? I ?? ? ?! m ? ? ??? ? .1 II ? Ml I., 1 ? ? ?'**.|1>W iTiuiimimmm ? ?. Chain Stare Order Far 2,500,000 Cotton Bags Change by A & P Fro? Jute to Cotton But Sacks CUM Example of How Business Can Help Move Big Sur plus Crop I Ne? T?A, A "major victory in the 1939 cam pafrn to boost domestic consumption of cotton" was hailed today by Pa B. Haisteed, secretary and treasury, of toe Cotton Textile 1natatate? with the announcement of an order tor I more mm?? the Great Atlantic A Pacific Tea Company. The A & P order, which will re I quire an estimated W>00 acres of cotton and provide a full week's work for approximately 18,000 persona,is one of toe first of many which cot ton producers and processors hope to obtain from American indostry this year, Halstead said. Firms changing from the use of jute and other materials to cotton, he point ed out, "not only help reduce our national surplus, but fulfill an ad ditional patriotic purpose in provid ing jobs for thousands of workers in the American textile industries. "The A & P order is a dramatic example of how this Works,' Hal stead continued. "Htaeeforth toe company will use eotton instead of I jute bags for toe 1,50*000 barrels of flour consumed annually by its bakeries. This involves more than 2,500,000 large baga, made from oy er 2400 bales of eotton, which m i !??? gre the product of approxi j mately 5,000 acres of land. The la bor required for this order, includ ing that of raising the cotton, mak ing it into cloth and making the cloth into bags, totals about 725,000 hours j ?or, on a 40-hour week basis, a week's work for approximately 18, 000 persons." 1 Hie order follows intensive sales aid given cotton producers by food chain stores and other retailers dur ing National Cotton Week last May, Hatetetd added. Extensive newspap I er advertising, window and interior | displays and other sales efforts were utilized by the participating stores to -?"T*"*?- tike importance of cotton in our national economy, he saiiL A ft P and other food chains < explained, featured mer chandise made from eotton and cot tonseed products, or packaged in cotton doth, and "brought home to the fact that wider use of this product means increased em ployment and greater prosperity." "As an effective and appropriate climax to the National Cotton Week | campaign, tins present action by one of toe nation's leading chain store organisations deserves highest I praise," he said. While cotton bags such as hose ttffe toed for A A P fkmr coat more of burlap and other materials, they have several ad^n tagee which offset higher it tod outlay, he commented. Halstead | pointed out that cotton bags jum Hear tfi JUr fa*! iV83i romr win . I T* ? *+2 3. I H?SsS I I ' v">* v. F _? ?2r*'?v ? . However, Economy Coalition Claims B9H{ Will Suffer Defeat On F1 o o r ; Adjournment Plans Made for Sat urday Washington, Aug. 2.?*? toward sine die adjounaoesit efGon gress was halted momentarily to day when House leader* v! suddenly decided to call up PiuAfest Roose velt's new $800,000,000 housing-slum clearance program which they had junked earlier in the day. The measure, an integral part of the administration's lending program killed in the House yesterday, would authorize the United States Housing Authority to increase its bonded in debtedness to $1,608,000,000. The President defended it as an aid to recovery. Approved weeks ago by the Senate with virtually no debate, the pro posal is being fought by conservative Democrats who want to curb Feder al spending; by agrarian Democrats who protest that the money will be spent in urban communities and none will go to aid farmers, and by Re publicans. The same coalition scrapped the lending bill yesterday by voting dew* the rule under which it would have been considered. Experts tonight be lieved the housing rule would en- ? counter the same fate. A check by house leaders several i days ago forecast .defeat of the'rule. Some believed that this was the only reason the hostile rules committee, which is dominated by anti-New Deal ! Democrats and Republicans, allowed it to go to the floor. The tide was running so strong agrnmai the measure that it waa de cided at a conference among Demo cratic leaders this morning tSb'sfcen don it. Chairman Adolph Sabbath, Democrat, Illinois, of the ruleseora mittee, announced he move to report ers in a hitter attack on 'the forces of reaction which are drunk with power.' ?If the President does not bec?wr a candidate for a third term, it fti&t | means that all of the achievement#! of the last eight years in behalf the common myp will be killed as| soon as the rssctinaries can get "fcf! their work," he"said. C Si This waa interpreted as the death knell for the housing program, but late in thelddy reports circulated that New Dealers were trjring to pump new 1J^ into it. They succeeds ed. Shortly before the chamber ad journed for the day, House Leader Sam Raybmra, Detupcsat, of j Texas, said the rule would be called It was-'fajpfldseat to newsmen who interviewed ?? hrter thrt-he Wis not optimistic over its chances. Proponents of the measure, It was expect ft loeslflr T? a lot^eTother-peopto^^ ?Sa| committee gave the amend Bftdi* ngj| without 4 ' CQtiiO' r UOe.'1 wO tive Eugene Cox, Democrat, ? vftg Ttftf tfyiftg to X0IC6 Li. " | utav uw vs?w S^?^TcoS I .'?-!:!SS-M^?| Greenville, Aug. L-J. H. Cotrard, Pitt County Auditor, revealed yes terday that in the county budget for Bthie year 1988-89, the appropriations exceeded the actual expenditures by $1*91327, 4utd the collections ex. ceeded the actual expenditures by eluded: General fund: appropriation,] $111,676; expenditures, ^10(^754^91; J collections $117,937,53; County Home! B?appropriation $10466; expendi tures $7,77847; collections $12, 168.63; Outside poor and relief $11, 491; expenditures, $1343395; col lections, $13,338.50; pension appro priation, $34,226; expenditures, $32,-1 419.48; collections $28,189.37; Pitt Health Department appropriation j $17459.79; expenditures $16353.13; collections $14,618.02; and bonds and interest appropriation $190,020; ex-l pcuttHium $178460.83; collections $177,993.74; in the general fund, the collections exceeded the expendi tures by $748*82; County Home collections exceeded ^*tijpefeditures by $4j946*fco?*kfe relief and poor, collections exceeded expenditures by I ceeded 'the colleetfe** by $4*230.11; I heath departm||^MBtMiitures ex ceeded collections by $1,36046, and $357,690.52; and collections $364,-1 1&6.79. The general fund is derived | from fees,- coBectitma and the ABC Board; county home, sale of produce; I pensions, four cents tai levy; heatthf department, state and federal aid add! the ABC, mid bonds an interest from | fl*(63-eents tax levy. In school maintenance a supple mentary items budget, derived from | poll and dog taxes, court fines a seven-cents tax levy, and state aid to* vocational education, the appropri-1 ations was $49,469.40; expenditures $5142193; collections $48,772.56. The slate aid amounted to <$13495.41. The 7-centa tax rat* waa derived from the 7-eents, 55-eents and 8 ' | SLEEPS BETWEEN fcULS I v1 '*'*? A"' i ii a^r*- ... !*'v' 1 I |te^Te*-Tired of liKng for aj *tofcite**ailor, sUtaan XS'w! Worshau, 22, lowered 'himself from yTi'Hr" ,i? the. track. After walk At least two trains zipped over him before he was noticed and awaken-1 I AjsTvvfl JL ? li (Ml A X ? Lsnd- And Provide v-r?cr and Spwct {ion* W4 , i^v if V4 Vvli rtagj .A. a^<^M?vw Itbe proposed (iSd^OtA.tebcrcQt&r hot* Avr* PiHpMjrii iiurwi vtttvuiiu* ~r+r[ ? ? JMi wlHMw *? -? ? la > .??*?>. ^ '.tt:..?, ,.? -."v ? * -? The United States Conference** m ember or the House and ^ ontte, de propriates additional funds .gam* modifies the requirement that loqal govrnments assume twenty-five per cent, of the costs of projects by the end of the year. The Mayors' Association has beep vigorous in urging large appropria tions for relief. The chief executives of some of the largest cities in the ^nation assert that the relief quotas, are too small and that many, eligible for work relief, cannot get jobs^The cities, they explain, are unable to take care of the unemployed or to provide the twenty-five per cent, of the cost of projects, as required un der the recently enacted measure. The mayors, it is understood, did not ask for abadonment of the stiplation that all WPA employes work 130 hours a month for their security pay. -It is easy to understand the inter I est of the mayors in relief appropri ations. In toge dties, the unem ployed constitute a serious problem. If the Federal Government provides [adequate appropriations to give than IfVployment, the city officials are re lieved of a thratening problem. Not only will they face the needsifty of taking some steps to provide food for the unemployed, but they do notirel ish the idea of having thousands of < Warfiington, Aug. 1 The Senate ed tobacco growers in the southern states an opportunity to hold art Im mediate fanner election on invoking mtofaihig dootaa o?their -1940 sale* It approved debate, gent to the White Hotae, amend ments to the 1938 farm act which Wttild authorize Secretory Wallace to call a referendum at any time dur ing the marketing season instead of waiting until November 15 as pro vided in existing law. Marketing of flue-cured tobacco started last week in Georgia and; Florida/ and begins Thursday in South Carolina, and a few North Carolina markets. Tobacco growers meeting here yesterday expressed belief; air early referendum' would help holster de pressed prices on the Georgfe mar kets. > Flue-curttf grd#ew in an election last winter -rejected imposition of twftrkpting quotas on their 1939 crop, the largest on record. The amendment also would; change the basis. from sales quotas from poundage to acreage and increase penalties which may be imposed for selling ill excess of allotments from three to 10 cents per pound. - Douglas, Aug.. 1.?Georgia bright leaf tobacco growers were cheered today by a .possibility of a confer ence of buyeri ahd producers next week; to seek"better priceB for this year's billion-pound, buipper crop. Growers at the 15 Georgia market centers last week sold 27,024,786 pounds of bright leaf -for an average of 14.75 cents. First week sales last year brought farmers a 26.75 average for 14, 097,350 pounds. Washington, D. C., Aug. 1.? Growers of flue-cured tobacco look ed today to the, possibility of a meeting, with "buyers to seek an agreement which might increase the price being paid for the crop this year. Representatives of growers in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina* Georgia and Florida unani mously-approved sueh a course late yesterday at a -meeting with AAA officials.'. ,Vr.. - Claude Hall of Roxboro, N. C., chairman of a growers' advisory committee, expressed hope a confer ence could 4>e arranged with buyers for Wednesday or Thursday of next treek to determine whether prices might be .boosted if farmers agreed to withhold some of their tobacco from the market. ??? Fill M M ?j. jfef '.l":>. If ? ^ ; J- - J; a ran ? 11 j% #% 7 111 Hw la Q|T|| if iJvlr UllIIII(ID^ ?UIUI ^ifT - .mi/' * Y* gat Y*ou MaHsjuUffli m? 4jj1.1t /IA Q 4" ft M.r ? 1. Ill IB s IWCM ? ' l/v iii CpV ^ ^ ^ . ^ I . . .. J ? .t o ik-./ i* Arff- ?I ilEat what vou went iifter you 6st OfArfflndPiiiir ? ?1; " >5 . i1 ? I - :: . ? it ? . . ..: ???--??: / j I Nazia TeU^W^M TOey I Strength; BerMn Pa per T&kes Fltesr At Roosevelt ? . Berlin, Aug. 2.?Germany if .pre pared to strike "with lightning speed and- undreamed of forpe" if she is driven to war again, the- army, navy and air force ware told today in pro clamations marking th 26th anniver sary of Germany's entry into the World War. The proclamations were issued by Field Marshal Hermann W. Goering, commander-in-chief of the air. force;. Admiral Marshal Eric Raeder, -com mander-in-chief of the navy, and Col. Gen. Walther von Bruchitsch, army leader, as the Reich's 2,000,000 men under arms observed a nation-wide holiday. "Born of the* spirit of the German flers in the World War and sworn to the ideals of- our Fuehrer and com mander-in-chief, the German air force stands today ready to carry tHrougfci with- lightning speed and undreamed of force every order of the Ftiehrer," Goering's manifesto BfjBd.; ? Meanwhile, the air force which ? Wwrid War Ace Goering built to what he contends is the greatest aer ial strength possessed by any natibn, Carried out large-scale maneuvers over northwestern Germany across 15,000 square miles i of territory. He maneuvers, described officially as having revealed "an enormous de gree of efficiency,*' were in the form K?? an imaginary war between an In vading ' aBlue" force and its defeat by a "Bed" force east of the River Elbe. Playing War Between the two aerial forces, ?(tended by the rivers Weser and JE51 be, is a neutral "green" state whose I neutrality thus far has been respect ed by both feortbatants in the man ?MjfcrutO continue until Thursday. A "neutral yellow state?* in SdilesvHg Holstein, however/ was flown over-by the defending "Red" forces. Arid as KM?ult the "Blue" planes - also flew over it It was announced that anti-air craft guns had downed, theoretically, large numbers of the "enemy" planes. I | Today's anniversary /was celebrat ed in cities-, towns and villages and and band concerts, Tta^rdere for Fuehrer Adolf ffitler. While the proclamations to the amy, navy and; air ferw bitterly denounced the attemptsof theWest ^^ po^ Reich, cium&rly bm boowsaiiy. wjviftowBss, it is oasv for us to nndteitiiimd this I liis &nd ^ . A ... . .. . . .. . ? ? u ' I ' ' '? ' -y 'iiy^Qppprtu^ty.Qf > KSS ; Session inLocal School ? . ? Citizens of the Farmville School Diatrict ?f^IHtt County, who are qualified voters, having registered anew, will go to the. polls here be tween 7:00 -Ai M. and 7:00 P. M. and vote, on the two proposed additions to the .F?mville graded school namely, a twelfth grade and a.ninth The twelfth grade will necessitate the levying in this District of a special tax of not to ex*eed'?e <** the $100 valuation, which will be used for supplementing State and County school standards in providing for'the expenses of the proposed sat dition. _ . ? To meet the expense of * ninth month for the Farmville. School, a special tax will, be levied not to- ex ceed 12 l-2c on the $100 valuation, the proceeds, of which witt be need for supplementing State and County school standards. The proposal will require a separ ate vote and one may be favored the other disapproved if the voters^ ' desire. If hpth propositions shall cany,-a tax not to exceed 20 l-2c wilLba lev ied on all taxable property within this School Diatrict sufficient for the payments of the costs. A new registeration was ordered for the election to he held between July 8-22, with exception of Sundays and holidays, and no Qne will be per mitted to vote unless registered dmr big that priod. AQ persons failing to vote after registering will be count ed against both proposals. The store formerly, occupied .by tha Pitt Furniture Col will be the polling place, with W. M. Rollins as Regis trar, and R. A. Fields and C. A. Ty son as Judges. The election was called -after .the Farmville School Board had petition ed the County Board of Education, which in return secured .ahd:gwttd approval of the State School Com mission. The Board of County Com missioners then authorized the spec ial election. The Farmville school will have the. same system of the Greenville schools if both of-the proposed im provements are favored by a major ity of the registered voters. ' Huge Loss To Growers In Wilson fa Reported ? :.?,T Wilson, Aug. 2,?Non compliance of about 60 per cent of Wilson Coun ty's tobacco fanners this: year with tha Soil conservation, program of the government, coupled with overplant ing id costing farmers around $200,- \_ 600 this year, R was estimated by of- -V ficials of the office of Farm Agent J. O.^Anthony yesterday^''I'i7^/ 1' though abdut 97; per cent -o< A| cotton farmers of the county arc signed fee the soil conservation program, only about 60 percenf are doing so, it was said. tUs means, it tfaf. estimated, t$uit ?|j about" $200,000 & parity mone?$riil J# be lost to Wilson County farmers ibis' yeari<;. W, i Ttj was also estimated that farmers ti^o^coteity'. .^mfeaom?^^^^ more acres thte y^ttem^^y ?d AM?m a " 11te i. 'JvUOf life? $% i n : rti cKU A AMv-' ? #*,7 ^#||r;,rIlSWM . i| ; ? '* . ? , - ? * ? - -i-trI'M