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VOLUME TWENTY-NINE FABMYILLE, PITT COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, MARCH 24, 1939 NUMBER FORTY-SIX
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Farmville Declares War m
On Debris and Rodents
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Attack to Begin March
27, Which Is Set Aside
As Clean - Up Week;]
Rat Killing Week Fol
lows.
As a result of the recent meeting
held by the various club leaders and
town authorities, Clean-Up Week has
been set for March 27 and the rati
killing campaign for the following
week.
The Woman's Club, which is credi
ted with promoting the rat eradication
movement, the Rotary Club, Literary!
Club, Merry Matrons, American Le
gion and Auxiliary, Major May Chap
ter D. A. R.. Junior Woman's Club,
Chamber of Commerce and Merchants I
Association, U. D. C., Ministerial As
sociation and the colored school are
working with the town authorities in
a joint effort to make Farmville a
healthy and beautiful town.
Dr. N. T. Ennett, County Health
Officer, stated at the meeting that
the campaign had as its purpose the
safeguarding of health and the saving
of property. The Officer charged
rats, flies and mosquitors with being
sources of the most dangerous di
seases.
He stressed the necessity for keep
ing livery stables and cow lots clean,
(one fly killed in April makes 15,
000,000 less in August, the burning of |
debris and the cleaning of gutters.
In connection with the garbage prob
lem Dr. Ennet urged that housewives
burn everything possible and see that
cans are fitted with tight lids and
made secure with iron stakes to pre
vent overturning, giving as the four
important Ups in relation to the pro
gress and development of a town ...
Clean-Up, Paint-Up. Plant-Up and
Fix-Up.
J. H. Moore, County Sanitary In
spector, offered his services and in
his remarks stated "a town should be
as clean as a home."
H. B. Sugg, superintendent of the
colored 3chool, offered the coopera
tion of the school in his section, and
reports that the publicity committee
has visited the school since the meet
ing and laid plans for assistance from
this source.
Mayor George Davis stated today
that poison would be furnished at
cost to ail farmers, who desire to
take part in the campaign, and urged
that citizens in addition to cooperat
ing fully in this eradication and
clean-up campaign contribute to the
beautification of the town by plant
ing flowers, shrubs and trees.
The Mayor, announced, that L. C.
Whitehead of the U. S. Department
of Agriculture, would spend a part
of the week set aside for the rat cam
paign here and assist in the fight.
REVIVAL SERVICES AT
TYSON'S NEW CHURCH
BEGINNING MARCH 24
A series of revival services will be
gin Friday night, March 24th, at the
new Tyson church, located four miles
Southwest of Farmville, and 1 mile
west of the Farmville - Snow Hill
highway.
Rev. Ernris Hawkins, of Ralton,
Oklahoma, the cowboy preacher of
the West, will do the preaching,
while the singing will be in charge of
Mt. Ersol Lee Davison, of Caldwell,
Idaho.
Services will be held each, evening
beginning at 7:30. The public cor
dially invited. -
Just remember, when you drive an
automobile, that if you take a minute
longer you can drive with safety. j
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Pre-Easter Services
Air Christian Church
| We are having first a series of
'cottage prayer meetings in prepara
tion for Easter meeting. The time,
place and leaders are as follows: Be
ginning Monday evening at eight
o'clock, March 27th, and continuing
through Friday evening, March 31st.
Monday, 8t00 P. M. ? Mrs. Lizzie
Flanagan's. Leader, Mrs. Lloyd
Smith.
Tuesday, 8:00 P. M.?Mrs. B. 0.
Taylor's. Leader, Arch Flanagan.
Wednesday, 8:00 P. M.?Mrs. Rob
ert Rouse's. Leader, Mrs. Mary Moye
Patterson. ?-???#
Thursday, 8:00 P. M.?Mrs. C. A.
Lilly's. Leader, M. G. Thome.
Friday, 8:00 P. M. ? Mrs. L. E.
Turnage's. Leader, Mrs. J. W. Moye.
Every one is urged to attend and
renew his vows to God and dedicate
himself or herself to God anew.
Pre-Easter Meeting
Beginning Palm Sunday and run
ning through Easter Sunday there
will be a series of evangelistic meet
ings each evening at 8:00 P. M. at
the church. Thursday evening there
will be a candle light communion ser
vice.
We plead with every member to at
tend these meetings, to pray for the
meeting, the minister, church and the
unsaved.
A pressing and cordial invitation is
extended to every one to come and
worship with us. You need the
church; the church needs you.
Every Farm Family
To Get Publication
Each person on the farm needs
three bushels of wheat, two bushels
of corn, 1.8 bushels of Irish potatoes,
two bushels of sweet potatoes, 85
pounds of pork and lard, 30 dozen
eggs, four gallons of sorghum, and
quantities of about 15 other foods to
maintain health throughout a year.
This information is contained in a
new publication prepared by E. W.
Gaither, analyst of the State College
Extension Service, and now being dis
tributed to every farm family in
North Carolina. It is designed to aid
the farm family in planning its food
and feed requirements, and crop ro
tations.
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Dr. I. U: ScHaut), director 01 tne
Extension Service, is having the pam
phlet distributed through the county
farm and home agents, but he an
nounced that copies are also avail
able upon request to the Agricultural
Editor at State College, Raleigh, for
Extension Circular No. 235, "Facing
Farm Facts."
In addition to tables listing the
food requirements for one person,
there are tables showing how much
feed is required for one hen, one
dairy cow, one beef animal, one hog,
one sheep and. one horse or mule.
The circular also contains a garden
calendar, showing what, when and
how to plant dozens of vegetables
adapted to this section, and a crop
rotation table which lists the general
crops, and other crops which follow
best to conserve and enrich the soil.
Dr. Schaub said "It is not possible
to predict definitely in advance what
price farm products will bring. Those
depending upon money received from
the sale of farm products with which
to purchase food for the family and
feed for the livestock often find
themselves without the necessary
funds. The farmer who produces his
living largely from the farm and who
conserves the fertility of the soil us
ually lives well every year and-in the
end has more cash as a result of his
labors/'
Roosevelt Puts Economy
Question Up To Business
Washington, March 21. ? Presi
dent Roosevelt today refused to cut
government spending until private
enterprise guarantees jobs to the idle,
and raised new doubts that demands
by business for repeal of "deterrent"
taxes would be met at this session of
Congress.
He also went on record at his bi
weekly press conference against elim
ination from the revenue laws of
NtW Deal safeguards against tax
avoidance by the rich. . -,--i
While he did not officially ?11-ail
economy and tax revision possibili-'
thfit the President's remarks left the
general impression that little or noth
ing in this diretion can be expected
immediately. Ea went to the unusual
^^Bha^dbcusslon was precipitated by
a question projecting the possibility
of s fiva-ysar tax program under
wfcicii tcfc&l ' Pcdc^l DUC3
lections, the President replied:
"We have the choice of ^following
the policy recommended in the an
nual message of adopting the poHcy
which has been advanced by per
fectly well-meaning people; that is,
cutting down certain expenditures of
the government, which, as I pointed
out in the annual message, must, in
order to be substantial, come out of
certain obvious items which can be
readily cut
"They include relief for the un
employed, all forms of public works,
soeial security for the aged, . slum
clearance and various other items,
which today give work in a large
volume ? all of those being predi
cated on the guess of many -well
meaning people that thereby, taking
away employment from several mil
lion workers, bosmaes wfll automa
tically pick up and employ that en
tire slide plus the other large num
ber of people , who are. out of work
but not in any way being helped by
the govermnent^
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Moments In The
Garden Help If ou
To Be Beautiful
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By ELSIE PIERCE
Only God can make a tree, but you
can plant the seeds for a garden of
flowers, and so pass many enchant
ing hours. Maybe I'm quoting, or
I paraphrasing or perhaps 'it's the
I spring song in my soul. The fact is,
I've just come in from watching^and
helping a friend of mine with her
[spring gardening and that's why I'm
bubbling.
She looked as fresh as the first
crocus herself in slacks and a color
ful smock and a quaint sun-bonnet
that dates back to school days. Xud
in spite of the fact that gardening is
a very deep-rooted hobby with her,
love for loviliness is evidently just
as strong for she did not break any
rules.
She claims that glasses and gloves
are part of her gardening outfit and
she would no more be without them
than without her shovel, rake, pruner
and hoe. There are special gloves,
grand for gardening, that are cream
treated. But if you prefer to wear
canvas or fabric gloves you may do
so and massage the hands with cream
leaving just a thin film on the skin
before donning the gloves. 1
Be Scientific.
This glamorous gardener is quite
scientific about seed breeding, about
plant fertilizer and food, about plac
ing and spacing and pruning. She
even had things so timed that some
portion of her garden is in bloom
practically the whole year 'round.
And, being such a scientific soul,
she makes sure that every bit of ex
ercise that gardening gives (and it
gives plenty) is done to perfection.
When she stretches, there's nothing
lackadaisical about it. When she
bends there's a definite tug at the
waistline. When she squats, there's
tension in the calf and thigh mus
cles! ?
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dun ttUU l?Ugc haw vi gitu
bonnet protects eyes and skin. In
addition she applies a liquid powder
and plenty of powder as a protective
barrier against sun and wind. Cream
she says, attracts the dust and dirt
and makes her feel uncomfortable,
but there's plenty of cleansing cream
and nourishing cream when she comes
in from her gardening.
A Capella Choir
To Sing Tonight
College Group of Fifty Singers
To Give Program, Sponsored
By JVoman's Club.
The Milledgeville College Choir,
which is now on its most extensive
tour, will appear here in a concert of
the world's greatest music, tonight,
at Perkins Hall, under the auspices of
the Woman's Club, of which Mrs.
John D. Holmes is president.
Georgia's unique choral group is
directed by Max Noah, head of the
music department at Georgia State
College for Women, and is composed
of fifty voices chosen from this in
stitution and from the Georgia Mili
tary College.
"tickets are being sold by members
of the Woman's Club, by a number of
school children and are on sale also
at Wheless Drug Co. at 25c each.
Fertilizer Important
In Tobacco Production
High analysis fertilizers are im
portant in the production of the cig
arette-type tobacco, says L. T. Weeks,
tobacco specialist of the State Col
lege Extension Service. He recom
mends from 800 to 1,000 pounds of a
3-8-6 mixture per acre for light and
low-productive soils, and the same
amount per acre of a 3-10-6 mixture
for heavy and more productive soils.
A formula derived on the following
basis usually gives very satisfactory
remits, Weeks said: One third of the
nitrogen from high grade organic
materials from plant or animal origin,
such as/cottonseed meal, blood, fish
meal or animal tankage; and the other
two-thirds from water soluble ma
terials such as nitrate pf soda or sul
phate of ammonia. The source of
the phosphate is derived from super
phosphate. The potash should come
from at least tarn sources, and in solos
cases it is advisable to get it from
three. On sandy soil, where "sand
drown" may. occur, two per cent
should come from muriate of potash,
and the remainder from sulphate of
potash magnesia. Otherwise, sul
phate of potash may be used.
Potash may be used in excess of
6 per cent to very good advantage,
0*%-Specialist explained. Additional
potash will give added quality, more
p and wdl reduce tfie
(preferably sulphate of potash, may
jit at the'rcte of 50 fr XOO pounds per
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(Hugo S. Sims, Washington Corres
pondent)
LET BUSINESS "CARRY THE
BALL" BUT OTHERS AR$
ALSO PLAYING THE GAME
The idea, widely prevalent for a
few years, that "government" could
do anything is about to be succeeded
by an equally foolish notion that
"business" is the answer to all prob
lems of the nation and the individual.
When the country was in its worst
depression there was a general clamor
for "government" to do something.
The noise was as much as the cries
of help that came from the tycoons
and "leaders" as it was the demand
of the mob. In fact, everybody seem
ed to have the opinion that economic
ills could be brushed aside by "gov
ernment" and that prosperity would
soon result.
Gradually, .during the past six
years the truth about what the gov
ernment can accomplish has become
clearer. This is not to disparage the
regulatory and corrective measures
taken by government nor to deny
the great power that legislation has
to create conditions favorable to de
velopments along certain lines of ac
tivity.
Now, for years the cry of what is
popularly referred to as "big busi
ness" has been for less governmental
action, with the assertion that if the
government would "remove the
brakes" business will move forward.
Chief reference has been to tax poli
cies, which, it was said, prevented
private capitalism from functioning.
We are not prepared to contend
that there is no relation between
taxation and the willingness of a
financier to lend his coin. Obviously,
there must be the chance of profits,
with reasonable safety for the invest
ment before money will be risked in
a business enterprise. However, let
us not lose sight of the record of the
past, when we contemplate present
claims.
At almost every time of economic
trial in this country, there have been
business leaders demanding that the
government "relieve business." Upon
every occasion they have promised
much more than they have delivered.
One favorite item is to list immense
expenditures that will be made "right
away" if the road is opened. Almost
every important reform of business
methods has been hailed as "destruc
tion" and the aftermath clearly
shows that nobody, least of all busi-'j
ness leaders, know what it means.
Looking back a bit, we refer the j
reader to a. meeting, held in Wash
ington, in December, 1929. Get thej
date fixed in your mind. Socalled;
"key men" of industry, finance and
commerce, called the "greatest cross
section of American industry ever
gathered toogether" and applauded:
the statement that if "Congress will
only relieve the uncertainty business
will go forward.
What "business" wanted then was
a tariff bill and they got the Hawley- j
Smoot measure, which boosted our (
tariff wall to new heights, and re- j
duced income taxes. Early in 1980
the headlines proclaimed plans for
expansion, even the railroads were
"to spend $1,247,000,000 for construe-J
tion." So what? Well, the nation
knows what followed.
Writing along this line recently,
John T. Plynn said "one of the great-'
est business men in the country" told,
him-that Hoover had summoned him j
in 1930, again in 1981 and finally in
3932 to ask what he thought "ought
to be done." The first two times, the
business man related, he {old Hoover
with complete confidence what ought
to be done to restore prosperity. In
1982, he admitted, he had run out of
advice.
The point is that while business
knows how to produce goods and how'
to sell them it does not know how pur-1
chasing power can be maintained to'
buy the goods. Many business men, '
who know all 'about their own opera-.'
tkms, are extremely ignorant about!
the Vast economic system that ope
rates in this coountry and it is doubt-'
flil if there is any individual who j
knows how the machine operates, as
a whole.
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Quoting Mr. Flynn again, to make
the point clear, "doing something for
business does not necessarily mean j
doing what business men want. Busi
ness men do not always know what
is best for business" and he cites their
opposition to the Federal Reserve
System and their championing of it
"twenty yeans liter."
Of course, business men know that
a subsidy, or a special-flavor like a
Mfifetaeiff, wiU^bean perhaps, added
profits in the operation of their par
ticular enterprise but they do not
know and seldom appreciate the ra
i suit on the economy of the natfon*4$
*^wholg, or.#e effect on purchasing
Record Spending
Measure Passed
Senate Returns Supply
Bill, Boosted $75,352,
for House Concurrence
Working methodically and beating
down the relatively few amendments,
by sizeable margins, the Senate last
night approved a budget calling for
the record-total of $155,019,821 in ex
penditures by various State agencies
during the next two years.
That action sent the important ap
propriations bill back to the House
for concurrence in Senate amend
ments totalling only $75,362 for the
two years. Speedy House concur
rence was expected, leaving the Gen
eral Assembly free to clear up other
remaining matters in time to adjourn
by April 1,
Without a single reverse, the Sen
jate adopted the minor amendments
recommended by 1 its appropriations
coommittee, which had been studying
the measure since last week when
the House increased it by $582,877,
chiefly for the benefit of the Greater
University of North Carolina, the
public schools, State ? advertising,
Western Carolina Teachers College
and the State Board of Health.
Budget Near Balance
As matters stood following the
Senate action, the budget was within
$74,000 of an actual numerical bal
ance, thanks chiefly to revised in
come tax collection estimates for the
next two years. On Monday, Revenue
Commissioner A. J. Maxwell had in
formed the Senate appropriations
committee that better-than-expected
income tax collections for this fiscal
year warranted increasing by $892,
000 for the biennium the estimate
that tax will yield.
Cherries Profitable
Adler Byrd of Burnsville in Yancey
County reports that he sold $50
worth of cherries from a small or
chard of J2 trees last season. This
is in addition to cherries consumed
at home. The reason for this excel
lent return is due to the fact that the
trees are kept pruned and cared for 1
as they should. Other trees in the
community have died for lack of this
attention.
6. E. To Gondoct
Cooking School
School To Be Held At Farmville
Furniture Company Beginning
Thursday, March 30.
The opportunity of learning more
about electric cookery will be given
to women of Farmville and surround
ing communities on March 30 and 31 (
by the Farmville Furniture Co., which ]
considers it a piece of good fortune 1
that it was able to secure Mrs. Marian
Little, General Electric's own home
economist, to conduct this cooking ,
school. 1
New recipes, new ideas for enter
taining and new short cuts in home
cooking are among the benefits Mrs. ,
Little will bring to the women who
attend her sessions, which will be \
held from 3:00 to 5:00 each day. Free ?
gifts and refreshments are also list
ed as special features of the Cooking
School, being sponsored by the Farm
ville Fruniture Co., in their advertise
ment which is appearing in this is
sue.
Plan to attend both afternoons and
learn about the economy, cleanliness
and teal joy experienced in Electric
Cookery. * .
PRISONER ESCAPES;
SERVING. LONG TERMS
Greenville, March 21. -*? Frank
Gaddy, negro, who was given terms
totaling from 19 to 29 years at the
January term of Pitt Superior Court
on several charges of robbery, to
day was reported as having escaped ?
from a prison farm near Monroe Sat
urday night. ;
Although details of the escape
were not known here,, it was report
ed that Gaddy hit a guard on the
head; took his gun and fled.
Gaddy was serving terms for sev
eral robberies In' Greenville and Pitt
County, including ' a robbery at
Blount-Harvey's, Davenport's store at
Pactolus, Quinerly's store at Grifton,
: Bilbro's in Greenville, and the theft
of several automobiles.
I A highway patrol radio broadcast
? a bulletin today to the effect ..that a
1987 maroon-clored four-door Buick
automobile- had been stolen last Jdght
in Fayetteville. Since- Gaddy** home
was in Fayetteville, belief was ex
pressed that the escapee might have
taken the car.
Home talent
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State College?* annual Farm and
Home Week, to; be held July 81
August 4, will feature more farmers
and farm women on the program,, an
European Summary
Kaunas. ? . Lithuania surrenders
Memel territory, to Germany; action
reported taken under threat of Ger
man military might; refugees stopped
in flight by Nazi storm troopers;
Lithuanian troops withdraw.
Berlin. ? Chancellor Hitler boards
pocket battleship Deutschland for
triumphal appearance in Memel; Lith
uanian cabinet ministers reach Berlin
to arrange details of Memel cession.
London. ? Britain strives to avert
collapse of "Stop Hitler" plans; Sir
Samuel Hoare tells Commons that
Germany intended to occupy all of
Lithuania if Kaunas bad rejected
Memel ultimatum.
Paris. ? French government in
formed that Rome is ready to discuss
approachment with Paris; Premier
Daladier reported moving cautiously
toward agreement with Premier Mus
solini.
Rome. ? Italy's adhesion to Rome
Berlin axis increases pessimism
among diplomats, who consider most
of Europe under "progressive and
general mobilization."
Copenhagen. ? Danish Nazi lead
er hints Denmark may get "same
fate as Czecho-Slovakia," Danish pre
mier, angry, retorts that "any Danish
citizens who wish to join such a per
son" will "be regarded as traitors to
their country."
Budapest ? Hungarian revisionist
deputies demand Hungary move into
Rumania at once, but Hungarian mil
itary preparations slacken.
Warsaw. ? Poland, concerned by
Memel annexation, witnesses parades
by Socialists shouting "Down with
the Germans 1"
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Booze Agent Caught
Working At Church
Greenville, March 20. ? Bootleg
ging doesn't pay, especially when
whiskey is sold on church property on
the Sabbath. At least, that's the
opinion of Noah Moore, Stokes town
ship negro, who was caught selling
bootleg at a "dime a drink" Sunday.
Moore was nabbed at Sycamore
Church by Pitt officers, who declared
the negro was "dishing out drinks
when we got him." The arrest was
made when officers answered a com
plaint filed by a deacon of the church.
The negro is in the county jail
awaiting trial on a charge of illegal
possession of liquor for purpose of
sale.
Negro Who 'Looked In'
Is Now 'Looking Out'
Greenville, March 21. ? While R.
D. House, local policeman, was on
duty early today, a telephone call to
headquarters advised that a "Peeping
Tom" was lurking about his home.
Officer House, on patrol duty at
the time was not at the station, but
other officers rushed to his home and
"picked up" William Joyner Dyner,
15 year old negro, said by officers
to have been in the hands of the law
on previous occasions.
Mrs. House's mother is ill and
members of the family were sitting
up with her when the Negro walked
up to the window and peeped in about
3 o'clock.
. Instead of being on the outside
looking in, Dyner is on the inside of
the city jail looking out
There are politicians who worry
about what.business wants but the
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answer is: profits.
Hitler Rides Battleship
To Memel as Lithuanian
Surrender Baltic Region
German Dictator Sche
duled to Make His
Triumphal Entry Into
Memefland With His
Troops Today.
Berlin, March 23. ? Germany and
Lithuania completed early today the
reunion of Memelland with the Great
er Reich as Adolf Hitler journeys
aboard a battleship, convoyed by a
naval flotilla, to receive his latest
acquisition of territory.
A five-point non-aggression agree
ment providing for immediate evacua
tion by Lithuania of the little fringe
of Baltic territory on the Nieman
River and for the economic needs
of the Baltic state was reached be
tween Foreign Minister Joachim von
Ribbentrop and a Lithuanian delega
tion which came to negotiate details
of the transfer of territory.
The declared purpose of the non
aggression pact was "to strengthen"
the decisions taken by Lithuania and
Germany and safeguard friendly re
lations between them.
It pledged the two countries
neither to fight each other ribr to
support any third power attacking
either of them.
A free port at Memel was assured
Lithuania, who originally seized the
territory by force in 1923 in order
to provide herself with an outlet to
the Baltic Sea.
Commissioners are to be appoint
ed to carry out details in handling
over the administration of affairs in
the 1,0^9 square mile district.
Hitler at Sea.
Ribbentrop immediately dispatched
a telegram to Hitler, riding the high
seas on the battleship Deutschland
toward Memel, telling him that an
agreement completing annexation of
Memelland, with its 150,000 popula
tion, largely German, had been sign
ed.
The negotiations, a communique
said, led to solution "regulating the . ?
reunion of Memelland with the Ger
man Reich and creating the precondi
tions for future good neighborly re
lations between the two countries."'
WHO KNOWS ?
Here's a test for those who have , *
kept up with "Who Knows?" each
week. ?
The ten questions below are taken
from question asked in previous
weeks. How many can you answer?
1. When did the Spanish Civil
War begin?
2. How many banks are there in
-the U. S.?
3. What is euthanasia?
4. When did the Federal Deposit
Insurance Corporation begin to fune
tion?
5. What is the cost of a modern
destroyer?
6. How many soldiers were killed
in the Spanish Civil War?
7. Who was Johann Gutenberg?
8." Is there a law limiting the na
tion's public debt?
9. What was the national income
in 1929? "
10. What is the distance from
Guam to Japan?
(See "The Answers" on Page 4)
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During the past crop year, the Ag
ricultural Adjustment Administra
tion program' was applied to 282,
629/100 acres, or almost 65 per cent
of the total crop land of the United
States.
Experts Say Nazi Lasses
Outweighing Their Cams
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Washington, March 20 The De
partment of Commerce reported to
day that Germany's annexation of
Austria and. the Sudetenland has
harmed the. economic position of the
Third Reich.
Louie Domeratsky, chief of the
Regional Information Division of the
Bureau of Foreign and Domestic
Commerce, reported to Secretary of
Commerce Harry Hopkins that ab
sorption of the two territories has
"influenced profoundly and adverse
ly" the economic status of the Hitler
government.
Domeratsky cited Germany's' re
versal of her trade balance from an
Ufport surplus of >460,060,000 marks
in 1987 to an import surplus about
the same amount last year. He at
tributed the reversal to> economic^com
plications arising from the Nasi ex
pansion.
The department's analysis was sent
to Hopkins shortly after its acting
commercial -attache at Prague, Theo
dora Hadraba, was ordered to close
MsHrfflpp? Sd. B. |.swson, JJsidmba's
superior Officer, is hare on official
'^taT^ofn?CzeS^lovalria
only 99,248,000 pounds of American
cotton in 1938, against imports of
148^)00,000 pounds in 1937. Germany
purchased about two per cent more
cotton last year than in 1937, it was
disclosed, but larger quantities were /
purchased - from .Argentina, fossil,
Ifgypt and Mexico, which offset re- /
duced imports from the United States, v
British India, Peru and Turkey.
Other government officials ex
pressed belief .that Germany, could
easily wage a war of short duration,
but could not conceive of its economy
persisting under the strain of a pro
longed conflict." ' * >
Officials declined to predict the ef
fect of .this government's ^action in
imposing an extra tariff of 25 per'
cent of German exports to the' United
States, but pointed out tha.fr Germany
is in great need of the goods she
Commerce experts said that it)