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? Look At Your Label ? If You | X 1 t Subscription Has Expired Send + ? i J In YOUR Renewal at Once ! * ? . . . ? ... ? t ' ? ' v * ? .? f ' 4 The Farmville Enterprise 1 Patronize Oar Advertisers, For j They Are Constantly Inviting t You To Trade With Them. I vitudpd nnnrrf vr VOL. TWENTY-SIX FARMVILLE, PITT COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, JULY 24, 1936 II U1T1DU1V 1 nCtLilfi Killer Will Be Arrested In 48 Hours, Broum Says . ??? Sheriff Indicates Hotel Mystery Is Solved But Withholds Solution. Asheville, July 22.?Sheriff Lau rence E. Brown, predicted tonight he would arrest the ravisher-mur derer of Helen Clevenger, pretty 13 year-old co-ed, within the next 43 hours. The Sheriff told reporters: "I will arrest the ciminal within the next two days." "Do you mean the murderer?" he was asked. "Call him anything you want." The" Sheriff's statement was the first intimation that he did not sus pect any of the four persons now detained incommunicado for ques tioning of committing the crime. Ed Fleming, 25-year-old Negro bellhop, taken into custody two days ago, was released today after the Sheriff said he satisfactorily ex plained a discrepancy in his previ ous testimony. "I lied because I was soared to death," Sheriff Brown quoted the bellhop. vvl -J V>o/^ orrocfiarj rne onerui saiu uc Fleming after the Negro denied he had gone to the girl's room Wednes day a week ago, the day before the slaying. The Sheriff said the Negro went to Miss Clevenger's room at 8:25 a. m. for some dresses to be pressed, and returned them two hours later. Meanwhile, Daniel H. Gaddy, 28 year-old night watchman described Dy the Sherff as "the key to the whole case," waited in his jail cell for his second grilling while Brown went back over the scene of the crime at the Battery Park Hotel, and subjected hotel employes, from man ager to bellhop, to close questioning. After sharply examining Gaddy last night, the Sheriff said: "When Gaddy talksfiaee will know some thing," addinfEAe believed that the watchman, who has been held in conimunicado since last Saturday "is getting ready to talk pretty soon." StaedyHtts-Yrf"-the Sheriff with re garcf to" fiie"' watchman shifted the limelight from Mark Wollner, con cert- v-wwrnisi,- who -was detained last Saturday 'night*, and the two other persons held without charges?Woll ner'* alibi girl, 18-year-old Mildred Ward, and a Negro elevator opera tor at the hotel, R-mu.-n aairl hp wantPii Gad dy' xo explain why -the tape of his timeclock indicated he had not punched it for the second floor of the hotel, where Miss Clevenger had a room, on his 1 a. m. round of the floors Thursday morning and why clock record showed that on his 2 a. in. round he went from the thira floor to the first floor and then re returned to the second floor, instead of going as usual from the third to the second and then to the first. Brown continued to cling to his announced theory that the master key, left in the door of Miss Cleven ger's room, presumably by the slay er, was the most omportant bit of physical evidence he had found. At the hotel today, the Sheriff, main investigator of the baffling crime, visited the shop of Edwin D. FYsdy, chief engineer for the hotel, where the master keys are made. Previously, he had said 12 keys had ben found, although only 11 had been authorized. The source of the extra key was indicated as a vital point in the inquiry. Brown said Gaddy had a damaged master key on his ring. It was mu tilated so badly it would not work in the hotel doOrs, he reported. Gaddy, the officer said, told him the key had been damaged when he used it in an attempt to open the door of a vacant house he wanted to rent. North Carolina Is Allotted Close to. Sixty-five Millions "DURHAM, N. C., July 23.?Infor mation recently released by the Treasury Department, through the office of Robert M. Gantt, State Di rector for the National Emergency Council, showing the status as of June 30, 1936, of funds provided by the Emergency Relief Appropria tion Act of 1935, reveals that North Carolina as a whole has been allot ted- $64344,939.88 out o? a total $4,068,159333.00 appropriation made by Congress to the entire country. On a basis of checks issued as of June 30, 1936, a total amount ol $47,425,697.75 has been spent ii North Carolina, leaving an unex pended balance of $17,419,242.13 However, obligations have been in curred by the major Federal organi zations to the extent of $58,553,407. . 08, which actually leaves an unob ligated balance of $6,291,532.80. The distribution of these funds, oi ? basis of checks issued to the majo Federal organizations have been a follows: .Agriculture, exclusive.. of publi [tamo struck by udburst Homes and Stores Are j Flooded by a Heavy i Storm; Crops Badly J Damaged. \ Tarboro, July 21.?A cloudburst accompanied by lashing winds did j much damage to property, flooding homes and stores and uprooting . many trees here this afternoon. c Telephone and power lines went r down irn many sections of the city ( but no immediate estimate of the ? damage could be obtained. City au thorities blocked off sections where c wires were down to prevent acci- j. dents. j of which were three-quarters of an [. o'clock and lasted about 15 minutes, ^ was accompanied by hailstones, some ^ inches deep on their floors during the v inch in diameter. A hurried check- c ? up showed extensive crop damage in ^ surrounding sections. Water rose to a depth of four feet in the streets . in several parts of town, stalling a number of automobiles. Several , downtown stores had water several , inches deep on thir floors during the ^ downpour as storm drains failed to carry off the water. ^ The storm was ushered in by * s lightning and deafening thunder. , One farmer, James Ruffin, reported that four mules and a horse were killed by lightning. w LEGISLATIVE FIGHT LOOMS OVER HOW? TO CONTROL LIQUOR ? t County or State-Con- * trolled LiQuor Stores Will Be a Big Issue. c o n Raleigh, July 21.?North Carolina ~ will probaby go completely "'dry" for several days or weeks during the 1937 General Assembly as a result of the fight over liquor legislation, which will probably be the biggest single issue in the forthcoming leg islative sessiion, most observers here believe. g But eventually some sort of a State-wide liquor law providing for some kind of State-wide control, i even though the profits from the stores may be left in the counties, J is expected to be enacted, although , not until after a long and bitter ^ fight between those favoring State control, those wanting County con trol and the ''drys' who will want ^ to keep th present State-wide boot- ^ legging system which they call pro hibition T ' ' * * A. 1 ^ it is aireauy Deing anucipaieu t that the State Liquor Commission, ^ just appointed by Governor J. C. B. Ehringhaus and headed by Victor S. ^ Bryant, of Durham, will recommend r a single State-wide liquor control law instead of separate county Jaws, under which any county that -may ^ want liquor stores may hold county- , wide elections and have stores if a ^ majority votes for them. This was the type of liquor laws advocated by the "wets" in the 1935 General j Assembly and supported by Bryant f and passed by the House, although { the Senate, controlled by the "drys," ^ refused to pass it. So it is already 1 conceded that a State-wide liquor bill will be introduced in both the ( House and Senate early in 1937 ses- j j siior- - t ' One of these days we will know I the answer to all questions but we ] I don't know them today. < roads, $1,333,389.86. Roads and , grade crossing elimination, $2,926, 157.46. Emergency conservation work, $13,994,241.64. Federal emer gency relief appropriation, $10,621,- j 826,00. Public works administration, \ $1,708,580.47. Resettlement Admin- ( istration, $3,846,829.91. Works Pro i gress Administration, $11,199,929.90. ? All others, $1,794,742.51. 1 It is noted from the statement re ; leased by the Treasury Department that North Carolina ranks twenty second in the total allotments to the various states. New York ranking i first with a total allotment of $577, ? 213,188.77, and Delaware ranking . lowest with a total allotment of $7, - 431,054.11. Out of the total $4,668,159,883.00 ? approriated by Congress to the vari - ous states, there is an unobligated balance of $77,723,005.19. l ? r Religion is not to be mixed up b with any earthly organization but it can be spread through such ag c enci?fc . . ' "... PUTS A BAN ON' GAME FISHING "Jiggering" Prohibited by the Department of Conservation. Raleigh, July 23.?Fishermen who nave been indulging in "jiggering" for taking members of the finny ;ribe must find another means of "ishing in inland waters in order to :onform with the North Carolina aw. The Board of Conservation and De velopment, at its recent meeting in Horehead City, decreed that this method of fishing will be prohibited n North Carolina in the future in leting favorably upon requests nade by numerous fishermen, J. D. ?halk, State game and inland fish eries commissioner, said, today. Frequent appeals, according to the :ommissioner, have been made to the toard through this office to place he ban on "jiggering," which has >een termed as wasteful of game 'ish life. Members of the board jointed out that the game fish pop ilation of some states has been rreatly depleted by this method of ishing. "Jiggering" is a method of fish- i ng by means of a jerking motion of he lure along the near stream tanks and other places where the ish seek protection. The line used or this purpose is short and is usu illy held out by a long pole extend ed from a boat. Almost any shiny ubstance may be used on the hook or bait. Students From This County in University Summer School Marion Blount, of Greenville; Ned iarring, Greenville; Richard A. foyner, Farmville; Estelle McClees, \yden; Ralph L. Turnage, Ayden, vere among students from this ounty enrolled in the first term of he University of North Carolina Summer School at Chpel Hill, which losed this week. Th second term, which will con entrate all work of the three units f th University at Chapel Hill, got inderway immediately and will con inue through August 29. Registra ion for credit for the second term .ill be permitted through Tuesday, uly 28. - ? * A Regarded as one or tne most, sue essfui Summer Sessions from the loint of view of purpose and se ?ious study, the first term this year howed a total enrollment of 1,017, epresenting 609 men and 408 worn in, an increase of 15 per cent over he first term last year. A large number of institutes and onferences supplemented the regu ar courses of study during the first erm, and several will be held during ;he second session. Among those icheduled are the third State Con erence on Adult Education, July 22 13; a short course in Nursing Edu cation, July 27-August 6; the ninth innual Parent-Teacher Institute, tugust 3-7, and the 15th annual Coaching Sshool for Athletic Direct ors and Coaches, to be headed by Carolina's new football coach, Ray nond Wolf, August 17-29. Gives Rate of Payment for Perennial Grasses Rates of Class II, or soil-building, >ayments offered North Carolina armers for seeding perennial grasses under the new farm pro gram have been announced by Dean 0. Schaub, of State College. The rates in North Carolina and >ther States of the east central re gion range from 75 cents to $2 an icre, depending upon the kind of jrass seeded. The payments will cover the fol owing perennial grasses, seeded any :ime between January 1 and Octob er 31, 1936, with or without a nurse :rop, the Dean stated. Blue grass, $2 an acre. HrfkorH o-rnss. ?1.50 an acre. Permanent pasture mixtures of grasses or grasses and legumes con taining at least 40 per cent blue grass, $1.50 an acre. Permanent pasture mixtures of grasses or grasses and legumes con taining at least 40 per cent orchard grass, $1.25 an acre. Redtop, or permanent pasture mixtures of grasses or grasses and legumes containing at least 40 per cent.redtop, 75 cents an acre. These payments are offered to stiiriblate the growing of grass and pasture mixtures that will protect the" soil from erosion and provide succulent grazing for cattle and livestock, the Dean pointed out. The payments are not intended to give-rthe farmers a big profit for planting the grasses, he continued, but are intended to help them carry out good farming practices that will improve their land, FARM LEADERS HOLD MEETING * Instructions Given Su pervisors of Conserva tion Program. More than 150 Pitt County farm leaders held an all-day session in the Pitt court house in Greenville on Monday, at which time R. R. Ben net, farm agent, conducted a school of instruction for compliance super visors of the Soil Conservation pro gram. ? " ?? -? J - J Agent .Bennett was uiueu m iuc work by B. C. Norris, district com pliance supervisor, with headquar ters in Wallace. The duties of the supervisors, as outlined by the instructors, will be to determine to what extent each farmer is to benefit from the Con servation program this year. Two more meetings will be held to give further instructions, the first to be some time next week and the second the following week. As soon as forms and other data are received from Washington the supervisors will begin measuring acres of crop and on each farm to determine to what extent each farm er will benefit from the Federal farm program. A farmer may divert up to 36 per cent of his cotton acreage, 30 per cent of his tobacco land and 20 per cent of tobacco areage and receive benefit payments for planting soil conserving crops. Under regulations of the program a farmer will receive five cents a pound for cotton and tobacco he would have grown on land diverted to soil conserving crops. The pay ments will be based on the average yield per acre on the farm. He will be paid at the rate of one and one half cents a pound for diverted pea nut land. A participant in the program may utilize the diverted land for any pur pose he desires, provided he plants at least 20 per cent of his base acre age to soil conserving crops. Germany and Austria, it seems, have made up their minds to coop erate, which might mean another war. Wonder what became of the man who was asking for hot weather a couple of months ago? FOREST FIRE TOIL REACHESS7t,488 Careless Smokers Are Responsible for Most of the Damage. Raleigh, July 23.?A total of 530 forest fires last month caused $71, 488 worth of damage, and blame for 115 of these fires was placed on care less smokers and their pennyworth of matches. Lightning, the only natural cause of forest fires known in this State, caused the largest number of fires recorded for years?which was 10. "All the other fires were started by humans and were preventable," W. C. McCormick, assistant State For ester, said. The monthly report of the Fores try Division of the Department of Conservation and Development show ed that the $71,488 worth of damage was the second highest toll of the year. The record was set in May when 1,057 fires and damages of $144,988 were reported. Drought, particularly in Eastern North Carolina, kept fire-fighting forces consvantly on the alert during the month, MoCcrmick said. Other causes of fires during the month: Incendiaries, 67; brush burning, 35; recreationists, 27. A total of 52,450 acres was burned ov er last month, compared with 84,350 in June, but the average number of acres per fire, McCormick said, in creased from 79 to 159. Prolonged drought was partly responsible for this, McCSormick said. M. E. CHILDREN'S WORKERS MEET. Representatives from Rocky Mount, Walstonburg and Farmville Children's Sunday School Workers met together in a group meeting on Tuesday afternoon at the Methodist Church, with Mrs. H. M. Wade, of Durham, Director of Children's Work of the Board of Education of the North Carolina Conference, pre siding. Other distinguished speak ers were Mrs. J. C. Wooten, Secre tary of Children's Work of the N. C. Conference and Mrs. Stewart, of Rocky Mount, District Director. Following the meeting supper was served in the church dining room. Electrically Operated . Farm Formally Opened Dranesville, Va., July 22.?With a flick of his finger Secretary Ickes today set in motion perhaps the most elaborate electrically-equipped farm in America. Simultaneously with the throwing of a mechanical switch things began to happen in Rosedale dairy farm an exhibit of the third world power conference and the Rural Electrifi cation Administration. Back in the bam 20 cows discov ered they were being milked elec-f trically. Down in the pasture a single strand of charged wire barred a herd of grazers from invading a cam field. A mechanical fly-swater com-j menced electrocuting flies swarming about a store house. Air - cooled breezes swept through a bedroom ccupied during the Civil War on different occasions by Gen erals Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson. And back in the bathroom Ran dlph Hughes, 81?son of the farmer owner?took down his electrical raz or. The cows got milked. The corn was safe. The flies were killed off in droves. The bedroom was like a spring day. But?unamiliar with the mechanical beard cutter, son Hughes cut himself. Coming downstairs with a blood stained towel to his chin and a guil ty smile, he announced the accident and paiid a tribute to his new-found electricity. "My," he said, "but that razor's got power!" Moving away from the switch Sec retary Ickes said he hoped the ex hibit farm would symbolize a for ward step in the marshalling and prudent use of farm electricity. I Governor George E, Perry, of Vir ginia, said that it Is an established opinion that the prosperity of the country depends upon the prosper ity of the farmer, and that electricity will aid him in achieving the suc ! cess and luxury that he deserves. VETERAN TEACHERS HONORED t gwwwy?w?wwwiiiimiiiiii iii?KupQociujuLifwifcv.' ".TiTtTv .wi^iriWi1 gjk iHV iwvtmm nmaiiiiuoBHBwgi????3 7. K. Browne, State Director of Vocational IMucatlon la shown presenting keys to (front row. seated left to right) fL K. Melntyre, Red Oak: H. W. Billiard, Kerr; Q. C. Bock, Hertford: H. N. Cherry. Conetoe; (standing, left to right) W. S. McDonald, Scotia; R. H. Hutchison, fill Whitney; J. J. Wolfe. Bailey. Pictured above are the 17 year veteran teachers- of Vocational Agriculture who were honored at; tbe Annual Teachers' Conference Md recently at State College, in recognition of their long service vera awarded gold keys .) ? ? through the courtesy of The Agri cultural Development Bureau of The Barrett Company, marketer of American-made Nitrate of Soda. Oth^r teachers, numbering thirty, who have been In service over ten years were also awarded keys. ' - ?? Rum Sales in Five Units Exceed $250,000 a Year ii ii i i I -. m GUESSING THE VOTE. THE ELECTION RECORDS. ESTIMATES ARE CONJECTURES "NOBODY KNOWS." FIGHT TOR THREE STATES. LABOR BOARD CHARGES. COOPERATIVES ABROAD. TRADE WITH RUSSIA. RECIPROCAL PACTS. IS RELIEF LEGAL? By Hugo Sims, Washington r Correspondent. i \ Guessing the popular vote of the Presidential election this year con- j tinues to be an interesting pastime ? that will be tried by all political ? writers before November. Sound ? reasoning, apparently, will follow j every deduction until the reader is g assurred of the result, which, nine t times out of nine, will be about in line with what the reader is hunt- ( ing. We have no idea of indulging t in this ancient sport but our read- ? ers may be interested in the figures >] of recent contests. The figures here ( given are taken from the World Al- j manac for 1936. i 1932. Roosevelt 22,821,857 Hoover 15,761,841 1928 < Hoover 21,392,190 ? Smith 15,016,443 c 1924 ' Coolidge 15,725,016 ( 1920 Harding 16,152,200 Cox 9,147,353 J 1916 1 Wilson 9,129,606 Hughes 8,538,221 ^ Applying these figures to 1936 it j is apparently possible for a great , shifting of votes, such as that which $ occurred between 1928 and 1932, to j sweep President Roosevelt out of of- f fice. Mind you, we do not predict any such thing. We merely point ] out that it is possible, provided there { has been a ground swell against Mr. j Roosevelt and in favor of a change ] such as was apparent when the bal- j lots were counted in 1932 and Mr. < Hoover ousted from the White House. 1 Republican prospects are based ?. upon the belief that many Repub licans who voted Democratic in 1932 } will return to the party this fall and that they will be augmented by many conservative Democrats, who j do not like the New Deal or any of | its works. Any good calculator can j prove anything that he wants to es- j tablish and that the reader or list- j ener wants to believe. Whether the ( Republican farmers of the West, who ( left their party when relief was not ( given them, will rejoin the ranks, , remains a matter to be determined. How many conservative Democrats t wil cast their ballot against their party nominee is also conjecture, pure and simple. ( Another question that bobs up is , whether President Roosevelt contin ues to be stronger than his party in 1932 when he polled 22,821,857 votes, his party's candidates for congress managed to get only 20,394,152, or more than ten per cent less than the President. In the same year Repub lican candidates for Congress poll ed 15,896,895 votes. Since that time many things have happened but the only one that is positive in evidence is the Congressional elections of 1934. In the mid-term elections Democratic candidates for Congress Republicans 13,434,477 ? a decline of nearly 3,000,000 for the Demo crats and nearly two and a half mil lion for the Republicans. What changes of sentiment have taken place since 1934? The answer, "No body knows!" While political leaders on both sides of the great presidential de bate continue to claim everything in sight and look for new areas to pos sess vooally, all signs point to epoch al struggles in several States, not ably Pennsylvania, New York and Ohio, which together have 111 votes in the electoral college. Pennsyl vania, long a Republican stronghold, is witnessing a trenuous effort to land it in the New Deal column this fall. The Republican majority of a million in 1928 fell to less than 200, 000 In 1932, and ih 1934 the Demo crats elected a Governor and one U. S. Senator. With labor, particular ly the mine workers, counted upon to back the President, the election results this fall are open to debate. In New York, where Governor Lehman will run for a third term, the Republicans point to the up state, where they hope to pile up New Hanover Leads All Counties in Liquor Sales This Year. Tl^l ?1- T 1 AA "A - iwueign, juiy zs.?rne first coun ty to open an ABC store in North Carolina sold over a quarter of a nillion dollars worth of liquor in its irst year and the 64 stores in 18 ;astem counties had gross sales of >2,754,020.45 up to June 30, State department of Revenue reported yesterday. Sales in four other coun ies exceeded the quarter-million nark. Wilson County was the first to dis >ense legal liquor a year ago under he so-called Pasquotank Act ram ned through the General Assembly n its last 36 hours. Its total sales vere reported at $273,912.33. New Hanover County, in which wo summer resort centers are lo ated, led all the other counties with tales totalling $329,644.33. Its tales during last month were the leaviest of any county, totalling !32,268.06, nearly twice as much as iny other county reported. Smallest sales were reported by Sreene County, which was allowed o open its stores only after a law luit. Green collected $30,768.60. Though it was allowed to open stores >nly after the first of the year, franklin County, which operates at ^ranklinton, the nearest dispensary o dry and populous Raleigh, collect td $45,469.56 up to June 30. On total gross sales of $2,745,024. 15, less tax, the 18 counties paid lomething near $75,000 to the State if North Carolina in sales tax. That 8 the only revenue which the State lerives from liquor sales. Moore Cunty, which does not de ?ive any profits from liquor sales ind allows its stores in the resorts if Southern Pines and Pinehurst to >e operated by the Wilson County \BC board, reported sales of $167, L36.65. ? ' * /"? ? /? n i J: fcdgecomDe uoumy ionowea ui ectly behind New Hanover in total imount of sales, reporting $279,998, <8. Wilson County was third; Nash 'ourth, with $244,991.40; Halifax, ifth, with $238,484.05. Other counties reporting were: Pasquotank, $87,736.63; Carteret, ?53,920.31; Craven, $73,340.52; Ons ow, $46,373.68; Pitt, $21,897.89; Martin, $97,587.40; Beaufort, $106, >60.48; Warren, $61,054.20; Vance, ?198,154.63, and Lenoir, $197,192.91. sufficient majority to overcome the raditionally Democratic city of New tfork. Some talk of Tammany dis satisfaction, A1 Smith's disaffection md adverse sentiment among busi ness as factors that will tend to re iuce the President's support in the metropolis. In Ohio a bitter feud between Gov. Martin L. Davey and Relief Administrator Harry Hopkins is called. This reached such a point that the Ohio chief executive threatened to arrest Hopkins if he lame within the State. Just what this will mean is the uncertain fac tor that leads Republicans to be con fident about results in the Buckeye commonwealth. The National Labor Relations Board accuses the Goodyear Rubber Company of complicity assaults up on union members and organizers at. Gasden, Ala., last month, alleging that the company encouraged fore men, supervisors and a "flying 3quadron" to make three attacks. The Bor.rd also holds that the com pany favored an organization exist ing for the avowed purpose of dis rupting the United Rubber Workers. Against the Remington-Rand com pany the Board charges wholesale discharges of workers for union ac tivity, the domination of company unions at four plants and the use of spies and physical interference with workers. The President's commission in Eu rope to study the growth of cooper atives reports that between one third and one-half of the families in Britain now share in the system, with its factories, mills, shipping in terests, retail stores and distribut ing organization. The purchasers from the cooperatives redfeive tick ets upon which dividends are paid quarterly. Statistics indicate that there are 1,135 such societies with 7,202,721 members. The commission will study the cooperative movement in seven or eight European countries before returning to the United States and making its report. The trade agreement with Soviet Russia has been renewed for another year. Originally entered into on July 13, 1935, when Ruasia under took to buy not less thar $30,000, 000 worth of American goods in re turn for the benefits of tariff reduc tions given other countries in re ciprocal agreements, the pact was to run one year. Figures released by the two governments showed that Russia bought approximately $37, (Continued on Back Page)