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MARKET TO OPEN TUESDAY, AlfS. 29 Knotty Warehouse Has Been Enlarged, add ing 12,000 More Feet Of Floor Space; A. C., Monk & Co., Recently Built and Equipped Another Redrying Plant Here, Doubling Their Capacity; W. B. Lea & Co., to Operate old Cheatham Factory This Season. ?J - ? a Farmville's business men are this week making preparation for extend ing to all tobacco growers attending the opening of the Farmville tobacco market next Tuesday, Aug. 29th., a most hearty welcome. Many of whom will be on hand at the warehouse to greet them in person. Tobacco town, after extensive en larging of houses and factories to take care of this season's'heavy crop, is now in readiness for possibly the largest opening in the history of the market, and prediction . is already afloat that possibly a third set of . buyers may be necessary to take care * of sales, due to the increasing popu larity of the Farmville Market. Farmers plainly -tell you they like to sell, tobacco in Farmville because they ike our warehouses (and there are none better in the warehouse busi ness), they appreciate the attentive and courteous treatment received, the friendly consideration of all the buy ers, sales forces and office men, and - most of them express the belief, they . make better sales on the Farmville Market. It is a true fact, over a period of years, Farmville heads the list of the big market class in highest averages. In 1931, Farmville led Greenville by 16c a hundred; Wilson by 50c, and Kinston by 72c; and, again last season, Farmville led Wilson by 27c, and Greenville by 65c a hundred. The above figures are true facts taken from the records of the U. S. and N. C. Department of Agriculture, and are given here only for the pur pose of showipg the standing of the " -?1 - M > I mo.. r arm vine mamrv auiuu^ umici umm kets in the New Bright Belt .This re cord, in our opinion, is a substantial reason for the increasing popularity of the Farmville Market among the tobacco growers of Eastern Carolina. Among the outstanding improve ments made here recently in the inter est of Farmville Tobacco Market are, first, the extensive enlargement of the redrying plant of A. C. Monk & Co., large independent tobacco buy ers and dealers. , During the past few months their factory here has been greatly enlarg ed and new redrying machines, con veyers, etc., have been installed to the point of doubling the daily capac ity of the plant. This firfm, under the personal super vision of A. C. Monk, has gradually grown from one of the so-called little concerns in the tobacco business to what is now known as one of the big boys, handling millions and millions of. pounds of the golden weed yearly, with plants scattered throughout the New Bright Belt, and with offices and representatives in several foreign countries. Mr. Monk came to Farmville in the early days of the market, and is now considered one of its greatest assets. Another great advantage this sea son over la# is the coming to Farm ville of the W. B. Lea Tobacco Co., of Rocky Mount, independent tobacco buyers on a large scale, who have leased the old C. B. Cheatham, & Co., factory and redrying plant The Fara ville Market extends to them a most cordial welcome, and feel that their coming wall be of great benefit to all " tobacco growers selling tobacco in (Continued an page two) Seven Lenoir County Farmers Are Killed in Truck-Train Crash - . ? V-" V ' ' ? . ? ' - ? l ? ? ? II HI I Accident Occurs About ' a Quarter of a Mile From Lumberton; and Several Occupants Heads Are Cut Off From Body. ; - . . . ? *> mmmmm Lumberton, N C., Aug. 22?Seven persons were killed today when a to bacco truck carrying twelve men and boys from Deep Run, Lenoir county, crashed into a Seaboard Airline pas senger train near here. <Three were killed instantly. Two died while being carried to hospitals and two died soon after reaching the hospitals. The other five on the truck were injured, four of them seriously. , The dead Jesse Davenport, 26; Louis Daven port, 22; Clyde Taylor, 12; Walter Smith, 20; Burchard Smith, 23; Dick Harper, 19, and Wesley Davenport 13, all of -Deep Run. The injured: Haywood Smith, 27, severe lacer ations; Woodrow Taylor, 20, head in # jury, probably fractured skull and fractured arm; Millard Davenport, 60, probable skull frafcture; Furnie Davenport,- 53, serious head injuries and Zeb Brown, 27, serious bead in juries. AU live near Deep Run. Tbe truck was owned by J. R. Davenport of Deep Run. Haywood Sknith was driving it, and the men were carrying the tobacco to the auc tion market at Fairmont. Smith was the least injured and at a hospital was able to say he re membered the names of only a few on the truck. He carried the names of others in a notebook in his pocket. He said his view of the train was] obstructed by houses and that he did not see the swiftly approaching train until it was too late to" prevent a crash. it The truck was dumped into a ditch after the impact. Three ambulances were brought in- | to use to take the dead and injured to hospitals and funeral homes. ' Almost instantly hundreds of peo ple gathered about the score. Capt Buck Williams was jp charge of the train, which was No. 14. I This Week's Tragedy During the coming week a ghastly tragedy will occur. Two hundred or more lives will be destroyed. Property valued at about $8,000,000 will be reduced to ashes. Because of it, business wiB dose, men will lose .their jobs, taxes will increase. You wont hear much about it?be cause it wont happen all at once, ft will be divided among a thousand communities, a thousand different kinds of property. .The destruction of a great factory or a portable garage, will all contribute to it The world remembers the great fires?the Iriquois theatre, the Cleve land hospital, the little school at Col linsville. What the world does not realize is that these fires are no worse than those that take place every week in this so-called civilized world,-and which, by cumulative action, even ex ceed these single disasters is loss of life sail property. Many years cart pass without the occurrence of a fire as horrible as that in the Iriqtxois theatre?hot- eaeh year witnesses the destruction of ten thousand lives and half a billion dollars in property values. If we look on fire in the mass, we will come dose to gaining some idea of the unnecessary menace it if. Bil lions of dollars have been spent, in seeking to prevent it?and while these efforts have borne good fruit, public indifference has' prevented the suc cess that should be achieved. It is time fee a "Fire Preventing Year." - n r? .* 11.; : ; ^ f: Every Durham County dairyman selling Ida milk at wholesale prices has joined the Tri County Association to secure fair marketinar nractices." ^ NBA Against High frices Johnson Tells Retail Dealers Not to Coun tenance Exorbitant Prices. Washington, Aug. 22?A declar ation that? the National Recovery Ad ministration would not countenance unreasonable price increases was made by H-ugh S. Johnson in addressing re tail dealer at the opening of a hear ing on the code of fair competition. The entire trade was urged by Johnson to resist price increases In the near future from jobbers who supply them with goods. "I say," Johnson said, "resent the price increase and we will support you." - The Recovery Administration as serted that so far as speculative price rises are concerned his administration considers it "our duty to see that there is no runaway market." He said that the National .Indus-, trial Recovery Act would increase prices to meet new costs imposed by compliance with thb trade charters but just because of this there is no reason to go away beyond reason. "If you do this you will kill the goose that lays the golden egg." The retail trade hearing was described as one of the most important of any kind so far held. The retail trade embraces all stores and shops except drugs and foods and affect more employers and employees than any of the major industries. Cuba Ms Her Exiles Thundering- Welcome Given Mendieta and Colonel Penate. "Havana, Aug. 22.?Forty thousand persons gave a thundering welcome to Colonel Carlos Mendieta and Colo nel Roberto Mendex Penate today when they returned to Cuba from the exiles to which they were sent for leading the quickly ^suppressed revolt against the Machado government of August 1931. The return of , the two revolutionary heroes shared importance with the resumption of normal activity in Havana's harbor, where business had been paralysed by a strike which started before the jousting of Presi dent Machado. At 7 a. m. all port workers return ed to their jobs. There were a few small disorders at; the Ward and United Fruit docks, but they were quickly suppressed by the harbor po lice and there were no arrests and no casualties. Colonel Mendieto and Colonel Pen ate came back from New York aboard the Morro Castle. From the dock they went straight to the Presidential Palace where they embraced Mach ado's successor. Provisional President Carlos Manuel de Sespedes. With the President they appeared on a palace balcony and great shouts went up from the thousands of on lookers ? ? ? ? gty- jtottaa 7 iiiisii?" Pender?exceeded their allotment in acreage uA destroyed., ???? For each penny under ten cents that the cotton brings this total will be re W. ^ Adams, county agent of Wil son county, says 100 percent of the new square bring formed on cotton in his county is being punctured by boll weevils, due largo!? to the cloudy, RotanrClubflaUs mm mot The meeting' of the Farmville Rot ary Club which was held on August 22, I938 was one of great interest to ail the "members and one that wat packed with useful information. W. A McAdatns was program chairman and after the disposition of the rou tine business he turned the entire pro gram qver to John T. Thorns for an pen forum discussion of the NBA and [the manner in which it affected the | growers of tobacco of the bright leaf type After a few introductory remarks John went into a chronological ac count of a conference which he at tended in Washington, D. C. There were six representatives of the bright leaf tobacco growers at this confer ence, three from North Carolina one from Virginia, one from South Caro lina, and one from Georgia. The conferees discussed throughly with the Tobacco Administrator the feasibility and possibility of acreage reduction for the crop which is to be harvested in 1934. This acreage re duction program is to be used aa a means of bringing about a price par ity for all types of bright flue cured tobacco. According to the figures compiled by the Administrator. This parity would have meant a price $16.06 per cwt for type 12 >0 tenant However, this figure has at the pre sent time appreiated slightly. - , The acreage reduction ~ campaign was to be financed by a 3.7c per pound processing tax on tobacco, which tax it is estimated will raise $19,00*000 of revenue. "John says, the ?ilwinlrimtftai is making every effort to have all the basic ngrimltnral rmamnrtitirn nrll at a fair or parity price in order that the burden of Increase prices of certain commodities will not fall toe heavily on someone who has not had the bene fit of a corresponding increase in titer ? m a% ^ - - ?".in. A+i _ price oi ine commodity or nuuuuact ured article which be has to pfeoe on the market John flhiatrated this by the statement that if a man were to attempt to raise a house with screw jacks that he would net raise one corner' of it to the desired height hut rather he would place one at each corner anc 'ft all comers of the house simultaneously. These is to be another meeting of this group sometime near the last of November to determine just how this acreage reduction program shall be put into effect, the number of acres to be removed from production and other details. According to present, plans the co operative of every tobacco former is to be asked in the program and' the entire program is to be sponsored under the blue eagle of the NBA. Mountain fanners in Clay County hsv? reorganised a corn ciub to see who can grow tie most corn on air acre of land next season. ' ' ? '?? ?? - 1* ???? * V:f. ?*??? '? ' 1 ? , "> ;""'T, ... v -V ? ' W U *?,. - ? ?* ? ? ? Tobacco formers must organize to obtain the benefits of parity prices und^the Agricultural Adjustment Act- i Dr. G. W. Porster, agricultural eco nomist at State Cottage, says the growers in their efforts to obtain a lair pita for.fhair pmtact. "How ever, the Federal tobacco administra tion is not in a position to deal with unoi ^wtaijini'.mlsnri! Urging formers to organize and form ngiisaawuti to raise prices, he said *hat "Hhtfer the 'New Deal', as inaugurated by President Roosevelt . 1<G meat?the first opportunity in the hktory of agriculture. They should a difficult one, since the farmers al |wdyhave a skeleton organization iri their some 58 mutual form commodity exchanges now in operation in th?L Stste. ITiese exchanges could be uaeq in an emergenc? to deal with the im portant problem of obtaining a fair exchange for tobacco." I He pointed out that growers could easily join these exchanges and fhblr f. ?SKV -Ss :ffS?irifi: K ?? Government to Plow Up Cotton Wher* Fann ers Fail To Fulfil Con tracts. Washington, Aug. 22?>Government agents will get behind the plaw to destroy cotton on land of farmers who have not fulfilled their signed crop reduction contracts by tomorrow midnight, the Agricultural Adjust ment Administration announced late today. Federal agents will drive federal mules into all unplowed contract fields after tomorrow midnight, officials said, defying possible shotguns ofi irate fanners. Officials of the A. A. A. urged that I citizens do no "night-riding" or en- j "TT "Ku Klux Klan" tactics! holding -enforce the cotton .con- j [tracts. it was emphasized that the ^government would take core of those farmers whom one official called "cfcislers" and who signed contracts, but have not fulfilled them. Not Widespread ''There is no evidence of any wide spread disposition upon the part of eottbn producers to nek to evade the terns of adjustment contracts," Bald Chester C. Davis, director of produc tion, in announcing the governments plan to complete its ftlO$00<MMO cot ton reduction program. "Only a few isolated instances have came to ear attention, but in fair ness to all producers and in fair ness to the government, it will be the policy to require performance of every crop reduction offer. "Produce** who have received their individual notices of acceptance and who fail to comply with their con tracts by the time set, will be fcoti fied that iction will be taken under Section 10 of the contract." "Action" means ,the actual plowing .under of cotton by county agents, it was made clear. Section 10 authorizes the government to destroy crops if the contracting farmer himself does not do so. Mvst Ale* Pay Not only -will the county agents plow up the fields of delinquent farm ers, they also will charge them for the expense of the wort, The agents, however, have -been authorized to make special exceptions in cases where floods, for instance, have ruined part of a farmer's crop or! -where wet weather has delayed hi3 < plowing. -V WW Probers SwampBurham Corps Of Investigators Under Eagle. r- * r' ' - ' - ' fc>erhanr,Aug.'22?A corps of "fed eral and NRA investigators descend ed on Durfcamtedsy to check on busi ness IJnA eagle. May. A. L. Fletcher, iltate commis sioner of labor, announced from Ral eigh that Durham was the city se lected for the beginning of the State Local NRA authorities are warning all businesses and industries operat ing under the NBA code here, to put their housed in order last they lose fee* eagles. . representatives could jointly submit to th* Federal Government an agree ment governing the marketing of to bacco thiB year and the price to be ficult, but for the time being the buy ers' grades night be used which could later be substituted for a uniform ? ? v "-3B Identify Body M Years ago I I'-'; . ' ' - .. ? ? ? ii I Chatham Woman Says Man Found Murdered Here in 1926 Was Her Husband. * Raleigh, Aug. 28?The body of an unidentifield man, stabbed and left on tjie railroad tracks, which was ?>>md near Raleigh over seven years ago, has been established as that of George Washington Miles, of near Goldston, Coroner L. M. Waring an nounced yesterday. Mrs. Annie Mae Hillard, of Chath am county, stated in an affidavit turn ed over to the coroner that she was convinced from descriptions given her of the body that it was that of her foraer husband, who came to Raleigh two days before the body was found here. The body was found near the Nor folk Sourthern Railroad bridge over Marsh Creek, three miles north-east of Raleigh, on October 27, 1926. Co roner Waring found knife wounds near the heart and the man's throat had been cut, he said. The man had | been left on the tracks and a train had mutilated his head and cut off one leg. No clue has been uncovered which would lead to the identity of the murderer. Yesterday affidavits from Mrs. Hil lard, E. B. Wilkie, a friend, and Mrs. Donnie Graham, sister of Miles, were submitted to the coroner, all stating that the description of the body found here fitted that of Miles. Mrs. Gra ham lives in Cheraw, S. C. O'iwo Hm ^{eannMrancp of JiPr huH k/lilVU vuv uinwyyw ??<?*? ? band, Mrs. Hillard married again, after obtaining a separation. Jdiles left Goldston, in Chatham county, on Oct. 25, 1926, for Raleigh, where he was to take a job as a mechanic, Mrs. Hillard said. He had *1 and some change when he left. The body found here had $4 in bills on it Mrs. Hillard employed D. M. Tyner, Goldston lawyer, to look into the case and Mr. Tyner has been working on it for some time. It was indicated that Mrs. Hillard or members of Miles' family may re quest that the body be turned over t> them for reburial. The body is buried in Oakwood cemetery here. N RO BOY INJURED IN AUTO ? MOBILE ACCIDENT .1 ' ' Iir ap accident occurring on the Kinston-Snow Hill highway about three miles from Snow Hill Tuesday afternoon, Dock King, 10 year old Negro boy, was struck and severely injured by Dr. C. E. Moore, who with Mrs. Moore and his grandson, were returning to their hom^ in Wilson from Kinston. Reports received here state, that Dr. Moore blew the horn of his car, the boy crossed the road, and that jut as the bar was about to pass, the boy ran in front of it. Two Kinston men, driving behind Dr. Moore, stop ped and assisted the Doctor in putt ing the boy in his car, and he was rushed to Dr. Harper's office in Snow Hill, where he received treatment, being later carried to a Kinston hos pital. First Man to Explore' Danerous Tebbu Land. Adventurer Tells of Reg ion Where Men Worship Devils and Rival Monks Burn Each Other Alive. See the Article in The American Weekly, the Magazine Distributed with Nert Sunday's Baltimore Amcri- j can: Buy it from your favorite news dealer or newsboy. . j
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