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????? ??????> ?+???????????????? * | Patronise Oar Adrtrtisers, For | | They Are Cmiitontiy Iovitinf | * Yoa To Trade With Them. + 4- ? ' ? - - , iiitMiiMiiininiimiiiim I SELL ? BUY and BANK :: ?' I ? IN ? I? ntmmmi,-. ? 1 ? ' ?*7"?IM""' VOLUME TWENTY-NINE FARMVILLE, PITT COUNTY. NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, APRIL 7, 1989 v NUMBER FORTY-EIGHT ? - Loveliest fitrfas art Hones ii North Carolina to Bo Or Bispliy Piring Pilgrimage Hundreds of the most beautiful and unusual gardens in North Carolina, as well as scores of delightful South ern homes, ranging from the pre Revolutionary period to the most modern homes of today, will be open to visitors during the Second Annual Garden Club Pilgrimage and Fort night, April 8 to 23, inclusive. The Fortnight is again being sponsored by the Garden Club of North Carolina and affiliated clubs. There is no place in the United States where springtime is more love ly than in North Carolina and there is nothing in North Carolina more gorgeous and intriguing than the many beautiful gardens and homes to be found on every hand. Many of these beautiful old gardens and homes date back to Colonial and Revolu tionary times, many more to ante bellum days. Others are of much more recent development but reflects the innate love for beauty and for growing things that is characteristic of North Carolinians. Many also are indicative of the cultural background and artistic heritage of their crea tors. It is almost as impossible for a North Carolina family to exist with out a flower garden as to live without food?for flowers and gardens are food for the souL As a result of the belief of many members of the Garden Club of North Carolina that the gardens in this state are as beautiful and interesting as those to be found anywhere and the conviction that thousands of per sons in other states as well as here at home would enjoy an opportunity to visit and see many of these gar dens, some 17 garden clubs in as many communities participated in the first North Carolina Garden Club Pilgrimage and Fortnight in the spring of 1938. So successful was this first Fortnight that this spring 25 garden clubs are participating in the Second Annual Garden Club Pil grimage and Fortnight The dates on "which the gardens in the 25 localities will be open and the names of the cities and towns partici pating in the Garden Pilgrimage, are as follows: * ?* a rs i Aprn viramuu. April 10 (One day only) ? Eliza beth City. April 10-12?Concord. April 11-12 ? Fayetteville, Rocky Mount, Tarboro. April 12-12- ? Greenville, High Point, Raleigh. April 12-14 ? Lexington. April 13-14?Bath, Winston-Salem. April 14 (One day only) ? Wake Forest. April 14-15 ? Durham, Henderson, Roanoke Rapids. April 15 (One day only) ? Hills boro. April 15-16?Chapel Hill. April 15-23?Mount Holly. April 16-23?Gastonia. April 13-20?New Bern. April 18-23?Red Springs and Flora Macdonald College. April 20-21?Oxford. April 19-21?Salisbury. Pitt Gouty to Have Tubercular Clinic BofMiS May 8 The State-Pitt County Tu berculosis Adult Clinics will begin in Greenville at the Health Department offices cm Monday, May 8th and con* tinue in the County for 2 weeks. During the 2 weeks, clinics will be set up In Ayden, Bethel, Farm ville and Grimesland, for the convenience of patients in these communities. * The local Health Officer, Dr. N. Thomas Ennett, desires that patients be referred! by their family physician but urges that all adults who have been exposed to tuberculosis or whs have any symptoms corns to the clinic even though they may not find it convenient to be referred by a physi cian. The examinations sue free though where X-Bay is necessary the patient will be expected to pay for this if he Is able to do so, otherwise he wffl be ftimtfniii free X-Bay. Jke Clink will be conducted by Dr. G. C Godwin, liMaHst for the State Tuberculosis Sanatorium. Dr. God win conducted last year's dink and did tee work, according to tea Health Officer, mead successfully. '^-v- . - , - GmttriBe, April 4. ? Greetxvflk ? >t.- gite-??.jg' ?juns 1M ^ Tie ?' ? won from Roanoke Pre-Easter Series HeldatTliealre Ministerial Association Held Daily Services Down Town This Week Beginning as an experiment, long desired by some of the local minis ters, and continued and concluded with much gratification to the spon sors, has been the series of pre-Easter services held daily from eleven to eleven-thirty this week in the Para mount Theatre by the Ministerial Association. The marked increase in interest ' and attendance assures those in charge that their efforts to bring the events of the week to fuller reali zation were appreciated and tends to insure the repetition of the move ment next year. On Tuesday, Rev. B. B. Fordham, of the Baptist Church, spoke on the 1 subject of "The Kingdom of God is I at Hand," and Arthur Joyner, Jr., and Graydon Liles added a duet to 1 the song service with Mrs. Daisy H. j I Smith as accompanist. Rev. H. M. Wilson, of the Presby- j terian Church, brought a message 1 with the question, "What Think Ye of Jesus?" as its theme on Wednes day. Mrs. Sterling Gates and Mrs. 1 John D. Holmes rendered a duet at this service with Mrs. J. M. Hob- ' good at the piano. On Thursday, Rev. D. A. Clarke, ; Methodist minister, discussed "The 1 Christian Circle," and Mrs. M. V. { Jones and Mrs. Alton W. Bobbitt 1 sang a duet with Mrs. A. Q. Roebuck as accompanist Rev. C. B. Mashburn, pastor of the ] Christian Church, presented "The 1 Call of the Cross," at^he Friday service, which concluded the series. j Clean-Up Campaign Declared Successful War On Rats To Contin- ] ue With Bait Setting j Today. i The two weeks period set apart by f town authorities and civic minded < clubs for war on debris and rodents, ends tomorrow, Saturday, and has been reported as one of fine coopera tion by those in charge. Citizens joining forces with the campaign leaders have the satisfac tion of knowing that the movement has been succssful and that Farm ville is much cleaner town than it was twelve days ago. L. C. Whitehead, of the United States Department of Agriculture, spent three days here this week, and assisted greatly in the intensive at tack on rats, which began today in the business district with the dis tribution of bait in bags, which bore the followings instructions: "Bed Squill Bat Bait, kills rats on ly, not dangerous to animals or hu mans; Put All This Package Out To night; place the bait out in small pieces (the size of a small marble) where the rats run and feed. In the holes is a good place. Place the bait in chicken houses after the chickens have gone to roost?give .-the rats a chance to eat the poison even though the chickens are safe. Donated by the Town of Farmville and Citizens." Citizens are requested to be on the lookout for similar bags, which will be delivered to the homes here today, Friday, and to follow instructions closely. Mayor Davis said today he wished . to remind farmers that poison will he furnished at cost to all people in Ihe community, who desire to take part in the eradication of this costly pest Now that the special period is passed for cleaning up, citizens are urged to continue their efforts throughout the next few weeks to CLEAN-UP, PAINT - UP, PLANT UP and FIX-UP, in order that Farm ville ma* be a more heaKhfui and beautiful place in which to live this summer. \ .-V ?' ? . ? ? -?. ? ?? 5 Money Froift ?i .1 ,1. A group of Robeson County farm er* sold four can of fat hogs last ? kets organised to sero the farmers mimriwt price, report county farm k ? * ' .? '' *$?7^' "" ii?'"ra ? .1 Now Marriage Statute Slows Licensejssuance Many Applicants Re fused Licenses Pending Instructions From The State Board of Health. Legal issuance of marriage licenses in all North Carolina counties, except to persons who came from another State to be married, was impossible yesterday as the Long-Bellamy phy sical examination bill became law and since the State Board of Health had been unable to furnish registers of deeds with certificates required by the new law. Copies of the certificates were mailed special delivery last night to all registers by the Board of Health and the Secretary of State's office mailed copies of the new law to all the registers. Each of the offices leaped into action following a flood of calls from registers in all sections of the State yesterday. Even though most of the registers will have the necessary certificates on hand today, it still will be impos sible for persons to secure marriage licenses for several days because the certificate requires that a report on a laboratory blood test be affixed to it. The tests normally require about three days for running through the laboratory. Secretary of State Thad Eure ad rised all registers who called him not to issue licenses until they heard from the Board of Health. He point ed out that violation of the law could jring a $60 fine or imprisonment of 10 days or both, the punishment be ng applicable to a register of deeds, sither party to the marriage or the physician who issued" the certificate. Mcfilullan Rules "No". Attorney General Harry McMullan Uso received numerous requests'for interpretation of the law. "In each case I replied that no li censes should be issued until the lealth forms have been filed," he laid. The Attorney General indicated hat persons who obtained licenses resterday, because of "misunderstand ing" of registers of d^eds would not ye prosecuted and that the license would not be invalidated. The law actually became effective Monday afternoon when it was rati fied by the General Assembly. A farmer grows food and feed for limself; a planter buyB both and speculates upon the price of a crop. I . v "? jn ? ? - K (Hugo S. Sims, Washington Corres pondent.) ECCLES CHALLENGES FOES OF SPENDING TO BALANCE BUD GET AND GET RECOVERY. Marriner S. Eccles, chairman of the] board of governors of the Federal Re- ] serve System, has been the outstand-1 ing advocate of the policy of gov ernmental spending as the major ef-J fort, at this time, to promote recov ery. _ ?.*" ? Recently, before the special Senate committee on Silver Legislation Mr. Eccles denied that prosperity depends upon "the volume of currency", point ing out that there was considerably less currency outstanding in the 'twenties when we had reasonably full employment. Today currency in banks is $3,700,000,000 and bank de-j posits subject to check $26,000,000, 000 while in 1929 the figures were $3,000,000,000 and $23,000,000,000, re spectively. i I Employment and national income, according to the Eccles theory, de pend not only upon the amount of money in existence but also upon its use. Idle money does little or noth ing to produce employment or in crease national income. Illustrating this theory, $1,000,000 spent every day would produce better results than $10,000,000 remaining idle in the banks. < More significant, however, was the challenge to Congress to slash spend ing and test the soundness of the views of those who oppose his pro gram. Declaring that this would not be his way and that a "policy of re trenchment under present conditions would have disastrous results," Mr. Eccles admitted that "a great ma jority of peoplq appear to believe that business confidence would be restored if the budget were balanced and that the spurt of economic ac tivity that would result would ac (Continued on page 5) Better Hogs Seventy swine growers of Johnson County have planned a trip to a packing plant at Richmond so as to study the effects of intestinal para sites, bruises, and feeding practices on the dressed carcasses and to see < how the bodies are graded for soft and oily pork. ^ The Day of Days in the Chris tian Calendar .. . commemorat ing as it does the triumph of Life over Death . . . Let it shed its blessings on you and those you love... Feel the soul-filling satisfaction of the full beauty of the Easter music and sermon in the Church of your choice. At the Baptist Church, of which Rev. B. B. Fordhara is pastor, the morning service will be marked by a sermon with the Resurrection as the theme and appropriate music by the choir. Easter services at the Christian Cbmch will begin with a sunrise prayer meeting at six o'clock; an Easter message will be delivered by the pastor, Rev. C. B. Maahburn, and special music will be used at the eleven o'clock service and at eight in the evening s playlet, "The Unlighted Cross," will be given by the Chri*tJ|ti Endeavor with a cast of fifteen, and with Miss Vernice Lang Jones and Mrs. J. T. Windham as directors. At the. Episcopal Church the Jun - M. ior vested choir will give a program of Easter music daring the Sunday School hour with Mrs. J. W. Joyner as director, and the Easter offering will be presented. A special-message will be brought to the congregation at the Methodist Church by the pastor, Rev. D. A. Clarke, and the Easter music will add Ra the inspiration of the morning worship hour there. The Young Peo ple will observe the Day in their pro gram at seven o'clock and the theme will again be emphasized at the reg ular church service at eight o'clock. The Presbyterian pastor, Rev. H. M. Wilson, will base his sermon on the victory of a risen King and the music will provide an appropriate set ting for his message. The Primitive Baptist Church will be open on this joyous occasion and the eleven o'dodc service will be marked by a sermon on the topic of the Resurrection by the pastor, Rev. & B. BojtoHfc Holy mass will be celebrated at 10:30 A. M. at the Catholic Church, to which will be^ added the inspire First Aimal Stilly Meet ef Public { School Group Governor Hoey To Ad dress Convention. Greenville. ?- An elaborate two day program has been completed by local school and civic leaders for more than one thousand members of the East Carolina school-boy safety pa trols, twelve high school bands and the several thousand visitors who will attend the first annual safety conven tion of public school safety group here next Friday and Saturday April 7 and 8. More than a score of public offi cials and notables including Ronald Hoacutt, state safety director, and C. W. Roberts, president of the Caro lina motor club, will be present. His Excellency, Governor Clyde R. Hoey will deliver the principal ad dress of the convention. His address will cover some phase of the safety program in North Carolina. Follow ing his talk there will be remarks by several state and local officials. Highlighting the two day meet will be a two-mile parade which includes the visiting bands, the thirty-six safe-i ty patrols, several colorful floats and vehicles emphasing safety. The pa rade will begin promptly at 11 o'clock Saturday morning and will pass through the business section of Greenville. Scheduled for Friday afternoon will be a track meet, at the -East Carolina teachers' college stdium, in which the members of the winning patrols will be awarded special meda lians. Competition drills will also be held and trophies will be awarded to the winners in several classifications. Greenville officials have expressed a belief that a large number of per sons will attend the gala event Every community has a small group of people, ready and able to tell everybody else how to manage their own business. ? 1 Graded School Hooor Roll . I S First Grade ? Johnnie Barrett, Robert Rollins, Billy Russell, Pa tricia Corbett, Thurber Dudley, Nan cy Kittrell, Dorothy Lucas, Geraldine Prescott, Connie Rollins, Ann Forbes, Bobbie Brock, Jean Flora. Second Grade ? Jay Flanagan, Charles Joyner, Mary Frances Al len, Lorraine Butts, Jane Kittrell, Elsie May, Ruth Moore, Fannie Quinn, Janet Stansill, Helen Thomas. Third Grade: Cedric Davis, Neal Howard, Charles Parker, Tommy Wilber, Dora Mae Barrett, Lola Gray Kemp, Carolee McConnell, Ann Moore, Mary Ann Rouse, Vivian Scott, Joyce Tyson Betty Rose Wil kerson, Emily Barrett. Fourth Grade ? Billy Batton, Bruce Darden Sterling Gates, Albert Hinson, Harold Rouse, Bobbie Rus sell, Maynard Thorne, Sybil Barrett, Margaret Justice, Babs Williford, Dora Speight Trevathan, Lula Ben son, Marjorie Reese, Mildred Louise Woo ten. Fifth Grade: James Earl Corbett, Hfcrry Davis, Milton Williamson, Margaret Bynumr Flora Dean John son, Sallie Ruth Jones, Janie Kemp, Johnsie Mae Moore, Mary Leah Thorne, Cordelia Vinson, Margie Johnson, Olive Robersou Sixth Grade ? Shirley Winders, Elizabeth May, Jeanne Reese, Bob bie Smith, Bob Paylor, Ann Oglesby, Jimmie Parker, Ervin Evans.; . Seventh Grade ? Lois Jones, Fran ces Lewis, Wilma Stansill, Rosebud Tyson. Eighth Grade ? Malcolm McCon nell, Alice Harper Parker, Edna Ruth Taylor. Ninth Grade ? Bill Rasberry.Bob by Rouse, Boots Thomas, Dorothy Lewis, Yvonne Smith, Minnie Mae Moore. Tenth Grade ? Reatha Mae Simp son, Marjorie Lee Parker, Pauline Farmer, Nellie Letchworth. Eleventh Grade ? Grace Humbles. Two New Candidates In Greenville Race .7 ;i ' ' Greenville, April 4. ?- J. H. Hicks Corey and J. A. Collins have an nounced their candidacies for mem bership on the Board of Aldermen from the second ward. C. A. Robert son announced for the post some time ago. Collins is a local furniture dealer and Corey an insurance! agent. The aldermanfi post sought hy the men is beingjra^ted by Jac^Spain, who ??????J \e ti Q *4 nf Windsor _ - ? Mill l*Ai?ia ^ . . ? - District Most Jr. MtHM Hire x A meeting of the twenty-first dis trict, Junior Order United American Mechanics, comprising the counties of Pitt, Martin, Washington, Tyrrell, Beaufort and Hyde, was held in the local Junior Order Hall Tuesday, April 4th. John Hill Paylor, of Farm ville Council No. 141 was elected Dis trict Councilor; R. B. Mewborn of Grifton Council Nor. 46, Vice-Coun cilor; D. W. Alexander of Pitt Coun cil No. 370, Chaplain; and J. R. Shearin of Farmville Council 141, Secretary, in the business session of the afternoon. * The next District meeting was invited by the Grifton Order, to be held during the fall. The evening program was open to the Public. Councilor. John Hill Pay lor welcomed the District orders and ; H. C. Oglesby, of Grifton, made the response. The principal address was 1 delivered by Rev. J. M. Perry of Robereonville. State officers who were present, included Roland A. 1 Grady, State Councilor, E. V. Har ris, State Secretary, Forest Shearin, Field Secretary, and District Deputy State Councilor Paul D. Roberson, of Robersonville. Among the visitors were H. C. 1 Oglesby, R. B. Mewborn, Ed Hart, 1 and Milton Wetherington of Grifton, 1 N. C.; Roland A Grady and J. L. 1 Tucker of Wilson; W. P. ? Moore, Snow Hill; Alonzo Edwards; Hooker- ' ton; Paul D. Roberson and Rev. J. 1 M. Perry of Robereonville; and D. W. < Alexander of Bethel. 3 Intruders Steal Gold < From Dentist's Office ? Greenville, April 4. ? Greenvilld ? police today were investigating the , robbery of about $50 or $60 worth ( of gold from the offices of Dr. Paul , Fitzgerald o.n the third floor of the | State Bank building. In addition to the gold, two foun- ? tain pens and $12 worth of stamps were taken from the dentist's office. ( The gold was said to have been 80 ( gauge 22-carat sheets, and some gold } wire. . i Improved Sugar Spuds ?' Eight Martin County farmers co- 1 operated to order 76 bushels of cer- 1 tiffed sweet potatoes for bedding this' ' spring and to produce seed, stock for < the community next season. J < Fertilized Vetch i A. C. Thomas, Jonesboro, route 3, ] Harnett County, planted vetch each j fall on his corn land until he began < to harvest 40 bushels, of com an acre. I Last year, says the coounty agent, Mr. Thomas fertilized the vetch before i planting, followed it with com to i which he added no ftrtilizer and har- j vested from 75 to 85 bushels of com 2 to the acre last fall. 1 Britain Ready For War; Makes Pact With Poles Prime Minister Cham berlain Tells Commons That Empire Is Pre pared Fully for Sur prise Action. ?%> 4 ? London, April 5. ? British war ships and planes canned for "all eventualities" tonight patrolled the North Sea and channel coasts after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain revealed that Great Britain is folly armed against any lightning attack that might come from the continent. Chamberlain assured the House of Commons that Britain is in "constant readiness for all eventualities," in cluding any possible attack by air or underseas, on the British Isles dur ing what he described as the present "time of tension." The government also announced that 1,000 British merchant ships were being armed with anti-craft and anti-submarine guns "to meet all ex pected requirements" and form a sec ond line of naval defense. Developments. Britain's armed preparations were closely interwoven with these de velopments: 1.?Great Britain and Poland to night agreed on a mutual defense pact?a keystone of the British-led "Stop Hitler" drive. Polish Ambas sador Edward Raczynski said that Chamberlain would make formal nouncement of the alliance in Com mons Thursday. The formal treaty, it was under stood, will be signed either in Lon don or Warsaw later and will be ac companied by a secret understanding regarding actual cases of aggression which would bring it into operation. Ihe Polish delegates denied that any agreemnt had been reached between Poland and Germany regarding the Free City of Danzig. 2. ? Premier Benito Mussolini of Italy and Chancellor Adolf Hitler of Giermany, facing an anti-aggression encirclement by Europe's nations, were reported to have held a long telephone conversation on military md other collaboration to thwart the 'Stop-Hitler*/ movement 3. ? Quarters close to the Nazi government, enraged by what they called Britain's "madhouse" naval . precautions, said that immediate ac tion was planned to impress Europe with the fighting strength of the Rome-Berlin axis. ?? . 4. ? Mussolini continued to concen trate infantry artillery and planes preparatory to what was expected to ae a coup against Albania, tiny Fas- - cist-dominated kingdom across tie Adriatic, as the first "axis move" to counteract the European peace bloc". 5.?Evacuation of all Italians in Albania except diplomatic representa tion was under way on orders from Rome as the belief spread that Ital ian armed forces were about to oc cupy the tiny kingdom and that Al bania might resist. 6. ? German and Italian general staff leaders began a two-day con ference at Innsbruck, Austria, near its Italian border, to which empha sis was given by an official announce- ' - nent of the talks in Rome. President Raps Congress For Defense Bill 'Rider' -*? I' ' " ? 1 ? ? -1 Warn Springs, Ga., April 4. ? President Roosevelt took a slap at Congress today for attaching' to the Army defense bill a "rider" giving reserve officers and enlisted men who may be disabled while on temporary 30-day duty the same retirement benefits accorded the regular Army. "This question is, of course, open to full and adequate study," lie de clared in a formal statement, "but it seems a pity that without this study; this clause, which will cost the gov ernment ? large sum of money, has been tacked on to an emergency de fense measure to which it has no re lationship whatsoever." The defense measure, authorizing 1358,000,000 to give the Army 6,000 planes, increase Panama Canal de fense, and train industry in produc tion of war materials, was signed last night. At a press conference today, the President said he was calling atten tion to the retirement "rider" be cause leaders of-both parties have h?en trying ~tp\stop the practice of attaching amendments on bills that have no relation to each other. r JJa saidtfcp rider ' in question I would cost the government five or I six million dollars a year, that it had "ho relation whatsoever" to the title or purpose of the defense bill; and tinder it "any civilian under certain circumstances, would get lite same disability retirement privileges as those whose whole time is in the gov ernment service." Mr. Roosevelt stopped his car in would net discuss I 1 " Uon. He said he knew of no develop ment that had not been printed in the newspapers. __ A question as to what would hap pen if Congress appropriated only $100,000,000 for relief instead of. the additional $160,000,000 he requested brought a reply that 480,000 persons would have to be taken off relief rolls between now and July 1. In connection with the government reorganization bill, signed last bight with the Army measure, the Presi dent said he had given no thought -, yet to any buffeau mergers or shifts or to selection of any of the six addi tional White House executive assis tants provided for in the act WHO KNOWS ? ' ? 1. Bow many wheat growers use crop insurance? 2. How much money has been col* lected under old-age pensions taxes? 3. Was Memel, the Baltic port, once a part of Germany? 4. What will be the average age of the Supreme Court justices, if Mr. Douglas is included? 5. What team has the best pros pects to win the National League, pennant this year? 6. How many Americans buy 7. When was the present neutrali ' '??. Which is more dealy, aerial gas bombl'or aerial explosive bombs? 9, What is asbestos? hold? * ? .