North Carolina Newspapers

__ ' \ I " ' ' ' ? ^ ^ ^ ^ ? ' ' VOL. TWENTY-FOUR ~ ~ FARMVILLE, PITT COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA,, FRIDAY, APRIL W, 1M4 ?:. ?' ?. * V" r NUMBER FIFTY ' 1 -- -- - * . ? ?>'f t vt -? '? "in yJ'.'f*.' ? - '? Y vSVC ..- - i..? ^rJJI .'., ,~A ? ;' - r,' \ 11 ' ? ? House Committee Votes For Market Control Measure Ml -|lj| | m _ m ^ tt . ? I ________ * Fletcher-Rayburn Bill; Anyone Buying Stocks Would Have to Put Up 45 Per Cent of Value in Cash Washington, April 18.?Leaving in a sharp tooth favored by President Roosevelt but opposed by stock ex changes a committee of house mem bers today 'voted forward the Fletch er-Rayburn market control bilL Fresh upon renewed White House advocacy of a bill "with teeth" itl was decided to recommend to the! full inter state commerce commit tee the inclusion of a 45 per cent marginal requirement. That is any one buying stocks would have to put up 45 per cent of the value in cash. On the re-employment phase of the administration program mean while it became known that "federal mortgage associations" will be ask ed of Congress to advance funds for home building and modernization. Representative Smith, Democrat, Washington, gave details of the plan to newsmen. Conclusion of the national review board set up with Clarence D arrow as chief to study effects of N. R. A. codes were being put into a report for presentation to the president Saturday. It looks as though the document will be critical of the re covery administration proceedings but Darrow refused comment. With regard to congressional out look the legislators had the benefit of a reiteration concerning some leg islation President Roosevelt does and does not want enacted in the , usually hectic days of a closing ses sion. i Though the medium of the press a definite but not all inclusive list was supplied in supplement to the presidential views already given legislative leaders directly. There was no development as to the mul tiple silver bills, however. The house approved and sent to the senate the compromise with the other chamber on federal guarantee ?>f home loans. Harbor Congress To Meet April 30 Greenville and Section i Hopeful That It Will Endorse Tar River Pro-1 jeet ? Greenville, April 18.?The Eastern Carolina Association and the section generally will be well represented at the annual convention of the Na tional Rivers and Harbors Congress to be held at the Mayflower Hotel, Washington, D. C., April 30 and May 1. Dr. Robert H. Wright, president of the Eastern North Carolina Asso ciation and a member of the advis ory board of the National Rivers and Harbors Congress, will attend the convention and will appoint five delegates to represent the associa tion. I The NationanSver^SS^^aroor I Congress has been in existence for the past 30 years and has grown I into a powerful organisation. Its | work always has been confined to a | I national policy for the control, use I and improvement of the country's J I rivers, harbors, lakes and waterways. I It recently h$s amended its consti-l I tution and by-laws ao that now, in I addition to its general policy, it is I I permitted to endorse and advocate I individual projects that are meri-1 I torious and economically sound.! Therefore, this particular annual! I convention wiB mean a greet deal to I I eastern North Carolina due to the! I ? fact that- the hearing of the Tar I I River project will be held on April! 26, and the delegation can present ths matter at the convention of the! congress the first of the following I I week. If the matter should meet I - with the approval of the congress it will press the metier of getting! I an early construction and compie-B I tion of this project It is opinion of officials of the I tvfl n ?? , M u. a f,; n ? ii.Mi _ I H JBiUIBS LBinR AaflOClflSMu CUSL ft - - - - - . .wr* MZ&lL *** ^ survey slreedyl V ^ 1*. .1 , . -TW| ? u .v I HtHi' Mw swrrHWBn^ftlBr - WQulU .Uv ...; - % v . .T ? , 963rtffid oy this waterway* Tte ptg* I -jj. :m : T i * - V A. viaat report shows that the total Reds Oppose U, S. Action On Debt Issue Reprisal Threatened by Russia In Enactment of the Johnston Law Moscow, April 17.?An active Soviet reprisal against the newly enacted United States law against further loans to debtors came today in an admonition to Soviet economical orga nizations by the newspaper for indus trilazation to alter their reported in tention to give preference to Ameri can materials and equipments for the remainder of the present five year plan. The newspaper warned that the Soviet government will not be coerc ed into a debt settlement The statement by the official or gan of the commisariat of heavy in dustry was the first published reac tion to the Johnston law. It described it as a "menace to Soviet American trade" and declar ed in effect that the Soviet govern ment would not deal with a country placing such an obstacle in the way. Grant Announced For Teadier-Pay Government A i d En ables the State To Pay Educators in Full For Services Washington, April 18.?A grant of $500,000 to the State of North Caro lina for payment of school teachers for the 'present session was an nounced today by Harry L. Hopkins, Federal emergency relief adminis trator. Announcement was made to Sen ator Josiah W. Bailey, who personal ly took the matter up with Mr. Hop kins today, following the departure of Dr. A. T. Allen, State Superin tendent of Schools, who took up the matter yesterday. The gTant will enable the State, to pay teachers in full for their services at this session. The amount being almost the exact equivalent of the shortage in the present budg et for teachers' salaries. The State requested $1,500,000, which was in line with what is being given to other Southern States, but as the condition had been laid down in all other states that grants would be made only where schools had been closed, it appeared doubtful for some time as to whether or hot North Carolina would receive any thing. The State also has received a $60, 000 grant representing 30 per cent of the cost of $200,000 worth of new school basses. This grant, which was from the Public Works Adminis tration, was originally $23,000 to cover only the cost of the bodies, ?' y- *" %-T - _ but has been enlarged to cover the entire cost of the busses. - A similar grant of $120,000 is ex pected to be made out of the new appropriation for public works to be made by this Congress. When inclement weather held up most form cultivation in Catawba County, many of the farmers who have planted rasberries in the recent cooperative project utilized their time in preparing stakes to be used later in the berry patches. Five Mm Are 'Drafted' For Semij Board Tax Relief Association Announces Candidates For Board of Commis sioners Greenville, April 17.?The Pitt County Tax Relief Association, which has been quite active here the last several months in an effort to relieve the tax burden, entered the political field today with announcement of the drafting of an entire Board of County Commissioners. The drafted board, the announce ment stated, will "Cooperate with President Roosevelt and his admin istration generally and particularly in their efforts to help us help our selves." Those drafted by the association are: Ben M. Lewis, Farmville township; Godfrey S. Porter, Chicod township; Jim B. Barnhill, Carolina township; J. N. Williams, Greenville township; Charlie L. Stokes, Swift Creek town ship. In addition to supporting the Roosevelt administration, the draft ed candidates will be committed to the following principles: Support within the Democratic party actively Democratic principles. Hold Pitt county government on a cash basis. That property be taxed not in ex cess of its true value in money. Hold expenses of government with in ability of the people to pay taxes. Maintain our constitution with lim itations that property be taxed at its true value in money. Compel honest count of ballots openly and fairly'above suspicion. In addition to the announcement of the drafted candidates, Offie Stan di has tossed his hat into the ring for the office of Constable of Green ville township, Richard King, present incumbent, is seeking the office of sheriff and hence will not be a candi date for his old post as constable. Brummitt Will Speak Before The Tax Body Here Greenville, April 18.?Attorney General Dennis G. Brummitt will address the Pitt County Tax Relief Association here Saturday, April 28, at 2 o'clock. ! This announcement was made to day by Judge F. M. Wooten who said I he received a letter from Mr. Brum mitt saying "I am very glad to be able to accept your invitation to address the Pitt County Tax Relief Association on the proposed 'New Constitution' at Greenville Saturday, j April 28, at 2 o'clock." Farmers to'Banquet at State College Saturday Approximately 280 Farmers and Farm Boys from Vocational Agri?fol tor&l Departments in the Rural High Schools of this and surrounding counties will be entertained at a ban quet at State College in Raleigh, on 4pril 21st This banquet is made possible by the Department of Voca tional Agriculture of the State De partment of Public Instruction hi co operation with the Chilean Nitrate Education Buerau. a* Realizing that a prosperous agri culture cannot be built on poor^land, excessive acreage in money crops and high production costs, the-leaders of Vocational *Agrfcultnie in this section several years ago inaugurated a pro gram of economical crop production, and farm record keeping. ^ As an inoemtiye to attain ^6 ^ 11 ? i pj n J Puirmne ivuillki " "** aUWJ UlC A 1 Ala WiU a I JoJICl UIXJ I ? . ?nmm jelling on the markets that cognize aa?| pay fox quality. Those farmers and farm boys at tending 'the... banquet Saturday have attained Jugh rank in these endeavors under the guidance of their Vocation al Agricultural Teachers. This coun ty will have farmers and farm boys ipressnt-fTora the Fountain and Stokes High Schools. The banquet will he: held in the ?State College Dining Hall at_ 1:30 P. M; The meeting will be opened by J. R. Johnson, Benson, N. C. President 'of the Ybung Tar Heel Farmers, the State -met of the Future Farmers of i America, a national organization. Mr. Roy H. Thomas, State Supervisor of Vocational Agriculture, will act as toast master. Dthere on the program will be Mr. T. E. Brovne, State Di rector of Vocational Education, Mr. A. T. Allen,? State Superintendent M>f Public Instruction and Mr. James M. Gray, State-Manager, Chilean Nitrate * 1 V>||A 11 tnpt SnDfij^isors 01 VQCRtiOT^i 1 Atrfi" ^culture for two (hstricts ^represented. Rotes to Meet inGreensboro Members of Farmville Club Plan to Attend District Conference In Large Numbers Members of the Farmville Rotary Club are making plans to attend in large numbers the annual Con ference of the 57th District which will be held at Greensboro Thurs day and Friday, May 10th and 11th. Plans for the Conference are shaping up under the direction of District Governor Roscoe McMillan, of Red Springs, as well as Montgom ery ,S. Hill, and E. M. Oettinger, president and general committee chairman respectfully of the host club. A complete committee slate, to handle all details of the elaborate program and social features which are contemplated, was named some weeks ago, and according to informa tion from the Gate City has sdready made considerable progress in the duties intrusted. While the program has not yet been announced, it has been reveal ed that William R. Mainer of Nash ville, Tenn., representative and di rector of Rotary Inter-national, will be the principal speaker at the open ing session. That evening Rotarians and their ladies will be entertained at a dinner session, tentatively scheduled for Woman's College of the University of North Carolina, at which Rotarian "Dusty" Miller, of Wilmington, Ohio, inspirational speaker and humorist, will be the headliner. The final business session to be featured* by the election of a district governor, will be held Fri day morning. Numerous social activ ities, including the district gov- , ernor's ball, are to be sandwiched between business meetinga The Conference proper will be preceded by the annual assembly of club officers which is scheduled for Reidsville on Wednesday, May 9th. After sessions there, morning and afternoon, the club executives will move upon Greensboro for a final dinner meeting and will then merge into the District Conference on the following morning. District officials report that a hearty response has already been re ceived and all indications, as ano ther sign of emergence from the de pression, point to the largest Con ference attenlance in several years. France Threatens I Scrap All Current ; Arms Negotiations Threat is Expressed In ^.Memorandum Drafted by Premier Doumergue and Foreign Minister '% Barthou *- Paris, April 18.?France threaten ed in a note to Great Britain to scrap all current disarmament negotiations unless she is given something equiv alent to the military alliance in the . old entente cordiale it was revealed today. The threat is expressed in a mem orandum drafted by. Premier Gaston Doumergue and Foreign Minister Louis Barthou. It supplements a previous note ii* jwhich France expressed a desire for a new arms "limitation corerence" on these basis present negotiations have failed. ^The not" frankly said it is "use less" to argue about conditions un til the full truth of Chancellor Adol phus Hitler's rearmament program in Germany is determined. Germany's "own revelation", of rearming, the note says, makes it impossible to continue discussions of 'an armed convention based on the idea of German moderation in rear mament These revelations are Hitler's as sertions and new German budget Figures which the French think prove Germany is rearming far be yond general belief it is added. Win Out In Contest I . 'Ml ?-?. 4|j Misses Ruth Hayes Turnage and Cora Lee Patterson, soloists of Farm ville High SchoolGIee Club, won first places in the; recent State Glee Club contest, held in Greenville Saturday morning, for county contestants, and will go to Greensboro to try out for State honors next week. Both young ladies, in addition to possessing voices of exceptional quality and promise, have pleasing personaUtiesgpnd Farmville is ^ex pecting a good report a result of the Greensboro contest. I ;^Miss Vivian Case is director of the Glee Club and . Mrs. Haywood Board Sets Up 1 Machinery of The Primary _______ Election Officials Are Named at Meeting of Elections Board Here Wednesday Greenville, April 19.?The Pitt County Board of Election met here yesterday and set up machinery for the June primary. Election officials were named for all precincts with the exception of Greenville and Chi- ? tod, which were left unfinished until another meeting of the board to be held here in the near future. The board of Elections is com posed of F. C. Harding, chairman, R. L. Johnson and Paul Fitzgerald. The judges and registrars follow: Ayden township?Registrar. J, J. Stokes; Judges, Democrat, Robert Worthington, Republican, Jack Quin erly; Alternate, Mrs. Kate Quinerly. Belvoir township?Registrar, R. H. Parker; Judges, Democrat, W. R. Halland, Republican, James Spain; Alternate; J. A. Bell. Beaver Dam township-?Registrar, R. E. Willoughby; Judges, Democrat, Mrs. C. E. Willoughby, Republican, W. W. Young, Alternate, Robt. Mc Arthur. Bethel tcwnship?Registrar, Jno. W. Rook; Judges, Democrat, F. L. Andrews, Jr., Republican, X. E. Manning, Alternate, Matilda Barn lull. Carolina township?Registrar, G. W.-Roebuck; Judges, Democrat, C. L. Little, Republican, M. H. Nobles, Alternate, Martha Cherry. Farmvi lie township ? Registrar, Mrs. Eva H. Shackleford; Judges, Democrat, Carl Tyson, Republican, H. O. Gardner, Alternate, J. L. Tay lor, Jr. Falkland township Registrar, Hugh C. Smith; Judges, Democrat, Willie Bryan, Republican, Marcellus kmith, Alternate, G. H. Pittman. Fountain township?Registrar, Mr3. M. D. Yelverton; Judges, Democrat, W. D. Owens, Republican, W. E. Smith, Alternate, Claude Owens. Grifton township?Registrar, J. A. Jarrell; Judges, .Democrat, J. F. Smith, Republican, John Scarboro, Alternate, Jack Chapman. Pactohis township?Registrar, J. P. Davenport; Judges, Democrat, Mrs. 0. B. Fencher, Republican, B, D. Langley, Alternate, Miss Sidney , Davenport Swift Creek township?Registrar, Hugh Stokes; Judges, Democrat Al- , ton Gardner, Republican, W. C. Pur ser, Alternate, il H. Williams. Winterville township ? Registrar, J. R. Cox; Judges, Democrat, Jno. R. Carroll, Republiian, Marchall Joy ner, Alternate, A. W. Ange. Bishop Darst ToPreachHere Sunday Evening Rt Rev. Thomas C. Daist Bishop of East Carolina, and a nationally known figure in the religious life of American, will speak in the. Espico pal church here Sunday evening at 8:00 o'clock. The rite of Confirma tion will be conferred on candidates at this time. The public is cordially invited to attend the service. ? 5* Adopt Resoluton 1 Urging 40 Percent Cut ieWeed Taxes I A Resolution Contains J S o c t i o n Endorsing v Kerr Control Bill 1 t Washington, April 18. ? After J adopting resolution urging a 40 per 1 cent horizontal reduction in federal < tobacco taxes a group of governors t and their representatives from to bacco growing states today went into 1 executive conference with Secretary i of Agriculture Wallace. ' I The resolution contained a sec- < tion endorsing the Kerr control bill but this was under discussion when i the appointment with the secretary i caused a recess until this afternoon. * Representatives of Maryland in t asking for an explanation of the Kerr bill pointed out that adminis- t tration regulations permitted them l to .sign up only 40 per cent of grow- i ere of type 32 tobacco in the volun tary acreage reduction plan. ? W. B. Posey of Baltimore, mana- t ger of the Maryland Tobacco grow- 1 ers association, said this regulation < was imposed because of the small < amount erf type 32 grown. Representative Kerr, Democrat, 1 North Carolina, sponsor of the bill, * which is modeled after the Bank- i head cotton control bill, said he < would agree to an exemption lor 1 Maryland that the farm" administra- 1 tion might recommend. ' ? 1 Child Will Be Taken To Duke; ' I Little Two Year Old Son ofMr. and Mrs. Thomp- j son* is Gradually Turn-1 . ing to Stone 1 t ' i Goldsboro, N. C., April 17.?Levi j Thompson, whose little two year old 11 body is turning into 'stone' will be J t taken to Duke hospital again April j 26 for further examination following a turn for . worse in his condition. t The child remaining playful and j unfretting, is still at the home of his j parents, Mr. and Mrs. Braxton j Thompson of the Jordan Chapel com- j munity in Wayne county. i Physicians have placed him on a j diet but this seemed to have little * effect on the disease which sends < lime into his muscles instead of Ms j bones. "I 2 ATTEND D. A. R. CONGRESS t :.?? i Mrs. T. C. Turnage, regent of the i Major Benjamin May chapter, D.' A. I R., Mrs. U. H. Cozart, of Wilson, and Mrs. C. H. Arrington, of Rocky Mount, delegates, attended the an nual Continental Congress of the Paughters of the American Revolu tion, held in Washington, this week. Tobacco Payments Start On Accepted Contracts With the revision of tobacco acre age-reduction contracts completed in mora than half the tobacco counties, announcement was made .that North ?Carolina growers are to; get around I $10,000,000 for participating in the tobacco adjustment program. Approxmaitely 60,000 growers. of l/lue-cured tobaeeo have signed con tracts to reduce their crops by 184,? liiOO acres and 130,000,000 pounds this year. During the past three years they have averaged a-production of 430,221,000, pounds of weed oh 618, 333 acres. The rental payments at the rate of $17.60 for each acre retired from cultivation will bring the growers a total of $3,220,000. Benefit pay ments on this year's crop will net some $5,000,000, and equalization payments on part of the 1933 crop will aggregate $2,000,000 or more. <? The- rental payments, th* first to be made, will within a short time reach those growers whose contracts have: been revised and. accepted at Washington. ^Bayrnents otter contracts will be made latere wiihn they have been ' adjusted and ac cepted. E. Y. Floyd of State College an nounces that the revisions hard been I completed in 31 of the 68 flue-cured 1owever not all tlt^^^contract?1''' tli^tt led in Washington yet, he added. I It is the object of the government to distribute the various payments through the year 80; that they will i arrhp in ,time to help the farmers j when, money is especially needed. ' J | Floyd pointed out that in additio^ J ?to the direct-payments fnwp the gov- J ?ernment, the farmers will also bqne- 1 Bfit from the greatly iqcreaaed tobac- 1 Ico prices , brought about by the qrop J Icontrol program. J ?Large Catches Of l I ad^Ting Bdng Made Williamston, April 18?Withacori- 1 tinued rise in the Rq&noke river pre- , venting several fisheries below Wil- , liamston from operating, thousands 1 of herring are being-taken from the 1 river at this point by fishermen from , many parts of Fasti Carolina. It is a , very interesting sight to see the fish ermen with their large dip nets pad dle down the river pulling in one to I 20 fish each dipv -burners in this sec- I I usual quantity of tne fish as they pro- ? vide fopd for the summer month?. "I Prices on the ffsh^ range from 85 cents to 50 centa pa* hundred. Five trench silos dug in Cleveland * Roosevelt Scraps Bill To Pay Depositors in Closed Batiks; Speeds Congress -- President Confident Of Satisfactory Compro mise on Tax Revision - Bill; Wants Provision For Labor Washington, April 18.?President iooaevelt definitely cast aside today he McLeod bill for payment of de positors in closed banks in. shaping ip the administration's program for in early conclusion of Congress. ? He is confident of a satisfactory :ompromise on the tax revision bill ' md there are .hints that the pub icity of tax returns proposal approv ed by the Senate may be modified ;o allow for executive action. Mr. Roosevelt wants some form of egislation to provide for labor med ation in place of the present Wag ler labor board established by exe :utive order. A bill containing the general prin :iples of the measure proposed by senator Wagner (D. N. Y.) will be sought in a White House conference omorrow. This measure makes permanent he national labor board headed by iVakner and outlaws employer-doin nated company unions. The President is still standing for i stock exchange control bill "with .eeth" bat the final form of this egislation depends on more.. con ;lusive action by the two branches )f Congress. It was reiterated today at the iVhite House that the President will lend to this session a message on var debts, but there was still every expectation it would be more in the :orm of a report that a request for egislation. The President is understood to re gard it as impossible to do justice n any attempt to pay off depositors n closed banks such as proposed in he McLeod bilL He has, however, directed the offi :ers of the Reconstruction Corpora ion and the treasury to seek a more iberal policy in making loans on i3sets in closed banks. - He feels this is the only sound and iust solution of the problem. It was pointed out at the White louse that in the case of two banks vhich closed at the same time in ,he same town one might have been n a position to pay off its depositors it 60 cents on the' dollar and close ts books, while the . other, because >f its assets, has still made no pay nent The latter bank, under terms of he McLeod (R. Mich.) bill, ~ would >ay off with government money at 100 cents a dollar, although it was n poorer 'shape than the bank which jaid off at 60 cents on a dollar and .vhose depositors would not benefit from the proposed legislation. Another thing Mr. Roosevelt is con :erned about is how far back the government should go in making up osses in closed banks. Just because the government tried ;o keep banks open 'the White House 'eels there is no moral obligation^on ts part to pay off depositors in hose institutions which closed. (j States Seek In Tobacco Tat Governors Of Tobacco Growing Areas , Back Ehringhaus In Move ment Raleigh, April 17.?Governors of six tobacco growing states today had ined up behind a movement institut id by Governor Ehringhaus of North Carolina to urge a 40 per cent reduc ;ion in the federal tax on tobacco pro iucts, f The North Carolina governor re cently invited the chief executives ? join him in Washington to place .he .question before President Roose velt and Secretary of Agriculture Wallace. The governors of Kentucky, West Virginia, South Carolina, Virginia, and Georgia*- have reported they would either go to the Washington :onference or ?tfnd representatives. A reply has not been received from Governor Ritchie of Maryland, Gov ernor Ehringtaus said. 1*:. r ~ - V' . " X . - Shoots Eagle On His Farm " Henry Owens, who lives two miles West of Farmville, on the Tumage farm, reports shooting a large eagle, measuring 5 feet from tip to tip, on Thursday of this week.