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Windsor Agencies Giving Aid to 96 Left Homeless II I C .II... Appeals for Aid In Re habilitation Sent Out; Damage Set at Above $80,000, Windsor, Feb. 22. ? Windsor citi zens today began the extensive task of rehabilitation in the nearby Green's Cross section, which last night was SZSt by a tornado that caused three deaths, sent nearly a score of per sons to the Windsor Hospital, and left 96 persons homeless. Local civic organisations, the Ber tie County Welfare Department, the Red Cross, Boy Scouts, and other gzotrpe combined efforts to provide shelter, food, and clothing for the afflicted. Contributions from various sections of the state began coming in ?hia morning following an appeal broadcast from the hospital. Property damage in the storm, which swept a three-mile path through the thickly populated fann ing sectiton, was estimated at be tween $50,000 and $60,000. Mayor J. A. Pritchett of Windsor, who is di recting relief work, sent an appea. to Senator Robert R. Reynolds in Washington asking him to seek Works Progress Administration aid in rehabilitation. Associates of the Senator said he will communicate with WUA officials tomorrow. Woman Dies In Hospital The death toll of the tornado rose to three early this morning with the death of Mrs. George Lawrence, 66 in the local hospital. Robert Law rence, 94, and Police Chief J. ^W Brown of Colerain were other vic tims. Lawrence died in the hospital of injuries received when his home was destroyed. Brown was killed when his car struck a bus that nad been stopped by a fallen tree. Previously it was erroenously re ported that J. S. Mizzelle, who was brought to the hospital last night, was dead. Mixxelle was discharged from the hospital this morning. Two In Critical Condition. Two other injured were reported to be in a critical condition. They mre Mrs. J. S. Mizzelle and Mis. Ernest Castello. Mrs. Mizzelle received a leg fraeture and also other injuries; Mrs. Castello, who re ceived a skull fracture, was paraiyzed, attaches said. The condition of six other patients, one of whom was brought to the hos pital today, was said to be good or fair. The additional patient is Mrs. McKinnley Conner. Nine persona were discharged from the hospital t?^y'survey by the Bertie County Welfare Department, with the aid of Boy Scouts, showed that 21 fam iiiey?96 persons m all?were home less. The rehabilitation problem was increased when the two-story home of a J. Rhodes, which escaped dam age in the tornado, was destroyed by fire early this morning. Eight persons lived in the house. Red Cross workers from Norfolk, V? special highway patrol details, a?d ^TSgmented force of sheriffs deputies aided in caring for the vic tims. State police stopped sightseers from parking in the stricken area as ? precaution against looting. Two Will Stand Trial For Saratoga Robbery Wilson, Feb. 22. ? Two tiny spots of paint and a conflict in testimony regarding time in the ease caused Walter Morgan, Farmville young man, and Mm. Ida Ptttman, Wilson County - woman, to he bound over to the Su perior Court Grand jury yesterday by Jvdf? f Court os charges of conspiracy to rob, houaalaesking, and stealinr "ap proximately *600" from the ssfo of rnOiw?s?to?,gtort ' ^.1 $800; Mrs. Pittman was placed under tended to place Mergaat * the time ti* robbery was eojnmitteed at conflicting. gre?* Sessfe ?nd I > ^ neTttiiH Uta P&rnivills filling itottW ft? BVOB Color O* glfWi ?* 'em ii ha mMim MAf fa It ^kroka^^hit^'^Owan't' [House Approves LoanJAgeaey Bill Measure To Continue Export - Import Bank Two Years Gets Large Majority. Washington, Feb. 21. ? A bill to continue the Export-Import Bank for two years emerged unscatched from a rough and tumble, partisan scrap in the House today and was dispatch ed to the Senate by a rote of 280 to 77. Raising cries that the bank might lead the nation into war by making loans to beligerent countries, Repub licans tried to kill off the agency, and when that maneuver failed, to limit its activities. But with the Democratic majority operating in steam-roller fashion for the first time in this Congress, every Republican attempt to amend the measure was brushed aside. The bill would advance from June 30, 1939, to June 30, 1941, the date when tiie bank's powers expire. It also would place a $100,000,000 limit -on the amount of loans the bank may have outstsanding. Another provision would continue the Commodity Credit Corporation for the same period and raise its bor rowing capacity from $500,000,000 to $900,000,000. (This corporation was set up to lend money to farmers "to finance the carrying and orderly marketing of agricultural commodities." The Export-Import Bank was established to finance trade with foreign nations and U. S. dependencies). While the House was in the midst of a hot debate over the legislation, the Senate Banking Committee ap proved an almost identical bilL In that committee, too, Republican criticism was directed at the meas ure on grounds the Export-Import Bank loans were made to implement foreign policy. The committee heard Jesse H. Jones, chairman of the Reconstruc tions Finance Corporation and the bank, assert that he waa especially desirious of stimulating exports to South America. ? "Otther countries are making a strong drive for trade down there and are extending liberal credits," he remarked. "If the South Ameri can countries are going to trade with us they have got to have credit. If we dont want that trade to get away from us we must give them credit." Representative Wolcott (R.-Mich.), chairman of a Republican committee which is working out party policy on the continuation of expiring New Deal agencies, led the futile House fight against the Export-Import Bank. But on the vote on passage, sev eral Republicans pulled out of line to vote for the legislation, and not a single Democrat voted against it, Chanel Baject T0 Begin April 1 . . Government Galls For Bids On Dredging Tar From Washington To Hardee's Creek; W Greenville, Feb. 22. - Work on the Tar River channel has been adve|f Used and bids will he opened March 7, according to advice received b$re today from Congressman X^dsay C. Warren. He said that the project is expected to be started April 1 and be completed by? September" 1. Representative Warren wdd that been completed. Completion of the project, for a 12-foot channel ftmid Waahingto^to^Hardee^ Greek Although turned down twice by 1 veer annroved the project, and I2U1) ' IfCm BIIVA V ? vw m . / ? Congress made an appropriation ex ceeding $300,000. '1'iMt NflrfolK * ?oBiiaiiiorB jimi ? *rl. .x North Carolina points, plans to begin r 1 I France Reported Ream To Me To Rebel Wishes - Indications Are That] Bonnett Has Decided Upon Unconditional] Recognition. ? ? | Paris, Feb. 21. ? The Freneh gov-1 eminent was reported tonight to have decided to accord unconditional recognition to the Spanish National ist regime and to -send a' French general as its first ambassador to. Burgos. Diplomats, who reported that For eign Minister Bonnet had dropped all conditions for granting formal recog nition, said General Georges Catroux, commander of French troops in Al geria, is the leading candidate for the Burgos poet General Franco, however, appar ently is in no hurry to conclude even simple recognition arrangements with France. Senator Leon Berard, French semi official envoy, announced his sched uled meeting at Burgos, with the Nationalist foreign minister, Count Francisco Gomes Jordana, had been postponed from tomorrow until Thursday. Count Jordana notified Berard that "communications are too difficult be tween Burgos and Barcelona" for him to keep the appointment, at which the French senator was expected to inform the Nationalist of French recognition. After talking fcy telephone with Premier Daladier, the French emis sary, waiting at Saint Jean de Luz, on th border, told correspondents that "there be" no question of France's setting conditions for resumption of arrangements with Nationalist Spain. Prisoners Sent Back. At Perpignan, it was announced that 500 Nationalist prisoners handed over to France by Spanish govern ment forces fleeing from Catalonia already had been sent to Franco ter ritory. - The question of the prisoners had been one dispute standing between France and Nationalist Spain. Bearard was expected to promise surrender of quantities of arms and munitions deposited in France by the fleeing Spanish government army. . " ? (Since- February 6, when General lissimo Franco demanded uncondi tional surrender of tie Spanish gov ernment, British officials have ad mitted that they are in no position to demand conditions before recognising the Nationalists. (Sir Robert Hodgson, British rep resentative in Burgos, has empha sized British hopes that Franco would show mercy to government leaders, but this no longer is regarded as a condition for recognition). Diplomats believe the French cabi net will vote full recognition at a meeting this week end, unless some unforaeen complication arises. The foreign office, taking cognis ance of opposition press assertions that the United States opposes im mediate recognition, issued a state ment declaring that "American dip lomacy is not at all opposed . to French and B^ttish recognition of the Spanish Nationalist government when they judge fit," President Manuel Azana of Spain, who is residing In the Spanish em bassy here, was said to have assured France and Britain that he will make their course easier by resigning his post as soon as the Nationalist re gime is recognized. Such a move would weaken the already shaky legal position of the Spanish government. Reports from Montpellier, in Southern France, said Azana's fam ily had taken a villa and that he would join them soon. By leaving the Spanish embassy, technically Span isH soil, Azana would relinquish all legal standing as chief of the Span ish state. By Bonnet's reported decision, Franca would drop her original de mand that Franco propiise amnesty for Republican leaders and refrain from military or diplomatic pacts Bonnet's decision to bow in the face of Franco's refusal to outline his future policy was said to have been reached last night in a conference with Premier Daladier. , Witil early recognition of Nation alist Spain, France's most^present some 250,000 Spanish refugees still ? 'I m France. I A MV Vkllvi j* AAA I -?I' . -? r WW'-' ?rf-JSrSi . a faA.. **:<?'"' ^W>v ^??r HofivScfonds Bi? B - 1 .;rBnaBAB0V IM MHHffAf '- . Bv ? Bi b vices Demanding Rev-1 enue. Charlotte, Feb. 22. ? A joint les-l sion of the North Carolina Senate ? and House, meeting in the Charlotte I amory-aodttorinm heard Governor Hoey promise today that the stated budget would be balanced, and ex-1 press' s belief that business should 1 work together for we general wd-B fare. A guest of honor at the session ? was South Carolina's youthful Gov-1 ernor B. R. Maybank, who spoke I briefly. Governor Maybank complimented ifl North Carolina for its "liberalism"H and said wie Carolinas had "gone I along side by siie for generations in I a steady mareh to progress." I The joint session dissolved at 12:15 I p. m., on motion of Senator Lumpkin I of Franklin. The Governor defended the rap- I id increase in the state's budget dur- I ing the past eight years, saying the money "has not been extravagantly I I spent," then counselled "there can be ? I no such thing as expanding public I I service and contracting tax levies." I There is a general feeling, Hoey I I said, that conditions do not warrant ? major changes in tax policies now, I I neither in. the way of new levies nor I I general Increases, therefore the bud- I I get may only partially meet the real I ? needs of some agencies and institu- I Itions. I "When this General Assembly ad- I ? journs," the Governor stated em- ? ? patically, "we will have a balanced ?budget provided for the next bien- I ?nium." "I am happy to greet the splen- B ?did citizenship of Charlotte and I ?Mecklenburg county on this memor ?able occasion," the Goovernor told the I ?legislators and hundreds of visitors I ?in the Armory. This is the first time B ?the general assembly ever convened I ?in Western North Carolina. It is B ?appropriate that we come to the birth- I ?place of the American revolution, I ?where the first .^declaration of inde- B ?pendence was made, to celebrate the B ?birthday anniversary of the first ? ?president of the republic," I The nation, the Goveipbr said, has B ?become Government conscious. ? ? The legislature upon the arrival in ? ?the Queen City of Charlotte, partici- ? ?pated in a parade to the county court ? ?house where formal sessions were ? ?held. Afterwards, they were taken to ? ?the auditorium for speeches by North ? ?Carolina leaden and Governor May- ? ?bank of South Carolina. ?Fanmrilie High I I I Win Three Mire I I Basketball Games I I ' I During the past week the boys I ?from Farmville High School added ? ?three more teams to their list of vie- ? Stories to bring their total for the sea- I Bson to an even twenty. Last Wed- ? ?nesday in a game which was in doubt ? ?all the way from the beginning to the I end they finally downed a stubborn fl team from Greenville High School by I ?the score of 26-25. The high scorer I ?for the Farmville team was again I Robert Pierce who made a total of 17 points followed by Arthur Joyner who made four field goals for a total ?of eight points. I On Friday night the local boys gained sweet revenge on Ayden for their defeat earlier in the season by I handing them a neat 21-15 reverse. ?Robert Pierce was also the chief point H maker in this game. He madefdur B field goals and one foul shot for. a. I total of nine points. Before] the ?boys game, the girls team defeated ?Ayden by the- score of 14-6 to make ?the evening complete'success. The ?feature of the girls g#e was again the superb teamwork of three for On Tuesday night the - boys and ?girls of Farmville wpre host to two B teams from W alstonburg. S The bop* ?won their game 1>y the secret* 1R-16 ?with two foul shots for a total of ten ?points. Although the girls played|?: ? j ii . i TV. i i nament will be held in Greenville.! ? Farmville has en^jredboth of itsl teams and because - tn 6 tournament | uu I ?Tf W jlmiiill ?vlt fhaM will he Tin rirnnii In SJfcrm-1 ' ? ~~Z ' " British Pfopfirty Nine Persons Killed As Planes Bond). Depot In Crown Colony in Hong kong. j Tokyo, Feb. 21. ? Japanese rela tions with third powers in Chine were believed by neutral observers tonight to be naring rapidly a definite show down as the result of a tense situa tion in Sfamghal and the bombing of l a railroad station in British Hongkong I by Japanese airplanes. In a two-hour emergency session, Premier Baron Kichi.ro Hiranuma, Foreign Minister Hachirp Aritei War Minister Lieut-Gen. Seishiro Itagaki, and Marine Minister Admiral Mit sumsa Tonal considered drastic ac tion to check anti-Japanese terrorism in Shanghai, where the 58rd political assassination in the past IB months ooccurred with the Blaying of Mar quis Li Kuo-Chleh, reported to have been associated with the Japaneae sponaored Nanking reformed govern ment Replies given by the four minis ters to angry interpellations in the Japanese Wet showed they agreed that Japan must risk international complications to "restore order" in the international settlement of Shang hai, V Premier Hiranuma declared that the latest terroristic acts "compel Japan to take fundamental measures to maintain peace and order" in both the settlement and the French con cession of Shanghai. AriU said that "nothing could prevent Japan from exercising the right of self defense where necessity demands." General Itagaki told the turbulent parliament: "Terrorist outrages have occurred frequently' and the council (the Municipal Council, which administers the international settle ment) has given varioous explana tions, but it is very- slow in putting into practice what it say*y To me this signifies lack of sincerity. If things are to continue like this, I am convinced of the necessity to take ef fective measures of self defense. Arita and other .ministers previous ly expressed the opinion that all for eign settlements, concessions and leased territories in China must "come the jurisdiction of China's new government." The bombing of the Lbwu railroad station, just -within the boundaries of the British Crown Colony of Hong kong?in which nine personB, includ ing a British Indian policeman were tilled?was not reported tooday in the Tokyo press. [ ^Mention of instructions to Sir Rob ert Leslie Graigie, British ambassa dor, to make a vigorous protest agaiftst the attack was forbidden. THIS IS BETTER SPEECHWEEK ' ? I "Sure nuff," "Yeah," "I'm comin'," 'Where you goin'," "Umph humph," and like expresriohs, together with all short cuts, iflang, dropped end ings, stared words, hazy prommda- \ tion, lasy enunciation, grunts and sign language, used by seeing^"*! hearing citizens, are to be labeled "TABOO" by the club women of the North Carolina Federation of Wo men's Clubs. v . This week is being observed as Bet ter Speech Week, and throughput the nation, civic, literary and patriotic) organizations are combining forces tot an effort "to bring forth upon this continent" a more perfect universal use of spoken English. To acquire perfection in oral speech an early interest and ambition must be aroused to the individual. There4 fore, the patents of the children of Farmville could cooperate greatly With the teachers to ***** -md,1 towrectinfrtommon their chfldren aw tempted to. ridge cf1 Asheville, is that each club furnish every one of its ^bejg . with a typewritten oopy^of toe Beg The pledge: ? ? Mf love the United States trf Ameri 1 wfllytto HOIiOr vWteMj* J P- 1 off the Itfit iyuBbw ^ ? 2 ? That a will uy ([ood Ai&Bncsn tine distinctly and by speaking | te,!? IJw5 hi I Preliminary Estimates Indicate Budget Esti mates Will Be Met '??. ? i . iii f- . Raleigh, Feb. 21, ? Early returns from the income tax, one of the big question marks of North Carolina's current fiscal situation, indicate it will yield at least the $8,775,000 esti mated for this fiscal year, revenue officials said yesterday after study ing returns to date. Returns are being filed with about average speed, they said, and most so far are from individuals. Re turns from the larger corporations will be made near the closing date of March 15 and definite knowledge as. to how much, the recession of last year affected the tax will not be available until late in March. Through the first 17 days of this month, income collections were $237, 904.84, a decrease of $18,478421 as compared with the collections dur ing the same period of last February. During the last fiscal year, total col lections were $114296.381, a record ammmt for North Carolina but the estimate for this year was cut to $8,775,000 during the recession. Revenue officials said returns are not being fried fast enough now to warrent hope that the usual- last minute rush between March 1 and March 15 will be avoided. Though there will be a rush, no additional helpers will be employed, but clerks will be transferred from other di visions of the revenue department for the rush period. Field men will be Stationed in larger towns and cities from March 1 to March 15 to aid in filling out retains. Approximately 80,000 returns were fried last year, 60,000 from indi viduals, 10,000 from corporations and 10,00 from partnerships, fiduciaries, public service corporations, etc. The rate for individuals ranges from three to seven per cent and for corporations it it.a.fr^.aigtpfir. CMfc. r Single persons are allowed exemp tions of $1,000, married persons of $2,000 with a $200 exemption for each dependent. There is no earned income exemption such as is granted by the Federal Government Winery At Gfrifton J ?I To Cost Large Sura Kinston, Feb. 21. ? A Grifton re port today said a winery on a large scale will be established near the town, financed by a resident: The plant will be a $50,000 or $60,000 in vestment* the report said. A large 1 vineyard has been started. The 1 plant will be the first on a conuner- < dpi ere1* in this part of North Caro ling ,-S - . 7 . ? I Interest Shown , l? tew Air Line . I I Prospects Brighter for ; I Cress-State Route, But, I Many Obstacles Re | main. . j Raleigh, Feb. 22. - Prospects for j I the cross-state air line envisioned by , the Raleigh Chamber of. Commerce: grew brighter yesterday, but a lead ing advocate of the proposed aerial route cautioned hopefuls thai at least six months to * year and a half , yrould be necessary before $he first commercial flight can- be made. L. H. Duncan, secretary of the Chamber and also of the Car-Va-Tenn Air Association, sponsors of the pro posal, returned to Raleigh from a week end meeting in^Nwfolk^ Vs., , i ibtewat in the master brieT^epared tho toM | Civil Aeronautics Authority and the 6??I1bemjr*awalte< 1. Still otner letters are iwvfr. , authority roc Proposal Is Center mk House Fight on $53, 800,060 Naval Air Post BiB. ? #/:? Washington, Feb. 21. ? The House began debate today on the $58,800, 000 naval air base program and cri- ^1 tics of administration foreign poHcy immediately centered their fire on a proposal to establish a naval seaplane outpost on far-away Guam. Party lines were disregarded. Some Democrats and some Republicans de nounced the $5,000,000 project as fraught with the danger of leading the nation into war, and other mem bers of both parties supported it. Chairman Vinson (D.-Gs.) of the House Naval Committee tackled the issue soon after the debate began and warned the House that although the Nary has no intention at this time of fortifying the tiny island'? less than 1,500 miles from Tokyo-? its security someday might prove "in dispensible to the success of United States defensive operations." Declaring that the United States must prepare its defenses so it will be able to stand alone, Vinson said:. "Let no one think that with the world being overrun by the dictator powers?Germany and Italy in En rope, and Japan in the Far East?it , is not of the utmost importance that we be forever vigilant in looking to our defenses. . . . "America now finds it necessary to answer the dictators in their own language. Hie world might just as well know that America is not going to submit to being destroyed with other unprepared democracies." ' Attacks "War Hysteria." Representative Fish (R.-N.Y.) cri ticized the Guam project as the most dangerous that could come before the House "in these days of war hysterian." "If we were ever looking for war," he shouted, "this is the way to get it. It's a dagger at the throat of Japan." ' 1 . Rep. Crawford (R.-Mich.) ridiculed as "all bushwa" fears that Japan would "jump on us" because of Hie proposed improvements at'Guam. "I don't think Japan will pay any more attention to this project, than tits would to'the landing of another 1,000 Japs in the Phillipines," be * added. Fish contended that passage of the bill would change the nation's for eign policy from "one of defense to one of offense." '? "It would lead directly to war if Japan did the same thing we pro pose to do," the lanky New Yorker added. jM ' Representative Colmer (D.-Misa.) told the House he is "afraid" the ^ Guam project is the "entering wedge" for fortification of the island. Points to Defense Needs. Meanwhile, the Senate Military Committee heard the Army*! Chief ? of Ordinance, Maj. Gen. C. M. Wes son, assert that day and night fac tory shifts would be required to "initiate protective force" of 400,000 soldiers with sufficient anti-aircraft weapons in less than two yean. Chairman Sheppard (D.-TesBw; ' said Wesson told the committee dar ing a closed session 'that even the 5110,000,000 recommended by Presi dent Roosevelt to supply the Army's "critical" equipment needs would not provide enough artillery, ammunition . and other supplies for the 400,000 men jn the Regular Army, National Guard, and reserves. ' No other Congressional authoma- ? don is needed for the $100300,000 expenditure, and Sheppard salfc it" probably will be placed in a deficiency bill to supplement the $40,000,000 for similar purposes which President Roosevelt included in his regulsr es timatea for the War Department. Reynolds Attacks Britkl* Foreign affairs came in for some discussion on the 8enate flow, sfc* ator Reynolds (D.-N. C.) arose - to describe,-Great Bt^am as "the blood iest aggressor the world haa evar known." And yet, he added, that na tion "has the audacity to censure Mussolini *nd Italy for their qonquset of Ethiopia.*, ; ^^..niher,^-.bf#e ' 3g$ ?,r;."2=s*ss Secretary Of State, assert thafcEuro- jj pean nations are using every means to ."press the services of their ex perts" on South American govern ments vi; JilawfcffV* He testified that most of those gov ernments prefer to ^use J .. | ? -y,..