North Carolina Newspapers

L.JL. '' ^ ?? Crop Loss of $7,8OB06O Reported By 15 Cou Estimated Damage To Eastern Carotina Crops Placed at Ten Million Dollars. ai^K.s.y hail storms, coupled with destructive winds sad persistent rains, did nearly eight million dol lars damage to crops in fifteen coun ties in eastern North Carolina in re cent weeks and a survey yesterday indicated the total crop damage in eastern North Carolina because of weather conditions in the past^nonth will pass the twelve-million-dollar mark. As the estimated damage total rose throughout the east, heavy rains again drenched farm lands and not only indicatad still further damage to crops, but lcrnc nod the chances that good weather weald protect the re mainder at the crops and allow some reetoration of the damage already rioar w. J At State College, John V. Goodman, j assistant director of the agricutural extension service, said a turn in the near future in weather conditions probably would "change the entire situation" because a substantial por tion of the crop loes would be re stored by regrowth. "But the picture today is certainly g^oa^," added Goodman, gazing oat the window at a pelting rain. "And if the weather doeeat change the picture will be much gloomier. There is no way to estimate the total dam age done by the rain; we can calcu late pretty wall the damage done by wind and hail, but the rain is a dif femut matter. Still, we know that it is taking a. terrific tolL" Not only in oastora Carolina have crops suffered. Figures at Stats Col lets showed damage to crops in every a action of the State except the far wast. Damage was light, however, is the remainder of the west and in the extreme eastern portion of the Stat*. ? " ?'J ?1?1 <???" vu con amU UN wmu ? .... centrated, the State College reports I showed, in the Albennarle section sad in the heavy tobacco growing sguare miles of farm lands, the sur I vey indicated I Johnston County appeared yester day on the basis of the survey, to haws been the hardest hit of the east I e*a counties. County Agent S. C. Oliver told The News and Observer ? thai he believes the crop damage in I hia county wfll ha not less than fl, OlSgDOO, baaado* aloes of 5,500 seres I of tobacco, 20 per cent of the planted caif; 10,000 acres of IS per cent of I tha; cotton crop, and 9,000 acres or lfcper cent of all other crops. Although Johnston Cour.iy showed I tha greatest estimated daawgh there weae other counties in wfeichthetaHiS I was tremendous. Nash Coutgr dam-1 I was "as it appears net less thai* one j ????wmF** MMH llil Up mx.rnmf VT^*V j dWJJ . ?iiUl| w pw QBHIt- - WSJ ? '- *-- Ai jUhdlmi nt t ihl... M*WJ ? ^ >t . ^WilWJIMWII ^ 1 Ttf1- "/t if Wiltt^i| REV. WILLIAM S. HICKS The Farmville Baptist Church has secured the services of Rev. William S. Hicks to conduct a revival July 3rd through July 10th. Mr. T. Sloan Guy of Southern Pines will lead the singing. We consider ourserves very fortunate indeed to have these two young men to come to our church at this season of the year. Rev. Frank R. Moore, the supply pastor is. highly pleased in that these two consecrated men have consented to be with us. Services will only be held in the evening in the week days, beginning at 8:00 o'clock. The public is cor dially invited to attend. fttfm Farmers WUrBetMaaw AAA Announces Plans For Payment of Sub sidies Due on 1937 Pro duction, Washington, June 29? The Ag ricultur&l Adjustment Administra tion today set in motion machinery which will distribute $130,000,000 over the cotton belt as subsidies to farmers on their 1937 production. Between six and seven million dol lars of this fund are expected to reach the pockets of North Carolina cot-' ton farmers. Subsidy; application blanks already have ben prepared and soon will be ant to the various cotton counties for distribution. To secure the sub sidy, which will range from two to three cents a pound, the grower must produce his cotton sales receipts. In the application^, he must certify that he has not knowingly overplantod his IMS acreage allotment under the new AAA program. Payment of a subsidy equivalent to the difference between 12 cents and the ten-market average price on the date of sale of cotton produced in 1987 was authorised in an amendr ment which Senator James F, Byrnes offered to the deficiency appropria tion bill last summer. At the amendment was under considera tion in conference, the Department of Agriculture insisted upon a provision [that no payment be made under the Byrnes amendment until the grow ers had demonstrated compliance with the 1988 AAA program. During toe last session, Chairman "E. D. Smith of the Senate agriculture committee had ??ylwH hi the new farm bill ? provision to speed up the fanners bTwait cmtiftois fall foTthe rnled^ against tMf Amendment but jhfcm an unending set was passed ?mi miuhui ii mm "i" | A*L - - , ? I, ' t. - . J trae growers ? demonstrate ^ compu SMMrafimded. ^*'fnwa'"f08^ I TT J .? ' - . .. 1 ?? . , I , ' " ? ,? AAA' X ?"'? r ' i ' ? a I y IJY ii s w\ ? w csrrvinfif ont l --- * ? t t ? Mr- : H ??*: V^' "? ^"2 -g [j Men From Spain Gab lima RniKt bo lo now DOoof itain, Prance, Italy nd Germany Agree i Share Withdrawal! xpense. >ndon, Jane 2j.? Britain, France,! Kind Germany tonight agreed tol I the coat of proposed withdrawal! >reign volunteers from Spain af-| Soviet Russia declined to shoulder! foil share of the expense, e agreement removed one morel kcle to the evacuation plan, but! I* stumbling blade rose to a con-J ?nt British plan for sending si -al commission to Spain to in-1 fate aerial bombardments of I an populations. eden unexpectedly followed thel id States' lead in refusing tol the commission, although prev-1 r she had indicated her accept-! tain, with the aid of France, is I tg to persuade The Netherlands I in Britain and Norway on thel iasion, which is to attempt tol nine whether airraids have been! ed against military objectives. I pose of the committee is to world opinion upon raids on I n populations. The Soviet refusal to pay its al-j lotted share of the expense of for-l eign troop evacuation shattered! short-lived harmony in the non-inter-j vention committee. The committee members last week had agreed on. the British plan for withdrawal. The Earl of Perth, British ambas sador to Rome, conferred today with ? Count Geleazzo Ciano, Italian For eign Minister, presumably on nu- | merous problems revolving around the ^ Spanish war. mi fha KnmMrior of I inew UIUIHIC HK g ?, i British ships in ports of government ] ?Spain, the withdrawal of foreign } volunteers, and the Anglo-Italian , pact, wbieh is net yet effective, ; Meantime, a Cabinet - Commons , clash of the first magnitude added < to teh flood of Spaniel war jwob- j Jems, was swirling around Prime j Minister Chamberlain, Britain's apos- , tie of "realism." , Chamberlain agreed today to fight j out the new domestic issue, a com plicated quarrel over anti-aircraft de- , feosee for the British Isles, with a ] committee inquiry , into an implied \ threat to invoke the rigid official ? secrets act against a member of Par liament - i Almost at the same time, the War ] Office, headed by suave Leslie Hore- ? Belisha, announced a military court ( wjjpld pidGe a leak of secret defense data into the hands of the member of j Parliament, Duncan Sandys, a Con- < servative, and son-in-law of Winston j Churchill. This affair involved directly the ] up-and-coming Hose-BeUsha and the j [ anti-craft guns with the War Minister 4 .'proposes to defend 46,000,000 Britons j j against bombing planes in event of war. j Some members of the parliamen- j tary opposition saw a clear parallel 1 between the Sandys case and the "Campbell case" which resulted in 1 the overthrow of the first MacDon- 1 aid government in 1924. i As in the present case, it involved a motion for inquiry by a select com- 1 mittee. The "Campbell case" con- 1 cerned an unsuccessful attempt to 1 prosecute an editor for publication of i an article exhorting soldiers not to 1 fire on workers in wartime. i ""?Vtiftf WW ?; ? Mw ? WW wwmjjh ' -- ? J A a,|i S f ii^ t. ' /A-.i. :# leOK, ? 1^;?!' _S ? ^1 '.' "*'" * ?' ?' , North Carolina business is "pick ing up" and the economic outlook to day is "decidedly, mora hopeful" thatt a month ago, declared Governor Hoey yesterday after a western tour that took him as far west as Jackson and Macon Counties, more than 800 mfles from the Ca^itaL^ : The Chief-Executive, who spent the Week end at Lake Junaluska and High Hampton, reported height pros* beets for industry, the tourist trade and agriculture* B-*?I was struck* with the amount of ponstructian going on, in reaideaml especially," he said "Then is quite a-let of building in North Carolina." ( "One observation that pleased me ussy much is that tha textile situa tion is improving,"he added. "The mills are now getting orders and the situation is much batter than 80 days ago.", The Governor's optimism was back ed up by current reports from State departments and from industrial journals, especially for the textile In dustry; V] ; Wall Street Journal reported over the week end that textile price* had! increased a quarter to three-quarter cents Bines the previous Monday and the demand for gray goods and print cloths bail'bens the largest for any similar period sonce January, 1987. "Textile men are decidedly more hopeful about orders," Governor Hoey said. "So much of the accumulation has been disposed of; the retail trade has held up right wall, and the rstafi* era are ready to purchase again and start things moving." -Department of Labor statistics showed June employment in 189 cot ton mills of the State had increased - " -UL...?k a.ilMmlv mm aver may, uuwubu hic n-? iropped slightly. The State Employ ment Service' reported renewed ope rations in Charlotte and Shelby mills, [die for months. From the_ Unemployment Cortptn uition Commission came the bulletin Ji at for three successive weeks claims tad-decreased, for tfcsfirst time since payments were commenced. Tb* week ending June 25 showed the low* set point to which claims had drop ped for the year. The Employment Service reported i 80 per cent increase in Job place-. Bents, and a 12.3 per cent drop in pe number seeking Jobs through the lervice. vi The Governor also noted increastg activity in road-building and PWA. Recent PWA allocations, he said, ihould be distributed immediately tt> lid the up-turn in business. , "Ordinarily,the tourist business Is lust opeitfng up at .this time," thin aovernor said, "but tourists are com ing in good and strong now." He Baid North Carolina this year iad grown the "biggest wheat crop n the history of the State" and that he crop-situation generally "is fairly food." "Cotton is comparatively late, and practically all the farmers are com plying with the AAA and soil con servation," he added. The Governor disclosed that he was ittempting to speed up the prepari ,-ion of projects for which PWA 'unds have been alloted recently. This afternoon, the Governor will nuke public A-.finawW statement showing North Carolina's receipts | md expenditures during the 1987-581 focal year. The statement will show] ?i founuuQttit Wmm ??? - v illii I Paul Jocip and John Lewis have I been chosen as 'captains of the op I ?|ectad to play in a gulf tournament oh the: local course Wednesday after noon. Julv*. I iwayifi u uij Ui . j,.-- ? ? ? >? - ? ?/ ? I $35,000 Available. I II ?; - A special bond election will be MH mere for the Farroville School Dis-| . I . > | m i T 1 K Al A ww^fc-3 I phinnQA Prnnnrn i bHlfiflw noparB For Main Battle I Of Hsfdtaw Drive jr?w? iy1' 7..^'f Defenders FaH Back tol Hukow as Japanese! i Smash First River Bar-1 I .1 Shanghai, Wednesday, June 29: ?J I Chinese fonts defending the south eastern approaches to China's pro-1 I visional ft* -uipftTd in Hankow I today were falling back on Hukowjj I dominating Hie eastern entrance to jj Lake Poyahg, upon control of whichlj |the fate of the capital will .depend. J' I After Bra ashing the first'of the! j I great fTiinsan barricades across the I ! J Yangtse River at Mataag; below Han- I Ikow, the Japanese reduced the Ma-h J tang foetf and loosed a. powerful of- i I fensive,. reinforced fcy increased ac- |1 tivity on the far north and far south M fronts which prevented Chinese re-|l inforcements from coming up. I The Chinees were confident that 2 they can defend the Hu-Han area (Hankow, Wuchang .and Hanyang) 1 "for two months or more" and were ' represented to be -ftady. ty> .cut the J Yangtse River dikes orating the 1 three cities if necessary* j Foreigners were fleeing Hankow 1 ovr the railway to Canton and the J British crown colony of Hong, Kong. 1 In an effort to harass the Japa nese forces northeast of Hankow, in 1 the Tientain-Pukow (Nanking) rail- * way area, Chinese guerrillas cut the J dikes of the flood-swollen fSrand'j rami inundated thousands of ' acres of flat lands in Arihwei and ? Kiangsii provinces. There were indications that both * sides feel the war is nearing a cli- 8 max and are ready for the most das- 1 1 2. Derate action. 1 " Well-informed Japanese said their.1 ???1 Imhm'miiM mt hesitate to 0 "W ? ? ff?<nn TalanH. guarding the * sea approaches to French Indo-China and the approaches to the I British crown colony at IJong Kong, ] if it were advisable to do so. They said a statement by the British for eign office that Britain and France might retaliate if the island were oc- ? cupied "will not deter the Japanese foeeas." It ji? reported that Soviet Rus to China is increasing. Foreign military attach** in Hankow confirmed reports that tl "several, hundred" new ftn?ian air a planea havie arrived there and that n Soviet pilots, in the employ of the Chinese army, are fighting with the C Chinese air fdree. . b Japanese forces broke through the a Matang barricade' across the Yang- tl tee river below Hankow yesterday after a sanguinary attack by -their I land and naval forces. Foreign ob- n servers said Japanese losses were S heavy and that Chinese- planes bomb- g ed them effectively. a The Chinese retreated only after I the mod-walled Matang forte were o blown to bits by Japanese artillery d and then fell back 'in good order to prepare positions-fronting Hukow. * a , Sv.n"##:": ' I.. .uv-.. -if . I' | I Joseph Warren Bullock, 67, a re tired conductor of the Norfolk . South era .Railroad. attd a,resident of Mays- > I villa, dM.hm rt i o'cloA Tawdw J afternoon at the home of a daughter,!* as ^ ilfiiiirhfAM |fd ? fP ? i. m ^ ... I ]Lf Iq0 T H B H(iil^llwM P| JUT0* Jk/? I# yvolvU AUU BI'Bff I fy ? ? m ,' ?. .f ? . M*? - A, ' ' ? - ? * ? ? 9 tJ??' 11< Norfolk Va.' IP , - _ w r? .",,-'. 5?*^!S0 I r ???????..1 ? - ? ??? Attorney General Will Defend Constitutional' tty at Hearing. Satur ' i ; i i ii ? The constitutionality of the 1987 icrwp tobaeeo tax .will be defended ay Attorney General Harry McMul lan Saturday morning in the ease of K* B. Ficklen Tobacco Company /eraui Revenue Commissioner A. J. Maxwell, to be heard at chambers in Snow Hill by Judge J. Paul Frizzelle. Ficklen Tobacco Company paid the required $1,00C license fee to deal in scrap tobacco under protest and nought a suit against the Revenue Commission to recover on the ground hat the tax is unconstitutional. The est case is expected to reach the Supreme: Court The tax act on scrap tobacco which isssed the 1936 General Assembly vas declared unconstitutional by the C. Supreme Court on the ground hat it failed to state a tiihe for pay ng license feea, failed to specify the ife of a license and was so " uncer tain, vague and incomplete" aa to be opse and incapable of interpretation. With the support of the Farm Bu reau Federation and other farm or ganizations interested in' outlawing, he traffic of scrap tobpeco,-the 1987 General Assembly enacted, a new tax aw which is said to be free of the lefects of the old Jaw. The significance of the Snow Hill| est case is said to lie, not in the J mount of revenue the State would ose if the law were invalidated but, n the release of scrap tobacco into tnresricted trade in competition with [uality leaf marketed throughout the. Sast, ? Mkmm# Ms Gathering At Gettysbirg Gettysburg, Pa., June 29. ? Mora ban 1,600 old soldiers camped to other tonight when many of them iet in battle 75 yean ago.' Their tents, when tha Blue and fray fighting ? "boys" of long ago lughed and chatted together, were ritMn sight of the memorable bat lefMds. Another 1,000 Confederate and FnSon veterans are expected i tomor ow for the reunion. They will join Itate and \ local- groups for informal efctogeth&a, Then, h-woes nil, they iM be the honored guests of the trmal observance of the anniversary f the great battle uritich begins Fri ay. ' '.i.j. - ,1.;: Today there/ wan reminiscences, nd "kidding" about the .prowess of be Confederates or the Yanks, but be onca-threatening rivalry between be Northern and Southern veterans ns ioxfstten. < ? Ail day long and far into the night be veterans streamed into town. Antfraated iSf0' the lively melodies f "Yankee Doddle" and. "DudaK* lsyed by the; United States Army and, they stepped with new vigor; rora stations to their tented head carters. i*. ??" ?"??? .wwful in onv ptmirs AUWC DUUW iyowu v^w,, I the Bunahine and cooling breezes, others looked up old friends. They II feth."right at horned I A dozen veterans Suffering 1 from tie exertion of long journeys were aken to hospitals. None way report* d in serious condition. ' No item for their comfort appeared imgotton. Care given by physicians t home vras carried on . here. Them ras no eurfew, but the commission nggestad that the 90*ytar-olda. re ire early to conserve tW> strength. Tali, full-bearded Sampym s. impson, commander of the Pacific Msion of - the.' lfnited mftphjjjl oniecerate soiuior among? v' wnoie | rainload of Union .raUiilhM from the I fast. ^ ? I >Oakland, suromsd up the! urposQ of the reunion well* I .. | t m 1 f *+ ?. I bUtumA AM Tmma 9| I Kvullv) yl| UUllv ?*? I . - Jr " VWiUIIl Wt I Officers Elected And ? ^Committees Appoint ,ed; Work To Start At EariyPate; Hi 1 The splendid results of the mem bership drive for a Chamber of Com merce and Merchants Association Combined were manifested in the progress attained in the organiza tion- meeting in the City Hall last Monday night v This meeting, the first of the reg , ular animal meetings of the organi sation, was called for the purpose of electing a Board of Directors. Mr. T. E. Joyner, Chairman, Pro tern, ap pointed from those present a Nomi nating Committee to present before the attendants a Board of Directors: Serving on this committee were: Messrs. R. L. Rollins, R. H. Knott, and C. A. Rouse. The Board of Directors as nominat ed and unanimously elected were: Messrs. John B. Lewis, L. E. Wal Bton, W. R. Willis, T. E. Joyner, Frank Williams, N._ Camion, Marvin Lindsay, George Davis, S. A. Gar rhr, and J. I. Morgan, Jr. It was thought advisable by all present that the organization operate under the guidance of a Board of at least ten members for. the tint year. Later, in the meeting, Messrs. Mar vin Lindsay and W. R. Willis outlined, in general, the work expected of the organization for the coming year. The point of not expecting too much for the first year was stressed by all those who had studied the work of other like organizations. It will take time for the organisation here to get on its feet and be in a position to give you the service you need and want. However, within sixty days it is ? thought that the credit mid collec tion bureaus will be satisfactory ser vice. This service, of course, WQ1 improve as it is continued. immediately after the general meeting, the Board of Directors call ed a special meeting for the purpose of electing officers for the ensuing' year. They appointed George Davis as the president of the organisation; Marvin Lindsay, vice-president; Stan ley Garris,treasurer; and W. B. Wil lis, temporary Secretary. Six acting committees were ap- - pointed by the President as follows: Finance: L. E. Walston, S. A. Garris, B. L. Rollins;, Legislative: J. B. ;Lewis, J. O. Pollard, Dr. P. E. Jones; | Membership: W. R. Willis, T. E. Joy ner, G. W. Davis; Trade Promotion and Advertising: M. Lindsay Frank Williams, T. E. Joyner; Transporta tion; Frank Dupree, A Q. Roebuck, .and N. Cannon. The work of these committees will, in the future, enable the organisation to give prompt at tention to i inquiries of outside con cerns in regard to possibilities of lo cating in Farm villa. Through the committees and each member, the at? ganization will endeavor to create a stronger spirit of cooperation among business interests here and promoteJ trading in Farmville and vicinity. Though your -store or office may display the Membership Certificate presented each member, your support, if the organization is to live m>d gro w, must not stop there. That cer tificate shows that you am cooperat ing with and supporting the one or ganisation which is working for tike common good of all. You shagfcl pride the very possession of that cer tificate. If every member lives up to the rales set forth in his member ship, unfair competition and degrad ing trade practices will, in the future, , be strangers in Farmville. ' 4 Within a short time, an office for the Association will be set up. here. It'is your office, there for your ser vice. Do not haeltate in bringing be fore it any problem you think could be sattieti ther*. Any effort on your part in helping set-up and start the . v working of the Association will he appreciated by all of Farmville. J.-.: V 1 1 -*. ? 1 WHO KNOWS? ?;#. Whan did Amelia Earhart and |ar companion, F. J. Noonan vanish? 2. Who was the author of the Dee laration of Independence ? :i 3. Who designed the Stars and / .. v MM Wherfcr^thlh Eloanor?Rooee velt Industrial 'School for Negroes? I Bi Wl?t ^ 8. What were the Thirtem) Origi nal States, which comprised the U. ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? " f ?? - - - - ^ ji Orlando, PlL ? Although not leg