; \ Pitmixe Oor Advertisers, For | ?' They Are Constantly Inviting | Yon To Trade With Them. * FARMVILLE { VOLUME IBIBTY ? '? FARMVJLLE, PITT TORTH CABOUNa\^UDAY, FEBRUARY % 1940 NUMBER FORlf|l|8| ? *' * aT y f, . , , ? \\ . .'? ., . ==-=== ? ===T-^^===: Persons In Pitt Have Re ceived $396,000 Benefits Social Security Activi ties In Pitt County, As Presented by Mrs. J. R. Spilman of the Unem ployment Compensa tion Commission Pitt county individuals and commu nities have received benefits to the extent of approximately $396,000 through operation of the Social Se curity Act, it is estimated by Mrs. J. B. Spilman, vice chairman of the North Carolina Unemployment Com pensation Commission, while in Pitt county Tuesday (February 6) for an address on "Social Security in the Home," at Fountain. Mrs. Spilman said that Unemploy ment Compensation is the chief item of receipts of Pitt county, due to the fact that this county contains a fairly large number of industrial plants. In the two years of benefit payments through last December, the Commis sion has paid in benefits to residents of the county $171,174.38, distributed in 36,387 checks. Through the cooperation of Mr. Nathan H. Yelton, State Director of Public Assistance, and Dr. Roma S. Cheek, executive secretary of the State Commission for the Blind, and with figures from Washington and in the Central U. C. C. office in Raleigh, Mrs. Spilman said that she was able to get a fairly accurate record of distribution in Pitt county through Social Security. Old Age Assistance in the 31 months ofr payments through Jan uary has amounted to $118,882 in Pitt county. Tthe January payments amounted to $4,490, going to 520 needy aged persons. The average was $8.64 each as compared with the State average in January of $9.72. Aid to Dependent Children, the help given to keep together families of those who have lost their natural breadwinners, amounted to $48,874.50 in the same 31 months. In January, the amount was $2,140, going to the support of 386 children. The Pitt county average was $5.54, as com pared with the State average of $6.18 in January. ~ Aid to the Blind in the sam^^U Months reached $10,918.56. Jan nary payments to 29 blind persons were $414, an average of $14.27 each, I as compared with the State average ? of $14.90. lira. Spilman explained that the I amounts for Old Age Assistance and I Aid to the Blind are provided one- I half by toe Federal Government and I one-fourth each by the State and I I county; and Aid to Dependent Chil-1 I dren has ham provided one-third each I ? by Federal, State and county govern-1 ments. From now on, however, the I Federal Government will supply one-1 half of this aid, as in cases of the I aged and blind. I In Old Age Insurance, it is neces-1 I aary to make an apportionment of I the State amount to arrive at figures I for Pitt county. I This money has been in toe small I hunpaum payments to workers in I covered employment since January 1,1 1987, and who have since become 651 I years of age or to families of such I worhars who have died since thatl data The estimate indicates thatl probably 124 individuals or families I lave received about $4475.00 since I payments started. The value of toisl I pcefawu is just now beginning to be! I apparent with the payments starting I I on a monthly bpsia this month, as! provided by Congress last summer,! war *-*? ' M_. m ,. ,_T, ?_i _ -i ? | With arc estimste in this one divi-l toon and practically accurate figures! in toe four other divisions, it is ap-l ^ _ a ?.e. ? . . - * ? - i- -1 sAfi AtofH has beew distributed in these fivel major divisions. In the other fivel dHsions, darned as "services," ap- I flortionment todicstes that probably I $41,885 has been distributed in Pitt! county about as follows: Msteroall I f^Dnppl^QulSi $6i75.oJ Child Welfare Services, 050.001 Vocational Behabilrtation, $3,200.00;? ? HV^DuC 'jsWW!! jjc-vTS* - torn at these amounts to Pitt county! - nrTn I dmjBtate, 1930 census. This part d Lean Program Expjrss in 1942 Mortgage Paper To Be Handled By Commis sioner to Help Farmers i Buy or Save Farms Washington, Feb. 2.?The act of Congress signed by President Roose velt authorising land bank commis sioner loans in the Carolinas and other sections of the country until June 1, 1942, will enable the com missioner to continue making first [and second mortgage loans to assist in financing the purchase of farms, to refinance farm debts, and for other agriculture purposes. At ? the Farm Credit administra tion, Governor Albert G. Black said approximately 440,000 farmers now have Land bank commissioner loans amounting to $690,879,000. First authorized in 1938, the com missioner's loans were used prim arily to refinance old debts. Since 1935, however, when Congress broad ened the purpose for which the loans may be used, an increasing number of farmers have obtained them to assist in financing the purchase of farms. Governor Black said the total amount of commissioner's loans made from May 12, 1933 to the end of last year was $994,434,000 of which $208415,000 or more than 20 per cent has been repaid. Repay ments in 1939 amounted to $64, 005,000 which was about 10.7 per cent higher than in 1938. It was the commissioner's loan, Mr. Black said, which in 1933-35 en abled the farm credit administration to refinance the debts of many thous ands of farmers who faced foreclos ure as a result of the depression. These loans made it possible to re finance the debts of farmers whose obligations exceeded the first-mort gage lending limits of the Federal Land Banks: The commissioner's loans are made on second as well as first mortgage security but may notj exceed $7,500 to any* one farmer. Cotton, Wheat Parity Payments WillBe Made Parity payments on cotton and wheat will definitely be made in 1940 in North Carolina, says E. Y. Floyd, AAA executive officer of State Col lege, in clearing up confusion result ing from consideration of farm pay ments in Congress. "There was appropriated at a previous session of Congress $255, 000,000 for AAA parity payments in 1940, and Congress is now consider^ ing appropriations for parity pay ments in 1940," Floyd said. The AAA officer explained that there can be no parity payment, in 1940 on tobacco because the average price of tobacco in 1939 waa mors than 75 percent of parity. "However," Floyd said, "a farmer who grows cotton or wheat, or both, as well as tobacco, will lose his .pari ty payment if he overplants the sum; total of his special allotments. For instance, if a farmer has a 10-acre cotton allotment and a five-acre to bacco allotment, he could plant rive acres of cotton and 10 acres of to bacco and still receive his cotton par ity payment, but he would lose his performance payment on tobacco. And if be planted 10 acres of tobacco and 5J. acres of cotton, he would lose both his parity and performance pay ment." - ' - -+ 9a Ml u uatM os jMuuy payiuwus wiu ub announced later, Floyd stated. The rate of. any crop cannot exceed the amount by which the 1989 avferage farm price of the commodity is lees than 75 percent of the parity price. Producers of winter wheat may ' apply fox and receive 1940 parity payments before their 1940 perform " r~%~ ' V ? t ?.* * '? Employment Service records to tans Lose /> Many Men4r Futile Offensive . 1 ' * i Finns Report Slaughter of 1,800 Russians In Fighting North Of Lake Ladoga Helsinki, Feb. 7.?The Finnish high command tonight announced the slaughter of 1,800 Russians in fight ing north of Lake Ladoga along the eastern frontier and the crushing of six powerful Red army blows against the Mannerneim Line on the Karelian Isthmus. The Russians, aided by fresh re inforcements and better communi cation lines to Leningrad, smashed i against the Finnish fortifications in ( clear, sub-zero cold for the seventh consecutive day, but were hurled ( back in each successive assualt, . tonight's communique said. Twenty-twe Russian tanks were destroyed in yesterday's fighting it was stated, bringing to 586 the , number of tanks officially listed as having been captured or shattered by the Finns. i The number of Russian fighter and bombing planes shot down was increased to 814, it was announced, by the Russians' loss of six planes yesterday. The ^iigh command said the Rus sians failed in their efforts to pierce the Mannerheim Line positions on the isthmus. The 1,800 Russians estimated to have been killed above Lake La- j doga fell in fighting near the Rus- j sian frontier northeast of the lake | where an entire battalion of Rus sian ski troops was cut to pieces, and in the bitterly contested Kuhmo sector more than 200 miles to the north. rne enemy losses aruuuu^ auiuuu in recent days amounts to nearly 1,500 dead, the Finnish commhniqire asserted. It was indicated that some of thej heaviest fighting of the war was;1 under way around Kuhmo, where V the Finns are attempting to push J.' the Russians back serosa the border ' I and clear the eastern frontier areas ; of the enemy all the way from the 11 Salla front down to the fighting^ zone directly above Lake Ladoga, j The heaviest fighting on the Kare- . lian Isthmus, where the Russians are attempting to break through ?' the Finnish line toward Vupuri, about 19 miles northward, again,; occurred near Summa along the main highway to Finland's second largest pity. The "Russian attacked in four waves against the Summa links of the Mannerheim Line yesterday?', making a total of nine separate at-1 tscVfl there in 48 hours?with the heavy support of tanks. "Trojan horse" sleds and shattering artillery fire. The Summa attacks all were re pulsed, the high command said, as were two other major blows further east toward the center of the Isth mus. at Punnusjoki, which had been i quiet in recent weeks. Lt.-Gov. HOTtOB to j Address Farmville Chapter D, A. II. -? v- ,^v ?i ~ ? fu ?/' The Major Benjamin May Chapter, D. A. B., of Farmville, will celebrate the 14th anniversary of its organiza-! tion in the Chapter House here on, Saturday, February 10, with Lieuten ant-Governor Wilkins P. Horton as guest speaker, and Mrs. U. H. Cozart and Mrs. J. C. Eagles, of Wifemraa hostesses. Mrs. Ti C. Turnaga| is regent. The Lieutenant-Governor haa Wta reroetfed to speak on the sub ject of^Nbtionsl Defense" at this time. i chapter, with a membership of around sixty representative women of Farmville, Fountain, Wilson, Rodf*; Mount, Kinston^ Greenville, Raleigh,' Lumberton and Raeford, and a num- j ber from Virginia, Tennessee, Florida1 J i-iSSwTflSw 1 in promoting State and National as p well as civic inter?# in this section -[during the fourteen yews of its ex l v V interested' ? z5f> #.'k, ''? \ ?.1 ' 1' ?/. ,v: v. -' *1 i- ; < ? uiviittiWQfAV ' ? ? llfr ?1' 6A Jones Passes After hng Illness Veteran Tobacco Buyer and Prokinent Citizen To Be Laid To Best In Wilson Cemetery Sat urday Morning:. Final rites for Gustavus Adolphus Jones, 72, a well known veteran to bacco buyer of Eastern North Caro lina, and one of Farmville's most prominent citizens, will be held from his late residence on George street, at 10:8ft o'clock Saturday morning, by Rev. J. R. \ Rountree, rector of Emmanuel Church. Interment will be made in the Wilson cemetery. Mr. Jones had been in failing health for several years and his death, which occurred Thursday afternoon at 4:30 o'clock, was not unexpected. He was a native of Pittsylvania county, Virginia, being born and reared near Danville, and residing in the city of Danville for several years, where he became in early manhood a tobacco buyer for his uncle, E. E. Jones, of E. K. Jones and Company. He later became associated with the American Tobacco Co., as buyer, and spent some time in Europe. After accepting: a position with the Imperial Tobacco Co., Mr. Jones came to Farmville as buyer soon after the opening of the Ftomville market, and . during a record-period of 28 years on one market, he become prominently identifieJ as a tobacconist, was made branch manager of the local Imperial plant, served the Tobacco Board of . Trade as president for a number of years and was recognised as one of the foremost tobacco buyers and branch managers of the industry. He was retired owing to failing health in 1985. The tobacco industry so filled his earthly life that it was his wish that he be laid to rest in Wilson, the world's largest tobacco market. He had been a member of Emman uel Episcopal Church for many years, and served as vestryman until ill health forced him to give up his ser vice in this connection. He was ac tively identified with the building of the present edifice. He was first married to Miss Doro thea Zimmisch, of Baltimore, Md., from which a daughter and son sur vive; Mrs. J. A. Nahm, of Baltimore, Md., and Charles Edward Jones, of Farmville. He later married Miss Lelia Ann Regis, of Washington, D. C., who sur vives him, together with a" son, Max Frederick Jones, a senior at the Uni versity of North Carolina. ? ? v - Surviving also are a sister, Mrs. J. B. White, of New York City, and a brother, Harry Jones, of Greenville. ?? , , ?' ' ' ?? ? . I I ,A I ? ?> *.! f-Cii^^.-.l'.1!. tl|lJ-i? ty.J.U . ; B jHOTSO 8. SIMS ? MiMg^"'^ 1 FARM AID SEDUCED. I WALLACE PROTESTS,;1 NAVAL AUTHORIZATION. EDISON CITES CONDITIONS, n* f PRESIDENT ENJOYS ISSUE. Rigorously following its economy policy, the House Appropriations Committee last week drastically re duced the budget request for farm relief, cutting the total from the $788,929,519 requested^ *634,S99g I 256. The chief slices from the bud get figures were $72,678,812 from the fa1 ^ snt ^ loans. ^ ^ G. A. JONES Veteran Tobacco Buyer ? %d Chinese Get wer House Aid Senate Foreign Rela tions Group Approves Bill Paviitl Way For Money HelpV Washington, Feb. 7.?The Senate foreign relations committee cleared the decks for financial aid to war invaded Finland and China today While the House defeated two propos als aimed at breaking off diplomatic relations with Russia. The committee approved, 12 to 6, a bill increasing the Export-Import Bank's capital by $100,000,000, of which $20,000,000 could be loaned on a non-military basis to China and $20,000,000 to Finland, although names of both nations are omitted. The proposed Chinese loan came as a surprise and was interpreted in some quarters as a new blow at Ja pan in protest against her treatment of Americans in China. China now is repaying a $26,000, 000 commercial loan made last 'year. The one tentatively aproved today was sponsored by Committee Chair man Key Pittman who said "there is the greatest desire on the part of the: administration to make the loan." The House action came on two amendments to the State Department appropriations bill. They were spon sored by Representative John Mc Cormick, D., Mass., and would have eliminated funds for keeping open the American embassy in Moscow and for paying the $17,500 annual salary of Ambassador Laurence Steinhardt. Attacks Russia. The first was rejected 95 to 88 and the second 108 to 105 'after heated debate in which many Congressmen heaped calumny on Russia for her invasion of Finland. The Senate fr expected to take up the loan bill tomorrow. Under its provisions; :.!^ Export-Import Bank, at its decretfon, can Ioanup to $20, 000,000 of new money "to "any coun try." As drawn by the Senate bank ing and currency committee, it ori ginally-provided that no more than $5,000,000 could be loaned to Chins, the amount the Far Eastern, nation has repaid on its previous loan. Pittman put through an amend ment changing the language so that China Can borrow np to $20,000,000. At the same time, Federal Loan Ad ministrator Jesse Jones confirmed a recent United Press dispatch say ing that China was negotiating for a new loan and was asking for $75, 000,000. Finland hlreadyhas borrowed The oommittee rejected, 16 to 3, a Imotion to grant the little Baltic re ?public a direct loan of 180,000,000 Iwhich could have been used for pur* Ichoses of munitions and armaments ?as well as non-military supplies, I As approved, the bill stipulates Ithat all loans made must be for non ?military purposes. Lunch Room To I Open at School I Friday Fob. 9th I I A great deal of interest is being Ishown here in activities connected I with the opening of a lunch room in I the Farmville graded school, Friday of this, week by the Parent-Teacher lAssodation in conjunction with the I The menu on opening day will con Isist of vegetable soup, crackers, muf fins and apple sauce at a charge of |10c with milk and lea cream supplied 1st 6c each. A menu for each week Iwill be published in thfese columns Mrs. C. L. Barrett, president of the Parent-Teacher Association, mem bers of her committees have worked luntireingly in behalf of the project land on the arrangements connected I with operation of the lunch room. r,. The basement dining room, used by ? the Botary Club, is being renovated and equipped this week to serve as ?need* nere -ior years, ana tnose responsible V , ? _ ? nave a* n^ht to expect* tne parents I Mik A 4 A A A A *11 ! i continuation or too venture# I ? ? ??" EUROPEAN SUMMARY _ Helsinki. ? Russian planes bomb prison fall of Red army prisoners but Finns take Russians to shelter; Russians keep pounding in vain at Mannerheim Line after estimated losses of 20,000 wounded, killed in a week. . London.?Britain reveals dispatch of "war material" to Finland, ap- , points new minister to Helsinki; ] Irish mourn two Irish republican arniy zealots hanged at Birmingham gaol. Washington.?House twice rejects efforts to end diplomatic relations with Russia; Senate foreign, relations committee approves measure to help Finland by $20,900,000 loan. Berlin?Authorized German sources disclaim existence of German-Rus sian military agreement Willi Day if Prays The World Day of Prayer will be observed at the Presbyterian Church on Friday, February 9, at 2:00 P. M., with the Baptist Missionary Society of which Mrs. G. W. Davis is presi dent in charge, with representatives from all churches taking part The public is cordially invited. The service will be a simple, rev erent period for prayer ard presenta tion of the four... special fields of work which the World Day rf Prayer offerings help to support, namely: the Migrants, Christian Literature, Indian Students in U. S. Government Schools, and Union Christian Col leges which demonstrate the unity in, and growing opportunity for in terdenominational service. helped After changing his cows from grass hay to lesptedesa hey, F. L. Corriher of the Nathana_CBBek~com? - munity in Ashe County noticed an jj almost immediate increase in milk j production. 1 . j Japanese Debate ! American Issues: Tokyo Anticipates 'Dif-! ficutties' With Uncle Sam Over Trade Rela-, tons 1 : v Tokyo, Feb. 7.?The Japanese gov- 1 ernmeftt told Parliment today that it was preparing for "anticipated dif- 1 ficulties" in its economic relations ] with the United States and was con- < sideling the question of abrogating Ij the nine-power treaty of 1922. These statements were made in a| session marked by pointed remarks 1 concerning the present relations be-1 tween the United States and Japan,1 with one member raising the ques tion of withdrawal of Americans I from China and Premier Admiral! Mitsumasa Yor-ai stating Japan I* would reconsider her attitude to-1 ward the United States if that coun- 1 try "continues its oppression and!1 interference with Japan." -L Discussion centered on expiration 11 of tfco Japanese-American trade treaty of 1911 last January 26 after I its denunciation bj Washington. Answering a declaration by Yoahi- \ michikuboi, member of the Seiyugai, , a major political, party, that ending j of the trade pact was *an insult, , Foreign Minister Hachiro Atita said h that the r act was irreproachable ] legally, hut that the mariner had caused dissatisfaction to Japan. Aadao Matsumoto of Japan's second I j major party, the Minseito, *d?d|i "What does the United States request 13 from Japan for readjustment of re- < lafcions" with Japan, and Arita re- < plied that the United States "re-l; quests the Security of the lives and 1j property of American residents inli to advise the American- government Jl to vvithdra its from J' j. MiamJ I' Ant&i f Commons as Britain's own war vas felt in a hitherto untouched naritinme area. The 4,300-ton Irish nail steamer Munster sank between Liverpool and Ireland after an ex plosion apparently caused by t. mine. Fhe 200 passengers and crew were saved. - Replying to a question whether 'every step is being taken to aid Finland quickly," Foreign Under secretary R. A. Butler said "Sen. Phe urgency of this matter is very nuch realized by the government" The Finnish war was in the fore front also in Berlin and Paris. A movement to speed full ma arial assistance to Finland gained itreamroller strength in France as he authoritive newspaper Le Tempe came out for "effective, com plete and total" aid for the F&na. ! French demands that the . Allied governments give Finland "com plete" aid in her fight against Rus sia increased amid press reports hat. Germany was seeking a Rus sian-Finnish peace in order to re ease Soviet resources for. her own ise^ The authontave Le Temps ern ;orial was typical of demands which lave come from many eources, in :luding Premier Daladier'a own nadi sal-Socialist party.. 'fte -newspaper, said hr no longed vaa possible to separate the Euro* lean war from the Baltic conflict lecause of the close ties between he Rich and the Soviet and "any >low against the aggressor in Fin and is against the ally anu helper , >f Hitler and directly affects bim." - > Authorized German sources to Ber in declared Germany has no com nitments to give techinical or mili ary assistance to Russia in ? Fin and and declared there is no Ger nan-Russian military pact Not German Concern. The declaration restated Ger> nany's position that the Finnish iVaris not her concern, though Nazis expressed sympathy with Russia's josition. Saying in Commons that "msas ures have been taken to assist the Finnish government with wsr ma^ trials, including aircraft" Butler laid he understood "crews are readi y available in Finland competent o fly any aircraft obtained!" The Bhitish were careful, however, o conceal the exact nature of aid o Finland. "If we said we were sending so nany tanks or that type of airplane >r artillery weapon it Would give iway Finnish strategy," a military source explained, "but you can be rare we. are sending _ manufactured articles, not raw materials." At the beginning of her war with Germany, Britain seemed careful to ivoid offering Russia, but her pledges ' of aid to Finland have hanged that British assistance is not wholly al xuiatic, observers said, since Bus iian preoccupation in Finland dimin zhes Soviet "bogey" value in Ger ren diplomatic maneuvers, particu arly in southeast Europe and the Near East Allies Alert The allies have alert eyes in this ; legion, as was demonstrated by the Meeting in "Cairo today of General . Maxim*Waygand and lieutenant- ^ General Sir Archibal Wavell, French uut British military chieftains in the pjgj Near East, for an inspection of de tenses and review of British Indian and Egyptian troops. to expa^mu^ . ?. ? 1 1 1 1 . ? 11 W. P? Workers To _ -a* . iii ?