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London and Paris Witt
Direct Sharp Warnings
To Axis Leaders Today
Both Prime Minister
Chamberlain and P*e>
mier Dalsdier to Talk
Plainly to Rome and
Berlin.
London, April 12. ? A declaration
designed tt> forestall further German
Italian expansion toward the Darda
nelles and still leave the way open ]
for appeasement of Italy was under
preparation tonight by Prime * Min
ister Chamberlain for delivery tomor
row to an extraordinary parliamen
tary session.
Edouard Daladier, the French pre
mier, was ready to back up the Brit
ish stand with blunt words of his own
in a parallel declaration tomorrow. .
The air, land and sea forces of
Britain matched those of her every
ready French ally in rising to the
new slogan, "We've Got To Be Pre
pared," which flames -from every
other London billboard.
Warplanes sped over the east coast
of Britain in all-night patrol?and .
extraordinary precaution against any .
"lightning, thrust."
Anti-aircraft units were swollen
well past full peace-time strength.
One hundred and twenty British war
ships churned the Mediterranean,
most of them at or near the island of .
Malta. Forty French naval vessels
were said to be on active duty in the
Mediterranean.
Chamberlain, in Parliament tomor
row, is expected to give a provision
al guarantee of Greek-Turkish in- ,
dependence.
"Unfriendly Act."
He was reported authoritatively to ,
have decided to Bay that Britain
would consider any action threaten
ing the independence of these two *
countries as an "unfriendly act"
against Britain. 1
Some diplomats thought the Pre- ^
mier also might give a flat military
guanurte to Greece.
Chamberlain is expected to con
demn the Italian invasion of Albania <
(whose national assembly today of- *
fered the crown of Zog to the Italian 1
king, Vittorio Emanuele), but to !
give Mussolini another chance to *
prove peaceful intentions in the Bal
kans and the Mediterranean. *
This policy was condemned in some 1
quarters as a retreat to the Munich 5
appeasement policy and was said to I
hafre been determined upon despite *
opposition of some members of the f
cabinet, who wanted the Prime Min
ister to make a clean break with Mus- s
solini. 1
Three Reasons.
One distinguished intimate of the 1
Prime Minister said Chamberlain had f
three Masons for refusing to do this:
1. Chamberlain believes that, if
war starts, Mussolini can be won over 1
or' ptosuaded to remain neutral (
(tRaHgli- Chamberlain is said to ad- '
mit thb'price wouM be high.)
2. Cb*mberlain behoves the alter- 1
natives to appeasement are "war or
economic chaos."
3. Mussolini has given fresh as
surances that the Italian troops will
be wfttuteawn soon from Spain and
his invasion of Albania will not be
Hie (keek government today ac
Tb* faction in the i sM^iMmMiinl
to fnrtfmr efforts to coneSh^'lf^
ji i iMrtil'rf'Miekniid of trade.'
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London and Athens
Join 1 Bete
sive Agreement
Britain Reported Given
Use of Greek Harbors
In Return for Armed
Aid.
Athens, April 11. ? Greece was
reported tonight to have entered into
i specific understanding with Great
Britain, offering the unrestricted use
>f her harbors by the British fleet in
return for definite concessions from
London.
The entente was said to have left
Greece free of any obligation to go
x> Britain's aid in case of an attack
>n the United Kingdom. She will,
lowever, collaborate as a British ally
n case Greek tterritory is threatened
>r war breaks out in the Mediter
ranean area, it was said.
In return for Greek friendship and
;he commitment to shelter British
varships in her many fine harbors,
3ritain was said to have agreed to
rupply Greece with 300 airplanes,
nostly pursuit ships, as well as an
mspecified number of anti-aircraft
runs and 1,000,000 gas masks.
Britain presumably would under
ake to deliver the war material as
toon as possible.
Reports reaching Athens indicated
hat Italy was making a tremendous
effort to render her already strong
josition in the Adriatic impregnable
o aerial attack. Her conquest of
Albania gave her control of both
(idea of the sea which is only 45
nilea across in places.
Italians Prepare.
Informants said Italy had dispatch
id about 3,000 technicians and spec
al workers to the Albanian port of
falona during the past three days to
peed the construction of new forti
ications.
Some 250 heavy guns, reputed to
ie from the German Krupp works,
ire being shipped to Valona, it was
aid, and the entire Valona bay re
gion is being armed with special at
ention to the 20-year-old Fort Res
tasseno which dominates the bay.
Other reports said that the Otranto
itraits on the Italian side of the Ad
iatic were being reinforced with
leavy altillery for a distance 18 1-2
niles north and south of the narrow
sst point of the straits.
The ports indicated that the new
talian artillery emplacements will be
tble to dominate the narrow entrance
>f the Adriatic completely, not only
>ottling up the small Jugoslav fleet,
rot dosing the sea to any foreign
t&vy.
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? Sofia, April 11. ? The Bulgarian
government tonight dissolved the
Evma^ppdrted Nifional Socialist
IParty for *feafr petice said aril a
fclot to changTBulgaria's form of
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tinne in curr^^^fca. on the
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fcanizationf although ipybeal' gAAip^ l
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Mpr
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Draws Hundreds
vjfp' PJj-U1 It
More Than 100 Schools
Send Delegations To
East Carolina Teach
ers College.
Greenville, April 11. ? Brought to
the college campus by "High School
Day" between 2,600 and 2^800 high
school seniors, teachers, fathers and
mothers from the whole of Eastern
North Carolina, observe<L>both work
and play at East Carolina Teachers
College today.
More than 39 counties and more
than 100 schools were represented.
Wilson County, which brought the
largest delegation last year, again
led in number, with 450 present; and
Pitt County came second, with near
ly 350.
The Plymouth High School band,
in blue and white uniforms, led the
parade through the campus to the
auditorium for the program of the
morning, at which President Leon
Meadows welcomed the guests and
spoke to them of the privileges and
responsibilities of the man and wo
man with a college education. The
various county groups, marked by
placards and badges, responded to
roll call at this program.
After a barbecue luncheon, the
high school boys and girls scattered
throughout the campus, visiting the
buildings which housed the work of
particular interest to them, and
studying exhibits of class work in
many departments.
To keep traffic in order, a squad
of 25 college boys under the direction
of a faculty member kept the lines
moving or directed cars where to
park. The City of Greenville co-op
erated by furnishing two local police
men and a motorcycle officer, and
seven members of the highway pa
trol helped handle the hundreds of
cars.
The afternoon was closed by vari
ous forms of entertainment
JUNIOR-SENIOR
BANQUET
Upholding the tradition in the
Farmville high school of the Junior
Senior banquet serving always as a
charming introduction of its annual
commencement events was the 193d
banquet held oh Friday evening in
the dining room' of the' Davis Hotel.
Table defcofatfons "ofr&h'tapers and
red1 and white* tulips and: the other
appointments effectively carried both
the chosen colors and floral motif of
the graduating class, and the ices
were molded in the same design.
J. H. Moore, superintendent, offer
ed thanks. The welcoming address
was given by Arthur Joyner, Jr.,
president of the Juniors and toast
master, and the response was made
by Ernest Lee Quinn, Senior presi
dent. Pauline Farmer, president of
one section of the Junior class, gave j
a toast to the Seniors with )gpe Knott i
responding. Some observations in re-,
lation to the high school faculty were j
made by Douglas Kemp, to which j
Miss Mary Alice Beaman, English j
teacher, made a witty response.
Serving as special entertaining fea- j
tures of the banquet program, which
was under the capable direction of|
Miss Russell Ward, were vocal se
lections by Bill Hope, Dorothy and
Geraldine* Skinner, Arthur Joyner,
Jr., and Graydon Liles, and a tap
dance by Lulu Benson, who imper
sonated a musical note. Miss Mil
dred Vann and Mrs. Daisy H. Smith
swere accompanist*?
\ Following the banquet the students
amended a lovely party given by Mrs.
J. 0. Pollard and Mrs. Arthur F. Joy
ner, grade mothers of the Junior
cliss. The affair was held in the
[jjjS? A. B. Chapter House, in which
|Pe Senior colors and flower were
wain used with charming effect, par
ticularly in decorations of the colonial
iwM enjoyed, during the
d iced #n?it juices, cooV
fers were served.
of the Senior class are:
uise & Andrews, Rachel
11 or
nett, Blanche Lorane Bry
? Virginia Cobb, Frances
?....1.?y
(Hugo S. 4||,||fiuiifton Corres
pondent.)
THIS OdUNT#^ rs srtrcH NEa4
GAN. :
1*he foreign policies of the tfnitei" '
... . . J FuflvJa . . ., ii
States are far removed from those
'that existed wfieiPfEe fighting begaA i
in ?&%$& in'l&i! U^'t^occaaj-}
ion, President Wilson made Mir plei
jfor neutrality, "ikfeet'as well as in 1
n*me," jmJijfcejr uptoth# pgrtftW 1
|tion of thfe United'Stat* Jnthe strugf ]
gle, he made vahapt efforts to bring I
he thotignt^ might aajdsc. conflicting
claims in Europe^ on a basis which i
would lead to permanent peace. i
Today, in the United States, therd <
is no neutrality' in spirit in regarcl
to affairs in Europe/The overwhelm! 1
ing sdntim<iiit: of" tfi? people' ot thiJ 1
country is agaii&i Germany. This 1
antipathy inribdes to hlesse/ ddgrfee! t
Italy and JsphriL Whereas, in 1914: i
few Americans understood the diplo-j i
macy that preceded the World War] ]
today they have\walcbed the lines <
form. The difference is seen; .in the] 1
official attitude of the nation, .with ]
PreS.' Roosevelt openly denouncing]
the methods ofGertkdAS'. ffis annual' 1
message to tortgri&rin Januapy P^' j
eluded a petnral tmeotifiOTi With' Eu- ]
ropean affairs. 1
The changing' American foreign' <
policy harf' beie& iffnpHaiiied sfftfcfe the] f
Munich settlement: It'has been en-j
tirely unconcealed since the seisure of]'
Bohemia, Moravia 'jmfcSfaVJfcHr, Be-j 1
fore these developments, certain long
range, idealistic" objective* wetfj the
guiding- principles of, American fior- <
iigh policies, $Si empfiia^'upon *in? 1
teraational lawancl order ' and the I
development of wdrld^trade a? an in- i
strument of pet^e. tfaw^it'is ad
mittedly one of power politics, the 1
influence and weight of the" United J
States being thrown in increastaraf* <
fectiveness against German aggros- *
sion.
Whereas, upon the outbreakofthe *
World War, the United States ' wafr j
not conscious of a need for great pfre- <
paredness, the country tdda^
most unanimously behind vastly in-"jil
creased armaments. Woodrcyw Wil- 3
son stumped" the nation in the intSr<- r,
est of a, naval-buildihg program, but 1
in Washington today< Congress in'not <
only ready but~ airrioUB to vote uii- I
precedents stops, not onlj> for the i
Navy, but forthe Air Corps and the <
Army, as well/ v; <
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Under the ' present Administra- I
tion, the poliej? of isolation, of dis- i
interested netifralrfr between warring
nations ajwfthe determination to keep 1
out of foreign^difficTm^s is dead as '
a dodo. Consa^u 'of-;ta afarming *
situation ili Europe, whejre Germany 1
and Italy haVe acquirfedihe whiphand >
over the dembcracie^aftd follow na- 1
tional polices evidently jjbsi^hed for '
war, the people of tiie'thrited States <
seem to sense a th&ifrtd the wefll- :
being of this hemisphere, Ther/i?
general acqufescepeet; ij? the belief
that if Great Britidi<*jdJ; nance are
defeated, it wiUoftly be^jjsestion of ,
time beforaHhe United Stales is con
historic pbsltioh ori s!de of the :
Atlantic. *
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The testimony of foriflfer Secretary
of State^Hgnry| ^L^Stimg^
lations, MuSgfct^tJie'' jdea. This
former Republican official urged that :
the United States ssssrt tiy right to J
name and bo^feaft-'the .tjUraMMflr wl
a foreign war* Iwl danger-jj
out Situation approaching stetf byT
step," he said, "I woultoH'waif until H
it
between us and safety before taking]]
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s in per Change
^ftfSoysj
of Attriek by DfcrtrOfcra
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.AWfil JUL7-J3MW*iot Hit- i
^WM- x*V*w&mi& by a* fcfermhd E
Nasi source tonight as .cbeit?(k eon* t
winced that GreatBriiain and France J
?? jfefittlBenging expanding .
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be ,
Ss^sffr
tees of Poland's independent jwd re-J
ports that Britain was planning a J,
3i^ar- .P/ffi"??, to ,?&??* and other 1
iS*
qae>5f .|UTing
EWfe^ j
the |
theI,
Italian occupeScm of Albania because ]
thereby he[ ^din^ 11 j
writory and conceSS^^from j
^Ce-)^?JUy ,n.o,U, ' h
jelief that in J^e .poping monthsf
1$%??# .that .nMghtjj
??Y$fi active apned; intei^njaop .by W
Britain and France, hut said that ap-1 ?
wahension pwaiied* ift WgirBartte '
ttr Frwdr fltftishj
if faf observed' hdR, ytoH'nJftea.^
measinesd, tJ^t'Prawfe? DtlQUer oft
franco has ba?r ?Jadifiiously quiet,"]1!
ne Nazi propaganda pOncy, which j
b'therto has bWff teffiasiiing the]!
^ggth of Germany possible ene-v
. The in^iu^l^M]r^trpn^tii of the' ^
|ome-Benin axis ntow is stressed in '
,
rast to previous* 1
A** &to j
ind how ^T^fen^dvancU^Se <
suae or-Em4p?rfi ;peafce and "okab- '
ishing order" hjr occupying the" ter- j
Un.^1 4111" '
iccess to Doth Hitler^and Field Mar
uxepted theory Badbeoi thJTthe !
tfflfer w&'&m b^'p^on? the ?
nook eertiiflfi BHtfflfi' Ad Mnce
vould bi to catch up' iir irmnants
tod'the ^d&ItfUrofcrwot&jw*
the poSMSh1 of Geftnanr and
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I TtaTUfblJWL* OKtlfflt ffilLi lAfL {
fc^^^Md^dmwrk^WajKa^
B3s?.T; XH^rsffilttr Mft&ttgj heflrnot
l>nly for fe)R39Bf/^dtVd!}o fflithe
Bmrpoaa of dijcpriM prospecK for
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Knest rappera possible; aadfljan
e^M^TW???i
pl?riiPin#rf the ptKh
Isiiich 'the church has made tl^pgh
Bijf Mi bel&xwat
Eanfstep <rf buMng. a newTioqss
SKTii ?t"* TtbB bi
-'jjjrt :S ^ j} gfrfo _/? Mr'-iflf^K" JhB
It/ fliA SniGflftv S/*lirtol wm4f A/ tjiA M
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k fascist Ally
OWCT^ieveRnt
'HJ iw&p
W,- *
British government ift^.ipaking, last
minute effort* to" secure Bulgarian
rsafasr -
Many, howgWJflifred that the
Effort* arp too late .and that if the
ng&ss&terfi
^yiU^avqrJtaly. ami Germany.
Bntfsh sources said that no. defi
nite pledges had yet been made to
Sofia by Lowkm, but that. Britain, tfas
29, years pf. neglect"
ind British Minister George Rendle
conferred, ov$? the week end yrtth
^rime.. Minister George
Sjoweivanoff This was a P?*t <**
general,I<on,don moves to line up Bai
of*. Eminent Bul
garians will^tfond the birtbdaycele
Inmtion of Chancellor Adolf Hitler in
*e& ,The Bulgarian
to J>ive ?Rfe&> Germany an ute
Ewrtept jpessagetw .hftt this report
:oufa not be confirmed.
jtqlgmria. generally is In the same
when,, both, seta
^combatfm^ were seeking hey aid
inci she awaitedjthe highest.bidder-?
ift^W .Tcase.-.. Bulgaria's
WMfe tendency., ^n CemianX
ind-t?p apparent.^impossibility 0
mmeS^te aid from, Prance end
Britain in case of war appear, to be
endwg.bST
Twm^eral beliirf ifthat Bulgaria
^ decis^n, ehould one
become necessary. Bulgarians. de
nanding cession of south Dobruja by
Sea and minorJtfi^j?mtoyi$s from
"S&OTWU* feawr *">
bftspfai^ted^thrpopgh . pressure M.
west^ni powers, it was b^ieyed that
Eralgara could be counted upon at
ftt AfflA. ,?*!? ?b^
?ould, be| eppuMly difficult to brio*
ca~4,ju
^' blood-stained land g^$fa$edonj?
ms?j?
K ^jplai^most <l?a^
ft, ow^ o^y^e-tenth.
ia. <fcyided between Greece and Jugo
-** yiii/ ? A/? ?i- 1: >Uli *-*" ?L\ * J?Mf *
in. Belgrade^pl^
i^?^U^1up^J^0 t^a^ the Or
MM! Backs
To MM Peace
|s>provalof
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Building Activities -
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tjY@ssttt(}) Vast tinpfov
Being Made
%
> end MiW As Bttild
- ing And Improvement .
' ?
. Farmvjlle, moving forward in leaps
and bounds, has been a veritable bee
hive for the past few months wttfe dts
extensive. huilding activities, installa
tionu of additional ecpipment .at the
water .and light plant and vast im
provements along sanitary tinea
which are being carried on. in a pro
gram involving an expenditure of
more than $800,000.
Contracts let in September by the
Town of Farmville as the result of . a
VQte?by the citizens on. a bond issue
of. $99,000 and. supplemented by a
grant of $79,774 by the Federal gov
ernment, have been progressing as
follQWB:... ..a ti . *
The installation of a .800 KWH
Diesal Engine with generator and all
auxiliary equipments including switch?
board at a price of $62,508,.which has
been completed and accepted by the
town. an4 PWA officials. j,^ .
v The erection flf a 300,000 gallon
elevated steel tank at a cost of $80,
890 has been completed and accepted
by the Town .and PWA officials, .
^The building of a foundation, for
.%? new "water tank^and changes m
the light plant building and founda
tion for new engine at a cost of $14,
242.
. Water and sewer extensions. into
tfte colored section ana others un
served prior to .t^jia .tame,
Tfria work w noy^pre
gressingpatisfacijoriiy and; completion
will be sooner than once efpasted. c _
: makea a <&*M m?*
trac* &*<>**?
contractors $171,280,^ 0)j^v o?er
cpsf f as .followB; engineering $$0^
468.68, printing^ bonds $96.00, bond
4tori?ys. $153.76, intejfc|t on.JW*
000 bonds to April 1. 1089/tl^HhOO,
or a total; cost of the entire project,,
including interest when ; completed
wilL be $183,918.11. Of this amount
the, federal Government ,wfil pap.
jjjlll > ?|gfcj? ?
financed by the town of Farmviile of
$104,144.11; of this
were sold which nette
leaving a balance, to be financed from
thfe1 year's appropriations of $4,
866.77, which has .already foeen de
posited to the Construction Fund Ahr
* 1 ?
Awde .from Federal .aid pipjecffl
the 7*own of'Farmviile has spen?$g^g'/
000 during the prat twelve mppfo in
th'd" following permanent improve
Th^ cons^uction of ImHbff sewer
age disposal tank; water and light
dndril)Ut|oh' lines; water supply of
m wells; real est&'" .
tft'd ndw water tanfc, and two new
weiis thh latter having, a cap^ty'of .
6$ "gallons.per minute, which in
sures ah adequate water supply.
In vieW -
nent improvements it is gratifying to
'v'5r,<':
: During i;he past year permits fatal-,.
fng ^l2^,000 fhr building of homes
and private enterprises were issued ,
by the town.
A school bond- issuance; of $45#0,
Wether with a PWA grant of $36,
000 are being used, in the construction
Of anj Agricultural and Manual Art?.
Building nnd Gymnasium, and a ,
g*g* ^r^preg.a^ool
ind the heat reported as progressing /
rapidly.
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