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TksHie Enterprise ahmvtlle 1 ti nutmiiniHH itttf lit If" 1 " i. ,i 1 ?? i ? i nmm m> ? '' " "" "" ' in. m. i im ?' ' HIM - 11 11 ? ' 11 ? j1' ! VOLUME TWENTY-MNE PABMYBLIA PITT COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 19S9 NUMBER FORTY r ,T -? 1 " ? i, ? i i dt < i Approval Given Major Portion of Defense Bill House Military Commit tee Votes to Add 3,032 Planes To Army Air Corps. Washington, Feb. 7. ? President Roosevelt disclosed today that Great Britain had been permitted to buy an outmoded American army mechanism to direct the fire of anti-aircraft guns. He crisply denied, however, that any foreign government had been supplied with information on secret apparatus to detect hostile planes at great distances. In fact, he did not even concede that the United States Army or Navy had such a device. With the denial the Chief Execu tive coupled sharp criticism of what he described as the known source ? presumanly on Capitol Hill ? of re cently widely published reports that the administration was permitting secrets to be divulged to other na tions. Speaking grimly at his press con ference, he absolved the press from blame in branding as a fake one re pert that secret, up-to-date anti-air craft gunfire directors were sold to Britain. One senatorial source had said there was reason to believe secrets were being divulged to Great Britain. More Planes Approved. The President again took a direct hand in the dispute over aid to other nations shortly after the major part, of his $552,000,000 emergency defense program, including 3,032 additional planes for the Army, won unanimous approval of the House Military Com mittee. The measure would give the Army Air Corps a total of 5,500 first line warp Lanes in contrast to its present strength of less than 2,320. Republican members of the com mittee were defeated by a vote of 15 to 10 in an attempt to limit the addi tions to 1,000 a year. Representative Rayburn (D.-Tex.), the majority leader, said House con sideration would be delayed until Monday. Meanwhile, critics of the Navy's $66,000,000 air base program aired their views before the House Naval Committee, centering their fire chief ly on the proposals to make harbor improvements costing '$5,000,000 at the Pacific Island of Guam. Ridicules Senators. At his press conference, Mr. Roose velt poked bared fun at Senators who have been commenting on his foreign policy without permitting their names to be used.' He said that a certain President, "who would not allow his name to be used, had a fit when he read a story in a morning paper about the sale of secret plane directors to Great Bri tain. This unnamed President directed Stephen Early, White House secre- , tary, to get to the bottom of the ; report," Mr, Roosevelt then went on to cat plain thai after the World War and until 1900, the only suitable anti aircraft gunfire directing device was manufactured by the British muni tions firm <rf Viekers and rfleased | for use by the United States, The Army hi still using some of these, , he said, . ! * v Plowing of Terraced Fields Is Explained - 11 l J . V An automobile requires oil and grease -to keep it in feed working Carolina wjH be breaking land.-soon, and. unlssa they ore proper methods farwm, and ths^dpota attempt to friteonvenian* as^jpo* of flbtng -hbd, Ellis says ? "When A/fee bottom 5 th* ewndMfcrrew in then started J Fwmilto Wins Fur Mire Games During' the peat week the boys and girls of FarmviHe High School added; four more games to their long list of victories. The boys defeated Belvoir,. Grimes land and Bethel and the girls gave Belvoir a handy defeat. Oni Thursday of last week Belvoir came, to Farmville with a team of girls and' a team of boys to play the Farmville. teams in Fountain's warehouse. The; girls opened up the evening by giving; Ithe visitors a 22-12 setback. The, scoring honors were evenly divided; between Dorothy Clarice and Olive Taylor who scored eleven point each.. Much credit must also be given to Francess Carraway for hear excellent passing. The boys then followed up. by trimming their rivals by the score; of 34-16. Arthur Joyner was the star of the evening, he scored seven field, goals and two fouls for a total of 16; points. On Saturday evening both teams, traveled to Grimesland. The girls played in the first game and lost a close battle to their larger oppon ents despite much excellent playing. The boys then came back to avenge the girls by trouncing their rivals "by the score of 26-7. Robert Pierce was, the high scorer of the evening. He made four field goals and one foul shot for a total of nine points. On Monday the boys again were victor ious when they defeated Bethel at Bethel by the score of 26-19. This time there was no individual star as every member of the team shared al most equally in the scoring. . Tonight the boys and girls will both travel to Winterville for a double header. Next Friday night Ayden, j the only team that has thus far de feated Farmville, will be here for a return game at Fountain's warehouse.'; The first game will start at 7:30, Grazing Crops There are 107 Currituck farmers who are providing winter grazing crops for their pigs. This means healthy pigs, grown under-sanitary conditions and mm profits to the owners, says L. A. Powell, county agent, who reports 574.9 acres of winter cover crops planted largely for j this purpose, St Valentine St Valentine was not the great lover history has led us to behave, He was actually of poor and humble birth . , ostensibly a tiller of the soil ... a gardner. But in this heart was a love for his fellow man, and the beautiful tenderly-nourished blossoms from hib srarden found their way to the, bedside of th# down-trod* den and ill; and to the homes of those discouraged and weary from strife, Time passed, and Valentino jyas^h longer robust and stulwarf, , , no longer was he able to work in his be loved gardens,- No longer could his tottering limbs, and his bended form ha seen hovering over his cherished flowers^ But in his heart fcaeonfcln* ued to have love and tenderness *or all mankind. He stiU had use of his hands, and his written messages of love and remambrjBlce continued tQ find their way to th* homes of the distressed ^od ^lonely , , . and mudr tin* who started this erase for send in* flowers, women have adored In, ^jyith ^ changs^te stytes and^ Women no longer care to spyaar eami ul)B 8p0C2tu fiyDuA* ? 4 ? u^CTB (UT0. Politicians Weed ed Oit By Gunman Ib Shanghai V ? ?? Shanghai, Feb. 7. ? The killing of two officiate of the Japanese-sponsor ed reformed government today brought to 47 the number of known political, asainationa in thia area while more than 2,000,000 Chinese *ad Japanese fought along a far flung Una spread over most of the mag; of China. Chow-Chi-Tang, counsel of the gov ernment's finance ministry, w-ia shot .while riding, through the streets of thft: International Settlement. His 'nfffw'lmnt pinned a note on his body saying "You aw a traitor." Soo Che-Dong, a tax collector, also was shot by a lone gunman. It war learned authoritatively that ,24 other Chinese officials of the regime had received letters threaten ing death unless they severed con nections with the government, t Thirty-four of the 47 assassinations have occurred in the International concessions. Thirteen were in the French, concession. Others have oc curred in Japanese-occupied territory but no figures are available. Most of those killed were Chinese who had accepted" office in the Jap anese controlled regime, but police recorded 12 killings of persons who Chinese said were anti-Japanese agi tators. The major war fronts were rela tively quiet but there were scores of ; hit and run engagements between Chinese guerrillas and Japanese mop ping-up columha as the war entered its twentieth month. Fighting began ; west of Peiping the night of July 7, . 1987. v j Japanese operations designed to end Chinese opposition in the Yang tze River valley endangered 65 for- ^ eigners, including 12 Americans, who have been isolated In Ruling, a moun- ( tain-top resort 125 air miles south east of Hankow, since last summer. ! American and British authorities have been unable to get in contact ' with them recently. The Japanese were reported to | have occupied all hilltops dominating ( Lushan, the mountain on which Ku- , ling is situated, and to be prepared to launch an air and land offensive . on Friday against the mountain Serious fighting went on north west of Hgnkow, where the Japanese Occupied Kingshan and Tienmen, 72 and.70 miles from Hankow. { More Jerseys 1 ??- j Three new 4-H Jersey calf club i members have signed up in Wake 1 County and have secured pure bred < heifers. This makes 14 boys and i girls with pure bred animals in the i county plub, ] I STATE COLLEGE ANSWERS TIMELY < FARM QUESTIONS I - i Question; What is the cost of h treating cotton seed for control of < damping off disease? Answer; The average cost on 143 < actual farm tests for the past two < years has been 2ft cents an acre. This 1 was based on the cost of haying the < material in one pound containers, By .< buying the chemical in larger quan- < tities this eost may be materially re- 1 duced- After the seed are treated, > they should be stored in bags or bins 1 pntil ready for planting. If an ex- I cess amount , is treated, the extra < send should be disposed of in such a way as to avoid consumption by man or animals. 1 r ' ' Question: How early should baby ' chicks be given a grain ration? ' Answer: CW&s should be given n wtafai feed after the first seven to Pdaysh should be fed two or 1 m times a day on top of the mash. ' is very essential that sufficient 1 mash hopper space be supplted so'J ttert the* chicks can all iAat at one iSSSS&S'SS ?:i one-half per cent of straight cod liver oil that contains 8ft U. S. P, unite of vitenrin B per gram and not less than j600 U.'S. P, units of vitamin per nmiu iisi sowiiOn snouia D6 wsnc . 'A - - 7?V ^ ^ - ?T -'dB ^/Vr t ? ? 1 $9gj525BHBB ? m" ? ' ? ' <?'!?**? I'. (Hngp 3. Sims, Washington Corres pondent.) FRENCH PURCHASE OF AMERI CAN PLANES CAUSES SOM? CONCERN TO. THE CONGRESS. , i The injury of a French Air attache J .when a Douglas bombing plane crash- j ed in the. West'had its repercussions 1 in Washington where suppisious sen- 1 atom wanted to know what the j French officer was doing.on a plane, putatively designed for the Army. J It was not long .before the fact de- 1 veloped that the French Government was trying to boy five or six hundred 1 American airplanes as quickly as poo- 3 sible in order to supplement the pro- v duction of French factories, and thea 1 secure some assistance in balancing ' the air forces of France and Ger- ' many. Much was made of the secrecy with c which the French were attempting to 1 secure airplanes. One sympathetic ^ nTplsT'n*'"Ti is that the French did not _ want to inform competitors of their 1 purpose and, for domestic reasons, did not wish to advertise the pur- * chase of planes in this country. ? _ ? Previously the English Government had openly ordered American air- I planes. There is nothing illegal in | the sale by American manufacturers of airplanes to foreign nations. The rumpus in the Senate, however, was apparently caused by suspicions in the of some senators that the President had taken an active part in i facilitating the French air mission. Readers should understand that there is a militant group in Congress determined to keep this country from doing anything whatever that might sntangfe it in a European war. Cer tain senators are anxious lest the ! President commits this country to I more than they think the people ap- a prove. They follow his foreign policy t irery closely, scruitinizing his words a and zealously watching the action taken by this country, fearful that v something of ft tie-up with Great ti Britain or France will inevitably re- e suit, J - 1 I This congressional group sponsored the various neutrality acts, intended ( to restrict the President in foreign iffairs. Its spokesmen include Sena tors Clarke, Vandenberg and Nye. In general, the group tidks about tak ing the profits out of war, would pre- u rent the sale of American materials ci to countries at war, and prohibits al- P most anything that tends to create an V identity of interests with another S power, g In the face of the French effort o1 to buy planes in this country, there i* ve several good reasons for permit- t; ting such sales. In the first place, f< die American airplane industry was o: lagging and the French order would usist in the development of the in- si i us try. This would be an asset to the k United States in the event of an d imergency and possibly, might mean h :heaper planes when the Army and r Navy placed their orders for hew ma- k Aines. From the standpoint of for- P aign policy, the nation would prefer u to see Great Britain and France bet- n ter equipped to withstand the aerial strength of Germany and Italy and a the sale of American planes to these e Countries will help to establish an e equilibrium. jj _ .' ji Faced, with these considerations V the President, it is said, agreed to f help the French buy planes here, but ti wm firm in his insistence that it be li % "cash-on-the-barrel-head" arrange ment Last week Mr,. Roosevelt in- * vited the Senate Military Affairs t Committee to the White House and fc there informed them, according tq re- p ports, that the selling of military air- p planes to France was in line ftith? J Present American foreign policy of f helping the democratic nations of the a world. Although" everyone attending | Of conference was pledged to secre- k ey, bits of information came through. Tha Chief executive, tfl^ng to.n*Mfsr paper men, denied that military- se crets were divajg*d?&> the French. It might he Jvdl, in tWs connection, J to consider tb?,,current defense pro- ], gram. The idea that this invoke g hv wgow gg necessary - mmmssMII nDAPD A IX It Recovery Begins Fir jtjwil Child Doctors Say Boy With Spinal Cord Almost Se vered h On Road To Recovery. Wilson, Feb. 7. ? WUlard Nix moved his right arm and some of his [eg muscles today. Doctors at the hospital where the 12ryear-old boy ias been sinoe his spinal cord waa| ill but severed last Friday when an iutomobile ran over his neck said Jiat he was on the road to "recovery? inless something unforaeen develops. Ie Is not yet out of danger, the doc ore said. Despite the fact that the child ap jarently is "recovering" from the iir-, ury inflicted b? the car, doctors rould not say in just what form the mcovury will take. The injury to the hild'a spinal cord and neck vertebrae lave left- Willard paralyzed from the leek down and it was problematical oday whether Willard will regain omplete use of all. his limbs and nuscles. The child, son of Principal W. V. fix of Walstonburg school, was tak ng nourishment today. Physicians have termed the case emarkable in that the child did not lie instantly, when he was struck by he automobiile. Major May Chapter To Most Satarday Urs. Moore and Mrs. Turnage Hostesses To Anniversary Meeting; Mrs. Murphy Speaker. % - x The Anniyersary Meeting of the lajor Benjamin May Chapter, D. A. L, will be held on Saturday, Febru ry 11, at 2:80 o'clock in the Chap er House, with Mrs. G. E. Moore, Sr., nd Mrs. T. C. Turnage as hostesses. Mrs. W. B. Murphy, o? Snow Hill, ice-chairman of the State Democra ic Committee, who is to be the speak r of the occasion, will address the laughters on the subject of "National lefense." . Caution Is Advised With Electric Fence Caution should be exercised in the se of the electric fence, which is be aming so popular with farmers in aaturing livestock, says David S. leaver, agricultural engineer of the tate College Extension Service. While electric fences have met with eneral acceptance .because the cost If the fence and this cost of operation i materially less than thfe standard ype of stock fencing, all electric anting does not . have a clear slate f safety, Weaver stated. Reports of investigators have shown feveral instances where stock has been illd by wiring that was improperly barged. In some instances it was omemade contraptions which were igged up by pgrsons Who. , did not how what degree of shock the ap aratus was delivering and did ijot nderstand how much shock was ecessary of safe for livestock. "A word of caution to those who j light be contemplating in*ta|Sng an lectric fence would be to secure the quipment from those sources which *ve had extensive experience and ave the equipment on a safe basis," leaver said. "The buyer also should allow throughout- the- directions by be manufacturer for safety instal- i ng the controller. "No person should attempt to in tall a homemade apparatus without ' irst consulting some person compa ct of giving information as to safe ncantions to he followed. The ? roper grounding of the wiring sya- j sm and electrical equipment around arm buildings is aiafr important, as sli^t shock from^ improperly Potato Cooperative A small coopsMlivs MwsisitlOBllM at their surplus sugar spgfe R*ty Saved $163,000 " ' I I . ?' - I Sacs Repudiates His'Mouthpiece' Mussolini Says Italian Troops to Leave Spain When War Is Ended. Rome, Feb. 7. ? Premier Benito Mussolini has assured Great Britain that Italian troops will be withdrawn from Spain as soon as the war ends with a complete Insurgent victory and that Italy will maintain a hands off policy toward Spanish internal affairs, it was stated tonight on au thority. Mussolini's assurances, designed to [ alleviate British and French alarm regarding his post-war activities in Spain, amounted to repudiation of statements in the usually authorita tive Giornale D'ltalia by Virginio , Gayda, who is regarded as 11 Duce's unofficial spokesman. The British government made im mediate inquiries regarding Italian intentions after Gayda announced that the withdrawal of the Italian BlackBhirt legions from Spain was J contingent upon a "political victory" ( there, as well as a military triumph, , Gayda published four conditions ( which he said must be met before 1 the Italians are recalled. I The Giornale DTtalia announce ment was made in answer to British Prime Minister Neville Chamber- j Iain's statement, in the House of Commons Monday stressing the vir- ; tual pooling of British and French military forces in event of war and i promising "immediate" British coop- ] eration if vital French interests were 1 menaced.: ? ,It was understood that Mussolini's ^ assurances to Britain, reaffirming his , previous promises to Chamberlain ^ and the terms of the Anglo-Italian t pact of friendship of last November, were transmitted through his for- ^ eign minister and son-in-law, Count ^ Galeazzo Cianor. .'. < Profitable Hogs The cooperative livestock associa- a tion at New Bern shipped five cars t of fat hogs last week with the 336 f animals weighing 64,000 pounds and ] bringing $4,662.46. There were 209 I hogs in the shipment that were classed as tops. J. Honor Roll j; Fifth Month < First Grade: Johnnie Barrett, Robert Rollins, Billy Russell, A. J. Walston, Harry Albritton, Jean By-1 num, Patricia Corbett, Thurber Dud- P ley,' Ann Forbes, Dorothy Lucas,! Geraldine Prescott, Connie Rollins, Mary Tyson. Second Grade: Barbara SermonB, Jack Davis, Jay Flanagan, Charles Joyner, Mary Frances Allen, Lor raine Butts, Jane Kittreil,. Elsie May, P Ruth Moore, Joyce -Perry, Fannie Quinn, Janet Stansill, Helen Thomas, P Sallie Tyson, Gay Pippin, i Third Grade: Cedrtc Davi$, Neal Howard, Charles Parker, Tommy Wilbur, Dora Mae Barrett, Betsy 1 'Jones, Lola Gray Kemp, Carolee Mc- P Connell,; Ann Moore, Mary Ann Rouse, Vivian Scott, Joyce Tyson, P Hetty Rose Wilkerson, Emily Bar-1 rett. Fourth Grade: Billie Batton, Bruce P Darden, Sterling Gates) Tommy P Ramey, Harold Rouse, Bobbie Bus- P sell, Maynard Thorne, Sybil Barrett, I Dora Speight Trevathan, Babe .Wil-1 ^ftfth Grade: Olive Roberson, L. D.J Braxton, James Earl, Corbett, Harry l, bivis, Milton Williamson, Margaret! Bynum, Cora Dean Johnson, Peggy P Jones, Janie .Kemp, Johnsie Moore,! Mary Leah Thorne, Cordeiia^Viyp. J A^^lesb^fob.- jpaytor,^ Bobbie|, her,* j | -assssaw-jl nie Mae Moore, Yvonne Smith, Bill j Ejberry, Bobby Rouse, I Tenth . Grade: Elizabeth Moore, I Pnathfl. Simuson. I R?hMl ? ... Loyalists Defy Rebels To Take Central Spain W mr - - ' ?" Insurgent Demands for Unconditional Snrren {kr Are Rejected By Hard - Poshed Govern ment London, Feb. 7. ? The Spanish ? Loyalists government tonight reject ed Insurgent demands, turned its back on Anglo-French pleas for peace and announced it will return to Valencia to carry on the war in southern Spain. The Spanish embassy in London announced that Premier Juan Negrin was determined to fight to the fin ish in the Madrid-Valencia zone ? nine provinces and about- 47,000 square miles of rich territory?with the central army of General Jose Miaja. The embassy announcement fol lowed diplomatic information that Negrin and his foreign minister. Julio Alvarez Del Vayo, had rejected all efforts of Great Britain and France to induce them to agree to mediation following the collapse of Loyalist re sistance in Catalonia. It was announced that Del Vaye had telephoned his ambassador in London, Pablo de Azarate, to say that the Loyalist government would settle the problem created by the Catalonian route and the flight of tens of thousands of soldiers and ref ugees to France before flying to Va lencia to can y on the war. Morale Reported High. Negrin, it was said, intends to leave one or two ministers on the French side of the frontier to deal svith the refugee situation. The embassy said it had reports From Valencia indicating the morale of both troops and civilians in the central zone remained high, The projected return of the govern ment to Valencia indicated that the 50-months-old war with its toll of 2? 300,000 casualties will continue for weeks if not for months. Miaja has nearly 400,000 well trained troops under his command For the denfense of such- important cities as Madrid, Valencia,' .Cartagena . md Alicante. Rebels Scoff. Insurgearit military leaders scoffed it announcement of a new. Loyalist itand in the south, however; and as serted that Generalissimo. Francisco Franco will end the war with a vic tory within six or eight weeks. He will be able, they asserted, to ? ?eledse the bulk of his 800,000 Span- v J sh, Moroccan and Italian troops from Jataionia and swing them south tot * join his central forces in driving a wedge between Madrid and Valencia, slicing Madrid's communication with the Mediterranean coast and starving rat the inland metropolis. British and French efforts to ar ?ange a trace failed when Negrin, al ?eady having split with President ifanuel Azana and other cabinet nembers on the question of peace or war, stood stubbornly by his demands hat any end of the war must be N jased upon three conditions: N ' L A plebiscite to determine the ,'uture government of Spain ? dicta torship or republic. ' 2. Removal of foreign elements, in cluding Franco's Italian and German 'orces, and foreign influence. 8. No reprisals. Franco met these demands with a Tat assertion that only a complete capitulation, including the surrender him at the nine southern provinces could end the conflict. , '' , . Neither Britain nor France had any nfention of attempting to force nediation upon the Spaniards be cause the situation ia crammed with langerous international posafbilltiea. WHO KNOWS 7 ? 1. Is "Mona Lisa" known' by mother name? 7 2. What was the given name of Voltaire?' ; ; 8. What is-a "tongue-twister?" 4- What ia the world price "of cot ton, based on the old- gold dollar? 5. Who was the Republican can iidate for Vice-President in c 6. Is employment in private in- 'f; iuatry" increasing? ? . 1 ; 7. Can the Federal Government tax the salaries , of State and local government employes. ^ v t -Vr 8. What is the population of Mexi- I i 9. What was the Block Town ex plosion? ? 10. How large is Guam? tr ? - (See "The Answers" on Page 4) Faulty , .: It yj 11 m flfAnHnAinf aP nnfeifi/vn
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