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VOLUMR THIRTY-ONE " " FARMVUAJB, PITT COUNTY, N<*TH CAROLINA, FK.DAT. FEBRUARY 7, 194, ~~ " NUMBER THIRTY-EIGHT _ House Lease-Lend Debate Drags Into Night Session Leaders Consider New Amendments To In crease Size of Majority Vote; More Opposition Witnesses Before Sen ators; Crowds Fade As Debate Continues / Washington, Feb. 5?The House, with but a small fraction of its mem bership present, droned through an evening session cm the lease-lend bill tonight, while administration leaders considered the possibility of new amendments designed to increase spport for the bill. In prospect was a modification to limit the over-all period of time in which war supplies could be de livered to England. .But, after study ing the question, the leadership was veering away from proposals that the bill restrict the cost of the program to a stipulated figure. Both these changes had been pro posed by Representative Wadesworth (R-N. Y.)f an influential member of the minority, who, although ready to vote for the measure, thought his amendments might allay apprehen sion lest a dictatorship emerge from the operations of the" bill. The House itself was at the ragged end of three days' general debate. To give all who wished to talk an opportunity to have their say, a night session was ordered. It found some 30 of the chamber's 435 mem bers present. These 3poke pro and con on the measure for from 5 to 20 minutes each, with few of their colleagues paying them any heed. As each con cluded, he was rewarded with a brief and perfunctory flutter of applause from those whose side of the argu ment he espoused- Most of the speak ers, after concluding their remarks, sauntered on out and homeward. -- - ? i In the galleries, where seats naa been in demand during the day, broad stretches of emptiness ap peared ; Although Democratic leaders said that even without amendments the? I were assured of a comfortable ma jority for the measure, they never theless were seeking as great a show- j ing of unity as possible for the sake j of its effect overseas. During today's session, friends and foes of the measure had mixed it up hi some warm debate. Pleading for passage of the meas ure, Representative McCormick of Massachusetts, majority leader, ask ed: "What do you think Nar. Germany and army-controlled Japan will do to the United States in case of an Axis victory ? "A victorious -Axis will demand tribute of us in some way, and unlike the crude method of the pirates of the Barbary Coast of old, they will exact tribute in a brutal, vicious, ruthless modern manner." "Inaction," he said, was ah open invitation to ma eventual attack on the United States. A differing viewpoint was pre sented by Representative Knutson (R-Mixm.), who declared that the na tion "is being subjected to the same waving of flags, the same beating of breasts, the same roll of the tom toms" as in the days before the coun try entered the World War. Representative Andrews (R-N. Y.) told ' the House that if conditions abroad are as bad as they have been described, "we ought not to be illsiiwiiiii this bill here at all today; we ought to be discussing the proposition of a declaration; of war." ? ? ? - ? !?? ?i? ,n.. ? The New ?ei>IU^ UUWI member of the House military com I mittee, urged that a top limit be placed on the amount of money to be ssot under the program and I expressed belief,"it would be smart politics for the President of the ? United States to jo along with it" I to be bdtdkrthe aewly com at tfceee servicee will be Rev. Wil I 'k? IJJ^^d evangelist - !|1 ILLUSTRIOUS : Washington, Feb. 5 ? Secretary Knox said today the British aircraft carrier Illustrious, surviving Axis air attacks which cost her about 80 men killed and 20 bombing planes de stroyed in one direct hit by a 1,000 pound bomb, had arrived at Alexan dria, Egypt, under her own power from Malta. The Nevy Sercetary's disclosure was the first mention of the number killed and of the crossing of *the Mediterranean from Malta, where the newest of Britain's carriers first had limped to refuge. In reaching the main British fleet base in the Mediterranean, the Illus trious survived the hardest test so far of airpower versus warships. Easily recognizable German bomb ers, flying so low that their Junkers insignia could be read from the Illus trious' decks, pounced down on the ship in a seven-hour torpedo and bomb attack last January 10. Scarred, but still plodding her self through the Mediterranean, the Illustrious made port at Malta, where attacks were renewed- As a result of the follow-up attacks, the Ger man news agency DNB said that a long time would be required for re pairs. Knox told of the Illustrious' ex periences in a press conference dis cussion of the vulnerability of sur face craft under air bombing. Nippon Press Sees Crisis In II. S. Relatione Situation In Pacific Be ing* Viewed - With Alarm; Says Japanese Aims Not Understood Tokyo, Feb. 5. ? The Japanese press is increasing its attention to the situation in the Pacific between the United States and Japan with the preponderant reaction one of alarm over what even conservative periodicals call "the crisis." "American intimidation," "Ameri ca's challenge" are phrases used fre quently in the press. Many articles strike an alarmist note in charges on the basic theme of Foregin Min ister Mats noka that the United States does not understand Japan's "real purpose" in her program for "greater East Asia." The foreign minister was called on for elucidation of this theme in a budget committee meeting of the House of Representatives yesterday when a Japanese writer and lectur er well known in the United States listed five factors which he said ag gravated Japanese-American rela tions: ? 1. An under-rating of Japan's na tional power. 2. Japan's three-power pact with Germany and Italy. * 3. United States fear of Japan's southward policy. 4. An American anti-Japanese at titude, linked with help to Britain. 5. A rise in the weetard expan sion idea existing in the United States in the last 160 years. In reply Matsuoka declared that Japan's national power and deter mination were unshakable, but, he reiterated, "I will continue all ef forts until the last minute to pre vent a rupture between the two I countries." Fountain Offering Course ki Defense f. wy.'Sii jTf-QL-. > J ^ fitwnn t iiii ?M !-?? <M f|?|? ? 1 qeienaa ;HFaiiBD3??ffc^ in elementary electricity is Mag conducted at Aft Eountain Idgjfa b^T.LR. FwrnriX Sldi under the direction of B. A. Pope Jr., teachier ?f agriculture In the Fountain high school There am It the cjatB^j^metta45^l?w|^ ber absent fctfemr meetings. The interest ?*??*? to i" imanan at eacli *5^ ^ indbMie Ae fol I SSfe" * *Sjl ishnnle dir^uiL: m ami I ' *T Farm Aid Sought In War AM 1IU Bonner and Cooley Want Tobacco and Other Commodities In Lend-Lease Plan Washington, Feb. 5. ? A strong drive to see the lease-lend bill to aid tobacco, cotton and wheat fann ers as well as to,aid Great Britain developed today on Capitol Hill. Representative < Herbert Bonner headed a movement to include to bacco in the definite of "defense articles" which may be transferred to the British under the sweeping provisions of the bill. Representative Harold D. Cooley launched negotiations looking to ward speeding resumption of nor mal tobacco and other agricultural purchases by the British in return for the aid provided in the bill. Representative Clifford Hope of Kansas announced he would spon sor an "amendment under which "empire preference" would hence forth be accorded agricultural prod , nets in consideration for the arma ments given the British. Backing the Congressmen in this ?"? A ? J.* -J ^ A_rx_ move was tne statement ui tueowi C. Davis, agriculture member of the National Defetase Advisory cOommis sion, that "provision should be made either as a part of the pending lend-lease bill, or by negotiation^ accompanying it, whereby the Unit ed Kingdom will take from the United States the normal proportion of agricultural commodities which she must import" ? ? Bonner called attention to the majority report on the lease-lend bill which states that the term "de fense article" includes "not only all arms, munitions and implements of war, but also other articles or com modities such as cotton, wheat and all other agricultural 'products which may be necessary for defense purposes." Following a lengthy conference with J. B. Hutson, former South ern AAA director who now is with the Defense Commission, Bonner said he had received assurances that tobacco was considered a part of this definition. Nevertheless, he said, he was dissatisfied with such a vague reference and asserted he would seek to have tobacco in cluded specifically. The First Dis trict , Congressman said he would discuss the matter with H&ise leaders, and, if necessary, would sponsor an amendment calling for the specific inclusion of tobacco. "Under this bill, the President will have the authority to lease, lend or give away in the interests of American national defense any kind of* amount of food or other commodity that Great Uritain may need to continue the war," Bonner declared. "As a former soldier, I know the importance of tobacco to the troops. I think we should avail - .ourselves of this means of getting tobacco to the British who have been cut off from our market be cause of the war." , Cooley said he planned to arrange a conference between Congressional farm leaders, Secretary of Agri culture Wickard - and. Sumjjstary of State Hull to seek wMflH^means as a result of the powieis contained in the leans land bill. - "It is only reasonable to ask Gnat Britain, in a spirit of mutual cooperation, to take its usual re | quirements of tobacco in view of the enormous aid we are planning to render." Bouses* back ftpm two ^lose de feats Coach Barrel's boys outplay ed and outshot the Bethel boys to court Although the Bethel boya kept the local boya away ftom the | basket, they could not atop the sharp 1 of Paul Parker J-'.-' Lester K Turnage and Bobby Bouse. ^^ 4 j| . toat qy pol^a. k QWfw pOvZo aO*X4^2|i'>Aii' iPdv ImmI PBiljr 1 t ^ l>r|'T>g the badly t VVmUv AIvCOBsnBbAj' JtvA an Ylv-^s jra y tT^ff X8r i ?iOi .'j ".*? B ? ' UPMr ||PUK|P^O^piP|/l^; . _ ' I By HUGO 8. SIMS (Washington Correspondent) FARM INCOME FOR 1940. DEFENSE FINANCES. ABOUT LIVING COSTS. NAVY AIRSHIP BASES. OPPONENTS ARE HEARD. KENNEDY OPPOSES WAR. LINDBERGH'S POSITION. OTHERS STATE THEIR VIEWS. The farmers of the United States received a total cash income, in cluding Government benefit pay ments, of $9,094,000,000 in 1940, ac cording to the Department of Agri culture, which says that this repre sents an increase of $576,000 over 19v9. Incomes from crops increased eight per cent, over 1939 to $8,504, 000,000. Income from livestock and livestock products also increased eight per cent to a total of $4,824,000,000. Government pay ments amounted to $766,000,000, as compared with $807,000,000 in 1939. i ? ' The Treasury Department is pre paring plans for financing a major -part of defense costs out of private savings instead of bank credits. The program, it is reported, will involve the sale of savings stamps and other small denomination investments throughout the country. The cam paign will be conducted in local com munities, but it is hoped to avoid the ballyhoo and hysteria of a cen tralized drive, such as the Liberty Loan campaigns of the World War. The committee appointed two years ago at the direction of Presi dent Roosevelt to recommend changes in the procedure of Federal agencies,, has made its report, rejecting exten sion to the courts of greater power to review the decisions of the agen cies. After studying the Labor Board, the Power Commission,.. the Trade Commission and thirty other agencies, the Committee, headed bfr Dean Atcheson, recently nominated , to be Assistant-Secretary of State, I recommends the establishment of an office of Federal Administrative Procedure' to review practices of, agencies, standardization of regula tions and simplification of proce dure. Leon Henderson, National De fense Commissioner, recently threat ened the lumber industry with price control unless ordinary lumber be came available to the Government at a more reasonable price. Mr. Hen derson said that $25 a thousand board feet .was a fair price for No. 2 Southern pine, such as the Govern ment uses in cantonment construc tion and that the current price of $31.25 was unnecessary and unrea sonable.- He told the lumber spokes men, ''I have had all of the argu ments, excuses and explanations that I want abd a damned, sight more than I need*" Living costs-in the larger cities of the nation increased 4.6 per cent, be tween November 15th and December 15th, last, according to the Secretary j of Labor, Frances Perkins. A rise in the price of coal contributed to the general living-cost increase. A sharp increase was also noticed in4 the price of batter, together withj seasonal increases in fresh vegeta bles, milk, flour, cured pork and lard. ' ' ? - S The Navy plans three bases for lighter-than-air craft One will be in the Boston area, another in the Norfolk-Hattera* area 09 the East Coast and a third in the San Pramcisco Bay area. Each base would have 300 civilian and naval employes and would be self ?sustain* tag, with hangers, shops, barracks, and quarters for unmarried officers. Congress will be asked to appropri* ate funds for the s forty-eight. non rigid dirigibles authorized but not previously appropriated for; " in this column we gave something of a resume of the hear ings before the House Foreign Af fairs Committee on the Lend-Lease BUI, which would give the President broad -powers to use his discretion fa, extending aid to natkms at war with ! W?sow. ,: :.v4 TO, week we present brief ex, cerpts fromjfae treimxmy^wit j Committee against m88SurG? I ? "'w.'..) I TrifiAnlt ' P KinvnAfhr Haifa 11 jiilt jjj ihij 1 I"?!?' v ;rc. wpw .V AIU , ?fit ' JJ 'J vLi 1.1 y .A. ?? . ?* f s':- jS. - ? 'v- SJ i-J , ? ' ' ? ? * ? ? ' j%_-' *" ??'? ? ? * 'A gxjllw05WII?i?Mg f amltf ." i u 1 iliivWiliJ VIICt1 w IV IS W ? vUT UlVCIvow w Vichy Now Expects Laval To Recover Cabinet Rank - \ Viohy, France, Feb. 6.?The re tarn of Pierre Laval, the man who J wants thorough-going collaboration with Nazi Germany, to a position of power second only to that of Chief of State Marshal Petain in the French government, appeared likely tonight; official circles reported. After a stormy two-hour .meeting of the council of ministers, it was reported that a proposed cabinet has been evolved in which Laval would be president of the council of ministers' and minister of the in terior. Laval, who was suddenly shorn of his duties, as vice-premier and for eign minister December IS in a dras tic shakeup by Petain, was said to have created excitemfcnt in the cab inet when his demands proved ^more sweeping than had been anticipated. Admiral Jean Darlan, navy min ister, who went .to Paris to negotiate with Laval, opened the meeting with a request for the collective resigna tion of the cabinet so that Petain might form an entirely new govern ment ^ . In the end, the ministers were re ported by official circles to have re jected the demand, and decided that Admiral Darian must first return to Paris for negotiations with Laval on the composition of a new cabinet. Two others of a triumvirate who, with Laval, would wield most of the power under Marshal Petain in the reconstituted cabinet, it was report ed, would be Admiral Darian, who would head the foreign affairs and navy ministers, and General Charles Huntzinger, who would*, take over the ministry for youth and remain head of the war ministry. . Admiral Darian was expected to return to eParis by tomorrow to talk again with Laval. A communique issued after the ministers met was the first official report here of Darlan's return from Paris, where he conferred with La val, Otto Abetz, Adolf Hitler's en voy to Paris, and Pernand def Brin on, the Vichy representative in the German-occupied zone.' . * The announcement merely said: The Council of Ministers met at 4:30 p. m., under the presidency of Chief of State Petain with the sec retaries of state assisting. Admiral Jean Darian gave an account of his conversations of the last few days in Paris. The ministers then deliberated on general policy and ended the ses sion at 6:30." ? Foreign 'Minister Perre-Etieime Flandin was reported to have refus-. ed an offer of the portfolio of na tional economy in the proposed new government. Thousands Needed For Defense Jobs State Employment Ser vice Is Seeking Skilled and Unskilled Work men Raleigh, Feb/ 6. ? Openings for 8,000 aarpenters, 8,000 laborers, and ? 1,000 sewermen in defense industries I were announced yesterday by L. J. ? Graven, manager of the Raleigh of I fice df the North Carolina State Em I The positions are open ,to both I II whites and Negroes and must be ? filled immediately, v White persons I ? should apply at 118 W. Martin St, I and Negroes will be interviewed at J Registered nurses are> also being | sought for assignment to Fort Bragg. Applicants must be between the J ages of 21 and 40y must be single, and must be graduates of approved : nursing schodls. They are requested , to apply to Headquarters, 4th Corps : Area, Atlanta, Ga. M' vf, . \ . i I' Other defense job openings an- | [nounced were 75 sheet metal work I on*> 30 linemen, 20 electricians, four ;? tWO, N^gro COolcSj 083NJ tJ^Hfi I I wuivuiiuou wm?y a?y .*? wy- xiipiiwuy | i sarety l/ivision. - J; I ^ VIMII aiMlg nuIUt I ? I 04Q . Tynrn J rv 10A oti^nrvtif I GREEK GAINS 111 Athens, Feb. 5. ? Greek soldiers fighting brilliantly under "very un favorable weather conditions" drove the Italians from positions of "great strategic importance" and captured a village by a bayonet charge and hand-to-hand . fighting, the Greek spokesman reported tonight. . Italian prisoners told their Greek captors that the Fascists no longer were using the port of. Valona as a base beicause of repeated bombings, but were unloading supplies at Krio nero, south of Valorta. Despite three days of torrential rain in the Tepeleni section, Greek troops continued mopping-up opera ?tions and launched new attacks with success, it was reported. At one point the Greek artillery was said to have\ moved to points from which they pounded positions newly occupied by the Italians. Many prisoners were reported tak en in the Tepeleni sector, with 148 prisoners, including officers, seized in one fight.. Machine-guns, mortars, and a large number of rifles w6re seized, the spokesman reported. I " ; Willkie Heads Fori). S. After N Way Visit Pledges;To Help Britain In Their Fight For Freedom Bristol, England,, Feb. 5.?Wendell L. Willkie headed back for the Unit ed States and an appearance before the Senate Foreign Relations Com mittee with the parting- pledge today to do "anything I can in America to help Britain- in her fight for free dom." Willkie arrived at Bristol before dawn and was taken, for a quick trip through the city's bombed sections. "Pretty bad, pretty bad," Willkie commented as he passed wrecked buildings. At' Libson, Portugal, Willkie will board a clipper plane being held for him until midnight (7 p. m. EST. tonight.) He started for home after a day in which he visited Britain's king and queen and the prime minister of Ireland in a whirlwind conclusion to a nine-day study of war-time England, - f ' Willkie uafd his conversation in Dublin with" Ireland's prime minis- i, ter would be covered in his testi mony before the Senate Foreign Re lations Committee on the aid to Britain bill. A ooluranist for the London Daily Mirror expressed belief the visit of the 1940 Republican presidential nominee had brought the United , States much nearer actual entry into ^ the war. *. 'V i ' ' v ' iMrs. Ida Smith Burch I Laid To Rest Tuesday Final rites for Mrs. Ida Smith I Burch,' 67, widow of the late David E. Burch, and a highly esteemed ?Greene County citizen, Who died sud Idenly Tuesday morning, were held Ifrom the home near Walstonburg, at Ithree o'clock, Wednesday afternoon. ?Rev. J. B. Roberts, Primitive Beptist minister, of Farmville, conducted Die service, and interment wias made in ?the Elm Grove churi&yard, hear Wal ?'n.'? i Mrs. Burch was the daughter of the [ate Henry and Sarah Smith, of the ' Walstonburg section, and spent her enrtir?-ttft in this vicinity. She met 1 the vicissitadejrof life "with Christian 1 fortitude and a perseverance thtf'was 1 an inspiration to those who knew her. 1 Industrious and of * kindly nature, I she will be greatly missed in her oom- I munity. W. R.^Gay ami M^^Rul^B^d^a 1 grandchildren, all of Walatonbcrg; a I sister, Mrs. J. A. Mewborn, of Km- < Ja^^Sbfi^a^ei^driS^ ' rv ..V 'Ml. .. ... a ' onuui, uennecr; Mewnom ana oam 1 Lewis, T* v _ . V ..J A1Koy4 ptt?r Tlomppry (vAIYiftTl AT)H 11 D? Xw "ivfuOy /iJJv wH(| IWU %4U7wWAy| I J. C. Gardner, Sam Jonidns, Jason I Britain Wages Destructive Aerial Offensive on Nazis I I 1 Night Raids Carried Out On Germany; In dustrial City, Duessel dorf and Six Nazi In vasion Ports Assaulted Ry Royal Air Force i ? Waves of Royal Air Force bomb ers pounded the industrial city of Dueeseldorf, western Germany, and slashed at six Nazi-held "invasion _ ports" along the channel coast, the London Air Ministry said today, in overnight raids marking the heavi est British aerial offensive in. two weeks. Then, in broad daylight, a strong force of Royal Air Force bbhibers, protected by fighting planes, roared pack- across the channel to renew the assault. Observers on the Kent coast saw the planes headed for Calais, while ' other fighters patrolled the coast on, the lookout for Nazi counter attack raiders. , A short time later black smoke was. seen rising near the harbor of Calais. Three German bombers were re ported shot down in the sea after a fight with a convoy of ships and a fourth Nazi raider crashed in Neutral Ireland. The British said "many" waves of planes engaged in the attacks. Hitler's high command listed five Germans killed, 24 wounded and an unspecified number of apartment houses destroyed by bombs and fire in Deuaseldorf. "Damage was slight. War vital ob- r C jectives i no where here hit," the Nazi high command asserted. London quarters described the widespread British thrust into Ger many and increased Nazi activity over Britain as "beginning a new offensive period on both sides.'' ? In the war at sea, the Germans reported that 60,000 tons of British Shipping were sunk by Nazi U-boats, bombers and a warship "operating over seas." Fire bombs fe|l in London during ' the night and German bombers ' were reported over eastern England and the Midlands, but the official morning cqprmunique declared cas ualties reported from all areas were "not large.". , " In the African war theatre, the British reported their troops were- * closing in to speed showdown fights for Italy's colonial capitals of Ben gasi, Libya, and Asmara, Eritrea. In the Greek-Italian war, the Greek high command reported the Greeks "occupied important enemy Positions,-" but did not locate the area of operations. Many prison ers" were captured, it said. Westminster Choir's -, Rigorous Training ? 4' 1 ' f , The athletic- coach and the train ing table, which keep a football team or a rowing crew in order, also serve in lessor degree to keep the voices of Westminster Choir, singing in Greenville on February 27, 8:00 P. M. at Wright Memorial Auditorium, E. C. T. a, capable of the high; - standard of muBicianahip which Dr. John Finley Williamson, the director, - requires of .his dingers. Dr. Williamson believes that vital ity in tone 1s essential to good choral 4 f : ringing, and this is only possible when the singers themselves are in perfect phvsical condition. A spar tan disciphnerules this organisation, both at home and on tour. Intensive ' " physical training is required. Such brings as diet, rest and exercise are carefully regulated. Therefore, tits utoir was able to give 42; concerts in todays in eleven different countries luring its last European topr, with >ut a single case of sickness. During his past season, tbe choir made the thfque record on its ooast-to-coast tour of sihging 55 concerts in 53 lays. ? ' - ? , ? Adult Education Notes | > ,i'.i i i i.ii . .. .. " Attendance for January, has been very poor on account of the influensa ;;1 piaemic* ' /j???? . Two new pupil, h?ve been enrolled * numlw .* Jl*r <p .pe TL^ Ceode, ^ .pd ? work \Adult Edaccbon Teacher. ?>>?; I Pj J.:' ? - 'h'.V . ?' ?i-'~ <' ji I
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