Tobacco Prices Are ' .'i- -<* ?1 : Seen : Growers of Weed Most About Gone,* Says Vet-j eran Warehouseman Williamaton, Nov. 4.?W. T. Mea-1 dows, veteran tobacco warehouseman, I in a letter to the Williams ton Enter-1 prise, says tobacco prices are ruinous. I Use increase over the prices last I year promised as a result of reduced acreage has not materialized, he I says. On the contrary, the prices are j substantially lower than they were! last year, and they afforded no profit I then. Mr. Meadows' letter follows:. r "The United States Department of J Agriculture, in the October Bulletin, I gives the following figures as indi-1 cated to be the yield of bright tobac co in the bright producing states:! 694,000,000 pounds for 1931, or about! 20 per cent less than the 1930 yield,! which was 859,000,000. North Caro- j lina alone is estimated by the mat! 491,000,000 for 1931, against 577,- j 000,000 in 1930. This will show!,' North Carolina, according to their ! statement, at about 15 per cent less! than last year. Now this Crop lie pro ting Service may be a good thing, but every tobacco man who is keep- J' ing up with the trend of the markets j i in North Carolina will be that North I, Carolina will certainly go 25 per cent!' short of 1930, if not 30 per cent. But j what is the use of going into any fig- ? ures? It makes no difference if it J were 30 per cent short in the Bright 1 Belt, we would get no more. , "Pray look at the September aver age for North Carolina, and the oth- , er states. It is pitiful to behold; and j October doesn't look as if it is going . to be much better, and the tobacco j farmers are just about gone. Their ? children are all hungry and partially j naked, no school books and no money , to buy them. Talk about calling the j legislature together to cut the acre- j age, you dont have to do that. It has already cut itself. "The farmer that- has raised his crops in this section by the tenant system, and 65 per cent of them do, j is a 'gone coon.' They -have been carrying them over for three years "- -now, and each year has-found them . deeper and deeper in debt, and there { is no way of getting out except to quit or bust About 30 per cent of the farmers who own 40 acres, a J mule, four half naked children and a few rags for them, can plant a crop. . That's all, and that's a plenty. "l am not going into any detailed ifgures as to the poundage or distri bution of the bright crops for this year, or past years, but I have my files for 1-5 years back and will meet any doubting Thomases anywhere and at any time, and guarantee what we will find will be held strictly sub ] rosa. t "Now, I would like to pay a few j remarks to the poor old warehouse- j men. (I am one of them.) It looks j like we are all gone broke this time. ] Making nothing last year; just could break even., and this year, farewell. I < guess most of you have done like we 1 have in this neck of the woods, made i every edge cut you could, but you I just as well tear your ' commission! pages out of your ledger and kiss j1 them goodbye. I am sorry to hear j the report going around that a great 1 many markets are padding their av i erages. Brethren, this is wrong, and < should be stopped. I think all of us i as a whole, desire to thank the dif- } ferent companies for their loyal sup- j port, although they might not see things as well, and the different i small dealers come in for their share. While some of them have not been as < active this year as usual, that's be- ?] cause tobacco is not selling for 25 j cents a pound. However, we havt - some in our neck of the woods that take the bul by the horns every year and the cheaper the year the more they buy. Good for them; they see. what's comi?g. "I am wridng this article more to show you'what you may expect in ah acreage cut than from any other standpoint, I am ho novice in the business, being 66 years old and ' in ' the game since!walked out of school, { as a fanner, an old warehouseman, f represented one of the largest com- i panies in the world for years (What ?r price glory?). > "Seventy-five psr cent of the en* i i>ase coun t * is i Nw. -4.?-Dare county and J I tks route of the Atlantic Caestal 1 ship in'thil SodSra. ^ThT^nwl ed on this and with Roanoke Island by private ferry and the saws'from Pinner's Landing to Ford Landing on the other end, which places the tour ist on highway No. 90 to Colombia and over which ha may drive direct into Raleigh. DAM CJ>|iaaI IAV* mm aCDOOI ttr fob. Graders Plans Made for Fuquay Springs, Farmville and Heiutafton * Raleigh, Nov. 3.?Because of the demand for information on tobacco grading, arrangements have been made with the North Carolina Divis ion of Markets and the United States Department of Agriculture for con ducting tobacco grading schools on Saturday morning, November 7, at 10 o'clock, according to Roy H. Thomas, state supervisor of agricul tural education. R. B. Etheridge, chief of division of markets, has ar ranged for government graders to conduct these schools at the Planters Warehouse, Fuguay Springs, with R. H. Clayton, Jr., in charge; Big Hen derson Warehouse, Henderson, with T. J. Penn and J. P. Floyd in charge, and at Monk's.-Warehouse, Farmville,' trith W. M. Veazey in charge. C. M. Allen, Bahama; J C. Jester, Jr., Lowe's Grove; A. E. Williams, Oak Grove; P. T. Long, Boone Trail; W. D. Reynolds, Lillington; J Paul Shaw, Benson; M. C. Garner, Apex; W. E. Gladstone, Apex; R. S. Dcn aam, Cary; A. S. Crosby; Cary; Fred L Hunt, Fuquay Springs; W. F. Tew, Sarner, and P. H. Massey, Wakelpn, trill attend the Fuquay Springs jchooL E. C. Jemigan, Spring Hope; T. W. Bridges, Nashville; K. H. Mclntyre, Red Oak; T. McL. Carr, Fountain; P. 3. Gaston, West Edgecombe; S. L. Daughtridge, South Edgecombe; G. C. Buck, Contentnea; B. F. Daughety, Pink Hill; E. J. Morgan, LaGrange; M. A. Morgan, Jasper-Daver; L. G. Matthis, Vanceboro, and W. T. Over jy, Jamesville, will attend the F&rm rille schooL Four hours intensive work in dem onstration practice grading: will be riven the teachers of agriculture by :he government graders. D'BerryUpposes Special Session ' ? , v/; *Would Be Worts Hung That Could Happen to State," Says N. C. State Treasurer Gold3boro, Nov. 4.?Nathan 0'Ber ry, North Carolina State Treasurer, expressed strong opposition to the proposal for a special session of the general assembly to consider econom ic matters, in a statement issued from his home here tonight. "To my mind a session of the gen eral assembly for any purpose in this time of hysteria would be the worst thing that could happen to the state," the statement said. "We cannot hope to cure our ilia with a prescription written by a leg islature. A special session would be bound to unsettle the public mind rather than restore confidence. It would embarrass the financial situa tion. It would prove a setback to business. It would do the farmer no good. ^ "I am too devoted to personal lib erty to favor any plan that will make it a crime for a North Carolina farm er to grow on hfrr own land any crop be may desire, wisely or foolishly, to plant. If we have not enough sense) to reduce acreage next year in the face of present prices, I do not see how any legislature can do us any J good by putting us in jail. - x -??& Queen of Dairy SHow "Van Dctuen of tlie R?dwood Empire" a Mohair goat owned by F. A. Pkrccv Humboldt County, CaL, ha* hair fire fest long, a world s racni ? ;?i 1 Japan Once More Gets Resist To Take Forces From Manchuria Briand Sends Note to Tokyo Urging With drawal of the Japanese Troeps Geneva, Nov. 4.?Aristide Briand, in his official capacity as president of the League of Nations Council, to night called upon Japan for a second time to withdraw her troops from Manchuria, and demanded the imme diate appointment of a board of Chi nese and Japanese officials to com-1 plete the evacuation. Briand's note, calling attention to the fact that China has accepted iij principle all five points, laid down by the Japanese, was polite, but firm. The document was delivered to Ken kichi Yoshixawa, Japanese delegate, and simultaneously to all members of the council. , The French foreign minister sub mitted tha^ China'had fully accepted four proposals made by the Japanese through bSr adherehce to the counciTs resolutions of September 30. The fifth, he contended, was adequitely covered by China's "offer to settle the question under Article XIII of the covenant of the League.. Briand's letter; sent from Paris, j where the veteran statesman is j watching the internal pontics of his: own country, referred to the twoj Japanese resolutions of September 30 and Octobev 24, as similar in part to! the council's resolution, which was | adopted by * vote of 13 to 1, with Japan the only dissenter. Despite the fact, therefore, that this resolution was not unanimously accepted, Briand called attention to the predominant moral force back of the council's decision and once more recalled that Japan had agreed to the speediest possible evacuation of troops. Briand urged Yosiuzawa to give immediate attention to the council resolution to which China has ad hered, caUJng for the immediate des ignation of representatives to regu ate the details and execution of the evacution, and taldng over the evacu ated "territory in order that the op eration may be done regularly and ivithout^dday. It was noteworthy that Japan is not 'bound by the resolution, but in the opinion of the council's president, she is bound by her promises of Sep tember and October to evacuate the disputed' territory. DECLARES DIVIDEND ___ ^ New York, Nov. 4.?General Mo tors Corporation today declared tire regular quarterly dividend of 75 oeiits a share on the dmAmon stock.; U. S. Has $661, 120,851 Deficit .rnm?rnmij&mm * All Goyenuty|itt Depart I ments UndfjlOrders to ! Reduce Expenses | Washington, Noy, ;4.?A new set of figures on the deficit today thrust the question Of increasing taxes far ther to the front 9f administration problems. -?? Word that the treasury ended the first four months if this fiscal year with $061,120,850 in the red on its books went immediately to the White House. President jloover does not expect to state hit position on new ^es in tie iiiiin^jllj Tut 11nr Tin The budget is in preparation with Mr. Hoove? and his advisers attempt ing to keep it down. All government department^ are under orders to re duce where possible. Curtailed spending on the part of the government would putj brakes on the deficit, now threatening to go far beyond the one billion mark be fore July 1, but it would not raise money to meet the arrears which al ready accumulated. ? ? ? J rroposais ior lncreaseu tuauvu are growing as the time for the next Congress approaches. Not long ago it became known the administration is studying the feasibility of special sales taxes on a selected list .of lux ury articles. Senator Reed, of Pennsylvania, whose views have coincided often times in the past with those of Sec retary Mellon, urged a sales levy. Many other senators and house members of both parties have said, however, they favored an increase in the levies on large incomes and strengthening inheritance tax laws in preference to the sales tax idea. Among them ane most of the wes tern independent group in the senate, the Democratic house leader, Gamer of Texas, and Representative Bacha raeb, Republican, New Jersey, influ ential members of the last ways and [means committee. Members of that committee expect to meet soon to begin' studying tax proposals. The treasury ended the last fiscal year with a deficit of $903,000,000?.;. The deficit a year ago was' $171,51^,528. The President may not reveal his tax views"wiiST the message to Con gress in December. He awaits a re port from the treasury as "a basis for recommendations. Meanwhile, however, it is apparent he is going into the matter from sev eral angles today, he called off his midday press conference. - - ?" .. ?? -?? ? ?? ?*????"" ...? FARMVILLE TOBACCO MARKET h ?{.' Farmville, N. C. ?~? '?M * '? I For Week BeeiiMiinir ^ 5 :JJ i s i J ???? y j j ?" ? ? 1 ^ ' ' I i ^ "2 1 I f ??MOoo?eFeoooaee?o.?ekeo*',? H * A' If **"' ?' ,-v 1 t f fv# ? <4 4 ?\ f\ / '' ' * Or.RT.Cit I Passes After m. m m Mai"' Brifl Dtoess ? ? Funeral Services Con ducted from the Late Home of Bcjoved Phyn sician in Winterville Dr. B. T. Cox, 68, former member I of the Legislature from Pitt county, I and one of the first leaders in the! public health movement here, died it! his home in Winterville Sunday morn- J ing at 1 o'clock. Death resulted from I a stroke of apoplexy which he suf-1 fered several days ago and from! which little hope was held for his re- j co very. Funeral services were conducted! from his late home Monday after-1 noon at 2 o'clock and burial was! ?made in the Winterville cemetery.! Rev. J. A. Robe/ts, Primitive Baptist J j minister, assisted by Rev. A. C. D. j I Noe, of Ayden, officiated. Hie funeral was attended by hun-l dreda of people from this and other J parts of the state, and especially in | the territory where he spent most of j bis life ministering to men and worn- j on in all walks of life. The floral tr.Lute was one of the J Urgent nat ever marked the passing! of a citizen in the Winterville dis- I trict, and told in a mute way of the I esteem and admiration of the people! among whom he labored for so nianyl years. Pallbearers were. Active, all nephews of the deceas J ed: J. H. Cox, J. R. Cox, J. J. Car-J roll, Tom Tyson, John.e Edwards. I 'A. J. Cox, Harvey Stokes, David Cox. Honorary: Drs. Joseph Dixon, M. I T. Frizzelle, G. G. Dixon, G. H. Sum-1 merell, Joe Smith, L. C. Skinner, K. B. Pace, J. C. Green, E. P. Spence, J J L. Winstead, Jenr.ess Morrill and! A. W. Ange, R. H. Hunsucker, J. TE. J Green, R. L, Abbott, R. T. Cox, Jesse I Rollins, F. C. Harding, J. F. Harring ton, J, L. Little, F. M. Woo ten, Rob ert Worthington, Alex. McLawhorn, Tom McLawhorn, H. L. Brake, J. E. Mewborn. Surviving the deceased are his wife and four daughters, Misses Venetia Cox, missionary in China; Mrs. A. T. St. Amand, Wilmington, Mrs. J. T.J Gaylprd, Wilmington, Mrs. T. W.I Rouse, Greenville. He is also sur-l "vived by i sisl&VMrs. Fannie Gar-+ roll, of Cox Mill. " ~ ?? ? ???? ?%*! 1 1 Dr. Cox was born at (Joxvuie, net county, July 30, 1863, the son of Jo si ah and Sal'y Ann Tyson Cox. He first attended the public schools of Pitt county and a private school conducted by Mrs. Mary Smith- at Coxville, after which he took two years' academic and medical depart ments of the University of North .Carolina. He graduated from the University of Maryland in 1888 with the degree of doctor of medicine and returned to Pitt county to take up the practice of his profession. He prac ticed near Ayden for 11 years and in 1899 moved to Winterville where he remained during the rest of his life. Dr. Cox -was one of the pioneers in I the public health movement of thel county and from September, 1889 to September, 1892, he was superinten dent of the board of health of the county. He maintained active inter est in development of this work after his retirement and played an impor taiit part in the widespread endeavor to improve health conditions in the various communities. A staunch Democrat, he always ex hibited interest in the political life of the community and represcpted Pitt county in the General Assembly in the regular session of 1909, was re elected to the same body and 3erved during the regular and call sessions , of 1913. In 1926 he was again his J party's nominee for the same office. I He was a member of the Pitt Coun ty Medical Society, having served as president of the organization ancTthe the North Carolina Medical Society. He was one of the presidents and directors of the old Farmers Bank to prietors, J. Y. Monk, J. M. Hobgood, L. R Bell, R H Knott and G H. Webb, who operate the four large ware houses here, are steadily and earnest ly striving towards this goal, and are optimistic about prospects of its be ing realized as farmers from a long er distance are bringing their tobac co here and new patrons are coming in daily to this market / Cermak Wants Candidate Ta Have Smith Supt. Chicago Mayor Feels There Is No Serious ness in Smith-Roose velt Break New York, Nov. 3.?Optimistic that the Democrats will nominate a presidential candidate next year who has the endorsement of former Gov ernor Alfred E. Smith, Mayor Anton J. Cermak tonight was on his way home to Chicago, where he hopes the party's itational convention will be --r???>-?? .? it *-*??.' ??.-v'..*. --.. held. ? While the mayor came to New York to organize support for Chica go's convention bid and to determine what basis there was for reports of a breach between Smith and Gover nor Franklin D. Roosevelt, it was the former object he emphasized during his visit and on hi3 departure. "We have talked with a group of New York leaders and feel confident they will back our bid to have the convention in Chicago," he said. But he took with him a feeling that there was no seriousness in any disagreement between New York's governor and former governor. He . called it a minor matter after he had conferred with John F. Curry, leader of Tammany Hall; Mayor Frank Hague, of Jersey City, and Mayor James J. Walker, of New York. It was indicated by members of his party that he and other ITinois Dem ocrats were anrious that, the 1932 Democratic nominee have Smith's support. The mayor himself reiter ated several times during his visit the candidate must be an out-and out wet in order to suit the Illinois delegation. The only definite statement he made about what the Illinois delega tion will do in the convention was that it would sec-k to nominate Sen ator J. Hamilton Lewis, of Illinois, and failing that, would support Gov ernor Roosevelt, 'if his wet stand at that time suits us." More lights are to be placed on the Statue of Liberty. Too many bright lights have given many a man his liberty. A small town is the place where everybody knows everything about the other person's business. ' < i p p Elder Brother of Chica go Gang Lord Fails in Efforts to Stay Courts Sentence ? " : ' Washington, Nov. 3.?It's just one legal reverse after another nowadays for the Capone iamily of Chicago. * Attorneys today asked the supreme court to delay notifying a court of appeals that it had refused to review Ralph's conviction for violating in come tax laws. The lawyers explained they intend ed to ask the supreme court for a rehearing. "Too late," Charges Elmore Crop ley, clerk of the.court, told thei. "The court o? appeals has already been?notified." Only a little while afterwards two judges of the Seventh .circuit court of appeals denied Capone a stay vf the order which will send him to prison soon. His attorneys again said they in tended to ask the supreme court for a rehearing, but the judges answered they saw no reason' for a further de lay. Capone is now out on bail, but a warrant ordering his delivery to pris on was expected to be in the hands of a United States marshal by to morrow. The supreme court could step in and hold up his departure for Leav enworth until it acts on his petition for a rehearing. This wotild give Ralph almost a month more of liberty. The court is in recess until November 23. It would not act on the petition until November 30. There was no indication today that it intended to take any such step or that it would grant him a rehearing. Unlike a woman, the court seldom changes its mind. itr? ,*\ ? . 1 ? ? r" ?' ?? * Economic Plans Takes NewSftps ? i ? - * -i - ._r ? * - * " 1 -* Hoover Confers With Glass at White House on Banking Legislation ? ? ???? Washington, Nov. 3.?The bi-par tisan emergency economic ? program moved along today at a series of con ferences revolving about President Hoover and Senator Glass, Demo crat, of Virginia. The President called Senator Glass to the White House from his Lynch burg, Va., home to go over his ideas < and plans on the financial situation. A fairly general understanding be- , tween Mr. Hoover and the Demo- , cratic spokesman on banking legisla tion was reached; Later, Eugene Meyer, governor of the Federal Reserve Board, and a group of the board's experts called on Senator Glass at the Capitol. Earlier in the day, George L. Harrison, gov ernor of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, conferred with Glass. Senator Glass said the various con-' ferences had no relation and the Federal Reserve officials insisted no immediate new steps were in pros pect. Mr. Hoover spent nearly all morn ing in conference with a group of real estate and insurance men, bank ers and builders on plans to acceler ate home ? building, and some relation between this conference and the sub sequent moves was seen. " Senator Glass i3 a co-author of the Federal Reserve Act and there was seme speculation on whether federal funds were to be made avail able in any way for the" unannounced home building program. Glass has opposed opening to any extent the doors of the Federal Re serve System for the rediscounting of new paper and the fact that he and the President found themselves in ' general accord quieted speculation of any drastic move along this line. In this connection the Virginia (Sen ator today announced opposition to legislative proposals advanced yester day by Senator Vandenberg, Repub lican, of Michigan. However, they will be considered by his special banking committee. . ? . The day's round of conferences waj taken as fresh evidence of the inten tion of the administration to seek a united front in dealing with the Na tion's economic situation, in accord ance with bi-partisan understanding reached at the White House periey last month. ?????? ii. ? i i mm. % It's all right to enjoy a good.joke, but Americans should quit electing some of them to office. Noah is tii'j envy of every poker Came to Meet Hoover | rPrwnrer PierreJ-aval, of Fmoce, accepted the President's invitatioa