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VOLUME IBIBTY ? '? FARMVJLLE, PITT TORTH CABOUNa\^UDAY, FEBRUARY % 1940 NUMBER FORlf|l|8|
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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 ?
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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;?
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torn at these amounts to Pitt county!
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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."
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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
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tans Lose />
Many Men4r
Futile Offensive
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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.
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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'
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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.
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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
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nave a* n^ht to expect* tne parents
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EUROPEAN
SUMMARY
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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
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Japanese Debate !
American Issues:
Tokyo Anticipates 'Dif-!
ficutties' With Uncle
Sam Over Trade Rela-,
tons 1
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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'
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Both London and Paris
Reveal Growing Demand
For Finnish Assistance
A British Government
Spokesman Says Ssb
stantial Aid Already
Going to little Baltic
Nation; French News
papers Call For Com
plete Backing of Fin
land
London, F$h. a 7.?Britain under
scored her support for Finland against
Russia today with an official state
ment indicating that she is extending
virtually every war cid short of ac
tive military intervention.
Assurance that Finland's appeals
for help were being answered sub
stantially were given in the House
>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^ .
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