^tght rwuit . in luiXtiAUit,
♦htei / TTOOld ti» WfWjiosr*
ruinous to 'frt^on tfeMt (6 otb‘«
This aioifity^li Jo tiio tidlA'
CwjrrlcM IMV Natioiul Axiieonanl Bawrah. Ine.
w. '■ ' would give a liberal interpre-
*■— tation of the Aiken amendment
by the Big Four tirm or-' t, t^e Price Control Act of Octo-
,, BteUntlonB. the Bankhead 2, 1942. This amendment
K„ •W*ocketed through the Senaterqj-fpr jjje weighing of the cost
- It? ®“ Thursday. The vote in- Lf farm labor for the purpose of ard program will bring on evil day
^^ted a compromise on the pert j fixing prtce ceilings on farm pro-
Administration, according ducts. It would not change the
to ii\formed observers. Final pas- basic parity formula.
tlon problem hei
sallpd by such farm leaders as Al
bert S. Qoss of the* Q|«,n£e.
Charles Teague of the National
Council and Ed' O'Neal • 'of the
Farm Bureau.
Leaders See EtU Day
These men, heavily backed by
many farm Senators and Con
gressmen, assert that the Wick-
way
sage of the measure would nalll-
*fy that part of President Roose-
■ ^ Tolt’s stabilization order of last
'■ October which requires deduction
ot government benefit payments
_ in establishing farpi price ceilings.
Majority Leader Alben Barkley
(Dem. Ky.) supported the legisla
tion with “some trepidation.” He
expressed the hope that it would
raise farm prices to a point
ich would contribute to “runa-
ay InflEtion.”
It is believed here in Washing
ton that a "deal” is taking defi
nite shape behind the scenes.* In
exchange for such concessions as
passage of the Bankhead bill, the
Admlnistn>tion’a so-called Incen
tive payment or subsidy program
would be gunned through Con
gress against the wishes of the
major farm groups. At the same
time, the Pace Bljl, making the
fnclusion of the cost of all farm
labor a prrt of the basic parity
fosmule. would be side-tracked.
In turn, OPA Chief ex-Senator.
Prentls Brown has intimated that
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Wickard Offers Program
Whether all this maneuvering
would result In prices for farm
products necessary to secure pro
duction of the food end fiber es
sential to prevent hunger here
on the agricultural front. Mean
while, USDA Secretary Wickard
has called upon Congress for a
mandate under which he may
conduct a definite frrm program
which he outlined as;
(1) Government support of
prices of all farm products
needed in the war effort.
A government offer to pur
chase certain products--
such as soy beans, peanuts,
flax seed, canned yegeta-
bles, sugrr beets and per-
ba.ps others—and resell
them to processors and
distributors at. prices in
line with OPA price ceil
ings.
An offer to, farmers of in
centive payments on need
ed war crops to enable the
producers to meet Increas
ed costs without raising
conspmer prices.
Wickard admitted frankly that
one way of enabling farmers to
receive the returns necessary to
cover their increasing costs of
production would be by raisir--
prices. He did not believe this t
be the preferable way, however.
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of reckoning. They believe that
U fs better for highly paid Indns-
trlal workers to meet their food
bill directly while the booni Is
on, rather than to pile np govern
ment borrowing for subsidy pry-
ments, and then be faced with a
tremendous federal debt and
crashing prices when the -boom
ends.
These differences of opinion
were approaching a head-on col
lision at week-end. Economic Sta
bilizer Byrnes rdmilted that time-
and-a-half for overtime In Indus
try was inflationary, but opposed
further farm price rises. A day
later, Wickard came out with
what seemed to mrny a rathor
modest understanding when he
said th»at “if the 48 hour week
means a 30 per cent wage increase
it will tend to. cause inflation."
A story was wafting pround
town that the President had reas
sured Wickard of his support, and
had appointed White House Sec
retary Lauchlln Ourrie, whose oc
cupation is Chinese relrtions, to
act as umpire of the agricultural
program. Ourrie, it said, imme
diately popped up with a 9-point
plan, most striking feature of
which was thrt “legal direction of
the farm progrom be shifted from
farm-Bureau-talnded people, to
wards that one responsive to Fed
eral directions."
Price CeUingB Ordered
On the floor of the Senate, Lee
O’Daniel (Dem. Tex.) demanded
that "we *cpn’ capital bureaucrats
to prevent famine.’’ He said farm
price ceilings should be ended.
Counteracting this came a recom
mendation from OPA Brown that
price ceilings be placed on cat
tle end bogs. Pointing that trend,
after one of the bitterest sessions
on record, price ceilings were
clamped ob a number of fresh
fruits and vegetables. This
brought an angry blast from the
Commissioner of Agriculture of
Florida. He barked, “The people
who are doing this to us never
saw a patch of growing beans In
thetr llTes." Over -fn New York,
Market Commissioner Wooley
asked a cut in^food^being shipped
abroad on ’BBild-liease. Butter
was absent per cent of Got
ham’s grociC^ stores, and the
black marke^In meats was al
legedly flourishing.
Before Sen. Gillette’s (Dem.
Iowa) rubber Investigating com
mittee appeared a number of wit
nesses who "wanted to know why
WPB was refusing to allow farm
er cooperatives the necessary ma-
terlols to construct alcohol con
version plants to utilize wheat,
corn and sorghums In the syn
thetic rubber 'program. Accusa
tions that vested interests, with
key men in WPB. were conspiring
to thwart alcohol-rubber output
and retain control of the entire
rubber program were tossed
about. Sen. Gillette expressed his
concurrence In such a belief.
When Ezra T. Benson. Ex. Secy,
of the National Council, told the
Iowa Senator that he thought the
cooperatives had been “given
somewhat the run aronnd by
WPB”, cyiette rejoined.."! move
to strike ont the world ‘some
what’.’’ Benson agreed.
McXiitt Faces Trouble
Over at the War Manpower
Commission. Czar McNutt was
facing trouble. Congress, via a
sub-committee, refused to appro
priate funds for the former Indi
ana Governor’s latest manpower
project: and many were seeing
a fade-out for McNutt. The con
fusion over the matter of calling
troops io pick cotton in Arizona
didn't help the situation any for
the silvery-haired Hoosier. With
contradictory orders on the troops
situation coming out on practical
ly an hourly basis, it appeared to
be a case of “in again, out again.
1 home again, Finnegan,"
Suspension of the c'urbs on
[wheat (removal of penalty of ap-
I proximately 60c per bu. for pro
duction above allotment) seemed
long over-due according to feed
experts. They are facing a rapid
ly deterioriftlng condition In the
feed market with few gleams of
hope to be seen. This move. It
was felt, might takq ^off some
pressure; but compliostions over
price and procedure were still to,
be ironed out.
Free 8peed> Threafened .
Secretary 'Wickard accused an
un-named author of making
alarming and inflammatory'state
ments concerning the -posslbilltv
of hunger in America. The Sec-
>^tary said, “ . . . froin im^n-
sible son^B, statements ere be-
'ng made which apparently are In
tended to destroy motive and
create food, panic. . . . Theee
statementa serve no porpe^.oUAt
er than to destroy the eoaildeiiee
ntsttr.ot
^^slat^T5ev.'
^ lens' ««or sIiofW ni( til
to discourage fPeech, 81,
ft by wrappins tt • In the flag. '
Smear it to death by crying rloud
that it . . . gives ala ond.comfod
to the enemy.”
This week In Wssjilngton .saw
many shoe repair s^ps closed te
causd of TOO much WORK
Signs reading, "No work promts*
ed within one week." ■ and “No
work tsken fur weeks,. call
for work between 15 Md 7" were
reminders that Waahingtonl(ins
were flooding the shoe repair men
with shoes to bd repaired. Many
shops are now operating on two
shifts. Shoes are stacked ceiling
high and the shoe men wears a
very harrnssed look.
Wheat MaHietme:
Quotas “Lifted”
For Two Seasons
Action of Secretary of Agricul
ture Wickard in suspending mar
keting quotas on wheat for the
remrinder of the 1942-43, market
ing yerr and for 1943-44 will per
mit farmers of Wilkes county to
sell wheat without regard to quo
tas during this period, according
to S. L. Turner, secretary of the
Count AAA.
The secretary’s action was tak
en under authority ot the emer
gency provisions of the Agricul
tural Adjustment Act end releas
ed et once for feed or market any
wheat which has been stored off
the market because of marketing
quotas, he said.
"It has been a general practice
to store wheat produced in excess
of form marketing quotas and sell
it in some subsequent year when
acreages were underplanted," to.
Turner said. "This wheat now
may be marketed or used for
feed.’’
In suspending quotas. Secretory
Wickard also onnounced that
wheat farmers who in 1943 met
90 per cent or more of their farm
war crop goals will be eligible for
AAA wheat payments and wheat
loans, even though they exceed
their wheat acreage allotments.
The secretary, however, urged
farmers to maintain careful farm
ing practices so as not to jeopar
dize future wheat crops. He p^nt
ed out, also, that woter
and resultant Jow ylel
lowed excessive wheat
creases in the pest.
“With three good wheat
behind us, our wheat supplies ot
present are the largest in our his
tory,” WickaCd said in announc
ing the suspension. “In view of
the tremendous increase in the
number of livestock, however, ad
ditional feed reserves rre a safe
guard for the future. We enter
ed the present marketing year
with a total wheat supply of 1,-
613,000,000 bushels. At the same
time, this year, wheat consump
tion, including moderate exports,
promises to be the largest since
1920. Livestock feeding has re
counted for the bulk of the cur
rent Increase in wheat consump
tion.”
The 1942-43 marketing quota
became effective following appro
val of wheat growers In-a referen
dum on May 2, 1942. The 1943-
4 4 quota was proclflmed on Aug
ust G. 1943, and the referendum
which was to have been held this
yea.i was cancelled by the secre
tary’s action, Mr. Turner, said.
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NOTICE
In the District Court of the
United States for the Middle Dis
trict of North Carolina, Wilkes-
boio Division. United States of
America vs. One, .38 caliber Smith
& Wesson Revolver, Serial No,
565; One .22 caliber Remington
Automatic Rifle, Model 241. Serial
No. 14690; One 16-guage L. C.
Smith Double Barrell Shot Gum
Serial No. FW-73670; One .22 cal
iber Smith & Wesson Revolver,
Serial No. 676223. In obedience to
a Warrant of Seizure to me di
rected, in the above entitled cause,
I have seized and taken into my
possession the following described
property: One .38 caliber Smith
& Wesson Revolver, Serial No.
565; One .22 caliber Remington
Automatic Rifle, Model 241, Seri
al No. 416f0j One 16-guage L. C.
Smith Double Barrel Shot Gun,
Serial No. FW-73670; Cne .22 cal
iber Smith & Wessoil Revolver,
Serial No. 676223. For the caus
es set forth in the libel now pend
ing in the United States District
Court for the Middle District of
North Carolina, at Wilkesboro, T
hereby give notice to Ull persons
claiming the said, property, or
knowing or having anything to say
why the same should not be con
demned and forfeited and tile
proceeds thereof distributed ac
cording to the, prayer of the libel,
that wey be and appear before
the said Court, to be held in and
for'the Middle District of North
Carolina, aT the United States
Courtroom, to tbo City of Wilkes-
boro, on -the IStix day of March,
1943, at
Jui ..
of jnriadietkm.
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