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1111111111111111111 'I llll 11111 -i ^ t ???.?????? ??M?| " " FARMVILLE, PITT COUNTY, NOBIB CABOUNA, FRIDAY, JANUARY ?, 1M? NUMBER THIRTY-FIVE VOLUME TWENTY-NIN* . - ? ? ? ? ? - j D. L. Ward Wins Speakership By a Two-Ballot Margin A i ?? ? jj-imj-MUBinMiia Beats Bryant On Third Ballot After Fenner Quits; Senate Names Smith. David Livingstone Ward of Craven County emerged the victor last night in a dramatic race for Speaker o. the House of Representatives. The Democratic caucus in the Hall of the House last night nominated the New Bernian by a margin of two votes, and today he will be elected to the ch*ir ? apparently without the formality of a Republican opponent, as the mincrivy held no caucus last night The was held last night in a heat-ridden hall packed to the last inch of capacity by a tense crowd. The vote ended a triangular contest that began during the 1937 session, and left the Craven delegate the choice over Victor Silas Bryant of Durham. Clerks Reelected. Principal Clerk William A. Baker of Raleigh and Engrossing Clerk i Miss) Rosa B. Mund of Concord were reelected for this term by ac clamation, and the caucus nominated Donald F. Seawell of Hickory, son of the Supreme Court Justice, as reading clerk and W. Thomas Brown of Perquimans as sergeat-at-arms on first ballots. Fenner Withdraws. An apparent deadlock was broken after the second ballot when Wil liam E. Fenner of Nash withdrew in favor of Ward as the eastern choice. With R. Gregg Cherry of Gaston, 1937 speaker, as permanent chair man of the caucus, the convention method of balloting until a majority was obtained by one of the trio was adopted. The first ballot gave Bry ant, 46, Ward 35 and Fenner 24. On the second ballot, Fenner lost two votes to Ward and one to Bry ant. Plowing his way through the crowd jamming in the aisles, Fenner spoke: "I feel this is the time for the speak ership to go to the east. Therefore I withdraw my name in favor of Libby Ward." The crowd cheered and there were a few mingled boos. The action brought Ward to the top by 54-52 votes and meant that Fenner would get a choice committee assignment? finance of appropriations, probably. Beard Proposes Te Settle Suits a J Commissioners Ask $1, 072.91 to End Actions Against Ousted Sheriff Greenville, Jan. 4. ? A $1,072.91 settlement of civil actions brought against former Sheriff S. A. White hurst by the old board of county com missioners and county attorney, al leging shortages approximating $17, 000, will be offered by the present commissioners upon recommendation of County Attorney S. 0. Worthing ton. Final action depends on White hurst. Albion Dunn, his attorney, said his client had not been officially advised of the proposal, and that Worthington had to leave to attend opening of the General Assem bly- in Raleigh before he could give the ex-sheriff notification of the pro cedure. WMteburst was removed from of : fie# last spring under a $onsent judg ment which ended action in Superior Court by the commissioners, as etti ve??ff ,to oust him en charges of brib ery and to pay certain fees due to the county. Commissioner W. O. Jolly made % a motion, later adopted, to accept the ?J recommendation of the city attorney, . G. H. Pittmaa seconded the motion. Jolly .aid, "I do not wish to see move money spent in a fruitless ef H fart to eoBect items barred by the statute at limitations.?: He said also that ha was convinced the ouster pue eeedinci against Whitehurst came 8s s** of ujidwjoAcy 3m 9 * oiiy m 1 ?, Country Club - HouseApproved Farmville Again Moves Forward; litis Time In The Way of Sports, The W. P. A. has notified Repre sentative Lindsay Warren that the President has approved a project to construct a club house building and improve the grounds of the town owned golf course in Farmville with an allotment of $8,569. Robbers Take $900 From Kinston Firm [ Kinston, Jan. 3. ? Yeggs took $900 in cash and checks from the safe in the office of the Neuse Distribut ing Company in North Kinston last night or early today. They stole tools from a shed on a lumber yard across the street to crack the safe. Stocks of beer and ale in the building were not disturb ed. Police said there were no chies. They believed the robbers were ama teurs. War Games Open For Battle Fleet Uncle Sam's Sea Fight ers Moving to Sea from Bases In California. Los Angeles, Jan. 3. ? The United States fleet was geared for battle to night. Dawn will find the annual war games on, with fighting forces mov ing to sea from Southern California bases for operations which will con tinue into June. Large areas of the Pacific and At lantic Oceans, and the Caribbean Sea, will be the field of "war" in the yearly test of the fighting fitness of 191 ships and 923 aircraft which com pose the United States fleet. Some units will operate inde pendently, while the major phase of the maneuvers in the Caribbean will find 160 ships, 600 planes and 58, 000 officers and men divided into white and-black fleets for problem XX. Adimral C. C. Bloch, commander in-chief, who will be chief umpire aboard his flagship, the dreadnaught Pennsylvania, stressed the fact that selection of the Caribbean area for problemm XX and extension of op erations in the Atlantic was made more than a year ago by the general ? board of the Navy in the regular course of shifting scenes of maneu vers, and to take the fleet to the East Coast for participation in the world's fair at New York. The nature of problem XX as usual in these'annual war games is secret. Last June Congressman Isac, Demo crat, San Diego, Calif., member of the Foreign Affairs Committee, ex pressed belief that it would involve a hypothetical situation in which this country is attacked by a coalition of German and Japanese fleets, but ad ded that he professed to know no de tails of the problem. Nine battleships, three aircraft carriers, fourteen havy cruisers, four light cruisers, some sixty destroyers and a dozen submarines will compose the fighting forces standing out to sen some time after midnight from San Pedro and San Diego, naval banes. Friday the Atlantic squadron, com manded by Rear Admiral A. W. Johnson, comprising seven new light cruisers, seven new dertroyers, four folftjaphty, one of which is demili tarized and sixteen old destroyers, will become n part of the United States fleet moving in the Atlantic to a secret rendezvous with the new aircraft carriers, Yorktown and En terprise. Units of the fleet not participating in the major problem in the Carib bean, wffl engage in xeroses the west coast of the United States nd Alaska and in the Hawaiian wa ftsrt. Of the fleet'# 198 giant sky patrol {bombers, 1M are expected to opera* Court Heats Argument On Tu bacco Inspection Washington, Jan. 4. ? An attor ney argued today before the Supreme Court that the 1935 federal tobacco inspection act was unconstitutional because it could be applied at a local market if only three growers par ticipated in a referendum. This assertion by J. C. Lanier, Greenville, N. C., lawyer, caused Jus tice Black to comment that North Carolina could elect a governor even if only three persons in the State voted. Lanier agreed that was possible un der state law which merely required a majority vote. Solicitor General Robert H. Jack son and Robert K. McConnaughey, special assistant to the Attorney Gen eral, defended th^ legislation against an attack by warehousemen at Ox ford, N. C. The act provides for federal inspec tion of tobacco sold at a market, pro vided this is approved in a referen dum by the growers who sell on that market. Approval by two-thirds of those voting is required. "What is the discrimination you speak of?" Justice Brandies asked Lanier following Black's comment. "Everybody has a right to vote." "The discrimination," Lanier re plied, "is that the warehousemen cannot vote, although their property is involved. The growers can pre vent the warehousemen from auc tioning any tobacco which has not been federally - inspected, thereby compelling them to lose commissions. Yet, the growers can take their to bacco to another warehouse ten miles away and have it auctioned without federal inspection." Justice McReynolds commented that each grower had only one vote regardless of whether he owned 100 or 10,000 pounds of tobacc*?. "That's true in a general election," Black put in. Lanier said there were 40 markets in North Carolina where tobacco was said that federal inspection was^. re quired at three. He and B. S. Royster, Jr., Oxford attorney, also contended that the fed eral government had exceeded its power because tobacco did not pass into interstate commerce until after the sale. Government attorneys said the sale of tobacco for interstate and foreign shipment, as conducted on auction warehouse markets, constituted transactions in interstate commerce and were subject to federal regula tion. Daladler Sliouta' AnotherWarning Tells Italy That France Is Well Able to Protect Her Colonial Empire. Tunis, Jan. 8. ? In an outspoken speech marking the high spot of his Mediterranean tour, Prqpier Edouard Daladier tonight warned Italians that France's fighting strength is "invin cible" and that this outpost of her colonial empire will be defended against "brute force and tyranny." The Premier departed from the prepared text of his speech, at a ban quet given by Resident General Erik Le Bonne, to warn indirectly the 94, 000 Italian residents of Tunisia. Most of them boycotted the festivities of his arrival and even staged a simul taneous mass meeting in support of Italy's claims. "Thin unlimited fidelity of France and Tunisia is not only strikingly clear to us, but to those who are here and who came from abroad," Dalad ier said. . "France is a pacific country, sore of her might and in a position to beat <knyn all attacks and menaces.". Gives Security. "France gives you order, discipline and protection against brute force and tryanny. She is strong enough to give you security." "Her power is invincible). . . She is in a position to beat down all at tacks and menaces. France wil| haver allow, on one pretext or an* other, that we be turned aside from our aim here which is to create a human community similar to that of France." Earlier, the Premier and war min ister had reviewed 20,000 of Frank's down the Avenue ^Gambetta in a 1 demonstration designed to answer Fascist damrring for French terri I tonss* a (Hugo S. Sims, WasMagton Corres pondent.) CONGRESS CONVENES. NO "LAME DUCKS." SENATE SEATS ALTERTED. TALK ABOUT "REVOLT" NO DICTATORSHIP HERE. VIEWS ABOUT EUROPE ANTI-THIRD TERM VOTE RELIEF ISSUE FACED. F. D. R. TO STAND PAT. On Tuesday of this week, the Con gress elected by the voters of the various states last November con vened for the first session of the Seventy-Sixth Congress. Their early convocation is due to the "Lame Duck" Amendment to the Constitu tion, fathered by Senator George W. Norris, of Nebraska, several years ago. 'Before its passage, the newly elected congressmen would be waiting for next December to roll around be fore taking their seats. As it was arranged in the old days, the last session of the Seventy-Fifth Congress wotrid have started in De cember and, after a Christmas holi day the members would return to the capital and continue their labors until the expiration of their term in March, or the conclusion of their legislative business prior to that time. The newly elected Congress would be able to meet earlier than the following December only in the event that the President called a special session be tween March and the following De cember. Consequently, we see that the "Lame Duck" amendment has somewhat speeded up the processes of democracy by providing for a Con gress to take office within sixty days of its election instead of having to wait almost thirteen months. One of the big changes to be no ticed, of course, is the new seatting of the Senate. Additional seats have been shifted to the Republican side of the aisle in accordance with the! trend of the election in November, In. the House, no such major alteration is necessary, because, with the ex ception of committee chairmen, there are no regularly assigned seats. Af ter seats have been placed in the Senate for the Democratic and Re publican members, the handful of , seats in the rear of the Republican, or opposition side, is provided for other ranks?the minority members who are not Republicans, such as Farmer-Laborities, Progressives, and American-Laborities. There has been a lot of talk about an "independent" Congress, meaning one. that will not vote general pow ers to the chief executive or give discretionary authority in the spend ing of public funds. In some sec tors there is constant prediction of a "revolt" on the part of certain Democratic members, who resent the President's leadership. Most of this! is just opinion, although there will J undoubtedly be some vigorous criti cism of the New Deal, with not alii of the strictures coming from Repub lican members. It is too early to tell just how far the Congress, or to be more exact, the Democratic majority will follow the President's recommendations, but the writer's guess is that when the work of the session is ended it will be found that Mr. Roosevelt will have a pretty gqod batting average. This may be due to cautious political tac tics but, none-the-less, we do not look for anything like an organized re bellion, carrying with it a constant opposition to what the White House recommends. .'' ?' . i ' - ? ? . ?- ? v ? . The mere fact that such an opposi tion is possible emphasizes the dif ference between the methods now in vogue in the United States and! those that exist in Germany audi Italy. The situation makes foolish the bickering about "dictatorship" in this country. Anybody who has kept up with the trend of legislation in the past five years knows that con gressmen willingly gave up some of their powers because they thought it was the best way to meet the dan gerous economic crisis. What Con gress gave to the President, Congress can take away and there is no w?y, to prevent it from doing so. - t ? Senators returning from travels abroad take different viewpoints as to the situation in Europe. Senator Reynolds, of North Caroling for efc | " " Congress Starts Grind in Setting Gf Storm Ms! ? i i nds New Deal Domestic Pol icies Meet Heavy Fire On First Day of Ses sion. Washington, Jan. 3. ? The 76th Congress opened today with New Deal domestic policies under heavy fire and President Roosevelt deter mined to bulwark this country's stif fening attitude toward dictatorships with a huge armament program. | The Chief Executive said later at [his press conference that he would send a special message to Congress early next week .outlining the scope of the defense program, Blows thudded against administra tion labor and relief policies soon af ter the two houses met. Representa tive J. Parnell Thomas, (R., N. J.), said he would introduce a resolution at once calling for the impeachment of Secretary of Labor Frances Per kins for her failure to deport Harry L. Bridges, West Coast maritime leader. Senator H. Styles Bridges, (R., N. H.) professed to have sufficient votes to reject renomination of Donald Wakefield Smith, to the National Re lations Board. His claim coincided with reports that the President had been urged to withdraw the appoint ment, which was made over the op position of the American Federation of Labor. The Senate spent only SO minutes in session, but it did not recess be fore the politically explosive report of the campaign expenditures com mittee had been dropped in its lap. The report charged that relief funds were used in primary campaigns in Tennessee, Kentucky and Pennsylva nia; that relief workers were active in those states for Democratic can didates, and proposed a sweeping legislative program to divorce relief from politics. Presents Proof. Secretary of Commerce Harry L. Hopkins, former Works Progress Ad ministration Administrator, was not criticized personally, but the com mittee placed side by side his state ment that relief workers were not active in Kentucky with proof by its investigators that they were. It criticized former Deputy WPA Ad ministrator Aubrey Williams, now head of the comparatively obscure National Youth Administration, for his appeal to an organization of re lief workers to "keep your frinds in office." Meantime, a report by the Dies committee, on un-American activities set the stage for Mr. Roosevelt's message on the state of the union which he will deliver in person be fore a jdint session at 1 j>. m., to morrow. The Dies report warned of Communist and Fascist agitation throughout the nation and assailed Madame Perkins and Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes. No recommendations for legislation were made because the committee said its inquiry would have .to be continued, j The Chief-Executive's message ft understood to embrace scathing con demnation of totalitarian doctrines and to emphasize the need of pre venting their spread to the Western Hemisphere. He is expected to re new this nation's desire for peace* but to stress also that it must build up its national defenses to be pre pared if war comes. I There is little Important opposi tion to the proposed defe^pe pro gram and the President is expected to weaken this resistance by what J legislative leaders describe as one of [the most pungently-worded messages of his six years in the White House. Later in the week be will submit * his budget, estimated to call for be tween $8,000,000,000 and $9,000,000, 000, and with it a message in which the state of the nation's economy will be dissected. After the legisla tors get down to business, he will send them a message on railroad re habilitation, national health and changes in the Social Security Act. WHO KNOWS T 1. What is the basis of Italian territorial Claims against France? 2. How old is George Bernard Shaw? 8. Is London much colder than New York? 4. How often are Pan-American conferences held? 5. What would be the legal effect of a Senate resolution, declaring agkinst a third term for any Presi Have Chinese planes raided Jar ^ uvTo" th Atlantic ? ROOSEVELT HIGHLIGHTS Washington, Jan. 4. ? Highlights of President Roosevelt's State-of-the Nation message: "Storms from abroad directly chal lenge three institutions indispensable to Americas. The first is religion. It is the source of the other two democracy and international good faith." - "No nation can be safe in its will to peace so long as any otjier power ful nation refuses to settle its griev ances at the council table." "If . . . a solution of this problem of idle men and idle capital is the price of preserving our liberty, no formless selfish fears can stand in our" way." ? > ? c "Good faith and reason in interna tional affairs have given way to strident ambition and brute force." "We can and should- avoid any ac tion, or lack of action which will en courage, assist or build tip an ag gressor." "The probability of attack is mightily decreased by the assurance of an ever-ready defense." "We have our difficulties ? but we are a wiser and tougher nation than ve were in 1929, or 1932." ? ? ? " * "This is of paramount importance. The deadline' of danger from within and from without is not within our control." . "And we still intend to do our own thinking." "We have learned that survival cannot be guaranteed by arming af ter the attack begins?for there is new range and speed to offense." "We must have armed forces and defenses strong enough to ward off sudden attack against strategic posi tions and key facilities." "Even a nation well armed and well organized may, after a period of time, meet defeat if it is unnerved by self distrust, endangered by class pre judice, by dissension between capital and labor, by false economy and by other unsolved social problems." '/ 7 "Our nation's program of social and economic reform is a part of de fense as basic as armaments them selves." Mussolini Hoars American Envoy Message From Roose velt Reported to Have Been Delivered B y Phillips. Rome, Jan. 3. ? United States Ambassador William Phillips tonight delivered to Premier Benito Musso lini what was understood to be a personal message ' from President Roosevelt containing "Cartatn con crete proposals." TOae nature of the proposals was not revealed- frnd the United States embassy, surrounding Phillips' I-20-. minute talk with Mussolini at Venice Palace with an air of mystery, de clined to discuss the matter. It was explained that any an nouncement would have to com? from the State Department in Wash ington. The American ambassador called upon H Dace at 7 p. m. There had been no previous intimation that an interview had been arranged and first reports wecre that Phillips had received urgent ^instructions from Washington. ; 'r : It was understood later, however, that Phillips requested an audience with Mussolini immediately after his return from the United States a few days before Christmas. An immediate meeting could not be arranged, and it wit not untU this evening that the ambassador was able to see Mussolini, who returned yes terday for a holiday vacation at his Forli home. : 4 ? Logcutter Is Killed By limb From Tree Lumberton, Jan. 8. ? Mack Wod dell, about 60, was^killed mstintiy by ^amng lofS ? ' Envoy of Adolf Hitler Hears Roosevelt Flail Dictatorial Philosophy President Warns Totali tarian Powers That America Will Resist .Their Brute Force Methods. - * Washington, Jan. 4. ? With Adolf Hitler's chiei envoy an impassive listener, President Roosevelt warned the dictator nations today America would resist "strident ambition and brute force" in world affairs. Addressing a dramatic joint ses sion of Congress in the House of Representatives, the Chief Executive, with slow and deliberate emphasis, asked that the resistance be bulwark ed by increased military prepared ness. . ' - And equally necessary, he said, was the elimination of class prejudices and internal dissensions through the abolition of social abuse? go that a nation united in spirit might combat all threats of "military and economic" aggression from abroad. : Moreover, Mr. Roosevelt hinted that immediate steps might be under consideration. He asserted that "there are many methods short of war x x x of bringing home to ag gressor governments the aggregate sentiments of our own people." Linking domestic problems with foreign policy through his plea for national unity, Mr. Roosevelt an nounced that the period of New Deal social and economic innovations had reached at least a pause, if not an end. New Machinery. Te applauded the accomplishments of the six years he has been in power and asserted the time had arrived for Congress "to improve the new machinery which we have perma nently installed,'provided that in the process the social usefulness of Hie machinery is not destroyed or im paired." . While the augmented Republican ranks of Congress listened silently' and a roar of approval arose from the Democratic side of the . crowded House chamber, he made It amply clear that government spending would continue in the expectation that it would increase ' national in-,' * come to a point at which the budget could be balanced. There was an even more emphatic outburst of approval, largely from the Republican side of the chamber, when the President mentioned the alternative of drastic retrenchment ?an alternate not advocated by him. Congressional comment on the Chief Executive's message was, as is always the case, colored by politi cal leanings. -New Deal supporters thought it was fine. Republicans and anti-New Deal Democrats found much to censure. But it was immediately apparent that with the exception of the decla ration for continued - spending,. the * * speech was regarded as conciliatory - in tone, and one expected to smooth, not ruffle, the Meetings of the con servative wing of the Chief Execu tive's own party. As an annual message to Congress, it had more than usual significance in' that it was the first statement of administration policy since the Re-" - publican and conservative gains of the. November elections challenged the New Deal and raised possibili ties of effective coalition opposition to Roosevelt measures in the present session. As Mr. Roosevelt reportedly de nounced the whole philosophy of dic tatorship, many turned frequently to glance in the direction of the. diplo matic gallery. For there sat Hans Thomsen, charge d'affairs of the. German em bassy, the man who recently received a stinging answer at the State De partment when he asked that this government apologise for anti-naxi remarks made by Secretary Ickes. Nasi Listens In company with ail in the hall, Thomsen arose when the President entered But he did not, as did his neighbors in the diplomatic gallery, applaud Throughout the speech* he sat.with his arms folded, head slight ly tilted back, and face sterijg^E Just acsoss a wrought iron railing which separates the diplomatic and ?' velt holding young Diana Hopkins, ed obscurely in the back row of a ~