?/ V- "' i . ? * ;*r ? ;r; ?. ? ;" | Ffttronte Oar Advertises, For ;; tmAn OnffeuMtr hTlfli*:: i ?00 To Trade With Them. UA : vow#* iwENTT-noajk''- : : V'"-':- ?? "t ''' farmvialu wit countt, moot* Carolina. Friday, February* is, ins number forty '? "? '?-! i ' ?'f., A'ff'l-r ? - ? 'i i . i!m ? -I I- , i, i- - ?' - ? " ? - jr ?? Wallace Witt Proclaim J Flue-Cured Crop Quotas ? . . ? ? v-. ?' ?? ? Indicate Crop of 700, 000,006 Pounds; To Cut Cotton Acreage Sharp ly. _ Washington, Feb. 16 ? Secretary Wallace said today that he probably would proclaim a 1938 marketing quota for flue-cured tobacco, but was not certain whether quotas would be issued for fire-cured and dark air cured tobacco. "The supply situation indicates that a quota will be proclaimed for flue-cured tobacco in 1936," he said in explaining the tobacco provisions of the farm act after the President signed the measure. "According to the formula in the act," Wallace said, "the reserve sup ply of flue-cured tobacco is approxi mately 1,663,000,000 pounds. Since the supply for the marketing year which began July 1, 1937, exceeded the reserve supply level by about 70,000,000 pounds, a quota, unless re jected by the growers, will be effec tive on the crop in 1938." Wallace explained that payments to growers would be contingent upon soil conservation practices under the Agricultural Adjustment Administra tion soil program, and that parity payments would be made if necessary funds were made available. He said the act required him to proclaim a marketing quota for 1933 within 15 days after the measure's enactment if supplies exceeded the reserve supply level, and not later than December 1 for future market ing years. Wallace said the national flue cured quota "probably will be be tween 700,000,000 and 710,000,000 pounds." " ? "The national quota will be ap portioned to the states on the basis of several factors," he said, "the 1 principal one being production for the preceding five years." } Then, he said, the state quotas will ' be divided among farms on the basis 1 of past marketing; land, labor and ' equipment; crop rotation practices, soil and other physical factors. 1 Wallace said farmers who grew to- ' bacco in 1937 were eligible to vote in ; a referendum to determine whether ' a marketing quota shall apply to the 1 type of tobacco they produced, and ' that no quota would prevail if more than one-third of the farmers voting ^ opposed it. 1 ? ] He aid the penalty wr My lunuur exceeding his individual market quota would be 3 cents a pound, or 50 per cent of the market price on the date of sale of flue-cured tobac co, Maryland and burley tobacco, and 2 cents a pound on other tobacco. The secretary said that on small tobacco farms, the marketing quota can not be less than the average pro duction, including diversion, during the past three years, if in the case of flue-cured the average is less than 3,200 pounds, and in the case of other tobacco less than 2,400 pounds. The flue-cured quota for any state can not be reduced, he said, below 75 per cant of the 1987 production; and fttcma on which tobacco is grown in 1998 for the first time in five years can not have quotas of more than 75 per cent of the allotment to regular farms. The secretary announced that the 1988 cotton production goal under the new crop control act would Be around 10,750,000 bales, compared with a yield of 18,746^00 bales in 1937. Farmers would be given an oppor tunity with in 30 days, he said, to vote on a proposal to establish mar keting quotas in an attempt to keep tiie amount moving into market this year within the goal. The surplus eotton from last year's crop was estimated at around 18,009,000 bales. Approval of two-thirds of the farm ers voting in the referendum would be required to make the quotas ef fective. All farmers who produced eotton in 1937 will be eligible-to vote in the election, which will be con ducted under the supervision of coun ty farmer committees and at polling piece to be established in communi ties where cotton is grown* The bal lot will be secret As a step toward holding produc tion to the goal level, the secretory jyidoal growers by local farmer comfw i/msr ue quui? syoven* I Japanese Renew Efforts To Enter American Sector ?? n i i m However, Marines at Shanghai Again Re fuse to Admit Japanese Patrols. Shanghai, Feb. 16.?(Wednesday). ?Japanese sought to settle new dif ficulties with United States Marines in Shanghai's International Settle ment today while their armies in Northern Honan province continued their drive to bottle up 400,000 Chi nese defending the important Lung hai railway. The Marine incident arose when Japanese patrols tried to enter the American defense sector of the set tlement to "exercise supervision over Japanese, both civilian and military, who informally enter the American sector," a Japanese spokesman ex plained. The Marines turned the patrols back twice, Marine officers indicat ing they felt capable of patrolling the area without Japanese assistance. They said the Japanese were inform ed of their attitude and they expect ed the issue to be settled by today. The Japanese said their drive in North Honan was "jeopardizing the expected retreat westward" of the 1 huge Chinese force defending Suchow, junction of the Lunghai and Tientsin railways north of Nanking. As a result of Japanese successes in this sector, the newspaper Nippo, organ of the Japanese command in Shanghai, predicted Chinese troops j soon would abandon both Suchow and Hankow, provisional Chinese capital, and retreat to southern provinces for a last stand. The paper, basing its prediction on statements reported made by a for eign adviser of the Chinese army, said the Chinese would try to hold Kwangtung, Kwangsi, Hunan, Yurnan and Kweichow provinces, moving the capital southward into one of these provinces instead of to Chungking, as bad been expected. Some foreign observers in Shang hai also expressed the belief that the capital would be moved southward if Hankow were lost. In North Honan, one Japanese col umn was reported attacking Sinsiang, 15 miles north of Chengchow, junc tion of the Lunghai and Pieping Hankow railways. The Chinese were retreating slowly down the latter line, tearing up tracks, destroying bridges and opening- canals to flood the countryside. Another Japanese column in* North Honan was said to be at Fengkiu on the north bank of the-Yellow River, opposite Kaifeng, Lunghai railway point about 40 miles east of Chen chow. Patrols were reported scouting the river bank to find a means-of crossing. On the broad Lunghai- battlefront east of Kaifeng, Japanese told of ad vances both from the North and South, narrowing the corridor along the railway from 180 to 140 miles. Bwy Advocates ? Governor Speaks Before elation In Durham. Durham, Feb. 15.?The addition of a 12th fear to the State School Sys tem was further advoeated here to night by Governor Clyde R. Hoey, who spoke under the sponsorship of die Parent-Teacher Association of Central Junior High School. f The GovefnerTalso called for adcdtT education courses and a psogram of vocational training, declaring that the rich resources of North Carolina needed only the application of intel ligence to make this one of the great est states of the nation. The Governor said he was aware that "North Carolina is not a rich &4.1, ?J .1 J._. ' ?? 1 ___ I awe ... ana xnerexore we rnusx pro-1 ceedas the ability ofour peoples I Justify it." He said, however, that nothing is more worthy of taxation Governor Hoey, who spoke Sunday in Chicago, said that during his trip by the effort that hi being made to ^- itiodfini' fidunfttion nliAn1.fl' t ., | ,t^m| ' ,, i.tL Mrs. MyrffisMI I RHNPMM Wife of Editor G. A. Rouse Laid to Rest In Snow Hill Churehyardl ? I Final rites for Mrs. Myrtle Dail Rouse, 52, wife of Editor G. Alex! Rouse, and a member of a prominent j Greene county family, were conduct-1 ed from the residence on South Main ! street, Tuesday morning at 11:001 o'clock, by her pastor, the Rev. D. A. Clarke, of the Methodist Church, as sisted by the Rev. C. B. Mashburn, Christian minister, and the Rev. H. M. Wilson, of the Presbyterian Church. | Interment was made in the family 'plot in the Episcopal churchyard in 'Snow Hill, at her request, beneath a large and handsome floral tribute. I. j Quartet selections, ICrossing the Bar," "Oh, eBar Me Away on the Snowy Wings," and "Abide With Me," were rendered at the service in I the home and at the graveside by Mrs. , M. V. Jones, Mrs. A. W. Bobbitt, John! Dwight and Elbert Holmes. Mean-1 bers of the Young Women's Circle of I the M. E. Church and Junior Woman's Club acted as floral bearers. I; Active pallbearers were: T. B.I Rouse of Farmville, Sam Hill, of I Nashville, Charles and Dail Laugh-1 inghouse and Alex Dail, of Greenville, j and Fred Dixon, of Raleigh. Mrs. Rouse, whose death occurred! at 4:46 Monday morning at the home, ! 1 had been in declining health for sev-1 eral months. She was a daughter of the late W. Haywood and Mrs. Mary Virginia r Dail, r>f Snow Hill. A resident of 1 Farmville for the past twenty-six j years, she was held in highest esteem here, having been active in the Meth- j odist Church, its organizations, the Parent-Teacher Association, 'the Re- r becca Winborne Chapter, U. D. C., 11 and the Merry Matrons Club. She H was among the charter members of M the last group. ? [I Surviving are her husband, a! daughter, Miss Mary Friar Rouse; r four sisters, Mrs. P. S. Boyd, of Mooresville, Mrs. J. W. Dixon, of ( Raleigh, Miss Minnie Best Ddil, of I1 Snow Hill, and Mrs. G. M. Holden, of Farmville, and three brothers, W. H., George F. M. and Fred Dail, all of M Greenville. |i . . ; j i Macce Export j OiiM Bright : Signs Point to Increased Shipments of Flue -? cured Leaf to British t IsfeS; 1 Washington, Feb. 15.--The pros- t pect of a substantial increase in ? British imports of tobacco from the ? United States this year compared \ with 19ST was noted today by the s Bureau of Agricultural Economics, - American tobacco .used in Great Brit ain consists almost entirely of flue* c cured tobacco grown in the Carolinas I and Virginia. British imports of American tobac- 1 co from September 1 to December t 31 amounted to 153.2 million pounds f compared with 126 million daring the * corresponding quarter of 1936, ac cording to a report received by the bureau from its London office. But a even with the upward trend in im- c ports, stocks of United States tobac- t co in the United Kingdom are still c at low levels compared with consump- I tion requirements. With the contin- f ued upward trend in tobacco tonsump- f tion it is believed their imports of c American leaf during 1938 will in- c crease considerably over those of t 1987. 1 British imports of tobacco from a the United Statee during the calen- ? dar year 1937 amounted to 204.5 mil- t lion pounds compared with 214.4 mil- i lion in 1936. Imports from empire producing countries, on4 the other i hand, reached 57.4 million pounds c compared with 52.8 million the year f before. Total imports of unmanu- 1 factured leaf front- all countries in ? 1937 amounted to approximately 269 i "tnfc jTSS *gSto*' 272 mUll0n \ 'consumption increared more rep- 1 idly in 1937 than import^^accor^g I Suta?incise, antocrease of 4^*4* 1 _ Stofi Leone It i -i I ' 11''1 ** ? M By "^S3h THE SPENDING DRIVE ~ TOLL HIGHWAY SYSTEM 20,000 MILES OF ROADS HULL DENIES PACT LEAH'S TESTIMONY JAPAN QUESTIONED WHY JOINT NOTES? HOUSING PROGRAM MENACE t}>?. SALMON JAPS WORRY ALASKA (Hugo 8. Sims, Washington Corres pondent) ^ ? . :i- ' . * . ? Advocates of a spending program, designed to offset business repres sions, recently conferred with Pres ident Roosevelt and reported that he would ppply a self-liquidating test to future construction projects. While the Chief Executive was not repre sented as urging any immediate pro gram, his present thought is that spending projects should create "new wealth" and eventually return to the Treasury any money advanced by the Government. He specifically mentioned as meritorious projects, the building of toll bridges and high ways, rural electrification and other potential revenue producers. Among those failing to meet his objective svere school houses and other public buildings and battleships. Warships, in particular, he said, should not be instructed as reemployment objec tives. . Among the most ambitious propos als in the category of "pump-prim ing" is that of Senator Bulkley, of Dhio, who would construct an $8,000, XX),000 system of transcontinental Soil highways, to be financed by bonds ssued by a new Federal Highway Corporation. The Ohioan is drafting i bill now along this line, with the lelp of engineering and financial ex> i jerts. While the details of the pro posal are to be determined, Senator Sulkley thinks the system could be constructed in three years. It would nclude at least three super-highways Tossing the continent East and West md six North and South. The Bulkley plan would provide 'or the elimination of all grade crots ngs, a neutral strip to divide trif le so that vehicles on each pavement could, move in only one direction, freight and passenger vehicles < could use separate, pravements. The ] dghways would be built on a 800- ( 00 t right-of-way at a cost of between ] >300,000 and $660,000 a mile, with a ] otal of about 20,0(H) miles. " - 1 Highway officials who have dis- ] ussed the proposal with Senator i lulkley feel certain that a way could \ >e found to finance the system, guar- , mteing the Government against loss ] md assuring investors of a fair re urn and at the same time providing,'] 1 "fill-in" program of road building ) luring curtailment of regular high- j cay appropriations and thus assist in olving the unemployment problem. ] Senator Bulkley estimates that in- ] erest and amortization at two per' ; ent plus Hie cost of maintenance, i (dicing and administration would , ost about $220,000,000 annually. If en per cent of the motor vehicle j raffic uses the highway system,, he \ igures the return to the Corporation , could be about $425,000,000 a year. ] 1 , Readers may be interested in the i mount of tolls which would be harged users of such a system. Na- 1 urally, these have not been worked ? >ut in full but for estimation pur- < K>ses, the toll used has been twenty- j ive and fifty cents on passenger and < reight vehicles, respectively, plus i me and a half mills a passenger mfle 1 >n passenger vehicles and four mills a J on mile on freight vehicles. On this I ?asis, the toll for four passengers in i in automobile would be forty centp taehfor a 226 mile journey and $2.30 < or a two-ton truck covering the same < listance. ( i ? -1. '* n f..fpsg ongregamen, the President spoke d upon during, times of business de ression and stopped during normal i igfrffiy outside ? London*^ He* tSd i tow the British Government condem ns right-of-way one-half mile wide, denied ? _ _ '4. fl||- " ? rv||Vl^^ ^ ^ ' i A I ' * I I11IM11 * IS m M l2iAi^Smffl wood Cemetery. ? Funeral services for John Reddln Lewis, &4, a prominent ahdsuecM* ! ful planter, and owner of tittle Creek Dairy, were held from hit late home near Farmville, on Sunday afternoon at three o'clock by the Rev. J. 2. Roberts, past r of the Farmville Primitive: Baptist Church. Assisting were Eidfer Cobb, of Wilson, the Bl#. D. A. Clarke and the Rev, Hi It Wil son, Methodist and Presbyterian min isters of Farmville. Interment was made In Hollywood cemetery, the lovely floral offering bearing tribute to the esteem in which he was held. Active pallbearers were nephews Ren and Jtaraie Lewis, Ben Lang, Robert Stanfield, William and Joe Brake, of Rocky Mount The death of Mr. lewis, on Satur- J day afternoon at 6:80 o'clock, resulted from Bright's disease, from which he ! had suffered for two years, though he 1 had been active much of the timev i He was stricken Monday night and ? was critically ill for the six days i preceding his death. Mr. Lewis was the son of the late 1 James Taylor and Mrs. Mary Finette 1 May Lewis. A genial man, with a ' wide circle of friends, he will be < greatly missed in this section of the 1 county. Surviving are his wife, formerly Miss Gertrude Yelverton, and twelve ' children; Misses Penlope, Martha, 1 Cleo, Mary, Vivian, Etna, Grace Frances, Albert, Alfred, Reddin 3 Grimes and Brule Lewis, and a sis- 1 ter, Mrs. Mary Lewis Lang, 1 . ? ? i Decissioe Unmade AboutDstecHve; Pitt County Commis- i sioners Hear Evidence ] of Barn's Good Char- U acter. f Greenville, Feb. 15.?Whether A.I 3. Bataon, manager of the National j Bureau of Investigation, "will be f criminal conditicna in the county t ire necessary, they should be intrust- v id to persons whose names are un-l rallied by court records, and in whom a die people of the county can have t faith and confidence." They were |( uked also not to make Any more pay- U nents to Batson or hit) assistants. 11 Batson was employed by the county ifter doing undercover work in Pitt Is bounty for the Alcohol Beverage a Control board. An official answer I io the request filed by the committee, K mm of S. 0. Worthington, G. H. a pfetman, L. T. Pierce, W. C. White- U A. Hudson y Hod Williams and his sixteen- . jiece dance orchestra. Saturday night rill be the closing night, and many L inique attractions will be presented I is the gala week will come to its end. 5f course the regular sixteen pro-1 f 'essional high class acts will enter- L uin the patrons during each even-1 ng of the entire week. Americans and fins- j sians In China's j Atrial Legion! S .. .. ?1? v:'- 1 Chengchow, Feb. 16.?China's dar ng "Foreign Legion" fliers?includ- t ng a number of Russians and Ameri- t ans ? were reported today to have t nflicted severe losses on the Japa- c lese army and air force. % Chinese authorities said their for- r agn ,rVf arBirds" wrecked more than; r tO Japanese tanks and a dozen air- j )lanes, in addition to killing and mounding many troops on the march it Sinsiang, along the Peiping-Han- ^ cow railway about 80 miles north of ^ Jhengchow. The foreign legionnaires also were ? aid to have demolished a Japanese F nilitary depot at Chihsicn important ity farther north on the Peiping- j lankow line. ; j The raids in this sector were re tarded by the Chinese as a reprisal - or indiscriminate Japanese air at-' acks on Chengchow, in which more him 1,000 Chinese non-combants rare reported killed: or wounded.- * The raids* were described as the oost spectacular successes achieved iy China'iri revitalized air force since General Chiang Kai-Shek decided to a esort to offensive air bombing of ? he Japanese. ? The Chinese said almost an gmu] i victory was gained by the Chinese I | Jjp corps at Changte, on the Peiping-L lankow railway 175 miles, north of I c Jhengchow, where Chinese, Russians L ihd American fliers dived low and 11 (Janes. Two other ships, were seth A third major victory was f*wdited|g o the legionnaires when flyisg back] o4fceir base from Ihe bombing ex-L position, they, encountered large de-l achments of Japanese troops march- j Q ag south from Taming, '75 miles I . lortheast of Changte. i.' - The' fliers machine-gunned the.L apanese troops after diving from! i,000 feet, subjecting them to what]. Chinese add were heavy losses." Piping recently confirmed reports!? nartly pilots, were serving the Chi-I^ mm-* Says Fleet Should Be Strong' Enough to De fend Coasts At The Same Time. '? r'f 'T^r'fZ: - r-:\ . . Washington, Feb. 15?The United State? must have a navy powerful enough to repel pocaihle simultan eous attacks on both coasts, President Roosevelt said today in discussing his national defense expansion program. The Chief Executive said at hja press conference that, in the opinion of defense strategists, America can not rely with safety upon a fleet that is capable of defending only one coast at a time, a nd that the nation must consider both the Atlantic and the Pacific as possible war zones. His statement came as the United Press was advised authoritatively that the administration's objective of a navy 20 per cent stronger than treaty limits will be increased grad ually after the program gets under way, with the ultimate goal of a super battle force powerful enough to de fend the entire Western Hemisphere. The President outlined his position when he was asked whether he op poses an increase in Japan's naval ratio, which is three as against five sach for this country and Great Brit ain. . ,w He said the United States might 36 forced into hostilities on two fronts simultaneously and added that such a possibility must be given dne consid eration in the formulation of a na ional defense policy. He referred correspondents to the State Department for a possible itatement on Japan's refusal to give he United States, Gerafc Britain and France information regarding her laval construction program. This action by Tokyo is expected o result in the United States bulki ng super-deardnaughts of nearly KM) tons each and armed with 18 nch guns. It was learned, meanwhile, that he President, in recent eonfexences vith Congressional leaders, waa ap irehensive regarding possible out lide action against South and Cen tal American countries. The administration's future naval urogram, it was said, may involve an iventual increase of about 80 per sent over the present fleet strength, lependont upon the construction other x>wers undertake. It may be predict ed upon the administration-backed leclaration of naval policy whieh Chairman Carl Vinson, D., G?l, of the louse naval affairs committee, will iffer as an amendment to the anthor zation bill embodying President Roosevelt's bigger navy demands. ? The ' policy amendment declares hat it is the inteptibn of this coun ry to build a fleet sufficiently strong o repel simultaneous attacks on both oasts. According to expert testi mony before the Naval Affairs com mittee, this would require two sept ate fleets capable of acting inde lendently on each other. ? *-v.' Tobacco planting is about one month ahead of last year in Johnston lounty reports the farm agent. Grow rs say the early seding matures ilants before blue mold attacks. , ' . '? A. " v'\^ m. ??P i ? i i I. I ?? I ? ? ? i ? RrrM Aeopt IPesillonasGashier BinkofFanmNfi I L. E. Walston, who recently re Signed his position as cashier of the fashville branch of the Feoplgfc tank and Trust Company, of Rocky lount, to accept a: similar position . a the Bank of Farmville, arrived ere Tuesday. Mr. Walston will sac eed D, E.%gfesby, who has served he Bank of Farmville as cashier for MSwtw,. .. jwing words of commendation re- ? larding Mr. Walston in a recruit is J li ? Tcts upon of his ' o February. ?e* _ ? ?is''/'1 ' ii ^wB