4S& - i tMiiiniiii M#?nnimiii>M mtronize Our Advertisers, For + J They Are CuM^atfr Inviting | I Too To Trade With Them. X * X -* ? ?I?. 11111111111II l? > I ?* i s ---SluP, j;,- . __ ||| wjl^ X ? ? n^yfci^hgil JT% - ' If. ' . ? ?~ Ml H M 111 > If' SELL - BUT and BANK | ? IN ? J 1 I gill - ' ^OLUMS 11111111 ^ ^ HIT COUNTY, NOBTH CAB A, At, ^ 8, NUMBER PORTY-SEVia - iii ? Judge Revokes Appro! of John Omon Account Sinclair Denies Dawson .Motion In $45,000.00 Shortage Action. Judge N. A. Sinclair yesterday va-j cated his court orders approving set tlement of John G. Dawson of Kin-1 ston as receiver for the insolvent Farmer*' Bank and Trust Company of La Grange and appointed Jack I Edwards of Greenville as referee tol investigate the receivership. The judgment followed a motion tol the Lenoir County Court which charged Dawson, former chairman of the State Democratic Executive Com mittee and speaker of the House of Representatives, with a $45,000 short age and called for a hearing in the) receivership to prevent "an uncon scionable fraud . . . upon the court." Judge Sinclair's judgment, filed in the Lenoir County Court yesterday,! instructed the referee to make find ings of fact and conclusion of law in the bank receivership and report back to the court "as soon as possible" in J order to expedite the matter. The judgment vacates orders is sued by Judge Sinclair on March 16 and April 5, 1937, in which he allowed certain attorneys' fees and commis sions and in which he accepted Daw son's final account of the bank liqui dation and discharged him as receiv er. It also denied Dawson's motion to dismiss the motion and exceptions filed with the court by the Commis sioner of Banks on March 14 of this) - .. , Commissioner Hood's motion sud denly brought the La Grange bank re ceivership to public attention 18 years after the institution closed its doors on November 24, 1920.. . The Commissioner's motion, sign ed by Jesse A. Jones of Kinston and Kennfith Royal of Goldsboro, for the legal firms of Ehringhaus, Roy all, Gosney and Smith, declaring a re hearing was necessary to prevent "a glaring miscarriage of justice" and to prevent "a consummation of an un conscionable fraud perpetrated upon the Court and upon these petitioners and other creditors of the Trust." An audit on which the allegations were based, prepared by Chapman and Strand, certified public accountants of Charlotte and Greensboro, for the Commissioner of Banks, was filed with the court. The audit said, "mea ger as reports were we were able to determine with certainty that Daw son embezzled monies of the trust." Point was made in the audit of the length of time separating the bankruptcy and the filing of a Anal receiver's account: "A wholly accu rate statement of the condition of this trust and the extent of its mis management by the receiver is pre cluded by several factors, noteworth ily the lade of records and the length of time during which the trust has been administered by Dawson." Judge Sinclair mid yesterday he was positive the whole matter would be aired in ceort. : | I Tobacco Grading; I Act Held Viiia I Meddns Reversed By Circuit Court in Oxford Warehouse Case. - I .Richmond, Va., April 6. ? The Fburth Federal Circuit Court today upehld the United States Department of Agriculture's right to conduct ifcee tobacco inspection and grading service in market tova where a majority of firmera desire such service. :The ruling reversed action of Judge I; M. Meekns in the Eastern North I Carolina District Court in granting I warehousemen an injunction to pre I vent operation of the grading services in part of the warehouses in Oxford. I HC. The In junction had been ashed I oa the conteation that some giowers I would refuse to carry their leaf to bacco to Oxford for marketing be I cause of the federal grading. <4 The Oreuit Court decided these "ikJ Jmmmxnatoon. iftiiut iny* ?* 11? ??- * ThjIMJL I; ; Jj^6TS OeiilDg Al A- TUSTKfit WA0T8 ?M *"A ? ^-y _ ^ ? ? J , ? . I . . . Chart* nftfi liiitryftioM to diiukB nuurk0ts i' Of GoIi^borOf - n , IjlL SOB !L*? ? ,#a - m- . J!!0?6 Plans Under Way j For Safely Tour ????? i Division Planning Mo torcade to Boost High way Safety Program. _ The Highway Safety Division's campaign to reduce the death and ac cident toll on the State1* road sys tem will be carried to State-aride di mensions the last week in April with a three-day Safety Booster tour, be ginning in Raleigh the morning of April 96. Although all arrangements for the tour have not been complted, Ron ald Hocutt, assistant director of the division, yesterday announced that a proposed itinerary had been drawn up and that the tour would be com posed of State and municipal officials, civic leaders and Safety Council exe cutives from various parts of the State. Two large busses and about five special safety passenger auto mobiles will form the safety motor cade, he said. Brief stops at major North Caro lina cities and towns along the pro posed routes will be made, and at these places talks will be made by ac companying officials and efforts will be made to inaugurate organisations of Safety Councils at all points. "<jcr campaign to decrease road hazards and make all of North Caro lina 'safety conscious1 is not going to cease," Hocutt said yesterday. "We've made remarkable progress thus far in securing cooperation from local groups and individuals where the real safety work must be accomplish ed. The lowering of the highway death toll for January and February of this year can be attributed, at least in part, I think, to the wakened interest of motorists in safety meas ures. "With the cooperation which has been promised us from many cities in the State, I believe the Safety Boos ter Tour will result in a better State wide effort to reduce accidents on the highways," he said. The tour will start out from Ral eigh, Tuesday morning, April 26, at 8 o'clock, and proceed westward. Ac cording to the present proposed iti nerary, stops will be made the first day at Durham, Hillsboro, Burling ton, Greensboro, High Point, Winston Salem, Lexington, Salisbury, States ville, Hickory, Morganton, Marion and Asheville, where it is planned to spend the night. Leaving Asheville Wednesday morning, April 27, the tour will con tinue to Rutherfordton, Shelby, Gas to nia, Charlotte, Monroe, Wadesboro, Rockingham, Laurinburg, Lumberton, Whiteville and Wilmington, for the second night's stay. On the final day of the topr, Thursday, April 28, the motorcade will go through Elizabethtown, Fay etteville, Clinton, Goldsboro, Kinston, New Bern, Greenville, Wilson, Rocky Mount, Nashville and back into Ral eigh. Heiici Will Sst Aside M To Pair Oil Firms . Mexico City, April 6. ? The Mexi can government announced today that j 20 per cant of gross receipts from sales abroad of its excess crude oil would be wed toward payment for properties it expropriated from American and British companies March 18. Hie announcement came as two foreign promoters Francis W. Bick ett of Great Britain and Bernard E. Smith, Mew York stock broker, were negotiating with Mexican officials to bpy a part of the government's oil output Unconfirmed reports were that Rickett and Smith were near an agreement with the Mexican govern ment for purchase of some of the oil which has been coflcting in storage tanks since President Lazaro Carde nas issued his expropriation decree. The government press department disclosed that the President frfowaaif had ordered the government company formed to handle export oil sales to deposit 20 per cent of receipts in the National Bank of Labor Credit j The deposits would "constitute a fund for indemnification and be used for payment for the expropriated properties," the press department said. Payments to the companies, it ad ded, would start "as soon as agree ments are reached with the interested companies fixing the amount to be pdud." It was said the finance minis try later would fix the percentage of domestic sales to be devoted to the same purpose. The peso climbed sharply during the dollar in comparison with yepter tbe day, closing at 4.00 and 4.10 to day's close of 4.25 to 5.30. Some bankers credited the peso's rise to reports that Rickett and Smith j had brought *5,000,000 to *10,000,000 to Mexico as a guarantee for an ex pected oil purchase contract. Government sources asserted Mex ico had received more than 50 offers to buy ofl since the expropriation, but that none of the offers had been ac cepted yet EVENING SERVICE 8 P.M. AT MEHODIST CHURCH i i We wish to announce that the Ves per Service at the Methodist Church has been discontinue Instead of this service, t3Te regular evening service will be held each Sunday at 8 P. M. Pre-Easter services will be held at 8 P. M. each evening of noxt week, beginning Wednesday and continuing through Friday. Special messages will 'be brought by the Pastor and music will be rendered appropriate to each servioe. The public is invited to attend. D. A CLARKE, Pastor. Not gvery sound sleeper has a good conscience. '? i-" i , ? i ? ?"?"T Convalescent Care for w Crippled Children "4 ?V ? '? PiyCffffi'M j-'l)? To young eyes, this sunny porch out side a convalescent home for crippled children with its ridinr horse, teeter totter and other playthings looks fairly exciting; : ^fiut to the boys and girls who spend ^ ^ "SB**? ?? ?>' braces and many confined to wheel I ^|JL j|i|Wfl|if^ Convalescent homes ff"fh as this; I ? A.f- ' ' ? ?; V~L A ^ ? ^ ikwff ' " " p?''*?*;???' V"??? * /- -%^r- :? - ',?*>'{ ^ r ? - - ' * ? > -? . - - ?-- ?? --^????- - ? ? ? -*? v. i ?. r ? ? 7 message of "A Better Life for Crip ded Children." r The 19S8 Seal, bearing that slogan, went on sale- here April 1st, spon sored by the. Department of. Public Welfare. '. The Seals, selling for a *nny, ahoW; a small girl, with a crutch under, her arm, watering the ily plant of Saftter time. A -spirit of fine co-operation ha* been erfdtoc*d by nuiperous folk in our county, in behalf of the. Seal .Sale. Mr. J. Vance Peritiiu^has been named UMKIWJr foiavil ' f ATllPYtflMl' llM'ttl'Hll Mnif s?p . j rlitidihul V i' ? - -- *' ? ^jM ?'' - SnjPSHWI^^JK (Hugo 8. Sims, Washiagtsa Corres Fascist Powers Seek Mexican Oil As U. S. Presses For Settlement The sitnation precipitated by the Mexican Government's seizure of oil properties owned by Americans caused Secretary Hull to ask the Mex ican Government for "fair, assured and effective" compensation .for the American properties expropriated. While acknowledging the rifrht of the Mexican Government to seise the properties, Mr. Hull insisted that the owners are entitled to full compensa tion and made plain that such pay ment must not be in bonds which might |subsequently become practical-?' ly worthless. This it is said, hap* pened in the case of the seisure.of. American-owned farm and raneh lands. Mexico gave the proprietors bonds in payment but the securities' have not borne interest since Issued. Officials began work on a suggested plan which would permit the Mexican government to retain title to the oil properties but allow the American companies to operate theim, idling oil and applying the profits and surplus to a.sinlting fund to pay themselves in full. - Meanwhile, the Mexican Govern ment faced the problem of huge oil surpluses. Since the seizure of the oil wells, there have been reports that Italy, Germany and Japan were anxious to take over the output of the Mexican oil industry, The United States almost immediately announ ced that it would cease buying- Mexi can silver on April 1st and hinted that commercial relations with Mexico would be studied. This was taken to mean that there might be tariff in creases against Mexico, which some months ago boosted its tariffs against American products. Encouraging factors in the situa tion were seen in the special session of Congress called by President Car denas, who had previously declared that he would sell oil only to Demo cratic countries. Observers admit, however, that desperate need for an immediate market might lead to an agreement with Germany, Italy or Japan, which are anxiously seeking a basis for a trade. There were hints that the sharp decline of the peso, following suspension of silver pur chases, and the fall of the price of silver on world markets following the reduction in price by Washington might lead to conciliatory action by Mexico. Secretary Hull, in his protest, call ed attention to the friendly attitude of this nation toward the Mexican Government The United States has steadily purchased Mexican silver at a high price, giving great financial aid, has maintained an arms embargo in favor of the Oardenas Government and has repeatedly displayed a sym pathetic attitude towards Mexican attempts to solve agrarian and other problems. While It is probable that the seiz ure of oil properties will result in the clarification of all trade relations with Mexico, the incident should em phasize the danger of serious inter national complications. These do not arise with Mexico, which of itself is not a threat to the peace of Hie United States, but can be easily discerned in possible agreements between Mexico] and' Germany, Italy and Japan. Should they succeed in establishing j a el aim to-Mexican oil, developments adverse to the interests of the United Statef sad democratic nations in this hamisphsre are inevitable. In fact, the Mexican situation offers an easy avenue for Fascist penetration into this ares of the world. President Power of Reorganisation I After Bitter Debate Senate Grants The six-to-one decision of the United States Supreme Court, up holding sections of the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1866, which forced utility holding corporations to register with the Securities and Ex change Commission or lose the privi lege of 3be mails and other channels jot inter-state commerce, started a rash by rebellious holding companies to jmnply with' the requirements of the law ijrhich they have Utterly assailed and vigorously contested throughout a long legal battle. ... 1 . Naturally,, the decision at the tri bunal is ha&d by thft New Dealers ss a -significant victory. Solicitor-Gen eral Bobert H. Jackson, who argued itiie law ** I . Justice Cardoxa did not partiUpate I : tIt - -J Jk V/ liiitii & 1 Defrav Oil tebt VUIIUV WVI 'VHP \ fx V- ;-~i Mexico City, April 5. ? Archbishop Garibiy Rivera of Guadalajara today called upon Mexican Catholics to raise a fund to help pay 17 American and British oil companies for their $400, 000,000 holdings expropriated by the government March 18. This move, approved by Archbishop Louis Martinez of Mexico City, came as the oil companies asked in district court of a'isderal labor board order terminating their labor contracts with their 18,000 former employes. Archibishop Martinez promised a pas to rial letter on the oil controversy during Holy Week. The oil workers' union said yester-. day its members were prepared to contribute a day's pay each month "as long as needed" to help pay for the expropriated property. Today's court action was the second one of three steps indicated by the oil companies in an effort to have the expropriation decree set aside. The first of these was a request filed in district court yesterday for ah in junction against enforcement of the decree on the ground that it was un constitutional. The third step, not yet taken, will be a request to the Department of National Economy for administrative revocation at the1 de cree. " Bernard E. Smith, New York bro- 1 ker, and Frauds W. Bickett, British promoter, arrived from New York to night, presumably to resume nego tiations with the government for pur- ! chase of oil, which now fills many 1 storage tanks to capacity* Officially, however, they denied that their visit was connected with the oil situation, i Meanwhile, renewal of hostilities between the rival Confederation of j Workers of Mexico and Regional Con federation of Mexican Workers ad ded to the government's worries. . I Two workers were killed and sev- ' oral persona wounded in a half-hour gun battle yesterday at Acapuleo af ter the two unions became involved | over the right to unload a cargo of building materials off the German ship Weser, Mayors Will Convene In Greenville Monday * ? ? ?MMMM Greenville, April 5. ? At least 200 : mayors and other officials from 00 j Eastern North Carolina towns are expected to attend a session here on ( Monday of the North Carolina League of Municipalities called for the pur- j pose of discussing cooperative and legislative ? programs, according to i Mayor M. K. Blount, second vice president of the league. The session will open in the Pitt County courthouse at 2 o'clock. One , of the principal speakers will be State Treasurer Charles M. Johnson, Di L. : Ward of New Bern also is to address i the group. The City of Greenville will be host j at a barbecue dinner in the city county armory, in which additional sessions will be held after the general sessions, Mayor Blount will deliver ' the address of welcome. Last Rites For S. R. Joyner Held At Home of Parents Final rites for Samuel,R. Joyner, 46, an Edgecombe county farmer, well known and esteemed in the Farmville, Bethel and Tarboro com munities, whose death late Saturday night was self inflicted, were held here from the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Joyner, on Mon day afternoon by the Rev. J. B. Moye, Free Will Bapttt minister of Spring Hope, assisted by the Bev. D. A. Clarke, pastor of the local Methodist church. Interment wan mads, in the family burial {dot near Faumvillfi. \ Surviving are his wife, Mrs. S. R. Joyner, of Tarboro, a daughter, Wm Anna Joyner of the. Rocky Mount Sanitarium, three sons, Linwood, of Bethel C. A. and Thurman Joyner, of Tarboro, hit parents, three sisters, Mrs. Lina Newbern, of Grifton, Mrs., Carrie Lee Joyner^ of Wiliiston, S. C., and Miss Bertha Rae Joyner, of Hookerton; throe brothers, Leonard, Elbert and Arthur F. Joyner, of Farmville.- k<:.v , . TUBNAOM NKIXX mpg The followinc> announcement ^an been received by friends here this week: "Mr. ead Un. Hen* J. O'Neill an aonnce the marrisge of their daugh ter, Adelaide, to Mr. Benjamin Q. Tnrnage, Junior, Lieutenant, United States Army, on Thursday the thirty first of Mwrt, nineteen hundred ,wd thirty-eight, in the City of Charles ton." * . . : ! ???? Anew industry for , Rutherford County farmers will be growing hogs for home use and market A nam JJp Strawberry Crop is Earl test in 15 Years; ins pects Appear Bright Wallace, April &?-Unceremonious- J ly and simultaneously, North Caro-1 lina's seven strawberry markets will open Monday to handle an estimated I 11,500,000 crop, the earliest in 151 years. Randall B. Etheridge, chief of the! North Carolina Department of Agri-| culture's markets division, followeingl a tour of the strawberry belt, reported j growers generally had reduced their I crop approximately 22 per cent this! season, adding that "ideal weather! now exists and with continued fav-| orable conditions, an excellent, high-1 quality berry crop can be anticipat-1 ed." Markets at Mount Olive, Warsaw,! Rose Hill, Burgaw, Chadburn, Tabor City, and Wallace are scheduled to! open'April 11, Etheridge said. "Here-1 tofore, marketings in the Chadbourn-j Tabor City section have been from! three to five days earlier than in the! sections north of Wilmington," he! pointed. Growers and other authorities fam-l iliar with economic trends were re luctant to,discuss price prospects fori! die season. The average price paid for a crate! of North Carolina strawberries last!' year was $2.60, or a reduction of 7|! per pent over the previous season. There are approximately 7,2001 acres planted to strawberries in thel State this year as compared with anl acreage of 9,200 last season and 8,-1 800 in 1936. The crop value-per-acre I last year was $182, or 10 per cent! greater than the previous season. The I 1987 crop yield per acre was 70 crates j per acre, or 19 per cent greater than the 1936 yield. I Principal berries that will be ship-1 ped from North Carolina are of thfee J' varieties?Blakemore, Klondyke and ""tor- | GRADED SCHOOL HONOR ROLL The Farmville Graded School Hon-1 or Boll for the 7th month of> Hie present term is as follows: X/ First grade: Carl Willis King. Ma- | rie Roberson, Mary Frances Allen, Lorraine Butte, Ruth Moore, Elsie Mays, Fannie Quinn, Helen Thomas. Second grade: Cedric Davis, David ' Gates, Neal Howard, Charles Parker, , Dora Mae Barrett, Faye Corbett, Bil ly Louise Johnson, Jeane Johnson, 1 Lola Gray Kemp, Vivian Scott, Joyce Tyson, Margaret Wainright, Betty [ Rose Wilkerson, Carolee McConnell, Allie Walston. r Third grade: Lois Nanney, James 1 Claude Johnson, Billy Batton, Bruce Darden, Sterling Gates, Tommy Barney, Harold Bouse, Maynard Thome, Dan Morgan, Sybil Barrett, Frances Jones, Margaret Justice, Bet ty Morriss, Dora Speight Trevafhan, Marine Warren, Babe Williford. Fourth grade: Harry Davis, Marvin Horton, Milton Williamson, Margaret Bynum, Flora Dean Johnson, Janie Kemp, Mary Leah Thorne, Sallie Ruth Jones, Virginia Cates, Clyde [ Elisabeth Brooks, Mildred Gainey, Olive Boberson, Margie Ruth John son, Johnsie Moore, Jane Turnage. Kfth grade: Bobbie Smith, Eliza beth May, Bob Payior, Etta Frances Harper, Lucille May, George Garrett, | Jean Beckman, Margaret Tyson. Sixth grade: Cabot Monk, Wilma Stansill, Miriam Gates, Lois Jones, ' Alma Gray Lilly, Agnes Quinerly. Seventh grade: Sue Mae Letch- ? worth, Annie Laurie Skinner, Mary 1 Elizabeth Barrett,. Frances Howard, ' Ann Jones, Alice Harper Parker, Helen Rouse, Addle Ruth Taylor, John Parker, Jack Payior. Eighth grade: Alton Thomas, Bob by Rouse. Ninth grade: Evelyn Wooten. , Tenth grade: Blanche Bryan, Grace Humbles, Mary Thorne Tyson. Eleventh gTade: Julian Smith, Clarence Wellons, Helen Allen, Helen Judy, Frances Newton, Doris Routt; Frances Smith.v'vlf W ! UNITED STATES OVID . SERVICE EXAMINATIONS - ? The United States Civil Service Commission announces an open com petitive examination for the portion of. Substitute Clerk-Carrier for filling vacancies in the Post Officer Fara ville, North Carolina*. The mawl en trance salary being 46e an hour. ^ Applications for this position must be on file with %he Manager, Fourth U, S, Civil Service District, Washing ton, D. C, not dater than April 16, Competitors will be reged to re -* ? s *''-4' ?' t ? % ? m ? ' ? 9 * To (SL _ :J Report Capture of Bala guer at Head of Cata lan Power Supply Sys Hendaye, France, April 6.?Insur gent dispatches tonight announced that General Jose Moscardo'B Insur gent troops had captured Balaguer, in Northeast Spain, the torpn which con trols all Catalan hydro-electric power Htiw. Balaguer, 15 miles northeast of Lerida, is at the northern end of the government's defense line thrown up to check the Insurgent sweep toward Barcelona and the Mediterranean. Government forces still retained control of the defense lines south ern end at Borjas Blancas, but the capture of Balaguer would enable the Insurgents to circle around gov ernment fortifications to the main Barcelona highway. Reinforced government. troops, streamed down from mountain fast nesses in flank attack on the Insur gents hammering at Tortosa to reach the Mediterranean Sea. While "suicide squads" of militia men held approaches to the walled city, wave after wave of government troops struck from the heights which hemmed in General Franco's column. They drove Insurgents out of several positions in bitter hand-to-hand fight ing. " J;, Both sides, sped reinforcements to the battle area, where government resistance to the Insurgent push brought the fiercest fighting since Franco's forces started their March to the sea March 9. Franco's legionnaires were fighting to gain control of the coastal high way and use it for a rapid sweep 95 miles northeast to Barcelona, govern ment capital, or to Valencia, Mediter ranean stronghold to the south. In preparation for the final assault on Tortosa, insurgents sent caravans o'f munitiohs and supplies down the Elbro River valley to the column striking at approaches to the city. The Spanish government mobilized" aii. available labor in northern Spain to hasten fortifications along the French frontier, which was believed to be the ultimate objective of ra*v. chanized columns moving on Lerida. ' Except at Tortosa, little; fighting was reported on the long front stretching from the Medditerranean north through central Spain, then sast to the Tortosa bottleneck and north to the Pyrenees. ' Garner Names Two Man Ripab liCHS for JMHIiy Washington, April 6. ?> Difficulties accumulated for Vice-President Gar ner today in his effort to find two wil ling and acceptable Republicans to complete the personnel of the com mittee named to investigate TV A. He appointed Senators Capper (R Kan.) and Fraader (R-N. D.) to the committee, only to have the former announce that he would not serve and the latter say he had not made up his mind whether he would accept or not . j They were named to replace Sena tors Borah (R-Idaho} and McNary (R-Ore.), who resigned yesterday soon after they were appointed. Of three Democratic Senators appointed jresterday; Dornhey (D-Ohio) --was ' still reserving a decision, but was ex pected to accept; Sehwartr (D-Wyo.) bad agreed to- "serve, and Senator Brown (D-N. H.), cut of the city, bad npt been hard from. ] Thus the Vice-President's se*ve was: Seven appointment to five jobs, three outright refusals, two reserva tions of judgment, one yet to be reached and one wilting to take a place on the committee. Reports persisted that some Repub lican Senators were refusing the ap pointments in an effort to forco Gar ner to name Senator Bridges (R-N. H.), a vehement critic of TV A. In formed persons predicted, howefver, h rtfc w (kimr would be able to provide Republican representation i on the eotamittee without naming Bridges. The appointments in both houses to date,, with one exception, have |l Avoided all mem^erswho have taken j part in the TYA controversy, . The exception was Representative ie^sup^rth^)th^ta^ Dt^AT

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