospital, the
Juliet taking a course near the mall
jf the back in the vicfcity of the pi- .
l)oy .had hid himself throughout the