North Carolina Newspapers

VOL. TWENTY-TWO FARMVILLB, PITT COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 19S1 " ^ NUMBER SEVENTEEN FarmviUe High School to Open September 23 ? ? High School Pupils Re quested to Register on September 14 At last comes the authentic an nouncement from Superintendent R-j E. Boyd, that the Farmville High} School will open on Monday, Septem-1 ber 2S. T^jp important announce ment will no douht be received with! mingled joy and regret by the chil-j dren themselves, but with relief by J patrons, who have been contemplat- j ing placing their children in school! elsewhere, fearing an opening set for an even later date. Superintendent Boyd is busy get-j ting everything in readiness for the occasion of the opening, so that feas- I ibfe schedules may be put into effect at once and proper adjustments made, in order that the whole school may swing in line and work may be begun at the first practical moment. I Members of the facult/ for the I 1981-32 session will include: 1st grade Miss Annie Perkins, Mrs. Florence Thorne; 2d grade, Miss Vivian Case, Mrs. W. D. Carraway; 3d grade, Miss < Bonnie Bos-well, Black Creek, Miss , Margaret Lewis; 4th grade, Missl Chrystelle Lucas, Benson, Miss Sallie J Norwood, Stovall; 5th grade, Miss 1 Edna Robinson, Ivanhoe. Miss Ma-! mie Proctor, Rocky Mount; 6th grade, J < Miss Pauline Meeder, Baltimore, Md., 1 Miss Janie Davis; 7th grade, Miss |' Susie Copeland, Burlington, Mrs. L. I' P. Thomas; High School, R. H. Cason, < Sandersville, Ga.; S. B. Underwood, 1 Jr., Greenville, Miss Gladys Xilpat- 1 rick, Brevard, Mrs. Plato Monk, Miss J Katherine Boatwright, TennUle, Ua., 1 Mrs. J. B. Joyner; Music, Mrs. Hay- ( wood Smith. A total enrollment of 763 made a record for attendance la3t year as did the 21 graduates, being the largest class in the history of the school. A ^ registration of 700 is expected on opening day, with the usual increase , during the weeks before Thanksgiv- , ing. ; ( Superintendent Boyd is calling for j a registration of High School pupils, j with the exception of the Eighth grade on September 14, to facHitate ( the opening and avoid.the-usual cob- . fusion which" delays" the Schedule of j study and activities for several days ? as a rule. ~ - - ? Pupils expecting to enter Ninth I grade will be received for registration ( at the superintendent's office, Sep- 1 Camber 14, from 9:00 to 1100 a. m.; i for the Tenth grade, from 11:00 to t 13:30, and Seniors from 2:00 to 3:00 p. m. the same day. ^ R. HI Cason, the popular and effi- I dent head of school athletics, who ? has spent part of his vacation this < summer attending the coaching school at Carolina, arrived Friday and is I busy with plans for making the sea- 1 ? " ? - i-l _ 1 A. ?J 1.X , X ?_! 1 son m mis one trie oest m me uiawiy - of the schooL - Several of the best players of the ? football and basketball teams will not * be bade this year, the list including: Charles Ramiey, Bennett Mewborn, 1 Weodrow Barrett, Billy Morton and Wm. Bohu, but Mr. Cason smilingly * assured the reporter that he had nev- * -r seen better material for teams than ha has lined up already or finer prospects for a season in these sports J than the one ahead. So Farmvilfe 1 has something to look forward to and fins will no doubt be proud to watch the teams make their records this ym*. As the activities of the young men ? and young women graduates are viewed with considerable interest, es pecially the first year after matricu lation, we take the liberty of noting just where the members of the spring daas will be this fall and winter. It < was impossible to make a complete i record, as some of the young peo- 1 pie could noi he reached, and as 1 mum one suggested, we do not know 1 next spring. Leroy 5ju?, employed by Monk, Hobgood 4k Webb; Wopdrow Barrett, nwiwd, scholarship at Duke; Hemby ? Bornette, E. T .C.; Allen Darden, Caroline; Bennett Mewborn, em tioycd taperial Tbbocco Co.; BiBy Morton, OUfiafttia School for Boys, ! Borne, Gjuj Gilbert Whelesa, taking I thmfcii engineering at State; Oliver Miss Verona Lee Joyner, E. C. T. C.; . i Miss Tfcabna Jones, E. C. T. G; Miss {?; Pernio Keel Lang, H a T. C.; Mies VkAj* MeGtohon, CaroUna Telephone I ?*BK XMJWSo m ? ilUWimv WlflJ* Cotton Control Nol New Idea .*Vi, /\??( ? Georgia Tried Plan as War Measure 69 Years Ago; Effect of Plan Unknown Atlanta, Ga., Sept. 2.?Reduction of cotton acreage legislation is not a new thing in the south. While Louisiana is the first state in history to enact a cotton prohibi tion law, Georgia was the first to control the acreage by legislation. The plan was tried in Georgia as a war time measure, 69 years ago, during the Civil War. There are no records to indicate what effect, if any, the legislation had on the price of cotton, or if authorities experienc ed any difficulty with its enforce ment. The Georgia legislature,. December 11, 1862, enacted a bill, limiting the cultivation of cotton to three acres Der "hand." A hand was defined as any" person between the ages of 15 and 55 owned or employed by the planter. A provision was made, probably due to scarcity of men on the farms, hat children between the ages of 12 and 15 years old and persons between 55 and 65 years of age could be class ;d as "half hands," or that two such persons could take the place of one land. Violation of the law was a misde meanor and the penalty was a fine >f $500 for each acre planted above he planter's quota. Every cotton farmer was required to list with :ounty officials the number of hands m his plantation and judges were required to give the law in all charges e grand juries. All fines were divided on a 50-50 lasis between the prosecutor or in former and the inferior courts of the rounties wherein the defendants lived for the benefit of indigent soldiers' 'amilies. Laws exempting from taxation apttal and property invested in the rotton-nndustry have appeared on the )0ok? of several states including Tex ts and Georgia. As early as 1897 the Texas legis ature adopted a resolution, directing Governor C. A. Culberson to call a egislative conference of cotton grow ng states at Galveston to deal with he cotton situation. The resolution claimed the market vas being fluctuated for gambling >urposes and that vast wealth which ihould go to the producers was being :onfiscated by greed of speculation. Louisiana set a record for speed in egislation recently, when Governor 3uey P. Long's plan for no cotton in .982 was enacted into law. Today, Governors of South Caroli la, Georgia and Texas were consider ng proposals to call their legisla ures into special session on the sit-i ration. The Louisiana law is contingent lpon the passage of similar laws by itates producing three fourths of ;he nation's cotton crop. Ex-U. S. Agent Sent to Roads Jas. Riddle Pleads Guil ty to Forcible Tres pass; Gets 15 Months Fayettcville, Sept. 3.?James Rid ile, who claimed public attention jome time ago while a Federal pro libition agent, was today sentenced to 15 months on the roads by Judge ilidyette after pleading guilty to for " ? V JJ .i. i. laDie trespass under an maicumm ur jurglary. Other serious charges -were lodged against him bat not pressed. Riffle left here about 16 Tears ago I jnder charges of burglary and horse liteaSpg, and he later became a pro hibition agent stationed in Winston Salem. It is said that be recently served a term in Atlanta FederaP Prison for rinlstfng the prohibition iaw while lEfciddle *6* ^rtil itodsy1 Leono bci that ansount to loftYOi qkx. | j Four Hundred Orphans Get Hair Cut ? | I I I !? I ' 1 11 . . .. . 'V" ? ' I " ?" ' I I ? * Unce a month thirty St Louis barbers go out to JPattonvaie, Mo? i give the 400 little ones in the home there a haircut* Iree of'charge. ? youngsters enjoy the party, judging by the picture. Farmers and Business Men To Meet Here Saturday Matters of Interest in Regard to Government Grading of Tobacco to Be Discussed and Ex plained. to All I [ Farmers and business men of this section who may be interested in learning more about the government grading of tobacco are urged to at tend a meeting to be held in the city hall in Farmville Saturday afternoon at 3 o'clock. Mr. E. B. McDowell, of the United States Department of Agriculture, and local representatives of the grad ' ing service, including H. W. Taylor, i M. M. Veasey and J. W. Lovelace ! will be present to help explain in de tail every phase of this service which is furnished farmers at a very small eost It is a known fact that one load of tobacco was brought to Farmville this week from a distance of sixty five miles in order to have same gov ernment graded. Now if this service is helpful to some, why not to many? The government has selected Farmville the "key market" of the Eastern Carolina Tobacco Belt, and trained representatives have been placed here to aid the growers in every possible way in obtaining a fair and equal price for their to bacco. Join others interested in this serv ice and attend the meeting to be held in Farmville Saturday afternoon and become more enlightened about gov ernment grading. Texas LxetotiveAskeiLT? Lead In Cotton Proposal Texas Governor Rejects Gardner's Conference; Proposal; Texan Says Time Would Be Lost Raleigh, Sept. 3.?Convinced" that 'no effective action on the cotton sit uation can be had without the cooper-; ation of Texas whiph not only raises one third of the Afft^ican crop, but raises it cheaply because of the use of very little fertilizer, Oovernor 0. Max Gardner yesterday made two ef forts to obtain that cooperation. Governor Gardner first proposed to Governor Ross S. Sterling of Texas, an inclusive conference at Memphis, Tenn., September 14 and 15 of Gov ernors, United States Senators and agricultural leaders from each cotton growing state, "not to promote any one plan" but to consider all plans. Qovernor Sterling promptly reject fed the proposal on the ground that | it would take too much time, and i Governor Gardner then called upon | the Texas executive to make a pro posal of his own. Governor Gardner's proposal for the conference was made after a con ference with United States Senator Josiah W. Bailey and Dr. (Jlarence Poe, editor of The Progressive Farm er, both of whom are on record in op poition to the Louisiana plan for abandoning all cotton acreage in 1932 and Governor Sterling, in the ex change of telegrams, also expressed ?opposition to that plan. Further op position was expressed yeterday by B. H. Rogers, farm management spe cialist at State College. Governor Gardner's telegram pro posing a conference follows: "As Governor of the most eastern of important cotton growing states, 1 am wiring to ask if yon, as Governor ?of the most western of importan' states, will join 'me and our United ^States Senators 1n calling a confer ence of agricntural leaders with Gov ernors and United States . Senators, the conference T>eihg called not to 'promote any pl*(h bat to get the con servative and^tefrefuljudgmentpon adl plana that may be presented and ??for, if poaaibfe*,a verified program to the south. The plan would be to have, each Governor name two able ihis state together^ with" the commis sioner ^^STicxiitare, president dean of agricultural college, preai m.. i .i ? , . ^ , ? i ?? subjects: First, emergency measure for 1931 cotton crops; second, con trol of acreage in 1932; third, agricul tural marketing act and Federal Farm Board and international coop eration on cotton; fourth, a perma nent program for a better agricul ture in the cotton belt; fifth, new uses for cotton and cooperation be tween producers and manufacturers. ! On second day reports from these ( committees would be presented for action by whole group. I suggest meeting in Memphis, September 14 and 15 and ask if you will join me in this call. I feel that any move ment will be futile without the lead ership of your great state. Please let me know at once if you will coop erate with other southern governors in this plan." Governor ? Sbering's telegram to Governor Gardner follow^: "Just in receipt of your telegram. I would gladly join you in the pro posed conference were it not for the fact that the farmers of Texas are anxious and clamoring for immediate 'action. "From the nature of the proposed conference it would'likely be drawn out for 30 days, and the benefit that ' may be derived from immediate ac tion lost to this year's cotton crop in m - icu?? . ?: . . . ? ? ? ??? "I am convinced that the majority of farmers in Texas are opposed to the Louisiana bill which prohibits the planting of cotton in 1932. . "I heartily agree with you that there should be concerted action on the part of cotton growing states but feel that it is impossible to bring this about in time to benefit cotton farm ers in the greater portion of Texas this year." Governor Gardner last night re plied as follows: "Telegram received. I agree with you that the farmers of Texas, and North Carolina also, demand that something be done now for relief of the cotton sifemtton.; 1" "My proposal contemplated a con ference of only two days; I have no partiality for my own suggestion, and I am anxious to cooperate in any practical plan to relieve cotton farm era ftorn their impending bankruptcy : "It be a failure, m" course*, without the leadership audi eoepera i tion of Texas. Do you havt a prac ' tical proposrf for a workable?;;and ? concerted course to be taken iiow?" Cotton production rhouid' be our [ tailed, but\to adopt a "no/%otton . next year" plan nationally will do Denounces Powers; May fie Held Ac &W cessory to Crime - > pi ?. , . ? V? '? > . ? Clarksburg, W. Va., Sept 2;?Mrs. Luella Powers, who heretofore' stead fastly has supported her htoband, confessed killer of two women and three children, tamed against him today after she was . questioned by po lice. "I realize now he betrayed me," she said. "And I realize what a ter rible creature he is. I'm through with him forever. '1 wouldn't have him out of jail for $100,000,000." She denied knowing anything about the matrimonial bureau con ducted by Harry F. Powers, and the luring of Mrs. Aste Buick Eicher, her three children, and Mrs. Dorothy Lemke to Clarksburg, where he killed and buried their bodies near his ga rage. Police said they were unable to un derstand how Powers 'could have con ducted his correspondence with 115 women without betraying himself to hia wife. They threatened to1 hold her as an accessory, if it was estab lished she had knowledge of his crimes. Search for the bodies of other pos sible victims was abandoned today after deputies reported that frag ments of skeletons found on what was believed to have been a second burial plot were sheep bones. They were using a detector, a machine invented by a Clarksburg physician, which supposedly reacts when placed near-human bodies. Detectives said the machine reacted violently when placed near the burial plot where the five bodies were found. Search was continued for a diary Powers is believed to have kept To day police made public an address book which Powers attempted to de stroy. It' was found in a pile of partly burned rubbish near the ga rage. It contained more than a score of names and addresses. In a trunk were several snapshots and postcards bearing women's pic tures. County Prosecutor Will E. Morris and C. A. Duckworth, Clarksburg police chief, scanned ji masa of in formation concerning" missing per sons and the past of Harry F. Pow ers today while Powers' attorney ap peared to defend him on charges of slaying two women and three chil dren. The officials said they were receiv ing mail and telegrams from hun dreds of persons throughout the United States who have friends or relatives missing. They said they would investigate the cases to deter mine whether Powers, who corre sponded with many women through a matrimonial agency, was responsi ble for any of the disappearances. Milk-Giving Mule 9 Days Wonder From Pint to Quart a Day Extracted from Pitt County Animal Greenville, Sept. 2.?Not so many years ago the automobile came along and practically monopolized the place which horses and mules occupied in transportation, and today there is a mule in Pitt county attempting to take the place of the lowly cow. She is just an ordinary mare mule, with.long ears, unruly heels, bushy tail and innocent eyes, but for the last two years she has astonished the people of the community by giving from a pint to a quart of milk daily. The story of the strange beast was brought to the city yesterday by- R. L. Manning, who resides on the H. C. Sugg farm, or the old Dudley home place, on the north side of Tar river, about five miles from Green ville. It was Manning who discovered the unusual development in the phy a# 1-ka miilo on/1 if" TITOQ SiCol BU QWtiac Wi wc IMU4V ?UU ????>-? he who made the tests that has caused the mule to be classed among the greatest monstrosities of the re gion. Maiming said the mule had been milked four tim^s a week for two years, but right recently daily, JUid always yielded from a pint to a quart of milk. The animal, he said, apparently was more proline in the summer than other seasons of the year. Allowed to sit over night, the milk develops rich yellow cream, he stjat ed, and it tastes like real cowfh milk. [The fluid hps never been tested for butter fat content but a sample will be presented for analysis at an eairty Mi -MM ?? ?/ ?? Uke all farm mules the animal has her idoisyncraries' and is able to kick i fc Repremaid For fir-.. . ?. ? ... ?' ? . ? - Dry Law Agent . , * Woodcock Again De plores Use of Women in Carrying on En forcement Work . ^^^i Washington, Sept. 3.?A severe ? reprimand was administered today to Ralph Dell, youthful dry agent, whose girl companion was arrested for intoxication after gathering evi dence in four Buffalo speakeasies. Dell was summoned to the capital by Prohibition Director Amos Wl W. Woodcock, and was closeted with'him for nearly two hours. He recited the details of the arrest of Ruth Calla han and of the charge now pending against him in a Buffalo court of con tributing to the delinquency of a minor. "Dell has had as severe a repri mand as I know how to give," Wood cock said, immediately afterward. "There will be no repetition of such an incident. It did not seem fair to dismiss a man with a record such as his under the circumstances." ; Woodcock said part of the blame should rest on Djell's superiors' in Buffalo for allowing such practices, but added that they had not disobeyed orders, since none were given direct y until las* Week. "In fac,, some measure of blame should rest with me," he said, "for not anticipating such a situation and issuing an order against the use of women as informers as had been J ~ uuncr. I , "I abhor this whole incident. It is terrible that anyone should conceive that this was the way to enforce pro- : hibition. I did not know such prac- < tices were being employed." , At the same time he announced i I>ell would stay in the service be- i cause of his excellent army record | during the World War, and because of his record as a dry agent. Wood- ] cock said another Buffalo agent, Ar- , thur Peach, would be dismissed "for i the good of the service." Peach has j been suspended *jn ^ . charge : of ; drunkenness. A thorough investigation of Dell's - case, Woodcock said, showed that Ruth Callahan, sometimes known as j "Ruth Jackson," came to the Federal | prohibition offices in Buffalo and of- < fered "to aid in enforcing the pro- i hibition law" because her brother had i . J "died of alcoholism." i Dell, he said, did not meet the girl \ until later. ] "They went to four different places ] and bought intoxicating liquor, some ? of which was saved for evidence," he i said. "Dell reported he did not drink < any. The girl, however, was reported j as drinking in the last two places vis ited." 1 Woodcock said the arrest of the t girl followed a collision involving 1 Dell's automobile. The agent was t i. ? ?? - ?A ? J La ?-??-J ?mno fltava A not iilTCBlCU) I1C Besau, nv/x woo \ any evidence to show that he was in- < toxicated. The Federal dry chief < added that the case appeared to offer j an opportunity to "save a man who < has infinite possibilities for good." 1 Ban Floggings Governor Asked i _ t State Highway Commis- . sion Approves Nine ? Convict Camp Sites ; ? ! i Raleigh, Sept 3.?The State ] Highway Commission yesterday fol- , lowed the recommendation of Gover- j nor Gardner and abolished, for the < time being, at least, the-flogging of j prisoners at the county convict camps at now controls. The commis- \ lion adopted the state prison rules ] on punishment for a period of two j weeks and appointed a committee to , work in cooperation with the welfare \ department in establishing the per- } manent regulations. 1 Ten new county convict camp sites were approved by the commission, bids on two construction projects ac cepted and 320 miles added to the ? county road systems now being main tained by the state. , E. B. Jeffress, chairman of the , highway commission, said that the state prisor rules were adopted with out much ceremony, but he added that some of the members of the commission wens reluctant to give.up the lash- as a means of punishment. It was pointed out in the meeting that if solitary1 confinement and a bread and water punishment for Re calcitrant ' prisoners, It would mean the loss of their time not only during the punishment, but for a day or two afterwards whfle tiby were building hack enough strength to work. . ft was suggested to the commission that it adopt Mussolini's plan of pun ishment with large Closes pf castoi o&j the pxbpoae^Spjting that if. It! ;>?; v . ? ??? ?? . . ? '? : .?aLai* aaf /-.tvZ.i&MS'V- - : ?rV . worked on wops it would work on bootleggers, thieves and vagrantB. The commission appointed Chair man'Jeffress, S. D. Scott, highway prison supervisor, Charles Rosa, com mission attorney and George Ross Pou as a committee to act with Mrs. W. T. Boet, welfare commissioner, in formulating a " penrianent'. punish ment policy. ;^Vvv } '? ?. : . jt \ The Fdrmville Market Offerings Still light As Fourth S&le Day Be gins; Lower Grades of Little Value Offerings on the Farmville market were light on the opening, Tuesday, only 250,000 pounds being sold, where as this market has had twice this amount and even block sales on previ ous opening. The trend of prices is being watched very closely by plant ers, which together with the hope of improvement, probably accounts for their failure to bring a large quantity of the weed to market for the formal opening. Primings, which are mixed with other grades in manufacturing smok ing tobacco, sold lower thari ever be-' fore in the history of the market, the price ranging from lc to 5c. As had been predicted there was much of thia low quality weed this year in Georgia and South Carolina, which with the disastrous conditions in China and the East, have tended to bring prices down below the cost of grading and selling, and the farmers are heeding the advice of tobacconists to keep these poor grades at home and use them for fertilizer. Indications on the market this week are that only the best grades of tobaccos, w*hich are used for cig arette stocks, will bring anything like a satisfactory price, and these are selling at present from $8.00 to $38.00. All renresentatives of the foreign and domestic companies were doing some bidding. The Imperial was buying, paying a fair price for the better grades for their European trade. Reynolds, Lorrilard, Liggett and Myers, and the American were buying for select cigarette types, the Export was bidding on the lower grades for the East where present conditions almost make retail sales of any commodity impossible. The A. C. Monk Co., and C. B. Cheatham Company werei buying their usual grades. The Federal-State grader was at band to degrade according to stan dards set by the United States gov ernment, for those desiring this serv ice, and many of the farmers took advantage of this service. A report from this service will be found else where in this issue. Thousands of farmers from a dis tance joined those nearby in swelling the crowd to a number impossible ?.i' jstimation Tuesday. The streets, warehouses and stores were filled with men, women and children, all of whom were keenly discussing or lis ;eniD,2 to conversation relative to the prices of their main money crop. This ias been a year filled with so many strange rumors, uncertainties, and norbid predictions, until it is a won ier that people will even listen to 'urther discussions. But through the whole fabric of learsays, there has been one scarlet ;hread of hope; that prices on this jelt would be improved and that bet er times would come somehow. And :hey still cling to that hope in spite )f disappointing sales on opening iay, the anticipation of higher prices d re vailing as the better grades are jffered, acting as a buoying force. The average of $7.55 was not much ower on opening 3ale than the year iiinf ntst the difference lying in the fact, quite evident to everybody who vent on the warehouse floors, that ;he quality, even of the lugs and primings was 50 per cent better than ;hat of last season. This market averaged on opening is high as most of the markets in the oelt and higher than some, and ob servers, who had been on other aales luring the day said that sales were more brisk, and prices even better lere than on others visited. The warehousemen here are standing be lind the farmer and striving to get jvery dollar value possible from his product for him. Heavier sales are expected within the nept. few weeks with the possi bility that a noticeable increase in price will be made, though present in iications would encourage the belief that soaring prices will not be ob jerved until the superior grades are brought on. ' \ NO RIDE \ s Haddonfield, N. J., Sept 2.?Police today said they arrested two young women who engaged in a fist fight on a street corner last night to de cide which would take an automobile ride with a man with whom both had a date. They said the man, whose name was not learned, fled in his car while the fight was in progress. The women, after being repri manded by police, were returned to their homes. 1 ? ' ? : ? " ? ' l _