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Adherence ToNRA Cod
Nationwide Movement
To Reassure Employes
Follows Court's Invali
dation of Blue Eagle
Enforcement Machin
ery ?
New York, May 28.?Business and
industrial Madera throughout the na
tion strove tonight to reassure them
selves and their employees that the
NRA standard of hours, wages and
fair trade practices would be con
tinued voluntarily.
As threats of strikes and price
wars began to nimble against a
confused economic horizon, a far
flung movement got under way to
dispel any fears that turmoil would
result from yesterday's Supreme
Court decision.
Declaring the moment had come
for the American business man to
prove his good faith, Harper Sibley,
newly-elected president of the
United States Chamber of Com
merce, called upon all the employ
ers within the chamber's purview
"to make no immediate changes in
hour or wage schedules."
"I am confident," he said, "that
this will be the policy of American
business."
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Tiirougnoui ice country ullc imjv
employers began falling in line and
the National Association of Manu
facturers announced late in the aft
ernoon that nearly 200 "o* the larg
est manufacturers" ih the nation
had informed their workers that no
immediate changes in hours, wages
or working conditions need be fear
ed.
Among the firms that said they
expected to maintain the status quo
were such representative organiza
tions as the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco
Company, General Foods Corpora
tion, Chrysler Corporation, the Du
Pont Company, and Eastman Kodak
Company. .
The Tidewaaer Oil Company and
the Standard Oil Company of New
Jersey announced five per cent
wage increases.
On the other side of the picture,
there were threats of a nationwide
soft coal strike unless special legis
lation is passed by Congress before
June 17 and an outbreak of price
cutting by New York and Boston
retailers.
One large department store and
several independent tobacco shops
in New York slashed the price of
cigarettes from 14 to 11 cents and
there was a wave of price-cutting
in retail liquor stores.
Feverish meetings went forward
in other fields as code authorities
and business executives sought to
appraise the situation.
George A. Sloan, who played a
leading part in drafting the first
NRA textile code, said it was in
conceivable that industrial leaders
would permit the gams under the
codes to be lost.
"Sober reflection on the progress
I made toward industrial recovery
I and the restoration of confidence
I will dictate that there- can be no
I turning back at this time," asserted
the former head of the Cotton Tex
tile Institute, who is now chairman
of the Consumers' Goods Industries
Committee, added:
"I know of no code of fair com
petition which was imposed upon
industry. Strictly, in most in
stances, they were initiated by in
dustry, which welcomed the gov
ernment's cooperation in economic [I
rehabilitation.
"Imperfections in the law have
been discovered and experience offfl
I the past two years has demonstrat- I
ed weakenesses in some of the codes. II
I "But the fact remains that 3,000,- jl
000 workers were re-employed, the I
work week was" shortened and!
I wages were increased- Moreover, I
I eut-throat competition In many I
I highly-competitive industries effect I
I on prices and wages, has been!
checked or minimised.
I "It is inconceivable," he declared,]
I "that industry generally will now!
I return to mthlses mia^paliriisi arm
I abolish the higher standards set up I
I for the protectee of industry, in-1
I dnriilsl workers and the general]
I pahlii I
I "Until the full effect of the 8u~|
I preme Court's decision is known andfl
I a nu..nd(S8 has been determined,I
shouM jyard ^it as an obligation^ I
' made. '
"Only in this w*v ^ we insure
I nil?MII trrwarrt nHimhkd
netifmal recovery."
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Washington tomorrow.
Textile workers were urged by
Thomas F. McMahon, president of
the United Textile Workers of
America, to "fight" against any at
tempt to deprive them of advantages
won under the code. McMahon
said in Providence, R. L, that the
Supreme Court "has declared war."
Arthur Besae, president of the
National Association of Wool Manu
facturers, telegraphed an appeal
for continuance of NRA standards
to woolen mills and sales agents.
The National Automohile deal
ers' Association sped plans for a
voluntary trade agreement to re
place the code under which its mem
bers operated.
F. W. A Vesper, president of the
association, said in St. Louis that
automobile dealers were prepared
to carry on with or without the
help of NRA "to see that the major
principles laid down by NRA are
preserved."
Summer Bible
School June 3rd
The Farmville Summer Bible
School will open on Monday morning,
in Perkins Hall, June 3rd, at nine
o'clock. All children and young peo
ple of the town and community who
have passed their third birthday are
eligible A partial registration was
held at the various Sabbath Schools
last Sunday, at which time 165 pros
pective pupils signed the lists of
names. Those in charge feel cer
tain that there will be sufficient ad
ditions to reach a total of two hun
dred or more. Further registration
will be made on opening morning.
A nominal fee of twenty cents per
pupil will be requested. This will
assist the participating churches to
take care of the expense of literature
and materials. Each pupil will be
given a regulation report card at the
close of the school. On this card
will be a record of work done and
honors won.
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I will be given at the community
I swimming pool for thoae pupils who
I shall have attained an attendance
I record showing not more than two
I excused absences for the school
I term of two weeks. Each pupil will
I bring a basket but free tickets will
I be given those eligible for an boors'
I swim, and drinks will be furnished
I by the members of the faeultyv
I An unusually strong faculty has
I been assembled from the membership
? of the churches of the town. Prac
I tically all members of the faculty
I were present, with the various min
listers, at ah enthusiastic meeting on
I Thursday afternoon at which time
I plans were completed for the open
ling of the school The list of toach
ers is as follows: Misses Nannie
? SmitK Eva Mae Turnage, Mary
Louise Rnmley, Margaret Lewis,
Rachel Monk, Annie Perkins, Eliza
beth Lang, Mm Robert Rouse, Mm
IN. W. Wiggins, Mm & R. Shsarin,
Mrs. John Lewis, Mm JdaM. Mew
bora, Mm Grady Smith, Mm J. M.
Hobgood, Mm Zeb Whitefaorst, Mias
(Rev. H. M, Wilson, Rev. L. B. Eh
j needed o^^sehoS
I urged to cooperate with those in
11908^ m*8
! exception of Saturday and Sunday^
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Dr. Leon Renfroe Meadows, who
will be inaugurated as - president of
East Carolina Teachers College on
Saturday morning, June 1.
Kttereeu Spsils
Quins BirtMay
Callander, Ont, May 28.?The
Dionne quintuplets celebrated their
firs birthday anniversary today
against a background of itrange
strife, punctuated by a blast against
the "state rule" of his babies by
Oiiva Dionne.
"They ask me to come to church
for mass," the bitter father said,
"so that they can take pictures of
me and make money for their own
pockets."
The first quintuplets in recorded
history to reach the age of one year,
the five famed Dionne sisters them
selves had little part in the cele
bration attending the anniversary.
Thatv was "because their physician,
Dr. A. R. Dafoe, insisted that their
rigid schedule be not disarranged.
They named the occasion, how
ever, by adding one ounce to their
collective weight, the total being
84 pounds, 6 1-2 ounces against 10
pounds, 2 1-2 ounces the day they
were born.
Father Dionne and his wife were
conspicuously absent this morning
from the solemn high mass held in
the little church at Corbell, and
they declined also to have any part
in the birthday celebration at the
hospital. ?
Diorme also had been asked to
attend a meeting this morning of
the babies' guardians-at-law?Min
ister of Welfare Croll, Judge J. A.
Valin and Dr. Dafoe?but he de
clined to be present
"They only want to make money
out of the babies," he said today.
The present value of the babies'
estate is estimated at $165,000, ac
cumulated from sale of exclusive
picture rights, endorsements and the
I like. ?
I A dinner was held in North Bay
tonight for Dr. Dafoe, the little
: Sctoch physician who has cared for
the babies since the hour of their
birth. .A feature of the dinner
was a broadcast, brought to the
dining room by loud-speakers, at
which the doctor was able to listen
to his own voice.
The broadcast, which was inter
national, was partly be electrical
reproduction, having been recorded
j in advance.
The appearance here of David
Croll, the government minister, who
is chief guardian of the babies,
acted as a bellows to the smoulder
ing fire of the mild-mannered
Dionne's resentment, and he de
livered himself of one of the bit
terest complaints he has yet made
against government guardianship.
He said that he had been offered
gifts in an effort to appease his
wrath against persons taking pic
tures of his babies, and told of his
refusals.
"I told them," he said, "that if
I wanted a radio I could buy it my
self."
Local Sportsmen
Talk Golf Course
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An interesting subject being dis
cussed by many of oar local sports
men now-a-days is that of a 9-hole
Golf coarse for Famville, and with
a little effort on the; part of some
one to start an organization for this
purpose, we fed fere success- may
be obtained. Every business man
needs some kind of recreation to
keep that old human Amine of his in
trim, and we know of nothing bet
ter than a few rounds of Golf?an
inexpensive game that will famish
the necessary exercise ifi prevent
that old wornout tired feeling we
take to bed with as occasianally, .
Think seriously along this line and
should a committee call on you for
your membership, be ready to aay
yen This vill not only be a good
thing for FannviBe, fast may mean
years of active service added to
your own life?Let's have a Golf
Course. '
ON GRUISE TO ^MEXICO
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J. Irvipg Morgan, Jr., of Farm
ville, left New York May 2Sth, in
the Grace liner Santa Frihla, -on a
cruise to Ifsxatlan, Mexico. He wfll
visit enroute Columbia, Panama, El
Salvador, \aad Guatemala. ? ;'<From
Maratlan he will go to MeotieoCfty
where he will attend* the Interna
tional Rotary Convention Jane IT-to
21st, as a delegate from the Frnn
ville Rotary Club.
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ThroHgh State
Capital mm
By Bess ffintan Stiver ^
TIME BOMB ? D. S. Page, the
Bladen boomsbell that exploded moire
than once in 1985 House of Repre
sentatives, is laying plans to put
some dynamite under his Bladen
county political enemies in the 1987
Senate Page avows he will be elect
ed to the Upper Branch and plans
to get a man of his own thinking
in the House. Then he hopes to
sweep the "Elizabethtown ring"
clean. During the recent session
Page and Senator Bunn Frink, of
Souiiport, crossed swords several
times, often to the great'amusement
of their colleagues*
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SUMMERSILL ? Down in the
Third Congressional District you
can find plenty of people to tell you
that State Senator Ed Summersill,!
of Onslow, is going to attempt to
unhorse Congressman "Hap" Bard
en in the primaries next spring.
Banien is a first-tirmer but he prov
ed himself a popular man in over
coming formidable opposition in 1932.
Sumrnersill is a young man but no
novice at the game of politics and if
the pair lock horns it will be an af
fair worth witnessing. 1
LINES TIGHTEN?Around the
State capitol lines are being drawn
in the contest between Lieutenant
Governor A. H. (Sandy) Graham
and Clyde R. Hoey for Governor.
From all indications the administra
tion is not going to be active in the
campaign. Some Ehringhaus men
are for Graham while other friends
of the Governor are for Hoey and
both aides talk the matter openly.
However, it is difficult to find non
partisan observers to venture a pre
diction on the outcome of this Dem
ocratic contest in its present stage.
WHEN I SIT??More than sev
eral interested parties in North
Carolina would like very much to
know the whereabouts of the -Bay
burn Utilities bill, known to be some
where in Congress. The measure
would give the federal jx>wer com
mission unprecedented authority
over rates and regulation of public
utilities. A storm of protests went
in to Senators and Representatives
against the measure and for a while
it was making front pages almost
daily. But of recent weeks little
has been heard of it Many individ
uals using electric power or having
much of their life's saving in public
utihtieas stocks have expressed great
concern over the net effect of pas
sage of the bill. The Interstate
Commerce Commission hasn't help-,
ed North Carolina freight rates or
owners or railroad stocks.
HOWL COMING??In some Ral
eigh quarters there is a feeling that
the folks who live along secondary
roads are going to holler when they
realize that increased diversion of
highway funds is going to hurt their
chances of getting to town. These
people remained patiently silent
while, their gasoline tax money was;
being spent on the State primary
highway system with the promise
that when the concrete was poured
from county seat to county seat the
dirt roads would be improved with
the same money. Now that the pri
mary system is near completion will
these country people (the back-bone
of the State's social and econimic
life) be willing to see their road
money go for-other purposes? Many
answem to that question are decid
edly in the negative.
WHICH ONE??There is some
thing in the nature of a foregone
?conclusion in political circles that
either State Senators Carl L. Bailey
?of Washington; W. G. Clark of Edge
?combe; or W. P. Horton of Chatham,
?will oppose Paul D. Grady of John
?ston, for Lieutenant Governor. AH
Ithree men have large personal fol
llowings and a movement is on to
Iget the boys to settle on one man.
I Any one of the Jrio could reasonably
be expected to give Senator Grady
la run for his money in the primary
next spring.
FOUNTAIN?^Former Lieutenant
Governor R. T. 'Fountain claims he
is In excellent campaign fettle theajs
days and'-to totting no grass, grow
under his feet- ih his, efforts to un
horse SenatorJosiah WilUam B|H
Still Wtter frbirf his defeat by. .Gov
ernor Efednghaus in 1982, Fountain
has been actively campaigning for
several months although the primary
a yen? in the offering. The Sen
ior Senator, it is said, remains uxx
perturbel aRd not even the Fountain
his opposition td -immediate payment
of the soldiers'" bonus. Even his
I severest critics, should give Bailey
Defer Action On
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Pitt Commiggioiieria To
Becide on Mutter At
Regular Meeting
Greenville, May 29.?The Pitt
Comity board of commissioners at
a called meeting "here this morning
for. the poxpoae of deciding wheth
er to call an election for Pitt Comi
ty to vote for the legalized sale of
whiskey deferred action until their
regular monthly meeting on next
Monday morning, June 3.
Approximately 490 persons were
in attendance at the meeting and so
great was the crowd that Judge
M. V. Barnhill who was holding
a term of civil court here, adjourned
court in favor of the meeting. In
stead of meeting in the county com
missioners room the meeting was
held in the courthouse and the large
auditorium was filled to capacity.
Those proposing that the election
be held for the county were Wil
liam S. Tyson, attorney, who pre
sented to the board a petition of
Pitt County citizens bearing more
than 2,000 names which he said
was the voice of the people calling
upon the board to call an election;
Senator Arthur B. Corey, who in
the final minutes of the Legisla
ture had Pitt County placed on the
list with the other 17 counties; Rep
resentative John Hill Paylor who
declared that he was a "dry" from
the bottom of his heart, but believed
that the board of commissioners
should call an election for the pur
pose of permitting the people to de
cide for or against the sale of liquor,
Judge Albion Dunn, who declared
that prohibition was a failure and
earnestly called upon the commis
sioners to call an election; Sam
Worthington who presented a peti
tion from the local post of the
American Legion asking the com
missioners to call an election. Oppo
nents of the call included pastors
of two local churches, Dr. G. R.
Combs, pastor of the Jarvis Memo
rial Methodist Church, who gave
the audience a word picture of the
curse of drink, and Rev. A. W.
Fleischmann, pastor of the Memo
rial Baptist Church, Wyatt Brown
also spoke for the dry forces.
Reports from growers in Bertie
County indicate that stands of cot
*ton are poor due to heavy and con
stant rains last September when the
crop was maturing. '
Administration to Try
To Preserve NRA Plan
Upon Voluntary Basis
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Would Call Upon Bad
ness and industry To
Draw Up Own Agree
ments for Self-Govern
ment
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Washington, May 28.?The New
Deal will try to erect on the rains
of NBA another framework of regu
lations within which business can
operate.
The outline of this structure, still
vague and blurred tonight, calls
for the voluntary co-operation, of
business men. Instead of the gov*
eminent imposing codes, the busi
ness men themselves would draw
up the arrangements ? and submit
them So/&e Fpderal Trade Com
mission for approval.
Senator Gerald P. Nye, R., N. D.,
put lawyers to work .studying the
plan, and administration leaders
were said to regard it favorably.
Many of the things that were
embraced in NRX?Minimum wages
maximum hours, a ban on child
laboiwweuld .be included in this
proposal. Lawyers believe there is
nothing in the Supreme Court de
cision that forbids codes; the court
siinply said it Was illegal for the:
Congress to authorize the President
to promulgate codea ; v. ^
All over Washington tonight legal
experts, Congressmen and labor
leaders sought'some formula for
continuing NBA without running
afoul of .'the;/Supreme Court's, edict
against government code-making.
Majority leader Joseph T. Robin
son/stated the administration's atti
tude when he arose in the Senate
today-and saidtlf
"The court's decision has impair
ed, but not .destroyed NBA. It J*
entirely possible for Congress .-#?/
redraft .the act in ^
cciurtfs ruling." ^ ^'//d . . Jeft
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IwHtfiitioB in Coiurrcss* * App&rsnt*
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Doughton, of the House Ways ami
Means committee ? harried from
conference to conference.
United Press dispatches indicated
the country was ealmi The board
of directors of the National Asso
ciation of Manufacturers called
upon industry to "cooperate to the
fullest extent to prevent any sag
during the period of readjustment."
;'*We urge every tirade and indus
trial association," the statement con
tinued; "to take immediate steps
within its sphere to stabilise wages,
hours, working conditions and com-1
petetive practices on a voluntary
Jbaaia. Let us demonstrate our sin
cerity and our capacity for rational I
self-government in industry."
President Roosevelt dropped every
thing to cosuNBtrate on Hie NBA
situation Among the persons
conferring with him were Harrison,
Deoghtas, William Green, president
of the American Federation of
Labor; and John L. Lewis, president
off the United Mine Workers.
Donald R. Richberg, NBA chair
man who appealed last night to the
tcautry to '"maintain the gains"
made under the recovery agency,
spent most of the day-with Attronay I
General Homer S. Cummings and
Solicitor General Stanley Reed.
None of them would discuss plans.
The White House was ?ient
"Washington certainly is in a fog
today," chuckled Bertrand Snell,
Republican leader of the House, and
that about summed up the situation;
The House met and adjobrned in
20 minutes.
Two things that were rumors ffm I
terday became certainties, today. One
was that the Federal Alcohol Con
trol Administration had lost its au
thority over the liquor business. It
nzercised its power through codes.
The. only authority the Federal gov
ernment has over the . liquor business
tonight is the taxing power of the
Treasury. Liquor can tab advertised
and can be placed in any kind of j
Hon. Patt H. Neff, ex-governor
of Texas and president of Baylor
University, Waco, Texas, who will
deliver the chief address at the in
auguration of Dr. L. R. Meadows as
president of East Carolina Teachers
College, on Saturday morning, June
1, at 10:30 o'clock,
Rasberry Gets
$25,000 Verdict
Greene County Man Al
lowed That Amount
for Injuries; Ford Com
pany Appeals
New Bern, May 28.?One of the
largest verdicts ever handed down
here in an automobile damage suit,
was rendered late today in Federal
Court when E, A. Rasberry of
Greene County, was granted $25,000
by a jury in his suit for $76,000
against the Ford Motor Company
and Fred A. King of Norfolk. Judge
L M. Meekina overruled a motion of
the defendants to set aside this ver
dict, and they gave notice of appeal
to the Circuit Court.
Mr. Rasberry, prominent farmer
and state representative from near
Snow Hill, former county sheriff,
had his left arm so badly mangled
in an automobile accident that am
putation was necessrry, as well as
blood transfusions and other treat
ment. The accident occurred late
last September 7, on Route 40, be
tween Elm City and Wilson.
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Benny Goodman and His
Radio Orchestra To
Frrnish the Music
- One of the chief events in Eastern
Carolina daring this season is the
beauty contest and ball which is to
be given in Farmville tonight, May
31st The Junior Womdfi's Clab of
Farmville and Associate Woman's
Clubs of Eastern Carolina are spon
soring this event and all indications
are that it will be a huge success.
Plans are being made to take
care of all the dancers in this part
of the State. Elaborate decorations
are being used which will be a set
ting for North Carolina's prettiest
girls. Governor Ehringhaus has
been asked to crown the Queen.
The judges will be lieutenant Gov
ernor Graham, Senator Rivers John
son, Senator W. G. Clark, Sr., W.
B. Lea and Miss Helen Ward.
Queens and sponsors have been
selected and elaborate entertain
ment has been planned for the
event The Queens will be pre
sented at 9 o'clock and the judges
will decide Eastern Carolina's most
beautiful girl.
The ball will follow immediately
after the judges decision. Dancing
will continue until 3 o'clock. Mr.
and Mrs. W. E. Fenner have been
asked to lead the opening figure.
Music will be furnished by Benny
Goodman's N. B. C. orchestra, in
cluding Helen Ward and Patricia
Burgen of cinema and radio fame.
Queens, sponsors and chape rones
from the following cities are expect
ed to attend: ,
Raleigh, Rocky Mount, Ayden.
Goldsboro, Mt Olive, Faison, Clin
ton, Warsaw, Pikeville, Stantonsburg,
Fremont, Elm (Sty, Roanoke Rapids,
Spring Hope, Nashville, Snow Hill,
LaGrange, Williamston, Bethel,
Greenville, Kinston, Wilson, Scot
land Neck, Pinetops, Aulander,
Ahoskie, Weldon, Morehead City,
Windsor, Robersonville, Wendell,
Zebulon, Enfield, Manteo, Claypso,
Dunn, Tarboro, Smithfield, Selma,
Washington and Garner.
Money Available
To Refinance Hones
Owners in Distress May
File Applications For
Loans Within Next 30
Days
Raleigh, May 29.?Following up
the President's action in signing the
amendment to the Home Owners'
Loan Corporation act which will per
mit the corporation to accept new
loan applications, a statement re
ceived from Washington by the Ral
eigh office yesterday that new ap
plications would be accepted from
home owners who are clearly in dis
tress and are threatened with loss
of their homes through foreclosure.
John H. Fahey, chairman of the
corporation board, explained that
such applications will be accepted for
a period of 30 days. The corpora
tions suspended acceptance of new
applications last November when the
funds in hand appeared to be suf
ficient to handle only those appli
cations already on file.
Action of the Congress in grant
ing new funds, will, it is estimated,
care for all those throughout the
nation who are eligible under terms
of the new law and the rules of the
corporation.
Mr. Fahey explained that tests of
eligibility of HOLC applicants who
have applied in the past will in gen
eral continue in full force under the
new legislation.
Ordinary farm property is not
eligible unless the applicants draws
his main livelihood from non-farm
occupations, and no applicant will
be granted a loan if such refinanc
ing is intended only to protect a
bank loan or other business obliga
tion.
Edith Teel, is to be Farmville's
queen, with .Mrs. Ted Albritton, Mrs.
J. G. Spencer, Eva Mae Turnage,
Mary Louise Rumley, Nan Moore,
Hazel Monk, Rachel Monk, Venice
Lang Jones, Mrs. Julian Rumley,
Mrs. John Mewborne, Miss Elidabeth
Fields, Mrs. Judd Walker, Miss Mary
Friar Rouse, Mrs. Mac Carraway, as
sponsors, and Mr. and Mis. J. Y.
Monk, H. N. Howard, A. C. Menk,
p. E. Oglesby, R. A- Fields, B. 0.
Turnage, Dr. And Mrs. P. E. Jones,
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FARMVILLE MAN READS
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
Memphis, Temu, May 29.?J. I.
Morgan, of Farmville, N. C., today
was elected president of the Nation
Cottonseed Products Association
at the dosing session of tfcjr!8&th
annual convention*
T-.H. Gregory, rrtiA*