? v ' r Patronize Our Advertiaers, Far - f They Are Caoataatibr Inviting ; ? X Tea To Trade With Them, | f .. t j? i sell ror^mn* { FAiarVlLLE "" ' -i.u^uL "lumniu II I III A VOLTOMTHa** ? FABMnM* HIT COP^ ?6CT CAMUKA. r - "-y-^-jy, ..j.v ? .1 .. . i ? ii w. i 'in Annual Report D, A. R. Chapter Reflects Credit ?* in I .. Major Benjamin May Chapter Has Splendid Report; State and Na tional Dues Paid In Full; Activities and Achievements On High Plane Of mutual interest and justifiable! pride to the entire community and State of North Carolina is the out standing record of the Farmville Chapter, Major Benjamin May, Daughters of the American Revolu-1 tion. With a membership drawn from the women of distinction in j Eastern North. Carolina this group reflects culture and high endeavor for the whole State as the following report of this year's activities will indicate: State and National dues paid in full 1989-40 $160.00 Building & Loan 360.00 Tyson plate and gift of money 350.00 Colonial banquet table, me morial to Mrs. Penelope May Keel, gift of her sons. 175.001 Colonial sofa, gift of Mrs. J. C. Eagles 250.00 Pictures and Christmas do nation 11.00 Insurance and Plumbing 183.00 Planting expenditures 35.00 Cleaning and servant hire for Chapter House 25.00 Gifts of additional china and kitchen equipment 25.00 Year Books 15.00 Christmas decorations 5.00 . Fuel donated 75.00 j Antique andirons 5.00 Miscellaneous donations 75.00 Lights and Walter 45.00 j Chapter dues par capita 53.00 $1847.00 Augmenting this magnificent rec ord of figures are those "Intangibles" which give awe to any organization: A spirit of harmony and high en deavor, permeating all purpoees, plans r>t otwifiwco, A splendid year's study of National Problems and Pblicfee: Entertainments radiating a glow of elegance; Most significant of all were the inspiring devotionals, based on "Knowing God"?the power of His attributes and the sustaining assur ance of His presence. The officers and membership can fed with sincere pride that they are achieving a proud performance. Br. W. I. Wooten Officially Announces For Legislature Dr. W. L Wooten, of Greenville, president end superintendent of the Pitt General hospital for the past 10 yeits and widely known as a physi cian and surgeon, today formally an nounced his candidacy for the State House oi Afprasentatrves. net coun I ty has two members in the House. I JK. Wooten was born and reared I county and educated at M*ty College, Durham, now Duke UHfcarfty. He taught echoo! two ? following his gzadoation at Oifte, then entered the de I psrtment of the University of North U CjgeHni and later received his M. D. I at Jefferson Medical College, Phila I delphia. I f Hti?aCpmtfce ^ I taraf tfte I^^te Wooten, and they I Ha is a meab%cf the Jarvis Me I bar of the board ^fcewards, a mem I her <rf the Ha.fc.1j4 orator; Shriner; I Ch-BTOWC0Ba3rN PC?hMtoti H BMVwt'-' nA0Vt ? tnamflAP. ? fifteen ywrs. I t M ? _? W.K. '... ? , ..... Vf, ?? -I I vVwiatfjr w w jcmiiw P^ C^ewiiiilty -IIseidtal in Green ? Lurch Reem Nates Total of 140 Children Served Daily; 20 Un derweights Given Milk Twice Daily Mrs. Claude L. Barrett, president of the Parent-Association, which is co-sponsor with the WPA in the school lunch room project here, and members of the committee, Mrs. R LeRoy Rollins, lbs. R. S. Soott and, Superintendent J. H. Moore, who have been active in getting the venture underway, met with Mrs. Jennie! Flanagan, head of the lunch room and faculty member* on Friday after noon for a discussion of plans rela tive to its successful operation. Members of the school board and their wives were special guests at the lunch room on Wednesday, and remained to see the children served. And two of tiie faculty members have lunched each day this week at i the school dining room for observa tion purposes. An average of 90 free lunches are served to undernourished children daily, with around 50 paid-lunches being served. Milk is being given twice daily to 20 underweight chil dren, with records of progress being kept. Menus For The Week of March 4: MONDAY Soup, crackers, graham muffins with raisins, stewed apples 10c. (Milk 5c; Ice cream 5e; sandwiches j 5c; soup and crackers 6c ? served daily). J TUESDAY Meat loaf, tomato sauce, parsley potatoes, cream sauce, apple salad, graham muffins 10c. WEDNESDAY Meat balls and spaghetti, slaw, corn bread 10c. THUBSDAY Soup, corn meal muffins, apple jacks 10c. FRIDAY White beans with pork, turnip greens, corn bread, apple 10c. . '?.r. I week end in GreenviUe l^t,^\ednfiA*yj Craft were^| |G^r^und ^dH1^I^ri^^^dpI I day. , _x. r_ ii*irnB ? Marriiall^ Hinjwn of I M^t Wednesday. I I George Bailey Wednesday I jgutj prosuted ov?p KSSertSS^wgy ttttwrerttng fgg^B HI m iUUafenj KW6Cv COuTBik fv >: WWJ - n ? apoow ? TZBUfpaffi -??? I ??? I It wrvnfR! I ?[ IlV/livD ? ? B '.;. ?--.V-<:A II -I.I '" II *'? ? ???? m(rt, ll<1TI j Loan to Finland Scores Approval Of Lower House Representatives, How ever, Sly Away Prom Casting Record Vote on Measure; Fear Elec tion and Neutrality Angles Washington, Feb. '??.?ine Mouse today voted to help Finland to the extent of a $20,000,000 loan for non military purchases in the United States, but shied away, emphatically from taking a record vote on the question. Although overwhelmingly in favor of helping the Finns, many mem bers feared that European events might take audi a turn that a vote for the loan oonld bring them elec tion-time difficulties. So, by a gen eral, but tadt agreement, paaaage came on a rising ballot It showed 168 for the bill and 51 against, the total a bare quorum of the House. The measure would add $100,000,000 to the lending funds of the Export Import Bank, with the understand ing that $20,000,000 of that amount would go to Finland^ and a like sum to China. At no point in the measure is Finland mentioned di rectly. Previously passed by the Senate, the bill now goes back to that branch for action on House amendments forbidding Export-Import Bank loans to countries in default oh their warj i debts, and permitting the purchase of commercial aircraft us distinguish-! ed from military planes. Senator Barkley of Kentucky, the Demo cratic leader, announced that he j would try to obtain Senate approval of the changes tomorrow, sending the measure to the White House al most immediately. Senator Brown (D-Mich.), its au thor, said he saw no objection to the House amendments and believed the Senate ahould accept them so the ftmds could be made available im mediately. A peculiar situation has surround-1 ed the bill from the start of its leg islative career. It has had general approval, but many of its supporters have been more than a little skittish as to the future consequences of catt ing their votes for it Thus, there was much cloak-room talk of what would be the situation of those who voted for the bill if by campaign time the British, for in stance, should have an expeditionary force fighting the Russians in Fin land. In effect, the situation was a reflection of what is commonly re jgarded as a genorql nation-wide sen timent for helping Finland, but against jeopardizing American neu trality in any way. So, the word was passed up and down the aisles and through the cloakrooms ?tbat no record vote?a vote on which each would have to 'T I kt> ?hinil far nr tnimt the *?wn< "W mimUSU Tr? I came from two sources: Those who I thought the United States should go I farther in helping Finland and shonld I vision for a direct loan to the Baltic ?lindaM of outrieht war rnnpHw, jb jefi Its ^ntt^wn I ForJxvtCeiin^QOrice a J GrteavHle, rw. 28. Hoy T. Cox | - J IfiffMfttiwjUA J t) A ? ftnain AMI) T IT C j Oju If lUvvTr lilOy. X/? O* PjnW* wlQ v? -:Jd* I * ? |fc ? . . v vp .^*_^^?2Sm^\ ? l ?? ?1 ?? "St.' . v f^^^V^M?^PsEtJK'W^EMMi'^w^X^E. Br HUGO 8. SIMS (Washington Correspondent) CAMPAIGN UNDERWAY. DELAYED CONVENTIONS. F. D. R. CAUSES DOUBT; CRUISE SPECULATION. JAPAN SITS TIGHT. "MILLIONAIRE" INCOMES. FRANK'S GROUP REPORTS. WPA AND BUSINESS. ' . While the presidential campaign has already started in one sense <xf the wind, the major engagement will not begin until after the party con-; ventiona. These are set for the lat est dates since 1866, with the Repub licans meeting at Philadelphia on June 24th and the Democrats con vening in Chicago July 16th. There will be. about fifteen weeks between the formation of Party lilies and the voting in November. By postponing selection of the date for the Democratic Convention, the Party in power beliefs that it will have some advantage from looking over the nominees of the Republican Par ty and studying the issues made by the platform of the minority. Dem ocratic politicians also take the posi tion that the party in power has cer tain advantages and needs less time to promote its candidate. Unless President Roosevelt makes some' declaration as to his intentions, upon tiie. completion of his present vacation cruise, it seems likely that nothing definite will'be known until the Democrats gather to make their decision. Until the Democratic nomi nee is actually selected, the third term issue will remain suspended. While it is generally believed that the President prefers to retire, there is widespread belief that he will be drafted by the Democrats, particular ly if the situation in Europe is threatening and the Republican cam paign seems to be getting underway Jin a manner which makes progress with the voters. While many Demo crats are opposed to the third term idea, the reader niay assume that they prefer victory in November with the President as their candidate rath er than defeat in November with some other nominee. il -gatherers, looking for sen I apparently speculated rather Ipon the poaaibility that Presi losevelt, on his cruise, might I ?h officials of European coun | discuss the situation abroad, lie President declined to deny [poaaibility, the stories multi Vhey made good reading, but lident's cruiser went through |un* Canal steamed into lific Ocean. Certainly, this le a strange place to meet In emissaries, but this little ?ill hardly kill off the specu lum next time you hear it, I will be amended to provide lasting between the President Imese representatives to con lut conditions in the Pacific. I f you take it, the speculation k Bns between the United lid Japan show no immediate I 3ent' States Interne* on A^n C1H wfBilStl8 "No group has a grattardagMe of ?iltfntsrott ia the MeMM cf the . Decennial Cessna of 1940 than the farmor,"declared D. W. Lupton, Dis trict Supervisor of the Census for this 4UtrUL:'h ? ??- *- ? v* *. * *r 'i "Agriculture as an industry has been in bad health for a number of ' years," declared Mr. Lupton. "Just 1 as a prudent person goes to his doc tor for a complete checkup the far- 1 mers will in the Sensus of 1M0 get 1 the most complete study of their pyxnptons that has ever been made. 1 Pacts to 'be collected on the seven 1 million feme will provide the far- ' mers themselves, the government, and < students of the farm problem with a;11 guide to the future. * "The nation as -a whole cannot-be ; fundamentally prosperous -unless the ? fanner is prosperous," declared Mr. 1 Lupton, "becnee the farms dhtectly support 26 per cent of our population I and the business of farming effects i about half of all of our rieoeic. ' Be- 1 side* being- the produce" of the na- [ tion'g food supply, the farmer is one 1 of fee largefct customers of the bus!- < ness man. The farmer's ability to I purchase goods directly affects all I business as !well as their wmtiaMs in 1 the dty The farmer is one of the ' greatest suppliers 01 raw materials for industry. "Vital changes throughout the world have directly affected fee pros perity of the American farmer," ex plains Mr. Lupton. "Disclocation, of world markets due to wan and 'the efforts of foreign nations -to make j themselves self-sufficient has msfe [] the American farm surplus burden- ] some by curtailing exports. Mschan- , ization of farihs has increased farm > production while decreasing the nana- ] ber of customers even on the farm. Greater mechanization in factories | has reduced physical labor and fee , demand for staple food products. , Lighter women's clothes have added ] to fee cotton surplus, and reduction of physical labor has resulted in a , per-capita decline in fee consumption ] of wheat. The-reductionof homes y and mules from 27,000,000 to 16,000,- j 000 in favor of tractors and trucks , have made it necessary to rind a j market for cash oops from 80,000,- j 000 acres formerly used to raise horse feed. The greatly reduced Wife } rate from 26 babies per 1,000 popu- , lation to 17 means fewer moutbi to j feed in cooing yeaza. j "The farmer ia therefore confront- , ed wife the proMatrf of adjusting his ] production to meet feme vitai changes , and fee Census will tell him what ? these changes are. The Census fl- j gures will teQ him what crops are ] being overproduced; what progress is being made to use mors of his crops , in industrial plants. ' , "Industry has derolopsd a fine ( statistical record which guides its < future operations. No one of fee 7,000,000 farmers can develop such a , set of records for his own guidance because he has only his own figtaea. Census records of IfityflQQ farms combined In Urn only tional Dictare or iarin opoibuoob w BierooTfam ^blema^s ' to meet this problam." ?the ?record of farm operation* In thl* mc itW^n ; l ^UTHL mn?') ODoTfttioni ouCu II numDer ox iotio -jJ. *< ^.\j r> * ^| t miftiili * f.^tftv ;? I zer And gasoline. ? .1* help from their i^ffntflj nuuiy I %:>) flSaraS: ?"- ? ? ? *. "* 11 EUROPEAN I SUMMARY Washington-?Hull discloses Unit ed States seeking "world-wide sup port for pottHtar end to economic autarchy, regimentation and totali tarianism; House votes $20,000,000 iron-military lota for Finland. London?'Lloyd George warns Bri tons must till "every acre* to win liege wirfare because Germans have attained, virtual economic i*elf-suffi dency; Kermit Roosevelt to voitm teer as leader of English interna tional toigade going to Finland. Helsinki.?Russians gain in Arctic; Finns pay invaders suffer heavily in Herce TtarSHan Isthmus fighting. Bucharest ? Germany offers to guarantee Rumania's borders but de sands in return virtual trade mono poly. Budapest?Police, under Nasi pres sure, lay virtual siege to French smbcssy harboring 40 Czecho-Slovak passports; hundreds of other refu gees face deportation to Germany as result of German drive to break up 'underground railway." Kington To Be Host City To The Scout Camporee I III B Members of the Farmville troop Boy Scouts, and their leader*, Ed Nash Warren and C. L. Ivey, am looking forward with great enger 16M to the annual Patrol Camporee, which is to held April 10-20-21 in Sinston. John J. Sigwald, Scout Executive of die Eaat Carolina Council, will serve is the "Camporee Chief," and a splin iid program of Scout Sctivity has Men plgnnad. Jack Skinner, Mayor of Einstxm, will be host Camporee chairman, and lias already sent a personal invita tion to every scout in Eastern Caro Jna and has promised that no stone will be left unturned in Kington's ef fort to make their stay profitable and peasant. Featuring the Camporee entertain ment program will be the campfire svent of Saturday night, at which Herman Joseph, nationally known down and comedian will be master )t ceremonies in a real scout circus. Mr. Joseph was the leading down with Singling Bros, and Barnum and Bailey's Show for 20 seasons. 'An Bagle Court of Honor will be another lighlight A total of 1158 Seouta and Scouters were in attendance at the last Cam poree, and an even larger number is skpsried by the host city of Kins ion this year. ?ftUBLB FUNERAL HELD ? FOR BIB. AND MRS. SPEIGHT A pall of Borrow has covered the kntire Fountain community for the pastweek as the result of thavjiwtii ftf ode of the, oldest and most highly Bsteemed couples in this section, I John Rascom Speight, and Mrs. Mar Kha Ann Moore Speight, which occur red Thursday at their home deer Fountain. Both were in their eigh vedding anniversary in June of last Bftaal rites Wake conducted irom the I Speight home Saturday afternoon at Wire# o'clock by Rer. L. B. Manning, lp>r of Aspen Grove FtOe Will Baptist Church, of which Mrs. Speight listed in the services. Interment was I tfv M jjuW' af ^ af- ] liNtnotoitifllUttLr-iiil! *1 IT i. Western Front Growsgs Wm More Active as Spring Fighting Season Nears " ' U ' ' * H Patrol and Artffltfy Fighting Between Ite French and German? Becoming More Pro nounced; British War planes Again Make Flight Over German Capital Paris, Feb. 28.?Renewed patrol fighting on the Western Front,, ac companied by continued atorialadtfvi ty, was reported tonight by military dispatches which said that French artillery had smashed German at tempts to feel oat advance positions. < At the same time, official an nouncements disclosed that British reconnaissance planes had flown over Berlin?as well as Kiel, Cuxhaven and Hanover?again last night, and reported that two German planes, which participated in mass flights over France, had been downed in the past 48 hoars. The land action was reported par ticularly hot in the sector between ? the Moselle and Smr rivers, not far from the Luxembourg border, where the Nazis have strode again and again in the last 10 days at French advance positions. Three German patrols were halted in this area by French barrages be fore they got within striking dis tance of their objectives, dispatches from the front said. Further east, !n the vicinity of the Blies River, French artillery whs reported to have directed a hot fire against German positions, discourag ing patrol activity in this sector. The French high comnllnd took note of these operations in its mottl ing communique by mentioning in creased artillery and patrol activity, but its nightly communique said merely "quiet day." Berlin Version. (In Berlin the German high com mand said a strong French infantry assault, supported by artillery, had been repelled east of the Moselle River last night.) Announcement of the downing of two of the German planes which had taken port in flights over France, penetrating to the Paris are*, Uga made in;a special communique.' It did not say, however, v whether the planes had been downed'by anti-air craft fire or pursuit ships. Meanwhile, the British Air Min istry, Which earlier had reported, two other German planes destroyed off . the English coast, miwrorad .that the Royal Air Force had made its fifth flight over Germany in el* days, reconnoitering Hanover and the Nazi naval bases at Kiel and Cuxhaven in addition to fly ing over Berlin. On the home front, Premier Bala dier conducted a detailed review of French diplomacy before the Cham ber of Deputies foreign affairs com mittee. A communique, issued by the oommittee after the conference, said! ?n,irir.(r o-m lunation. Premier .?u ? , Daladfof,-while discarding' the illu sions of thot* who depict Germany as a country which is on the thres hold of collapse, enumerated the grave interior difficulties whichthe , : Reich is attempting to camouflage by its propaganda, and developed?with a vigor which drew unanimous ap plause ? the reasons which juitify pur confidence in victory.9 " Aid For FbdamL 5' Daladier, the communique said, disced the sttfu. of A&S aid to^nland, and^ld the cot)a< . J3B governments atuvuue towaru lpLkfl ^v^mm ent Ixflid * njioTojfised ^ to TypftT\fv ' KnniYlitlicrfl Jw; "vVa . * V> ? jf'- %e? * '? -> #*^0'. ?>.jJT7''\ ?*-V\' ?persteo Hanoi-x timing raiiroaa ?- . ?>' ft ? I l!H KlSUwrAJiXlibiiXU ttzoSIl w ar aj, " jo r' - ? _ ?. -. jaues bcam^ wfW Wfwaagia

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