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Tri-Power Armed AlHane^
Assured Por^Pm^ Front'
Chamberlain Tells Com
mons that Negotiations
With Russia Nearing
Contluiiiai.
London, May 24 ? Negotiations for
a three-power mutual assistance pact)
among Britain, -France and Soviet
Soaaia has advanced an far today that I
Prime Miniate Chamberiain express- J
ed confidence in fall agreement with-1
? ? a
in two weekq, ? F
r In a two-hour meeting, the British I;
1 cabinet accepted a plan which For
eign Secretary Viscount Halifax dis-f'
cussed with Ivan Maisky, Russian I 1
delegate to the League of Nations, at j1
Geneva. The plan was said by in
formed quarters to have been ap-11
proved by Moscow.
After the cabinet meeting, Cham-J,
berlain told the House of Commons]
that "all relevant points of view have
been made dear1* and that he believed ]
he weald be able to announce con- j
elusion ot an agreement with Russia
when parliament reconvenes June 5,
after the Whitsun recess. <
Chamberlain was somewhat vague '
as to just what action the cabinet had '
taken, bat the foreign office spokes- j!
nan later said Moscow's latest pro- M
posals on the mutual assistance pact r
had been approved in principle.
Conclnsios ocf such a pact with Rus- '
ss would further extend Britain's al- j ]
liances in Eastern Europe, where she],
has reversed her former hands-off L
policy. She first departed from this],
policy by guaranteeing Poland's in- j,
dpendence and. later made similar]
guarantees to Rumania, Greece and]?
Turkey. I1
Some details of the British-Russian j
accord remained to be worked out, (
. but Chamberlain said bedhfnot an
ticipate that these were "likely to give
rise to aay serious difficulties." J
Scope of Pact. ? (
Provisions of the proposed pact i
have not yet been discloed, but in
formed sourees said general prind- 1
" pies, already agreed upon, include: ' 5
v . A guarantee of mutual asafstanee 1
.among Britain, France and Russia 1
*fbr aid in the event that any one of ^
tion and military staff talks among 1
the three countries. j
abuw^haT ^raTto'pe^ ]
gurnards, Turkey and Cbreece, but it 1
is not known just what provisions c
? w& be made in this connection. ,-r
- The Baltic countries will be left out,
but Russia may give them her own 1
guarantees if she wishes. (
These terms follow closely the 1
original proposals of Russia* .which c
Britain first opposed on the greobd
that they were too far-reaching. It j
has been generally known for several
weeks, however, that Britain was.pre- j
pared to gfclf ighost aay lengths to 1
line up Russia'Vifh the British-French 1
front ]
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Stores To flee
To BeginSummer Clos
ing Custom Here Wed
nesday, June 7th.
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Practically all - of the business
houses in Farmville will begin Closing
their doors Wednesday afternoons, on
Wednesday, June 7th,. following
a custom adopted a few years ago of
allowing a mid-week afternoon of rec
reation for employees.
The stores will dose at. noon Wed
nesday, on the summer schedule which
will be continued through August 16.
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Tribute Paid To Mrs.
Bertha B. Joyrier
On Mother's Day
' ^'?"*>?"*
The service of the Farmville "Meth
xiist Church, which with other
^lurches of the town did honor to
mothers of all time on the Sunday
set aside as Mother's Day, was fea
rured with a tribute, brought by R.
^ Jbyner in behalf of .his family,
vhich paid special honor to his
nother, Mrs. Bertha Barrow Joyner,
vidow of the late R. L. Joyner, who
a held in highest esteem in this com
nunity, where she has \resided for
nore than seventy-eight years, estab
iahing a home, noted for i its hospi
ality and Christian atmosphere,
?earing sons and daughter^ who have
>ecome outstanding and useful citi
zens, and examplifying throughout
ler long useful Bfe the noble virtues
if Christian womanhood.
Her Son's words of appreciation in
presenting a life membership insignia
if an organization, to which she has
riven loyal support for many years
fellow:
A tribute and presentation of a
ife membership in the Woman's Mis
nonary Society to Mrs. Bertha Joy
ier in behalf of ait heir children
>y her son, Richard A. Joyner.
Mother: This is the greatest privil
ege of my life to be able to reprf
ieing with you today and through tee
'acilities of your Missionary Society
ind your Church, present to yon this
Kn, which leyrseonts a life Member*
hip in your Womarfs Missionary So
aety.
This Life Membership Pin, combines
hree symbols, tee star, tee croaSr
ind the circle. The star reminds us
if that star which pointed to Him
vho is the light of tee world. The
rross is the symbol of the atonement,
hat He, bearing our sb9, offers unto
is eternal life, and we have faith to
>elieve can certainly-eieim the pro
nise of everlasting life. The circle
a symbolic of jCftritfr eternity, Hb,
vho has no beginning or ending, He
vho is from everlasting to everiast
ng. The star, the cross, the drele?
the star so httyht,jJ|miuhnpe, the
uro8s on which we place our faith, and
he circle which stands for him which
s love?~ ? '?
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^)ow yoQ' h&V6 0Q, loved? 1
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Telfc M e^ra
Conspiracy Against
America. ,
Washington, May 24. ? George
Desthferage, ehtof WW Knights of
the White GMliiiir tedey told toe
House mwmhto* on un-American toe-'!
tivities that he has bvied in the
West Virginia hills two tons of docu
mentspwnring an .'international Jew
ish conspiracy to ^overthrow democ
racy in the United States.
Chairman Martin Dies, D., Tex.,
laid a committee investigator would
be sent to toe - hiding -place with
Bestheeage to cheek to* "evidehcfe"
and present It before the committee
if it seems authentic.
Deatherage, whose organization
ha* been accnaed of fomenting Faa
cism, also testifled-that he had found
ed the "AmfetknuiNationalist Con
federation," which has no member
ship as yet, bat hopes to consolidate
; all anti-dewiah groups in this coun
try into a powerful.political bloc.
The confederation, he said, has a
swastika on its lettarheads.
Commerce members sat dumb
founded as-he-related a bizarre tale
of international conspiracies, con-,
ferteneee with German embassy offi
cials, and contributions to the anti
Jewish cause from American million
aires allegedly frigntenea oy uxe im
minence of Communism.
K^He-eaid he " was. informed three
months ago by Freiher von Gienath,
whom he described as a German em
bassy attache, that there is more an
ti-Semitism in the United States now
than then was" in Germany before
the rise of Adolf Hitler.
Death erage said he was so con
vinced that a leftist revolution was
about to sweep th country that he
used his personal fortune of $26,000
to fight it, in addition to cashing his
insurance.
The Knights, he said, started with
200 dues-paying members, but found
that plan unsatisfactory and now
operate with 10-man ports which pay
Anonymous contributions are receiv
ed "occasionally," he said.
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POST COMKANQSR JOYNER
URGES COMMUNITY WIDE
OBSERVANCE POPPY DAY
,s'.' ' .V>/ r?fyj'r l
World War veterans of Farmville
wen urged to remember and pay tri
bute to /their comrades who died in
the war by wearing a poppy on Poppy
Day, Saturday. May 27, in an appeal
Hiued by J. W. Joyner, Commander
of the Local Post of the American
Legion No. 161.
"The poppy is the memorial flower
of the World War dead,7 said Com
mander Joyner, "and brings bade vis
ions of tlm poppy-sMded fields of
France and Belgium where so many
our comrades gagp their lives in
thenatkm's service. It is vary fitting
theirUveaf**4 ^ which they pan
eoune, wfll jote with thS: other pa
triotic "Citizens in wearing tfT^poppy
on "Popj^Dny^and contaf^tmg as
to tfae> Welfare of tho?*>itoa at* ftm
soffIjingr from toe-tow, the disabled,
veterans, their familidiJAnd thB^fam"
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l-jBWMty* ii' ?* ,-f- .':? ?'.' ?>????* ? ?7 ^' ?->????.? j
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She's 19 ytar old Alice Hell, the i
"Maid of Cotton," flying ambassador '
of the National Cotton Council. In 1
major cities frcin coast to coast she j
is spreading the story of National ,
Cotton Week end the Cotton Carnival. <
Outfitted with an ultra-smart ward- ]
robe of all-cotton materials, she if i
modeling cotton garments at cotton i
Fashion shows, taking cotton on the j
stage and over the air, TaHntjg ,pW. 4
sonal calls andappearaneiPln 2* &
cities plus the New tort and 8m \
Francisco world fairs. She will re- 1
torn'to her home in Memphis tat the
spelling of the South'* great cotton ^
party on May 9 Next to cotton she i
is devoted to flying and amateur the- i
atricals. v'-' ? . t
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ECONOMY DISAPPEARS.
HOUSE VOTES FUNDS.
SO DOES THE SENA5$fe^!'. - ' J
NEW BUILDINGS GALORE.
F. D. R. TO TRAVEL SOON. ]
TO TAUK ABOUT POLICIES. * *'
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The much talked of economy is no- ;
where evidenced in Congress. Here -j
end there one runs across a legislator }
who is insisting upon economy, bnt
when the test comes, the votes are al- j
ways, sufficient to pass appropria
tions. In faet, the present Congress
is appropriating much more money
than the President requested. It will i
always be the case. The only op- ,
portunity for economy in this country,
so far-as we can see, depends npon 1
the leadership of an executive, ready
and willing ,to veto excessive appro- i
prjations by the Congress itafelf. |
priation bill passed by the House last
funds for flood control and riven and
ltoproyaroe^its under the direction
^way of psnsifr of the -ni?BSTO?.'! In
itiljU* ,J" ISrWM^rn W^MSSk '
?rouo was too stronsr to be with** ?'
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I stood* In fact, students f American 1
rOtg-'-iiSwIyvfo ?
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Move To Advance !
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Vote On Control;
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ljifcstead 3
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ucr xo?
111 ; t j
Agriculture to"eall a tobacco^control ]
reefrendum on or after July 1, in- 1
-v# ? f|JLLl ?tfiwi.1i ?? 1Jt JI? ni LA
svcou OI BUcT IMOVCmnwr iOy *wiu 00 4
proposed In Washington today by a ,
ielegation of North Carolina tomacco
nen.
The recommendation was approved1
yesterday at a Joint meeting ?P J
the State Tobacco Advisory Commit
te and tha.'N. a Farm Bureau Fede- i
Hi
AAA
)ri|' v'MoFi1s vtt^oliAft ftrmfirs wno - fajc* j i
iifciij .1 7?T' -Tt ^ J' : ':M ^?*7VjV.,W ":'M I ' Vfi^TT\ I.I
lHA, ? i ^ llJr.mx* .'j'L'i.. .Aw IJj. _L^ ;rSi1?A
poxma* (ff Zv |^, .Cwv tor ?smaii <
per powd tax penalty ratherthan>60 t
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jflp /*ptir ftf trAlUA t/>%? ov^oM aotna- 'l>-y. J ??
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*'iff ^??'-?? ? ?-'rt.-. ???.. : ?'.a-i4?i ?? |
Ifttown Resident
~I^^^:cy;:
in hertfeep Monday night, after re
aring at eleven o'clock in gpod health
?!00[death" occurred in the home of
Mrs. George E. Moore, where she had
resided for the last seven years, and
ynift as * result of heart disease,
from which she had suffered at inter
nals. - '
Vta&eftl rites were conducted from
ho Farmville Funeral Home, Wed
lesday morning, at eleven o'clock,
march,; or Greenvius^ jma interment
y^X ?' ffct ? ~Vt HhSiSBfi 11 it' i?rtiv> ii I n mil
ijRI;maai in lioiiywooo Cttnctcrj^ >,? I
pall bearers were: Edison,
3eorge, Theodore and Fred Moore,
ind Mr, Beam an, of Wilson, the last
lamed a nephew. Floral bearers
sere members of the Christian
Science church.
Sri Joyner, the daughter of the
ate George and Louisa Blount Joy
Mr was a descendant of pioneer fam
Ues of Eastern Carolina. She led an
ictive life, practicing osteopathy for
right, years in Greenville and Farm
ri&e^Jand wrms connected,^. with the
ghflttsehooi .here as librarian at the
drae of her death. . isl
Intelleetual-aHd-of broad sympa
The last member of -'heE immediate
family, she la survived only! by a half
rfater, Mrs. Mary Baaman, at Wil
ton, andssessal nieeea and nephewa. ;
In one of the most exciting Golf
ouraatnentaever held on thecouree
the Farmville Country Club, local
{Offers came out victorious to tne
MMMtf- n^twfecfe record, defeating
tfewBemineaeho* threat four
lomes.
The tournament was playod on the
10 means :?? one-8Kieu matcii, as in
w-holoa In one,
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Local Man Addresses
Raleigh.
2 T; Thome, a member of the
fozrd^Dinafogg of the North Cmo
soeiation, delivered a compMbeBaivf
and enlighteniag-siddress on the prob- ?.
lema of King Cotton at the animal
membership meeting of that organi
sation, whfch wac held in Salrigh, on
Excerpts of Mr. Thorns'* address
follow:
King Cotton ie proud of yep and me
today?proud that after years of re
treat before the onslaughts of his
enemies we have made up our minds
to fight Not to fight Iistieegly, hot
aggrcssfroly-Mjonsistentiy intelli
gently ? invincibly. Not singly and
alone, but as part' of % powerful and
determined, army of American cotton
men?cotton mer. united few the ilrst
time under a coir moil banner?cotton
men who recognize that it is THEIR
Job to save the crpp and the markets
on which they and millions of their
neighbors depend. '
The problem which we together are
setting out to solve represents an ac
cumulation of trends and events
reaching farther into the past-than
any of us hers can remember. I do
not propose to review that past, for it
is a story familiar to all of you?the
first staggering impact of she mil
lion uneducated workers transferred
from servitude to citizenship over
night the lung years of effort to
ward economic rehabilitation and si
multaneous social readjustment In a
crippled and impoverished cotton belt
?the growing suction of an insidious
and unbalanced tariff system?the in- .
vasion of cotton^ fields by natural -
pests and of cotton markets by^vir
tual serfs from abroad whose entrance
was made possible by domestic unin
telligence.
You know the result?an income so
reduced and a standard of living so
low that cotton belt today winces un
der its designation as the nation's
foremost economic problem, its econ
omy, its manpower and its social
structure forced to the verge of a
bdgrftf desfetfctaicy. In one decade
been-cut almost in haif, dridding from
a billiort dollars a year in idtt tO ap
proximately six hundred million to
day.
And the end is not yet -The pre
diction is obvious that at"** does of
it* eUtaent crop, year the world will
have on handmore than fourteen mil
lion bales of American cotton?a mil
lion -bales more than haa ever existed
as carry-over before! Impounded by
the government alone will' be as much
American cotton as a full year's
normal production. -
Export figures will set a near low
of 8,500,000'bales as compared with
the normal annual export of 7,500,
000 biles; and at the same time world
consumption figures of foreign cot
ton will show an increase in ten years
from 10/100,000 bales to 16,760,000.
And still the whole story is not told,
for in the! last ten yeare alone the
world price of American cotton, based
on the gold (toller, has dropped.from
approximately 18 cents a pound to" an
all-time low of about 5 cents.
^These are the facts toad figures that vt
stare at us today-figun* which can
szxar"**? '
!^esp^iWy of late the fedcral.gov- - r
ernment has. sought to stem the tide : ?
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