? MMI M< It I III I >?l 11111 ?? t?i<M _ + Patronize Our Advertisers* Ftf i | They Are Constantly Inviting | . | You To tkade With Then, t Tysons-Mags to Hold Reunion Friday, Dec. 1 st. in Chapter House . Dr. It C. Deal To Be Guest Speaker at As semblage Which Is Expected to Number More Than Two Hun dred More than two hundred descend ants of the Tysons and Mays, pioneer families of this section, are expected to gather from all parts of the State on Friday, following the State's Thanksgiving Day. December 1, for the annual reunion of the two fam ilies, which has grown into one of the most active and vigorous family groups in the State. The guest speaker of the occasion will be Dr. R. C. Deal, a faculty mem ber of East Carolina Teachers Col lege, who believes family life to be the foundation stone of this nation and who is interested in holding the standards of family and community life aloft. Greetings will be brought by Mayor Davis and Mrs. T. C. Turnage, regent of the Major May Chapter, D. A. R. The meeting will be held in the hand some Chapter House, just outside of the incorporated limits of Farmville, on the Wilson-Farmville highway. J. S. May, of Kinston, reunion president, will preside and other offi cers, who will speak briefly on mat ters pertaining to the organization, will be the vice presidents, Walter G. Sheppard, of Snow Hill, Dr. M. L. Carr, of LaGrange and Mrs. Sidney L Eagles, secretary and treasurer, of Saratoga. Rev. C. 6. Mashburn has accepted the invitation to hold the memorial service; Dr. J. Y. Joyner and Andrew Joyner will have charge of the period devoted to family reminiscences, Miss Tabitha DeVisconti will give the gen ealogy report, and John T. Thorne will introduce the speaker. The lunch, a basket affair, will be held in the banquet room of the Chapter House. The local arrangements committee requests that any descendant of the families, who might have been over looked when invitations were sent take this as an invitation to be pres ent. - ? Wife Of Local Man Passes in Wilmington Wilmington, Nov. 20.?Funreal ser I vices for Mrs. Hattie Cable Collins, I who died Sunday morning at 5:30* o' I clock at the home of her son, 201 Xen I ton avenue were held Monday after I noon at 3:00 from the chapel of An ? drews muitatffr. I Rev. F. S. Love, pastor of Grace I Methodist Church, officiated. Inter I ment followed in Oak dele cemetery; I The deceased is survived by her I husband, B. R. Collins, and the fol I lowing children: two sona, W. H. I Collins, of Wilmington, and F. C. Col I lins, Rocky Mount; four daughters, I Mrs. H. H. Bray and Mm W. S. I Marsh, of Wlimington, Mrs. Z. E. I Jordafc of .Carolina Beach, and Miss I Ida Lee Collins, of Wilmington; two I brothseei ft ;W,~Cahle? od East Bt I Loots, DL, and W. A. Cable of Bir ? mfnghsm; Ala.; one sister; Mrs. T. J. I '! -?? ^? Tarboro, Nov. 22. ? John Brown,! ? secretary of tbe lkriwro Tobacco ! ? Board of Trade, announeed that the! I *1 I Mr. Brown said that this year had! I the nte^B iati.nl e*nin? Ta I . w. jp! I ?MBBhtjR B I ad today Mat fh^fj al count of funds Banks of N. G. In gMfStnm | ? ?H Have Now Doubled Re sources of Depression Days Raleigh, November 21.?The extent to which North Carolina's banks have come back from the depths of the de pression is vividly illustrated -in the October 2 Abstract of Condition just released by Commissioner of Banks Gurney P. Hood. This abstract reveals that the to tal resources of the state's commer cial banks are now practically double what they were on October 25, 1933, the third-quarter call ,showing the lowest total of the last decade* Resources as of the second month stood at almost $387,000,000 for 154 state commercial banks and their 116 branches, while in 1933 the figure was just about $194,000,000 for the state commercial banks then in opera tion. - - ? ?' Almost the san e picture is pre sented by the Abstract for Industrial banks, though +he percentage of in crease has not been quite so large. Here the report shows that the state s 32 industrials and one branch have resources of slightly more than .$19, 500,000 as compared with just above $11,000,000 at their lowest third quar ter ebb which was reached on October 17.. 1934. Here the increase of $8, 000,000 over $11,000,000 does not (mite hit the hundred percent mark. Accompanying the detailed ab stracts Commissioner Hood released a statement calling attention to cer tain outstanding points; bdt the whole situation is summed up in his happy almost lilting concluding paragraph: "Everything in this report indicates a continued increase in the volume of business being transacted in North Carolina." , Incidentally the resources for the commercial hanks were the highest ever attained on a corresponding date in any year of the states his tory, while the industrial figures set a new high water mark since Sep- j tember ?, 19S1. AH bank of recent years have indicated tha the industrials were slower to fed the terrific punch of the depress***, and have been correspondingly flIower reflect the increase of business under the Near Deal. . Getting around to more recent in creases in- resources those. J|h?wn since the thintquarter call rofprt^of last year?Mr. Hood point* ?ut that for commercial banta loans and dis counts have gone up ^ 372^)00,. rising fwm on September 2?, 1936, ^*15,672, 630.71. U. S. bonds jumped V,4S8, 223,0? from $66,416,387.88 to $67, 904^L83. ? _____ ; \ ? ? Episcopalians Hold . The animal dinner meeting of the congregation of Emmanuel Episcopal Jamie*, Wilmington, as speaker of the General ?hs*eh pcegcam antfhfwfft! related to the church member* a* In-' dividual* and. collectively from . the four point axis of Knotr,; Go, Pay and asse* **?' t\: J? J&s. Jeynm toeastaper of the I a j, ? T* J v _r - jf" P*- . k" "T^T ? ili" "k?.*?? ? mil Be Met at Landing rioviq and flnmiirriffpp* Fire Department Wifl Assist in Bringing in Gifts for The little Folks an?il Santa Claus has accepted, an invi tation to visit Farmvme Friday night, Deember 8th, and is rive around 7:45 or 8 o'clock. ?'He will be met at the landing field by Mayor George W. Davis and the wel coming committee. The Farmville Fire Department has kindly consented to assist Santa Clans in bringing in his thousands of tokens to the little folks. I While Santa dans is getting toddy for his visit to Farmville various com mittees of the Chamber of Commerce and others are working at top speed to prpare for a rousing Welcome. Merchants, city officials and other groups will vie with each other in the decorating of the stores, streets and public buildings, and a real ushering in of the Christmas season is expect ed. Farmville's Christmas season will be formally opened with the arrival of Santa Claus December 8th, and a hearty invitation is extended every resident of this entire section to come and enjoy this big holiday event th the fullest extent. The Committee on special events has other surprises in store which will be announced at a later data Make your plans now to bring the little folks to Farmville Friday night, December 8th. Santa Claus. will have a token of his love for each and every one of them. Mte Legislators Special Arrangements Completed to Provide Meals, Rooms, Foot ball Tickets for Pitt County Officials Chapel Hill, November 23.?Lieut. - Gov. Wilkins P. Horton, presiding of ficer of the state senate, and Speaker D. L. "Libby" Ward of the House of Representatives today extended per sonal invitations to members of the North Carolina General Assembly from Pitt Cotmy to Join with them and with city counrilipen, coun ty commissioners and other dty and county officials to meet apd hear:) Speaker William B. BaflkheSd of the ] national BSuse of Representatives at1 the formal opening of the Institute of Government, building at Chanel Hill on' Wednesday, November 29. Institute plans for tfae- opening i'U clude: registration of officials and inspection of the building?which will lafionshipe rfwdSd/^te and local governmental units, at which time Speaker flnrish^atf ^rrlll make the IPjiampal address, ".North Carolina Ck>n&wMM? who will accompany Speaker Rankhead to Chapel Hill, will morning I ndstfclga iwd? v--s pt. ?>;??]( The Institute of Government has arrang^or^sitir^^^is to^se noon?lodging for Wednwday night, j football ?gapie on Thm^^^^^for land representing counties, cities and 1 towns throughout the state, met on . ?EUROPEAN London ? German "wild" mine sinks British destroyer Gipsy? with probable loss of 40 lived; another badly damages Jtaliansteamer; Nazi planes again raid Shetlands and En glish east coast, but damage is slight; British planes reconnoiter German cities. The Hague ? Dutch ships are or dered to remain in port because of British blockade plans and the dancer of "wild" mines; Holland and Bel gium are expected to protest British 'blockade of German exports carried in their ships. Berlin ? Nazis indicate two Brit ish intelligence agents held here will be tried publicly in order to prove the British gov< srmnent ordered an J assassination- attempt on Hitler. Paris Government announces sinking of two U-boats by French torpedo boat within three days. Western Front ? British and French claim eight Nazi planes are shot down as rains cease and air and artillery activity intensifies* along en tire 100-mile front from Moeelle to Rhine. ? ?: ? :?? - I ese Will Decide I ? Policy of America ^?Welles^Indicates Trade I I I Washington, Nov. -22.?Acting Sec- I ?retary of State Sumner Welles indi- I Heated strongly today that future trade I ?relations between Japan and the I ?United States will be predicated upon I ?cessation of Nipponese interference ? ?with and harassment of American I ?commerce and nationals in China. I I The present trade pact between I ?th two powers expires on January ? ?26, 1940. This government gave no- I ?tice last July of a desire to cancel | ?its provisions. Its action was a I ?sharp reprimand to Japan for a num- I ?ber of incidents ihvolviiig American M ?citizens and interests which have oc- I ?curred in China since the Sixio^ap- I ?anese war began. ? I Expiration of the treaty will leave I ?this country, free to impose embar- I ?goes, discriminatory tariffs and bth- I ?er economic reprisals against Japan. I ?There has been considerable agitation ? ?in Congress for. invoking economic I ?sanctions against the Nipponese, Jbut I ?no responsible .administration official I ?thus far has indicated that Buch a fl I ? Hundreds of millions of dollars are! I I involved in the dispute. Japanos 3his 1 ? ? country's third best customer. In !? ? l938, she bought $239,575,000 worth ! ?of American g??&JMf%>to<incts, (I I while American imports from Japan) ? ? totalled only $126,820 JM. More than I ? one-half of the JapaAp exports to | ?this country consist of giiy ? ? Injaddiiion to this, Americans hold Hwhich experts aay^tfcLtely mndd 11 I be hit hard in the event of a complete !^H ^?and in Tokyo,to the effect that rep* j^H ? active in seeking to prevent a rup-jl I tall, scholarly official does not per-j^^| Bf Today he did. Beading from aj ? prepared memorandum, an indication | ? to tome that he had studied carefully! I I the import of his staipnont, he aaidil Tokjo is"^ has?bee^or n^ny da^J I in confl^^t&n^ation^A'^l I Y -C 4 ^EL Qa /M-. jri5 ? V ^ .t^rr ? affj I I . || Ml I I .x xx wx c xxvv qMUIK* vii' ylVduBT XII ; ? rrm4 ? mmmirninl"teeSy rel^Sfl I m?nffMilfl ^riifh^oWmmpnt Vnc unf II **iv*4v "*"'y4k ?4WB|yiiMwVOv 11 M lMtgBgtea Am Plan EconomiCBl Shelves at Pr^^^ere Jerally As Low or Low& Than hi Similar Period pncel934_ Chicago, Nov. 2i.?American house wives are swarming shopping coun ters for the "maJdh's" of one of the most economical holiday spreads they've assembled in five years. In contrast with honfemakers in Europe, who cany Tation cards, Am erican women with bulging dinner budgets found ample stocks on gro cers and butchers shelves today at prices generally as low or lower than ill . any similar period since 1984. A survey of Chicago wholesale and retail markets showed housewives can satisfy Thursday's menu require ments today or tomorrow (or a week hence in some states, including N. C.y at about the same prices paid a year ago. -'4 Some items, headed by Che roasted bird in the center of the table, were lower. . Turkey prices were a big factor In enabling the housewife <to trim her Thanksgiving budget without any sacrifice of individual helpings around the feasting table. Wholesale prices in the dressed market ranged from 6 to 20 per cent lower than" a year ago. Ducks were-0 per cent lower.. Chickens also were lower while geese weinS little changed. . . . >' ? - NEW PROGRAM A new cotton crop loan program for 1939, which established for the first time a policy of location dif ferentials/has been announced by the (J. & Department of Agriculture. '? ' '? - :! ?.? ' Pitt Cotton Quota 15,592.7 Ant Allotted Acreage with out Penalties ? ' /? *_ r . . | i . v.- ,i . >.v I Farmers of Pitt County have been allotted 15,592.7 acres on which to grow cotton in 1940 under the Agri-? cultural Conservation Program, and if they approve quotas for next pfcar they will be allowed to sell all the cotton they are able to produce tup their allotted acreage without The cotton marketing quota refer endum will be held on Saturday, De cember 9, and all farmers who pro duced cotton in 1939 will be eligible L In announcing the county quota, E4 Y. FTpyd, AXA executive officer of State College, said that every grower will know his individual cot ton acreage allotment for 1940 be fofe he votes. Farmers are being notified of their quota at the pta ent time, and all should be reached within the next two^wpeks. ; . , T' I This is divided among 79 counties, widre cotton is produced. Robeson County received the largest: allot* meat, 54,614.9" Peres, followed- by 39 mines had been sighted adrif^off DGutral Bjuppin^ this wc6k? & j European Waters. Thirty-one were th?lL?dSst^-.North 38a'aad' American Linked j With Bomb Plot Hitletf8 Paper Says Exe cuted Helmuth Hirsch Was An Agent of Otto Strasser > - Berlin, Nov. 22.?Fuehrer Adolf Hitler's own newspaper today linked a 21-year-old American citizen, exe cuted in Berlin on June 4, 1937, to a aeries of bomb'plots against tbe Fuehrer'* life, culminating in the Munich beertcellar bombing of two weeks ago. The American citizen, Hemuth Hirsch, was said to have worked -with Otta Strasser, refugee leader of the anti-Nazi 'Black Front' whois accused of organizing the Mumch bombing under instructions of the British secret service. The disclosure by Hitler's news paper, the Voelkischer Beobachter, coincided with indications in authori tative Nazi quarters that two captur ed Britons, described as high British intelligence agents, will be placed on public trial to "prove that the Brit ish government ordered the attempt ed assassination of Hitler at Munich. Within a few days, a spokesman said, the Gestapo probably will pro duce "irrefutable" evidence that the Britons, Sigismdnd Payne Best, 54, and Capt. Richard Henry Stevens, 46, were part of the brains behind the Novmber 8 bombing of the Beurger braeu beer cellar in Munich. Hitler escaped the bomb blast by . barely 10 minutes. Eight persons werfe killed arid 62 wounded. Hirsch Mentioned yT I ; The name or Hirsch was brought into the case?clearing up much of the mystery surrounding his execu tion?in connection with the Voel kischer Beobachter'B assertion that Strasser had inside three attempts to kill Hitler, of whom he waS once a confidante. . Hirsch, a Jewish student who had American citizenship, although he never had been in the United States, was said by Hitter's newspaper to have participated in a plot to assas sinate Hitler during the Olympic Games in Berlin in the summer of 193d. Working with-Strasser and a Frit? Beer, alias Heinrich Grunow, Hirsch was said to have been delegated to place in position a 20-pound bomb continued-by a ctedrwork mechan ism. He waa arrested by the Gestapo while crossing the frontier and was condemned to death on March 8, 1987, on charges of high treason be- , fore the people's court. He was be headed at Berlin's Ploetzensee prison., Test At the appreSA CWrtmu, ; Mrs. C. B. Mashburn, wife of Farei- ? tian Minipfefi were quite a number of Negro chil dren in the community, who for no cause of their owri, would Mt even have - ther coarsest food for ChnstmS* S^fcsa* nothing of a toy, with which to make: merr?. W/ . ;: Here war* real challenge to he* practidal-tteistianrtyV. ? 3 attempt to "pass the buck" or dodgf j the issue. She met the challenge squarely. She was determiried thjt she would not sit at her full table for Ghristmaq> dinner, knowing -- there were little children in her com rnunlty who were-huagr, sad ?)uv iryimMlintalv nrKmiied S ItWUP I plete success; considering thfc time element Approximately fifty dollars I ? -: .O. .. , . . ; /*+ A fV V>* A r yf tAtt' , mas dinner, she was happy, knowing H ? - .- - r-?v*? ^ c*5'' * J others. I Dfestroyibr Gipsy, V$etfai : f of "Wild" Nazi Mine AsSeventh British Na SSnce^V^kega Admiralty Reports 40 Mai France Jn 48 Honrs ? ? ? ? London, Nov. 22.?TWO Admiralty announced tonight that * "wild" mine had sunk the British destroyer Gipsy, seventh British naval vessel lost since the start of the war,within sight of the English east coast, with possible loss of about 40 lives. The 1,335-ton Gipsy went down about 9:35 p. m., Tuesday in the North Sea region that has become a graveyard for British and' neutral shipping because of Germany's alleg r m >. >k * tip 4^' ? i i'-/ A?? - S '? * ed sowing of mines in violation of in ternational law. The Admiralty's announcement said the Gipsy struck a mine "and sub sequently was beached," but eye-wit ness accounts 'said that immediately after the explosion the- warship set tled on the shallow sea-bottom within plain view of shore. ' The 40 men estimated to have beten lost with th Gipsy, beached off shore with bridge and mast above wdter after the explosion, brought to more than 1,500 the number of lives lost by the British navy in the sink ings of the seven warcnaft. The Gipsy was the sieoond British destroyer to be sunk by a mine, the loss of another with one. life lost having been announced On November 14th. No Reply / Before announcement of the sink ing of the Gipsy tonight, an Italian steamer and-a German freighter had been added during the day to .the. ra pidly mounting toll of the war ait sea. ? Since last Saturday 18 ships, many of them neutral vessels, have been , sunk off the English coasts and Brit ish naval authorities have blamed most of the disasters on Germany's mines alleeged to have been sowed in "brutal and utter disregard" of in ternational law. Another Italian Ship The Italian steamer Fianona, 6,680 tons, struck, a mine three or four, miles off the southeast coast today, but did not sink immediately. The - Fianona was the second Italian ship to hit * mine off England, the freighter Graria having gets doW*^ over the week-end. ' 4 When the news of the explosion and wrecking of the Gipsy reached v.' the public tonight, Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir John Simon was msk* ? ing a radio broadcast^ condemning' Germany's alleged''resort totheuae ? of magnetic mines, which he cailid- . "the latest abomination of German" savagery." "Germany's mining is a breach of i the" rules of war which Garinamy only ' two months "expressly promised to obey," Simon said. j;: "AH that science and Aill cain da- i- ? vise is being demoted to meetinr th& new danger." fw were reports tbat the Brit- : iidrimvy-waA about to introduce aikrr. ;-r "noh-magrtetic" mine uweepeu made its* almost entirely of wood tio remove , the German masnoilcmfoee, lyti*i ' V . - w? - r.: hulls of approaching- ships. Of the approximatey 146 officers . and men aboardthe Gipsy, 21 were ;:;f injured, th* Admiralty announced. >>} ^ A large number of the survivors were landed at an East English port Tuesdat nhfht after awards un Shore - sxiips .una Ovv ptMBPc<t* **p on ??*". ,.v *? ' v- ? ? ? ? ? . M^mfcini6i fA Xxfirsum. ol&iio -v. yflt ,? f ? shot down at sea along the English ? i-x x ? a j | *Vv"***" battles near the Thames estuary and raid on the Shst&nd Islands by six Nasi planes. J- liS?. -tij.jnj.r- + "*'r>j-',- ?--* ?.- ? ? ' 1 .. . jgyRNSE J* 1 J # - "i -|*|i ?

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