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VOLBM TWWrr-WNE FIBirnLLft PITT COUHTT, NORM CABOUNA, FRIDAY, JUNE 10, 19M NUMBER FOUR
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Farmvills to Organize
Chamber of Commerce
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(By R. G. Debnara, Publicity
Director)
In a called Mass Meting of all
business men in on
day night, which waa attended by
ly twenty-four interested citizens,
* planHS P-tly outlined mpepa
" ration for the early organization in
Senile of a Chamber of Com
merce and Merchants Association
^ThHtcere enthusiasm
the proposed movement was met w*?
S^Tjustify Uking definite
2^Ti? the matter. On Wednesday,
Messrs. Marvin Lindsay, W.
lis, and R. G. Debnam went to Wtote
ville, for the sole purpdse of obtain
all information possible as to j
how that town organized and operates,
^ or^iization exactly like the one
wanted in Farmville.
Whiteville, a town just ^8^
larger than Farmville, has a li
largcx . which combines
wire orgamzation wmcn co
the Chamber of Commerce and Mer
^TLociathm, mi
that has worked wonders for the town
and tobacco market.
has all the facilibesior
a factory town, as well as a tobacco
market and enterprising
ter. By uniting into one co?P?"*ting
group with a definite committee to
handle all matters of comp^Jf.S^;
tistics and furnishing requested in
formation concerning the community
and individual business interests, fu
ture exploitation on the part of out- j
side business firms into the possibili
ties Bid advBitages
isg iB Fnrmville will be given the
~L.r attention. Who known, tat
?hTthis very information given with
applied pressure might develop m
bringing new manufacturing *****
toto^trmville which would reduce
local unemployment to a minimum
Xut business in general on a year
round boom. . .
The enthusiasm and spirit o
operation with which the Proposed
program met at the meeting Mon
day night ia evidenced in a few state
ments of some of those P"^'
Mr. T. E. Joyner, Farmville Furni
realized the need of such',
an organization in Farmville for some
time. Ill be glad to **ve ***?!
. and whatever other support ^ needed <
to put this movement across.
Mr. l. E- Wataton, Cashier Bank
of FarmviBat ' ' . A
welcome any opportunity to co
operate in making this movement de
velop into a successful venture,
have seen the-effects of similar or
ganizations in other towns and am
certain that one in Farmville would
prove invaluable to the community.
Mr. Fisher, Rose's Store:
"You can count on me, personally,
for solid support; and, as f<?L toe}
company which employs me, I am
STthrf it, too, will fall in line
and give ita cooperation."
Mr. R. A. Joyner, City Clerk and
Treasurer:
"I see no rason why tne wnoi^oW
shouldn't fall in line in one eolid-unit
in support of this organization. Let's
not aim at forty or fifty number
ship^ but not stop until every busi
ness man in Farmville is a member.
Then we will have a working body
I which can and will accomplish won
I dere for. the. entire community."
I Mr. N. Cannon, Merchant:
"111 do everything I can to help.
I am glad to see this movement tak
ing place in Farmville. We need it."
Mr. M. T. Mixzxelle, Electrician:
I "Though I am what might be
I teamed a small business man, 1 real
ise the advantages offered through
I such an organization, and pledge my
solid support to its development."
Mr. N. Pliaco, Merchant:
"IamgW to see Farmville start I
U this work. I have seen the good done
by other organizations in other
?, tem and know Oat one will do the
& nam* for Fkrmvflle."
at the meeting; all in- favor of and
I pfenning support to the undertajtiogl
I However, interest and support of jftM
these twenty-four citizens alone
canJrtT i^aftt!fatyhHalie^
Ik o ClOC*# - HgQMIfiOCT XA0 cUkt? flpn p
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You need this organisation; it needs
you. Give it your support.
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Meet your new Sales Supervisor
and Publicity Director
of the
Farmville Tobacco Market
R. G. DEBNAM
who took over this work here
June 1st.
Board Sets Blow
to EviGtioD Mora
Frizzelle Signs Order
Restraining Use of Pitt
County Funds in Pro- j
secution.
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Greenville, June 7. ? Ouster pro
ceedings in Pitt Superior Court
against Sheriff S. A. Whitehurst re
ceived a blow last night when Judge 1
J. Paul Frizzelle, in Snow Hill, signed
an order temporarily restraining the
Ih'tt board of county commissioners J
and the Pitt ABC board from paying
ABC or any other county funds for
investigation in the county or to fin- !
ance the ouster hearing.
Under the order, the refendants?
county commissioners ? are required (
to appear before Judge Frizzelle on :
June 18 to show cause why the order '
should not be made permanent. A
group of Pitt citizens today filed in
superior court a petition asking that
$7,346 expended by the county com
missioners for private investigation
of crime be returned to the county.
The petition also charges that the
commissioners overcharged the coun
ty for their salaries.
Meanwhile, Sheriff Whitehurst took
the stand in the ouster hearing, be
fore Judge G. Vernon Cowper, and
denied charges of malad-ministration
of office, accepting bribes, and failure
to pay fees due the county. The
charges were brought by commis
sioners, as citizens.
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1'1'he petition asiung return ui lurm*
Kent in investibation alleges that the
Bunty commissioners entered into an
legal and void contract with the.Ns
onal Bureau of Investigation, A. S.
atson, agent, for a crime investiga- .
Ion in Pitt County. The petition
larges that, under the contract, cora
Bissioners have spent $7,346 of coun
I- funds, illegally, and have-"made
lemselves individually and severally
Bible for the same"; and that expen
ture of such money was squandering
I county funds by the commission
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I The petition farther says that "said
Baunisaioners entered into an illegal
ly void contract with the Pitt Coun
I Alcoholic Beverage Control Board,
Baereby the A. B. C,. Board financed
B per cent of the said expenditures
Bom the enforcement funds of the
B. C. Board, which expenditure
is beyond the authority and power
iich the A. B. C. Board was autho
red to make."
The petitioners also charge that the
mmissioners "have employed spri
te conned to prosecute said setion
id incurred enormous expense in
Burt costs, stenographer fees, and
her items estimated to amount to
much as $40,800; and ahst the je
>ners proposed to uae county fundi J
finance their action as individuals; I
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People Warned
Of Soil Misuse
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Editor Says America
May Eventually Be
come as Arid As Sa
hara,
Memphis, Term., June 8. ? Mrs.
Fae Huttenlocker, associate editor of
Better Homes and Gardens, warns
that the United States eventually
may become as much a desert as the
Sahara.
"? TT-.ix?that
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"unless we abandon our program of
marsh land drainage and stripping
the lands of trees, the natural reser
voir of rainfall, the United States
will become one of the greatest des
erts on earth."
"We are rapidly making a desert
of our land," she declared. "We have
been so interested in immediate ef
fects that we have not taken the time
to realize the damage being done all
over the country by the network of
drainage ditches and stripping the
hillsides of trees.
"Thousands of acres of marsh lands
were drained when wheat pricep went
up to provide more lands for raising
wheat. No thought, was given for the
results. Most of the land after the
first year's cultivation would not
grow grass.
"Because of this extensive drain
age program and timber cutting, the
level of water has dropped from 10
to 50 feet in the United States."
The lowering of the water level,
she said, means poorer crops, and
fewer gardens.
"The dust bowl and other areas of
the country are due to this thought
less program of drainage, removing
from the land the trees and ventilia
tion which held the rainfall and pro
vided water the year around for
everything we grow.
"We are not far-sighted. We think
only of the immediate effect, spend
ing millions doing things that will
cost us the lands on which our homes
stand.
"This destruction program cannot!
be laid at the door of any one group
of persons. Politics, providing po
litical jobs, is partly to blame.
"In our schools we teach -the chil
dren about the wars. But we do not
teach them how long it has taken the
South to get over the Civil War. We
should have an education program
that would look forward for years,
[>ne that studies the results of things."
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?Chinese War May
Lift Fliw-Gured
Weed Prices
?Exports Show Increase;
I Fine Quality Reported
H In Border Belt
[ The war between Japan and China
Hnay mean better prices next fall for
Ithe flqfecured tobacco which soon will
?begin to ripen in the Border Belt, To
I bacco Marketing Specialist W. P.
I Hedrick of the Department of Agri
I culture, said yesterday.
Japan's war machine has struck the
Bnost fertile tobacco section of China
land prevented marketing of the Chi
nese crop with a resulting heavier de
mand for American tobacco, Hedrick
I "Floe-cured exports during the first
?four months of this year have in
creased 37 per cent over the same
?period of 1937," he added, pointing
out that the Department of Com
merce had reported an export increase
of 40,000,000 pounds compared withfl
a total of 66,000,000 pounds sent I
abroad during the first four months of jl
He attributed the "export boom" to I
depleted European markets, increased I
consumption in European countries,!
Hedrick, who graded and bought
tobacco in China for eight years, said I
that "normally, Chinese tobacco I
would have already been marketed,
and would have^ps^tftedr^British
manufacturers to operate smoothly,
but because of war conditions, and re
sulting destruction of transportation
systems, China's flue-cured crop can
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not De secured ror world trade. Great
Britain is a heavy consumer of Chl
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Toll of Dead and Injured
Exceeds 8,000 FoDow
in New Jap Bombard
ments.
Canton, June 9. ? (Thursday )~||
Unrelenting Japanese bombardment
of this once-prosperous south China
metropolis has started huge fires,
crippled the city's utilities and pushed
the toll of dead and injured aboVtf
8,000.
Twenty-five Japanese planes struck
at Canton last night in the third, raid
of the day and the city's second suc
cessive night raid in 12 days of bom
bardment. V
The fires dropped incendiary bombs
on Canton's west bound, behind the
Asia Hotel. A huge fire raged just
opposite Shameen, the city's foreign
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There was no way of determining
accurately the toll of dead and in
jjured in the wave of bombardments
which satrted May 28, but conserva
tive estimates before last nights raid
were that at least 3,000 had been
killed and 5,000 wounded.
The American-endowed Lingham
University and an American-owned
Standard Oil storage plant were
struck by bombs in the two previous
raids yesterday.
Addison E. Southard, United States
consul general at Hongkong, protest
ed to the Japanese consulate general
against the attack on the university
campus.
The oil tank burst into flames and
fire spread into the terminal of the
Canton-Hankow railway. The station
and a 16-car train were destroyed.
Main objective of last night's bom
bardment was an old power plant
which supplied Canton with light af
ter a direct hit in the main power
station had cut off electric power.
With the air alarm system disabled,
police ran from house to house to
warn residents .that bombers were on
their way again. Some 500,000 of the
city's 1,000,000 population had fled,
and about one-third of its houses were
evacuated.
Although anti-aircraft defenses
proved ineffective and no Chinese
planes took the air to fight off the
attackers, there was little criticism
of the Chinese central government for
failure to provide help against the
continuing raids. ; .
So far as was known, the Canton
Hankow railway, main artery for
shipment of munitions and supplies
to Chinese armies on the central
front, still was operating despite de
struction of the station.
Eight foreign doctors published a
statement denying previous Japanese
assertions that most of the casualties
in Canton were caused by anti-aircraft
fire.
The statement also said: "It is our
firm conviction that Japanese mili
tary forces have determined ruthless
ly to destroy the people of Canton
and their public and private build
ings."
Chinese expressed the belief that,
since iiingham University is about, a.
mile and a half from the nearest
military objective, an anti-aircraft
battery,. Japanese were intent on
crippling the city's factories, utilities
and other institutions.
Three bombs landed in, the univer
sity compound, one of them failing
to explode. College buildings were
not damaged- A Chinese woman was
killed.
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STONE NAZI BANNER"^
I ; Prague, Cxecho-Slovakia, ? Seven
men were arrested for throwing rocks
? Into the window of the villa of the
HOerman legation when they saw a
swastika banner displayed inside the
I Window. An apology was hastily ex
I tended the German officials after
the incident
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WHO KNOWS? !
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1. When was the Pure Pood and
Drug Act passed? , ? ..J
2. Does the city of New York ex
pend .money fin? I&ieifc
3. Is evacuation of civilians a
part of London's defense against!.air
What hsis, happened to. Kurt
Schnuschnigg, former Chancelor of
5. What is Arthuradale, W, Va.T
6 When did the U. S. dirigible
Speech on Ssfsfy
Governor Addresses at
Conference Opening oi
State College.
More than 90,000,000 passengez
miles without a single fatality?that
is the safe-driving record made by
North Carolina's school bus drivers
during the past year, Governor Clyde
B. Hoey told the Older Youth Con
ference at State College yesterday.
Speaking on the importance of
law observance, the Governor stated
that a more careful observance of
highway laws would save hundreds
of lives in the State each year. "The
laws are for your protection as well
as the other fellow's," he declared. ,
Governor Hoey called attention to
the 1,123 persons killed on North
Carolina highways last year, as com
pared with 646 North Carolina sol
diers killed during 18 months of the
World War. Safety should also be
practiced in the home, he added.
Dr. K. C. Garrison, professor of
psychology at State College, coun
selled, the young people that success is
not to be counted in terms of money,
prestige, or social position, but in
terms of usefulness, achievement, and
happiness.
Col. John W. Harrelson, dean of
administration at State College, urged
the boys and girls to take stock of
their mental and physical resources
before choosing their life' work. "Go
to college if yoli can," he advised,
"but don't be discouraged if you can't
you can do much to overcome this
handicap."
He pointed to Ambassador;Josephus
Daniels, Governor Hoey, and L. R.
I Powell, co-receiver of the Seabord
Air Line Railway, as examples of
successful men who did not have
formal college training.
L. R. Harrill, 4-H club leader and
director of the conference, told the
group that there never has been a
time when rural people needed lead
ership more greatly. -N
PAYS TAXES ON "LOST" LOT -
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Spokane, Wash. ? After paying
taxes on a piece of property for the
?past five years, Mrs. Bell Wilson, of
Chicago, decided to visit the spot. She
couldn't find her property and, as a
result, she was given a tax refund
and a $100 award.
Wilson Boaril
Reappoints Agent
In Spite of Attack
W. L. Adams Appears
In Defense of Farmers'
Charges of Unfairness.
Wilson, June 8. ? Charges by *
large group of Wilson, County far
mers before the county commission
ers that they had been treated un
fairly at the hands-of Farm- Agent
W. L. Adams were refuted by the
agent before a session of the com
missioners today, and they unani
mously reappointed him. HiB term
will be a yew.
It was the seconds year in succes
sion that the commissioners reap
pointed Adams after protests from
a group of farmers.
The charges were made Monday by
a group headed by Marvin Reyell,
Wilson attorney, and Roy Gardner,
Wilson farmer. They charged not
only unfair treatment at the hands
but that he had received a gift of
$100 from a group of his Wilson
County friends while in office several
years ago. They also charged un
fair treatment -in connection with al
lotments under the new crop control
act.
Adams told the commissioners, in
commenting on Attorney Revell's part
in the protest, that "he lias caused
trouble all the way through the pro
gram." 1 ,
Adams admitted he had received
the gift of $100 but said that he had
known nothing about it until he had
received it, andi that it; unaa all: from
J|rme?!*in the
fo&e^cuMed smiles at then, hearing
when he sMd ti?ak bna of the f armer|
who helped make up the monetary
gift;.was Roy Gardner,;Jfead spokes
man for the delegation vho??pfyfl
here Mondays against. Adlljj^ffjg
Adams answered i??
fair appointments of committeeajnn
Iter the new control act by. pointing
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Sheriff Whitehurst
Re-elected By A
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Mijerityof 2,462
Board of Commissioners
To Have Pour New
Members; Corey De
feats Lanier for Sen
ate; dark Re-elected to
Solicitorship.
All county officials now holding of
fice were returned to office in the
June primary with the exception of
the county board of commissioners,
who were all replaced except for Da
vid T. House, Jr., who was unopposed.
The" incumbent -Sheriff Sam A.
Whitehurst, around whom a storm
-has been raging for some time and
who has been on trial for the past
month in a special hearing for pe
tition for his removal from office was
returned to office by a clear majority
of 2,462 votes over his three oppon
ents, S. I. Dudley, R. W. King, and
E. L. Nichols. The sheriff received
5,379 votes, carrying all twenty pre
cincts of the county.
Judge Dink James and County
Treasurer J. Vance Perkins were all
returned to office. *
Arthur B. Corey won by a small
majority over J. Con Lanier for the
Senate.
Solicitor D. M. Clark, lead his tick
et in Pitt county and the Fifth Judi
cial Diistrictt against John Hill Pay
lor.
For County Commissioner in the
first district Noah Williams won by
a 3,635 majority and in Hie third dis
trict G. H. Pittman led B. M. Lewis
3,247 votes, while in the fifth district 1
W. 0. Jolly beat his two opponents, 1
incumbent Frank Kilpatrick, and
Claude Hardee, by 263 votes. Mr. j
Lewis, however * carried his home
township by a large majority. '
Judge Dink James was far ahead
of his opponents with a majority of 1
1,935 to win over his opponents, H,
Hannah, Jr., and J. W. H. Roberts. 1
In the race for the House seats the '
two high men were J. S. Moore, the
incumbent, and Sam Worihington, >
who was high man with 4,249 votes (
and J. S. MoOre followed with 3,600 1
votes.
As J. S. Moore led W. S. Tyson by '
only 20 votes Tyson has Baid that he 1
will ask for a second primary. '
Arthur Corey won over J. Con La- 3
nier by a close majority of 170 votes. 1
J. Vance Perkins was winner in the '
race for Pitt county treasurers office 1
and won over his opponent, Amos O. 1
Clark, by a mapority of 322 votes. j
RADIO LINK WITH ROME
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Lima, Peru. ? A direct radio cir- '
cuit with Rome through Italian Ra- '
dio, on through to Berlin, will open up
the means of speedy communications ^
between thse countries. ^
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I Dadsrss Paper
MakingtB Sotttli
Almost (Inlimitef
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Dr. Charles Herty Says ]
I Before Many Years
Perhaps Souths Great
est Cash Crop Will Be
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I Raleigh, June 7. ? Dr. Charles H. I
I Herty, who has earned renown by
producing paper from pine and gum
I frees, told Governor Hoey today that I
I the field for paper production in the
I south is practically unlimited.
"Before many years," saidJ Herty,
who operates laboratories at Savant .
nah, Ga., "perhaps the soutii's great- ,
I est cash crop will be its crop of
I Htrees." I
I . The chemist presented to Governor
'Hoey an album showing the wbrii hi
the laboratories and containing Bam
rtadeiftoitf|pine and j I
gum wood.
; f /'^Discussing his work Herty said a I
mill for the production of newsprint
from southern trees would be start
^ will wstcn^that expen
Pay Compromise is Writ
, ten Into Wage-Hours Bill
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Conferees Apparently
Agreed to Defer Set
ing 40 Cents Minimum
Scale.
" Washington, June 8. ? Conferees
on the wage and hoar bill today
agreed, apparently irrevocably, on a
comprise on the wage question which
will result in uniform minimum wages
for all interstate industries through
out the country at the end of seven
years, except where there are find
ings that the payment of such wages
would cause "substantial curtailment
of employment"
This solution caused considerable
grumbling among Southern Senators,
but it is not expected to lead to a
filibuster. However, all plans for ad
journing Congress this week have
now been abandoned and it is con
sidered very doubtful if the conferees
on the wage-hour bill will conclude
their deliberations before Saturday,
and it may be next week before they
report.
The wage question, but not tne
seven-year provision, is expe<fted to
be reopened tomorrow. Only a ten
tative agreement has been reached as
to hours, and the conferees have not
yet taken up controversial adminis
trative provisions, solution of which
is expected to require some time..
Today the conferees swung sharp
ly from a tentative solution reached
yesterday, which was acceptable to
Southern Senators generally and had
the enthusiastic support of the two
Southern Senators who are conferees,
Ellender of Louisiana and Pepper of
Florida.
Yesterday the Senate conferees by
a vote of 4 to 3 agreed to propose to
the House a 25 cents fixed minimum
wage for two years, with differentials
after that time.
Today Senator Thomas of Utah and
Murray of Montana, both Democrats
and the former chairman of the group,
switched their positions and joined
the three Senators who opposed the
arrangement yesterday, Walsh, (D.
Mass.), Borah, (R.-Ida.), and LaFol
lette, (P.-Wis.).
Today both the House and Senate
conferees were about to agree to a
proposal to fix all minimum wages
at 40 cents after ten years with no
axception of any kind.
-i Representative Rams peck of Geor
gia; an ardent champion of differ
entials, then offered the substitute ' '
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plan which was finally adopted.
'Under that plan minimum wages
will be rigid at 25 cents the first
year and at 30 cents the second year,
as in the House bill. For the next
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five ? years minimum wages will be "
fixed by the Department of Labor,
who will act on recommendations of
industrial boards for each industry,
with employers,' employes and the
public equally represented on each
[>oard.
At the end of seven years instead
af three, as provided in the House *
bill, minimum wages would be fixed
uniformly at 40 cents an hour except
for industries where an industry
board recommends and the adminis
trator finds that such a 40-cent wage
would curtail employment therein.
For the period from two to five years,
the administrator will be required to
accept or reject the findings of each
industry board, with a new board ap
pointed in the event of rejection.^
The House conferees accepted this
proposal by a vote of 6 to 1, with Rep.
Hartley of "New Jersey, Republican,
the only dissenter.
J Senators Ellender and Pepper
both voted against the proposal when
the final vote was taken but Pepper
later changed his vote.
> The conferees today adopted ten
tatively the House provision as to
hours, with uniform standards of 44 ?
hours for the first year, 42 for the
second year and 40 thereafter.
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Winners Are Selected
In Pitt 4-H Contests'' ? ?
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* Greenville, June 8. ? Doris Ed
wards, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. By
J. Edwards of Chicod, took first place ?
in the girls' division of the annual'
4-H Club health examinations this
afternoon, and William Whitehurst,
son of Mr. and Mrs:. J. M. White
hunt of Grifton, won in the boys'
division.
Doris competed with nine other
girls representing 15 4-H . clubs in
Pitt County William was judged
with 12 other boys, representing 15 ';
4-H clubs. ? >v'r
Others ware placed in the girls' di
vision were Betty James, second, and
Claripsa Edwards of Pierce, third. -
Other contestants ware Sarah Ed
wards, Sslma Woo ten, Prances Lewis, ^
Blanche Briley, Marporie Carraway,
Theone James, and Doris Bunting,
y&unes Buri^&nlth of Chi^ran