North Carolina Newspapers

?" ? ?>????????? ? 121 ?-? ? 2 FARMVUXE, PITT COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER'tt, MM NUMBER TWENTY-FIVE. VOLUME TWENTY-NINE ^ _____ .... - .. ? ?-= ? ? ' ? - 1 ??? ? ? ??? M. . .... : . . . , "7vin/'" 'I- ? 1 Roosevelt Peels U.S. Expenditures to Mike Way For Rearnatteit Costs - t j ?? ? I M I IT I ? I ? ? ?J 11, Washington. ? President Roose velt took up Tuesday the problem of paring 1939 departmental expendi ture# to help make room for an an ticipated increase in defense coats. The President, who returned Mon day night from his home at Hyde Park, summoned Daniel W. Bell, act ing budget director, to begin making budget estimates for submission to Congress in January. Much prelimi nary work has been done in a series of conferences during the last few weeks. Besides the departmental require ments, Mr. Roosevelt must take into consideration the probable effect of the business trend on anticipated revenues, possible new sources of in come, and the extent of savings that might be affected in such items as relief. ' jgsgj Actual relief estimates for the year beainnimr next July 1 and for last four months of the current fiscal year will not be made until about December 15. ? *|S Harry Hopkins Works Progress'' administrator, spent last week with the President and predicted a drop in the relief load in the immediate future due to "improved business and employment conditions." He ad ded that,he believed relief expendi tures could be cut. The President has disclosed that an increase in military expenditures is-j likely to result from a current sur vey of defense needs. Aside from indicating that the Navy would need $150,000,000 for new warship con struction, Mr. Roosevelt has not said oubiiclv what he thought the in-; creased defense cost might be. Last July he estimated the gross deficit for the present fiscal year would be $4,084,887,600, compared with $1,524,713,050 for 1937-38. At that time he estimated 1938-39 ex penditures at more than $9,000,000, 000. x . Improved Conditions Improved conditions affecting the domestic demand for farm products have been reported by the U. S. Bu reau of Agricultural Economics. Industrial activity has expanded and consumer incomes have increased in recent months. Style forecasts hint of coming rev elations. MJttNy Woman - Witness Testifies taSpj Trill Otto Herman Voss Link ed with Agents of Ger many's Spy Ring. New York, Oct. 26. ? The gov ernment's hearlded "mystery woman" witness, Miss Santa de Wanger, 31, testified in Federal Court today that Otto Hermann Voss, 38, one of three defendants on trial for espionagfe, consorted with agents of a German spy ring operating in this country. Miss de Wanger said she had been under constant guard by Federal agents ripce the spy case broke last February ? "because," she said, "1 was afraid of my life." She did not disdoee whether any threats had been made against her. Miss deWanger calmly pointed to the thin, bespectacled defendant ac cused of stealing U. S. warplane secrets and identified him as the "Mr. Yoee" who spoke "always in German" with other alleged conspir ators. -' ^ Documents Identified. Earlier a U. S. Customs agent iden tified blueprint negatives, photo graphs and other documents which Bferiio abroad a German trans-At J One of the confiscated letter* con ' rtfa , t?, . - a. . jiAdG ^J^ui # pW'Pir xmiixai ji!",pih(. ii^y <?? L;. i if TE&g witness ?si4Voss c^ilad two Farnmlle Firemen Host it Meeting Of Twe Drones ? ' ? ' .:i<ST.T Fire Chiefs and Mem bers of District Held Sessions Tuesday; J. B. Flora, Head of State ^Association Present V V 1 The annual meeting of group one. North Carolina Association of Fire Chiefs, which comprises fifty towns east of Raleigh, met* here Tuesday afternoon, and the Eastern Carolina Firemen's Association, in which are included departments of twenty towns in this immediate section, con vened in the evening, with the Farm ville fire department acting as hosts to the two hundred and fifty guests in attendance. mL- ? a? fVia wits nrp 1XIC IllCCUIlg UA WAV VIUV^U fr?' ? sided over by W. E. Palmer, Qf Charlotte, and that of the other or ganization by the vice-president, George Summerlin, of Mt. Olive. Sup per was served by the Farmville fire men at seven o'clock with the town officials and members of the Rotary Club attending as special guests. J. W. Joyner, acting as mayor pro tern, welcomed the visitors with Press Harper, a veteran fire fighter, of Kinston, responding. R. A. Joyner, Farmville's assistant chief, secretary and treasurer and state statistician, introduced his chief, Haywood Smith, who spoke briefly. Arch Flanagan, of the fire committee of the~town aldermen, John BB. Lewis, ex mayor !and John H. Moore, president of the | Rotary Club, spoke in appreciation [of the splendid service rendered the I State by its firemen. | Greetings and informal messages V>?/M,nrkf ktr Hic+in<mishf?d firuests I wCIC WVUguw KTJ ? 0 ? outside the district, including J. B. ; Flora, of Elizabeth City, president iof the State fire association; John J Miller, of . Concord, who has served the state organization as secretary, for thirty years; Frank Bennett, of Durham, ex president; ^herwood Brockwell, of Raleigh, state fire marshal; W. E. Holland, chief of the Raleigh department and a past pres ident, and S. W.^Tillinghast, of Fay efcteville. In the election of officers R. C. Leach, Washington's chief, was elect ed as leader of group one to suc ceed J. R. Thomas, of Rocky Mount. Mayor Wooten, of Kington, Mark Lassiter, of Snow Hill, and A. W. Brinson, of New Bern, of the advis ory committee of the state depart ment, joined in the rouhd table dis cussion of activities and extension plans. Snow Hill's invitation for the next quarterly meeting of the Eastern Carolina firemen, which will convene in January, was accepted. Wage Law Das-" cribed as Leaf Tax . RALEIGH. ? Inojeaspd cost of stemming tobacco oAdef the Wage end-Hours Law will be levied on leaf growers, W. P. Hedrick, tobacco mar keting specialist of the State Depart ment of Agriculture, said Tuesday. "The rise in cost will be taken from the farmer's profits, whether stemming is done by machine or by hand," he declared. "Piece-meal stemming, for which workers are given three cents per pound of strip ped stems, becomes impossible under a law requiring a 25 cents an hour minimum wage and a 44-hour work "While machines are ?*t as satis factory as hand workers, one me |workers average 300 pounds," H?4 lx?te workers who would have to be fpsrcbase of msdunfis ^or psyindnt^ o UUa fflfmpr " MBif unifw*.; wiyuaqiy^u*, W.' - ? 4, j | , I , ? fl| ? KaIV\ ? rfet AtlAyil i wit*- ianucr, we will neip jn every Benzol to Bring Joe Mold's End, Academy is Told Dr. Frederick A. Wolf of Duke Reports on Methods of Destroying Disease; New Type of Seed Beds Recom mended as Aid. Chapel Hill. ? Conquest of downy mildew, a tobacco-plant disease which has ravaged American crops for 19 yean and- which this year entered Canada, was predicted to the Nation aL Academy of Sciences-today. The disease, also knowh as blue mqld, attacks young tobacco plants. It appears as a bluish-to-gray downy coating on the underside of the leaf. O ? ?.1 J.ne new reineuy *ai WWWI, |TWV<* looks like gasoline and sometimes is used in gasoline. Its fumes de stroy the mildew quickly, the acad emy was told by Dr. Frederick A. Wolf, of Duke University. \. Used In Two Ways There has been a controversy as to whether benzol fumes are prac tical. It can be used in two ways. Un der the netting in which the young plants are set out, open pans of ben zol four yards apart cure the mildew.( It also is possible to use gots con taining wicks, which draw the ben zol fumes in the same way as kero sene is drawn up the wick of an oil Tamp. These wick pots can be set every 16 yards and do as much as the more frequent open pans. Benzol is said to be cheap. Agricultural experts in four states have organized to demonstrate their belief that the benzol fumes are practical. One of their first sug gestions is a change in planting the tobacco seedlings, which have been set out- usually in beds of 100 square yards. They propose instead^a long * - - ?? ' w* aj? i_. bed, six feet wide, u woum uuuve fumes easier to control, The institutions in this organiza tion are Duke University, Virginia ' Agricultural Experiment Station, North Carolina State College, North [Carolina Department of Agriculture, 'South Carolina Agricultural Experi j mint Station, and Commercial Agri cultural Experiment Station. Discovery of the effectiveness of benzol fumes was made in 1932 In Australia and at Duke University. The studies in the two countries were not published until 1934. Since then, Australia has gone ahead using the fumes, it is reported. In the United States, the only re ported use has been by agricultural experimenters. Spraying is the method of fighting blue mold advo cated by those who doubt the prac ticability of fumes. , Claims For Benzol. Advocates of benzol say the fumes are necessary because the disease exists inside the plant leaves, and only fumes will penetrate sufficient ly te kill that source, , In 1937, Virginia lost 20 per cent of its tobacco crop on account of downy mildew. In some sections, no young plants were left and it was difficult for planters to buy sufficient replacements anywhere in the United States. Downy mildew, it was declared today, has appeared in every tobacco raisins: state in this country except Wisconsin. I *?*' ? ? ? . ? ? An increasing demand for research work will prompt the North Carolina Experiment Station to ask the Gen eral Assembly for an Increase of $82, 735 yearly for the next ~biennium, said Dr. I. 0. Schaub of State Col lege, acting director of the Statioti. At the present time, the income of the Erperiment Station from State sources amounts to $46,600. Dr. Schaub explained that $6,000 comes from the general fund for special apple research, $28^850 from the ag-1 ricultural fund, andk $14,200 from miscellaneous receipts. j If the increase is granted, it will; provide the necessary offset to mefet firwia I I the work might be spread more even gwldingrand otfirproblemB in con fnection with the production And mar ketinsr of thin fruit. 1 ?rut i a f- v Poke Universily Alumni Dinner I ' ; . ? ?:?;??' j Annual Fall Meeting to Be Held In Greenville; Dr. Alan K. Manches ter of Duke University To Be Feature Sneak er. The feature of the Annual Fall Meeting of the Pitt County Alumni Association, to be held at .the Pariah House in Greenville, North Carolina on October 28, 1988, at 7:1)0 P. M., will be ah address by Or. Alan K, Manchester of Duke University, Mis subject will be: "The Centennial Vm, ? . - * y ? ? In addition to the address of the evening there wilt -be a number of other interesting features, including the election of officers for the en suing year, remarks by one or-two members of the local group, and per-, haps a short musical program. There will be a film depicting the activities of alumni and students on the Duke University campus. This annual fall meeting* here is one of many to be held in North Caro lina and other states, These will reach a climax in a meeting of the representatives of local alumni asso ciations at Duke University in De cember in celebration of "Duke Uni versity Day." .N The dumber of local Duke alumni groups has now reached a high mark of all time, and a large proportion of then* will have meetings this, fall during the month of October. In 1929, seventeen meetings were held; in 1930 the number had grown to " -1 !-Li n lt._ noSH uunytiigiiu rvi iwoo uu? the total has reached sixty-five. In addition to dinners iir leading cities in Norte Carolina, meetings were held last year in fifteen other states I and the District of Colombia, one of these being as far away as Los An geles, California. A statement made from the Alum ni office of Duke University is to the j effect that there are now in the of-1 fice files the names of 12,000 locat- ? ed alumni"1^ the institution. Every state in the Union is represented in the alumni list, and all the hundred counties in North Carolina. Names in the alumni files represent twenty nine different countries outside the United States/ The celebration of the Centenlal began with the - fprmat opening of the Centennial Year, held at the Uni versity on Septeinber 29, and extend through the final principal occasion which will take place on April 21, 92 and 23, 1939. During the year, there [ will be various types of activities, | such as lectures, symposia and con ferences on subjects directly."related to the work of the University. The University will hold "open house," at .which time alumni and interested people generally will be encouraged to visit the University, . ? I ' ' .7.** Install A Now Waving Machine ?? The Vanitie Boxe eBauty Shoppe, Mrs.'Mac Parker proprietor and Miss Truma McMillan, operator, has in stalled a new Carter Wireless Perm anent Wave Machine, I.X{us macrune u muu w uc vuc lof the most remarkable advances made in hairdresslng since the per fection of the permanent wave. It is operated on an entirely new princi ple which keeps all the good quali ties of the old methods without any of the prolonged discomfort, g The proprietors of the Vanitie Boxe ?? Beauty Shop are inviting the public to call and inspect this new machine. They are now giving waves with it, and report surprisingly good results. Attention'is called py their advertise ment lh this issue. This new machine makes no use of harmful chemicals, and the opera tion is sdid to be much less hanhful to the hair than the old style wave. Cut Rate Products g! A gigantic program is taking shape in,the U. S. Department of Agricul ture whiciu-would "dump" surplus farm, products into the hands of poor Americans at cut' prices, Commodi -- - - ' ' ? ? ? ? a _ a. I ties wluctt^ mignt De wi^ctea are cov I vv"* ' T Efforts to Build m s Gissumef Power j Urged oo Snoge . 4 L. J. Taber, National Chief, Addresses State Convention at Oxford. J ? ' ! Oxford, Oct. 26.?Until the farmer is given "a larger share of the na tion's income'* there will be "neither prosperity nor recovery that Is satis factory or can endure," J; L. Taber of Columbus, Ohio, master of the National Grange, told delegates so the State Grange meeting at a ban* quet session tonight The Grange chief's addfess was the highlight of the opening day jot the state convention. Reports from state officers, introduction of 39 reso lutions covering virtually evefy phase of agriculture and routihe business featured the morning ses sion. r^UauU Rorvrtrt's V???w TT - Harry B. Caldwell, State master, in his annual report this afternoon, urged tax reforms to help the- farm er and teacher tenure and a 12th grade in the public school system. The report proposed repeal of the absentee ballot and barring of pro fessional markers- at the polls in the interest of "clean, honest elections." In his address tonight, Grange Chief Taber termed 'Tailing farm prices and unemployment" the No. 1 problem now facing the nation, and said, "If we can correct the farm problem, it will remove the greatest brake from recovery and put us on the highway to better conditions." "We. are making the mistake of putting all thought on balancing and reducing production and not enough about increasing the capacity of the American people to consume," he said. "We need cooperation and de termination that will place .pressure on making it easier for people of the nation to consume, and prosperi ty ? the greatest America has ever had t- will be at hand." Placing emphasis _on home, new, and foreign markets, Taber said the farmer should have "freedom from - 1 Amn lm. destructive cuutjrauuuu num ?>. ? ? ports from abroad, "and consumers who are able to pay a fair price for the products of his toiL" He termed new markets "of great importance" and added that "science and-research can unload real oppor tunities for farm improvement." The foreign market has its proper [ place in a well-balanced agricul- : ture," he said. "America should have maintained its eminence in the world's cotton market."' Citing the Grange's efforts in be half of "tariff justice for export ag- | riculture" Taber asserted that "we today demand that every dollar of tariff revenue on agricultural pro ducts shall be set aside and used to find markets for ouf products, either through the export debenture method o through the equalization of tariff handicaps," ' He said that there woidti be no < permanent recovery for agriculture ' "unless we secure a honest dollar as 1 a yardstick to measure the products 1 of the farm" and that 'Ve must : have a dollar that is fair to the pro ducer of the basic agricultural com modities," ! "Farmers must icprove quality and 11 grade of their prodults/'^he em phasized. "Culls and inferior prod uts must be kept at home." \ F\ B^uing the problem of increased > inrome for agrilulture, Tabor urged i protection of the American ^farmer in his right to the American, niarket, adding that "we must equalize han- ' dicaps that the tariff and. restrictive 1 legislation give farm producers." ' He said'that conserving of soil ? must be recognized as ? "national i reaponsHjilily." Salvage Timber . Steps tp protect from Are the 4,. 000,000,1)00 feet of timber felled by ? the recent hurricane ifi the North- j eastern-states have been announced by the U. S- Department of Agricul ture. There is enough of the fallen timber'-.to' keep saw mills iti those states busy for nearly five yean. ^ ' , -Mi $r WATCH, LOST 15 YEARS, ^ | RETURNED H; ? ' Scranton, Pa. ? Police recently re turned |! gold Watch to Stewafjt W. | given hial; a? present fifteen year* before and lost soon af ^yyards. It war found on the per 131 wwr wv _ ? . I wodwui* no waver, h '?^WWNaaaMHaMMMWaiMMM Farmvflle Among Towns BeWarkod For Air Ttaveleis I 1 ' " " Raleigh, Oct. 28. In order to make flying,safer in bad weather and to make it easier for fliers over North Carolina to find their way, thb names of 213 cities and towns wilt be paint er on roofs or highways in letters 15 feet high as a result of the ap proval of a new joint state and WPA project, it was announced today by Director R. Bruce Etihridge of the Department of' Conservation and De velopment. The air marking "pro ject has just been approved by pro ject engineer of the Works Progress Administration here, ? . The names of 128 cities and towns have already been painted on roofs so that this new project, when complet ed, will make a total of 339 cities and towns which have been "air marked" by the Conservation Depart ment and the WPA. Farmville is among the 213 new cities and towns whidf are to be "air marked" in this new project. North Carolina is already known as a state in wlpeh it , is harder for motorists to get lost than it is ,to find their way in some states, doe to the manner in which both county and state highways are marked. It is expected that the state will now be able to maintain this reputation with the pilots of airplanes who fly over the state. Two types of markings will be used. One marking will indicate merely the name of the city or town, while the other marking will show if an airport is in the vicinity. If* an airport is nearby, the name of the town will be followed by a large circle and an arrow pointing in the direction of the airport with the number of miles Indicated after the ftrmw. Another arrow either above or below the name of the town will point North, and be marked with the letter N, so that pilots may check their bearings. Towns with no air ports nearby will merely have the names painted and the one arrow pointing north. v Japanese Forces StartNsw Drive China to Fight On, Chungking Sbys; Eng land Reported Seeking Truce. r . ' ' Hankow, Thursday, October 27. ? Japanese armed forces started a new rlrivA emunet the remnants of Gen eralisbimo Chiang Kai-Shek's ! batter ed Chines? armies today following their bloodlees occupation of this former Chinese provisional capital. Hankow was -quiet following yes terday's tehse situation when a clash between Japanese and United States sailors guarding a Chinese refugee sons was narrowly averted. U. S. Naval authorities voluntarily digarfltecMheir patrols and the Amer ican sailors were preserving order solely with clubs. Danger ofJFighting. The difficulty yesterday started at li p. m. when U. S. sailors declined open the gates of a refugee zcne, is requested by the Japanese, and mddenly were confronted by Japa-. nese soldiers who had scaled the; walls. - * ? r The Americans ordered the Japa nese out and for a moment there was danger of fighting. A group of British naval officers arrived at this moment and this cor respondent, who speaks Japanese, acted as interpreter between the Jap anese and the Anglo-Anjgrican group. Meantime, the Japanese trained machine guns along the waterfront and kept them up.for an hour.J ' ? IMbr. J-aCOITMpollltellt had explained to the Japanese that the British and American forces were responsible for order, in the refugee zone, the Japanese irroup retired. ***** , 4V wwr'f*u',,y ct w r *v??**vw After this incident the British and _ jV ^ . . ? ???'? ? j v? ' '? of all tj?eir men Wk to gunboats from 80 transports Jr. fee Yangtze by iH"08 ~; ftiftd explosions' 86t Qrc bv Southern States Fed Effects Of Wage Law a* Plaits Close ' ' ? _ . 4 AtUunts,. Employment officials", in Southern-states began tabulation Tuesday of workers who hatfe lost their jobs, as results of the new fad-i < eral wage-hour law. Preliminary reports after the iiRnit day's operation of the act indicated most of the larger industries carry-7' irfg on as usual; Some smal} enter prises, however?notably tobacco pro cessing factories in North Carolina, modest sawmills in the rural areas of Georgia and Alabama, and pecan shelling plants?were said to have decided to shut down rather than at tempt vto pay 2fi cents an hoar for a 44-hour"work week. Employees of stemming and re drying plants fn the North Carolina tobacco belt were affected by cessa tion of production State employ-" ment officers had reports of at least' 5,700 workers being laid off in seven, communities, and some unofficial es I tin,.*..* ... V4-.V. OA AAA KUiHiMa xcftu ao Ul^U CMS ou,uuu. . SheQjlng Plants Closed. / In Washington J. Seligman of San Antonio, Texas, president of the Na tional Pecan Shellers of America, told Administrator Elmer Andrews every plant in his 'industry was closed, throwing approximately 50,000 per sons out of employment. No accurate estimate was possible | of the number affected by sawmill shutdowns, since most of the plants are located in remote rural areas. Four small} mills in Alabama and . more than 20 in Georgia_were re-' . ported to have ceased operation. In Nashville, Horace G. Hill, cap italist, disclosed he wds disposing of all out-of-state retail grocery estab lishments. He added, however) the wage-hour law was only one of many erasons for the move. In the future^ Hill said, his company's chain store operation would be confined \,to Ten nessee, where there are 125 units. Approximately 120 employes of the Atlantic Jute Mills of Norfolk, ? Var, were affected by a shutdown there. President Leroy Margolius O.jj U ocuu upciauivu pi uuaviy wyuiu uuu be resumed during the balance of the calendar year. "Unaffected" The peanut industry in Georgia, Florida and Alabama appeared un affected. In Albany; Ga., J. B. Lati- ! mer secretary of the Southeastern . Peanut Association predicted "almost 100 per cent" compliance with the law and added he knew of nio peanut shelling plant planning to close be cause of the wage-hour act. > In Washington Administrator An drews commented briefly on reported curtailment of operations in the j South; N "My general1 information," he. said, , "is that in some cases there would be c seasonal shutdowns anyhow.* - Un- ? fortunately, I can't do anything about it. We can't exempt anyone' in in- ; terstate commerce from paying 25 cents an hour. "I just hope it's temporary and that after all they don't really mean it" May Ask Authority. The wage-hour administration may ask Congress for broader authority in applying, the new labor standiuds law to specific industries,.it was re ported in Washington. This prediction came, Tuesday from high-ranking officials, who were swamped with inquiries from em ployers as to whether the statute ? regulates minimum wages and max? mum Hours for their, particular bod nesses, ? ; Now that - the wage-hour program actually has * gone into effect) Ad ministrator Elmer F. Andrews and {lis staff are giving most of their attention to these appeals for assis tance. V M .I*. ?* * f Democrats Pay Honor To Warren Williamston. ? Hundreds of Dem ocrats from the 14 counties, com prising the. First Congressional trict, gathered in the Martin County courthouse Tuesday to pay honor to their/congressman for 14 years ? Lindsay Warren, of Washington, N. C. ?andtopromise State Democra tic Chairman Gregg Cherry that the v./ First would roll up its traditional ? Democratic majority in the election^ x 6j? November 8. : . : - Every county in the far flung : - r r :.'ii , ? .. J '? 4L& ? r u-st was represenueu m ruuy TT~ and three almost admitted candidates for governor in 1940?Revenue Com-$: missioner Allen Js Maxwell, Jk M. -i Broughton and Willis Smith, nil otits' Raleigh, made talks at the gaflw^kig in which every speaker strove to Out- |ijr do the other in praising Lindsay WaT-i ?,"-.