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, f \ Patronize Oar Advertisers, For ? j !l They Are Constantly Inviting | ' J* ^ mTmiurnnm*i 11 if I .. ??' " - .' ? . ?'? ..'?>?:? ? ? 1 . 4'- .: " -/ ? . . ?:> "'?' ?' ;-??'???' ? h ' ' ?" ./ ' .i.^ft,--?;/, ^ #' ::" ? ' ? ' ::i i ' I 8^U'-_B^ ^IBAOT I X FARMVILLE I X . i : 3'ViTir'.Tj1. 'r?Eir,iii;-ti>'ii. -J.-, .-? ,? . VOLUME TWENTY-EIGHT FARMVIU* PITT COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, MARCH 18, 1938 ^ NUMBER FORTY-FOUR -- ?>??* >n * **- ??*<? .. ?-? . ? - . Pitt Rolls Up Big Vote For 1938 Farm Program ___? .-J Polls Biggest Tobacco Vote In State of North Carolina. Pitt county farmers, along with those of others in the state and else where in the agricultural sections, dispelled all doubts Saturday that they wanted compulsary crop con trol. Farmers of this county, in polling an even 7,300 ballots in favor of con trolled tobacco production, according to unofficial figures, led the state in the number of votes cast favorably in the referendum. Only 62 fanners voted against the proposal. Although there are not as many cotton farmers in the county as there are tobacco farmers, those in the county voted just as big a percentage for control as did the tobacco farmers. The vote in the cotton referendum was 4,249 to 35. In both referenda the percentage of favorable votes was 99.29. With Pitt the largest tobacco pro ducing county in the world, the big majority is all the more important. There was no doubt but that Pitt county farmers would favor the 1938 farm program, but the unusually big vote surprised even the most optimis tic. The county agent's office had placed its maximum estimate at 7,000 votes in the tobacco referenda and 3, 000 in the cotton vote. The results do not include ballots which were challenged and, if held legitimate, will swell the total. The vote was not close in a single Pitt township, but the distinction of supporting the program 100 per cent went to Pactolus, where 353 votes were cast in favor of controlled to bacco and 244 for controlled cotton and not a single ballot against either. New Firm Now Open For Business C. H. Joyner, Mgr. Headers will note in this issue an advertisement announcing the open ing of the Western Auto Associate Store, home owned, with C. Hubert Joyner as manager. Mr. Joyner, a native of Farmville, and Veil known throughout the coun- j ty, moved his residence here from Greenville this week and is receiving a cordial "welcome home" from friends. A huge stock of merchandise of great variety, high grade and low prices, has been placed in attractive display this week in the store for merly occupied by Young Co., and is ready for business. The slogan "Satisfaction or Money Back" has been adopted .by this com pany and Manager Joyner invites the community to pay this up-to-date store a visit. I State D. A. R.'s Give I Scrapbook Honors to Major May Chapter 9 Plans for a State organization of Junior D. A. R. dobs and a special news sheet were laid and scrapbook I honors announced as the Daughters I of the American Revolution closed their three-day Convention held in Raleigh last week. Mrs. Eva D. Barnett of Asheville, I chairman of the historical scrapbook I committee, announced first, second and third prizes awarded as follows: Mrs. B S. Sheppard of Major Ben I jamin May Chapter, Farmville; Miss I Nina M. Greenlee of Greenlee Chap I ter, Old Ford; Mrs. J. B. Hunter of Battle of Charlotte chapter, Charlotte. The Daughters elected officers, I held memorial services for members I who died during the last year and I beard doee to a score of reports and patriotic speech* during the conven tion. ? ? I Miss Virginia Horns of Wadesboro I was atocted recording secretary; Mrs. I J. SL Welborn of High Point was I named legirtrar; and Mrs. Preston B. Wilkes, Jr., of Charlotte was elect I ad Iftedatek Other officers, includ I ing State regent Mrs. Eugene N. Da I vis, are serving three-year terms and did not come up for election this term. Members of the D. A. R. were en I tsrtained at a tea by Mrs. Clyde R. I Hoey at the mansion daring the con tnurcn Attendancc b local * ?? .. Hitler To Speak To World Friday Expected to Reveal In tentions of Reich in Re gard to Czechoslovakia Berlin, March 16. ? Reichs-fuehrer Adolf Hitler, welcomed back to Ber lin in a malestrom of hysterical ac claim and "heils" swelling from 2, 600,000 throats, tonight ordered the Reichstag into special session Friday, when he will tell the world of his am bitions regarding Czechoslovakia. ~ | Flush with the success of hts bold | annexation of Austria as a German province without the firing of a sin gle shot, Der Fuehrer was eager to tell the world of his latest plans. The government said his Friday speech, at 8 p. m. <2 p. m. E. S. T.), will contain "am important foreign political declaration." The United Press, was informed reliably that it would deal primarily with Czechoslo-| vakia, whose*3,500,000 German inhab itants Hitler has sworn to "protect" by the might of hi sarmies if neces sary. Political quarters believed that Hitler's swift annexation of Austria would be followed by another light ning-like settlement of the Czechoslo vakia^ question, but with different methods. Increased French anger against Fascism and Nazism and the speeding up of Britain's rearmament program have convinced Nazi party leaders that quick action is necessary and they are urging the Reich to support strongly the Czech German minority movement. Hitler, it was said, apparently is! not contemplating annexation or mil-} itary action against Czechoslovakia | but merely autonomy for the 3,500,000 so-called Sudeten Germans of Bo hemia, now encircled on three sides, by German guns. The new dedmands of Konrad Hen lein, German Nazi leader in Czecho slovakia, for recognition of his par ty were said to have approval of Hit ler. Der Fuehrer is expected to describe the entire Sudeten background in his Reichstag speech. He also will tell his people of his bloodless anexation of Austria, the land of his birth, the Spanish situa tion that is working up a climax with prospects of a Fascist victory atti tude toward Germany and the role Premier Benito Mussolini of^ Italy played in the Austrian drisis. Like Mussolini's speech today in Rome, Hitler probably will reaffirm the silidity of the Rome-Berlin axis and publicly proclaim that German's newly-extended frontier reach" south j to Italy's Brenner Pass and no fur-i ?ther. Atefr the deafening acclaim of a Germany on hiliday to greet the re turning conqueror had died down, Hitler appeared on the small balcony o fthe Chancellory at 8 p. m. and hiB i face showing the strain of the last five days, spoke briefly. "German unity which has been re stored in the past days never again will be destroyed," he said. "Germany has become a greater Germany and will remain that; and the German nation, in its entirety, will see to it. from the west to the east and from the south to this city." His two sentences of greeting were followed by two hours of wild.cheer-] ing which drew him back into the balcony several times with his arm thrown up in the Nazi'salute. His speedy return after lour days in Austria was precipitated by ad ditional important decisions expected to be made by the cabinet tonight. 1 WHO KNOWS? 1. What is the amount of money I in circulation in the U. S.? I 2. What twelve presidents are soon to appear on stamps for (he first time? 3. Does the Federal government bear all expense of relief work? 4. How much is it costing Great ^fcfitain to rearm? 5. How many clear channels are available forradi? broadcasting? 6. How many passengers were : carried by Amierican air lines in 19377 .!v? 7. How ranch is Great Britain spending for her Navy? 8. How mapy people are burned I Jto Seath in the U. S. in a year? . fc Have all War veterans received -? ?** 1 Chinese Forces Repulse Or Step Japanese Dells _____? / Shanghai, March 16. ? Chinese guerrilla raids and smashing counter offensive attacks appeared today to have pushed the Japanese hack in, several sectors and stopped them in the others. From Shansi province, which the Japanese overran in a big offensive a week ago, came reports that the Chinese had'recaptured Linfen and were making strong attacks on Cha ocheng and Kwohsien. These cities are in the southern part of the pro vince. i In northwest Shansi, the Chinese said they were sweeping through a triangular area between Koku, Pao [teh and Kolan, where desperately re sisting Japanese were trying to hold | their ground. Chinese successors in the Koku sector were said to have eliminated danger of the Japanese forging across the Yellow River there and invading Shensi province to the west The Chinese reported had-to-hand fighting along the Tientsin - Pukow Railway some 60 miles north of Su chow, where the Japanese.have start ed a new offensive against the Lunghai Railway. This offensive is being supported by heavy artillery and plane bombardments and, ac cording to the Japanese, has to some extent dislodged the Chinese from their fixed defense lines in southern Shantung province. Flanking attacks along the Yi river farther east were said to have given the Chinese other victories. They were reported to be threatening Kokow, 30 miles north of Lini. Japanese naval officers reported shooting down two Chinese bombing planes after a 60-mile pursuit. *The Chinese fliers tried to bail out but were machine-gunned in the air. Six Chinese planes raided the Jap anese airfield outside Hangchow but no report on damage was available. The Japanese said there was no dam age. Launch Plans j I For Gymnasium 7 ? Students and Citizens Have Supper and Dis cuss Ways and Means. On Tuesday the students and fac ulty members of the Farmville graded school honored^ members of the Ro tary Club, grade mothers, officers of the Parent-Teacher Association and the Board of Education at a barbecue supper. Long tables, set up in the main cor ridor of the school building, held trays of barbecue, slaw, baked pota toes, corn sticks, pickles and bottles | of pepsi-cola. Places were laid for three hundred. Rev. D. A. Clarke gave the invocation. Immediately following the supper, guests gathered in the auditorium, where MaA gnotCT president of the Jumof class, gave, on behalf of the students and faculty, a hearty wel come, to. which Irving Morgan, Jr., president of the Rotary Club, re sponded. Musical selections were rendered by the high school band, directed by M. P. Burt, after which D. H. Conley, superintendent of Pitt county schools, discussed the desirability of .having a gymnasium and agricultural building erected in Farmville, and announced that' citizens of Farmville township would be given the opportunity to vote soon on the issuance of bands for this purpose. J!i? Satterfield, president of the Senior class and toastmaster of the occasion, introduced Blanche Bryan, Junior, who reviewed "My Imaginary Trip to California." Music by the Glee Club, the direction of M? Daisy H. Smith, and with accompani ment by Mrs. Haywood ftnith, con cluded the program of a most delight Miming. ' ?'' ' Fire CompanyAsks m Cooperation of Public H ; : ?||1 Fire Chitf Haywood Smith requests that citizens here observe the rules The lack'of cooperation on the part of citizens in this cooimection, en ???? ^ Bvef?f.rrro?e..o?t^' _ m I II II I I. Ill JAPS CURB FISHING ANOTHER TRADE PACT ] -M COURT REVERSES ITSELF THREE NAVAL PROBLEMS U. S. CLAIMS ISLANDS G. O. P. MAKES PLANS TO GAIN IN HOUSE ROOSEVELT'S VIEWS OBJECTIVES THE SAME FOUR NEW STAMPS (Hugo S. Sims, Washington Corres pondent.) The amicable settlement of the sit uation in Alaskan waters where Jap anese salmon Ashing operations threatened to instigate an intense competition which might exhaust the salmon supply, illustrates the desire of the Japanese Government at this time to "get along" with the United States. The Japanese have been very active in the Bristol Bay area where the annual value of the salmon catch is more than $40,000,000. While Alas kan fishermen have for years used ?nly small boats and gear, co-operat ing with the Bureau of Fisheries in its conservation program, the Japanese have used mile-long nets 30 miles off shore to catch salmon returning to the Alaskan rivers. The Alaskans contend that fish spawned in terri torial waters are American property and the possibility existed of a violent clash. Also it should be notedr that Pacific coast labor circles authorized a general Japanese boycott but held it up pending the outcome of nego tiations. -i ? i Under the trade agreement between the United States and Czechoslovakia signed last week, this country grants tariff benefits on 63 items, imports of which in 1937 totalled $19,552,000, or 65 per cent of the imports from Czechoslovakia. In return, tariff and import concessions were granted on $30,000,000 worth of exports on the basis of 1936. The State Department in reference to the concessions by Czechoslovakia, says "Probably no other country has gone so far in a trade agreemnt with the United States in attempting to open the way for an expansion of trade by the re* moval of relaxation of special con trols on imports other tlum duties." A sharp controversy was raised in this country over a possible conces sion on shoes which is thp' most im portant of Czechoslovakia exports. Tariff reductions, ranging up to fifty per cent, where made, with a protec tive clause giving the United States j the right, after consultation, to in crease rates if sales in this country increase above 1.25 per cent of our domestic production for a five-year period. Officials point out that the agreement makes possible an inoreape of about 650,000 pairs of shoes over last year's imports of 4,800,000 pairs. The Department points- out that American production of all types amounted to 410,000,000 pairs of shoes in 1937. The agreement as sures domestic producers of 99 per cent of the market in this country. , mm ~ [Many of the concessions to this I intry were, in the form of relax ons of import permits and ex ftnge control regulations which have I sen more restrictive than import ties." These benefits affect items istituting 76:7 per cept of Czech Bo valti an imports in .1986 from .the ited States. Karly this week 3,600 officers and ?XX) men aboard 160 surface ships flthe United States fleetl&gin a.six flaks' manoeuver in a theatre of ope ions which will extend from the ?utians Island and Alaska to Ha ii and the West Coast of the United ,tes. Some 500 planes will par Bpate in the exercises designed to nish ffeet training and test ma ials under varying conditions of I and weather. ?he manoeuvers will be divided in Btb*ee big war problms. In one, Vhite Fleet, with heavy cruisers giant sky bombing patrols, will md a coast-line against the Black at, a powerful dreadnaught, force, udmg, battleships, aircraft car b and destroyers. In the second, awerful Blpe Fleet will attack the raiian area which will be defended |5r a Red .Fleet of submarines, sky patrols and, fast craft. The, third; in volves an attack on the- West Coast by the Purple fleet, a powerful overseas armada fTomt u^l AiwiBawa to San Diego. A Green, fleet, composed of fast-moving heavy cruisers, ne?A)j| . ? IMAMs Caused Third ef Deaths in 1937 Of 1,362 Deaths in Coun ty Last Year, 524 At tributed to Diseases of Heart ?? ?? Raleigh, March 16. ? More than one out of every three deaths in Wake County last year was caused by heart disease or related ailments, County Health Officer A. C. Bulla reported yesterday in his statistics resumed of 1987. Dr. Bulla said that heart disease accounted for 228 out of 1,362 deaths, or almost exactly one sixth of the tootal amount. In comparison with the ravages of heart diseases accidental deaths were almost insignificant during the year, the health officer's report showed. Automobile accidents accounted for 43 deaths and all other typos of acci dents brought the accidental death to only 68?less than one-sevfenth of the heart disease total. Pneumonia ranked second on the list of death causes. Its total of 177 was well above the 67 deaths attrib uted to tuberculosis, the disease once known as "The Great White Plague" and for which an annual preventive campaign is still waged. "I think we are about to put some - emphasis on neglected points," Dr. Bulla said, in reference to the medical profession's recent declaration of war on pneu monia. Wake County physicians attributed only nine deaths last year to senility (old age), and'directly blamed syph ilis for only seven deaths. "Syphjflis probably figured in many more deaths," Dr. Bulla commented, "but there is some hesitancy about giving it as the direct cause* ; ? Lowly indigestion was given as the cause for five deaths, epilepsy, 18 deaths, exhaustion, 12 deaths, pella- . gra, eight, poisoning, 10. Influenza was given as the direct cause for five deaths. There were also 16 homicidps and nine suicides. The death list was divided as fol lows: Raleigh, 864 (610 white and 864 Negro);' rest of Wake County, 498 (256 white and 248 Negro). Offsetting the 1,862 deaths were 1,996 live births" In the county. Of the number 884 (676 white- and 308 Negro) were in Raleigh. The 1412 livebirths in the rest of the county were 602 white and 610 Negro. Of the 884 live births in Raleigh, 618 of the babies were delivered in hospitals. ' R. C. Farm tacM) Reflect Increase State Only One of, South Atlantic Group Show ing Rise In January. ? .1 I II !!? Raleigh, March 16. ? North Caro lina was the only South Atlantic state to record an increase in receipts from farm marketing*} during Jan uary, Julian Mann, extension statis tician at State College, declared yes terday. Larger marketings of tobacco and cotton in this State more than off? set the lower prices prevalent in other statps, Mann pointed out Smaller government payments,,com pared jwith January, 1937, accentuat ed the declines in income &nd, result ed-in a 17 per cent decrease In totll . receipts from sales" and from govern ment payments for the South Atlan tic region. During the first month of the new year, North Carolina farmery receiv ed *7,491,000 for their crops and *1, month in 1937, they receiv^^566, Government payments which boost ed the North Carolina firm incdin# ljy *882,000 in January, 1987, dropped to *55,000 in the same month this '"Se total fan ^income for North! Carolina including receipts from crops, livestock, livestock products, and government payments amounted to |9^17?000 during; the January dust past. During the same period in 1937, the figure was $8,8^4,(k)0.- n ?? Politic* will pick up in this coun try in a few months and until the Congressional elections are over it will be almost 'impossible to got a sensible, mbn-partisan discussion of any isjue. ' v ! ['- HOW PITT VOTED MTetBfa)UA |H i V''.(?* 'so TOBACCQ?. ?,'ai ; REFERENDUM m"" ! i-l'-'l -.te?r;Zl> m > ?? r ? ? ? ? rR ? . ' *\C+ i $f 7^7J WJWl. .U.'WUJ, I TownsWp -m i Ayden;?? ^r,.- *,;??.???j?;760 .?$ I Beaver Dam 852 . ^ II ? XMCWUIUD ????i?ooo ,7 r'V';."' 12 j^Mgil ?N?1 s?, * -7 {? S> ?? ? % COTIOS Sfl ' T?S,1 lli 414 f ?' \ II I I; i 16S m ? ? 1 it \ 1 ?gW? ' figO 186 \ \ 1 ? 288 I M- 691 I \ 229 * Aviation Factor : in Farm Retail Aerial Maps of Farms! Found to Be Accurate : in Checking on Produc tion. ?.. J ? "?' ' ? ? I, >< .-> r>? " f - . . % '. Washington, March 16. ? Aviators purring through the sky at great heights fashioned tools which will be used to enforce the new farm pro gram. . Many a county agent will be armed for his enforcement task with a bird s eye view of every farm in his countyl ?showing fields, furrows and forest. Great maps, fitted toegther like a patch-work quilt from hundreds of aerial photographers, give an accu rate picture, officiali said today, of| the size of a farmer's fields, and what they were planted to. I Thus, an innocent mistake or a malicious error in a fanner's report On his "normal" production can be County control committees will use the maps in deciding the quota of each "soil-depleting" crop which a farmer will be allowed to plant under the farm program. On the maps, which now portray about one-fourth of the nation's farm land, Parmer Jones' house and barn are tiny blocks the size of an apple seed, but th dark pastures, the even rows of corn, the turned furrows of plowed land and the brushy mass of woodland each can be picked out Equally important to the farm pro-J gram administrators is the maps' value in showing the fanner the Btrength and weakness of his land. On the flyerte may, land which has lost its rich top-soil shows up light in shading, and bad erosion spots stand out like a pussack in a human X-ray. In some areas, the soil conserva tion service has gone further. Using sky-made maps as a guide,. soU ex perts have charted the drainage slope and soil type of every care in certain counties. From these maps, a'fanner ffln tpll what land Will best carry cer tain crops*what land should like fal low, and what slopes are too steep to justify the ripk'of erosion caused by filing them. , The commercial fyers^a^d 'camera men'who take the government's map pictures can fly only about two hours a day?at midday. Then the sun does not cast deceptive shadows on the landscape. Weather fe important,, too, and they figure on only 50 flying days in a year, ?. ? Still, farm officials say aenal map ping is 50 per cent cheaper for the government than surveying 4he same area by acre on foot. Bocaqae of their high altitudes, the fljjers must wear oxygen tanks for breathing.; With a heavy camera swinging lens-down from the bottom ojf the plane, the two men ride up to about 20,000 feet above sea leveL Then they level off and strike out across the sky on a straight line, drawn in advance on a road map. Every three or four miles, the pho tographer dicks off a picture.' The picture will show six square miles of farm land. ^ As long as the right kind of light lasts; they course up and down the sky in pallid routes mapped off two miles apart across the area. In a day, they will cover from 600 to 1.000 ttgiye milM-. !? * * *? ?' ? ? - Britain Puts Peace Issue fe Faces threats of Strife London Notifies Berlin She Expects Nazis to Keep Hands Off Little Czechoslovakia. "V ' '? " - r - . ? London, March 16. ? Britain today thrust the issue of peace , in Europe squarely before Reichfuehrer Adolf Hitler. She and France particularly were active in a sudden wave of war fears that involved most countries of Eu rope. There was a crisis in the Spanish situation, tension between Poland and Lithuania, fresh alarm in Czechcslo vakia, while in Italy Premier Benito Mussolini declared that Germany wa*' right in taking Austria. Foreign Secretary Viscount Hali fax, in a vigorous statement in the House of Lords, called on Germany to respect assurances to Czechoslova kia that Austro-German union was not aimed at her. "We naturally expect German gov ernment to obey them," he declared, "and if indeed they desire to see peace maintained?as I earnestly hope they do?there is no quarter in Europe in which it is more vital that undertak ings should scruplously be respected-" A Polish-Lithuanian border inci dent suddenly added new danger in a situation already tense over Ger many's next move in Central Europe and the growing possiblity of Italo German domination in Spain through a victory of the Insurgents in the 20 month* civil war. v ? ?1 . France,'alarmed by the presence of Italians and Germans in Spain, ap pealed to Britain for joint action to seek a Spanish armistice and won a British promise of concerted naval ac tion should French" communications with North Africa be threatened. The price of the pledge was contin ued French non-intervention in the Spanish conflict. Excited by the possibility of a Ger man move* against her ally, Czecho slovakia, France also had sought British aid in event of action by Hit ler to "liberate" the 3,500,0U0 Ger mans in the war-created republic. Soviet. Russia .reaffirmed' her pledge of armed aid to Czechoslova kia, her ally as well, in case of ag gression. liitler returned to Berlin for a con queror's welcome after his absorp tion of his native land intojthe Ger man nation and summoned the Reich stag, his sounding board for impor tant pronouncements, to meet Friday . to receive "a declaration" by the gov ernment. v ?' Premier Benito Mussolini -assured Ma people Germany's lightning-move ment to the Austro-Germari border in the absorption of Austria constituted no threat to Italy. But, in what some interpreted as a warning to Hitler, II Duce declared Pan-Germanism would not cross the Brenner Pass. In Spain, a desperate government army, slowed up the insurgent drive toward the Mediterranean. A tense Barcelona assured the world it was calm while in Madrid new "urgent" tribunals began functioning to crush spies, traitors and defeatists. In London, following a cabinet meeting in which the foreign situa tion was . reviewed an opposition an gered by Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's refusal to declare open ly the government's policy in the Eu ropean crisis forced a foreign af fairs debate. Clement R. Attlee, Laborite and leader of the official oppcsition, drew the cheers of his backers as he opened the debate with the question: "Does anyone doubt that the as sistance of Hitler inttfee conquest of* Spain is part of the price for Musso lini's betrayal of Austria?" Chamberlain,, in reply, accused the Laborite of using "hard, provocative words." 4 : - "It is tempting to reply in kind," hb said" . ..but the international sittiatiOn is so grave I have no heart for interchanges across this table or reproaches and accusations of betray al" ? ? .? .v.xiir? . ?. : ? Attlee had asked: "What will be the worth of Gibraltar if the shores Of North Africr, and Spain are held by a hostUe power?" The Prime Minister pointed out that foreign forces were fighting on both'sides* in Spaip. v.- JgigBfij. ?.&"'! v."