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VOLUME TWENTY-NINE - FARMHLU5, HTOSOraTI. WIBTH CAEOUNA, FRIDAY. MARCH 17, 1939 NUMBER FORTY-FIVE
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House Concurs
On Mousy Bill
Cut By Senate
Representatives Add
More To Appropria
tions BiH And Pass It
Raleigh, March. 15.?Acting with
out debate, the House last night con
curred in Senate amendments to the
tax measure estimated to raise $72,
100,000 in general fund revenues dur
ing the next year and passed the bill
on first reading.
As the 1939-1941 fiscal situation
now stands, including increased ap
propriations voted by the House yes
terday as it passed the spending
measure on third reading and sent it
to the Senate, the revenue bill is es
timated to raise $882,000 less for the
biennium than the appropriations
measure proposes to spend.
More Committee Scrutiny.
Meanwhile, action the Senate will
take on the appropriations bill be
came problematical when Senator W.
R. Rodman, Jr., of Beaufort, com
mittee -chairman, said he probably
would ask that the measure be refer
red to committee before coming up
for formal Senate action. Usual
course is for the Senate to take up
the bill as soon as the House passes
it *
Asked last night if he thought the
budget, as it now stands, is substan
tially in balance, Revenue Commis
sioner A. J. Maxwell said:
"The appropriations bill as it now
stands exceeds by about 1 per cent
the estimates of revenue for the bien
nium. It could not be said that the
budget is seriously out of. balance
because of that one per cent. It ail
depends on business conditions for
the next two years, for if business is
good revenue will increase, if business
is bad, revnue will be off."
The revenue bill is now a "con- j
tinning" measure. In past years,
each Legislature has enacted an en
tirely new tax bill, but this one will
remain on the books and each Legis
lature simply will amend it as re
quired.
Explaining his position on the ap
propriations bill, Senator Rodman
said:
"The large number of changes
made in the House is my reason for
feeling that way. Except for what
the senators have seen in the papers,
they do not know of any reason for
those changes.
"I think the committee should study
this bill so as to be able to explain
these changes to the Senate."
Senator Rodman did not figure in
the "compromise" conferences which
ended with "Governor Hoey sponsor
ing most of the increases voted by
the Bouae.
In brief, the fiscal situation for
1939-1941 now stands:
When the revenue bill left the
House and went to the Senate, it
was approximately $200,000 for the
beinnium under the appropriations
bill a> it stood then.
The Senate trimmed approximately
$120,000 more from revenue esti
mates.
The House added approximately
$562,000 to appropriations, making
the appropriations bill approximate
ly $882,000 higher for the biennium
than the revenue bill.
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The general fund budget is approx
imately $80,000,000 for the biennium.
Of that sum, tSftOOftQO will be raised
bp diverting highway funds to the
geapriLfnwl if necessary and an ad
ditional njQWQQwm come from
the total general fund tax for the two
years at approximately $72400^00
Still rankling under the weekend
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"compromise" which boosted appro
priations 1519,000 Monday night, the
House crashed through economy ad
vocates yesterday to add. H5j000,ipr
vocational education and $7,620 for
the weights and measures division
before the bill passed third reading.
*Bie insurgents also increased -from
17 to 110 thaler diem provided for.
members ef the State Highway and
Public Works Commission, State
School Commission and -the Advisory
Budget Commission. ' f H t| - J
Per diem increases warp
fleeted in larger appropriations but
must come from allocations already
made to vhe departments. J
Warren Thanked
At White Hm
President Compliments
Tar Heel 4Jpon Reor
ganization Victory In
House.
Washington, March 13. ? Repre
sentative Lindsay Warren, author of
the new governmental reorganiza
tion bill, Chairman John Cochran of
the special House committee on re
organization vrerecalled to the White
House today by President Roosevelt
and personally thanked them for
their successful effort in piloting this
highly controversial legislation thru
the House last week.
Warren said the President was
"greatly pleased" with the bill in
the form it passed the House. The
North Carolinian drafted the legis
lation and led the fight in the House
which beat down all emasculating
amendments.
Chairman James F. Byrnes of the
Senate committee on reorganization
will call his group together tomorrow
to consider the House bill. The South
Carolinian already has announced his
approval of the Warren measure and
all indications today point to early
consideration by the Senate.
The main fight will come over the
Wheeler amendment which was de
feated in the House after Warren had
; said it would cut the heart out of the
bill; and, if adopted, the committee
would ask that, the legislation be re
committeed.
Warren provided in his bill that
Congress by concurrent resolution
could invalidate a Presidential reor
ganization order. The Wheeler amend-'
ment would require affirmative jc
tion by Congress-before ?thtf' Presi
dent could put through a reorganiza
tion order and proponents of the leg
islation contend there would be no
reorganization under such an arrange
ment.
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HQUSE VOTE ON GUAM MAT BE
SIGNAL FOB JAPANESE AD*
, VANCES IN FAB EAST.
The island of Guam, which happens
to be within forty miles of Japa
nese (mandated) island, continues to
occupy the spotlight of the Adminis
tration's defense plan. Of course, thn
proposal to prepare the harbor for
seaplane, and possibly submarine, use;
is not a fortification of the island,
but because-JUany members of Con
gress consider it the first step in such
a process, and because some experts
have- expressed the opinion that the
beginning of "these fortifications
might precipitate a war," this issue
created by the refusal of the: House
to include the sum allotted to Guam,
has been magnified many times.
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Readers should understand that un
der the Washington Agreement of
1921, the fortification of the Pacific
Islands was forbidden in the pact
attached to naval limitations. Since
Japan repudiated the Naval Agrees
ment the situation in the Pacific was
left as it was before the Naval Limi
tations Treaty. Moreover, many ex
perts-believe, that the Japanese are
fortifying their ^mandated islands,
which, it should be admitted, are in
Japanese waters.
That the proposal of the Naval
Board to dredge the harbor of Guam
ereated consternation in Japan is cer
tain. The Japanese viewed the rec
ommendation' as possible evidence
that the United: .State*: intended to
make a firm stand foir its rights in
some concern, whatever action Qon
gress *Mall7 t*es in regard to
Guam was tp be used
as an instrument of diplomacy; that
the United States by preparing to
fortify Guam, would be aM* to give
npjts plans in^tnrn better in
voiced their opposition to the pro
posal almost solely on ihe.gtoond
thtl it hii^?
JMtMf TRYING TO GBT
SmmoSS W0B*
of fhtan^ ud Industry and to em
phasize the drive for recovery
nels. This;'It is fell; will do much
^ iiQDrovc rtin Economic ? sitUAMos I
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To Appear Here In Con
Concert March 24.
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The Milledgeville College Choir ap
pearing here in a concert. of the
world's greatest music on Friday
evening, March 24, at Ferldns Hall
under the auspieea of the Woman's
Club, is, on the moetextensive tour
yet undertaken by .the organisation.
Georgia's unique choral group was
organized at- theQeoigiaStete Col
lege for women in October, 1981, un
der the direction of Max rtfofeh,-head
of the music department at the col
lege. The boys yfrom the Georgia
Military College wee given the op
portunity : of becoming members of
the choir. From the number who
tried ont. sixteen-boys were selected
The 1839 - choir, r composed of stud
ents of the Georgia State College for
Women and the Georgia Military
College, both of Milledgeville, and
containing members from many stater
and from, two foreign countries, Cu
ba and Germany, is decidedly cos
mopolitan, The: choir plays no #av;
oritea and it is the voices that count
From the. hundreds of applicants au
ditioned "the choir finally chosen, in
dudes ^members fronau Georgia^ Loui*-'
iana, FMda,-: Pennsylvania, - Michi
gan, Ohio, Texas, Mississippi, Cuba
and Germany.
The choir will featars student sol
oists rf unusual ability. Among them
will <: be Bonnie Barge, a charming
Louisiana :girirwho ^interprets her
solos with richness of a finished sin-'
ger, 1 She has had excellent train-1
ing both in high school and in col
lege. Her range, tune, and power
are. quite unusual
. Among other talented student so
loists; will, be Miss Nan Gardner of
Locust Grove, Georgia, a rich lyric
soprano. . Miss Gardner had never
sung much, until she entered college
where her music teacher soon dis
covered the possibilities of her voice.
She is now in her third year of col-'
lege and plans to pursue her musical
carer. ,
? Tra^elingby bus the students find
that they get all the advantages of
a tour combined with their perform*
ances. A concert in ono city is finish*
led and then the bus is loaded and
| off they go to another, often giving"
H two concerts the', same day.
With them go the robes which they
Swear at all concerts. These robes
?are of black and white and give th*
? choir a uniform appearance in
I their concerts. Also go with them
I the specially constructed stands, upon
| which each individual has his place,
| determined according to voice. Part
I of the beauty o? the choir lies in their
l A large number of local dtizens
I and people from - nearby towns are
I planning to attend the Masquerade
I Ball to be held here on the evening
of St Patrick's birthday, March 17,
I in the Major May Chapter House.
I Thiis is the first event of the kind
I to bedg?d here, and Mrs. M. V. Jones
and Mrs. G. 8. Vought, who are in
dition to fi^^ftsia?m^of the dan
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Manager Mann
Address Pitt Mem
bers N. G, G, A.
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Tells of Factors Respon
sible BV>t Low Price of
Cotton.
Greenville, March 9.?Pitt County
jmemhers-of the North Carolina1 Cot
ton Growers Cooperative Association
and / .the Farmers Cooperative Ex
change heard ' M. G. Mann, general
manager of Jhe^two organizations,
declare in a Coprt House address-here
last night that'the farmer's hope for
a-largerincomelies in reducing the
cost of productlpn. adjustment of the
difference between production and
consumption. and the co-operative
marketing, of. their, farm, products to
receive,the highest possible price.
These three important factors, Mr.
Mann told the- organizations' annual
meeting of . Pitt members, were laid
down, by- Dr, Tait Butler, one of the
editors of the Progressive Fanner,
in the -last editorial he wrote. Dr.
Butler died recently ? after > serving
for many years as an editor of the
"The condition of the Pitt FGX
Service is sound," Mr. Mann report
ed, "as Is also the condition of the
State-wide FCX." He said that the
Cotton Association, organized in
1922, is continuing to progress and
.flint its percentage of the prop hand
led, during 1938 showed an increase,
despite the fact .that last year's -pro
duction in North'Carolina was the
shprtest since- the turn ? df the cen
tury.
The speaker declared that the pri-;
mary purpose of the FCX was to pro
vide farmers with quality farm, sup
plies which. would help them grow
auality crops, with a resultant better
price. "It is also, our aim," he said,
"to save the farmers money, and we
operate -on the lowest, possible mar
gin. Each' year .we. save farmers jn
the State thousands of dollars on the
purchase of. farm supplies."
Lauded by Mr. Mann were flie
Grafige, extension services, Depaijt
ment of. Agriculture, and. agricuttuml
leaders of the State for the part "thiy
have played in helping to develop Ajg
Cooperative Program ip Nw^Garo
lina." He pointed out,that the State
now, has a unified proffram of cp
operatiye purchasing and co-opemtiye
marketing.
IA discussing cotton, .M^ppics Of
*hieiha said was less jfflkj&entsja.
Pflmd. on- the world market or tie
lowest to history, Mr.: Mum empha
sized, tie pandinff-5raiti iBUl; aa "eye
of. the,-most important pieces of leg*-'
lation that has 'ever been introtoeid
to the Congress."
Urging his audience to 'face tye
facts^Jia,. declared that-the "con
sumption of American cotton in
America-must be tocreasedfrom tie
present ayerag* of, around 25 pounds
per, capita annually t?y,.4Qt orc;|$0
pounds." Tiisx he.paidr fiWJVi m
"if i^ Qg^ptoj^Prwidod^ith
ample,clothes tojteepjthem.wawvapd
sufficient .,i?t)bou sheets and towcjla
An. Advisory Boardvras elected at
'or ^ ^
the disLri ^ .the Cott^n j
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Electric Farm Water
Systems Cost Little
A water system can be installed in
the farm home for as little as $100
with the ..advent of rural electrifica
tion in Bcores of rural communities
in 'the State, says Russell G. Broad
dps, assistant agricultural engineer
of the State College Extension Ser
?ice.
"New opportunities for installing
labor and time-saving equipment are
offered from people at a price they
can afford to pay," Broaddua said
"The first essential in a water..sys
tem is a good, clean, wholesome wa
ter supply in a quantity sufficient
for the farm and home needs. A well
should be located at least fifty feet
from any possible source of contami
nation.
"To keep a water supply clean and
free from harmful bacteria, the well
should have rock masonry, brick and
terra cotta walls from bottom to top.
In many cases driven or bored wells i
with iron castings are quite satis
factory. All wells should have tight, :
properly-made concrete platforms to <
keep out surface water." "
llie engineer says an electric water i
system-will provide 1,000 gallons of ;
water per hour for three cents when
the electric rate is six cents a kilo- ]
watt hour. In many cases the small
amount of electric current used to i
pump water will not increase the j
monthly bill above the minimum <
charge.
Brbaddus recommends that the
farm family first install an outlet to <
the kitchen sink and another to the ]
bam for watering livestock. He says :
this can be done for approximately <
$1.00. The system can be . enlarged 1
as finances permit.
"The average farm laborer earns (
from twenty to thirty cents an hour '
tor his work. - Why then should the ]
farmers' family work carrying water ,
at the rate of one-half cent per hour"
the engineer queried.
Pitt County Opposes 1
Sharing ABC Profits j
Greenville, March 14. ? The Board .
of County Commissioners in a ses- .
sionsion here unanimously went pn ;
record as opposing any measure to .
set aside any of the profits derived :
from the sale of legalized liquors in .
the county to, the city of Greenville.
Greenville's aldermanic body adop- .
ted a resolution recently requesting ,
the county's delegation in the Gen- ]
eral Assembly to secure the enact
ment of a bill giving the city 26 per ,
cent of the net profits derived from j
the two liquor stores in the city.
(Sty officials contend th*t the ,
stores have added much work and j
responsibility to the city while the
county bdard contends that if a por- (
tion of the profits were, turned over ,
to the city, Greenville would receive
double benefits.
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. ,KsflSas"City,.? When, one of the ;
firemen of Station 17 spied a fike
next door, one of the other'boys, gran- <
bed a ..telephone and called the fire
alarm headquarters, which officially ,
notified - Fire Station 17 to put t^ie ,
fire out. They held the damage
down to |5.
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Insurance
More than 94,000 growers in thq }
eight principal spring wheat ? states '
have filed applications for."all-risV* ^
crop, insurance policies on their 1989 '!
harvests.
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Czechoslovakia Fades
Into History As Hitler
Rules Central Europe
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Slovak Declares Inde
pendence and Prague
Quickly Dissolves bit
tie War-Born Republic.
The war-born little republic of
Czecho-Slovakia, dismembered by the
Munich pact, was broken np and dis
solved yesterday as the result of a
series of typically swift moves by .
the now undisputed master of Central
Europe?Adolf Hitler.
,J, The republic, crumbled apart both
from within and without^ German
troops- invaded the country at Mo
ravska-Ostrava, northern town near
the junction of the German, Polish,
and Czecho-Slovak frontiers, and
then raced eastward throngh the night
toward the country's -eastern-moct
province, C&rpatho-Ukraine (Ruthen
ia).
At the same time, in this province,
Hungarian troops were rushing, north*
ward toward Poland; and early this
morning had gone half-way.
Both. Slovakia and C&rpatho-Uk
raine broke away from the Prague
central government during Hie day,
establishing themselves, under ptrong
German and- Hungarian pressure,
nominally as independent states.
The remainder of the republic, Bo*
hernia-Moravia, , that jregiori about
Prague, was silent and offered no re
sistance as the German troops crossed
Its borders and took military com
mand of several towns. Further in
vasions were expected at dawn today.
The political aspects were no less
dramatic than the military. The
president of Czecho-Slovakia, Dr.
Emil Hacha, went to Berlin apd, in
conferring with Hitler, was reported
to haVe offered to disband the.Czech
army and turn over the nation's for
eign affairs to Berlin.
The remnant of the country, Bo-.
hernia-Moravia, was expected to be
x>me simply a Germany colony.
Great Britain and. Trnaei,,, who
took steps' in the pact of Mmiich to -
guarantee the frontiers of the jiew
Czecho-Slovakia against "unprovoked
aggression," remained firmly .aloof
throughout the day. ^
Both countries took the fetand that
they were under no obligation to
act in defense of the Republic. v Both
London and Paris held ihe view, that
th^Jfunich guarantees of the ^e^h's j J
dew frontiers never were made effec- J
dVe. c c
Czecho-Slovakia's last day as a -
Federal republic began with" Slovakia
declaring herself ? with Geriniihiy's
backing ? independent of Prague. -
Then Hungary ? acting also with,
Germany's backing ? sent two ulti
matums to Prague. One had a 12
hour deadline and demanded, that
various Hungarian rights be granted
in Oarpatho-Ukraine. The second
was a 24-hour order demanding with
drawal of Czech troops from Carpa
tho-Ukraine.
Rejected 4Uply
Hungary rejected a Czech reply to
khp first ultimatum, received . four
hours before the deadline. As for. the
second, the Hungarian troops raced .
northward through Carpatho-Ukraine
just a few hours after it was dehver
ed. . ?
An estimated 10*000 Czech soldiers 1
and gendarmerie were reported with
drawing as the Hungarians advanced.
Hungary appeared to be headed to
ward attaining her long-desired com
mon frontier with Poland by moving ?_r
into Carpatho-Ukraitte.
The purpose of the German troop
advance eastward through mprthern
Slovakia was not so clear, but it was
believed the move was to forestall a
possible Polish invasion southward
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