North Carolina Newspapers

SELL Your TOBACCO In FARMVTLLB And GET The TOP Dollar! ? .. " ' 1 _^I ^*?p^ / _?; Patronise Oar For Tfcey Are Constantly Inviting Ton To Trade With Them. ? > i 11 ? V VIIURBR TWRMTY.VINE VOL. TWENTY-FIVE ftUtHTOLB. TOT COHHTf, NORTH cmOUKA. FMPAY. WOTEMmi ^ 1B? ? Italians Claim Victory In First Battle of War ? ? ? ? ? I LI ? - Say Aerial Attaek Left 2,000 Ethiopians Dead In Area South Of Makale - - -iv A Asmara, Eritrea, .Nov. iy. ? .**. fierce, pitched battle between Italian pilots and Ethiopian land forces was described today by jubilant Fascists, who estimated the enemy dead at about 2,000. Military experts said it was the greatest air engagement since the World War, the most important bat tle of the current campaign, and one of the strangest of modern times. A force of more than 15,000 Ethi opians concentrated in a narrow val ley south of Makale was routed, it was officially announced. After the righting, bodies of hundreds of tribes men were scattered on the field,) pilots reported. ! The Ethiopians, employing rifles and anti-aircraft guns, fought des perately. When some of the Italian bombers dived as low as 100 feet, the Ethiopian gunners, perched on crags, actually shot down one of the planes. -4-1*nf Ha..ed as among U1C UVl VVH -v? . the engagement were Premier Mus-' solini's two sons, Bruuno and \it torio, and his son-in-law, Count (laleazzo Ciano. Ciano had to return to Makale when his oil tank was hit by a bul-| let and another plane was forced to descend. Bruno's plan': was struck seven times and Vittorio's nine. One Italian mechanic was j seriously wounded. j A 20-plane squadron attacked the) huge encampment of Ethiopians yes terday just beyond the farthest Italian southern outpost. The odd battle, belien^d almost unprece dented between air and land forces, lasted for two hours. "We saw the Ethiopians scatter fast, but we got hundreds of thera before they could take shelter; prob ably we get more than 1,000 of them," said Ciano. (Official Italian reports estimated the dead at around 2,000.) 1 on q v Every Fascist plane stuim erage of* a dozen hits, despite the severe enemy fire, official reports said. The squadron was command ed by Gen. Aimone. Count Ciano said of the engage ment: "Baron Ostini. piloting the Num ber five plane, returned to Asmara with his mechanic suffering from a fractured leg. "The mechanic, however, scrib bled notes to me on bloody cards such as, "they got me, but we got a huge number of them,' and 'long live the isperata (desperate) squad ron,' which he asked Ostini to give to me. "Throughout the return flight, Ostini's relief pilot held a finger in a bullet hole in the gas tank. "We found each plane of the 20 had ten or 15 bullet holes." A mechanic, Sergeant Birago, al though shot.m the leg while work ing a machine gun, which became jammed, climbed to the upper ma chine gun post and continued firing until Ostini ordered him to descend. He will be proposed for a medal of honor. > Ciano 9aid his ship was struck by three anti-aircraft shells and 36 ma chine gun and rifle bullets. Roosevelt Stand Pleases Mexican Cenkeros Voices "Sat isfaction;'9 Fish to Seek Recall of Ambassador (Mexico City, No^. 19.?JoseAngeT Ceniceros, acting- secretary of foreign relations, said today the ' Mexican _ government "sees* with satisfaction*' I President Roosevelt's statement that I the United States will not interfere I with the domestic affairs of other I nations. Commenting on Mr. Roosevelt's letter to Martin H. Carmody, su I preme knight of the Knights of Col I ambus, concerning the religious I situation, Cenicerous said: "The Mdriran government has long been, scqosinted with the policy of non-intenrentioji followed by the government of President Roosevelt and sees wftfe aatis&etioa this near reiteration of that policy." Church officials here have declined to comment on the letter. Similarly, no comment was forthcoming from Son Messes Slaying Father Edward Stanley, Aged Farmer of Jones Coun ty, Shot To Death In Bed by Own Son New Bern, Nov. 19.?Edward Stan-j ley, prominent Jones county farmer, almost 80 years old, was shot tol death last night as he lay asleep inl his bed at his home three miles from Trenton. His son, Herbert Stanley,! 55, confessed to the shooting, and his second wife, Mrs. Edward Stan-I ?ley, about 55, confessed to the com plicity. Both are being held without! privilege of bond in the jail at Kins ton. Inquest into the murder was held] today and the coroner's jury ordered both the son and his stepmother held without bail for the next Jones Coun ty grand jury which will be summon-] ed next April unless a special term of court is called next month. The son is unmarried, and the] I three members of the family lived ] together at the farm place, without] other relatives. At first the son] and his stepmother claimed that they] shot the aged man in self-defense,] but later, when it was shown that the victim was killed while in bed, ] the son asserted that he shot the] father in order to prevent being kiH-1 ed himself the next day. Domestic] friction is said to have caused the] trouble. [ a awl -farmer re-1 jjeaui mi UK ? suited instantly from a shotgun would in the head. The son ad mitted firing the shot, and the step mother said she knew about the planned murder but waited on the back porch while it was being com mitted. Though it took place be fore 8 p. m. they did not notify neighbors until 11 p. m. TTien offi cers were called and took charge of the case. Some investigators said they were told by the prisoners that the shoot ing was planned by them some time ago, and postponed from time to time, because Stanley gave them only $f2 from the year's crop money, but Sheriff J. W. Creagh said Herbert told him he planned to marry his stepmother after removing the old j man. Call For New Bids j On School Projects Greenville, Nov, 19.?A re-letting of contracts for the construction of Public Works Administration proj ects at several Pitt County schools will be held Friday, November 29. Bids for the projects were re ceived last week, but each of the bids called for "the expenditure for much more money than is available for the work. A PWA grant of $106,893 has been made by the Federal givernment and this will represent 45 per cent of the total cost of the projects. The re mainder of the money is to be furn ished by the county. The projects include work on 14 Negro and white schools in the coun ty Alternate plans.are to be submit ted along with the original ones for the second letting, and if the bids for the original plans are not low enough to be financed with the funds available, the alternate plans will be carried out. It was explained, however, tha? none of the schools included-itf" the original plans would be left out, but that reductions in the type of work ? at some of them would be made. CHRISTMAS SEAL SALE BEGINS IMMEDIATELY AFTER THANKSGIVING The tuberculosis death rate has been greatly reduced during the past few years but the disease continues to be a grim reaper of those between the ages of 15 and 44. When you buy Christmas Seals you are helping to suppress the great white plague which is a menace to every family in our nation. Christmas Seals are the symbol of a health campaign that is steadily conquering tuberculosis Buy all you can. THANKSGIVING GREETINGS TO SEPTUAGENARIAN!! ' ? May God in extending our man} rheriahed days of Life add to oui ohysical, oar mental and oar spiri tnal strength; faith, hope and abilit} to be reconciled, with God; ever} Cigarette Taxes Seen Increase Gain of Nearly 20 Per Cent Shown in October? Tobacco Averages Drop Washington, Nov. 19. ? Continued large gains in the manufacture of cigarettes are shown in the Inter nal Revenue collections for October, made public today by the Bureau of Internal Revenue. Taxes were paid in October on 12,710,000,000 cigarettes, an increase of nearly 20 per cent over the same month in 1934* I For the first four months of the present fiscal year, eanding October 31, tax collections from the cigarette stamp tax amounted to $145,796",-1 905.44, an increase of 10 per cent over the $132,535,680.08 collected in the same four months last year. The October figures, however, showed almost twice as much in crease and had the pace of $28,132, 908.90 been maintained for the four months, tax collections for that period would have amounted to $152,000,000 or ten million more than actual receipts. * Averages wwh. . j The AAA today announced that I leaf tobacco prices for last week were well below the averages of the week before, but the average for the entire crop to date was in creased from 20.85 cents to 20.87 cents. Prices are expected to con tinue to fall slightly from now on, but 672,786,765 pounds of the crop have now been sold, leaving only 113,000,000 pounds yet to be soli Farmers have so far received $140, 327,373.22 for the 1935 crop as com pared with 151,793,000 for the entire 1934 crop, thus assuring a 1935 re j turn well above that of 1934, with jthe indications now that the excess will be more than $10,000,000. Last week total sales amounted to 41,613,113 pounds at an average of 21.15 cents as compared with an average of 22.70 cents for the pre ceding week. In the eastern North Carolina belt, the average last week was 20.08 cents, as compared with 22.35 the preceding week, the average for the season to date dropping from 21.39 to 21.31 cents. In the middle belt last week the average was 21.32 cents as compared with 23.17 the week before and the average for the season to date dropped from 22.05 cents to 21.97 cents. On the old belt last week, how ever, the average remained station ary, last weeks' average of 22.04 cents being precisely the same as the average for the season to date at the end of the preceding week and comparing that figure at its low levels* Mais Moating Held In Interest Of Golf Course Organization Formed And Officers Elected; Gfeorge W. Davis Made President With Farmville's golf cprrse proj ect approved by the WPA, and a strong organization perfected at the mass meeting, held in this connection , rFriday evening, and presided over by Mayor Lewis, the reality of this recreational facility for residents of this community seems almost as sured. George W. Davis was elected presi dent of the organization, Mrs. J. M. Hobgood, vice president and C. A. Lilly, secretary and treasurer. Reports from the three teams, ap pointed at this time to solicit stock holders, are very encouraging, ac , cording to president Davis, and the number required to start the ball roll ing, is expected to be completed in short order. , Stockholders will pledge themselves to one hundred doUars each, to be on easy terms. FARMVI1XRJD^R|EATSv SOUTH EDGECOMBE " On Friday, November 15, Farm ; ville Red Devils defeated the South Edgecombe team 32-6. Judy starred r for Farm ville with a record of four - touchdowns behind Oglesby's brillant ? blocking. Oglesby also made one v touchdown. C. Modlin and Elbert 71 Moye starred in the line. | Friday, November 22, Farmville ) J will meet the undefeated Dunn team I on. the local field. The game will be 'called at 3:30. |Admission will Be Tyson-May Reunion Here November 29 To Meet In Methodist Church; Good Program Being Arranged Preparations are now underway for another successful annual Tyson May Reunion, which will be held on Friday, November 29, in the local Methodist churchi ' ' ~ Mrs. S. C. Carroll, of Winterville, will preside and reports will be giv en by Miss Tabitha DeVisconti, genealogical chairman, and Mrs. Hen rietta M. Williamson, head of the Memorial committee. Rev. J. N. Bynum, of Roanoke Rapids, is vice president and Mrs. fid Nash Warren is secretary and treasurer. The main speaker of the occasion has not been announced as yet but Mayor John B. Lewis has pledged the Reunion's program committee an interesting speaker, who is convers ant on current national and world af fairs. The music will be in charge of Mrs. Mary M. Patterson. A basket lunch will be served at the noon hour. Invitations have been sent out, but if for any reason any relative or friends of the two families does not receive one, the Reunion invites them through the coluumns of this paper. Christian Church 1 Burns Mortgage AN APPRECIATION ? by ? C. B. Mashbum I Although the day was dreary with out, there was warmth and gladness within the Christian church last Sun day morning. Every face wore a broad smile and every heart was overflowing with joy. The reason: a great victory had been won after hard work and great sacrifice on the part of the membership. Some six years ago the churcii needed repairing. Five thousand dol lars was borrowed for this work. Then came the years of depression. During this time only the interest could tj j met, but things took a bet ter turn in 1934, and so the member ship set its heart on paying this debt About half of it was paid in 1934. The remainder was paid this fall, and last Sunday morning the mortgage was burned while every heart thrilled with ectasy and thanksgiving. After morning worship Mrs. Lizzie Flanagan and M. L. Moye came for ward, and while Mrs. Flanagan held the paper Mr, Moye applied the match. While the symbol of our indebtedness was being reduced to ashes, the congregation stood and sang, with the spirit, "Praise God From Whom All Blessings Flow." Your minister would like to pay j this tribute to the loyalty, devotion jand sacrificial spirit manifested in the noble endeavor to raise this money. No more faithful and gener ous people are to be found. The whole church is cooperative and friendly, the Board is harmonious and forward looking, and the Wom en's Council is the most energetic and faithful group of women in any church, I wish to express the sincere feeling of my heart towards you, and it is this?I am glad to serve so noble a people. With this debt removed from our shoulders, the buoyant spirit within the church, the harmony and cooper ative spirit in all departments, we confidently look forward to greater things* in the days to come. "We thank God and take courage." MRS. WALKER HOSTESS AT SERIES OP PARTIES Mrs. Judd Walker delightfully en tertained members of the Wednes day Afternoon Club thia week and guests for four tables in the after noon and additional friends for the same number of tables in the eve ning.' Autumn flowers and foliage made a charming background for the tables, which bore appointments sug gestive of the Thanksgiving season. Prises of novel ash trays and a mani cure set were won by Miss Elisabeth Davis, Mrs. Neal Howard and Mrs. R. A. Parker. A delicious sweet course with salt ed nuts was served at each event by the hostess* V REMEMBER THE D. A. K. TOURNAMENT ! ' . Remember the date, Friday, 22. Remember the time, 2:30 and 8:00 p. m. Remember the place, Mrs. W. M. Willi*' home. Remember the event, D. A. R., Bridge Tournament Call Mrs. Z. M. Whitehurst for reserva President Faces Budget Problems Roosevelt Leaves For Warm Springs With Mass of Figures; Visit ed by Justices Washington, Nov. 20.?A work- j trunk filled with figures on the 19371 budget accompanied President Roose-1 velt tonight as he headed South for J his annual Thanksgiving visit to I Warm Springs, Ga. In the first 141 days of the 19361 fiscal year, his administration has I averaged a daily expenditure of $11,-1 226,891 more than income. I How to reduce this steadily mount-1 ing federal debt, an increasingly I prominent target for criticism by I Republicans and business leaders, was one of the major problems con-| fronting the'Chief Executive. I Before leaving the White House I to board his special train, Mr.j Roosevelt confronted with several! aides, including Secretary Ickes and! Marry L. Hopkins, Works Progress I Administrator. They discussed the $4,880,000,0001 relief-employment campaign. While I this program is scheduled to end I next June 30, Mr. Roosevelt reiter-l a ted yesterday that the federal gov-| eminent will not permit people to starve. Dao+c T? Tnrinntrv. *>? m . At Boulder Dam, however, the President recently said the princi pal responsibility for providing jobs hereafter rests with private in dustry. Relief recommendations for 'e next budget are being reserved until the last minute ^o determine how private industry is taking up the employment slack. ? Since July 1, the government has paid out $1,648,516,872 for what it terms general expenditures and $1, 332,071,110 assigned to recovery and relief. It has taken in $1,397,585, 336. The receipts, however, are ex pected by treasury officials to pick up markedly when income taxes reflecting improved business condi tions of this year come rolling in next spring. The lag in processing taxes, which have brought in only $57,328,049 since July 1 compared with $216,713,769 in the same period a year ago, also may be overcome if the Supreme Court upholds their validity. ?gs Mr. Roosevelt has announced that there will be no request for new tax legislation at the coming session of Congress unless the processing levies are outlawed, but he has pro posed a conference with a view to ward revamping federal, state and municipal taxes in the following year] ? * ? 4 Justices can. The Supreme Court justices, led by Chief Justice Hughes, were re ceived by Mr. Roosevelt late this afternoon. It was the annual cour tesy call, usually made on the day the court convenes for Its new term, but delayed this year because of the President's Western trip and fishing cruise. But while relief expenditures and the processing tax question remain in abeyance, Mr. Roosevelt has ash ed Daniel W. Bell, acting director of the budget, and Chairman Bucha nan (D-Tex.), of the House appro priations committee, to meet with him in Wprm Springs Monday to go over the budget requests for regular departments of the govern ment v. These must be ready soon. Three appropriations # sub-committees .be gin executive hearings - December 2 to draft bills for early submission to Congress. Considerable interest has been attached to the speech the President will make November 29 at a home coming celebration to be given him at Atlanta. The address will be on the home ground of Governor Talmadge, a severe administration critic, and some observers have suggested it may signalize a formal opening of the President's campaign for re nomination and reelection. J Mr. Roosevelt will remain in I Warm Springs until he goes to CKi-j cago December 9 to address the American Farm Bureau Federation. He will stop off at South Bend, Ind., that afternoon on his return to Washington to attend a special con vocation at Notre Dame University. Name Advisory Board For Farmer Exchange Greenville, Nov. 19.?Members of the advisory board for the Pitt County Farmers Cooperative Ex change to serve during the coming year were announced yesterday by officials of the organisation. : ^ The new members, E. R. Bradley, W. L. Nobles, J. V. Taylor, J. C. Parker,, D. T. McLawhora, Blaney Sumrell and R, L. Little, Stall Will Get CampFor Woman Young Women To Be Given Opportunity for Recreation and Train ing Raleigh, Nov. 21.?Establishment of a camp?or camps?for unemploy ed young women in North Carolina, corresponding to the CCC camps for men, is assured by a grant of $7,000 made to the Emergency Relief Ad ministration yesterday by Harry L. Hopkins, federal administrator. The camp will be established and supervised by the office of C. E. Mcintosh, State director of the Na tional Youth Administration. Plans for the camp have not been formu lated definitely, Mr. Mcintosh said yesterday. Presumably, the camp?or camps ?will be similar to the three main tained in the State during the summer. Camps were set up at Brevard College and Neuse Forest for white women and one at Brick School, near Rocky Mount, for Ne gro women. Annmvimntplv 275 women were "?rr* ?0 sent to the camps for periods rang ing' from four to six weeks. Those selected were chosen according to the relief ? loads of the various counties. At the camps, the wom en engaged in recreational activi ties, heard lectures of hygeine ana other subjects, and received ele mentary instruction In homemak ing. The purpose of such camps is not only to relieve the burden of stricken families but also to train the young women in habits their thoughts which will benefit their homes and their communities when they return, Mr. Mcintosh explain ed. Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt and other women leaders have endorsed such camps. Tentatively, it is planned, the cw lp?or camps?to be established for women will take young women from relief families and keep them about two months and then take another group. FUNERAL CLARENCE TUliWel<l> ? Funeral services for Clarence Tug well, highly esteemed man of this county, and a resident of Fountain, who died in a Rocky Mount hospital Friday morning, after a long illness, were; held from his home Saturday afternoon at 3:00 o'clock, by Rev. C. B. Mashburn, Christian pastor of Farmville and Rev. Leslie Newman, Baptist minister, of Bethel. Inter ment was made in the Fountain ceme tery. Mr. Tugwell is survived by his pa rents, Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Tugwell? of the Fountain section, his wife, form erly Miss. Louise Proctor, a small son, Clarence, Jr., three brothers, J. R., Jr., Fountain, Willie, Greensboro, Lei and Tugwell, of Raleigh and two sisters, Mrs. Bennie Phillips and Mrs. Sam Flanagan, of near Fountain. Pall bearers were: Active; Cecil Lilly, Willie Turnage, Jno. D. Dixon, Will Moore; honorary, Mack Smith, Dr. Beasley, A. D. Gardner, Joe Gardner, J. H. Paylor, Pinky Dilda, Mr. Blue, Herman Owens, Standi Dilda, Cecil Dixon, Dr. Willis, Jno. Barrett, Abe Carraway, Ben Carra way, Alton Bobbitt, B. 0. Taylor, W. E. Forbes, Joe Brock, Hugh Barret^ Earnest Gainor, Clifton Corbitt, Arch Flanagan, D. F. Lang, J. Y. Monk, B. M. Lewis, Harry Lang, B. 0. Turnage, Garland Holden, Rosco Fields, R. H. Knott, J. M. Hobgood, R. A. Joyner, R. J. Wainwright, J. T. Thome, J. W. Parker, R. A. Park er, R. L. Davis, L T. Pieree and J. H. Bynum. ? ? CONTRACT CLiUH fAKTX An enjoyable social affair this week waa the club party of Tuesday after noon, at which Mrs. M. V. Horton was hcsteac.. entertaining members of the Contract Club and other friends for seven tables, the prize, a double deck of cards, offered for the former, being won by Mrs. G. S. Vought, and the one. for visitors, a relish dish, by Mrs. Henrietta M. Williamson, Fried Oysters, a congealed salad, pickles, hot rools, coffee and pecan delight were served at the conclusion of the games. Special guests were; Mrs. W. C. Askew, Mrs. Bert McCul lom, Mrs. E. C. Beaman, Mrs. Alton W. Bobbitt, Mrs. Ben Vernon, Mrs. W. M. Willis, Mrs. J. Y. Monk, Mm Henrietta- M. Williamson, Mrs. & A. Parker, Mrs. Harry Ling, Mrs. J. M. Christman, Mrs. M. 1{. Veasey, Mm S. A. Roebuck, Mrs; D. R. Morgan, Mrs. Grover H. Webb. Mrs, G. BL Holden,Mrs. P. E. Jones, Mrs. W.E. Joyner, Mrs. Robert Lee Smith, and Mm Plato Monk. Season's Poundage Uoai Is Passed This Wepk ? Prices Some Better than IParity; Offerings To Ital More than Twenty I Eight Million Pounds -i Predictions of twenty-seven mil lion pounds of tobacco to be sold on the Farmville market this season, have already been passed and sales today, Thursday, will pat the pound age offerings over the 28,000,000 mark, totals through Wednesday ag gregating 27,591,578 pounds, which have brought growers $6,034,838.69 and an average of $21.87 per hun dredweight for the market, which keeps the season's average above tha parity point. Figures for the week's operations through Wednesday are 665,782 pounds which have been sold for tha sum of $124,784.81, at an average of $18.71. ' A report from the Federal-State crop reporting service reported on Thursday that 68 per cent of the State's crop of tobacco had already been sold but these figures are far below the percentage sold in the Belt, which is estimated at 90 per cent, and which will practically be near the 98 per cent mark when the market closes for the Thanksgiving holidays. Opening Of Funeral Home Well Attended The formal opening' of the beauti ful new two story Funeral Home, branch of the Farmville Furniture Co., has been well attended this week, more than five hundred visitors | ^ registering the first two evenings, for inspection of the establishment, which was recently completed and equipped to fill a long felt need in the community. 1. Hi. joyner, secretary-treasurer and general manager of the Farm ville Furniture Co., and members of the staff have cordially received the visitors each evening and shown them around the interior of the Home, in which are contained a spacious re ception room, office of the directors and mortician, John D. Gates and Charles S. Edwards, a slumber room, display, preparation, storage, sup ply and rest rooms, all connected and situated on the first floor, the second floor being used by the leading fur niture firm of Eastern Carolina, as display space for home furnishings. Other hundreds of friends are ex pected to visit the Home Thursday and Friday evenings, and to take ad vantage of the opportunity of seeing this creditable addition to the de pendable and satisfactory service, which has given to this firm the en viable reputation it bears. President Will Address Bureau Plans For Great Con vention of Farmers at Chicago Taken Final Form nU i/in rv/i XT Atf Tllo A mA1*t^QH VXlllCLgUy 11VV. 4JM, IW rtmwivui* Farm Bureau Federation today com pleted preliminary arrangements for what it expects will be its greatest convention crowd?some 25,000 per sons who will hear President Roose velt address it. Decision of the President to speak before the organization's initial ses sions, Dec. 7, led to selection of the International Amphitheatre at the Chicago stockyards for the event It will mark the second time a President has personally spoken be fore their organization, bureau of ficials said. But on the previous occasion when President Coolidge came here, his audience was only a limited number of leaders of the bureaus. It was accommodated in the ballroom of a downtown hoteh The stockyards auditorium has a capacity of about 15,000 persons. Bureau officials, however, have ob tained permission f *om its man agers to open all ante rooms for use ? of the huge throng they ex pect The overflow halls will hear the Chief Executive through a pub lic address system. The PreniHpnt'n listpnem will in chide officials of the 36 states farm bureau federations affiliated with the -general group and representa tives from nearly all /the 1,800 coun ty bureaus. The three-day convention wiil re View the entire AAA program? which its leaders have endorsed in numerous statements ? the farm credit situation, TVA, possibly the Canadian reciprocity treaty and other matters vital to the agricul tural interests of the nation. Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace has said he would attend and a number of notable speakers will follow the President to the convention rostrunug&s;,-r. ?..>? . ? &*!?... ,y.v-& PliPill; v h