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fOL. TWBNTT-FOBR . FABMVILLE, PITT COUNTY, NOiCTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, ^ ; NUMBER NINETEEN
Everybody Anxiously Auuiting Gamm^hri^haus' Word To GojSiy^Up ConsideredSuccess
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Leaf Cut Campaign Closes
In Farmvitte Township
With 100 P. C.
Only Two Small Farm
ers In Pitt Cunty Re
fused to Sign-up; Over
99 per Cent Already
Secured
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Final contracts, with the exception
- ' of" one involving six acres owned by
a resident, and which is expect
ed daily by the local committee, were
in band Wednesday and according to
John T. Thome, head of the cam
paign in this township, the sign-up
was 100 per cent Local warehouse
and other business men number
ing 15 put aside their duties and
worked diligently to make the cam
paign here a success.
The tobacco reduction drive was
on the verge of completion Thurs
day evening throughout the county
and E. F. Arnold, director of the Pitt
County Farm Department, stated he
expected the last contracts would be
received at his office by nightfall.
The 12 o'clock report issued from
the farm office brought the total
acreage signed to 47,565.83 with
2,866 farmers having added their
signatures to the contracts.
Mr. Arnold said a few contracts
were out today and that they were
expected to reach his office at any
minute writing "finish" to a cam
paign which has surpassed anything
of the kind in the annal of the conu
try.
The two growers who had been
holding out in Carolina and Beaver
Dam townships continued to re
main adamant today, but the per
suasive power of contract forces and
friends of the reduction movement
were constantly being brought to
bear in hope they would yield and
make the response one hundred per
cent. They were the only ones con
tacted by field men who positively
declined to sign the government con
tracts. - -*V- ' j
President of Cuba
Mil Assume the
BolejTDictalor
Worked Today On A
Manifesto In Which He
Is Expected to Demand
Dictatorial Powers Pot
Combating Disorder
Havana, Sept. 14.?President Gran
San Martin worked today on a mani
festo in which his confidants expect
ed him to demand dictatorial powers
for combating disorders.
Opposed by veteran political* lead
ers, beset by labor troubles and un
able to pacify 500 officers who in
sist his predecessor he reinstated the
executive was said in place circles
to be ready to state reasons for iron
hand policies.
Police reserves meanwhile were
held in readiness here. They were
armed with rifles, but no reason for.
the action was announced.
At the same time rumors were
circulated that the army faces dis
sension in its ranks. Two soldiers
died violent deaths in the last twen
ty-four hours, one a suicide and the
other the victim of unidentified ma
chine gunners.
Several unidentified persons at
tacked the Ninth police station and
wounded a student there.
Strikes continued in several pro
vince towns with unrest prevalent
Those who believe the - president
will establish a dictatorship pointed
out his cabinet contains nobody who
participated in mediatory efforts and
backed by students has, embarked
on a nationalistic course.
Gives His Impression of
Tobacco Reduction Plan
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(By Charles P. Stewart)
Washington, Sept 14.?It is hard
to arrive at any conclusion, after
listening to a group of farmers dis
cussing their troubles, other than
that agriculture is insisting' upon be
ing paid to be sensible.
For the past couple of weeks I
have been following the proceedings
and results of a gathering of the
North Carolina and Virginia tobacco
growers, conferring in Washington, as
to means of placing their industry
bade upon a paying basis.
It seems clear that they have been
producing more tobacco than there is
a demand for. Consequently tobacco
prices are low. They are so low that
the growers get lees for their crops
than it costs to raise tbem.
As a bystander, I would say that
a tobacco grower, who is growing to
bacco at a loss, would be well ad
: vised to stop growing tobacco. U j
he cannot grow something else at a
profit, at lens! he can cultivate some
thing to eat, and live.
Must Be Uniform
The trouble is, if Growers A, B, C,'
D and E do adopt this plan. Grow
ers F, G, H, I and J, who do not
ifnnd^E no kngar prochk^ Fs!
I', irf f. crop.
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H<m. Ther ctmwt iffcinniTiirv tten*
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It may or may not be sound eco
nomics, but it is the program agrj- <
culture has succeeded in "selling" to
the consuming public.
Recovery Philosophy - 1
There is no question that the in
dustrial and agricultural recovery
program alike are based on a philos- I
ophy of enabling each group to gain
at the expense of other groups. The
"white collar" group, in '-the well
known last analysis, obviously is the ,
one which will be 100 per'ti&nt stung.
Fftdent Manager
Gov. John C. B. Ehringhaus of
North Carolina has presided over the
tobacco growers' session inr Wash
ington. The governor not only has
a delightful personality, but thor
oughly understands his Stato'sjfcri
cultural problems. He is an extraor
dinarily deft politician, too.
Shortage Feared
Senator ~ Patrick McCaRtui con
tiues to make Hie point that, sooner
or later, reduction of igity nlliiul
production will run into an actual
crop shortage, and the !;*esolt will
be a deficiency in some basic food
supply?not tobacco, which can be
?dispensed with in a pinch, but wheat,
maybe, which would be a moreseri
ous matter.
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40# BALES OF COTTON
M U BURNED AT PRISON FARM
1400 bales of cotton were destroyed
3 Otter States
Jnin ftonaai Rank
UUffl llupuOf EluVVII
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Maryland, Minnesota
And Colorado Latest
To Vote For Repeal of
18th Amendment
Twenty-nine States Wednesday
marched in the repeal path, and only
seven more need follow to end nation
al prohibition. Maryland, Minesota
and Colorado wege the latest recruits.
All voted Wednesday to abolish the
Eighteenth Amendment and left the
score in 1933: for repeal, 26; against,
fo.'
If the seven States now needed to
supply the three-quarters needed for
repeal are among the voting before
Novmber 8, the repeal amendment
will have been ratified formally De
cember 6?date of the 36th conven- j
tion. Fast mounting figures put re- j
peal majority five to one. Tb? mar
gin was similar in Colorado and Min
nesota, the home of Andrew Vols
stead, who sponsored the prohibit en
forcement act Late counts listed
others in the two to one class.
Prohibitionist promised undimin
ished efforts to block the trend which
on Monday caught Maihe, the first
bone-dry State.
Tuesday Idaho and New Mexico
vote on repeal Two weeks laaer?
October 3?Virginia votes and ataraek
later?October 16?Florida.
Dixie Blackbirds To
Tilt Tickle Boxes Of ]
Funlovers Friday Nite
The Dixie Blackbirds Ministrels to
be presented in Perkins Hall on Fri-^
day evening, September 22, aJT 8i00
under the auspices of the Junior Wo
man's Club, of which Hiss Lucy
Johnston is president, is declared to
be the most unique ministrel arrenge
gient of the dajr; the snappy -jokes,
catchy songa-end clever costumes giv
ing show goers the maximum in hear
ty, wholesome laughter.
And there's plenty of entertain
ment for the entire family; for the
kiddies the "Little Ministrel," a
special feature, will be especially en
joyable. The cast for this includes:
Mr. Boss?Chas. S. Rountree.
End Men?Jimmle Harden, Fred
Jones, Pfeet Eason, Robert Teele.
Little Pickannies?Betty Lou Bar
ber, Evon Smith, Alice Harper Park
er, Mary Frances Green, Mavis Leg
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CHRISTIAN CHURCH
TO^HOU^MHBHNG
Series of Meetipgfe'to Begia on
Sunday Evening, -September
17th; Public Cordially Invited
To'Attend L
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A series of meetings will begin in
the Ghristian ehBKh oa Pwby eve
ning, September 17, with Rev. J,
Randall Ferris ft -Sateigfe assisting
the pastor, Rev. C. R, Washburn as
the preacher.
Services will be continued daring
the week at 8 .-00.\ Beet Farris comes
to -the local church highly recommend
sd- as an eflifrltWto -speaker and
will, no doubt be .well received here
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fQY tbrou hout the
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Willard Tent Farm, Pender Coun
ty, Sept 14.?Governor Ehringhaus
addressing 6,000 farmers and their
wives and children at the Willard
Test Farm field day rally here today,
predicted the growers will receive "a
fair price" for their tobacco when the
Eastern Carolina markets are re
opened.
The Governor gave no indication
of when he would lift the ban upon
auction sales, but said he had promis
ed agricultural authorities in Wash
ington he would not reopen the
markets until they gave the word.
Pointing out the crop reduction
signatures were necessary to effect
the tobacco plan, he asserted he was
prouder of the North Carolina farm
ers than ever before because of the
whole-hearted manner in which they
rallied behind the tobacco plan.
Turning to a! discussion of taxation
in this State, he told members of his
audience to look carefully at their
receipts this year and note the re
duction made in taxes.
He explained the reductions in
school and read taxes and reduced
assessments made possible through
the sales tax and asked his hearers
to pay the sales tax cheerfully, as
serting it was not put on until .other
reductions were made. *. ,
The Governor said North Carolina
had redMsd taxes more .than any
tother government in the .nation.
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Farmville High School
To Open Monday A. M.
'
The. registration of high school pu
pils has . been completed, schedules
have been rearranged to bestfittbe
needs of the 1933-54 session, and
Farmville High School is ready to
open on; * Monday morning, Septem
ber 18, at 8:80 o'clock, with the Supt
R. E. Boyd anticipating the best year
of its history.
The teachers, numbering twenty
one, are expected to arrive during the
weekend, and most of .them will. be
familiar to pupils, only a few changes
being made since the previous ses
sion, these include; Miss Eugenia
Gray of Cary, a teacher of the third
grade; Miss Elisabeth Relfe Hobbs,
Belhaven, fifth; and Mr. Francis M.
Pratt, Winston-Salem, teacher of
History and English. >
Haganback-WaUace
Circus ToShow in
GoidsboroSept.22
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Possibly The Largest
And Best Circus to Vis
it This Section of the
State This Season .?
; People of thi# Metie* wfliWtt*
rare^opportunity of witnessing one of
the ftqpst and beet performances of
its land, coming t*-tht*oeetiea o? the
State this season when the Hagen
bacl?W*Uace Ciittus comes to' .Gold*
boro next fHday, Sept 22. They
will "give* t#o performances?after
the famous Clyde Beatty, the world's
grwtest wild animal trainer, .who
appears in person in the most breath
taking wild animal exhibition of all
| Among: other entertainers a^pear
American people and carries a herd
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Government Backs
Leaf Producers
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Lanier Repeats Prom
ise of Administration
to Raise Tobacco
Prices
Greenville, Sept 13.?The premise
of the federal government to support
tobacco growers in their effort to
procure better prices for their pro
duct this year and the next two years
in exchange for reduction of acreage
during 1984-35 was reiterated over
long-distance telephone from Wash
ington Cit7 today by J. C. Lanier,
former Greenville attorney, now con
tract expert in the tobacco' division
of the U. S. Department of Agricul
ture.
Talking to D. J. Whichard, Jr.,
publisher of the Daily Reflector,
Lanier declared the government
was intensely interested in the'
campaign now under way to curtail!
production the next two years and I
had confidencethe farmers were
going to respond in a wholehearted
manner.
He expressed appreciation of the ?
quick action taken by tobacco grow- J
era in the tobacco-raising states
and commended his home county
of Pitt for blazing the way in a
drive that has the backing of the
federal government and consequent
ly has all the power of the tremen
dous government facilities behind
it ^He reiterated the promise made
by the government at the outset of
the campaign that it would use its
powerful resources for better prices
with resumption of sales if the
growers would sign-up to reduce
their acreage the next two years,
and in so doing showed the world
that the government as usual is
not playing but has reached out ita
powerful hand to bring relief to
thousands of growers who would
suffer inexpressible hardships from
low prices received from the pro
duct at the time the governors of
the tobacco-growing - states declar
ed a warehouse holiday because of
low prices.
Mr. Lanier is one of the leaders in
the tobacco division of the Agricul
tural Adjustment Administration,
and is figuring prominently in the
campaign to bring higher prices to
the tobacco growers.
In addresses at various points, he
expressed his personal opinion this
year's crop would bring a good
price and stated the government
stood ready to do its part in return .
for cooperation of growers in the
reduction of acreage the next two
years.
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Local Rotarians
To Have Honorary
Member Each Month
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Dave Oglesby, Jr., and Eli Joyner,
Jr., visited the* Club on Tuesday eve
ning as the first two Junior Rotarl
anS selected by the Club. It is the.
purpose of the organization to choose
one outstaying young man in the
community .Mch month as a Junior
RotariariTor that period and during I
that time hp shall be invited to at
tdnd as though he were a regular <
member. These two were selected
tot September because both are plan- :
ning to attend College at an early <
date. : Joy Thome welcomed the
boys on bphalf of the Club and both
?responded by stating their apprecia- 4
tion of the privilege extended they *
Fand welcomed the "interest shown in ,
the yourt^ ineh of the town.;. .
Plans for "Ladies Night" are rapid
ly taking shape. The various com
mittees Have been appointed and >.a
tentative dajh set, but the exact time i
will not be announced until all phis
am in readiness.
k An Ihtj^-City Meeting, embracing
all of tbe Clubs in eastern North
Carolina, yil be held in Rocky Mont
on Monday^ September 18. Dr.
Governor Awaiting Word
From Federal Gov'ment
To Call Off Sales Holiday
South Carolina
Farmers Seeking
15 Cent Cotton
South Carolina and Oth
er Cotton States To
Make A Direct Appeal
Columbia, S. C., Sept. 13?^'Fifteen
cent cotton' was the cry which went
to Washington from South Carolina
farmers today.
Taking the lead in a new drive to (
get better prices for the staple the i
state through Gov. Blackwood had
called upon other cotton growing
states to make a direct appeal to
President Roosevelt next Monday "to
save the Southern cotton farmers.1'
1 After a mass meeting of growers
agricultural leaders and representa
tives of three other states here yes
;terday Gov. Blackwood telegraphed
other cotton governors to call mass
meetings Saturday to consider reso
lutions similar to those adopted
here. They also were requested to
name delegations to join one from
?South Carolina in an appeal to the
President Monday. Notifying Secre
tary of Agriculture Wallace of the!
meeting of the delegation, Gov.
Blackwood asked the secretary to ar
range an audience with the Presi
dent for the delegation.
REV. C. T. THRIFT TO
-j PREACH HERE SUNDAY
Rev. C. T. Thrift of Durham, a
former pastor "of the local Methodist
church, will speak i? the school audi
torium on Sunday afternoon at 3:30
o'clock on the subject: "Superheated
Steam." The public in invited.
Some Farmers, How
ever, Are Bringing In
Tobacco With the Hope
; Sales Will Be Resumed
In Few Days
No word has been received from
Governor Ehringhaus regarding re
opening of the eastern markets, but
it was indicated at Raleigh the
holiday would be lifted either next
j Monday or Tuesday. The governor
however, is awaiting word from the
federal government before declar
ing the holiday at an end and every
i body was looking toward Washing
tori for some definite statement.
Governor Ehringhaus, keenly alive
to the situation in. every tobacco
growing community, is doing every
j thing in his power, and is in con
| stant touch with the government au
thorities in Washington. They will
notify him when they are ready and
the Governor will instantly give the
word to us.
The question of re-opening and the
prices we will receive after re-open
ing is now in the hands of the Fed
eral Agricultural administration.
With reduction of acreage assured
for 1934-35, and with the Federal
Government stepping in for the first
time since tobacco growing began in
this country, we confidently expect
prices to strengthen as the sales are
resumed.
RECEIVE ROAD SENTENCES
UPON CONVICTION OF HAV
ING WHISKEY FOR SALE
Tom McKinney and son, James, re
ceived road sentences in the City
Court Monday morning, after being
convicted of having whiskey in their
possession for the purpose of sale.
Tom was given 2 years and his son
6 months by Mayor Lewis. Both de
fendants appealed and were freed up -
on bond of $500 for the father and
$200 for the son.
Blalock Advises Against
Farmers Setting Cotton
Purchasing Power of Cotton Is
; No Greater Now Than It Was
A Year Ago; Farm Credit
Administration Announced
That Seed and Crop Loan Bor
rowers Do Not Have To Sell
Their Cotton to Pay Off
Loan By October 31, But In
stead May Store It In Ap
proved Warehouses.
Raleigh, Sept 14.?"The purchas
ing power., of cotton today is no
greater than it was a year ago, and
the situation is an alarming one to
me."
.So said U Benton Blalock, gener
al manager of the North Carolina
Cotton Growers Cooperative Asso
ciation, before leaving early this
week- for Washington in the inter
est of cotton producers.
"The 'plow up campaign'," he
said, "went over in great shape and
cut our prospective 16,500,000 bale
crop to an estimated one of 12J
100,000 bales. This move unques
tionably is largely responsible for
the rise or approximately 50 per
cent in cotton prices as- compared
with last year.
"But we are still far away from
the pre-war parity of prices promis
ed us hy the administration under4
the Agricultured Adjustment Act for -j
the reason that the things which '
the farmer has to buy in many in- i
stances have increased in value ones '
hundred per cent or more. i I
"It seems that under the read
justment of prices under the Na
tional Recovery agriculture has
not only been unable to keep step I
irith other industries but has been j
forced to lag still further behind t
in the prices for all farm commodii j
ties."
what are we to do about it?" Mr.
Blalock said:
"The administration's plan for
the control of production of cotton
in 1934 and 1935 should be an
nounced as speedily as possible, and
whatever is necessary in the way
of a campaign for making the plan
effective hould be launched at once
with the producers so that the
cotton consuming world would know
now what to expect from next
year's crop.
"Second, if the Administration
still holds trump cards in the way
of inflationary measures, they should
be played now and not after the
cotton has passed out of the pro
ducers' hands. Higher prices in
January, March, of May will be of
no avail if the producer has no cot
ton to sell.
"Third, every effort possible should
be put forth by every agency avail
able to prevent a too-rapid move
ment into the markets of the 12,000.
000 bales and more crop of this sea
son. And most assuredly every ef
fort should be made to prevent sur
plus cotton held by govermner.t
agencies being dumped on the mark
et for the next several months In
competition with our 1938 crop."
NRA And Textile*
Pointing out that under NBA ac
tivities many lines of business are
staging a comeback, Mr. Blalock
said "it is not unreasonable to ex
pect that tire textile industry will
again enjoy a season of prosperity,
giving us greatly increased consump
tion of raw cotton."
1 "It strikes me," he said, "that
any person which will help to
bring about the higher price levels
due cotton producers should have
tire active support -of aJl'btisinesa
interests in the South, and especially
of the bankers, supply merchants,