vy In FABMVTLLE And '? L| 1/1 11 A B"( ^ t 14^ ^4"^ | They Are Ponstantiy lavhiag | MF GST The TOP Dollar! JL M M ?nfyTr^^rm-ff T ? ? M n^ JLdfMjLli# JL [ You To Track Wi ?l" ~ ' "'- ; ''' '? ' - " - ? ? ' ? " ' VOL.^rWBNTY.FOCB ,, , ;?> FARMVHjLE, PITT COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, JANUARY, 4, X9S5 NUMBER THIRTY-FIVE ' I L ? "?' 'i. ???'. I'. ' .1 ,. I , ' ' ! ?? ? W 1 ? ?? ? -!?: . ? ? ' *|l " ' ' ? ? 1 ? ' =f= , 1 1 - HauptmannTrial Started Wednesday in jersey J 4 'Most Dramatic Murder! fjEase In Decades To Hold World-Wide At - tention W V; . . i Fiemington, N. J., Jail. l.?Stoical jrfruno Richard Hauptmann, former "German machine-gunner, goes on "5 trial Wednesday for the murder of iB?iby I.indberyh?the most dramatic murder trial in decades. On the eve of this trial?to be watched avidly in America ~ and many foreign nations?New Jersey authorities secretly reexamined at tractive Betty Gow, the last parson in the Snuriacd mountain house of CoL and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh to see the child alive and who dis covered the 18-months-old baby had been stolen from his crib. It was Betty Gow, back from : Scotland to testify, who bathed and , placed the child in its crib. It was : Betty Gow, who, while Anne Mor row Lindbergh was preparing to - retire about 10:30 p. m., spread the alarm that the world-famoos baby had been adbucted. ? Questioning of Betty came at the end of a day of conferences by At torney General David T. Wilentz and his assistants "in Trenton in preparation of their case against the Bronx county carpenter. - ? ? ? * v ? In the event the defense, neaaea by Edward J. Reilly of New York, challenges the right to try Haupt mann in Hunterdon county instead of Mercer ~ county?which divides the former Lindbergh estate, Betty may be called to testify that she found a thumb-guard worn by the baby in Hunterdon. Miss Gow has said that she found the thumb-guard in a chump of woods near the Lindbergh estate ? and in Hunterdon county. The state will contend that the baby was either dead or dying at thai point and that the kidnapper? it maintains Hauptmann was alone ?tore the fastened guard from the child1* hand as he tore off ita sleep ing garment It was this garment that was delivered to Col. Lind bergh when he paid the $50^000 ran som. Shr found the thumb-guard as she was walking through the woods, a few days after the kidnapping, with Mrs. OlKe Wheatley, wife of the Lindbergh butler who has since died. Mrs. Ann Hauptmann, who wjj] be one of the principal defense wit nesses, visited her husband in Hun terdon county jail today. She stayed her customary half hour and when she emerged, appeared to be in spirit*. Haoptmann's alibi that he was not in New Jersey on the night of March 1, 1932, but was in the Bronx depends largely on her corrobora tive testimony. She will testify her huabend called at the bakery where she was employed and that they drove to their home at as hour so late in the evening that he could not have reached Hopewell by the time the baby was abducted. Urn state will maintain that he did drive to Hopgwull, that he fitted together a three-piece ladder he had built, that he raised it against the nursery window and stele the baby; that the ladder broke under his - weight as be descended, that in hiahaste to get away he dropped a afeel chisel and that he also aban- ? ;;J donsd-the ladder Then, the state will attempt to 23??e 5tk-pped ^u^aby. Mt Bose road five miles away. ?;t mm BejolMm, a?i(Ha? to ?Se LMbwitto tto, ^rm drekn whi&: wen usef, in 6? .totrtrftt Ws h&Xl3c SCCOUHtS and ca^aTl^ 160 the number may rtm as high as 300. I Dr. Condon received six of the f j 3 ransom notes, sent .by the kid- , Bnapper. Morever, he sat with' 1 ?"John" in a Bronx cemetery for an ?hoar and fifteen minutes, chattering. IfiEe saw the man^face, and is ex- i pec ted to -testify that the man was lHaaptmann. ' ? I Other witnesses will include Al- , bert C., and Albert D. Osborn, hand writing experts, who will 8ay the < ransom , notes wire written by ?Hauptmann, and Arthur. Koehler, federal wood expert, who will tea- ? tify the wood aaed inv the ladder j A 1 *1. I. M mm If . Mil ' S'A I ?came from a oronx lumoeryaru to { ?which HauptnMom had access. i I Since the passing of some of the ransom money Jed . to Kanptanum'f J arrest in September 13, last year, , the State will call New ^?s^y state ^ som Ml was presented to ?number of the awn's. car. Pohc^ J mann's. The story of tie search for the man wdw was .passing .the J Bat the defense will maintain that Ui; German inr.wMriwpa gunner re ceived Isai I dore Flsch, a friend, who went Ivack . lawyer, the defense will try to show ] L-y- ,| - M I hflrd ?nii TTfiiinhvutmi 4 Police Question Raleigh Woman! Mrs. DooKt&,-Seel3hg Divorce, Figures I)i; Washington Shooting \> Washington, Jan. '1.?One govern- j1 ment employe is dying, a. second is hunted for shooting him, and the!j third, an attractive girl, is being! questioned by police in a strange I triangle climaxed by a pistol shot! in the back yesterday afternoon. J John Mears, 28, a supervisor for!( the civil service branch of the De-1 ( partznent of Commerce, lies near ; death in emergency hospital. Two ( blood transfusions, seemingly have L failed to improve his chances to live. Henry P. Parrish, 45, an employe! of the AAA, is hunted. He calmly L walked out of the rooming house L he owns at 808 Nineteenth Street, , NW., after telling witnesses that he!' just shot Mears. ' h The woman, Mrs. Myrtle DooKt tle, 28, who is the manager of the ! house, was in hysterical condition. She was being questioned by de-r tectives. - I Shortly before Mears was remov- } ed to the hospital with a bullet in 1< his back just under the heart, a ( reporter asked him: A . "Who shot you?" he weasiy re plied: ? ''? ?' ^ "Parrish," ? "What did he do it for?" "Oh, another man's wife." ' - "f Mrs. Doolittle has been separated ^ from her husband, Howard, for three years, she toM police. Police srid Parrish had warned Mears to move out of the house by ( December 29, in a letter.' Parrish J the officers said was .vjealous of . Mears. ' j Parrish and Mrs.; Doolittle' had- , been in Raleigh, N. C., over the Christinas holidays, visiting rela- ] tices. At 2 p. m., yesterday they re turned. Mrs. Doolittle went to - her basement apartment, .-she told por lice, and a few seconds; later sh$ heard a shot outside her door. She * looked out and Mears, clad in pa-?, jamas, was sprawled on the floor, ^ a bullet, fired with the gun appar ently pressed against his back, was in his body. None saw tfce?shot fired. j A .38 calibre revolver with on* j cylinder discharged - *aa found in a . closet in Parrish's room. t ? . ? ?_ ? * ? - " 1 CatefT Japanese Iikiig helm Man ^Claiming Finan cial Link with Japa-; nc8e^a>y^B#og De St. Petersburg, Fbu, Jan.: 1.?-A 4 Japanese-who claimed to be financ-j: Bd by cmpitiy'B navy, and an-1, aerted Be>vhad taken - pictures of American ; cities " and waterfronts 11 for expo^to Japan, Win custody if immigratfon officers here tonight < pending .word from Washington as j i to his disposition. ' 1. Chief flf DntPftiwA JB. EL Iipphard 1 said he. found .the man yesterday l( sweeping -the waterfront from, the |. municipal vpier with a long-range J ] German camera. In the area ; was j me U. S. S," "Trenton, flagship of the h special Kami service, squadron sta-l Lioned here, and the Cout Guard jase. *. ? Lapphard said the Japanese had < ro passport, nor papers of identi-1 ( ic&tion, but gave his name as TosMo I ] Matsuda, 36, of 611 W. 111th Street, h !jew York,City. ji Immigration men steadfastly re- h Fused to comment on the case, but ( police at the city jail where theh nan first was confined, said he ap- f seared extremely anxious to tele-jr >hone someone in Washington. Per-1 j nission to use the telephone was re- j j Fused. Police said the prisoner j, ivoidd not say to whom he desired ? :o talk. He later was removed from L he jail and taken to a hotel by injt-L nigratioa officers. . < - . ? ? _ii I Aaked.-.why lie was taxing pic ;ures, Lipphard said the man replied 'For my own amusement,'' but ad nitted the jfilm, was being sent jo ( N'ew York, where it was to be de- ( reloped and relayed to Japan. He < ieclined to explain further. ; j J Since;! entering this country ft . San Francisco about ,a year ago, I he prisoner said he had been in I Detroit, New York, Richmond, Va.,J, Columbia, S. C., Jacksonville, Fla,, { ifiami, and St.: Petersburg, taking j lictures in - each place, Lipphard! ?iy immigration officers,, he made r some . -slight changes in his first itoij^ but stuck io the.-.-'aijrtement f ibout his financing, and also sidd r is hadbought a* -Hit -a million dol ars' worth of .nachinery in the ' Jnited States for his government" The man would not give further I1 nformation about the purchases, r laid Lipphard. "I asked him what r ae had done with the pictures her8 shot en route here and be relied!1 >e had sent the film to New York."!* A watch' and |47 in -rash . Were r 'ound in his pockets. I The Japanese was described, as J1 veil educated and speaks English r luently. " * JAYS MAN CLAIMED ? OFFICIAL CONNECTIONS^ New York, Jan. 1.?A woman Kv- - jJ ng at the address given by Yoehio f datsuda tonight skid that she un- j lerstood the Japanese was a lieuten-1 tnt commander in. the Imperial Navy, j . Declining to disclose , her identity, she added that Materia had hem a 1 roomer in the household of Mn.1 J iVilliam Blackmail,' a widow, and r lad l$ee? recommended, to her by I? "He is a very fine gentleman, |c rery quiet and he. told us that helj vas uhere on Official Japanese bust-.]; ??*> LITERARY ffiUB Swedish author, by Mrs. J. L Mer- < fan, and ^accounts of recent trips i ?* Florida and tMba, given by Mrs; t r. W. Parker and Mrs. G. A. Jones, 3 lome of Mrs. P. E; Jones, . ^ c A report of the welfare commit- ? Tffw TaMtha DeVisconti and $ ^ Willis/ requested by the S president' Miss Annie Perkins, at 1 this tin*, reveaded gifto^of dothing t JPIum padding, coffeeand salted it . t . S ,1 ? " fcj. UMVtWglw nal ? 01 CM Hit 617100ft. .... "? 1 , - ? vjOIL ? STOVft vAUSSaS FIRF Beta Einton Silver fl S -i CAPHAI, MANAGEBI fl It's being- kept pretty quiet but! Ihere is an under-cover movement to have the Legislature change thej government of Baleigh.. from the commission form to a city manager I form with a Board of Councilman, according: to the Capital City grapeJ vine. The present Raleigh City Commissioners have heexr from one row to another almost since the day at election and even the man on the! rtreet can sense sentiment for a change in government. None of the! Wake county members of the Gen* jral Assembly have expressed them selves publicity on- the subject but pressure for the change in youf Cap ital City is about as sure as death and taxes. ___________ I COST OP TALKING The order of the State Utilities I Commission reducing Southern Bell telephone rates in 85 North Caro ina communities has received a de ny by order of Superior CourtJudge I W. C, Harris. The court injunction I ialts the proposed reduction in rates 1 antil the company's appeal is heard a Superior Court which may be in January or several months later..! rhe Utilities Commission, aided by he office of Attorney General Den- j lis G. Brumitt, is ready to fight for he last ditch for the approximately 12 per cent cut. and reliable, al though non-quotable, sources are qf he opinion, that lower phone rates! ire just around the corner: FERTILIZER Governor Ehringhaus and Commis iioner. of. Agriculture William A. iraham are going to the bat for low sr fertilizer prices in North. Caro ina. The Governor writes that he it- unable to understand the upping if fertilizer prices ia 1934 over, those ?f the year previous and wants Mr. araham to assemble data and attend i conference on the subject to be leld in the nation's-capital in the tear future. Fertilizer and gasoline iricep have bean worrying the Gov ernor almost as much as the increase n tobacco prices has pleased him. BUDGET MESSAGE. .What's in the repprt of the Ad visory Budget ConimiBsion to the xeneral Assembly is a close-guard id secret anid newsmen snooping iround the offices of printers for he State havent been able to learn 1 nuch about, the budget recommenda ions. You Can put on. thing in your : >ipe and smoke it, however, that is, 1 hat the budget proposal will contain 1 t suggestion for reenaciment of the ales tax with some revisions. It ' nay be liberal enough to suggest hat the sales tax can go by the inard if the legislators can find the noney elsewhere. The Budget Com- ' nission is friendly- to the adrainis- : ration and Governor Ehringhaus 1 tas publicely stated' that the "emer- 1 lency" for which the sales tax was * mac ted has not passed?you get 1 ehat that means.. The message also 1 nan contain suggestions for higher I eacher-pay. diversion Dn the secondary road system may itfc object to this but they want ithe toles filled up and- the bridges re ared before their gasoline and li enae taxes go for some other pur ?se. Most of them' wouldn't object o lowbr automobile taxes but that s only a dream-if half the folks after j i. slice of highway-fund pie get it < . NOT WORRIED . i At one stage of the game it look- ? id Hke the .St&? Revenue Depart- : rient might-be in for a good drub- J ring at the hands of the T i jjiilutjjfijt" | t is still highly probabte that at- - ack will-be made on the State's col- 5 ecting agency but the record on in- ' :reaaed revenues will stand OotiEtPi nisskmer of Revenue A. J. Maxwell i md his Executive Assistant DriJC 1 3. S. Noble, Jr., in good steed when hey are called on the carpet before | xmunittees that will themselves be ; tvarrassed by need of money to fill appropriations^ promises. Money makes the mare go in the General Awetoblras well as in the colleges Frinds of Governor Ehringhaus have spent weeks checking over names of members of the Genral Af smbly and are Wearing big smiles these days. "Administration stal good majority * of friends in the Sen proportions can be organized in the House. But with all that some JRal eigh political writers profess to hear rumblings of trouble coming for the Governor on the eve of the Legisla ture." MARRIED LIFE Watch for a movement in the Leg islature to pass a law against mars tied women serving as public school teachers. Alexander B. Andrews, or Raleigh, has compiled some figures which show that approximately 4,poo married white women are teaching school in North Carolina. Some States have rules against employ ment of - married women in Hie schools where single ones are avail able and sentiment for such a law in North Carolina has been cropping out in spots recently. GETTING TAUT Political lines are drawing tight- i er in. the (Capital City these days and you need not be a political.wise man to* sense the forming of groups behind the favorite candidates for Governor the and Eastern Senate seat in the classic of 1936. Proba bly the most pronounced single groups are those behind Governor Ehringhaus and Senator Josiah W. Bailey and there's no longer any doubt many people want the Gover nor to oppose Mr. Bailey. Other blocs are forming in behalf of Clyde R. Hoey, of Shelby; Congressman R. L. Do""hton and Lieutenant Gov ernor A. x*. (Sandy) Graham for Governor. Doughton and Hoey may make some announcement shortly but Governor Graham is. expected to hold his peace until the end of the legislative session. ' ? LIQUOR ^ Several months ago it was a gen erally accepted opinion that this General Assembly would shy away from any efforts to change North Carolina's dry- laws but as the time for convening draws nearer the pro hibition question has stopped boldly lAto the spotlight of speculation. From all. indications the drys still have tha titration well in hand but a lot of folks camt. figure out just |ff?*t is happening to bring out an apparent change of sentiment in some quarters. You can find plenty of officers of the law suffering head aches since Virginia legalized liquor and ^ ^ f ^ . j ?pThe annual meeting of The Green ville Production Credit Association serving the counties of Pitt and Greene will be held on January 17 at the.City Hall.in Greenville, N. C., it is announced by J. C. Galloway, secretary of the association. Not only are all of the farmer borrowers from the association, the holders of CJass B stock expected to be present, bat Mr. Galloway said that a most cordial invitation was also extended to all other fanners in the territory served by the asso ciation and that it was hoped that large numbers would accept the in vitation* "Every member of the associa tion," said Mr. Galloway, "is urged to bring one or more non-members with him as it is our desire that eveiry farmer in this section shall acquaint himself with the credit serv ice which our organization has to offer. "Directors of the association for the ensuing year will be elected at this meeting. Evry- member of the, association is entitled to cast one vote, regardless of the number of shares he owns, and it is to his in terest to vote for men'of the highest integrity and business acumen. "At the meeting a complete report of the year's operations of the asso ciation, will be submitted. The Pro duction Credit Corporation of Col umbia will have a representative at the meeting who will outline the set up of the Farm Credit Administra tion of the third district, the method of control and. operation of the pro duction credit associations and will give .an .explanation of the associa tion's operating statement from or ganization through Dec. 31, 1984. POLLY JOINS US Bat the old bird doesn't quite know what it's about, , so well just repeat our selves and wish that 1935 hrings you a load of good luck, a double helping of real happiness and a ful ler measure of the kind of prosperity that makes everybody a friend. . ? Skill of Airman Averted Deaths Pttot Dryer Set Hie Plane Down in Snow; Preventing Crash , ? Utica, N. Y., -Jan. 1.?How Pilot Ernest Dryer's quick reaction to danger sent his lost giant Condor air transport "mushing down" into an Adirondack forest Friday night, thus saving four lives, instead of crashing it was told for the first time today by three of the survivors from their beds in a hospital here. H. J.' Brown of Boston, himself an American Airways pilot , being carried as passenger, was the chief spokesman. "When we knew we were going down, Mr. Dryer rang the bell and he told me the left engine was out and the right one .was acting up, when the ship hit the first tree, Emie threw the ignition master switch to shut off the electricity. At the time he cut down the speed so that, instead of crashing, he Caused the plane to mush down in the woods and snow. ~ ? * ? s "Then we all climbed one ana got away from the plane and stayed latorey from it for five minutes to give it a chance to cool down (an added precaution in case of fire.) = then went to the cabin and: tried to use the radio but found the battery master switch was dam aged. We coundn't. see to repair it that night and that's why the radio wasn't heard until next day. Brown, who left Itica early this evening, sat between the beds of Ernie Dryer and Dale Dryer, the co-pilot Robert Hambrook, of Wash ington, the other passenger, left the hospital yesterday. "There's been talk about one of US wanting or tryihg to. shoot our selves and we want to deny that" Brown said. "We were never in that condition." "The first thing we did after finding the radio out" Brown said, "was to organise our camp. At no time wewl'-toe frightened, but we realised the situation was serious and that we would get out only by using our heads. We. ripped part, of the fEusilage off and used it for leg gings. We built a shelter out of Saplings and fabric." "The hardest part of it all," put in Pilot Dryer, "was trying to get sleep. We'd sleep fur half an hour and then wake up so cold that we ached." Brown then explained that they took turns trying to get sleep and watching the dark skies for possible rescue ships. "There was one interesting thing: Mr. Hambrook?a very religious man?started to pray there in the snow, 16 minutes before the first ship found us. We all felt that it was the most convincing evidence of the power of prayer any of us ever saw. Jk/* W ''F t^/V^ g*K Jf^r M 4?%&&4g f?' /fty Suiiflvi M ifflf ||yi| rWTUlU i * |( Y fJJL Jh U. Art jl H. Webb, asst. sales manager, H. A. Smith, Charies Walaton, Adle Flow ers, and Jack Langhingfconse. Sev eral others entitled to the trip were unable to go on account of illness. The bus bore banners with the word ing, "Monk's Warehouse Tour, Farmville, N. C." and large golden leaves of tobacco, ADD MONK ARTICLE. ? | J. Y. Monk, Jr? Is in charge of the party. The tourists spent Tues day night in Savannah and - visited St. Augustine and nearby points of interest Wednesday, spending the second night at- Melbourne, ? Fla. "Having swell time," was/ the ward wired back to relatives here Wednes Iday. j The same spirit of goodwill and [ mutual interest between the entire warehouse .force, buyers and grow .rs;which has obtained at Maalfa : -warehouse, since its establishment [here, was anticipated again dining irthe season just past, but results went even beyond the highest ex pectation of the proprietor of mem bers of the organisation. The coveted poundage level was reached by Monk's warehouse on Monday, Noymber 17, and a con siderable margin was reported dur ing the succeeding weeks, prior to the close of the most successful sear son the PVumville market hasever . experienced? WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON CLUB . Miss Elizabeth Davis charmingly entertained her card dab and spe cial guests; Mrs. A. W. Bobbitt and . Mrs. Harry . Lang, this week, carry ing out the- New Year suggeati.m effectively in the tallies: and decora- ^| tions, which bore the colors of blue and silver. High score was compiled by Miss Elizabeth Fields, who recehr- " f ed as an award ash trays contain ing crystaiized fruits, &? ? . ?? A delidous salad course, pinwheel cookies and coffee wettVattved ja cards were laid aside. ' ' ? .y^ .. ~ "i m ii. j ii ,,.j2> * The tobacco adjustment contracts signed last winter by fine-cured to bacco growers have been extended into 1935, with certain changes, E. Y. Floyd, of .State College, annoanc- g? ed this.week."" As a resnlt of the l?34 adjusting V-$1 program, Floyd Baid, the surplus of ^.'>1 flue-cured tobacco has been diminat ed ahd the carryover isslightly be- | ^ low normal Consequently, the al lotments in 1986 will be a little Bwf- igp er than last year, The growers will be given the privilege of producing either 85 or 90 per cent of their base acreage and production.^ But growers who ^ produce- 90 per cent will get only one half as much in rentaljayments - as those who produce only 85 per cent, Floyd added. - The 15 per cent, reduction sche duled for 1935 is only one half as nmeh, as the- reduction last year, he ft&? I continued, And the rental and ad- $p*. I down to one half the previous amount. .? ' 'a. Ht : A -? . ' ^However, ?5r results win conwu^, . at the rate of $17.50 tat acre on the land retired from tobacco cultivation. ^ JTS sale^ralue of the 1935 crop. ly The deficiency, | - v ' - ., . s ".: ^ "*? ? | "** * .. niwaihuuL'li* *1W f 6 |Ww I ^!ll , i Tu6 rental MymtttB will b6 ttwwi