i | TWy Ait 0?fttfly hvitt? | Too Tt Trade With ThML X ????* ^ cahouna. ^t. mabch ?, 1m8 PITT GRAND JURY REPORT SUBMITTED ?????????? The report of the Pitt County, Grand Jury, held over from the last session of Superior court, was re leased today. In addition to the usual findings, the report made special rec ommendations in regard to various county offices. The full report follows: We, the Grand Jury, have passed on all bills of indictment presented j to us by the Solicitor, andhave rend ered our decisions according to the evidence heard by us. We have visited the County of fices, namely: Clerk of Court, Regis ter of Deeds, Auditor, Treasurer, Superintendent of Schools, Tax Col-1 lector, County Agent, County Health! Officer and Sheriff, and find same in good physical condition, and officers! and helpers interviewed courteous and I efficient. We inipected Hie jail, and found! the physical and sanitary conditions! to be good snd wish to commend the County Commissioners for their re-1 cent efforts to improve this physical property of the County. We visited the County Home and found same well supervised as to sanitation, conveniently arranged and the prr mines well kept. It is the opin ion of this Grand Jury that the in mates are well and kindly cared for. We wish to commend those in charge of the County Home for the very effi cient snd business-like manner in which this property is managed. The County Court House has been inspected and we beg to report that this property is in good repair and well maintained. We realize that con ditions within the confines of the Court House are rather crowded and 1 recommend that the County Com missioners thoroughly investigate the 1 feasibility snd practicability of se curing addidtional storage, office and working space in this building, es pecially with a view towards the les sening of the congestion in the vaults of the Register of Deeds and Clerk of Court. ? - ? ? ? < We have inspected toe iwnu Building and report that with the ex* caption of a few minor repairs the baikling proper is in a good state of repair. However, the heating plant of this building is inadequate and faulty. We recommend that this hasting plant be thoroughly inspect ed by s competent heating engineer and that such steps as may be nec essary be taken to place this plant| or a new plant in proper working condition. Doe to the County's interest in the Greenville Armory this building was inspected. This building is well con structed and well maintained. This Grand Jury recommends that remov able seats be placed in this building. Hie office of the North Carolina Highway Patrol is well kept and well constructed. We inspected the physical proper ties of all consolidated schools within , the. confines of Pitt- County and sub mit the following report: ARTHUR: The building is in a good state of repair. However, con ditions are extremely crowded. The school busses are in good condition, but crowded. New toilet facilities are badly wseded and are being supplied. ? AYDEN: The buildings, Unlets and grounds are in excellent condition. The trucks are in good mechanical condition. Two 1931 trucks are in adequate for sehool transportation. We recommend that they be replaced with mors modern conveyances. The condition of the busses is extremely crowded, most of them carrying from 75 to IP pupils. BELVOIR: The bxmamg, louexs I grounds an Veil cared for, aad an I in a good state of repair with the I except in of minor repairs. The bos see of this school are quite crowded. I We recommend that an expert beating ? plant of this school for a possible de ? fast in the boiler. ? BETHEL GRADED SCHOOL: The I baQfing and grounds are well kept I We iminiBil the removal of Hie toilet to the first floor. ? BETHEL HIGH SCHOOL: The I I grounds and building are well keptl I The Bnhee on two school busses ? were improperly adjusted at the time I jCHlCOD: The physical property of I I bafiding and school busses an crowd-! FALKLAND: The physical proper-1 ty of this school ja Is excellent con-j pscviaad* ^ adsijoatsly I fitted^for its requirements. We nc bdfclMb mgm j j HW *Bl}iaC6Q WIT ft HlOJ*d TREASURER GIVES SAVINGS BOND SALE I - Secretary of the Treasury Morgen thau has announced that the total' maturity value of United States 1 Savings Bonds sold through the close of business March 7, 1938, amounted to $1,584,462,875. This total was pur chased by more than 1,260,000 inves tors and represents an average sale for each business day since March 1, 1935, when these bonds were first sold, of $1,720,375. A record for one day's sale of Sav ings Bonds was set on Monday, Jan uary 10, of this year, when $10,029, 775, maturity value, of these bonds were reported sold on this single day. Sales by post offices throughout the country on that day represented $9, 025,350, maturity value of bonds, and direct-by-mail orders were received in Washington for Savings Bonds of a maturity value of $1,004,425. Direct-by-mail and post office sales from Chicago, Illinois, give that city the lead for the Nation. Chicago's cash sale for the period was $25,577, 200. Approximately 16,000 post offices throughout the country are authorized to sell United States* Savings Bonds. The Government to date actually retains more than 92 per cent of all of the money that has been invested in Savings Bonds, less than 8 per cent of the bonds sold having been redeem ed. The majority of the registered own ers are small investors who are buy ing the bonds out of income. Pur chases by individuals represent ap proximately 85 per cent of the amount of bonds sold. Of the remaining 15 per cent, 9 per cent was purchased by banks and trust companies, 3 per cent by corporations,, and approxi mately 3 per cent by associations. Among the features of the bonds most frequently influencing their | purchase are safety, the constant of the bonds and the fact that Savings Bonds increase 33 1-3 per cent in value if held for ten years. The re demption feature, which eliminates any chance of loss to the investor, appeals to all purchasers. The $100 bond unit is the most pop ular denomination and has accounted for 30.38 per cent of the number of the bonds sold. The $25 unit ranks next with 23.71 per cent of sales. The $50 unit is next with a sale of 18.49 per cent. The $1,000 unit fol lows with 18.19 per cent; while the $500 unit accounts for 9.23 per cent. Heiicans Stage Monster Parade Celebrate Expropriation of Foreign Oil Com-j panies; Protest Made By Britain. Mexico City, March 23. ? Mexico's I national anthem swelled from the) throats of thousands of overralled workers, congressmen, marching wo men and business men today in a monster demonstration celebrating expropriation of the foreign-owned oil industry as "economic liberation." < Bank on rank of marchers in a sea of banners swept by President La zaro Cardenas in Independence Square ?an outpouring of humanity un equalled in Mexico City's recent his '?jL iSome observers said 200,000 march lers took part in the "jubilee organ ised by the Confederation of Mexi can Workers (C, M. T.) to acelaitn I the Presidential decree of March 18 I taking over the $400,000,000 oil prop lorries of 17 tJnitod States and British Icempaniea. One cry swept &e will-fire along I the five lines of marchers ? "One, I two, three ? three, two, one; Los Gringos se Van" (the foreigners aye getting oat). ** Held high for the president to see from his palace balcony were ban ners and slogans praising bis patriot ism and courage and declaring the I people supported him in bailing the "death of imperialism." Marching with the Mexicans were groups of Cuban and Venezuelan ex- I fiat carrying banners that said their SLw-siS:*: foreign industries. Street ear work show, many other sectors of the pop- < AH members a? (Wm? minliiMti ' 1 L ^^5^3 I rynWB lepis&saUi o I LAST TSAR'S FARMVILLE PRE SCHOOL CLINIC ' | Secretary tckes Delays Helium' SalejeGefmany Washington, March 23. ? The ship ment of helium to Germany Is being1 delayed, Secretary of the Interior Ic kes disclosed today. Ickes, who has the last word on the sale abroad of helium from the United States wells, said he has signed no contract with the American Zeppelin- Transport, Inc., because he had found no formula to guarantee against military use of the gas. Members of Ickes' staff explained that "changed political conditions" in Europe had made it increasingly dif ficult to draw up such a formula. Ickes' disclosure aroused specula tion, particularly since it had been understood arrangements had been completely informally for the German company to buy about 17,900,000 cu bic feet for a new Zeppelin, the LZ-130. This ship is a successor to the transatlantic Hindenborg, de stroyed by a hydrogen explosion at Lakehurst, N. J. After the explosion, uongress en acted a law permitting export of the non-inflammable helium, which is pro duced only in this country, provided guarantees were given that it would not be used for war. Every obstacle to German purchase of the gas, aside from Ickes signature to a contract, was removed last Feb ruary 25 when the government bought for $537,975 certain helium-producing lands at Dexter, Kan., and Thatcher, Colo. The helium export act had required the government to purchase all known supplies before authorizing foreign shipments. The State Department and Muni tions Control Board, of which Ickes is a member, had approved January 21, the proposed, exports to Germany. The State Department refused to comment on Ickes' present stand, but persons close to it said he was with in his rights in Beeldng a contract to assure that the helium would not be put to military use. There are 1,400 farmers in Ashe i County who have quaified for agri cultural Conservation payments for work done in 1987, \ V SPANISH WAR VETERANS MEET ?A? Spanish War Veterans meet and elect officers for the ensuing year. Captain James Thomas Smith, Span ish War Veterans Camp No. 17, met Sunday afternoon in "the quarters of the S. 0. N. C. at 104 East Wilson street^Earafflle, N. C. >. For Commander, ' T. G. Willis, Washington, N. C.; for Senior Vice Commander, J. I. Baker, Farmville, ?N. U.; tor Junior vice-u>mmanaer, IF. G. Smith, Farmville, N. C.; For I Adjutant and Treas., S. M. Pollard, Farmville, N. C.; for Patriotic In structor and Chaplain, Watt Parker, Farmville,#N. C.; for Sergeant Major, J. B. Johnson, Greenville, N. C.; for I Color Sergeant, J. E. Cash, Farmville, IN. C.; for Senior Color Sergeant, Tom Nofafes, Winterville, N. C.; for Offi Ice^af Guard, Walter E. Hudson, Grifton, N. C.; for Officer of Day-, 4ohn P. Smith, Greenville, N. C.; for Historian, J. L Baker, Farmville, N. C.,* for Snrgeon, W. C. Credle, Wash ington, U. C.; for Chief Musician, R. Mobley, Greenville, N. <?.; for Trus tee for 3 years, J. T. Hardison, Washington, N. CL; for Trustee for 2 years, J. W. Parishler, Maury, N. C.; for Trustee for 1 year, R. Mobley, [Greenville, N. C. ' - There being no further business, the meeting adjournd to meet Sun day, on date to be announced later. It is expected of all Spanish War Vet erans to go, and are ordered to obey general orders in looking out after the Welfare of Hie widows and or phans of the Spanish War Veter ans. All veterans" are expected to be present at the next meeting or ac . ... ? , ? ' . nliyfyrt* /%ti ft. I jilrtiy t*m viv I ? ? ? % % ?t V * 'J Pre-SM Clinics - ?*-. ? - ? IIM "" ? The Pitt County Health Officer, Dr. N. Thomas Ennett, has just an nounced that in conjunction with Supt D. H. Conley and the principals of the schools is has been arranged to begin the annual pre-school clinics on Monday, March 21. It is stated that not only will the pre-scbool children be given a com plete examination but they will also be vaccinated against small pox and diptheria. Dr. Ennett urged that, where pos sibue, the bring the babies for vaccination against diptheria, as the dangerous age' Tor this disease is from one to three or four years. JParents will be advised by the prin cipals of the various school as to the exact hour and date of each clinic. The Health Officer stated that if the parents expect their children to make normal progress in their school work it is essential that the child be physically fit when hi enters sChooL The pre-school examination is held solely for the purpose of vaccination and the discovery of such defect* as may exist, in order that the parent may have such defects corrected be fore the child begins his school work. mimmmmmmmmtmmm "9 ? Electric Powsr I Lines Progress New Steel Vacuum Tube Makes Possible New Era in Power Trans mission. Ithaca, N. Y., March 24. ? Electric power lines surpassing anything now possible are foreseen in experiments with a steel vacuum tube described , today at Cornell University. The . tube looks like a three-foot metal run. It is able to make Siamese Twins ( out of the two giants of electric pow- ( er, alternating and direct current. Engineers want direct current flow ing over the power lines, but altar*- j anting curent going in and coming out. Alternating is easier to pro duce at the power house. It is also the preference for most operations of the consumers, Inability to use both these electric "servants" together has 1 limited electric power lines. ? iThe urn-saped tube is being de veloped as the solution. Either kind of current can flow into it and come out changed into the other kind This has been accomplished before with big glass vacuum tubes. But the giant glass tubes were not powerful enough, They could not car? ? ry the tremendous voltages necessary, for long-distance transmission. The new steel urn, so far as experiments In the college of engineering at Cor nell show, does not. have the limita tions of the glass tubes. Its success lies in a small saucer of mercury, | which it substitutes tor tne xuament in a glass tube. I. Both filament and mercury saucer supply electrons to change one .kind Krf current into the other. Thi num ber of electrons available from a fila ment is limited. From a mercury pool there are enough to more than cover any electric power which engineers can conceive for the future. Experiments with the new tube at Cornell are under the direction of Professors W. C. Ballard and B. K. Noorthop. The director of the School of Elec^i trical Engineering, PTof. P. M. Lin coln, said that the high-voltage trans mission of alternating i current has nearly reached its limits If direct current could be used In transmission, Professor Ballard said, large trans mission lines would require about 40 per cent less insulation. Direct eur* It probably will require years, p? of current to work on the sune power I " I 1 ? I mnnK in Mnxxrinrr o flBiA x THE TANGLED TV A OLD FEUD BREAKS OUT ROOSEVELT INQUIRES CHAIRMAN IS SILENT VAST UNDERSTANDING UNDER MANY ATTACKS HULL'S POLICY GAlfcs BRITISH PACT VITAL ROOM FOR. CONCESSIONS CONTEST WITH HITLER WORLD TRADE NEEDED U. S. ACCEPTS FACTS AUSTRIA PASSES OUT EUROPE A POWDER KEG MEANS RE-ARMAMENT (Hugo S. Sins, Washington Corres pondent) The tangled and confused affairs of the Tennessee Valey Authority, in cluding the bickering between Chair man A. E. Morgan and his two as sociated directors, will be thoroughly explored by a Congressional commit tee. Senator Norria, sponsor and friend of the TVA, originally sought an investigation by the Federal Trade Commission but last week proposed that the inquiry be conducted by a Senatorial committee. This met with prompt counter-action on the part of those leading the attack on the Au thority, Who insisted that the inves tigating body be a-joint committee representing both houses of Congress. Simmering for many months, the feud between Chairman A. - E. Mor gan and the .other Board members, Dr. Haircourt A. Morgan and David E. Lilienthal, was brought into the open by a spectacular meeting at the White House where President Roose velt, in an open session, attempted to ascertain the facts behind the charges involved in the Board's rum pus. Chairman Morgan refused to submit any evidence in support of his charges, taking the position that he was merely an "observer" and ap parently determined to force a Con gressional investigation. The other directors gave the grounds upon which they had accused the Chair man of undermining the activities of the TVA. The President told the members that it was their duty not to con tinue the "personal" row, but the data; brought into the open reveled a chasm of professional and. pergonal feeling that seemingly makes it at titudes of the Chairman and his fel low Board members. Mr. Roosevelt went so far as to suggest to the Chairman that if he were unwilling to support with facts his accusations that "?fairness" and "decency" were impossible in the TV A administra tion with the other two members of the Board, that he should resign. However, Dr, A, E, Morgan, for mer president of Antioch College and an engineer who had built flood con trol and reclamation works insisted that he would have nothing to do with the President's personal inquiry and his attidue indicated very plain ly that he would resist any effort to remove him. The President was Btern and the scene in the White House unusual. . Mr. Roosevelt had ordered a. mimeograph transcription made of the proceedings and steno graphers recorded the questions and answers. At intervals, the notes were transcribed and immediately passed to waiting newspapermen. I -.tlx. Roosevelt is known to be proud of the TVA, which he considers the nation's first experiment in regional planning. He has held it out as an example of "What we have done and what we are trying to do." Set up in May, 1933, the TVA was provided for Hood control and improved navi gation of the Tennessee River, for the conservation of soil and natural re sources. Huge dams twei-e necessary for. flood control and navigation, and pawer was . to be' developed as a con sequences. Soil conservation included better fertilization and, therefore, fer tilizer studies were included within the scope of the undertaking.' m: . x : ? .. '? T "*? Chairman Morgan was one of thpeel men placed in charge of the under taking. The others included Dr. Harcourt A. Morgan, president of ijgu University of Tennessee, an entomo logist and horticulturist particularly interested in the fertilizer program, and David E. Lilienthal, Wisconsin lawyer and former public service of ficial, who gave his attention to the fftirlv wfrti nnvfltp coniDflTiiflfl At however, nave been successfully with CITY DELIVERY TO BEGIN APRIL FIRST The public is urged to co-operate with the Post Office department in the inauguration of City Deliver; service in Farmville on April 1st. For the convenience of the public there will be SEVEN collection boxes located at the following comers: Cor ner of Church and South Main; cor ner of North Msin and Lang; corner of South Main and Railroad Court; corner of South George and West Pine; corner of West Wilson and Bar rett; corner of East Wilson and Greene and the corner of East Home Avenue and North Greene St. The public is urged to place postage on their letters before dropping into collection boxes, as carriers are > not allowed to accept letters without postage affixed. All patrons who ex pect to receive mail at their resi dences are urged to have their mail receptacles erected before April 1st Patrons who have been receiving mail at the general delivery window and are residence on a delivery route are advised that they must erect a mail receptacle at their residence or rent a box at the post office; as the gen eral delivery window is for use for people in transit or for those patrons not residing on a delivery route. Pa trons are also advised that the'drop letter, or local rate will be two cents instead.of one cent as heretofore. WHO KNOWS? 1 ? ' .1 1. How many radio sets are there in the world? 2. H6w many Civilian Conserva tion Camps will function under the new economy role? 3. Has Dr. Francis Townsend started to serve his 30-day jail sen tence? 4. Has the government abandoned the so-called shelter-belt in the Plains States? ; 6. How much productive soil has been ruined by erosion. 6. What is the extent of the na tional forests? 7. What percentage of traffic fa talities occur on rural highways? 8. Who is the highest paid base ball player? 9./ What is the debt of the Demo cratic National Committee? 10. What is the population of j Austria? (See "The Answers" on Page 4) Chinese Fighters Stall Japanese War Machine ? : y . / Shanghai, March 24. ? Chinese de-J dared today that they had repelled1 a strong Japanese attempt to reach the south shore of the Yellow river at Fengkui, in Northern Honan pro vince. Fengkui, just north of Kaifeng, is about 40 mies west of Chengchow, junction of the east-west Lunghai and north-south Peiping-Hankow rail roads. It is,the spearhead of Japa* nese forces attempting to break vital Chinese communications on the cen tral front Chinese said more than 3,000 Japa nese had been entrenched at Kengkui Within the past three days for a new thrast down the Peiping-Hankow railroad to Chengchow. f They said the Japanese had been driven back from all other positions on the north bank of the Yellow river. Generalissimol Chiang Kai - Shek himself was said to be in command J in die Chengchow sector, where a Japanese victory might collapse- the corridor of wheat-growing plains be tween Japan's conquests in north and Central China. On the eastern or coastal side of the corridor, Japan's drive to cut the Lunghai at Suchow, its junction.with the north-south Tientsin-Pukow rail road, still was stalemated after nine days of bitter fighting. Chinese asserted their forces en-, gaged the Japanese garrison at Tenr ghsien, north of Suchow, in hand-to hand fighting after a strong counter attack. :-i0- * - They said counter-attacks, also' at Linceng and Hanchwang, on the Tientain-Pukow line, had upset Japa nese communications in the Suchow - v : ; Japanese positions nearest Suchow still were north of the Grand Canal, 22 miles above the junction city. Chi nese machine guns forbade a frontal p ding ssing po I _____________ Charges Denied And 1 Sheriff Asks For Early TriaL . I INDICTED BY PITT CO. GRAND JURY ? - Officers Accused In BlUs of Giving Notice Before Searches And Raids Made. Greenville, March 21. ? True bill* of indictments against S. A, White hurst, sheriff of Pitt county and president of the North Carolina As* sociation of Sheriffs, and one of his deputies, J. H. Harris, ware returned by the grand jury today, charging the two with accepting bribea and giving notice of raids and searches for intoxicating liquor in timevfor parties to cover np and conceal any violations of the law before search was begun. Sheriff Whitehurst this afternoon denied the charges in their entirety and said he would ask for an inime diate trial. "I was elected to office by the people of Pitt County and I want them to try me immediately in order that they may know the troth," the sheriff said. Sheriff Whitehurst succeeded* A. C. Jackson and has been re-elected five terms. The names of a large number of witnesses appear on the face of the indictment, among them A. S. Bataon, . head of the National Bureau of In vestigation, which has been conroct ing raids on alleged liquor, gambling and vice houses for several months. Solicitor D. M. Clark, when ques tioned this afternoon as to trying the case this week, stated that it would be impossible to get to it this week, but that he may get it on the docket for next week. Names listed as state's witnesses include: ? - R. L. Stancill, Don Lewis, J. D. Tripp, Mra. J. D. Tripp, Wallace Jones, Mrs. Beulah Green, A. C. Tripp, J. T. Tripp, C. L. Adams Sam Dudley, J. E. Evereii, W. C. Jones, Charles Smith, Earl Smith, Charles R. Smith, Noah Jones, Mrs. Noah Jones, A. S. Batson, G. A. Clark, John Taylor, L. D. Taylor, Church Moore, D. M. Seymour, Joseph Ebron, Louis Rohereon, J. N. Ward, Charles Horne, Alton Smith, Mrs. L. C. Wig gins, A. A. Nelms, C. 0. Speight, Lieut Lester Jones, R. E. Summer lin, J. E. Jones. Wording of the two bills of indict ment were similar throughout and in most cases the same witnesses were listed in each. A portion of the charges against the sheriff follow: . "While holding the said office .of Sheriff of Pitt county under the lawi of the State of North Carolina, did unlawfully, wilfully, feloniously, cor ruptly and extortedly demand, take, receive, and consent to 'receive and re quired to be paid to him by Jesse Smith, J. A. Tripp or L. D. Tripp, and various and sundry other parsons, money and other things of value, in cluding intoxicating liquor, by the week, and by the month, and at vari ous and sundry other times by virtue of and under the color of his office, with the understanding at the time, both express and implied, that his of ficial action should be influenced by said payments of money, c* other things of Value, including - intoxicating liquor as a bribe; he, the said & A. WTiitehurst, Sheriff of Pitt County, and; his deputies, "would give notice before raids and searches for intoxi cating liquor in time for said parties to cover and conceal any violations of the law before search was begun and that he and his officers would, in case of raids, overlook and fail to find evidence of violation of the liquor , law, and fail to apprehend said par ties, and would give ell the protec tion necessary,* or within his power, to said parties 3a,"their violation of the law, prohibiting possession, sale or manufacture of intoxicating liquor. . . ." Both the sheriff and deputy were ? in the courtroom, when the bills were brought in and each accepted service and posted bonds of $260 eSch. The charges do not necessarily remove the sheriff, from office, but if and whan he is convicted, he would automatic-; ;r ' ally be removed. a A BARGAIN IN WEDDINGS *;'? . , . ? - ?; . ,,; . Eyanston, 111. ? Justice Samuel Harrison, 88-year eld magistrate, be- ?? lieyes in co-dpeirmtion. So, Evanston merchants advertised _dol I mr days in their stores, he alto an , ? community in Transylvania County flip jBM^m EflQ tll^P piACQU ? IWiHj'?

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