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you TWKNTT.SIX FARMVILLE, WTT COUNTY. NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1936 NUMBER TWENTY-SEVEN
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ROOSEVELT ENDORSED
BY THE CITIZENS HERE
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Farmville Polls Heavi
est Vote in History ?
1,043 Electors Cast Bal
lots for FDR.
With other candidates receiving sec
ondary consideration in Tuesday's
election, the citizens in this commun
ity turned out in overwhelming nuu
bers to cast the heaviest vote ever
polled here, for President Roosevelt,
a total of 1,043.
Farmville joined other precincts in
Pitt County in voting for the Pres
idential candidate, Governor, State
and County Democratic tickets, but
was somewhat divided in its expres
sion on the five proposed amendments
to the State Constitution. Hoey re
ceived 900 votes and Grissom 97.
With five of the 19 precincts un
counted when we go to press, Roose
velt had seven thousand and sixty-six
votes against Landon's three hundred
and twenty-six in the County. These
precincts gave Hoey 5,328 ballots and
Grissom only 457.
Every precinct in the County gave
Landon a vote, but several of them
refused him more than 10. Chicod No.
3 voted only two ballots for him, Chi
cod No. 1 only four, Fountain five,
and Farmville twenty.
Farmville precinct votes, as tabu
lated and returned by Registrar Ed
Nash Warren,' were cast as follows:
J'vn t ? a 1
X l coiuvutiai
Democratic:
Roosevelt 1043
Gamer 1042
Republican
Landon 20
Knox 20
State, U. S. Senator and Congressman
Democratic
Hoey 900
Horton 930
Eure 949
Pou 948
Johnson 943
Erwin 950
Sea well 946
Scott 950
Fletcher 940
Boney 942
Connor 944
Devin 940
Spears 941
Armstrong J 944
U. S. Sen. Bailey 943
Republican
Grissom 97
White L- 48
Campbell 28
Hoy 28
Allen 29
Zimmerman 26
Ham rick 27
Phelps 27
Vance 33
Seawell, Jr. 30
Gudger 27
Bramham 30
Carter 29 .
Williams 28
U. S. Sen. Patton 35
Member of Congress
Warren 960
Wilkinson 26 !
County Officers
Gas kins 947
Whitehurst 967
Perkins 925
Ellwanger 939
County Commissioners
Democratic
Cox 930
House 916
Cherry 920
A
Lewis you
Kilpatrick 914 |
Republican
Whitehurst, Jr. 14 , |
Nobles 14 k
Johnson 14
Gay 16
Peel 13 J
Surveyor '
Dresbach 914
Constitutional Amendments
1?For Judicial Section 342 l
Against 389
2?For Taxation Homes 449
Against 360 I
3?For Classification Pro. 343 I
Against 355 (
4?For Income Tax Increase 445 j
Against 302 t
5?For Public Debt 567
Against 161 t
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Offices Scarce for Cur- J
rituck Republicans !
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"If and when, the Republicans ever
get back in office there won't be ^
enough left in Currituck County to i
hold the postrnastership. ]
Thus declared Dudley Bagley, di- <
rector of the State Rural Electrifies- ]
tion Authority, Wednesday, upon his
return from his home at Moyock to
vote. Mr. Bagley said he was greatly
imprqpaed with the order at all boxes
he passed on his 240-refle trip.
The first rural electric tine for
Pamlico County was staited last
week in the Olymoia Community and
will extend for miles serving IB
NEXT GOVERNOR
Clyde R. Hoey, Democratic stalwart,
received an overwhelming victory in
yesterday's election and will serve- as
North Carolina's Chief Executive for
the next four years. All other Demo
cratic candidates rode to victory in
the Democratic landslide in the State
and Nation.
Farmville Hi's Play)
at Greenville Today
In Keeping With Record I
and Frequent Victories
Farmville Should Win
Today's Football Game
Greenville, Nov. 5?The fourth
home football game of the season by
the Greenville High School, will be
played Friday afternoon at 3:30
o'clock on the Third Street School
field against the Farmville High
School's "Red Devils."
Reports indicate that the Farmville
eleven boasts a fast, fighting team
that never quits. Two of their play-J
ers, Judy, quarterback, and Teal, cen
ter, are as good as any players Green
ville has playe<j against this year.
Judy is a tall, heavy and fast lad on
the gridiron, which makes him a dan
gerous offensive threat for the Green
Phantoms.
Teal, Farmville center, is a small i
chap, but is judged by some of the i
fellows who know their football as a
natural-born football player. Teal
has been the defensive star in every
game the Farmville "Red Devils" I
have played this season.
Farmville has lost to the elevens of
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Dunn and Washington, both of whom :
are undefeated thus far this year. j
The "Red Devils" played a scoreless.
game with West Edgecombe and de
feated Snow Hill 19-0, and Wallace
25-0.
The Farmville coach and team have
been looking forward to the game with
the Green Phantoms all season, and
have promised the local gridsters a
tough combat Owing the interest the
Farmvillians are showing toward Fri
day's clash, a large crowd of Farm
ville fans are expected to motor to
Greenville to witness the game.
So long as your money holds out
you will have plenty of friends to help"
you spend it.
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Local Community
Sing to Bo Held
Methodist CM
Sponsored by Farmvillel
Symphonic Chorus ?
To Be Held Afternoon
of the 15th?Goldsboro
Choir Will Participate.
Plans are now being completed for
the Community Sing, which is to be
held here in the Methodist Church,
Sunday afternoon, at 3:30 o'clock, No
vember 15.
The Sing, which will be sponsored
by the Farmville Symphonic Chorus,
is to be held for the benefit of the
community, in which the Chorus de
sires to inspire a revival of self-ex
pression through the medium of vocal
music, thereby lifting it to a happier
and more wholesome state, and con
cert singing will be the main feature
of the program.
The choir of the First Baptist
Church, of Goldsboro, which is an out-1
standing group in the musical world I
of that community/ has accepted the
invitation of the Farmville Chorus to
be present, and take part in the Sing
program, which will also include mix
ed selections by the male and women I
choruses.
The conductor of the Chorus, Lewis
S. Bullock, reports that the improve
ment in the work and the progress be
ing made along all lines is gratifying
and that he is sure the community
will be pleased with their efforts on
this occasion.
Vacancies in nearly all the chorus
divisions remain, and the Chorus and
director extend a cordial invitation to
local singers and music lovers to join
them.
FUNERAL OF VERNON LEE
MOORE HELD THURSDAY
Funeral services were held Thurs
day afternoon at 3:30 from the home
of Mrs. Lucy Moore Rasberry for
Vernon Lee Moore, age 50, who died
in a hospital in Greenville Wednesday
of pneumonia. Interment was made
in Hollywood cemetery . Rev Mr.
Ennis of the Baptist church and Rev.
Mr. Roberts conducted the services.
Surviving ar two sisters and one
brother, namely, Mrs. Lucy Moore
Rasberry, Mrs. Wyatt C. Tucker, and
A. B. Moore, all of Farmville.
Pallbearers: Active, B. 0. Turnage,
T. E. Turnage, Ernest Gaynor, D. L.
Turnage, Colie Turnage and D. F.
Fields; honorary, W. J. Rasberry, R.
O. Lang, J. Y. Monk, J, B. Joyner,
R. A. Joyner, J. M. Stansill, D. E,
Oglesby, Frank Davis, S. A, Roebuck,
Zeb Whitehurst, Joe Moye, Howard
Moye, R. A. Fields, W. A, Bass, Jim
Flanagan, R. E. Belcher, J, T. Thorne,
A. C. Monk, Oscar Erwin, LeRoy
Rollins, R. H. Knott, J, H. Harris,
Aaron Turnage, Floyd Turnage and
Lester Turnage.
Chairman Praises
Loyal Workers
State Democratic Chairman J. Wal
lace Winborne and Mrs. J. B. Spil
man, vice-chairman, mailed out let
ters <rf thanks and congratulations to
more than 4,000 county and precinct
party workers Wednesday as returns
continued to indicate an unprecedent
ed sweep for the party in Tuesday's
election.
Only Six Republicans Are
Slated for State Legislature
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Minority Party Repre- <
sentatives Cut In Half; ]
Some Veterans Return- i
in g J
Tuesday's Democratic landslide in ^
'forth Carolina swept half the Re- 1
jublican representatives out of the '
General Assembly, leaving fewer ma
ority party members in the Legisla
;ure than in any year since 1931.
There will be six Republicans in J
;he 1937 House, incomplete returns
ndicate, as compared with 13 last
:erm, and two in the Senate, the same
as in 1935. In 1935, there were five
Republican Representatives and two
Senators.
Only Clay, Madison, Mitchell, Av
jry, Davie and Yadkin counties appear
to have remained steadfast to the Re
publican Party as the Democrats laid |
down their greatest barrage of bal- _
Ibts. And the Democrats apparently
recaptured Catawba, Rutherford, Lin
coln and Randolph and took the G.O.
P. strongholds in Cherokee, Wilkes
and Sampson.
The 24th and 30th districts remain
ed Republican. B. C. Brock, member
of the 1935 House from Davie, will
represent the 24th; Dr. J. A. Hutch
ins, the 80th.
Though Republicans made no in
:oada a* the Democratic majority in
;he Senate, only seven members of the
L935 body will return next session.
Legislators of past years who will be
n the Senate, however, will include
Dr. T. W. M. Long, of Roanoke Rap
ds; W. I. Halstead, of South Mills;
E. G. Flanagan, of Greenville; S. Gil
ner Sparger, of Danbury; T. J. Gold,
>f High Point, and Mrs. E. L. McKel,
of Sylva.
With Mrs. McKee will be serving
Mrs. Charles M. Hutchins, of Yancey,
in the House for her second consecu
tive term. Two women served in the
General 9Assembly simultaneously
for the first time in 1931, when Mrs.
McKee "sat in th Senate, Mrs. Lily
Morehead Mebane, of Rockingham
County, in the House. Mrs. McKee is
th first and only woman Senator in
North Carolina.
In the House this time will be 40
past members out of 120. Returning
among others, will be R. Gregg Cher
ry, pf.Gaston, chairman of the 1935
Finance Committee, and regarded as
the lading candidate for Speaker.
Oldest member in the House in
point-of service will be Walter "Pete"
Murphy, of Rowan, who served his
first .term in 1897 and later was the
Speaker. His Senate colleague from
RoWur will be Edwin C. Gregory, a
son-in-law of the late Senator Lee 8.
Overman; in the House, George Us*
sell, Ant termer in 1985,
Farmville Market Sells
Beyond 16 Million So Far
New Life Is Felt This
Week; End of Crop Be
gins to Show In Offer
ings Yesterday.
With good grades continuing to
pull the highest prices of the past
two seasons, medium grades were ap
parently in more demand as the Farm
ville market got underway on Monday,
than on any sale this season, result
ing in a renewad strength and activ
ity during this, the tenth week of the
current season,
Official figures for Monday, ac
cording to Supervisor Bundy, were
439,370 pounds, which sold for $112,
697.21, at an avehage of $25.65, a
sigher average than had been experi
enced for a week.
Sales on Monday, Tuesday and on
Thursday boosted the season's totals
to 16,261,957, amount paid out $3,
733,665.14 and average to $22.96.
The common grades of the end of
the crop began to show up Wednes
day in abundance, and the daily av
erage thermometer dropped accord
ingly.
Handle well and place your godd
tobacco on the market immediately,
is the advice of local tobacconists,
who maintain that prices are higher
on the Fanpville market than any
other. ? 4
Publisher Hearst Says
"Will of the People"
New York, Nov. 4.?A signed state
ment by William Randolph Hearst,
whose newspapers opposed President
Roosevelt in the election Tuesday, in
the New York American tonight urg
ed "undivided support" for the Presi
dent
"This country is still a democracy,"
the statement said. "The will of the
people is expressed freely at the polls.
"The overwhelming majority of the
popular vote for Mr. Roosevelt shows
conclusively that the Roosevelt poli
cies are what the people of this na
tion want
"And if these policies are what they
want, these policies are what they are
entitled to have and will have ... .
"Let all who constitute the minority
aecept the decision of the majority
not grudgingly but'with confidence in I
the wisdom of the people, And let them I
do their part in giving the President
of all the people of (he undivided sup
port of all the people.
"And let us hope and pray that this
President's policies will be wise and
just, and that they will prove bene
ficial in the highest degree' to the
great country of which we are all loy
*1 citUens,"
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At 84 Lawmaker Meets
Death by ACL Train
Benson, Nov. 4.?Funeral services
were held from Pleasant Hill Church
here this afternoon for Neil H. Lucas,
84, prominent retired farmer and one
time Republican legislator from John
ston County, who wad killed here yes
terday afternoon, when he accidental
ly stepped in front of an Atlantic
Coast Line express train,
Mr. Lucas,- who was slightly deaf,
is said to have disregarded or not
seen a warning of the crossing watch
man of the approaching train, which
dragged his body several hundred
yards and badly mangled it before it
could be stopped.
Smith Child Dies in
Greenville Hospital
Greenville, Nov. 4.?Adrian Earl
Smith, aged seven, son of Mr. and
Mrs. W. A. Smith, of Greenville, died
in the local hospital Monday night,
from a short illness of spinal menin
gitis. He was only sick a few hours.
Funeral services were conducted
from the Williams' Funeral Home on
Tuesday afternoon at 3 o'clock, by
Rev. R. C. Grady, of the Presbyterian
Church. Interment was made in the
Greenwood Cemetery.
An amateur is likely to get hurt
anywhere, any time.
DON BESTON
and his orchestra of Radio, Screen
and Phonograph fame, who will play
for the Annual Harvest Ball, in
Farmville, Tuesday, Nov. 17th, at
Webb's Warehouse. This orchestra
is one of the oldest and best bands in
the history of Radio. He was, until- a
few .months ago, with Jack Benny on
the Stmday night Jello program. His
band has appeared in leading hotels,
theatres and night clubs over the
%;i>. v-'entire United States.
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Senator Simmons Wires
His Congratulations
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From New Bern Wednesday former
United States Senator F. M. Simmons,
who was a victim of the anti-Smith
landslide in 1928, after serving more
than a quarter century, telegraphed
President Roosevelt:
"I congratulate you and the nation
upon your sweeping victory. You
and Jefferson stand, together as the
two greatest statesmen this country
has produced." ' 1
More Democrats
In White House
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Republicans Have Hac*'
Fewer Presidents Than
Other Major Party
Greenville, Nov. 4.?There have <
been fourteen Democratic Presidents i
of the United States and thirteen lie- i
publicans, F. C. Harding, local law- j
yer, told the Rotary Club, of Green- i
ville, this week. I
George Washington was elected
without political parties, John Adams
was a Federalist, William Henry Har- i
rison was a Whig, Zachary Taylor a ;
Whig, Filmore a Whig. Up to the <
election of James K. Polk there had
been no Republican party. Buchanan
was the last Democratic president be- i
fore the Civil War.
Contrary to popular belief, history
shows Virginia not to be the "Moth
er of Presidents," since Virginia has
produced four presidents, New York
four, Ohio seven and North Carolina
three?Andrew Jackson, Andrew- i
Johnson and James K. Polk.
Just picking up odd ^interesting :
facts about presidents, the speaker
next spoke of the father-son Presi
dents?James Adams and John Quin
cy Adams. As for national source of
our Presidents, all have been from
England, Ireland or Scotland, except
two?Hoover, a Dutch descent, and
one Swiss.
In closing Mr. Harding said he
wanted to say, as a Southerner and
the son of a Confederate officer, that
slavery seen now in the cool light of
thought, was a canker on the body of
politics and it took the operation of
the Northern sword to remove it.
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Middling White
Leads Ginnings
Washington, Nov. 4.?The Bureau
of Agricultural Economics reported
today that more than half the 119,100
bales of cotton ginning in North Car
olina to October 1 was classified as
middling white.
There were 61,800 bales, or 51.9
per cent in this classification, with
strict middling ranking next with
with 34,700 bales, or 29.1 per cent.
Other classifications accounted for ,
the following number of bales: good
middlings and above, 1,400; strict
low middling, 7,100; low middlng,
400; good middling, spotted, 300;
strict middling spotted, 10,400; mid
dling, spotted, 2,800, and strict low
middling, spotted, 200.
R. L Davis and
Brothers Going
OotofBosiness
To Sell Everything and
Retire; the Dry Goods
Dept. Building Leased
to Belk-Tyler Co., Big
gest Sale in Farmville's
History to Open This
Morning.
We call the attention of our read
ers to the advertisements in this is
sue of R. L. Davis & Bros., announc
ing the "Biggest News In Years,"
when, on Friday morning of this
week, November 6th, when the doors
to their large stock of General Merch
andise will be opened to the public in
a "Going Out of Business Sale."
After 68 years in business, this
firm is now selling out completely.
Their entire stocks will be sold at
once, regardless of sacrifice or loss.
The store building, now occupied by
the dry goods department, has been
leased to the Belk-Tyler Company,
who will open up here with a new line
of merchandise in the near future. *
Read the advertisements of R. L.
Davis & Bros, in this issue and at
tend this big sale, if you want real
bar Drain a in duality merchandise.
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Roosevelt Agiieves Greatest Electoral
Majority Since United States Began
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Electoral Vote Score of
523 to 8 ? Democrats.
Carry 46 States?Next
Congress Will Be Over
whelmingly Democrat
ic?Many Party Tradi
tions, Especially Re
publicans, Overturned.
President Roosevelt piled up the
greatest electoral majority in Tues
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aay a cicuuuu vu<?t?
any candidate ever
has enjoyed since
the nation grew up. -
The victory left
just eigHt electoral
votes in the column
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of Alfred M. Landon, tne itepuDucan
candidate. It further reduced the Re
publican membership in Congress and
took one more Governor' chair, at
least, from the party of Landon and
Lincoln.
'So/wide was the margin over Gov
ernor Landon that followers called it
a clear mandate for Mr. Roosevelt to
continue his liberal policies; even
some of his most bitter opponents
3aid every real American must stand
behind the President.
Some reactions were visible immed
iately. The stock market was thrown
into a buying whirl, with some issues
advancing to a new five-year high and '
only public utility stocks the object of
heavy selling.
Just two states, Maine and Ver
mont, with a total of eight electoral
votes, stood on the Landon side. New
Hampshire spent election night in the
Landon column, thep climbed on the
Democratic bandwagon.
In the end the President seemed
certain of the 523 electoral votes, Lan
don 8. It was the nearest approach
to unanimity in the electoral college
since James Monroe was reelected in
1820 with only a single vote against
him.
A correspondingly topheavy major
ity in the House and Senate seemed
likely. The Democrats appeared to
be winning enough seats to give them
75 of the 96 in the Senate. House re
turns were slower, but with some
thing like two score contests in doubt,
the Democrats appeared sure of going
beyond 300 seats. In the upsets, they
had, taken two Republican seats for -
every one the Republicans had gain
ed from them. They had 308 mem
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bers in tne last nouse.
Not since William Howard Taft
went down in the snorting Bull Moose
rampage of 1912 had the fortunes of
the Republicans fallen to so low a
state. Even then, though Taft got
only the eight electoral votes of Utah
and Vermont, all the rest did not go
to the Democrats. Theodore Roose
velt got 88, Wilson the remainder.
In the aftermath of the balloting,
the nation settled slowly back to
work. The candidates exchanged
friendly messages with a common call
for all Americans to obey the will of
the majority.
Governor Landon, his defeat behind
him and congratulations already sent
the winning candidates, told reporters
he had no comment to make on the
election, nor on future Republican
planks.
"I expect to go duck hunting in a
few days," he said.
At least part of the bitter taste of
the words that the two parties had
flung at each other last week was be
ing washed away. Governor Landon
sent a message to President Roosevelt
saying: "Every American will ac
cept the verdict and work for the com
mon cause of the good of our coun
try." Mr. Roosevelt replied that he
was "confident that all of us Ameri
cans will now pull together for the
common good."
The words that came from most ev
ery person who had taken a promi
nent part in the campaign struck a
similar note.
From international circles came ex
pressions of satisfaction that Amer
ica's foreign policy was to be contin
ued without interruption. This view
came from French, Italian and Aus
trian officials. ? ^
The full power of the push for Presi
dent Roosevelt was partly evidenced
in the bulge of his pluralities in states
that had big bundles of electoral votes
to deliver. He-captured California by
500,000; Illinois by 600,000; Michigan
by 240,000; Missouri by 400,000; New
York by 1,200,000; Ohio by 400,000;
Pennsylvania by 500,000.
Indications are that his total plu
rality of the popular vote might reach
9,000,000. L ' ,
Virginia gave the President the
largest popular majority it had ever
given a candidate with major Tarty
opposition. ^
New Jersey for the first time in his
tory, elected two Democratic Sena
tors?one ajiative of North Caroline.
It gave President Looaevelt a 350,000
vote popular plurality.
The one-time Republican strong
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