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London Quarters fati-j
mate Britain Witt Nat
Give Up Bases In
Greece Without Fight;
Other Reports Say
Greece Likely To Bow
To Nazi 'Quick Peace'
Demands
London, Fab. 20.?Britain may
seek to transfer formidable land and
air fonees into Greece before Adolf
Hitler can consolidate his Balkan
, diplomacy and move to force the
Greeks into a dictated peace with
Italy, it was intimated in Britaish
quarters last night.
Determined to keep their foot
hold in the Balkans, the British
were reported in informed British
quarters to be preparing to fight it
out against the Germans on Greek
territory, if necessary.
- A canvas of Balkan envoys re
vealed growing belief that it may
be a month or six weeks before
- ? '?-?
Germany s miuq onuj<
Bulgaria and moves against Greece.
In the meantime, it was suggest
ed* Hitler's army and air forces
now established in Rumania may be
used as a club for political pres
sure against Greece, Bulgaria and
Turkey, seeking further concessions
to the Axis.
If this pause occurs, it was point
ed out, Britain will be able to trans
fer from the African front substan
tial forces, troops and planes to
Greece, as well as supplies and
equipment.
Belief appeared to be growing in
London that Greece and Britain to
gether were preparing to turn the
Greek ?peninsula into a battleground
if Hi tie- attempts to occupy the
country and drive the British off the
European continent
There was no indication, however,
of what measures Britain was pre
pared to take to keep Greece in the
war or whether reinforcements of
British troops, released from the
North African front by the shatter
ing of Marshal Rodolfo Graiani's
Italian army in Libya, would be
shifted to Greece.
Most British informants contend
ed that the Greeks had shown their
mettle over great odds and would
not be intimated by what may be
a Nazi ultimatum calling for peace
with Italy. British, these informants
added, will give the Greeks all pos
sible help.
Balkan experts agreed that there
might be serious complications to
upaet German plans within the next
few weeks, but generally they ex
preaicid 4dabt that Britain could send
to Greece sufficient forces to stop
any big-scale German attack on
Greece.
I Methodists To Observe
I March 2?Special Day
Charlotte. ? More than nineteen
* hundred Methodist churches ibmrtl
I w^ptftfcipate in Method
iamV ?Mum wideobservance of Daj
of Compassion on March 2. Specia
segaaoaa aad services will emphasize
tiie extrsordiaazy world situation. I
is expected that North Carolint
churches wiU contribute ffl.OOO 01
I this day as thieir share in the millioi
I dollar eatapuJgn to relieve humai
I suffering in war-stricken areas an
I -for worh A V?">
I One-half of' fne amount will hi
ueeq for overseas, relief in Europ
sad to the Moths:
Church, in Britain will take on
quarter of s. million dollars. The re
I main fug fourth mflSon will be use
I SrS**Act
I The million dollar emergency fun
I is being raised under the leadtrahi
I of the Council of Bishops, snd ft
I Mep^Edw^ Hoft Hughe*
ingthn, D. C., is chairman. Flan
have just been completed for Bfsho
I Hughes to speak at Centenary Metl
I Favorable reports are being re
I cMved kd^kf nfctns me ahead!
v.* i. . under wily for this observance i
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F' ~?>'\ tft Sh^^mj^vwrir. ." RifvS? H
World Day o f
Prayer To Be
Held Feb. 28th
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The World Day of Prayer, Friday,
February 28, will be observed by
church women here, who will unite
in a prayer service in the Christian
Church at two o'clock in the after
noon, with Miss Bettie Joyner pro
siding and the women from the vari
ous church societies taking port. Hie
four special fields of work supported
by the World Day of Prayer offering
will be presented at this timer
| Every one in the community is
invited to attend and join with other
voices in every land in the world on
that day in special prayers that men
may cease from strife and the shed
ding of blood and turn their thoughts
! to nobler ways.
Brief History.
| As far back as 1887, Presbyterian
women in the U. S. A. came together
at the suggestion of Mrs. Darwin R.
James, president of the Women's
Board of Home Missions of the
Presbyterian Church, to pray for
Home Missions. Interest in this
Day of Prayer increased and through
the efforts of Mrs. Henry W. Pea
body and Mrs. Helen Barrett Mont
? ? war* _? _?
gomery, the foreign mission ivre?
chose a day for united prayer in the
early nineties, and in 1920, both in
Canada and the United States, church
women of all denominations united
in prayer, the first Friday in Lent
being selected as the Day of Prayer j
for Missions.
In numberless places around the
world, from missionaries returning
from the homeland, the thought of a
day of prayer spread until at the re
quest of many far away friends, a
World Day of Prayer was first ob
served in 1927. In 1936 Christians
of more than fifty countries kept
the day together.
Sen. Davis Endorses.
Senator Davis of Pennsylvania
said recently in regard to the ob
servance of this day:
"On this, the World Day of Pray
er, we should join with all thought
ful men and women everywhere who
cherish these noble aspirations and
warm sentiments. Let us continue
to protect the eternal values of our
public life which had their begin
nings in the lives of men who be
lieved that religion is the true basis
of democracy and the only hope of
lasting peace for our Republic."
Lasts Forty Houro.
It is the symbol of this beautiful
day of prayer throughout the world
that it should need 40 hours to round
out its cycle, instead of the usual 24!
For Thursday night, as Americans
shall be going to bed, a new day will
be dawning in other lands where
Hawaiians, Chinese, Japanese, Ger
, mans, French, Amerimans, Spanish,
[' English' and others will meet to pray
. for peace between their beloved
homelands. And then, far to the
? north, only 30 miles from the Arctic
? Circle, the World Day of Prayer will
? end in ice and snow on St. Lawrence
? Island, where the Indians and the
? Eskimos have been frozen m since
? last October, unable to receive even
? mail until neat May. But the spirit
I of Jesus Christ knows no time limits,
? no dime limits?so that there will be
E light there with them when there fa
E night here in America, apd Eskimo
E women will be praying that the
E world may be bound together into a
B safer happier home for the children
E of men.
Br Therefore, in the warm conscious
E ness of mutual concern one for tlx
B other, women all over the world wil
E share in the. KtwiHifg1 of them
E> selves to God on this World Day of
?s xTayer; mit us rungoom may comen
E and that His will may be done upeol
E earth. I
E Allotments Open I
I For C. C. C. Boy:
I
E It was amVSuaced from the De
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DttiooU uoolw
New ftiembsrs
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Farm Bureau To Con
j duct County - Wide
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Greenville, Feb. 20.?A large com
imittee of Htt County farmers has
assumed the joint responsibility with
every farmer and taataeee man in
the county - to make a county-wide
Farm Bureau membership drive dur
ing-the week ending Saturday, Feb
ruary 22, 1941.
The directors of the Farm Bureau
membership campaign are anxious
to write a receipt for the member
ship fee for every farmer and busi
ness man in the county.
Membership fees may be handed
to one of the following campaign di
rectors: For Ayden township?J. D.
Cannon, J. C. WMtehurst, Jack
Quinerly; Beaver Dam?R E. Wil
loughby, C. C. Harris, P. S. Rasber
ry; Belvoir?W. R. Holland, Dennis
I. Harris, J. T. Dupree; Bethel?W.
A. House, F. C. Martin, R E.
James; Carolina?A. L. Woolard, J.
A. Tyson, G. W. Roebuck; Chicod?
M. W. Smith. R B. Wilson, J. J.
Carroll; Falkland?J. C. Parker, G.
H. Pitman, R B. Tyer; Farmville?
G. A. Tyson, S. T. Lewis, T. w.
Lang; Fountain?J. A. Moore, Chas.
Phillips, H. D. Jefferson; Green
ville?R. E. Dudley, W. C. Vincent,
G. A. Langley; Pactolus?J. B. Barn
hill, J. B. Overton, W. C: Elks;
Swift Creek?M. B. Hodges, J.. L.
Quinerly, E. W. Fleming; Winter
ville?L. H. Ellis, R. L. Worthing
ton, G. C. Jackson.
Participation of farmers as mem
bers of the Farm Bureau organiza
tion and their membership fee are
needed to enable the Farm Bureau
whose new state secretary is the
able and qualified Flake Shaw, a
farmer of Guilford county, to con
tinue striving in behalf of local and
national legislation for the better
ment of agriculture.
In becoming a member or in re
newing membership in the Farm
Bureau organization farmers are
lending effort to the organization
that has among others the follow
ing objectives:
1. Parity of income for agricul
ture in comparjsion with labor and
industry and legislation that will
accomplish this.
2. Federal appropriations for gen
eral farm AAA programs in the
form of parity payments, conser
vation payments and vocational ed
ucation and other farm needs as
they arise.
3. Peanut marketing quotas and
proper legislation in relation to the
peanut crop.
"4. Additional legislation for to
bacco and cotton in regard to in
creased loans from the present 75
per cent of parity to 85 per cent or
100 per cent of parity on tobacco
< and 100 per cent of parity for cotton.
5. Use of appropriation for the
expansion of foreign markets and,
Use of our agricultural products. ]
Farmers are urged to look up one
of the membership campaign direc
tors and give Mm their membership
fee sometime this week, because this
is tha-time set aside for this job.
urityongiol
I Assistant To Be
I Here Feb. 24th
iiui u t win &T.i
; Hall on Above Date
? Any p?>faii fa|t dtW
? or both of the foUwwng tax returns
? must file guch returns with the De
? partmant of Beveaue on or before
? March 15, 1M1, aad\p?y the tax
P -Mti
Any unmarried man o5r woman,
I. either maried or. unmarried having
My' an income of $1,000 or-more daring
r having an income of $2,000 or more
? [^perty- euqh on^S
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The Board of Directors of the
Farmville Chamber of Commence and
Merchants Association met in regu
lar monthly session on Tuesday
night, at the Farmville Funeral
Home with S. A. Garris, President,
presiding.
A committee, consisting of Eli Joy
ner, Jr., FrankWffliams, W. H. Fish
er, Ernest Pettaway and G. A. Rouse,
was named to make plans for Farm
ville's annual Dollar. Day which has
been tentatively set for March 14.
There followed a discussion of a
closing hour for Saturday nights.
It was decided to submit a question
naire regarding stores being closed
by 10:00 P. it
The President advised bis com
mittee to get together relative to
employing an all year round publicity
man, whose duties, would be combin
ed with those of the tobacco market
Sales Supervisor.
January Report
Of The Pitt County -
Health Department
The chief activities of the' Pitt
County Health Department during
the month of January were: quaran
tine against measles, school inspec
tion work, cafe, meat market and
dairy inspections, venereal disease
control and maternal, and infant wel
fare work.
Measles assumed epidemic propor
tions during January in which month
261 cases were reported, against no
cases for January. 1940. In the mat
ter of tuberculosis, there were nine
cases reported in January, 1941. It
is probable that the - tuberculosis
clinic held in December accounts for
the unusually large number of cases
reported in January. However, the
fact of this clinic should not be con
sidered as in any way minimizing
the seriousness of the tuberculosis
problem in Pitt County. In our
opinion, the only answer to this prob
lem is a local tuberculosis sana
torium.
Diphtheria cases in January 1940
were 5 against 3 in January 1941.
There was no typhoid fever in Jan
uary 1941 nor in January 1940.
- The Health Department* Nurses
made 3,852 school inspections for
minor contagious diseases, such as
pediculosis and Scabies.
In connection with the sanitary in
spection work, I desire to inform you
that Mr. J. H. Moore, Sanitary Offi
cer for Pitt County, resigned as of
| January 1st, at the suggestion of the j
State Board of Health, in order that j
he might be put in charge of the
acute sanitation problem at Holly
Ridge. Mr. Moore was succeeded by
Mr. T. W. Bivens of Stanley County,
North Carolina. I bespeak for Mr.
Bivens your cordial support which I
am sure you give! him. " j
Both the County and the City of
Greenville Sanitary Officers have'
pushed cafe, meat market and dairy
inspections energetically and with
a measure of success. The Pitt'
County Community Sanitation Proj
ect has again been postponed due
| to a shortage of W. P. A. carpen
Iters.
? .? ?
I The State-Pitt Uounty monthly
Orthopaedic Clinic held in the Health
I Department Offices, had an attend
I aoce of 42 patients in January, 1941
as compared with 86 in January 1940.
I Almost without ucception, this clinic
runs to full cap icity and brings to
Pitt County specialised medical ser
I vice appreciated by physicians and
fkstiants alike. |
I The attendance at the venereal die-'
I ease clinic in December was 1,068
agsihet 1,292 for January. While
this increase is encouraging, it is
not entirely satisfactory. We have
regaestaA the Venereal Disease Di
vision of the State Board of Health
to give us a follow-up worker with
the idea of building up our clinic at:
tendance. ?' - . . ; r; ??? , &r
The attendance at the maternal
anA hifvit welfare clinics, like the at
tendance at the Orthopaedic Clinics.
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"8W|s Bufflwd Here
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[All Southern States To
Participate In New
live ^ at- Borne' Pro
gram
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Raleigh, Feb. 19. Xeeping step
with a movement that will be started'
throughout every ootton growing
State of the Sonth, agricultural
workers in North Carolina soon will
begin an effort to have all ootton
growero cooperate in the new cotton
supplemental program and the pro
duction of gardens and other food!
and ieed crops. The new effort will
have the active support of all agen
cies supported wholly or in part by
the Federal Department of Agricul
ture and will include, among others,
the Agricultural Adjustment Admin
istration, the Farm Credit Admin
istration, Land Use Planning, and
the Agricultural Extension Service, j
. Meeting yesterday in the State
College Y. M. C. A. auditorium,
representatives of these farm agen
cies outlined plans for beginning the
work in North Carolina. By next
Thursday if possible, teams of men i
and women will begin to explain
the program in every county of the
State. The new program will be: ad- j
ministered by thia AAA with the
College Extension Service being in
charge of the educational work and
the other agencies closely cooperat
inir. ^ '
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In the main, the movement will j
have for its purpose the explaining:
of how each cotton grower may
qualify for his proportionate share
of the stamps which will enable:
him to buy cotton goods such as
sheets, shirts, dress goods, pillow
cases, overalls, etc., for reducing his
planted acreage under his 1940 plant
ed acreage or 1941 allotment, which
ever is smaller,' The plan provides
that tenants can receive $25 worth'
of the stamps per family and the
landowner with two or more ten
ants can receive up to $50 worth.
By agreeing to reduce cotton aero-;
age to receive the stamps, the co
operating cotton grower will in no
way impair his future allotments.
The new program is simply a sup
plemental effort W the present AAA
conservation plan, and is financed
from funds provided by the Surplus
Marketing Administration.
I The Surplus Marketing Admin
istration has had experience in
handling the stamp plan and has
found that thiB is an excellent meth
od of reducing surplus holdings of
farm produce.
The new plan goes farther than
the reduction of existing stores of
cotton. Those who qualify for the
cotton stamps by reducing their
acreage under what was planted in
1940, also may' receive a payment
for producing and conserving food
supplies. A.payment of ,$150 per
farm garden already is allowed by
the AAA in North Carolina. An ad
ditional $2 per family can be earned
by growing additional garden pro
duce or storing food products^ or
planting small fruits to add to the
family food supply; , This payment
will not be made except to those
who cooperate in the cotton stamp
plan.
??- ' -A Oi.i. CaIUm
Einal Difna Unlrf
Final Rites Hew
Saturday ForOavid
F. Lang Here
. . '
Prominent Merchant of
Farmville Succumbs to
Illness of Ten Days
Duration
Funeral services for David F.
Lang, a prominent merchant and
highly esteemed citizen of Farmville
were conducted from the home of a
sister, Mrs. > B. S. Smith, Saturday
afternoon, at three o'clock, by Rev.
C. B. Mashbura, of the Christian
Church, and Rev. J. B. Roberts, Prim
itive Baptist minster. Interment was
made in Hollywood cemetery beneath
a large floral tribute. Favorite
hymns were sung by Mr. and Mrs.
John D. Holmes, Mrs. A. W. Bobbitt
and E. C. Holmes.
Mr. Lang succumbed to subsequent
paralytic strokes at the Pitt General
Hospital in, Greenville, at one o'clock
Friday afternoon, February 14, fol
lowing an illness of ten days.
Mr. Lang was born July 30, 1880,
the son of the late Robert J. ' and
Louisa Lang. He was a native of
Pitt county and spent his entire life
m this section. He was the senior
member of the merchantile firm of
D. F. & R. 0. Lang, which was estab
lished here twenty-nine years ago.
Prior to this business connection Mr.
Lang was a Fountain merchant
Surviving are throe sisters, Mrs.
Cora L. Barrett, Mrs. B. S. Smith,
of Farmville, and Mrs. Ben May of"
Sanford; throe brothers, W. C, Lang,
of Wilmer, Ala., R. Ov and T. W.
Lang, of Farmville, and a number of
I ? - j % ??
nieces ana nepnewa.
Active pallbearers were nephews;
"R. 0, Lang, Jr., Earl Lang, Robert
Lee Smith, Gray Fields, R. G. Bar
rett and Fred May.
Honorary: J. H. Harris, T. G., B.
0., W. J., D. L., and L. E. Turnage,
B. M., Jack, and J; R. Lewis, G. A.
Rouse, A. W. Babbitt, R. A., Dr. C.
C., John B., J. W., and A. F. Joyner,
W. A., and J. 0. Pollard, Dr. D. S.
Morrill, W. A. McAdams, T. M., and
Luther Dail, A. C. Monk, Sr., and -
Jr., J. M. Stansill, L. E. Walston,
Dr. P. E. Jones, J. R., and B. L.
Lang, Floyd King, W. A., and Edgar
Barrett, Joel, and L. A. Moye, M.
Liles, L. P. Thomas, J. E., J. H., J.
T., and Ben Bynum, W. D. Morton,
M. V. and J&ck Horton, Dr. Dennis
Keel, F. A. and G. S. Williams, J. I.
Morgan, Sr., and Jr., D. R. Morgan,
E. ?. and C. L. Beaman, F. M. Davis,
Sr., and Jr., G. W. Davis, W. A. and
D. G. Allen, H. 'D, Johnson, L. W.
Godwin, R. A. Parker, R. N. Free
man, W, L., J, S, Smith, J. M. Whe
less, Sr., and Jr., Seth Barrow, A..
B, Moore, W. J. Rasberry; J. W.
and Leroy Bass, R. R. Newtcn, W.
S. Royster, R. H. Knott, R. T. Nor
ville, F. G. Dupree, Z. M. White
hurst, G. E. Ballew, Theo Moore,'
Andy. Martin, L. T. Lucas, W. A.
Wooten, R. LeRoy Rollins, J. T.
Thome, W. G. Ward, R. A. and W.
D. Fields, R. E. Belcher, Dr. W. M.
and W. R. Willis, A. A. May, J. W.
Holmes, Carl McKeel, J. T. Bundy,
J. W. Hardy, and L. T. Pierce.
R. A. Fountain, M. D. Yelverton,
and George. Jefferson, of Fountain;
W. 0. Bilbro, J. H. Halrrell and I^nott
Proctor, of Greenville; John Statom
of Retbel; D. E. Oglesby, of ^ins
,ton, W. H. Sharpe, of Wilson. i ^
IBntirf IfietSfs
I To Be Coiftinued
I ToMrMry 2t
Rev. W. C. Royal Bring
im Me*
g^faons Twice
The iwiral meeting, which begin
in the^t^yy,^
PMtof $f- B- B. Fordham, who rt
p?^ interest to^ b^ig
e&sh morning at 9:30, and in thie
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Necessary ? Features
Day's Debate
Washington, Feb. 19. ? Senator
JoBiah W. Bailey, (D.-N.C.), today
advocated United States intervention
in the European war and told the
Senate that if passage of President
Roosevelt's British aid bill means
war, "I am ready to go."
He said daring the third day of
debate on the measure that the bill
"is not neutrality," but "is interven
tion." He conceded that the Axis
powers may regard the legislation
"as an act of war , but they do not
attack because of provocation."
"My judgment is that they will,
fight In this country when they
think they can whip us and not be
fore," he said. "If we were as peace
ful as lambs and as calm as doves?
if we appease them with everything
we have?they will not hesitate to
attack us when they think the time
is ready."
lie recalled that he had supported
the neutrality act and said he now
is recommending- its repeal.
"I am advocating intervention with
all its implications," Bailey said. "I
am not going to draw back?4 am
not going to hedge."
Before an overflow crowd which
spilled into a section reserved for
diplomats, Bailey banged his desk
and decl&ed "there is a great deal
of probability that war is coming,
Whichever way we go." He said he
did not know whether the' triple
alliance would declare war on the
United States if the aid bill is
passed.
"T- To Last Man.
"But if anybody asks me what
we're going to do if Germany and
Japan declare war on us, 111 tell them
we're going to the last man, the last
dollar and the last drop of blood,"
he shouted.
He "seriously questioned" wheth
er American soldiers would be
needed in the Battle of Britain, ex
plaining that the conflict was being
fought in the air and on the seas. He
argued that the best way of remov
ing the threat of war from this coun
try was to give all-out aid to Britain
and her allies.
Oppositionists drew first blood in
the floor battle * today by blocking
an administration attempt to ex
pedite the legislation by taking up
amendments during a lull in debate.
Senator James F. Byrnes, (D.-S.C.),
and administration' spokesman, tried ? ^
to obtain consideration of a propos- ^
ed change in the section involving
Congressional control over expendi
tures under the forthcoming pro
gram.
Byrnes argued that his amend
ment would tighten the legislative
grip on the President's contraetural'
authority, but Senator Arthur H.
Vandenburg, (R-Mich.), protested
that the revision would weaken the
$1,300,000,000 limitation; approved
by the House and Senate foreign -
relation committee, on the amount %
of war materials which could ' be
transferred, from stocks on hand and
on order in this country!.
The administration move was
abandoned when weary Senators
pointed to the lateness of the hour.
Bailey and two other Democratic
backers of the bill, Senators Tom
Connally of Texas and Lister Hill of
Alabama, charged the Axis powers
are bent on world conquest and
would attack the United States if
Britain fell.
Westminster Choir
Adds More American
Music To Program
IF ? > f '? ' -''J'1-, i'-* l'v;v\ " "*1
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European concert audiences, used
to the choral classics presented
superlatively' well amis historic sur
roundings, have taken to their hearts
the choral music of America as sung
on tour by the famous Westminster J
Choir, appearing in Greenville on
Thursday evening, February 27 at
eight o'clock in the Weight Memo
rial auditorium of East Carolina
Teachers College.
I vifcr. Williamson, director of the
voca^ ensemble, discovered such an
interest it American music among
Continental audiences during the list
tour of the choir that he found him- \ *
.self adding more and more Ameri
can music to his programs. The ?
foegro spirituals, songs 'and chants
of the American Indians, and folk
music of Stephen C. Foster captur
dd the immediate fancy of all audfrn- \
cfca abroad., Consequently, Dr. Wil
liamson is anxious to maintain this
interest, and has expressed a hope
that American composers will c<S ^