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Swollen rivers close many high ways and two railroad lines in Caro linas * , No concern felt for Mississippi Valley levees but lowlanders flee homes on Tennessee side. Known dead by states: Missis sippi 219; Georgia 183; Tennessee 12; Alabama 11; Arkansas 1; South Carolina 1. Gainesville, Ga., April 7. ? me | storm-lashed South compiled a list I of more than 400 known dead today from sporadic spring tornadoes as flooded rivers threatened new dis aster over a widespread area. Torrential rains sent major streams on the rise even before the task of finding and identifying the dead left -by tomadic thrusts had been com pleted. The known fatalities from the lat est storms which ripped* through six states yesterday include Mississippi 219; Georgia 183; Tennessee 12; Ala bama 11; Arkansas 1, and South Carolina 1. Contributing the heaviest toll were the textile manufacturing center in j the foothills of the Blue Ridge Moun tains were, 183 bodies have been found; and Tupelo, M:ss., another cotton manufacturing center where 203 died. Thousands Homeless. A composite estimate of property losses was placed at $25,000,000 with uncounted thousands homeless and thousands injured. Relief officials expressed belief many more bodies of the dead would - be uncovered before all the wreckage is removed. The threatening floods coming after the South's most disastrous winter and spring in a decade brought a serious threat to numer ous communities which escaped the storms. Seventeen highways were closed by high water in North Carolina and six in South Carolina. Two railroad lines were inundated in the latter State. Alabama's larger rivers were flooded but little damage indicated thus far. At Florence, the Tennes see was falling in the vicinity of the, Tennessee Valley Authority's operations, but upstream it was rising* Weather officials said no concern was felt for Mississippi Valley levees. Thousands of lowlanders on the Tennessee side of the river, however were, routed from their homes and thousands more were ready to evacuate. * ? *?* v. A crest ox so xeet, mgacn suivc 1929, was predicted for West Point, Ga., on the Chattahoochee River. More than 1,000 relief workers labored in Gainesville and a like number was busy at Tupelo against the threat of pestilence in the wake of the death-dealing twisters. At Gainesville 2,500 were home less, upward of 1,000 homes were in ruins and more than 1,200 were in jured. Four trainloads of the in jured were hospitalised in Atlanta, 70 miles away. While trucks moved slowly through the debris-strewn streets carting off the wreckage, pathetic scenes were enacted at improvised morgues hous ing the 'dead. -Steady streams of solemn-faced relatives moved through the tsliiMiiliiimnfii seeking missing kinsmen. State health officers hurried tc Gainesville, 200 miles from Cor dele, South Georgia community hit by a tornado which killed more thai 20 there hut week. Military In Charge. Military orders ruled Gaiaesvilli although Adjutant General IimftU | W. Caasp said martial law has no' been declared. Sixteen persons wen " ? ~ " '-.V - - from the ruins of the pants manu facturing plant. ? Searchers said more victims were certainly to be found in the build ing where 125 reported for duty yesterday morning. Only three were known to have escaped. Hearses, ambulances, trucks and wagons headed funeral processions at Tupelo which buried its dead and mapped rehabilitation plans. CCC workers were pressed into service as grave diggers. While funeral services were being arranged aa rapidly as facilities wonld permit at Gainesville, Mayor T. W. Palmour said separate services would be held for the unidentified victims there. Surveying the wrecked Missis-' sippi town, Adjutant General John A. O'Keefe said it "looked like one of France's worst war-tone towns." At both Tupelo and Gainesville food supplies and clothing were available in plenty. City, state and Federal agencies joined the Red Cross in manning and stocking emergency stations. Ten Die When Big Airplane Hits Menntain Transport Strikes Mountain - Side Near Uniontown, Pa.; Hos tess of Ship One of the I Survivors Uniontown, Pa., April 7.?Ten per sons were killed today in the crash of a pant transcontinental and west ern tronsport plane against a moun tain side near this coal mining town in Southwest Pennsylvania. The plane carried 10 passengers, two pilots and a hostess. Miss N. H. Ganger, the hostess, telephoned her officials in New York she and two passengers sur vived. Every available ambulance was rushed to the scene from this coal mining town, situated about 40 miles southwest of Pittsburgh. The plane was en route from New York to Pittsburgh. Searching planes had taken off from the Pittsburgh airport after it was reported four hours over due. State police said a WPA worker found the giant ship crumpled on the ground. A. B. Saylor of the staff of Union town hospital, said ambulances were en route from the scene of the crash bringing the dead and injured. 50 MiHioii For Teniade Victims i ??? - Bill Before Senate Com mittee of Interest To Greensboro Washington,4 April 7.?A $25,000, 000 increase in rehabilitation funds yfor flood and tornado victims, of especial interest to Greensboro be cause of last week's disaster, was voted tfrday by the Senate commit tee on banking and currency. The increase, embodied in a bill passed by the House and expected to comb before the Senate ibis week despite the impeachment trial . iof Judge . Halsted Hitter of Florida, brought to $50,000,000,000 the amount authorised as an RFG loan. The committee also provided that the Federal Housing Administration may guarantee 20 per cent of moderniza tion and repair loans to the suffer , era instead of 10 per cent provided generally in the new FHA bill re cently enacted. DAVID JOYNER I -TT? ; : ? Funeral rites were held Monday for David Jayner, 33, who was killed \ Sunday morning near Mew Bern when he lost control ?f the car he : was driving. The services were 1 conducted at the bene V his pa rents, Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Joyner by the Rev. J. C. Moye of * Snow Hill. ? Interment was made in the family r burial grounds.* -\N t In addition to his parents be ii i survived by bis .wife, an adoptee dtsujfoter^ Bvejyn Joyner, ? one s? Pv .t . . ? P Tgnnln.T D.hU. T orotperip wcsicy, rC?UD6n, I and Rohert Joym* j ?? - recently oraerea WW. o* one Claim Italians Use Poison Gas ? i ? - British Turn Evidence Over To League of Na tional Committee London, April 7.?Evidence which convinced the British Italy was using poison gas in her war with Ethiopia has been turned over to the League of Nations for consideration by the "Committee of IS." This was learned tonight from .a I high source shortly after Anthony1 Eden, foreign secretary, departed for Geneva to attend he committee session The evidence, which Sir Sidney Barton, British minister to Ethiopia, cabled to his government last week came from various international sources whose neutral observations the British claimed to be unim peachable. ' According to these reports, the Italian planes began using gas bombs about March 1 and have con tinued their use since then during their aerial attacks. Although the poison gas may be essentially meant to dispearse the Ethiopian troops, it was claimed that thousands of civilians, including women and chil-l dren have also suffered from these attacks. . ? | In' spite of the sharp criticism of the British policies in the Italo Ethiopian dispute launched by the opposition in the House of Com mons debate yesterday, the govern ment has as yet not disclosed how persistent Eden will be in demand ing either the cessation of hos tilities or the imposition of heavier sanctions against Italy at the com mittee meeting. Informed sources said they be lieve that any move in the latter direction would result in failure be cause of the conviction that Franee is anxious, to end the present sanc tions against Italy and therefore would certainly be unwilling to strengthen them and invite a fur ther dislocation ? of Franco-Italian relations. ~ ? a ? # a I It was learned on good autnomy that the sessions of the committee of 13 at Geneva are expected to last until after the Easter Holidays. A statement by Sir Austin Cham berlain, chancellor of the exchequer, showing the weakness of the position of the League of Nations in enforc ing its will against Italy, received support from naval authorities. Writing in Brassey's naval annual for 1936, published today, Capt E. Altham of the British navy, de clared: ' "The strength of our fleet is so reduced that when it is put to a test it is found to have no safe margin over a second class stan dard." ? (Capt Altham apparently refer red to the concentration of British warships in the Mediterranean re cently when Italy strengthened her forces in Libya.) "That fleet has only been brought up to the standard strength which circumstances have made necessary by drawing on home, China, and West Indies stations, even on Aus tralian, and New Zealand naval forces," he continued. \ i .1 DR. F. M. DAVIS HURT IN AUTOMOBILE-TRUCK WRECK Greenville, April 7.-?Dr. F. M. Davis, surgeon at the Pitt General hospital, suffered an injured knee last night when his car struck the rear-end of a truck parked on the Farmville-Greenville Highway, near Ballards Cross Roads. Dr. Davis was not seriously in jured, but his condition will neces sitate him being confined to the hospital for a few days. Due to the heavy rains, Dr. Davis said he was unable to see a light on tha truck, which had stopped to make some repairs of the machine. No one eras riding with fed local surgeon when the accident' occur red. ILLUSTRATED LECTURE 1 ? MONDAY, APRIL IS :??? . A' - :.<* <i? ; ,',i? 1 ?' ? As event being anticipated here is the illustrated lecture "English Gar dens,": to be presented in Peririi* [ Hall Monday evening, April IS, at eight o'clock by Rev. Job* Evering ton, of Kockford, Michigan, under , the apapicea of the Pnufcyte^iaii . Woman's Auxiliary. Admission will r. be 26e for adnlts and lSe for chil dren. ; ? Business men of Brevard are co , operating in the Transylvania Ram aTOjj'lLlll 01 UIT16, Uyiunttf. UVcSvOCI! . and poultry baaed on soil conserve ? Sife ? ' -? : ? '????' Ml i 1 Mn Mil I, Mfc ~~ V- ? ? ? ? -in M II I [SfiVfi Mjuf form J lUujfu llvW idlHl | Program Is Best Ever DeM Program Will Give Far mers Direct Financial) Aid In Form of Pay ments For limiting Production ; J Agricultural authorities say the! new soil-improvement program is! the best plan ever undertakftn for the} [all-round development of North Caro-| jlina farming. | If farmers cooperate whole-heart*) edly with the program, said Dean LI O. Schaub, of State College* it Willi elevate agriculture in this State to aj higher plane than ever before. | The new program embodies many) [of the fundamental principles advo-j cated by the extension service for} years, he said, but it is much more | ?comprehensive and far-reaching than! anything that has gone before. The nature of the new program j makes it applicable to every farm I in the State, said the dean in urging! all farmers to take part in it so they j can share in its benefits. ? The program will give the farmers] direct financial aid in the form of! payments for limiting their ptoduc-1 tion of soil-depleting crops and for} carrying out various soil-building j and conserving practices. From 15 to 20 million dollars will] be available for distribution this year] in soil-conservation grants to North] Carolina farmers. * ' ~~ " - * - i?_ I Indirectly, it win aia mem nntui cially by preventing the production of price-ruining surpluses, by in creasing the efficiency of .farming, and by stimulating the live-at-home movement. The soil-building practices, if fol lowed generally, will greatly increase the fertility of the soil within the next few years, the dean pointed out, and this will make possible a more economic and efficient production of crops. By checking erosion in the moun tain and Piedmont areas and by re claiming worn-out land, he continu ed, the program will reverse , the soil ravaging processes that have beep going on for years. This will help safeguard the future of agriculture and the Nation. The program will encourage bal anced farming so as to avoid the overproduction of certain crops to the neglect of others. It will also encourage the farmers to produce at home, as much as possible, the things needed on the farm. By stimulating the production of forage and feed crops, the program will give an impetus to dairying and the production of beef cattle, the dean pointed out. The State needs more dairy and beef cattle, he emphasized. An increase in timber production and land reclamation through refor estation will also follow. This year forestation of fields which have been in cultivation will probably count as a soil-building practice for which payments will be made. ? The dean also announced that Sec retary of Agriculture Henry A. Wal lace has appointed a state committee of representative farmers to help determine certain policies of the new program. Among the matters to come before the committee are: the rate of payment for various 'soil-building practices, which practices - will be considered soil-building, and the rate of payment for reducing the acreage of soil-building crops other than cot ton, tobacco, and peanuts. He said too, that work sheets which farmers will need in connection with the program will scon be in the hands of every county agent for general distribution. U. D. C. Mrs. Nonie Barrett delightfully ?entertained' the United Daughters of the Confederacy, Rebecca Winbourne chapter, on Thursday afternoon, with Mrs. W. M. Willis presiding and Mrs. J. C. Wooten conducting the devo tional period. Events epnhected with the building of the Singing Tower in Florida and ite wr^airous beauty and charm diacuased by Mrs. J. L Morgan; Mrs. T. W. Lang reviewed Stonewall Jack S son's life and; Mrs. J. W. Parker talk ed about Southern FlagB in the course of the interesting and varied program of the afternoon. Following adjournment, the hos tees served a delighful fruit salad, 1 tarts, tea and jaltfd nuts. Spring i flowers made aiovely setting for the - meeting, ^fcfch was attended, in ad I adSidd; ift,the. Daughters, by Mrs. J. i\ VL Ward, Mrs. i.:XMor^;]i^p ? G. Smith and Mrs. Claude Barrett . ~:?; t The acreage to Irish potatoes In rtfinntti eevCTl" lias ? McDowell county win oe qmmm Assistant Treasurer of CoBege for 14 Tears; To Take OAr New Du ties About May 1 ?? Greenville, April 7. ? Announce* ment of the resignation of Mrs. J, B. Spilman from the office of amiit ant treasurer of E. C. T. College, which position she has held for the past 14 pears, was made today. ' Mrs. Spilman's resignation will take effoet on May 1, at which time she will take over her new duties with H. A. White and Sons, dealer; in insurance and realty. Mrs. Spil* man will have charge of the life insurance department. Mrs. Spilman is the widow of the lata J. B. Spilman, who died last Christmas after having served as bursar of the local college for 28 years. - j She is well-known throughout the county, having taken an active part in religious, civic and political af fairs. No announcement has been made as to who will succeed Mrs. Spil man on the college administration staff. ' t ' Farmviile Churches Make Special Appeal For Storm Sufferers The Farmviile Ministerial Associa tion Is sponsoring an offering to be taken in the several churches here on Sunday, April 12th, to be sent to the storm stricken areas of our neighboring states. Each church is requested to take an offering, in the name of our Lord, for these suffering little ones. This offering will be turned over to the American Red Cross for distribution. ' Those who sympathize with the suffering, but v&o, perhaps, cannot attend church on next Sunday, are asked to send their contribution by some friend, or else hand it to any of thp local ministers. Please attend to this at once as the need Is great. C. B. Mashburn, Sec'y. Protem. GREENVILLE ARMORY TO BE BUILT AT ONCE Greenville, April 7.?The National Armory for Greenville will be built at once, according to announcement The site for the structure, which will cost in the neighborhood of $30, 000, is at the corner ofaEvans and Second streets. The city and county will pay for the site of the armory, plus skilled labor required for construction of the building. The WPA administration will furnish funds for the rest of the expense. Farm Broadcasts Will Feature Spring Gardens Home demonstration workers at State College report that rural wom en of North Carolina and coding much helpful information In the Caroline Firm Features radio broadcasts. Of special interest to them, the specialists say, are the home demon* sfcration broadcasts, which are heard each Thursday over a number of stations . In preparing discussions, the specialists select timely subjects which are holding the attention of the rural, women at the time the talks are to be presented. Also the women are deriving much information from those specialists of the botany and horticulture de partments who are now discussing rock gardens, spring and summer vegetable gardens, and flowing sad ornamental plants. These broadcasts are heard each Tuesday, with the two departments alternating. Passenger Train Mod, Dozen Kilted in Mexico Vera Cruz, Mexico, April 7.?A' desperate attempt to kill State of Vera Crux political leaders was Mam* ed by authorities tonight for the bombing of a railway bridge and wrecking of the Vera, Cruz-Mexico City train which resulted in the death of at least 12 persons and injury to 10 others. ? ! The politicians themselves were unharmed. Soldiers searched a wide area for the bombers; A conclusion that policical enemies of one or all of the three candidates for the gubernatorial nomination Col. Eduardo Hernandez Chazaro, chief of the presidential staff of for mer President Pascual Artiz Rubio; Ochoa Zamudio and Dr. Guillermo Padilla?plotted the attack was ten tatively reached by authorities. A search for other victims was continued tonight among the mass of twisted and charred steel where Pull man can were plunged into a 40-fodt rtivine last night Victims identified included five passengers, five members of the train crew and two other employes of the British operated railway. No foreigners were believed aboard. Partially interrupted communica tions prevented announcement of a definite list of the dead. A detachment of troops com manded by General Heriberto Jara, in charge of the Vera Cruz zone, reported it found in the wreckage definite evidence that the bombing was a carefully planned attempt to kill the politicians. C Tjr^w^JPQl^E^r V ^^pi '^r ' ^44^^ ^w' ^r \( ^^fs^\^ySii.j^ .^T ^ \X.V . . .- ?? ? ...? ?" "Come, ye faithful, raite the etrain Of triumphant gladness.... --? ? ??? n ? i ???? ? CLUB PARTYJ Mrs. Wesley R. Willis graciously entertained members of the Contract Club and other friends at a lovely party on Tuesday afternoon, at her home, in which spring flowers ip shades of purple and lavendar, were artistically arranged, these colors be i ing effectively carried also in the table appointments. . * ? Compiling high score for members and guests, Mrs. Neal Howard and Miss Janie Davis received attractive flower containers. Miss Margaret Davis, bride-elect, was presented with Maderia tea napkins, and Mrs. Arthur F. Joyner, whose crystal wedding an niversary fell on that date, was re membered with a hobnail flowyr bowl. . Delicious refreshments vyere served after the games with seasonal favors on the plate* In addition to club members those making up the tabids for play were; Mrs. D. R. Morgan, Mrs. R. A. Parker, Mrs. -Jack Smith, Mrs. R. 0. Lang, Mrs. Robert Lee Smith, Mrs. G. M. Hoi den, Mrs. S. A. Roebuck, Mrs. W.. Ml Willis, Mrs. Henrietta M. Williamson, ?ra, Judd Walker, Miss Elisabeth, Bliss Janfa and Miss Margaret Davis. f Tea guests were; BfisSes Mattie Lee Ehgfcs, Miry Harison Benson, Russell Wird, Alice Coggins an* Francje Barnhill. This prise, colored {feW thnm, cot fc, flili. m is*.-rikk'' JZZi a yiuO raemoerp bihi vcnionstninon , r.'.>". Special Easter messages in ser mon and song will be heard in the Baptist, Christian, Episcopal, Metho dist and Primitive Baptist churches here on Sunday morning at the eleven o'clock worship hour. Easter mass Vill be held at the Catholic church at 10:80. The regular evening services will be held at the Baptist and Christian churches, and. a pageant will be pre sented at this time in the Methodist church. Evening services at the Presbyterian church are uncertain due to plans involving a visiting minister. A sunrise prayer meeting will be held at 5:80 Easter morning and con ducted by the Woman's Council at the Christian church; a Christian Endeavor Fellowship breakfast will be held at 6:80^ and the pastor re ports efforts being bent towards a record attendance at Sunday Schooll The series of Pre-Easter meetings being held at-this church, and which has been marked by the inspiring sermons of Rev. A. EL Simerty, pas tor of the First Christian church, Rocky Mount, and by good attend ance, will dose on 8unday evening. ATTEND INTER-CITY MEET ? * The following members of. the local Rotwy.Club atended the Inter-City meet in Kinston, Thursday evening; president John B. Lewis, M. Idles, 1^ Moigan, ^, J^Mom^Ed Congressmen Call Upon Ehringhaus To Act; Compart Plan Goes To Senate Washington, April 8.?Following the action of the. House of Repre sentatives today in passing the Ken tobacco compact bill by a vote of 189 to 117, three members of the North Carolina Relegation, with the approval-of their colleagues, issued formal statements calling for the im mediate convening, without further delay, of a special session of the North Carolina General Assembly. The authors of the statements, Representatives Doughton, Warren, and Uinstead, baaed their statements on personal assurances which have been given them by Senate leaders of early anli favorable action in that body. Senator Bailey declined to go into the matter of a special session, tak ing the position assumed by House members prior to action in .the House, but did g confirm the judgment of House members as to early action in the Senate. There is a possibility of Senate action tomorrow, as the Senate will meet in legislative session at 11:30 a. m., 30 minutes before beginning its session as a court for the im peachment trial of Federal Judge Halstead L. Ritter, of Florida. Relief Measure. The first business to be considered tomorrow will be the bill in which the city of Greensboro is gratly in terested increasing the authority of the RFC to make loans to victims of floods and tornadoes from $11,000, 000 to $50,000,000. If that bill does not consume the entire 30 minutes, there will be an opportunity to take up the tobacco compact bill, but any extended op position would send it over until a later occasion. Representative Lindsay C. Warrea said? "Now that the House has passed the tobacco compact legislation and speedy action has been assured in the Senate, I think the time has now come when there should be an im mediate session of the General As sembly of North Carolina. As to bacco will soon be in the ground in our State, time is the essence if there is to be any form of control this year." Complete Interviewing Number Of Crippled Persons In Pitt County Mr. Horace E. Springer, Repre sentative of the State Rehibilitation Bureau, has lust completed litter ing a number of crippled and other wise disabled persons in Pitt County that come under the State Rehabili tation Bureau. This work is done in cooperation with the Department of Public Welfare of the County. Mr. Springer was highly pleased with the cases in Pitt County that he has in training in various places. The Rehabilitation Bureau takes peo ple and places them in training who have?been injured and who have be come incapacitated through disease but are capable of being trained for [other vocations. The Department has several in training in Pitt Coun ty at the present time and several hundred in the state. There has * . ' been, since the department opened, approximately one hundred'cases in Pitt County who have been trained for useful employment. This service is available to any persons sixteen years of age who have become in capacitated through disease or ac cident * Crippled* persons who have been forced to change their vocation through loss of limb or sight by di sease or accident may get application blanks at the Cormty Welfare Office to apply for this ravice, "SANDY" GRAHAM ADDRESSES LOCAL ? LEGIONNAIRES Local Legionnaires enjoyed a splendid, speech by "Sandy" Graham, gubernatorial candidate, on Thurs day evening at their regular meet ing, which was turned into a gala affair # with the fine program and good supper, served by the Legion Auxiliary. Talks were made by the comman der, A. W. Bobbitt and Atty? John H. Paylor, who introduced -the speak er of ? the evening. & ^.fioff and Fred Thomas were wefedmed as new members at this tim& LOVELY DIONNE DOLLS FREE Each child attending the showing of "The Country Doctor," on Thurs day afternoon, April 16, atthe Para mount Theatre, will be eligible to ;be in the contest for the Dionne quin tuplets dolls cow on display at The Emho Brintery. v v':- '?
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