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He declared that he was- perfectly willing to defend the imposition of the general sales tax upon gasoline as well as other ar ticles and that the only discrimina tion involved in existing law was in favor of gasoline in the event that the transfer was not made. He also called attention to gaso line tax paid by school buses and other State-owned motor vehicles and declared that advertisements setting up a possible $7,000,000 trans fer against one year's revenue was misleading as the transfer covers a period of four years. The Governor was applauded when he declared: "The State owns the roads; the roads do not own the State" and was given an ovation lasting more than two minutes when .he concluded. The Governor's special appear ance before the legislators was in rebuttal to a campaign for the Stone Umstead resolution declaring a fixed policy against transfer of highway funds to the general fund. The campaign culminated in a hearing yesterday afternoon before the joint finance committee when speakers for the resolution were cheered by over 5CO enthusiasts from all parts of the State. Previously the cam paign had been carried on for weeks over the radio and the Governor's reply to the legislature was carried on a statewide radio network. Now that both sides of the pro posal has been presented leaders in the General Assembly are plan ning an early showdown in the Senate, and possibly in the House also. Administration supporters are confident they have a majority for the Governor's proposal in the fi nance committee, with their strength greater among Senate than among House members. It is probable that the Senate Committee, and perhaps the House committee as well, will be requested to return an unfavorable report on the resolution this after noon. Such action would permit final disposition of the resolution on the. ? floor on Friday. Headline? in the hearing before the committee yesterday afternoon were J. M. Broughton, Raleigh at torney and prospective candidate for Governor in 1940 and Capus M. Waynick, of High Point, and E.^B, Jeffress, of Greensboro, both former chairmen of the State Highway and PubHc Works Commission. All the speakers declared that the highway fund is a trust fund which should not be violated and that all of its receipts are badly needed for high ways. . . Mr. Broughton, who appeared in behalf of the Associated General | Contractors of North Carolina, re f erred casually to his own prospec tive candidacy in the course of- A disavowal in behalf of himself and ' his elients of any hostility to Gover nor Hoey, Dr. Paul E. Jones Donates Boobs To s ^ Sch0?1 Dr. Paul -R Jones, one of Farm villa's new* outstanding citizens, member of the State Board of Den tal ?xaoMMn> chairman of the Pitt County Democratic Executive Com niit[pci and member of the local oBard of Education, wa# the cheer ful giver and the Farmvifle Colored School was the grateful recipient of a complete set of Encyclopedia Ref erence and a complete history of-Thf World War in six volumes. W Dr Jones has always manifested great benefactor to this cause. W. B. SUGG, Pnn. ? ; .L.-- 5m?, mmm h<*s 8ft]F the nwveufirt is T a SW , Burns Guts Fins and SuspenMSentunce Burns' Friend, Jack Benny, Has Pleaded Innocent To A Similar Indictment New York, Jan. 31. ? The price that radio comic George Burns paid for two smuggled bracelets and a ring rose today when he was fined |8,000, given a suspended sentence of a year and a day and placed on a year's probation. The sentence imposed by Federal Judge William Bondy resulted from Burns' plea of guilty to two indict ments charging smuggling although federal authorities said he did not actually bring the jewels into the country. v Burns' friend, radio funnyman | Jack Benny, has pleaded innocent to a similar indictment and will go on trial here February 14. For many years, Burns has played "straight" to the nonsensical, dim wit remarks of his wife and part ner, Grade Allen, but for the dura tion of his suspended sentence he will have to play "straight"?in an other way?to .a federal probation officer as well. This means, a federal official said, that Burns must make personal re ports about twice a month, that he must keep the officer advised of his | goings and comings and obtain per 1 mission whenever he wants to leave the jurisdiction of the officer. He must not, under probation rules, be seen in the company of questionable characters nor frequent" establishments and resorts of un savory reputation. He must, in fact, place himself and his conduct en tirely in the hands of the probation officer whose discretion rules in all instances. Any violation of probation rules would make Burns liable to serve his sentence of a year and hday. On the other hand was the mone tary cost of the baubles. The gov ernment valued them at $4,885, Burns already has paid $9,770 in penalties to customs authorities. In addition, he has made at least three round trips between Hollywood and New York; and, of course, on top of that are fees for his attorneys. Burns has ten days in .which to pay his fine, which was $4,000 under that recommended by Assistant Unit ed States Attorney Joseph W. De laney. Under the nine counts in the two indictments against him, Burns had faced a possible maximum sen tence of 18 years imprisonment and fines totalling $46,000, Delaney had asked consideration for the comedian on the grounds that Burns had cooperated with^ihe government in a widesprdXd investi gation of smuggling. Doctor Arrested For Dope Dealing AsheviQe Physician Is Charged With Being : Distributor for Ration al Ring. ^ New York, Feb. 1.?Forty treas ury agents raided the Mcata-combed area" of Sail Juan Hill here today in an attempt to round UP the "most notorious, vicious gang of narcotics peddlers in America." The neighborhood - around West 62nd Street was throw? into such 4* uproar that residents telephoned New York .police, who had not been told, of the raid. Haj. Garland Williams, district supervisor of the Treasury agents, said that .12 known distributors had been arrested for selling the. nar cotics and hundreds were being ques tioned. >?,. rf He also announced that right New iYerk suspects had been arrested during the pest week for conspiracy to seiQjareotics in North Carolina and that Dr. G. D. Gardner of Ashe ville, N. C., bad; bri* arrested there cotics shipped from San Juan Hill, ? * they specialised in selling; bootleg; Economy Bloc Slashes Budget $1(1,901 Men State Pay Roll Faces Cuts Either In Salaries Or In Personnel. " A - fast-moving economy bloc, in tent on cutting 1939-1941 appropria tions for State departments to ap proximately the 1936-1937 level, took the appropriations bit in its teeth yesterday and tentatively slashed $161,901 from appropriations recom by the Advisory Budget Commission for eight departments for the next biennium. Yesterday, the economy seekers cut $95,568 from the biennial recommen dations, bringing the total cut to date in the $83,663,335 recommended general fund budget to $257,469. A strict cut to 36-37 levels would save $935,167 a year. The economy bloc, headed by Rep resentative Rupert Pickens of Guil ford, D. Lacy McBryde of Cumber land and S. 0. Worthington of Pitt, met with hardly a setback in its two and a half hours of maneuvering within the committee yesterday. There was debate over virtually every suggestion cut and the Pick ens - McBryde - Worthington forces won in almost every instance. State Pay Roll Cut It was pointed out, however, that reduction of budgets for state depart ments to the 1936-1937 level might mean a 10 per cent pay cut for em ployes of those departments. Since 1936-1937, the employes have received a 10 per cent pay increase and reduc tion of appropriations for 1939-1941 to the figure before the raise was granted would, in .effect, be a pay cut for the workers. ^ ! Answering a question on that point Pickens said: "This might involve some decrease in personnel, but not necessarily a cut in salaries.'' At the start of the meeting, Pick ens explained the philosophy of cut ting appropriations back to the 1930 1937 level. His explanation drew from Representative John Caffey of Guilford, House appropriations chair man, this comment: "I am very much pleased with the conservative admonitions of the gen tleman from Guilford. I am pleased with action taken yesterday. We may get some criticism here in Raleigh from department heads, but the folks back home are looking to this com mittee to save state money." 120,000,000 Years VWilson, Jan. 31.?Investigation of bones found recently by workers on a WPA project in Stanstonsburg has set the age of some of the bones at about 120,000,000 years, H. T. Davis, curator of the State Museum in Ral eigh, said today. . With the help of Dr. Gilmore of the National Museum in Washing ton, Davis and H. H. Brimley, State zoologist, learned that one of ^ the finds was the tooth of a crocodilian animal, much like the modern cro codile which ambled tthrough the world 120,000,000 years ago, Davis said. The tooth is the oldest thing brought from the pit at Stantons burg. Davis sail the- ? scientists also established that several of the bones were earbones of a whale that swam in this section about 30,000,000 years ago and that shark teeth found in the pit were about as . old as the crocodilian tooth, _ The three scientists will study other bones dug up. by the crew, Davis said. Many of the finds we in the office of , J. P. Collier, WPA manager, who was responsible for discovery of the bones. - Warren Asks Funds For Guard Air Base ? i?? ?: Washington, Jam 31.?Represent ative Lindsay Warren today con Sned: with the Bueaa of the Budget in reference to an additional appropriation of $884,000 for the Coast Guard air base at Elisabeth City. This money Is desired for the underground tbraiifage of the flying field, the construction of runways and paving of roads and walks with in the reservation. fplr, Warren stated that if he could, apjwval he was sura he could ee-. cure the appropriation, from Con gross. .I,, m *? WW?5 (Hugo a Sims, Washington Corres pondent.) * VERY LITTLE OPPOSITION IS APPARENT AS CONGRESS CONSIDERS DEFENSE PLANS Congressional committees worked last week on the President's program for national defense, with little evi- j dence that opposition of any conse- ^ quence will develop. Secretary Wood- j ring had earlier explained to the j committees of both houses the details j 'which the President's message inten- , tionally omitted. He pointed out that the country's defensive force,.so far j as the Army is concerned, would be ? kept at about its present level ol x 400,000 men. This includes 165,000 men in the regular Army, 205,000 in j the National Guard and 30,000 in the j enlisted reserves. Development in of- j fensive and defensively weapons < makes necessary a complete readjust- j ment of Army equipment and it is x the present intention to provide the most modern equipment available. j t ..The recommendation that the na- t tion greatly expand its air forces at tracted considerable popular atten- { tion. A bill authorizing the Secre- { tary of War to provide up to 6,000 c airplanes for the Air Corps, together ?< with such airships and free and cap- j tive balloons as may be necessary for E training purposes, has been intro- ^ duced as one of nine measures the _ War Department believes necessary , to carry out the recommendations of T the President. a Major-General H. H. Arnold, Chief \ of the Air Corps, emphasizes that the 0 air force plan is for defense only and is not for operation in the Eastern t Hemisphere or to attack any other j country. He says it is in no sence , an aggressive, offensive force but f that "it brings a level in air pre- v paredness below which, we cannot safely fall in view of world condi tions now prevailing and in prospect." ^ ? '? a ? Subsequently, Brig.-General George ^ J. Marshall, Deputy Chief of Staff, e said that the defense plans of the t Army are built around the ussump- j tion that an invasion of this country would start in the air and that the t public would demand protection T against enemy aircraft. To protect j civilian populations of cities, the ^ General Staff would organize thirty four mobile anti. aircraft regiments, capable of rushing to the relief of any t threatened point, to supplement five x anti-aircraft batteries. At present, . there are five Buch regiments in the r Army and ten in National Guard. . Arms and equipment for the other f nineteen are being assembled. i Brig-Gen. George V. Strong, As sistant Chief of Staff, stressed the importance of building up coast de fenses as a part of the emergency program. He said that recent con- I struction had been weighed in favor ( of the Pacific Coast and overseas I possession and that, in his opinion, s it was time to strengthen the de- s fenses of the Atlantic Coast. One of the most important deficiencies of the t Coast's defenses is in fire control c equipment, including height-finders I and directors f?r anti-aircraft ^guns. I Formerly, General Marshall had in- i formed the committee that the speed 1 of our anti-aircraft program wouia i depend on the supply -of height-find era and directors which take eighteen i months to construct. i General Arnold, in his testimony, t estimated that the country's aircraft i capacity was about 2,600 plan* J > year, but that this could be trebled in two years and in three years the i plants could be turning out 12,000 Army planes.- He explained that the < useful life of a training plpne. is al- < most unlimited and that the same i applies to observation planes. Bomb- i i ing planes are good for from six to eight years, but pursuit-planes, which j have to be better than anything op- I posing them, become abeolete in from t two to four years. ! - Probably, the most controversial item in^tim jotire dtfe^^ugram j hnn aroused some apprehension in i Japan. The Hepburn Board recom- 1 mended that the island be developed i as a major air and submarine base, I wife ' a garrison sufficiently strong \ to make its reduction or occupation i "a major effort on the part of any t probable enemy." The bill providing 1 M.AQQ Tnplndftd ill th6 SSG>000>000 igycBa* i/jwwwu TT / ?' I* BwfffflWwiflniMiTMli'"E? T -! IS I I ?^proposW'totf* Naval?oa*fc >ut denied that the proposal to for Mjr^Joam war. a diplomatic 'move to ndpdte a general naval agreemnt. The ftc.ide^.M that con {TOM, in 1916,- passed an authorlza ionCbitl for a tremendous navy, in ending a great many battleships, :hiree, battle cruisers, a hundred de pr&it part :of the program, however, vas not carried out because the na tion, following the war, decided the three battle cruisers Were con certed into airplane-carriers. Readers should understand that the measures involving the. defense program of the nation are what is fcnown as authorisation ^bills. Last passed a bill authoriziog a Navy of J I Vv |1 ? .. - - | The French Take I Precairtiens Against Mr Stampede Perpignan Newspaper Said 50,006 Soldiers! .Were Likely to Be Sent To Guard The Border Perpignan, France, Jan 31.?Heavy I reinforcements of French troops J poused into the frontier region op posite Catalonia tonight to. barricade I Prance against a possible! mass re-1 areat of the Spanish government I irmy. ? I The reinforcements for the normal J frontier guard included several I Kjuadrons of cavalry * and motorized I mits. . Minister of Interior Albert Sar "aut conferred with civil and mili- J ary authorities who said prepara ions were being pushed to prevent Spanish soldiers, being driven stead ly toward the border, from over Tinning French soil 1 Sairaut ordered the entry ofj! Spain's civilian refugees into France : o be speeded lest they be caught in 1 he threatened stampede. A Perpignan newspaper said 50,-' ?00 soldiers were likely to be sent to I fuard the border, but the foreign office at Paris said the figure seemed |1 high*" The war department and the irefectre of the frontier depart- J sent, Pyrenees-Orientales, declined o comment. Generalissimo Franco's armies, fa- 1 "ored somewhat by better weather, 1 ?egained some momentum in their mash against the center of the line ! rom which the government sought 1 o defend its remaining one-fourth \ f Catalonia. The Insurgents were reported less J han five miles from the important r pighway center, Vlch, about 80 miles j lorth of Barcelona and equidistant rom the Frerlch border. The town ras under the fire of Franco's field 1 runs. ? ? P Vich dominates a main highway I hrough the Pyrenees to the border j: it Puigcerda. By road, the distance ! o the border is 60 miles. Vich, how- . iver, also is a control point for a letwork of lesser highways running ike veins into the frontier region. Elsewhere in the fighting zone . ainsfend muddy roads held up the j nsurgent advance and deep in thel *yrenees along the border snow-1 ? trifta trapped non-combatant refu-1 fees. 11 Insurgent commanders, profiting , >y the weather-enforced slow-up, J egrrouped their forces to meet any ncreased resistance from govern aent forces entrenching themselves! n .the mountains of northeastern iatalonio after retreat "from Berce-1; ona, r France Grateful 4j Paris, Jan. 31.?Air Minister Guy J a Chambre today paid tribute in the Chamber of Deputies to President ioosevelt, whom he declared respon ible for France's receiving "the best I lirplanea of the United States." He referred to orders for 200 Cur iss pursuit planes, saying such pur-1 hases were necessary to supplement IVench warplane production. He said France had "priority for its.orders" n the United States and thanked tfr. Roosevelt for his "benevolent j perspicacity." - . 1 "I cannot allow criticism of ow purchases abroad, which are possi-j pie only because the great American lemocracy is giving,its entire help? I pecause in serving France it is serv ng the cause of peace," the air min-lj ster declared. }< Some deputies had criticisAf the I j policy of buying planes in America, j Arm and Pillot, a Communist! teputy, said "it is a pitty that France j, lid not act toward republican Spain.! us President Roosevelt is acting to-1 vard us." \ ?i ? . .. r??- | Farmville Defeats Maud Moo PLAY GRIMESLAND TOMORROW (FRIDAY) During the past week both the boys team and the girls team added two more games to their long lists of vic tories. This makes eleven triumphs for the boys and si^c for the girls. Last Friday the boys almost scored a complete shut out when they defeated Chicod High School by the score of 26-1. The only time the boys from Chicod scored was in the second half of the game when the Farmville sec ond team was playing against them and they made good on a foul shot that yres awarded them. In the pre liminary game the -girls team defeat ed their opponents by the decisive score of 32-9. The high light of this I fame was the excellent teamwork displayed by the three forwards, I Frances Cafraway, Olive Taylor, and Dorothy Clarke. None of these girls will graduate" this year and by next year they should develop into one of the best combinations that has ever | been seen on a girls team in this county. The next evening the boys traveled to Greenvill to put up a very good contest against a much larger and more experienced team j From E. C. T. C. reserves only to be nosed out in the closing minutes of the game. On Tuesday night of this week the girls opened up the program by scor ing another very impressive victory against Grifton to the score of pO-8. rhe boys then proceeded to hand the opposition a defeat by the score of 27-8. The interesting feature of this game was the appearance of a third team." Up to this time'Mr. Harrel bad only been using two teams in the 5 unes. This third team is composed of younger and less experienced boys with the hope of developing as many players as possible for the future. It is composed of J, A. Taylor, Bill Ras bury, Hume Paskell, E. C. Carr, and Billy Oglesby. Tomorrow night the boys and girls will both travel to GrimeMand and next Tuesday they will travel ?o Bethel. They have defeated both of these teams before. The next home game will be next Thursday .when Bath will be here for a double-head er. The first game/will start prompt ly at 7:30 in Fountain's warehouse on West Wilson Street. More Tobacco Seed W. L. Adams, county agent of the State College Extension Service in Wilson County, says tobacco growers I lave cleaned more tobacco seed this! season than at any time in the past ten years. This may be an indication I >f how the tobacco acreage will be] increased, he b ilieves. I Germany Resumes Efforts To Win World M WiU Trade Drive Looms In I Wake of Hitler Speech, Mussolini Talks Today. Berlin, Jan. 31. ? Chancellor Hit-1 ler's financial lieutenants, accustom ed to taking cues quickly from their leader,- started studying German ex-1 port possibilities today while the Fuehrer himself sat baek, Well pleas'-1 ad with the world echo to his Reich-1 stag address. < jV, Germany must "export or die" Hit-1 ler told the Reichstag members and I the world last night, advising the] United States not to interfere when I Latin America is included.in efforts! to bolster German economy. I The emphasis on exports seemed] to trained observers to, be an indi cation that Hitler's plans for re gaining the war-lost German colo nies have not been perfected suffi ciently to plaee the colonial issue in the foreground. Germany has no territorial de mands against England and France apart from that for the return of our] colonies,"* heaid yesterday. "While] the solution of this question would contribute greatly to the pacification o f the world, it is in no sense a prob lem which- would caude' a war." him Boid ? to let Prime Minister) Chamberlain of Great Britain and j SALE OF WARPLAHES TO FIAACE SUES SIMP SENATE CRITICISM - r 1 * . Members of Senate De clare Policy Pushes the United States Into Eu rope. . v ? Washington, Feb. 1. ? The Bale of American warplanes to France stir red up a storm of argument in the Senate today as Congress weighed the implications of a foreign policy frankly aimed at helping the democ racies of the world arm themselves I against the dictator states. WJiile German newspapers de nounced President Roosevelt as a leading "war agitator" and applause was heard in Paris and London, one Senator after another arose to con demn the transaction in some times tense and bitter language. They objected that it involved the United States directly in the threat ening affair of Europe, and opposed giving other nations the benefits of American military progress. And, even more severely, they berated the administration for throwing a cloak pi secrecy over the transaction. "Good God," Senator Johnson (R., Calif.), veteran Senate isolationist, shouted at one point, "don't you think the American people have the right to know if they are going down the road to war?" Berkley's Defense. The administration's course was stoutly defended by Senator Barkley (D., Ky.), the Democratic leader, against opponents who sought con stantly to interrupt with replies to his arguments. He contended that there was nothing in the proposed sale of planes ? to a friendly power 7 that might be expected to carry the country into war. "We might as well say that the United States Steel Corporation could not sell steel to England or France tfiat might later be trans ferred into some kind of military equipment for use in time of war," Barkley said. In addition, he held that no revela tions of American military secrets were invoolved, and asserted that the Senate's military committee, in hold ing secret hearings upon the circum- . stances of the sale, was merely fol lowing Congressional precedent. Must Help Them. Others quoted the President as hav ing said that in" the past England and France were America's first line of edfense and that unless America helped those nations now she might lose that first line of defense. ?# Mr. Roosevelt was said to have ex- j.. pressed the opinion that another ex tensive war was inevitable, and that ^ America had nothing to. lose and ... everything to gain by a policy of co operating with the democracies. It was apparent, some said, that he felt that in the conflict between the dic tator states and the democracies, England and France had borne the brunt, while the United States re mained secure. He was further represented as say ing that if Great Britain and France should.be beaten in war, North and South America would be the last de fenders of democracy 'and target of Hie authoritarian states states. He expressed concern, it was said, at Ger man and Italian efforts to expand their trade and spread their culture ? in South America. GERMANY AND ITALY r, \ IN BITTER COMMENT London, Feb. 1. ? President Roose velt's reported willingness to help Great BBritain and France rearm was hailed with satisfaction today in London and Paris and bitterly con demned in the Nazi and Fascist capi tals. - \ 4 - The controlled German ' prfess ex pressed anger over dispatches assert ing that the President had told the Senate military .affairs committee yesterday he favored rearmament aid to the democracies. It-accused him of trying to ronvert France and England into a battlefield and called him the "head of war agitators." Italian papers charged the Presi dent with "war-mongering pesai raismt" The British and French press quickly proclaimed in headlines: "U. S. A. frontier is in Franca?Roose velt." Circulation of reports of the President's statements after what were regarded as conciliatory speech eg by Prime Miairter . and Chancellor Hitler in thelast Wo mets. _ , .-k British officials asserted tha*ta?? . nothing about any - for positive commitments bereMlfcM^NR United States and Britate^WW^ ^ sale of planes' and g iil," but French -gffldifr ?? I I n A A v Ar/vtlM/r* ? I I V"