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Cotton Campaign Now Re garded as Notable Success Canvassing Comes Tq " Qose^withWallace Op timistic Over Late Re ports; Acreage Deduc tion May Exceed Hopes Washington, July 12.?The cam paign to reduce cotton acreage this! year in 26 states was brought to a I dose at midnight, with the first major] acreage control effort of farm admin-] . istrators described as a siuccess. Secretary Wallace said that in his] opinion, when all returns have been] received, "it will be shown that the] South has made one of the greatest j demonstrations of intelligent and ] unified action in the history of ] American agriculture." Official figures showing the acre-] age effered to date were not avails-] ble, but it was said unofficially that! the aggregate offer of farmers might] - greatly exceed their original goal of I ten to eleven million acres. ' ' However, the administrators are I less interested in acreage than in the ] assurance that the acres to be plow-] ed up will substantially reduce this] year's potential crop. Administrators were confident that] the crop would be reduced 3,000,000 j bales, with some prospect that the] figure might be closer to 4,000,000 { bales. ' It was said that the 2,400,000 bales of government-held cotton used as - options for the plan might all be re-1 quired' to meet contracts signed by growers. Growers were offered alternative plana, one under which they would be paid .cash for plowing up from " 26 to 50 per cent of their crop, with payments to be based upon estimated yields; the other a combination of smaller cash payments, with options on an amount of government cotton " equal to the estimated production of the. area they agreed to destroy. . These options were offered on the v'~ basis of six cents s pound. About 60 per cent of the growers have favored the combination plan y:~ and if these exhausted the amount of government-held cotton, the pro duction of the acres they agreed to with die ? 40 per "Cmitnot covered by options, woqld bring' the" redaction of the patenial -crop to About AfiQfyQQQ hales. ; tr iftsrtH"; said "the latest ?-reports the <?ttcn belt indicate that and appeared ty successfully, to a condition, f . "We will not know, the final out i come until the result of these con cluding days' afforts have been re ceived and compiled. "It is my own belief, however, that Whm ah' the xetaraa have been re ceived, it wig be ahowtfyihat the -ot ibMrfesn agriculture. %; - "Intensive 'activity in the field these test three- days is evidence of a growing response to the program." - STATE ONLY HA LF WAT TO ITS REDUCTION GOAL The totiaa , campaign > definitely closed laat midnight, leasing North Carolina. approximately half way to ^^68j6#ke^ee seduction allotment ecneon thatno event -will the campaign M extended," ?end " to "roond up^ .iepotta quired to remain in the field proh abiy all the week to make land ? ?repectaans*. correct contracts in error ^aoiiep3li^fc^*4!ededtiett^^inporto ^iddi amhmh ot tfcfi State Kadi iriirmvi 3' 1-'.*Jul?" r ii Mebrtitn il 41^ '"Tawyr> n.,.L Vrt> f ajwaq a." y . % -: . " earn " jV a ? a t -V / > **. I Britain Rejects MttngRwHil Turns Down American Public Works Propos al; Sprague and Moley Back Heme I |; London, July 13.?Great Britain! went on record in the World Economic [ Conference today as opposed to pub-1 lie work programs a short time after! the American delegation had broached ! a proposal calling for shorter hours! of work and increases in wages to J compensate for rise in prices as an I ameliorative for unemployment. The American resolution, submit-! ted by Sam D. McReynolds, of Ten-1 nessee, declared unemployment is J "one of the gravest problems the] governments are confronted with at this time." The British stand, taken in op position to a French recommenda tion, came in the economic commis sion toward the close of a day in which James M. Cox, of Ohio, had urged continuance of discussion on the remaining agenda subjects de spite rejection by the Federal Re serve System of a resolution on cen tral bank co-opeijition. , The former Governor of Ohio, in what was described as a fighting speech which "curled the hair" of , the conference leaders,' outlined the American situation and persuaded the economic committee to continue deliberations on commercial indebted ness and silver, the subjects remain ing after the American action on the ^ central Sank resolution. 13 A- * In effect, (Jox was saia w nave ?*? his listeners: "Yon gentlemen must realize the grave situation which fac ed the President of the United States when he took office only four months ago. All banks of the country were ( closed. Fifteen million people in our country were unemployed?half of the total unemployment of the world. "The threat to the social structure of the civilized world in that critical situation cannot be minimized. You gentlement must understand the prob lems which have faced President Roosevelt since he took office, and you realize how vital it is to all of you that the American recovery pro gram, affecting as it does the greatest industrial market in the world, suc ceeds." *' Meanwhile, experts went to work on reframiag the bank resolution in the belief it might be revamped to meC; .the approval of the,.Federal Reserve Board. . i Greenville Si a n Goes I With Tobacco Division) Of Farm Administra-1 | tion ' ; prominent Greenville attorney and [commander of the Pitt county post [of the American Legion, has been tratiob nf the federal government, ac cording to an announcement received today, appointment to become effec tive Monday. He will be stationed in Washington. ?' '->/ j* ** I I - Mr. Lanier Is" a native of Green ville and was educated at the Uni versity of North Carolina and Georgetown University in Washing ton City. Dnring the. World War he served as second lieutenant in the 34th infantry and since the war has been practicing law in Greenville* and also engaged in faming.. ia ewn-, officer of Battery A, UStb field artillery, North Carolina Nation al Guard. For the put several years he has served various important ca pacities, having Ijjeen for four years a prosecuting solicitor of Pitt countvi ^ for five yeww m^yOT of chrefc"0 . Director Cites Instance of Owner of 1200-Acre Farm Sharing1 In Relief Funds q > Chapel Hill, July 12.?Home inves tigation, the registration and classi fication of the unemployed by local relief organizations, and permanent up-to-the-minute records of each case, are absolutely necessary fori any Just administration of relief, Ronald B. Wilson, acting director, Governor's Office of Belief, this aft ernoon told delegates to the special institute for social workers being held in Chapel Hill. Relief work is valueless unless such records are kept, he affirmed. "From now on those records are going to be kept," Mr. Wilson de clared. Wielding the big threat of withholding money from those relief agencies failing to cooperate, or bringing about immediate change in the administration personnel, Mr. Wilson drove his point home. Citing several instances where un meritorious men had been receiving financial relief through the recom mendation of some local authority, i Mr. Wilson raised the question: How many men, cases unknown, have been put on relief merely because some person of influence demanded . that they be? Too many, . he thought. Speaking further on the subject, he called attention to one county cuiu missioner with a 1200-acre_ farm which he still owns who has . been sharing these relief funds. This, he pointed out, comes the necessity for home investigation on the part of relief administrations and the ne cessity for administrators strong enough to shame the influence of such grafters. Mr. Wilson pointed \o the time when the' Federal Government would have no more funds for North Caro lina. North Carolina, he said, has spent, as a state, not one cent for relief, and before long the Fed eral Government is going to demand that the State do something for her self. This demand on the part of the Federal Santa Claus, he suggest ed, may lead to a special calling of the Legislature -in North Carolina. Mr. Wilson outlined briefly p pro posed re-employment service in North Carolina, this service to be available to every county and to every city, to be supervised by a vol untary council in each local communi ty. Three Churches To Unite In Vesper Services Here Three of the churches of the town, Presbyterian, Methodist and Christian, have announced their decision to hold joint open air services on the grounds of the last denomination, each Sun day evening at the regular worship hour, for the remainder of July and through the month of August, with other denominations of the town in vited to join or participate in the ves pers. The public is cordially invited to attend all of these services. j8S $2O0#?,OOe Program To pte Submitted To Pre^l dent Roosevelt For Prompt Action \ ? ,1 Washington, July 12.?A huge fed eral construction program estimated roughly at. about $200,000,000 was approved today by the cabinet board 1n charge of the public works program for putting men back to work. The projects will not be announced j until they have been approved by i President Roosevelt, but Secretary Ickes, public works administrator and chairman of the board, said they would be submitted today for prompt action. Following the meeting of the board Ickes announced the appointment of Col. H. M. Waite, formerly city mana ger of Dayton, Ohio, as his first as sistant in administering the big $8,8 OfiOOflOO public works program with the title of dupty administrator. M+iL ? ^VL Sharp Cut In j School Buses Children Living Within Two Miles Of School Must Walk This Year Greenville, July 12.?Children living j within two miles of a public school daring the forthcoming session will have to walk instead of riding in one of the hundred buses operated in the county last year, it was made known today by W. S. Stafford, head of the Pitt county school transportation sys tem. The statement was made following Mr. Stafford's return from Raleigh where yesterday he conferred with C. F. Gaddy, superintendent of the State school transportation sys tem, regarding problems of getting children to and from school next ses sion. Mr.' Gaddy stated emphatically that because of decreased appropria tions for transportation as provided by the last General Assembly that children living in a radius of two miles of a school would either have to walk, ride a jack or go in their own automo biles. The State department, it was said, will redistrict truck routes with ' a view to obtaining economy it opera tion, and children l who v used to think walking three or four blocks was a big job might as well limber up their legs and get ready for a real marathon. The county operated one hundred^ school trucks last year, Mr. Stafford Bald, but this year there is every in dication that quite a number will not be used. No plans had been made concerning the replacing of worn out trucks with new ones, it was stated, as this is entirely in the hands of the state and must be de cided by those authorities before any action is taken. Civil Service Expansion Aim^anced by Roosevelt Washington, July 12.?Action to ex tend tSs civil service was announced hy President Boosevelt today. It? this he is moving against strong political pressure to open up jobs wholesale to Democratic party work ers. Developments pare these: 1.^ lfev?ooseiwlt issued an. execu tives order requiring applicants! vfor class post masters to take written civil service examinations. There are more than 15,000 such offices. would extend to these offices sub stantially the same system as is ap Furthermore, they are required to ab ^0000 ed that clerical staffs for the dropped from other departments in the economy drive. Hundreds of employes who .were 'blanketed" into civil service , by executive order erithdot examination will not be thus favored. They will be considered for jobs only after taking, written Bmminptinna y AH sof these moves are in, the direction of taking jobs out of poli tics and filling them on the basis of merit. However, the administra tion still retains latitude in that it will select the appointee from the three highest names on the exami natkmlisfc^- ' "T Another related move was made by President Roosevelt when he said with I>enHxn^ts. He has 250 ap plications from Democrats who would Rkp to be ambassadors or 'any regularly commissioned postmaster Says France Sought ToCrippla II. $.1 Britten Urges Recall Of Delegation by Roose velt; Stay Out of Eu rope Tangle Washington, July 12.?An attempt] by France to "financially dripple the] United States" is atthe bottom of the] difficulties of the World Economic] Conference, Representative Britten] (Republican) of Illinois charged yes-] terday. He added: "Currency stabilization failed be-] cause France and her small bloc of gold standard nations found it im possible to ensnare American gold] and further enbarrass our position in ] world commerce. "When it became evident that our] gold supply could not be tricked into the dangerous position of a guarantor of a stablized currency the statesmen of bankrupt France lost all interest in the conference. "The deliberate connivance of the] French Government to financially ] cripple the nation which saved it from ignominious defeat in the World War will be recorded by future historians as the most brutal statecraft in the world's recordings. "France has chosen to be an inter- ] national cheat rather than pay the debt she is fully qualified to meet. Honor means nothing to her." Britten urged the President to re call American delegates to the Conference "and make up hi3 mind] to forever stay out of European en tanglements." | He asserted that "the recent] Roosevelt inoculation for European ] economic recovery is utterly impossi-j ble of collective accomplishments." CHURCHILL DEFENDS UNITED STATES POLICY I London, July 12.?Winston Church-j ill, formerly Chancellor of the Ex chequer, defended America's policy in repecting currency stabilization in a House of Commons speech tonight and urged Great Britain cautiously to follow the United States' example. He said: "I dont see how anyone watching the change that has taken place since President Roosevelt's message in May could imagine. Roosevelt wruld agree to tie up again to the gold standard out pf love for France." - SoenonDry Law Parley Sure That Repeal By Alabama and Ar kansas Will Mean "It's All Over" Washington, July 12.VThe real tip off to the probable fate of prohibition, most all the interested agree, will come a week from today in the Alaba ma and Arkansas referendum. So sure is Postmaster General Far ley that favorable action on repeal by those states would mean "it's all over" that he is taking the adminis tration drive into deep south. At Memphis, Tenn., on - July 25, Saturday, he will plead for the eras ure of the. eighteenth amendment. His speech will be transmitted to Alabama and Arkansas which vote July 18, two days before Tennessee. In the next month Oregon passes on the repeal resolution July 21 and Arizona August 8. Twelve otlmr states have set their election dates this year. ' ' ' Texas,- August 26; Washington, August 29; Vermont, Sept 6; Maine, -Sept 11; Maryland and Minesota, Sept 12; Idaho and New Mexico, Sept 19, and North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania and South Carolina on Nov. 7. ???? " ' j A prolonged drought in Burke Conn-, ty has damaged gardens, hay, pas tures, and other crops to the extent ?y? B.X. Sioan, county 'Vv- ? :? , ??? President Considering [ Temporary Application of Shorter -Sours and Higher Wages For All Industry I Washington, July 12.?President Roosevelt is considering a "grand push" for his recovery program by means of a blanket uniform agree n?ait on shorter hours and higher wages which would apply temporarily to all industry until codes are worked out. Every industry would be asked to conform to a schedule of hoqrs and wages, which might divide. itself into three or four general classi fications, in a gigantic effort to raise mass purchasing power overnight to the high level of production and prices. Thi: was the President's answer today to the virtual challenge, in some cases, of hesitatant and balking industries holding off under the at tractive lure or raising prices on the country's stock and commodity ex changes. The agreement would be purely voluntary in character, since the Chief Executive has no power to impose such a general uniform code for all industry. A patriotic ap peal would be made for industry's co-operation. Whether this plan, which was dis closed yesterday by General -Hugh -S. Johnson, recovery act adminis trator, will be put into operation rests largely with the cabinet advisory com mittee in charge of the industrial re covery program. Johnson will lay it before the board next Monday. He has discussed it with President Roose velt, who told him to proceed. Today the plan still was vague in outline. Resort to this grand scale co-opera tive movement depends largely on industry's reactions in the next few days. Industry, generally, has shown in creased signs of co-operating in the last 48 hours. Two more codes were submitted today and hearings set. These were for the shipbuilding and shipyards industry and the? electri cal manufacturing industry, both | large units employing many workers. Leaders in the steel industry were hard at work in New York tpnight completing their code. It is ^ex pected here tomorrow. Bituminus coal operators and union leaders of 14 States here . re ceived from a sub-committee a ten i tative code, finally drafted after three days, denoting the first progress in this industry. It will be submitted, after approval of the whole group, as the basis for a code for the whole in dustry. ....... ... Agreement was reached on a minimum wage of $4 a day for sur face workers and $5 ,_for under ground workers. One official, more optimistic than others, forecast an "avalanche" of codes by the end of ? this week. President Roosevelt reported "prog ress" and was hopeful today. John son likewise was in a happier frame of mind. Results of the new "drive" were manifest on other fronts here to day. Developments included: 1. President Roosevelt approved the first list of projects under the $3,3000,000,000 public worics program. They will be made public tomorrow and work will begin speedily, .giv ing jobs in. various parts ofr the country. 2. Prof. M. L. Wilson, chief of the wheat production section of the agricultural adjustment administra tion, forecast that between 85 and 90 per cent of the nation's wheat growers would agree to reduce next year's /rops. He returned from an 18-day trip through the principal wheat producing sections. 3. A last-minute appeal was made today to cotton growers of the South to reduce their acreage by C. A. Cobb, chief of the administration's cotton section, 12 hours before the midnight deadline. Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace predicted success m the government's campaign. 4. President Roosevelt issued an executive order forbidding interstate and foreign transportation of petrol eum produced unlawfully or ilfcpd ly withdrawn from storage, in re sponse to protests that "hot" oil produced in violation of the law?is flooding the market - .* fM|
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