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VOL. TWBNTY-FIVE FARMVILLE, PITT COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, JULY 6, 1934 NUMBER NINE ; ' . '? Vv ?'' ?' ' ' T,?;,. :''.liw v 'i, rl;. V ,,:'i ? r >' ?<?- ~ ; '? State Tax Collections Reach High Mark Governor Reports State General Fund Revenue Exceeds Expenditure; Federal Revenue Rises To 46 Millions. Raleigh, July 5.? Revenue Collec tions, both State and Federal, rose to high levels in the fiscal year which ended on June 30th. Viewing the report of State col lections for the first full fiscal year of his administration, Governor Ehr inghaus expressed himself as highly oleased over the record which showed general fund expenditures under col lections by $300,000. Charles H. Robertson, collector of internal revenue here, was also high ly pleased with his first year results, which showed an increase of $46, 781,353.65 over last year's collections. Total Federal collections for North Carolina for the year were $260, 359,475.22. For the fiscal year ending June 30, 1933, Federal collections were $213,578,121.57. All-Time High. The State general fund collections touched an all-time high mark. Re ceipts aggregated $21,569,818.07, an increase of more than $7,000,000 over the total of $14,301,819.03 which was collected in 1932-33, A. J. Maxwell, commissioner of revenue, reported. Highway fund receipts for the 12 fiscal months aggregated $22,552,478. 57, an increase of $2,383,000 over the 1932-33 total of $20,168,650.03. To close the State's books with all possible 1933-34 revenue included, highway patrolmen came into Raleigh all through Saturday night with last minute collections of all kinds and the books were not finally totaled until S o'clock Sunday morning after 1 the force had worked all night. As a result receipts on Saturday totaled $300,885 and the money re ceived on Schedule B license taxes reached $1,018,000 for June, nearly a million dollars ahead of the same tax receipts last June. Only $94,286.18 in all taxes was collected on June 30, 1933, the last day of the previous fiscal year. Sales Tax Yield. The increase of $7,000,000 in the general fund was largely accounted for by the collection of $6,015,800.36 from the three per cent general sales tax, which was in effect for the first time. It was poitned out these figures represented fully only 11 months col lections and did not include any tax on credit or time accounts outstand ing on June 1. The highway fund statement re vealed that 70,248 more pairs of au tomobile license plates had been sold up to June 30 than in the similar period last year, with the revenue from thia source showing an increase . of $1,138,856. Gasoline tax receipts for the fiscal year were $1,000,194 above those for the last fiscal year. < t Federal Collections, Federal collections have been about $10,000,000 better than we expected, said Collector Robertson. Our gains, has averted nearly $4,000,000 each month. . Jane brought receipts of $27,661,- ? 1844.6, which was a gain of $921, '' - ? ' - r Board Checks Ballot Today _______ Paylor Wins With Big Majority For House of Representatives; A. T. Moore Retains Office County Treasurer. Greenville, July 5.?The Board of Elections of the County met Tuesday and tabulated the ballot cast in last Saturday's run-off primary in which John Hill Paylor, of Farmville, was swept into a seat in the House of Representatives of the State Legis lature by an overwhelming majority, and A. T. Moore retained his post as County Treasurer by a comfortable margin. Although no mention was made of it, the Board probably will give some consideration soon to completing the set-up of new voting places in Green ville and Chicod townships. Four new voting places in Greenville and three for Chicod, to facilitate voting was ordered at a former meeting of the Board. The Greenville boundaries were definitely established, but that of Chicod's were left open for further consideration. In addition to this section, a hew registration was ordered in Farmville township, because the book used two years ago was misplaced. The setting up of the new voting places will also necessitate a new registration in both Chicod and Greenville townships for the November election. Over five thousand ballots were cast in the run-off primary Saturday as against around 8,000 in the first balloting. Paylor, who was called in to a second primary by Jack Ed wards, of Greenville, a fonqpr Rep resentative from thic county, won out in the second contest by a majority of 2,171. Perkins, who asked for a second battle with Moore, lost by a majority of 501 votes. CLASS ENJOYS OUTING Members of the Fidelis Class of the Baptist Sunday School was visi tors, numbering thirty-five, enjoyed an outing and picnic supper at the Snow Hill pool, on Thursday of this week. TAYLOB-BRITT Married on Saturday, June 30, Miss Willie Mae Britt and Mr. Joe Elbert Taylor, both of Ayden, by Rev. H. M. Wilson, Presbyterian pas tor, at his home here. . 384.07 over the June, 1933, report. - Approximately $25,000,000 of the gain was yielded by the seven pro cessing taxes added to the collector's list leviea Other new taxes imposed doTmg Collector Robert's first year have added, slightly to the total in crease.. However, every item in the list of hakes in force when the Dem ocrats took over the office has shown an increased yield. ?? ; , j ^ One Of Siamese Twins is Refused Marriage License Incident Recalls Mar riages of The Original Siamese Twins in N. C. ?'?ii ii .1 . New York, July &.?Unable to de nit the plural aspects of the situa tion, perplexed authorities of the city vmnitgu license* to ens. of the much publicized "Siamese Twins." 1be whole thing nattered the uplmiiK of Chief Clerk Julius Broom, usually iron nerved about marriage ' matters, and he threw up his hands in despair after listening to plural answers to singular questions. '?.? The question of how many people were getting married waa banded fo the city corporation counsel's office, In no time at all, back came the ruling: "No license." No explanation y accompanied the decision. It was J0ome& together since Mirth?hope for Sat^fa'SkJS fcHwmTa marriage 4" . - _ . ? ton* 2ft ywn ?li-waated to marry bert, 29 year, old orchestra leader, who lives at die same apartment building as the twins. Daisy said die already had a fiaos cee?Hart y Macon, a pugilist, who,, she added, is at prwsent in England. ; They announled, before Cleric Brosen bogged down in the intrica cies, that they intended to have Vio let and Lambert married at once by Defxity City Clerk Philip A, Hines. Lambert echoed their sentiments. He said he was a widower, born in Westernport, Ifd., the son of William J. Lambert ' - The twins gave Violet's occupation as an actress; said they are four feat 11 inches tall, weigh 196 pounds, and arw joined physically at the hipa '' I Whils waiting for the officials to make up their minds, Violet told newspapermen she first met her pros pective huflhandv Wheik he joined the twins*vaudeviH* troupe a year ago as m?sicaid?MCtorv^^^.^-#v;^ Daisy broke ?r to say she, too, was to be mar^ soon m her fian^ Governor Speaks At Legion Affair Is Chief Speaker At Dedication Of Park Playground At Bur lington Burlington, July 4.?The psychol ogy of patriotism in war and in peace was the theme of Gov., J. C. B. Ehringhaus here today, as principal speaker of a. gigantic Legion cele bration marking the dedication of a park-playground to the children of Alamance County. Without mentioning by name a sales tax, the measure by which pub lic opinion has been engaged ah an analyst of his administration. Gov ernor Ehringhaus drew the striking parallel of patriotic obligation?one stirred by martial music and differ ences between peoples, the other by stern economic duties of reconstruc tion. "That the State has need of patri otism in peace as in war," said the Chief Executive of North Carolina, "has never been seen in a truer light (than it is 9een today." He admon ished his listeners to "think not that ! North Carolina has not faced an I emergency." "There was imminent danger 01 'utter collapse," he said, "18 months I ago when out of a turbulent Gen eral Assembly came the sales tax as the only measure capable of saving ' the credit of the commonwealth and thus maintaining its institutions." He was opposed to it "except as a final resort to avert chaos." When he asked for it he believed it the lesser of other evils?as taxation in all forms is popularly judged to be. While he stood in defense of his administration as having come with in a balanced budget, he did not in dicate that the emergency is past The interpretation of his viewpoint is that the disposition of those who would remove the tax is one side, their ability to do it another. Draw ing: the parallel of war expenditures, the Governor said: "We have had to do many things we disliked to do; have had 'to call for sacrifices." The Governor argued the course he pursued, with his fellow workers, advisers and legislators, kept school room doOrs open, made it possible for an orderly functioning of gov ernment, and not only saved the State's credit but did more?placed it in the forefront of all States in the Union, "This^ generation stands ready tol, make a new pledge to the heritage of the hardy, industrions pioneer stock who struck the spark that blazed into American independ ence," he said in reference to the battle of Alamance and the eivent fol chapter* of history subsequent to the armed conflict against the crown. "I salute two flags," he said in I conclusion, "the Stars and Stripes | and the flag of North Carolina, the latter symbolic of a sovereign State older than the Union." n "o 'rnqpmLmmmm ' I II. S. Will Demand : Pay By Germany - '' ' ? ? ?' . '? " - ? S ? mmmmmmmrnrntrnm Desires Even Brake With Great Britain; New Note to Be Direct ed To Germany .J** 4 ~ Washington, July 6.?The United States will demand that Germany | give Americans an even break with Britain, in the payment of debts. This became known today* as the official reaction to the news that the Reich has agreed to pay inter est for at least six months on the Dawes and Young loan bonds held by British subjects. About $1,500,000,000 of German obligations are held in this .country. Aathoritftiea sources said a new note asking, equality may be dis patched to Bie Reich. If no note is sent diplomatic conversations are expected to be presented. Britain's threat to seize German commerce in funds was considered 1 patent.' J- . . But the United. States enjoyed a favorabfc babmce.. ou tride e?ith more from America than America buys turn <Sw?u?y.^ ?Z Any idea that the.. United States could follow the British i^:of re taliation therefore died a-borniftg. because this country , stood a chance to come off second best in any trade Want Cotton To ? Reach 15 Gents ? " V- ? ? : ... *. " J , :V" .. ? Cooperative Association Says It Will Campaign For That Parity Price New Orleans, July 4.-?N. C. Wil liamson, president of tlje American Cotton Co-operative Association, an nounced today that the association would campaign for full parity price of 15 cents a pound for cotton. The ACCA's program, he said, turns upon the "vital necessity of increasing the buying power of the farmer by restoring the parity be tween the prices of things he has to sell and the prices of things he buys." He said this may be accomplished by a loan of 15 cents, basis middlings seven-eights inch, with proper premium and discounts for grade, staple and location, "thus giving each farmer the just value of his cotton wherever located." Unless the price of cotton ad vances, Mr. Williamson's statement said, the growers will suffer a re terms of purchasing power at pres ent year's -crop of almost $76,000,000 below that of 1932 because of the in creased cost of goods they purchase. His statement said in part: "In view of the fact that the position of the cotton farmer in terms of purchasing power at pres ent prices of cotton is less favorable than last year; and in view of the further fact that the cotton farmer is limited in the amount of his pro duce he may market regardless of price, we strongly recommend that the parity price of 15 cents per pound be loaned to producers of the 1934 35 crop. "Cotton is now being sold in South Texas and immediate action is neces sary. 4 i : "About one year ago tne Amer ican Cotton Co-operative Association proposed a progTam for restoring the parity price for Amerisan cotton in furtherance of the announced in tention of the administration. This program was partly realized by the advancement of $20 a bale on plow up option cotton by the Agricultural Adjustment Administration a shorf. time later, thus placing in the hands of the" cotton farmers nearly fifty million dollars in cash in addition to the original 10-cent loan, which had already been approved by the administration. V. ! "While we did not ask that ;the ^additional 5 cents per pound re quired to bring the price up to full parity be paid before July, 1934, we were informed that there were not suffitieqt funds available to make the required commitments. The Re- J construction Finance Corporation's legal limitations as to financial com mitments could not extend beyond February, 1934, unless and until Con- j gress should prolong the life of that body. This obstacle has now been removed by Congress ... "A loan of 15 cents at the farm, participated in by all growers, would increase the purchasing power of this year's crop plus benefit pay ments to about $746,311,000, or $66, 280,000 above that of last year's crop. "The directors of the American Cotton Co-operative Association have instructed me, as their president, to call attention to the facts suggested above, and to urge the necessity fori immediate. action that all producers i may be benefited. We are willing to co-operate fully in working out de tails as to the practical application of this program, and we have , given serious consideration to the question from every angle." 1 ' ' " I nil Coropliuice I To MRA Pledged By Henry Ford Letter To Johnson from The Auto Manufactur er Climaxes Months of Differences Between Government and Ford . ' Washington, July 3.?Henry Ford t pledged ftill' compliance With N. R. A. ? Hugh S. Johnson, militant recov ery leader, announced that the auto mobile manufacturer notified him by letter -of his determination- to abide by the automobile code. ^ 1-^l The letter climaxed months of differeces between the government and . the manufacturer which had rt. -lted .'in Ford's exclusion from binding on government's contracts. The letter w understood ha luura been referred immediately to Assis France Enters Protest Against German Actuation mmmmmamrnmmmm Vice Chancellor Franz von Papen To Be Strip ped of Office ? _____ Berlin, July 5.?The French eni bassey issued tonight a formal pro test to Germany in the form of a vigorous denial that France was the villian in the "foreign conspiracy" phase of the recent Nazi revolt French sources said that the pro test will be presented at the Wil helmstrasse, where is was said yes terday French Ambassador Andre Francois-Poncet was promised that the German press would not drag France into a controversy over Hit ler's charge that a now famous "for eign power" was involved. This Franco-German storm broke just as the government was trying to leave the gruesoraeness of the .second revolution behind it and move on toward a consolidation of Chancellor Hitler's new position, The German press blew the lid off the "foreign power mystery" to night with charges that the late General Kurt von Schleicher, chan cellor for 58 days in 1932, had had dealings with France. French Foreign Minister Louis Barthou, the press said, revealed Von Scblecher's plot to the British at Geneva on May 30, adding that "Hit ler's days are numbered." The entire Berlin diplomatic corps has been cast under a shadow since Hitler's reference to the "foreign power." Various embassies transmit ted informal protests, complaining that unless the power were specified, every fdreign nation might be con sidered to blame. hYanz von rapen, uie ourr turner the saddle of the Nazi regime, will be stripped of the vice chancellory, the foreign department of the Nazi party indicated today, but he will be permitted to remain in the cabinet as Sarr Commissioner. Thus, with the puzzling problem of the Vice Chancellor's disposition for the first time somewhat clarified, re ports indicating that the Nazis have reopened a vigorous anti-Jewish cam paign in provincial centers claimed major attention. Along with these reports were ru mors that Cardinal Michael Faul haber; archbishop of Munich, was I being held prisoner. I These reports shared with others less well substantiated of a growing unrest and dissatisfaction outside the capital, pointing to growing dissen sion and fear. Vide Chancellor von Papen's office, next to that of Hitler, was stripped of its papers and furnishings from top to bottom, and all his belong ings taken to his private home, where his secretary isaid his office henceforth will be. It was learned from Frau von Papen that their home, too, was raid ed again last night. Even the furniture was removed from Von Papen's old office and a scaffolding erected outside the build ing for alterations and a thorough cleaning. A party spokesman said an entire Nazi -staff wouid replace Von Papen's men in the vice chan cellory. Von Papen himself declined to be interviewed saying his position would not be definitely 'fixed until after discussions with the chancel lor. President Approves Leaf Warehouse Code Washington, July 5. ? Presidential approval of the code for the auction . of loose-leaf tobacco warehouse in dustry was announced today , by . NRA. | The code becomes effective July 9. The labor provisions, which are under NRA jurisdiction, provide' a 40-hour week of eight hours a day ; which certain employes permitted to work 12 hours a day if paid at least : $20 a week. Minimum wages are 22 1-2 cents an hour for unskilled common labor and $16 a week for clerical em ployes. The code prohibits a reduc tion in the weekly wage because of a reduction of working hours under code .requirements. The agricultural Adjustment Ad ministration has supervision of the coda'? other provisions. ;T\ j .. GROWS FINE POTATOES s ' 'Vr C? Jfr'; *2 , f. - Q. L. Fhrker, who resides on the ; Gold Leaf Farm of R. L. Davis, near town, presented the Editor with 40 large, Irish potatoes this wuek, weigh ing 3} pounds. The potatoes, Red BliBs, yeilded 22 to 1 and 6 to a hill We-congratulate Mr. Parker oh his splendid production. ' Drury Settle Killed 1 Auto Mishap Greenville Young Man Victim of Car-Train Collision at Marsden Last Night Greenville, July 5.?Drury Spain Settle, 20, popular Greenville young man, was killed this morning at 12:30 o'clock when the automobile in which he was riding crashed into a moving freight train at Marsden, on the Greenville-Washington highway. Carl Brown, also of Greenville, received serious injuries of the chest and his condition today was describ ed as precarious, although doctors said he had a "fighting chance." Robert Exum of Snow Hill, driver I of the coupe, suffered minor in riea Funeral services for young Settle will be conducted from Eighth Street Christian Church tomorrow after noon at 4 o'clock by Rev. W. A. Ryan, pastor, assisted by Rev. W. A. Davis, of Washington, N. C., pastor of the Mount Pleasant Christian Church, Pitt County. Interment will be made in the Mount Pleasant Churchyard on the north side of Tar River. Surviving are his parents. Rev. H. H. Settle, who has been confined in a sanaorium, in Kentucky for several I years, and.Mrs. Settle; a sister, Miss Helen Settle, and grandparents, Mr. and. Mrs. D. S. Spain, with whom the young , man made his home. Settle and Brown went to a river camp below Washington yesterday for . a swim. Last night they return ed, to Washington where Settle went to see a young lady friend. Shortly before midnight he and Brown went I to the river bridge to catch a ride back to Greenville. Exum came along and picked the youths up. Visibility is poor along the. highway at Marsden, and Exum did not see the moving freight train until too late to stop. He applied I his. brakes, but seeing that he would be unable, to stop in time, swung the J car to the left, throwing the right! side occupied by Settle against the train. ? Settle, and Brown were rushed to the Washington hospital, but Settle, suffering from a crushed skull and broken shoulder, was dead when they arrived. Exum .was brought to Pitt Community hospital here but it was not thought his injuries which,, although painful, were not! serious. , Settle., was graduated. from Green-1 yille. High School in 1931. He at tended East Carolina Teachers Col lege two years, and the' past year! was an honor ministerial student at Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa. During his vacation he was em ployed by Warren Drug Store here. He was one of the city's most popu lar young men,, possessing a genial disposition that endeared him to a wide circle of friends. News of his death was received with profound < shock and sorrow. Urges Tobacco Companies To Pay Increased Price* " - - ?? 1 - i m Hut son Calls On ManUr facturers To K eep Faith With Farmers Who Have Agreed To Reduce Production Chatham Va., July 4.?J. B.;Huiir, son, chief of the tobacco section of the AAA, today called upon manu facturers to keep faith with tobacco, farmers and pay increased prices for a smaller crop. In an address before a fanners' meeting, Hut9on said farmers, in turn, should continue to contra!. production so as to obtain the est possible net profit from thsir tobacco crops. He traced the huge profits made . by the tobacco manufacturers be ginning in 1922 and stretching Into the depression years. "During this 10-year period m&au facturers' profits increased from $76,000,000 to $146,000,000 and even during the depression years these profits increased from $134,000,000 to $146,000,000," Hutson said. Income Shrank While the manufacturers' profiia almost doubled, he pointed out, the.. income of tobacco growers waa.-re*, - duced almost two-thirda The income for the 1933 tobacco.. crop from sales on the market- was.. ? approximately $60,000,000 larger than it would have been, Hutson said... This gain vas due to the co-operation.. among the farmers to reduce their. next year's crop. "The increase in income to.flue*, cured tobacco farmers, because., of. a promise to reduce acreage-ia^nw--. ing, almost unbelieveable, but itec* tually happened, as you aU. know*" the AAA official continued. It paid old debts, bought neceort ties, and even luxuries, and brought ? new opportunities and new hope.:to. farm people who were pretty badly, n crushed and disheartened." With a 30 per cent reduction and. a 96 per cent sign-up, the flne-euwfcv* tobacco planted under contract total**.? 672,000 acres, he said. It ia estimated-., that approximately 28,000 acres .not- ? under contract will be planted. This would make a total of 700,000 acres. . planted in 1984, Much Less Assuming slightly above normal yields, the 1934 production can be predicted at around 525,000,009, pounds, or 215,000,000 pounds.leaa. tV" last year's crop, Hutson said "If there is anything in supply., and demand relationships, prosptctB for flue-cured tobacco prices should be considerably brighter when tEf. market opens this year, compared to a year ago," Hutson . declared. By maintaining control of own production, he said, tobacco farmers have removed'- the. agejpld objection of manufacturers to pay- ? ing reasonable prices?that of raising.. ^ a crop "all out of reason following. good prices." "Now that this objection has been overcome under the new order, Hutson added, "manufacturers should. keep faith with tobacco farmers, and pay increased prices for a smaller, crop. Farmers, in turn, should con-. tinue to control, production.' ? ^ Likens New, Deal Unto Policies Wilsonian Order - - ? - - - - - - ? i - -- - i i Secretary Wallace De I clares It Is Also Simi I tar to Sprit of Coloit Ifets; Sees No Surren der of Basic Freedom I : Chautauqua, N. Y., July 4.?The rights and duties pf humanity under the -New Deal today were likened by Sehry- AWellaee, Secretary of Ag riculture, ? to. those which prevailed under the new. freedom of Woodrow Wilson and the battle of thd colonists for freedom expressed- in the Decla ration of Independence. Using Woodrow Wilson's phase, "The New Freedom," as his theme, Secretary Wallace referred in an address to other, "New Freedoms," each with its own peculiar charac teristics. 1 Each freedom, he said, had given new . duties and disciplines commensurate with those rights, v "The';'new freedom aa visualized by Wilson," he said, "had to do with shaking government loose from the shackles placed upon it] by private business working in unJ ider-handed, devious ways. Hb Must Accept Discipline. "Today we have come to the time lof anothe ./Ireedoaat but we call it tNew Deal It is well for us to now what are our rights in this nro .OApunf fk*ininl I by critics of the New Deal," he.addr ed, "has no part in the freedorajbut the assumption of duties and .social - discipline ciannot , be avoided. Gar tain controls 1 have been. made*, necessary for a number of years. "I conceive it to be one of the., needs of the hour to restore the processes of common counsel and to/substitute them for process*^ .of. private arrangement which now. dec termine policies, at cities, states, and nations. We must learn that tut <Ma*i free men to medLaa pur fathers.did. somehow, somewhere lot! consufta tion. There must be discussion and. debate in,whichall freely, partici pate. vft.must; be a candid:debate, and it must have-for. its honest pur pose clearing up at questions: and establishing of truth. Toiu mash* political discussion is not to hOMSfc purposes, but only, for ? ths^-eeiw, founding of opponents." j ;'r,f/ {?. PulUnan. iuddeat. Secretary. Wallace also- said. to*.. Ehe does not knoft whetlpr hej back a summons at a United/ Marshal or merely reputed, an,: intruder in his Pullman heUii atOdenton, "I was, too sleepy and tired .to really . Shear," - the secnatair.: {h*v U. 3. Deputy Marshal . & Nee* Becker reported he attsniptei^to; serve the summons - on Wallaean last ? (Continued on ps^pa ?
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