North Carolina Newspapers

Tobacco Prices Show Advance on This Markel i 1 ? 1 1 " ? . Highest Individual Av erages of Season Made Last Monday Tobacco prices on this market showed an increase this week. Low grades are still selling at low prices but with irore of the better grades being offered each day tbs average price is showing a gratifying move upward on the Farmvilie market. Monday continues to be the favor ite selling day with 512,450 pounds being sold at an average of $12.28. Roney Webb sold 1,082 pounds on Monday with a $47.50 average, with prices ranging from 30c to 64c; Will Sermons made a $34.22 average; W. T. Joyner and Davis averaged $34.20, and many growers made a $25.00 av erage on that day. Averages of individuals were noted again on Thursday when J. E. Meeks averaged 51.24 for 938 pounds, prices ranging from 35c to 61c; McD. Hor ton and Norman had an average of $40.81 with a top price of 68c; George May and L. L. Hardy made an aver age of $40.64 and Hobgood and Hor ton averaged $36.03. An average of $12.74 was made by the market with one or two of the houses making an average of well over $13.00, and the top notch price of 70 was noted at all three houses. Sales for the week totaled 13,955, 960 in poundage for which buyers paid $163,079.91, at an average of $11.67. armville continues to hod its high position in regard to both pound age and dollars. The eleven million pound mark has been already passed by this mar ket and with the great increase in volume each week, in spite of the fact that many farmers are picking cotton and harvesting corn, the next three weeks will probably see the bulk of the crop marketed. EPISCOPAL BAZAAR TO BE HELD WEDNESDAY, NOV. 4 The annual Episcopal bazaar will be held in the American Legion hall on Wednesday, November 4. The dinner, which will be served at 12 and 6 o'clock will have the same menu as on former occasions with a reduction in price from 75c to 65c. r Meal tiekets purchased before 12 o'clock Wednesday, gives the diner the possible advantage of winning a large black chocolate cake, made by Mrs. Lillie R. Horton, which will be given away after the evenirlg meal. The menu will consist of turkey, cranberry sauce, giblet gravy, cream ed potatoes, Carolina sweets, celery, hot biscuit, coffee, chicken salad, sal tines, ice cream and home made cake INVITATION TO TYSON REUNION Invitations were issued this week to out of town people, and a few sent in town, the latter by mistake, as it war agreed by the executive commit tee to invite those interested locally through the columns of this paper. Anybody may attend if a lunch bas ket accompanies them, and a cordial invitation is hereby extend. Smw Storm Sweeps West Wyoming and Montana in Grip of Snow and Ice Today Helena, Most, Oct 27.?A forecast erf' "fair and colder" weather' today pre awed the stamp of winter on Wy oming and Montana. Snow and wind storms swept the region yesterday. The mountains of Montana were cowered with snow and reads leading through the southern and eastern en trance to Yellowstone park were clogged by a fall 18 inches deep. Three inches of snow covered Anar '' i a ^ iv?- r lag; woere a flBWiro oisnipvea trai f ,1 niSlr ^ wWf' HPnBJ. . ?v ? V'* ?. ? Eastern Wyoming today had not! ^ rtv.* . W\Z ? ?. - ? . w-- i- ? - : ' .'a- '?..*!* M Mr -'HHr ^ngtuA ^ nv _ thn Mvyv futf I WltlBfiSSGQ Tpwi'vryflrW'pc tiOflS* 'CO s ? TIIBCS OB W ITallBCuIluar | CifrMuU ^ iSalTMOTirr0*^ tS[l l^Stag^ tory at the Polls Henderson and 3 Othei Former Labor Minis ters Suffer Defeat London, Oct 28.?^Swept into pow er with a mammoth majority of more thaw 500 of the 615 seats in the House of Commons, Prime Minister Ramsay McDonald's national govern ment will be able to dominate Parlia ment as no other administration in the history of Democratic Britain. Tonight with 608 returns available from yesterday's voting, there were 555 government supporters, only 50 in the opposition, and three Indepen dents. The loss of 235 seats nearly wiped out the Labor representation in the House of Commons. Nothing like it ever occurred before in Great Brit ain The Conservative party held 472 seats, with prospects of gaining a few more in the late returns. This great Conservative strength led to the expectation that a demand for a full blooded protection tariff policy would be the first trouble encounter ed by Mr} McDonald. But, although an emergency tariff within a couple of weeks of the re convening of Parliament is a proba bility, the Prime Minister is pledged not to impose a general protective tariff until it has been fully investi gated and scientific tariff legislation has been prepared. Great significance was seen in a statement by Stanley Baldwin, Con servative leader, who declared yester day's results showed a national, and not a party victory. Although Mr. Baldwin did not go into the party the Conservatives will play in the House of Commons sched uled to hold its first session Novem ber 3, hra statement was taken to in dicate he would make no attempt to seize power for his party. "The election is an emphatic declar ation by the people as a whole in fa vor of national-cooperation in order to restore the fortunes of our coun try," Mr. Baldwin said. "The effect on foreign, opinion can not be over-estimated. The over whelming support given to the nat ional government will resound through the world and re-establish confidence in the stability and the greatness of our country. Democracy has justified itself in a most striking fashion." L , Mr. McDonald and Chancellor of Exchequer Philip Snowden, who fol lowed the prime minister from the Labor cabinet into the national gov ernment, also saw the voting as vin dication of the national ministry, and not a party victory. This was shown most clearly, Mr. McDonald said, by the fact that both J. H. Thomas, National Labor and Sir Herbert Samuel, Liberal, both of whom are members of the national government, were returned by their constituencies. "We appealed for a demonstration of national unity," the Prime Minis ter said. "The response has been far beyond the dreams of the most enthusiastic! among us." Twenty-two members of the old Labor ministry lost their Commons seats. Chief among them was Ar thur Henderson, Labor leader, who may get back by means at a bye-elec tion. But there was little hope for most of the others. No member of the national cabinet was defeated.^ The only really im portant Labor leader returned to the Hoese was George Lansbory, cockney patriarch, who is likely to lead the shattered forces of the opposition when Parliament reassembles. ? . ? : i-5^ ? ? V :I. >' s Wagg: Yep., that's whjr so many people use other means at transpor tation. The closing ceremony of the sestjuicentcnnial celebration held at forktown. Vs., was the acme in which Gen. O'Hara tendered Lord Cornwallis,' award to Geil. Lincoln, representing Washington. It marked the end of British domination of the American colonies. To Advance The Price of Furniture Sixteen Manufacturers Announce New Scale Will Be Made Affective High Point, Oct 28.?The first step in a movement aimed at a general increase in wholesale furniture prices, was taken today by a group of 16 itoxie manufacturers. The High Point Enterprise says that notices were sent to the salesmen for these companies that a new price scale would become effective with the opening of the mid-season markets at Chicago and Grand Rapids, Mich. The paper adds that with this step the south is taking the lead in a cam paign to re-establish furniture mak ing on a profitable basis. Similar steps are contemplated by manufacturers in other parts of the country, it was said. The notices sent to the salesmen by the 16 southern manufacturers said that the price list withdrawals had been ordered effective November *2. The new scale of prices will be is sued prior to that date. It was said by manufacturers here that prices should advance 26 per cent if they are to yield a profit to the producer. Present prices, the paper said, are 65 per cent under the 1921 scale and 20 per cent under 1917 prices. j ; Mr. McD. Horton En tertains Friends At Birthday Luncheon. McD. Horton, well known citizen of Farmviile, celebrated his 60th birth day on Monday, October 26, with a dinner to which several of his inti mate friends were invited. The table7 $ad as a centerpiece a lovely bowl* of talisman and sweet heart roses, and a three-course din ner was served with places laid for the following guests: Dr. and Mrs. C. ?. Moore, of Wilson; Mrs. Oscar Hooker and son, Walter, of Rich mond, Va.; Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Pol lard, Mr. and Mrs. M. V. Horton, Mrs. Arsenie Parker, Dr. and Mrs. D. S. Morrill, Mrs. Lucy Rasberry, W. C, Askew, R. L. Davis, J. R. Davis, J. 1. Baker, Mr, and Mrs. John T. Harris, Mrs. A. A. Joyner, Mrs. G. E. Moore, J. C. Gaskins, Judge Frank Wooten, and Frank Harrington, of Green ville. ' % ; One of the most interesting visitors was little Donald Baucum, an eight months-old great nephew, and the 6th namesake of the Horton family. Visitors called throughout the day to wish for "Uncle Mac" many more "happy birthdays." Better Demand Abroad tor Leal Brisk .Demand Prevails, Attache at Shanghai,, China, Cables ? ??? 1 Washington, Oct 27.?Reports ca- ' bled to the tobacc*. division of the department of commerce indicate im- { provement in demand, Commercial ' Attach Julean Arnbld, stationed at ? Shanghai, China, has ^rfred that a brisk demand for American leaf pre vails, stimulated by; fow prices, ;. and { "American leaf stock* are heavy but J the offtake is acitve.* A substantial recovery of cigarette sales in China ha* foBbwed the sum- ? mer dullness despitrnumerous ad- | verse factors affecting the general 5 trade, according to Mr. Arnold. Man- ^ ufacturing and distrilMttioa are active x except for curtailed btariaeaa iir Man churia, owing to thedjaturbed situa- 1 tion in that area. <JFhe September production of ShiiiiuSHnSiwHhe fi?- - tones was about 90,000 cases of 50r * 000 cigarettes each, a 50 per cent * j advance over the month of Augpst. Moreover, the cigarette production I of Shanghai from January to Sep-M tember, 1931, represents a 15 per cent advance over the same period ' [ of last year. ? The tobacco division added that ex : ports of leaf tobacco daring the first ? [nine months of 1931 amounted to t 360,204,356 pounds, a decrease in 8 [volume of approximately 6 per cent * when compared with the like period 2 of 1930 and an increase of 3.6 'per P cent when compared with the like pe riod of 1929. 1 Values, however, have receded to a * considerable extent, the average per c hundred pounds during the January September, 1931, period being $19.65 ? against $22.55 and $24.42 during like 1 periods of 1980 and 1929 respectively. ? The total return for all leaf tobac co exported during the 1931 period 0 under review was $70,790,988, falling s short of the 1930 and 1929 periods 11 by approximately $15,000,000. Exports of leaf tobacco from the * United States during the month of September far exceeded the volume ? exported during August and accord- * ing to the interpretation pf prelimin ary export data by the tobacco divis ion were only slightly below the av erage maintained during prior months of the year. ? The September position may ,be ? accounted for by enlarged shipments e of bright flue cured tobaccos to the c United Kingdom and China, aug- * 'taented by slight increases in aver- * age monthly volume of this type of tobacco to several other countries, among which were Belgium, Irish Free State, Norway, Poland, Canada, and British India. [" I \ ? I Lady La de Dah (to daughter, as J new hotel guests arrive): More vul- d garians.' i !?? ? ? ? i . .. - I It " :; ' 2 - v '. -- FARMVILLE TOBACCO MARKET I Farmville, N. -v<? .v;; ^ - ; I ? SALECARD ? ? F?r Week ~ j" " . J? 1 I f November 2 ' *3 jf ? "o || I Wmuimv #lll ft ?**- ? IniBllllSV < .'?-. v' . x? jyfcj l^?>aii*.,? e,-.-??.. -?-. ?~i. JL , -T-: ft* - *-??'-rflr i?* *J ?'3k., -mm. s?:vaj3Saw?w? K,3??V*?J>T' ;-* -? ?X\t ~- '?. ? L^i. *v ? '.iJ3y,,'3B.??? *' ?BBii I KEr ^-.t ffijF "S* Mr .C^^y.v '? ? ?? y-?-tr.'^-- "'""K^ J?K'r' II Tiip?nj>v 2 2 11 ??i? II *? 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This gave the gang chief the status of a temporary prisoner in the Cook county jail, with the prospect of re maining there several months, while the higher courts were asked to re verse his conviction, Defense Attor ney Michael Ahern indicated this was far from satisfactory to his client He might want the court to vacate its order, so that Capone could start his 11-year term at Leavenworth, Ahern said. Judge Samuel Alschuler, replying for the court, said in effect, that it made no difference which pris on contained Capone, just so long as he was not at large. The county jail has its advantages, rhere Capone was close to home. His old friend and companion, Philip D'Andrea, was with him, and no man ual labor was required. One big big drawback, however, was that ev jvery day he spent there was just so mueh wasted time as far as his li near sentence was concerned. Life at the Leavenworth prison has >een represented as somewhat rigor jus with few privileges. Some of Ca jone's former henchmen were there, )ut there was no assurance he would lave much time to visit with them. < But if he decided to g? there now Capone could begin working off hit lentence at once. If his conviction vere upheld, he would have that nuch less time to do. If his convic ion were reversed, he would have nerely changed prisons. The problem was one which Ahern Bd not want to decide alone. Oil the :ourt's assurance that the superse leas order could be vacated at any . ime, Ahern went to confer with Ca >one and Albert Fink, another de ense. attorney. He might go to Vashington and try to get a supreme ourt justice to grant Capone bail, Ibern said. In granting the writ the appellate ourt cautioned Capone's lawyers that hey must proceed with expedition, ;aying that if the appeal brief were tot filed in due time, the court would 1 intertain a motion to vacate the su tersedeas. The defense has already docketed 1 he appeal and may file its brief at 1 ,ny time. The government was or- 1 lered to file its brie? 15 .days after 1 Japorfe's brief had been filed. The ] ourt added that the appeaf would j hen be set for oral arguments im- ' nediately. In its order suspending execution 1 f Capone's sentence, the court stated 1 pedfically that it was not suspend- ' ng any proceedings for collection*of 1 he judgment for fine and costs < warded against him." Capone was' < ined $50,000 and assessed the costs < f prosecution, estimated at about I 100,000. < : 1 MR MEW BORN IMPROVING ? i People of this community will be > ;lad to hear that late reports from * he bedside of J. A. Mewborn are ncouraging. Mr. Mewborn has been < ritically ill at a Washington hospital or two weeks as the result of an in ected hand and other injuries sus ained in a recent accident j , j? j BENEFIT PLAY j ? ? 1 A benefit play, "See You Later," , all be' presented on November 24 by , he Major Benjamin May chapter D. , L R This is one of ?oe best and \ aost up to date musical comedies of j he season and will no doubt be well ( eceived here. , ? , i j i ? ? -?\ ; Noted Author Here ? | , t 1 ^ ^ jj jjrjtisli wf llio I Jit ~ filf!; ? 1 , lf''rw|f"'it -! $&???' >.%: /n n iiT j# ? - - 'ToBe Well Attended Annual Event to 'Be Staged November 6; Interesting Program b Planned I Arrangements for the Tyson Reun I ion;tor be held on Friday, November 4, are being concluded in a highly gratifying way. The reunion, which is held annual- - I ly at Tyson's church, three miles j from Farmville, gives members of I the Tyson family throughout Uny and J adjoining statfes, an opportunity , to . j return and pay respect to their par ents and ancestors, renew old friend I ships and take part in a deligltful I occasion. The old church, built .in 1796, by j Sherrod Tyson, and remodeled in 11870 by Richard Lawrence Tyson, is J a landmark. Standing, as it does, in * J its pioneer austerity, surviving the I modern trend of embellishment, be-' coming more weathered each year, and fitting in perfectly with the rus tic -tranquility and serene beauty of thei countryside, it is a silent though eloquent witness to the "faith of our [ fathers, living still." The Tyson family, which can be traced back to the time of William the Conqueror, was deeply religions from the first, a3 attested by the names recorded in their history and existing up to the present generation. Every individual family had a Hoses, j an Aaron and John. Thomas, Mat thias, Seth, Joab, Amos, Joel, Asa, Icabod and Enoch were always favor ites for the males, and one Noah Ty son named his three sons Shem, Ham and Japeth, while the women bore the names of Mary, Martha, Sarah", Elisabeth, Zilphah, Orphah, Esther, j Naomi, Rachel and Tamar. So the conclusion is reached that the spirit ual life was developed along with the cultivation of North Carolina soil by I the pioneer Tysons. ; The program will be as follows: Friday morning, 10:30, song, "Ameri I ca." Invocation, Attorney Walter G. j SheppaTd, Snow Hill; roll call and minutes, president's report; greetings from D. A. R., Mrs. T. C. Turnage, I regent Major Benjamin May chapter; - [ greetings from United Daughters Confederacy) Mrs. J. W. , Parker, | president; Rebecca Winbourne chap ter; greetings from Greenville Post American Legion; Tyson history, At | torney William S. Tyson, Greenville; * talk, Brigadier General B. Hawkins Tyson, Pikeville; reading of poems, Anne Arrington Tyson, by Mrs. A. C. Hodges; introduction of speaker, Hon. J. Calvin Smith, Robersonville; ad dress, Hon. A. D. McLean, Washing ton; music, the family roundtable, business session, reports genealogical committee, Miss Tabitha DeVisconti, Farmville; resolutions committee, 0. H. Jackson, Winterville; election of officers; song, "Faith of Our Fath ers, Living Still," basket dinner. The officers of the reunion are: | President, Mrs. J. L. Shackleford, Farmville; vice president, Dr. John Tyson, Greenville; secretary and treasurer, Mrs. O. H. Jackson, Win terville. The executive committee is composed of the officers with the ad dition of Dr. B. T. Cor, Winterville; Walter G. Sheppard, Snow Hill, and T. C. Turnage, Farmville. Sees Better I Times Ahead Boston Steel Man Says Business Will Soon Get Back to Normalcy White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., Oct 27.?The business barometer will soon begin to rise, C. N. Fitta, Boston, president of the American Institute of Steel Construction, told the opening session of the organiza tion's annual convntion here today. "We have now passed through two years of tribulation and trial, and it < seems now that there are signs that the business barometer has ceased ti fall and that the time when it shall \ begin to rise is not far distant," Fitta said. "It has been a period of distress . and anxiety for all, but we would not be worthy of the high place we hold in this country's business world if we could not truthfully say 'our heads are bloody but unbowed.'" such times, Eitts said* trade as sociations must bend their efforts to solve the unemployment problem and ? take a greater part in sociological movements. "During the last two years organized cooperation has proved its value Jo the steel construe tion industry and has enabled-it to tide itself over a most difficult pe riod." _'; - - < " Nsw Arrival fto friend): Did you IT.She takes us *?y Fire is Checked White Oak River and Its Tributaries Halt Blaze in Stella Section Kins ton, Oct. 27.?The principal blaze of scattered forest fires burn ing between the White Oak and Neuse rivers and the Carolina coast was reported checked today, by the White Oak river and two tributaries. "> It was expected the fire, which has already swept over an area of about six square miles, in the vicin ity of Stella-, would burn itself out. Although much timber and wild life has been destroyed, all houses in the fire area are believed to have been saved. Delanson Wilcox, chief of police here, familiar with the fire zone near Stella, says it would be impossible for the blaze to travel all the way to the coast. Kenneth F. Foscue, local justice of the peace who owns a farm in the neighborhood, thinks it possible streams will check its further spread. Foscue has estimated the burned over area to have a length of six miles and width approximately as great. Hunters are suspected to have start ed the fires. Forest Fires Burning in the Mountains Also Marion, Oct. 27.?Forest fires are burning through drouth dried timber land in three sections of McDowell county, according to reports reaching here today. The biggest fire is in the Montford Cove section and is cutting a two mile swath across the mountainous countryside. Although ten men have been fighting the blaze, it has raged on for several days unabated. On Box Creek in Brackett town ship and in the foothills of the Blue Ridge northwest of Marion smaller fires are burning. No efforts are be ing made to quell them, as it'is hopr cd that they will burn out before do- j ing any serious damage. Fires Confined Mostly to Non-Organ^ | ? ized Connies , Several forest fires which have raged for several days in sections of Eastern North Carolina are confined mostly to counties that have no or ganized protection against this pub lic enemy, Charles H. Flory, assis tant forester in charge of fire con trol for tne Department of Conser vation and Development, said yester day. A telephone call Tuesday morning from Frank Wooten, forest warden from Columbus county, brought word that firen in that county with "the sxcepiton of a center around Nakina were under control. Mr. Wooten re ported the blaze centering around Hallsboro near Lake Waccamaw as t>eing held in check by wardens. In the meantime, the fires reported to be burning in Brunswick county were said to be sweeping on. Nego tiations have been opened up between Brunswick residents and conservation officials to establish g forest fire :ontrol system in that county in an iffort to check the flames that have seen harassing the area between the ^ape Fear river and Lockwood's Fol y river for several weeks. The Craven-Onslow-Carteret forest 'ire front is described in reports reaching the conservation department is suffering severely from flames. SARATOGA TO HAVE ELECTRIC LIGHTS SOON Stantonsburg, Oct. 27.?During the tast f$w days workmen have been >usy on the road from this town to Saratoga, five miles away, digging ioles, putting up poles and stringing vire, in order that Saratoga migEjt nake a stride forward by having ilectric lights. The work was speed id up so that there would be light n the school building when school pened. The work was done rapidly ind well, the last strand of wire hav ng been strung just one week from he ime the gang started to work, fhe c.xrrent used comes from the Wil ton municipal plant through Stan onsburg. ? ? . ANNOUNCEMENT ' - I wish to inform the property >Wners of ^Mroville that I have located hone and will appreciate ji ^rtunity