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Roll Call Shows 336 To
55 Count; Qvfck Action
Also Promised In The
Senate
Washington, March 19. ? The
House tonight overwhelmingly ap
proved appropriation a? $7,000,000,
000 to finance PrwidMit Rooeeveit'a!
all-out British aid program.
Tin roll call vote -wa* 336 to 55.
Pinal gasp of the; apparition ctone I
whoa the redacted 258 to]
132, a motion by Representative Wil
liam P. Lambertaoa (R-Kans) to re- j
commit the measure. He wanted]
written into the Ml a prohibition
against expenditure of any part of
the font outside ~ oV continental
United States, ad a requirement for
adequate collateral from beneficiary
asthma. Both amendments pnevi-1
onaty bad been rejected.
The measure goes to th?><Scnato,J
where an appropriations subcom-1
mittee will begin hearings tomor
row. Mapority Leader Alben W.J
Barkley, D. Ky., hopes to start de- j
bate early next week and expects
a final vote after two >r three days j
of discussion. No concerted fight]
N is pirated by jsonintervemtionista.
A coalition of Republicans and]
Democrats beat down every attempt
to reduce the fund or curtail its
expenditure before it -passed the j
House. A similar drive will be
waged in the Senate, but leaders
said it would fail
Voting for the appropriation were ]
231 Democrats, 104 Republicans and
one Farmer-Laborite. Voting against
it were 45 Republicans, six Demo
crats, three Progressives and one
American-Laborite.
House action coincided with a
statement by Secretary of the Navy
Frank Knox that initial naval aid to
Britain under the forthcoming pro
gram will include mosquito boats,
submarine chasers, fast motor boats,
yachts and other small, fast craft
suitable for work in the English
Channel
I Fifty Millions For ToJ
I bacco and lQ&MflHonsI
I For Cotton To Be Ear-1
? marked I
Washington, March 19.?Prom thai
I gigantic seven-billioofc-doOar fond to I
I finance the 1?stand program, $60,-1
I 000,000 will be earmarked for the die-1
? poatl at tobacco, Representative Har-1
I oid Ik Cooiey disclosed today.
? Disappearance of the 1939 crop at I
I least is hoped for hf Defense Com-1
I misakm officials as a result of theee I
? aid-Britain funds, which include!
? also an aannatkingqf *100,000,0001
1 winded -thai
? details o ' the maimer in which thai
I Inge mppropn&tooix is to bo I
I on the ground that a breakdown into I
I specific items would provide rnfor-1
I ma$ion at Msiftance to the dictators. I
? jveenae^ vommisBBB acoaais agree, ?
Tl? UB fmi by ttel
? Hmm by ? nto of M6 to ? yro-l
I TPo?-^W
I ***** Hi
I ed? specifically foe purchase I
txmdm at agrfcultiaal commodi-B
^B ' ? : Ahia.?? ?w ? _ ?--> n w - mi *9r
^?j nH; fir W3US gmU.
AAA fl#Uk? ?m21 | 1^. tflS -WllUl u
I .? ? ? r I
? Rtftowtiw a i Bfjiv yifi vitlbJ. B.I
?. -
Jones Officer In
boc^Beme Guard
?I ?? r;
? Greenville, Mhrth ^80*-Arthur B.
Oraiey, captain irf-the^Wti Comity
Roe Gnard, announced today the
appointment of JeSycr I*- Janes as
| second lieutenant of the local doit,
replacing a JL Beatty, who was am
fable to accept the post because of
'other duties as head of the ?3ty
Street Department,
i Any person in this community'de
suing to enlist in the guard, created
to replace the National Guard how
in army service at .Port Jackson, can
do so by seeing Captain Oofey or
Lieutenant Jones. Persons in ^the
Farmville community desiring to
enlist are asked dp see Fbst Lieu
tenant LeRoy BoHfcw.
- More than 30 men have enlisted in
the guard to date. A minOnum of 45
are required and the quota ia expect
ed to be reached is tfefrwear future.
It is planned to start drills, to be
conducted at the cfty-county armory
next week.
Japan Fareip
Minister n Trip
To AusCapitals
Observers Expressing
Opinion Japan Is Seek
ing Guarantees From
Russia Before Commit
ting Herself To Con.
crete Axis Partner
ship
Tokyo, March 19.?Fbffcign Minis
ter Yosuke Matsuoka, en -mote to
Berlin Borne, will panse in Mos
cow two days, it was amMmMced to
day, for talks which observers be
lieved would vitally affect Japan's
role in Axis plans for a new world
order. .
Attaching the highest significance
to the announcement, these Bounces
expressed the opinion Japan is
seeking guarantees from Soviet Rus
sia to safeguard her interests bor
dering Siberia before committing
horaoif to any concrete action in
partnership with Germany and
Italy.
It also was understood the foreign
minister would pause m Moscow on,
his return from. Rome and Berlin,
and observers said his discussions
in the West would be made condi
tional upon what occurred in Mos
cow during both of his stop-overs
there.
Neutral circles suggested cement
ing of relations with Soviet was no
less important for the Japanese
point of view than the solution of
the conflict with China, which now
is so much of Japan's energy
and resources.
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BAPTIST CHURCH WILL
"upbn mmspaw Sunday
For the eoMSitaii a bf mothers of
babies and small children, who wish
to attend services, the Farmville
Ifcgfet Ore* "ill m.<a
a nursery, starting Sunday, March"
2SrdL
^The nursery is a project of ^the
-y and an adult wiU be preasnfc
HUgS i1 Erwift welcome ^
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^ Tinr tl ? HHPI^V^
? ^w/n >^.^|^ ^ ^
Hj cflHp^ff^--? "??.*:*,'O:...v "rJ
I -3^?$svi$3f ^iliPMy ^ji|'r?. RnT ?' '. irft-~?:<W
TVS' PUCE f
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1 I TTTf T M ? - A ? . ? ||. + ? - ,?
Their Treeta*
mr^??2*^?SS
arxueu wiwx wiguijs ^w%ms ux hi?
mckt today and fluted to o|mi fire:
on. * pair of oonvicts who sprinted
from a construction .gang on the
Tarboro highway\Weri&-!miles from
Hoflwi, an attache of the State PrissA
. "-W ^?,? "._W}r i> p. ?l.' -I j
camp north of Greenville reported
tonight
S With the aid of bloodhounds ob
tained from Greenville. Wilson and
Washington, -1 Highway- patrolmen!,
sheriffs offfectwthd AAa?fficeni
rare waging a widespread search in
the vicinity of Rsthsl-m an effort
Winston Robert May, 16, and Dot
ty Holshouser, SO, dkihedafoot
across the highway, railroad tracks'
and into a nearby wood.
"I don't know why the guards
dtdat Sftn fire on them," said the
I prison camp- informant "The shot
wouldn't have hit any of the other
; prisoners. They just frost, in. their
tracks/' ?f||
A farmer in the vicinity of Bethel
told Carl Crawford, superintendent
of the prison camp, that he saw" the
convicts in the vicinity of his farm
this afternoon. It wasreported tkiM
night that a faint trail of the fugi
tives had been picked up and that
the search would continue through
out tiie night
Prison authorities were at a Iqiii
to detrmine whether the men are
armed. "They've had time to arm
themselves," said one of them.
Holshouser, a native of Salisburg,
received conuDinea w sentences - ap
proximstrng seven yearn in Rowan'
County ip 1936 after being convict
ed of forcible treaspstiv breaking
and entering, and larceny. ?
May, a native of Franklinton, was
sentenced is Guilford County in
1940. He drew a sentence of from
two-to-three yean after being con-?;l
victed of larceny and receiving.
urn
Tobacco PlantiBgs
likely fohncrease
This Season
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Washington, March 19.-1110 na
tion's tobacco farmer* apparently
plan to plant the full acreage per
mitted them this year without penal
ties under marketing allotment pro
grams.
Based on the March 1 intentions,
of tiie growers, the Agriculture De
partment estimated that plantings
will approximate -iidW^Mlris^ or
98.4 per cent of 1940?s 1,427,000
acres.
The indicated decrease* the wpdrfc
said, was due to*q^ted.feductioas
of about 20 jier cent in prospective
q^jypea^^ {ni{rf<H . niam
;dhenge\*' w
^ _ .1 ???-- -?I. Mlf rtWiia ' fW' 1> it Mini?
TjflCwoQ i n vODoCCv -SCJVHnK wb?U
recalled that heavy re^ti^wm?
KHfLOQ MnMmi of 1 -CTBiflOfr ifflW.
xvou-o? T? ?rw,wy
"Loss of foroisn nisticote uocftxiso
fliemi n m IVM tv ?? me^iMehonHlft
for ft" "AtMrrHiy ?niaantw. the board
a coaawpience thel941 in
A ;..yiV'M:jp^' ?-!:!". 'v. ? yXf^'H*'V
States, serviwr notice upon the dic
tators and totalitarian nations that
to'Nijrftia rf 'both lithmti^inriH
be used, if necewf, to guarantee
the right of free peoples to sejoy
I ?,%./. I
I The echoes of stbatoiial
had already died aerijqr before there
Svtt* evidences that,' rtgfcrfiess of
differences of opinio* as to the hill
itself, the new policy of the United
S^haatheMppo^ofsll Ameri.
cans. Minority |loo^ ; leadw.f ;Joe
Martin, of -Majfflnrhnftettfly ' Stt the
^ Vv7 ^xTvTTl i. ,
keynote in a brief Speeeh in the
House, declaring "We accept the I
verdict of the majority" and "thereia
no diviskm in our loyalty to oii^fl
country, our determination to protect
the security of oar people."
. In fact, as Senator Vandenburg
pointed out the day before, rolicails
in the Senate disclosed only five
senators who seemed to be wgainsfc ,
all-out assistance to Great Britain
'?short of war." The "abort of war"
phase represents a determination of
the Administration and the people of
this country not to damage in active
hostilities unless we are attacked V
? - ? - '?
While the United States will go
the limit to ' provide Qveat Britain,
Greece- and China with the tools
that W&ttoA'i&tftehill asked forbad
do it Withbut fear of totalitarian
regimes; no aggtetoive moves are
contemplated1: by ' country.
Whether ? our ? national policy con
tinues to be "ShOrt-of war" depends
entirely* upon What arilbn, If dny,
.fiestesnfe |
answer to jthe Wew-ftttlga policy of
this cottttty.
.. '-4'*? '?
Passage of the Lease-Lend BiU was
marked immediately "by a presiden
tial request far, billions of dollars to
implement the tew policy.. That
such a request was necessary and
teat Congress most votefunds to
fully implement the policy seems to
refute the idea that unlimited pow
ers have been placed in the hands of
the President Certainly wide dis
cretion has been left to tee C^igf;
Executive in determining details 'as
to tiie policy, but congressional ap
propriation is still necessary to pro
vide the?unending flow of supplies
that : the policy promises tee natibBt
which are fighting the aggressors.
The immediate power teat the
legislation confersrupon the Presi
dent was tee' surthorimdtori; to turn
I rnffhmrnrfir**1']* If; the war is
? 'JSP?' ?**r*
?'1 ? i '. toJji*. ? ? -.Vv^'Z'i-^ wv : ?'? '?
I to.be bLlTta^ Storiw^a^ahip^
I'linw. pfoviffion no iiffut put tJis
B"*' * 4?" r.; 3W? "'V' ? .' ? C';V^-:S,' u" '
: I . *?* r . -,T ..
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^i^jt ^
iilinw llilliy rHAi *"CrrfrwM
two months ofl941, the State High- .
11? February toflof^** deaths
asrstirr^
months total to a 80 per cent in
crease over last year, Director
{Ronald niiiMll ifW j1 S ? 1
\&:jdafoitemehh 3
agency, to" ? group Jind ;
dowfc the alarming intoease of rn- .
necessary accidents to North Cato- V
Una," Hocut\
,;|;!lTie:r^Cbnia*jr report showed M- f
lit TBMTaiwir' ifalti; i&tMl ^persons *
kUled at railtoa^woMtofa, 28
automobile coHiakma, 18 by run- J
ning off'the highways, 10- bjr 'frtih
ing into gtiil obJeCte ahdshven by 1
overturning1.
Charlotte led the dties with nine
deaths. Greensboro had four, Dur
ham^ Ral*tgfc and Wilmington two.
Mecklenburg'County had 14 deaths, i
Columbus 11 and Wake nine. Bun- (
combe showed the largest decrease?
from aevebto three. ,
Both Jattahfry and February fig- *,
ures broke all records. January .
fatalities tetMed 90?22 more, than ,
lost year and four above toe pre- *
vious high set in 1987. February's .
toll of Bfi-was "IB above taaTyear '
and eight above the previous record '?
set in 1986. 1
ft Rose and D. IT. Conley have been 1
designated to conduct the campaign 3
in t^jdty and county schools, re- (
lected as follows: Bethel, r Jas^r j
Smith; Farmville, Mayor Geoigvj W,
Davis; Aydtti, ?tyor ^.C^g*d; ?
Wtoberville, ft K Bayd; ;
For^^?^Wakir|^^^
land, Mnk ft A. Lawrence; Airihur, 1
jon?* s
than Overton.
^^MembCTg ^^j^^md^ra^o
mittee, ? , ? / I
In menacing the lmpign||fe: <
Putrell disclosed some interesting 1
fa^^ |
I j .HWtI .-wy*#W 1 I
amy tu-^ured'.-asri- Mondays '-Jtoi
fc? P. M. ^ t
?fAnyone igtqge8te^^u]g| m^; jf
801
?Mo^fjkfi^ loaned to -toast the- |
?frH?s>rtViirtwiiiiirr mill irimli fur v
.~*g,e: .:-. ?? _m, / ?i?. -*??? ?? ? .17'>ki
preparing* ami ^uv&tmg :WB crops t
or forpurchasing or producing feed g
for |-p
Borrowers who obtain loans fdr ? ?
production of cash cropsarexequir- c
ed to give as security a first lien ;
on the crops financed and, in cases I
af loans for the purchasing or pup- v
iucfcg of feed (for livestock, a first I<
lien on the livestock to be fed. t:
? 'ijtu, v !.?*)?,. hi '-iiii'-.' p1: ?;.*
Pi^&hool Sues i!
It urns disclosed at the health de- p
partment today-that tin schedule of p
the remaining pre-school clinics is (3
IS ,fehoWS: V ' k; 4 ,
Fountain, Monday, March 31; Grif- ti
ton, Tuesday, April 1; Farmville, c
rhursday, April West Greenville p
ind Third i Street, Wednesday* April
I; Training School, Friday, April 4;
Negro Pre-School in' Greenville, April a
29 or 80; Chieod, April 21.
The foUovdng dentists are ^ giving s
volunteer service to the pre-schpoi ta
:Unics: Dr.; Paul Fffegesald, Dr. S.
P. Ward, Dr. H. B. Massey, Dr. B. p
McK. Johnson, Dr. C. R. Reddick, ?
Dr. A, H. Schultz, Dr. P. E. Jones. g
Dr. Ennett called, attention to the \
rtate law which requires that all
hildren be v vaednated against a
hphtheria from six months to five c
rears of age and that etch child p
mtermg school for the first time e
trust present ,a certificate showing n
hat he has been vaccinated against r
iiphtheria. e
For maximum protection it is nee- p
asaary that a child have two doses
jf-toxoid j about -four weekb *pa*fe,:^ a
Violation of this law is punishable ?
iy fine of not more than |50 or by \
mpriaonment for hot more" than 20- J?
lays.. ; ?? "4- *
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Foreign Minister Hold
Conference
' jSp^f';' W '?'
Belgrade, March 19.?Sources of
he highest retiabi'ity said tonight
hat Germany has won from Yugo
ilavia limited adherence to the
leriin - Rome - Tokyo Pact which
jivee the Reich the right to move
rar materials through Yugoslavia to
he threatened Balkan war front and/
ears Yugoslavia economy and
elides to those of the Axis.
The long, secret negotiations woe
otocluded here shortly after noon.
L Yugoslav note was dispatched to
ferlin and all that was awaited
ma a formal invitation for Yugoslav
seders to oome to Berlin and Sign
he pact, expected within a week,
The agreement, dm informant said,
rovidea a German guarantee of
Tugoelav frontiers and territorial
ategrity and exempts Yugoslavia
rem the military and mutual aid
revisions of the original tripatite
act This excludes die presence of
rermaa troops on Yugoslav soil.
The passage of German hospital
rains, wounded and sanitary (medi
al) supplies through Yugoslavia is
arih$te<L -
Its Provisions.
It was learned reliably that the
greement contains these provisions:
1. Germany guarantees Yugo
lavia'a frontiers ami territorial in
sgnty.
2. All signatories to the tri-power
act?including Hungary, Rumania,
nd Bulgalia?must abide by this
uarantee and thus may not violate
rugoslav frontiers. ?
3. Yugoslavia remains free from
U obligations prescribed in military
lauses of the tei-power pact By this
rovhdon, German troops may not '
nter Yugoslavia and Belgrade re
tains free of tri-power obligations
sgarding military mutual aid or any
ventual mutual military action by
act signatories.
4. After the end of the present
rar, and when the "New Order" in
Europe is in progress of organisation,
rugoslavia's aspirations for an out
it to the Aegean Sea will he con
idered definitely.
Yugoslav Duties.
Under an annex to the pact, Yugo
Lavia agrees to:
1. The transport through her ter
itory without interference of Ger
lan war materials, wounded and -
anitary (medical) materials.
2. Harmonise Yugoslavia's eco
omic policies with the Gennan eco
omic system. .
3. Suppress all anti-Axis influ
nces throughout Yugoslavia.
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'URKISH MINISTER HOLDS -
.^CONFERENCE WITH EDEN
^itfanbui/iltarch 19.?Foreign Mia*. ;
rter Sukru Sarucoglu and British
Vnrmgn Secretary^' Anth??y-.^1Eden:;_7
let on the Island of Cyprus today
i':% conferencei^fcterpnrtedL as Tu?
Ij^^g^ansiiif^e. Gerattn a#d ; \
n indication that Turicey would act
ritb Britain if Germany invades
Art official com muni erne disclosed
m? meeting- of the.
elieved by political obeemrt to
ave discussed the poadbflity of
ntiah forces beta* sent to Turkey
I tits : ^am e mannst as those which.
?t ordered continued for three
r^t^t "''fwij to *Adrff Hft*
gj. Vecenf note to President Timet
1 luTifr^iy^d^, Dw"-?, ?N*
b **"*1^ -iTsniwfri that Germany