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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. ? _____
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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.
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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
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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.
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- 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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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