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I VOLUME THIBTY-ONB FABMVILLE, PITT COUNTY," NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, JULY 26, 1940 " V . . NUMBER TEN
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Registration To Begin
On September 1 Under
Proposed Conscription
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Date Tentatively Set By
War Department With
F i r s t 400,000 Con
scripts To Start Train
ing Month Later ?
State Draft Machinery
Ordered To Be Put In
Shape
Washington, July 24.?Registration
under the pending conscription pro- I
gram has been set tentatively for
about September 1, it was learned i
today, with the first 400,000 con
scrips expected to start training a
month later. ?
Although Congress has ydt to act
on the necessary legislation, a War
department official disclosed that
, agencies in the 48 states already
. have begun preparations for the se
_ lective service plan. The initial
trainees probably will be chosen from
men between 21 and 31 years old.
The Senate Military committee
started the compluaory training is
sue toward a congressional decision
by voting yesterday to recommend
enactment of the Burke-Wadesworth
bill. Committee members thought
it would be ready for Senate debate
next week. Vigorous opposition has
been forecast.
The committee meanwhile worked
to perfect details of the measure,
which provides for registration of all
males between 18 and 64 years?a J
total of 42,000,000. Only those be
tween 21 and 45?some 24,000,000?
would be liable for active service.
The War department officials who
disclosed September 1 as the tenta- |
tive registration date, said the joint
army and navy selective service
committee had notified existing state j
agencies that Congress may soon
pass a training bill. The agencies
were instructed to overhaul their
draft machinery in anticipation.
Some states have started prepar
ing lists of doctors, lawyers and other
civilians needed to register and clas
sify the 11,000,000-odd young men
between 21 and 31 who probably will
be the first enrolled.
Washington
Foftn News
Recommendations For
1941 Program Follows
General Outline Of
AAA Plan
More emphasis on soil conserva
tion, increased opportunity for coun
ty AAA committees to adapt the'
AAA program to individual farm re
quirements .and staengthing of the
Ever-Normal-Granary have been rec
ommended for the 1941 AAA Farm
Program by a national conference of
State AAA committeemen and offi
cials, the Agricultural Adjustment
; Administration announces.
The recommendations, which will
form the basis for specific drafting
of program provisions later, do not
change the general outlines of the
present AAA program. The recom
mendations were adopted at a four
day meeting attended by approxi
mately 200 State AAA committeemen
and field officials. Representatives
of the State Agricultural Extension
Services and Vocational Agriculture
brought together the recommenda
, tions of previous State, county, and
also attended. The national meeting
community groups of farmers.
Important recommendations in
clude:
1. Addition of new soil-building
practices which farmers may adopt.
2. - Extension of the plan undet
which farmers receive advances oi
lime, superphosphate and other ma
terials necessary for soil conserva
tion, against payments that are earn
ed under the program. This previ
sion is especially , important to smal
farmers who ordinarily do not hav<
enough funds to purchase these ma
terials.
3. Extension of the special wind
erosipn prevention program to a larg
er area in the Southern Greet Plains
4. Tfcat fazmers.be permitted t<
earn portions of tfcair payments onl;
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,
and an enric'ied soil.
"Participation in the program this
year of more than 6 million farmers
is the highest in the history of the
program. The manner in which far
mers in each community elect their
own committeemen to administer the
program locally is an example of
working democracy which has attract
ed worldwide attention. It is proof
that national unity may be achieved
by democratic methods and machin
ery."
The Agricultural Conservation
Program provides for establishment
of national allotments for soil-de
pleting crops which are broken down
j to individual farms.
A soil-building practice goal is also
! determined for each farm. Determi
nation of national acreage allotments
for crops other than wheat will be
i made later in the year, after the out
i come of the 1940 crop is more defi
I nitely known.
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( Rates of payment bo farmers for
J cooperation in the program will be
determined in part, by the size of the
acreage allotments. Farmers who
plant within the acreage allotments
for their farm and who put specified
I soil-building practices into effect are
eligible for payments under the pro
!gram.
I
| In the 1941 program tftere win De
two payments, the conservation pay
ments and parity payment. The con
| servation payments are contingent
upon the appropriation authorized
for the program by Congress. An
appropriation of $212,000,000 has al
ready been made for parity, with
these payments to producers conting
ent upon their planting within their
I acreage allotments.
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The following paragraphs sum
marize the principal recommenda
tions of the national conference which
will provide the baais for drafting
the 1941 program in detail:
Soil-Building Practices:
That in designated areas a farmer
if he maintains 50 percent of the
crop land on his farm in perennial
legumes or grasses, be permitted to
earn a part of his soil-building al
lowance by carrying out supplemen
tal practices not normally carried out
on the farm. This would allow far
mers to use practices needed on the
farm, but which are not provided in
the program. That a woodland fire
protection practice be adopted.
Allotments:
That peanut acreage allotments be
established for all farms producing
peanuts Sat market in states having
peanut acreage allotments.
? That no payments be made on "new
farm" cotton allotments.
That allotments on farms consist
ing of newly developed or cleared
land be limited by State Committees
to make them relatively smaller than
I allotments on nearby "old farms"
(Continued on page 2)
Near Unanimous
Vote Cast Here
For VIM Mot
?
Only Three Farmers
Against Three Year
Program ? Farmville
Polls Give 9&5 Per
centage Favoring Con
trol; ~ County Has 98
Percent
.?
'f Tobacco farmers, land owner* and
? tenants of Farmville township went
' to the polls on Saturday and voted
' an overwhelming majority in favor
? at the three year referendum, the ef
ficial count reported by Registrar C.
I A? Tyson being 681 for the three
- year control and 3 against, with no
k votes cast for the 1 year plan.
Pitt county - farm leaden were
? jubilant ever results as gpowera join
t ad with others of the State in ex
* pressing approval of Federal control
> of their cropaOo help bolster prices
f from last year's sag, with 6,58* far
- men favoring the plan; 20 for the
1 one year plan-and 188 again*, con
trol.
, A o^vBSS^of b*^ta c^ injhe
Many Proposals
Against Fifth
CsbmnActiriliiit
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* ? .
Presented By Various
Pan - American Dele
gates
Havana.- July 24.?An Imposing
array of proposals to combat fifth
column activities and build defense
were offered to the Pan-American
conference today by the United
States and various Latin-American
delegations.
The United States delegation pro
posed inter-American machinery to
suppress firmly the activities of any
group acting upon orders from
abroad designed to produce inter
national disorder or establish re
gimes not acceptable to the Ameri
can way of life.
A convention binding Western
hemisphere nations into a strict
pact against recognizing any re
gime established by exterior vio
lence in the Occidental world also
was proposed.
The number of projects submitted
amounted to 12?many of them de
fense measures.
It was learned that the United
States delegation had given increas
ing attention to the possibilities' of
subversive activities being directed
within American nations under the
protection of diplomatic immunity.
One United States proposal would
involve the investigation of the
status of diplomatic and consular
agents in the United States .and pre
sumably in Latin-American countries
as well, seeking to weed out foreign
agents whose diplomatic status gives
them protection.
Guatemala was understood to be
preparing an amendment to eliminate
British Honduras from the joint
trusteeship for European possessions
in this hemisphere which has been
proposed to the conference by the
United Sates.
Guatemala long has had claims
against Britain for British Hondur
as and was understood to be prepar
ing to insist that her claims be hon- j
ored in any future change in the I
colony's sovereignty. .
Farm Tenants
MayGet Help
PSA Loans Available
For Purchasing Land
Farm tenants who failed to get
loans trom^he Farm Security Ad
ministration to buy farms during the
past fiscal year^ may be able to get
loans this year, according to Robert
L. Edwards, County FSA supervisor
at Greenville.
tlongress appropriates money for
tenant-purchase loans by fiscal years
and the new Fiscal year started July
1st. Applicants who could not be
reached on account, of limitation of
funds may be considered along with
new applicants during the present
year.
Mr. Edwards further suggests that
many applicants ipay find they are
eligible for a Rural Rehabilitation
loan. The Farm Security Adminis
tration makes Rural Rehabilitation
loans?repayable in 1 to 5 years?to
farmers who need credit to buy work
stock, farming, equipment and other
things necessary to get in shape to
do good farming. Teriants with sat
isfactory written leases as well as
owners can get these loans. With
the loan FSA supervisors give full
assistance in working out a sound
farm plan. This type of loan gives
the tenant a chance to accumulate
stock and equipment so that he does
not have?to get such a big loan when
he finally goes to buy his farm.
While working under the Rehabili
tation program the tenant also has
a good chance to show what he can
do and thus improve his credit rat
ing.
"It ia true loans to buy farms
must be approved by the county
committee," Mr. Edwards said, "hut
because you are .not qualified now
does not mean that you cannot some
dav aualify yourself for one of these
loans! In approving loans to buy
farms preference is given to ten
^nt.W By taking advantage of the
rehabilitation loan program, many
Snna^Ncwds the time for fiana
famUies to begin making ptaw
i.... ? ? ? i I
By HUGO & SIMS
(Washington Correspondent)
BILLIONS FOR DEFENSE. '
CONGRESS WAKES UP.
PREPARING FOR WAR. 1
LOSING TRADE ABROAD. 1
AGGRESSORS ENCOURAGED. <
U. & ABANDONS RIGHTS. |(
MISTAKES FOR "PEACE."
PUBLIC OPINION CHANGES. |J
When President Roosevelt, on Jan- j
uary 4th last, sent his bucket mes-' 1
sage to Congress, there was surprise '
in some quartos at his proposal, to 11
spend $1,800,000,000 for national de- J1
fense. How fast events have moved
since that day, a little more than six I'
months ago, is seen by the fact that 11
Congress has not only voted this ex- 11
penditure but, on May 16, added an-11
other $1,182,000,000 for national de-11
fense and two weeks later provided 1
an additional $1,277,000,000. To-l<
gether with increases provided by P
Congress itself, something like $5,- j1
000,000,000 have been voted for na- <
tional defense. >? 1
This week, upon its return to work, ]
after the recess for members to at- <
tend the Democratic National Con- \
vention, the Congress finds before it <
a proposal from the President which <
.virtually doubles the amount already i
voted. Under .the program, the na- H
tion is expected t? have a two-ocean I <
navy, seventy per cent larger than (
that hitherto contemplated; a com- p
bined army and navy air force of 50- |i
000 and complete equipment for a (
land force of 1,200,000 men in time
of war, with reserve stocks to equip \
800,000 additional soldiers. (
The fact that these fiuge appro
priations for national defense have ]
been voted, almost without-objection j
on the part of Republican, as well as \
Democratic, members of Congress, in
dicates a sudden realization. on the j
part of legislators that something 4
is happening in the world ? _
~ i
The position of the United Staes, j
I cut off from Europe and Asia by two ,
I oceans, is not as safe as we have be
I lieved it to be. The striking success
I of German arms in Europe and the j
I steady encroachment of Japan in the j
I Far East has caused congressmen to .
I do a loft of thinking. Even the belief j
I of xthe most pronounced isolationist (
I that "the United States is immune (
I from attack" has vanished in the ,
I light of actual events across the
I waters.
Thus we find the United States
I today, while at peace with the world
I and announcing an intention of keep
I ing out of the wars of other nations,
I spending more money in preparation
I for war than for an unusually high J
I budgetary expense for domestic af- J
fairs. Americans might as well real- j
I ize that the huge expenditures made I
I for military and naval purposes are J
I being made because of the danger of J
I war. No one believes that the Unit- J
I ed States will begin a policy of ag
I gression against any nation, but
I practically no one believes that all
other nations will hesitate to attack
I the United States in the future.
? ? I
I While the United States continues
I to have domestic problems, it begins .
I to be apparent that the great issues
I of the coming years will relate to I
foreign affairs. With Germany rap- \
idly organizing Europe into an eco
nomic bloc, directed and controlled by
Berlin for the benefit of Germany I
alone, it appears certain that this
country will use valuable markets in I
Europe. * I
In the Far East, where Japan is
steadily attempting to duplicate Ger
man achievements by establishing ex
clusive economic control of that iih- I
mense area, the probability is that I
this country will likewise lose im-| I
portant markets.
In hemisphere, in South I
America, them is, the prospect of a
titantic ?donomic conflict betwasii I
the totalitarian etates, operating un
der the barter syBtem of controlled
economy, and the United States, prac- I
tically the last important advocate
of normal commercial intercourse be*
foyeen the nations of the v^orid. I
?r?
The importance of defending on* I
economic interests cannot be over
estimated. The World is now familiar
with the tactics of Hitler, whose I
nomic blitzkrieg proceeder his mili
I
derstood -that an economic clash in I
?
republic* in t^tffnistfws. In this
HtfkhULRalfl
mbnlo H Dora
?
War Chest For
?nW: PSZr? \ t'
CoM Way,
Cotton firms and cotton farmers I
Farmville and surrounding area h
were called on today by President I ]
Oscar Johnston of the National Cot-It
ton Council for "100 per cent allegi-11
ante in cotton's total war for in- <
rreased consumption." i
In a message addressed to local i
producers throughout the county i
President Johnston declared, thath
"the raw cotton industry is arming j
as never before in its history to i
smash down the blitzkrieg of sub-1
statutes, surplus, and foreign compe- [(
tition." <
The message came simultaneously I j
with the National Cotton Council's II
announcement of a "universal ser-1:
rice" plan to provide funds with [i
which to carry on the fight during
the coming year. The new plan, toll
?o .into effect August 1, calls for a <
iefense fund of five cents on every I
aale of lint and three cents on every I /
ton of seed, mobilized with the help <
it each of the five primary raw cot-1
ton interests. <
Under the new plan, arrangements 11
lave been perfected enabling the pro- I
iucer to make his nickel-a-bale con
ribution at the first point of sale, <
iither to the cotton merchant, large ]
>r small, or the ginner or warehouse
nan acting as merchant. This ten
.ribution is carried on from merchant
O compressor, who remits the ac
:umulated funds to the Council when
die bale is first compressed, or from
nerchant to textile, mill which remits I1
m uncompressed cotton. P
Similarly, contributions on seed, r
which are made by the ginner and *
:rusher, are assembled and remitted 1
x> the war chest by the oil mills.
"For fifty years we cotton farmers 1
lave been talking about an organiza- 1
don like the National Cotton Council
? defend our markets and find new
>nes through judicious advertising,
intelligent research, and organized
)pposition to restrictive legislation, i
At last we Jiave it, and in two years, 1
equipped with modern weapons, it
las accomplished more than any of us ]
;hought was possible in so short a
period- - |
"Domestic consumption has been I.
brought back virtually to the all-time i
ligh, with every indication that a new
record can be set in 1941. Plans are ]
ready for a vigorous attack on the
acute problem of foreign trade. Conn- [?
cil scientists are on the trail of new h
uses. A united cotton industry has
gone to war." |<
J * -II
Birds Declared As j
Good Insurance
?.? - \
Whenever there is a green and
Living thing an insect enemy always i
comes along to attack it One reme- 7
dy is the encouragement of more
birds* Many towns have now de- ]
:1ared themselves as bird sanctua- L
ries. This is the cheapest form of in
ject insurance and a fine means of
bird protection.
These are the main reasons why '
Parmville became a bird sanctuary i
recently. Besides destroying many 1
inserts, birds sing sweetly, they are
beautiful to lo6k at and are busy,
cheerful little bodies.
The merry little songsters are
really our best friends. Without
them the forests, the trees, the flow
ers, and everything that grows would
soon disappear, and we humans would
vanish off -the face-of the earth as
well This seems hard to believe
but it is really ^ trua
The birds would so willingly .'be
our friends, these beautiful, flutter
ing denizens of the trees and the air,
if we would only let them. They
fear us because we hurt and kill them (
without mercy. We can be their
friends hy making our gardens sanc
tuaries^ where notheing molests them,
where there are trees to nest in and j
food and water, and the quiet, they*.
like for themselves and protection ?
for their baby birds.
. Remember, the only cat that will j
not kill a bird is a dead one. To pre-s,
vent the destruction of birds by cats
keep them well fed and confined at:
night, and watch- them during the..
day, for they purr in the house but
kill when out doom.
Study the birds, how they live,
where they nest, when theyfeed and
their menu. Make, your garden a
happy homeNfor them and help Farm*
ville in its efforts to protect our
feathered friends. l
Although primarily designed, for
families, freezer lockers are rapid*
becoming accepted "food hanks? for
city residents, who find tbevlookups
cut down on food bills.
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EUROPEAN
SUMMARY
London.?British air and sea de
fenders smash at Nazi sea weapons.
British torpedo boat disperses six
German torpedo boats in channel.
British planes loose aerial torpedoes
>n German naval concentration, hit
ting one ship; Germans flee after
masped air battle over Thames Estu
ary; Lord Beaverbrook, minister for
aircraft production, says enormous
airplane help ; coming from United
States.
Berlin.?Nazi air force reports 31,
XX) tons British commercial shipping
ieatroyed in 48 hours, British * sub
marine, mine sweeper and two pa
trol boats sunk; Nazi propaganda
rises higher in preparation for total,
^slaughter on Britain.
' Havana.?American foreign minis
ters urge firm measures to stamp
>ut "fifth column" activities.
Bucharest. ? Rumania's pro-Nazi
government takes over nation's larg
est oil company, British owned.
Vichy. ? Authoritarian regime of
:onquered France pledges punish
ment for men who "plunged our coun
try into war."
Jerusalem?Forty-six civilians kill
id, 88 wounded in raid on Haifa in
British-mandated Palestine. ?
Approves Project For
New Water Lines
i ??
The W. P. A. today notified Repre
lentative Lindsay Warren that the
President had approved a water, sew
?r and drainage'project for the Town
>f Farmville with the Federal fdlot
nent of $13,882.00.
A cemetery project for Ayden was
ilso approved with a Federal allot
nent of $4,187.00.
WHO KNOWS ?
1. What position did Prime Min
ister Winston Churchill hold during
he World War?
* 2. What is the size of the U. S.
public debt? .
3. What is the Townsend Plan?
4. The President of what South
American country retired from of
fice in July?
6. When did the British acquire
Song Kong from the Chinese? .
6. Mexico held - an election for
President last week. When will the
results be proclaimed?
7. British-French warships fought
jff the coast of Africa last week.
How long had it been since British
and' French fleets fought each other
in a major nayal engagement?
. 8. When doe* the fiscal year of
the Federal Government begin?
9. What three supply routes are
available to Chiang Kai-Shek in his
war against Japan?
10.. How much money does the
Federal Government collect through
taxation? ?
(See "The Answers" on Page 8>
A wordy argument between two
opinionated editors is what we con
rider a waste1 of time, space and
energy.
37th Farm-Home
Week Will Start
IMk July 29
"?: ? j
The 37th annual educational, en
economical vacation for
rural people , of North Carolina; will
start at N; C. State College in Ral
eigh on Monday. July 29th. It is
Farm and Home Week, an event
which is expected to attract 3,000
(aim man-audi women .to the. campus
of their own agricultural college.
John W. Goodman, assistant Ex
tension director, and Miss Ruth Cur
rent,, State home demonstration
Mpnt, are in charge of arrangements
and . they have planned programs
which will be of interest to all rural
people?men and women, young and
old' 'i
The registration fee of^only *1 will
entitle a person to a roem in a dormi
tory for the, entire week, and meals
Will be available at a reasonable cost
in the ooHege cafeteria.
From
ly gyudllg
The nineteenth annual meeting of
the N. C. Federation of Home Demon
stration Clubs will be held all day
Thursday, with the- feature address
by Ber. John C. Glenn, Methodist
ipiniater of ReWgh.; Other special
programs will-inelude the annual con
vention of the Ni C. GinnerB' Associa
tion all day Wednesday, and the an- k
nual meeting of the N. C. Poultry ! *
Advisory Council on Tuesday after
noon.
i j ?' i
WHEAT
The domestic wheat supply for the
1940-42" season now seems jSlMy tp
total about one billion bushels, shout . ; r
the same as for the querent market
ing season ending June 30. 4
No American patriot will stir up
* ' ' i * ' , k
Nazis Use seizea Americani
Warplanes Against Britain
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Germans Raid Isles In
Relays; Britain Claim
They Bombed Cornier
Factory
London, July 26.?Germany sent
American dive-bombers, captured
from the French, against the British
Isles in relays of bombing and ma
chine-gunning attaeka yesterday aft
er British fliers struck deep into the
Reich and "partially destroyed" the
great Doraier airplane works, the
Air Minisfcery reported.
In the English Channel, the first
squadron of German motor torpedo
boats to be sent against the British
Isles was said to have been turned
bffpy Wednesday in a pre-dawn bat
tle with a lone British motor tor
pedo boat.
Furious Battle.
More than 10 planes battled furi
ously over the Thames estuary yes
terday when 12 German planes were
shot down against the loss of only
two British planes, it was said.
In one of the many air battles a
squadron of British Spitfire fighters
was said by the Air Ministry to have
shot down an American-made Vought
156 dive bomber.
Other American planes seized by
the Germans in the military collapse
of France were said to have partici
pated in the attacks. ? .
The Vought "Corsair" V-156 scout
bomber monoplane is an export ver
sion of the Vought "Corsair" planes
used by the U. S. Navy and made
by the Chance Vought Company, a
division of the United Aircraft Cor
poration at East Hartford, Conn.
There are two types of the U. S.
Navy Corsairs, fitted with 760-horse
power Pratt - Whitley twin-WASP
engines.
The Air Ministry, in a communique
shortly before last midnight, describ
ed as follows German air attacks on
the British Isles extending through
out .Wednesday:
.""Since the small hours of the
morning our Spitfire and anti-air
craft guns have been beating off at
tacks by German bombers, fighters .
and mine-laying aircraft against
ships and shipping routes around
our coast, ' .
"Twelve enemy -aircraft are known
to have been destroyed, 10 by fight
ers and two by anti-aircraft guns.
Two of our fighters are missing but
the pilot of one is known to be safe.
All Types.
"Flying sometimes in heavy rain
storms between layers of clouds,
pilots of the fighter command fought
Heinkel, Dornier and Junkers bomb
ers, i Messerschmitt fighters, a new
Heinkel-113 fighter and even Ameri
can aircraft captured by the Ger
mans from the French. <
"Ahti-aircraft gunners "saw a Dor
nier-17 and a Dornier-215 crash after
they fired at them. The Dornier-17
was caught by searchlights over the
northwest coast of England at 3 a. m.
and one battery reported the 'our
second burst pushed its tail up.'
"The enemy aircraft then fell into
a dive?burst into frames and crashed
eight miles from the gunners who
had brought it down.
"In the second anti-aircraft success
on the south coast our gunner saw
their Bhells hit a Dornier-215 and
watched it crash "into the sea."
' The Air Ministry said the Royal
Air Force bombers,' streaking low
over their German objectives in ad
verse weather Tuesday night, partly
demolished the .vital Dornier air
craft works near Wcnzendorf which
turns out the famous "Flying Nencil
and other types of planes which have
staged repeated bombing on Britain.
. "Salvoes of high explosives fell on
the buildingB and others struck- sheds
hidden in an adjoining woods," it
was stated..
? "Direct hits with four heavy bombs
on the main factory buildings stated
a large fire and caused an explosion
whose force could be felt by the crew
(of British attacking plane) flying
several thousand feet above the tar
get." * .