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>ljlA SELL Yoor TOBACCO V 1 ? ^ ^ jy +m i ri _r? PatPWitee Our Advertisers, For 5jUr In FARMYILLE And I Wft M Q ?T| I 1 fik *1 .*S Tfcl WT IG?1 They *** Constantly Invito* VOL. TWENTY-FIVE FARMYILLE, PITT COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, JUNE 7, 1985 NUMBER FIVE Staggering Toll Taken By Floods Over Wide Front ^ ? ? ? ? i i ii ii ~ - More Than 500 Deaths In United States and Mexico from Raging Waters Raleigh, June 4.?Floods, already charged with more than 500 deaths and upwards of $25,000,000 damage in Western states and in Mexico, rolled relentlessly last night (Tues day) over rich regions of Kansas, Missouri and California. The raging waters spread de struction and threatened further loss of life over a widening area. The big Missouri hit new crests. It passed its 1927 level. It promised to equal the disastrous proportions of the flood of 1903. The smaller Raw, carrying the tide which swept southward out of Nebraska into Kansas by way of the Republican River, raced east ward toward Kansas City?and con fluence with the swelling Missouri. Army engineers and city officials feared the full crest of the Kaw, roaring into the Missouri, would bring flood conditions at Kansas City similar to 1908. Industrial sec tions were inundated then with heavy losses. The threatened portions of Kansas City include the stockyards and buildings, numerous industrial plants and the Kansas City livestock ex change. National Guardsmen, regular Army men and police rushed ahead of the surging crest in Missouri and Kan sas. They helped farmers and towns people in the lowlands to higher ground. - J ? J 3 Prompt warnings were cretuiea with preventing great loss of life. Still, death estimates already had pushed toward 600. The dead in cluded 400 persons drowned in Mexico and more than a score in Colorado and Wyoming last week as well as victims in Kansas, Mis souri and Nebraska. ' I Damage in Kansas, Nebraska and Missiouri alone was set unofficially in the neighborhood of $20,000,000. The Kaw valley, from Kansas City west to Topeka, a distance of about 75 miles, took on an appearance of war-time evacuation. At Topeka, capital of Kansas, thousands of persons lined the river's banks as an expected six-1 foot crest approached from the west.) where the business district of Man- < hattan, site of Kansas State College, lay largely under water. The Missouri river flood waters swirled through deserted Missouri towns of Cedar City, Tebbets and Wainwright. Residents had fled before the approaching wall. i The Red Cross was unable to con- i centrate its efforts in Kansas and Missouri. It notified county chap ter to handle each district in dividually. Arrangements were made to distribute rations among refugees. In a race against threatened* new floods, tugboat crews and workmen strove to repair broken levees of the San Joaquin river near Man teca, Cali. It was believed .a 300-foot broken section could be repaired by Wed nesday night. Already, however, 5,000 acres of rich land were under water. Prop erty damage was estimated at "sev eral hundred thousand dollars." Thirty-four families fled their homes. ESTIMATES 400 PERISHED IN MEXICAN DISASTER Mexico, D. P., Jane 4.?Floodwat ers receded, today: from the volley oi Mexico, leaving many of an estimat ed 400 dead buried in a newly-creat ed cemetery of mod. Many children were amcng the 2S6 persona whose bodies were re covered from the wreckage of the dRpA in jSaa Pedro, where each year the revoat' r the countryside II kneel in prayer, the supplicants be seeching their patron saint for life giving rant The Hood waters, risking down l^^the valley yesterday in a narrow oSaTtowns^ "thf* * ?+?.'* j*. II vnim?. greto <rf a?| sister's two children drowned." From San Pedro the rushing waters swept on down the roads leading to other villages, trapping many who had been on their way to the little church. Some of* the bodies were carried from San Pedro as far as San Gre gorio, 15 miles down the mountain. It was believed many victims were buried in the mud. Damage to the crops was less than at first reported, since the waters followed a comparatively narrow course. Early in the morning, the police, firemen and relatives of the victims, working in the church debris by the light of flickering candles, began the task of seeking the bodies. They carried them to the outside and the wailing of the women were made.! The roads were crowded with rela tives of the victims, and many chant ed religious dirges. The rain started at 2:30 p. m. yes terday, and soon the mountain streams overflowed, forming another great stream through the valley bottom. In two hours the fields were lakes and roads rivers. The village folk tried to stop the soldiers' first efforts to retrieve the bodies because they believed the disaster was an act of vengence from Heaven. Earlier in the day the village priest was arrested and the service halted by the authori ties. The known victims in Milpa Altar totaled 21 and in Xochimilco 22. President Lazaro Cardenas order ed a mobilization of relief forces to aid the stricken populace. Riggs Is Found To Be Insane Self Crucifier of High Point Will be Commit ted to Hospital in Mor ganton High Point, June 4.?R. J. Riggs, 36-year-old filling station proprietor who voluntarily underwent "cruci fixion" last Saturday morning in a vain attempt to win back the affec tions of his estranged wife, was or dered committed to the State hispi tal for the insane at Morganton late yesterday. The commitment order was sign ed by Justice of the Peace C. C. Muse upon a statement by Dr. W. J. McAnally, High Point city health officer, that Riggs was in need of mental treatment. Weak and apparently dazed, the man lay nailed to a rude cross for more than two hours, was transfer red from the High Point jail to the Builford county jail at Greensboro to await removal to the institution. He offered no objection. "I want to see my babies," he said, "and if I can't I dont care where you put me. I wont live long, no matter where you put me." Since officers discovered him upon the cross, with nails piercing the flesh of his heels and the skin be tween his thumbs and fore-fingers, Riggs has not been visited by any relative. Summer Term To Open NextTuesday College Campus Quiet Since Graduating Ex erases ? Greenville, Jane 4.?The College campras is quiet after the biggest commencement in its history, and the one that starts the new quarter of a century. The students have all gone and some of the members of the faculty, but most of them are still here finishing up the - term's work and checking up, at the end of the year. The Summer School will open on next Tuesday morning, June 11, eat tn many years, with a.^ possibil the faculty and officers, but the full teaching staff is not on duty Drovina very popular. The three ; a J - * * * a ? a t ? i ^i. . f_ FarmiHe Tobacco Board of Trade | Elect Now Officers H. N. Howard Elected President, J. S. Gates, Re-elected Vice Presi dent; Committee Ap pointed to Work with Citizens Committee In Advertising market The Farmville Tobacco Board of Trade met in special session in the offices of A. C. Monk and Co., Wed nesday night with a large number of the members present. The object of the meeting was for the purpose of electing officers for the ensuing year and laying plans for the approaching season. In the absence of a presiding of ficer, A. C. Monk was called upon to act as temporary chairman, and after stating the purpose of the meeting, called for the nomination of a presi dent, as this office had been vacant for some time. Mr. H. N. Howard was then nominated and unanimous ly elected to the office of president. J. Sterling Gates was re-elected as vice-president, - - ? a The election of a secretary ana treasurer was deferred and a commit tee appointed by the president to in vestigate the possibility of securing a whole-time sales supervisor and publicity man who could also act as secretary-treasurer; this committee to report their findings to the Board as soon as possible. The president was also asked to appoint a committee to work in con junction with D. E. Oglesby, Geo. W. Davis and T. E. Joyner, who have been asked to serve for the business firms of the town in raising funds to keep our market ever before the growers of Eastern Carolina. On this committee from the Board of Trade president Howard the follow ing: J. Y. Monk, R. H. Knott, J. Branch Bobbitt, Grover C. Webb, W. S. Royster, I. E. Satterfield and Playto Monk, the members of the Board asking Mr. Howard to act as chairman of this committee. ? Among those attending the meet ing were: A. C. Monk, Plato Monk, Coy Monk, J. Y. Monk, R. H. Knott, J. M. Hobgood, L. R. Bell, J. Branch Bobbitt, Grover C. Webb, H. N. How-, ard, J. L. Tugwell, R. C. Thornton, of the Imperial Tobacco Co.; Tom I Roberts, of American Suppliers; I. E. Satterfield, of Export Leaf Tobac co Co.; W. S. Royster, of Leggett and Myers Tobacco Co.; and Alex Allen, of R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. Health Officer Warns Publie . ??? ' ? '? ' . ' ? I I I The Health Officer, Doctor Ennett, I feels that the Infantile Paralysis sit Buation has reached the point where I the public should be advised as to I the early symptoms of the disease I and as to the generally accepted ? measures of control. He states that ? there are many things about the di ? sease which are obscure and still I baffles medical science. I The early symptoms, however, are: I fever, headache, vomiting, pains in llimbs, back or neck, fretfutness, and I followed usually within three or four ? days with paralysis or loss of use of ? certain muscles, more often a leg or ? an arm or any combination of these. ? Doctor Ennett states that the disease lis seasonal, usually beginning in May I and reaching its height in August or I September. The health officer advises that in lease of sickness in children, parents should not take the children to the physician^ office, but call the physi cian to the home. Especially should ? the childdren be segregated from other children, be protected against I flies, either by screens or by mosqui-1 j to netting, and that the eating uten sils of the patient be sterilised and kept from those of other members of II pfc#/family.. (I He further advises that all chil-|l jdren avoid picnics and other such! I gatherings, in fact he feels that it J would be much safer for;j|ll small 1 children to remain at home until the prevalence, of Infan^le Paralysis has! Through State Capital Keyholes By Bess Hinton Silver AMUSING?-Along about this time of the year presetting State-wide pri mareis, candidates for the big posts begin to visit Washington to ascer tain how they stand with the boys from the home-State who have prov ed their vote-getting ability. So far, not a single one has returned dis couraged. The lands who get to Congress must be good at politics rnd must be better to stay there. They know better than to give office seekers the impression that his Con gressman is not his friend. Ifs the old army game of science and skill but it still works. SCRAPPING ? North Carolina power industries are going after the Rayburn bill, now in the United States Senate, out in the open. Some of the companies are running adver tisements in the State newspapers giving the public their side of the case. Privately some power officials express the opinion that there is so much of the undersirable in the measure to put unprecedented con trol of local business in the hands of the Federal Power Commission that the public can be trusted to decide against the Rayburn bill. Be that as it may, Tar Heel members of Congress have -reported that their mail has been 'filled with protests against the power control bill. -f IN THE MAYING?It now ap pears that Wrightsville Beach, near Wilmington, may be given a new lease on life by the building of a bridge to the island and constructing a road on the sound side beyond the center of public attraction. New Hanover county commissioners have asked the State Highway and Public Works Commission to spend the money to be 'allotted for general road purposes in' their county on the Wrightsville Beach project. Since resort business means so much to this county by the sea, it is not im probable that the commission may grant the request. In that event you will be able to drive your car right up to dear old Wrightsville, something- no -living being- has -ever done before. , NEUTRAL??-As things are now snapping up it appears the Ehring haus administration will be neutral in the coming gubernatorial primary. In 1932 charges were hurled that the Gardner forces favored Ehringhaus over his opponent iR? T. Fountain. This time iLeutenant Governor A. H. Graham and Clyde R. Hoey, of Shelby, brother-in-law of former Governor Gardner, are considered the chief contenders for the red leather chair and the Mansion on Blount Street in Raleigh, but so far there has been no indication that the pres ent Governor desires to play favor ites. In fact, different key men in the Ehringhaus organization are fov oring first one and thta the other of the two big-shot candidates. ilo SHOCK-ABSORBER ?Native ig along former county dirt roads e gone along uncomplainingly ling their gasoline tax of six cents I the gallon. They were content ler the promise that as soon as I primary State road system was Ipleted the roads along which Id folks" live would be put in I table all-weather - shape, i But It are they going to say when they le up and realise that the state lem is finished and the money I was supposed to be spent in i ru ling by-ways has been diverted Various and sundry purposes? le of the politicians now advocat lusing your gasoline tax money laway from your roads may be ftrrassed in answering that very ltion,_ not so long in the future. ? ? ?'? |DTERMINED-Thad Eure,;prin I clerk of several sessions of the le of Representatives, now says I is no doubt that he will expose my W. Wade for Secretary cf I s in the Democratic primary nixt g& Mr. Eure adds that he is I lent of success but Secretsry I) believes he will have some to do with the matter. Cure I i Carolina and reports that hel NIBBLING?M. R. Dunagan, Ral-j Wade for the post of Secretary of! ? 1 ?-1 L ?_.? J . , . ^ ^ y , ' I Golf Enthusiasts To Hold Meeting On Monday Night Meeting To Be Held In City Hall at 8 o'Clock for the Purpose of Dis cussing Possible Ways and Means !V" f. ? -t'-' ? Interest is developing rapidly among our citizens - for the early formation of a Golf Club for Fann ville, and also in connection there with the possibility of a Community Club House and Gymj all of which, I we learn, may be obtained on a 25-.7IT ; per cent basis through the FERA, j costing the town only 26 per Cent. This being true, Fannville cannot afford to lose such a golden oppor tunity to obtain this entire project, and a meeting has been called of all interested citizens, both ladies and gents for Monday night at 8 o'clock, in the City Hall, for the purpose of going into the matter, perfecting an organization, electing officers, ap pointing committees, etc., to in vestigate and devise ways and means whereby such a project may be had. This is something most of the larg er towns have and find well worth while, and if good for them, why not for us. Farmville, though small in area, has a citizenship with big town ideas and habits and a Golf Course here will prevent many of our folks as well as visitors leaving over the week end to find this recrea tion in neighboring towns. Attend the meeting in the City Hall Monday night and lend your moral if not financial, support to this undertaking to provide health ful recreation for Farmville and community. 1 ... ? : Hold Services I in New CM Presbyterian of Snow Hill Have Completed Structure at Cost of $7,000 Snow Hill Jane 4.?The Snow Hill Presbyterian congregation held the first service in its new church Sunday evening at 8 o'clock. Rev. Harold J. Dudley, pastor, delivered the sermon from Psalm 27:4. The Lord's Supper was celebrated. Other churches of Snow Hill joined in the service, with Rev. W. L. Maness, pastor of the Methodist Episcopal Church, assisting Mr. Dudley. Greet ings were brought to the congrega tion from other churches. The Presbyterian church was con structed at an approximate cost of $7,000, and is complete with the ex ception of pews, pulpit furniture, and organ. These will be added in the fall In the meantime chain, ta bles, and piano will be used. Work on the church began last November. Though there areN only 24 mem bers of the Snow Hill Congregation, the church was completed without indebtedness. A stimulus was given to the building program by the gift of $1,000 from the Hudson-Belk foundation* The church is of Gothic architec ture, with solid brick walls, slate roof, and steple containing a bell, given by Snow Hill citizens in mem ory of'the late Dr. W. D. Young, ar. elder in the church who contributed generously towards the construction of the church. The church is 26 by 49 by 24 high, the steeple spire at taining to a height of nearly 50 feet The electrical fixtures provide indi rect lighting. ' ' Oscar Miller and Dr. W. B. Mur phy are elders in the church. Other Members are as follows: Sila Brown, Mrs. P. C. vCarraway, Mrs. R. L. Chestnut Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Her ring, Mrs. Guy Lassiter, Mr, and Mrs. Robert Edwards, Mrs. R. A. Mewborn, R. A. Mewbora, Jr., Mary Jane -Mewbonv Mrs. Oscar ] Mfllery Pete Miller, MradS. E. Moseley, Mra. W. B. Murphy, Miss Irene Mizella, Mrs. G. A. McGee, Mr. and Mrs. ? ifjqc Tdbithft T>AVidf?AnH fn flmppo I I ? ? ? !? ? ? | State Health Dept. Expert Visits Go. Dr. J. C. Knox Issues Statement on Infantile Paralysis Situation Upon the invitation of Doctor En nett, the local health officer was visited on June 4th by Doctor J. C. Knox, State Epidemiologist, in con nection' with the outbreak of Infan tile Ftaalysis in Pitt County. There are to date 7 cases in Pitt County, ranging from 7 months to 4 years of age. i Doctor Knox had been investigat ing cases of Infantile Paralysis in the Vanceboro section of Craven County and was anxious to learn something at first hand of the Pitt County situation. Doctor Ennett, the local health officer, requested Doctor Knox to make a general statement on Infan tile Paralysis as a State problem, which statement is as follows: i "For the State as a whole, there has been recorded for the month of May a total of 45 cases. This, by the way, was the same number of cases reported for the entire year of 1934. Since we have been keep ing records, beginning in 1918, this is the highest number of cases re corded in any single month. Pre viously, the highest number of cases recorded for the month of May was 6, which occurred in 1929. The North Carolina State Board of Health and all of the local health departments are concerned about the - undue prevalence of Infantile Paralysis as this particular time of the year, due to the fact that usually the highest number of cases occur in the months of July and August. We are not alarmed about the situa tion, however; It is the advice of the State Health Department that children that are in the susceptible age, certainly those under the age of 10 years, should avoid such gatherings as Sunday school picnics, vacation Bible School or picture shows.. * In towns and cities where there are public swim ming pools, parents should see that younger children not visit and use these pools. All mild illnesses in children which might be confused with early Infantile Paralysis should be treat ed as a suspected case until proven to be something else. Prompt isola tion of these suspected cases will be of value in helping to control the spread of the disease. These milder, cases may be over looked until later it is found out that there is a partial loss of muscle function of either arm, leg or both. It is necessary even in these mild cases to keep the patient in bed and keep affected part immobilized, in other words, place it in a splint so that the patient cannot move the af fected part Sand bags, when plac ed along the side of the leg or against the sole of the foot as a brace, is often a very satisfactory substitute for a splint In so doing, it allows the part affected to regain its fullest possible amount of func tion after the illness. While this rest for the affected part in the early stages of the di sease is important, it is equally im portant, after the acute stage has passed, that proper exercise of the muscles be carried out This mus cular training should ordinarily be gin 4 to 6 weeks after the onset of! the disease." 1 ' 1 1 ? ATTEND BASEBALL GAME . ? The following were among the baseball fans who attended the Ayden-Greenville game in Ayden on Tuesday; R. H. Knott, Robert Lee Smith, R. A. Fields, J. M. Hobgood, Billy Morton, J. Y. Monk, G. W. Shirley, John Hill Payler and John B. Lewis. t ^JstraL'* . "i .. Av f* 1 * ? 1 a vi t-< BRIDGE LUNCHEON ? ???- ? ?? v.- - ; Lovely in every detail was the in. its decoration arrangement of I Mrs. I. E. Satterfield won the high I ' , _ ' ? ? Business Leaders Favor Action To Salvage NRA Want 90-Day Truce In Which States and Gov ernment Can Unite on Plans \ New York, June 4.?Representa tives of approximately 100 codified industries today endorsed a plan de signed to salvage the best features of the NRA without resorting to a Constitutional amendment ? Under the plan, submitted by Peter Van Horn, president of the National Federation of Textiles, President Roosevelt would call for a 90-day truce during which the Federal and state governments would unite in setting up a syn chronized program of interstate and intrastate business regulations. The plan was outlined at a meet ing called by the Industry and Busi ness Committee for NRA Extension, headed by Ward Cheney, Soutli Manchester, Conn., silk manufac turer. ' Van Horn urged that President Roosevelt call a national conference of State and Federal officials to consider his proposal, which he said had been found by legal experts to be fundamentally sound. "Voluntary codes are impractical to regulate the five or ten per cent of the fringe of industry and busi ness which generally sets the stand ards for all and will only do the right thing by labor and by their competitors is compelled to do so by law," he said. "There must be power under Fed eral and state laws, therefore, to impose codes similar to those which were attempted by delegation of power to the President under the old act." ' Business and industrial leaders continued, meanwhile, to pledge voluntary adherence to NRA stand ards. The Anthracite Institute announc ed that leaders of the hard coal in dustry were considering a plan of. voluntary self-regulation and had enlisted the services of C. F. Huber of Wilkes-Barre, Pa., chairman of the Glen Alden Coal Company, as administrator or "czar" of the in dustry. ? President Roosevelt's assertion that the Supreme Court decision look the country back to the "horse and buggy days" was challenged by James R. Bancroft, president of the American Institute of Finance. Addressing the New England Bak ers' ' convention at Swampscott, Mass., Bancroft said: "We can understand his reac tions as he sees cherished plans lying in destruction at his feet." Bancroft said he believed the in validation of the NRA would have a "tremendous influence in creat ing a genuine basis from which marked business recovery in the United States can and will develop." The National - Music Publisher? Association voted at its annual meet ing to maintain provisions of the NRA code for the time being at least, and the Hotel Association of New York City resolved to continue the "prevailing" rate of hours and wages. Walter C. Teagle, president of the Standard Oil Company of New Jer sey, promised at the annual stock holders' meeting that there would be no salary cuts or increases in hours. eremiah T. Mahoney,chairman of the regional labor board, an nounced that the Robert Gair Com I ? * panyf folding - box manufacturers with plants in Brooklyn, Piermont, N. Y., and in New England, had given a similar assurance tc union leaders. *..\ _ ,/ ' Max Zaritsky, offical of the United Hatters, Cap and Millinery workers International Union, pro posed to millinery manufacturers' associations throughout the coun try that they unite in a plan for self-government.. Voluntary adherance to their re spective codes was pledged by. the Tie Fabric*. Jbnpciatiop and by the ; Revere Copper and Brass Company, fee,, with plants at Rome, N. Y? . Taunto??.?(l: New Bedford^. Mass., Baltimore, Chicago and ^Detroit v A number of New York house- ? wives' organizations have informed Mrs. Anna M. Rosenberg, state com - ^ QB68 CC 0.
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