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Government Hopes to Effect Price Selling Agreement Very Soon
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Governor Appeals For
Shorter Market Hours
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Thinks Change Would
Be Helpful lit Bringing
Better Prices For To
bacco
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Raleigh, Sept. 29. ? Governor
Ehringhaoe last night issued an ap
peal to warehousemen and tobacco
growers to reduce sales hours each
day from seven to five so as to"keep
off the market more tobacco than can
be absorbed and to assist in increas
ing prices.". He also announced that
an early announcement from Wash- J
ingtoo was expected ss to agreements
through which it is hoped to bring
about parity prices.
In Washington, Parta Adminis
tration officials worked on details
of the agreement by which domestic
buyers would buy between now and
March 31 as much tobacco. as they
used during the last year "at an av
erage of not less than 17 cents s
pound.
It was stated that the agreement
was being held up by the govern
ment's! effort to word it so as to
retain the right to license domestic
buyers if this should become neces
sary. . .
Governor's Statement
The governor's statement follows:
"More than once I have urged our
growers not to rush their tobacco
too quickly into market, but to mar
ket it in an orderly manner so as
to realize the best price*
"I am Informed * that the markets
have hea* glutted to suck an extent
this -J^ek that the redrying facili
ties of buyers have, been insufficient
to ibkih tia daily offering and
that fins has greatly depressed prices.
It is feared that this situation will
grow even worse unless promptly
remedied.
"I am, therefore, asking both
warehousemen and growers, begin
ning October 2 and continuing until
further notice, to cooperate further
in our efforts to boost prices by re
ducing the sales hours epeh dan
from seven to five, so as to un%
off the markets on each day more
than can be absorbed and to assist
in increasing yric?
"We are expecting an early an
nouncement from WaaUagtoa as to
agreemaots through which we expect
to bringahout parity price*1* '.
Allotment Ftti
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$1,250,00 Assigned T?
Coubd Highways In
North Carolina
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Washington, Sept 28.?Majcr-Geo
eral Lytic Brow* tnnawired today
the allotment of the
iinpeeewneiit. of Jhe. intra qnetyl wat
^ to
aBotoaetf* is, from the fjwhl ? ipfcili if
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flVJf ? m MtoI flyKfltt^ ; prth
ad MWk by British officials ail
Lawkm*- ' **
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with Mntt H. Davis>efaaf of the
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New Association
Ready For Work
| Will Promote General
Betterment Movement
I For Eastern Carolina
Greenville, Sept. 28.?The Eastern
North Carolina Association, Incorpor
ated, is now ready to function, the
officers for the coming- year having
been elected. Headquarters will be
located at Greenville and modern,
well equipped offices have been open
ed in the State Bank and Trust
building. The same officers also
will serve the Carolina Shippers* As
sociation, which will carry on its
work as usual pertaining to trans
portation matters. The new organi
zation will promote a general bet
terment movement for eastern North
Carolina and will cover 37 counties.
Its affairs will be under the direc
tion of a board of directors, which
will be composed of outstanding busi
ness and professional men of the
section.
The plan of organization is to
have one member of the board from
each county in the section and one
from each city with a population of
3,000 or more. All individuals, firms
and corporations ' in the section will
be eligible for membership and will
be contacted in due time.
- The following officers have been
elected by the members to serve
during the coming year:
Dr. R. H. Wright, Greenville, presi
dent; Stanley Woodland, Morehead
City, W. J. Corbitt, Henderson, vice
presidents; Martin Swartz, Green
ville, treasurer. Directors, Talbot
Patric, Goldsboro; C. A. Flynn,
Washington; C. T. Bellinger, New
Bern; H. H. McCoy, Kinston; W. M.
Rogers, Wilson; M. D. Munn, Rocky
Mount; S. G. Scott, Elizabeth City;
C. F. Co we 11, Washington; Lorry T.
Moore, New Bern; D. C. McCotter,
Pamlico; M. 0. Blount, Bethel; W.
S. Carawan, Tyrell; H. G. Walker,
Creswell; Penn T. Watson, Wilson;
Thad Thigpen, Mt Olive; E. V.
Webb, Kinston.
Additional directors will be elect
ed as soon as the membership in
creases sufficiently in those coun
ties not now represented.
TYSON-MAY REUNION
TO BE HELD TOMORROW
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The reunion 'of the Tysons -5 and
Mays will be h&ld jointly again this
year on tomorrow, September 30, and
plans are now complete for a day of
real pleasure and happiness. This
event is anticipated fa# many months
by members and friends and a large
crowd is expected , to attend.
The program, which wilT be held
in Perkins Hall "w? begin at 19:00
o'clock, with president John B? Lewis'
report and those of the Tyson and
May families, to be given by Miss
Evelyn Horton and Miss Ellen May
Lewis, marking -the opening which
wffl be followed ft* the reading of
Tyson Smith ?f Greenville, and read
by Mrs. Carrie Pollard Baueom.
The principal address will be '***?
by MmR of
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Cotton Farmers _
Amount ^ji t
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Manager of Association
Says His Organization
Would Loan The Full
Amount on Cotton
Washington, Sept 27?E.F. Creek
more, general manager of the
American Cotton Cooperative Asso
ciation, told nefwspaperinen ?' today
that his organization intended to kMt
"the fall amoant of the government
loan on cotton" to its members as
soon as the government had worked
out details of the plan.
Creekmore, other officials of the
American Cotton Cooperative Asso
ciation and cotton factors today dis
cussed details of the government
loan plans announced recently with
Oscar Johnston, finance administra
tor of the farm adjustment admin
istration. i
The farm administration announc
ed it would lend ten cents a pound
on cotton still in the hands of pro
ducers. _ .
The meeting was called to discuss
whether premiums were to be loan
ed on cotton of a higher quality than
low middling seven eigths inch.
The &: ade and length of staple
has been tentatively selected as the
base for the ten cents a pound loan.
Creekmore said his -organization
plans to assist the campaign to ad
vance cotton prices by lending the
full amount that the government de
cided upon the .various grades and
staples.
Braach Office of
Bilk is Opened
Federal Institution Sets
Up New Arrangements
For Hurrying Farm
Loans
Rocky Mount, Sept 27.?A branch
office of the Federal Land Bank of
Columbia, S. C., was established in
Rocky Mount today with more than
20 employes serving 27 northeastern
North Carolina counties.
T. E. Haigler, native of South
Carolina but connected with the
bank in this State for several
monthea, is in charge of the new in
stitution.
The purpose of the branch office
here, Mr. Haigler said, will be to
expedite the handling of appraisals
on farm land and' thus to facilitate
extesion of loans.
Mr. Haigler said the regional bank
found difficulty in handling the
numerous applications from fanners
in North and South Carolina, Georgia
and Florida and that branch offices
have been deemd a necessity.
No loans will be madte by the lo
cal bank, Mr. Haigler said, but ap
.praisals and. all information desired
by the public will be collected lo
cally. Loans are made direct from
Columbia. Applications for loans,
however, will be accepted here.
The counties to be served by the
lopal branch art as follows: Wash
ington, Halifax, Gates, WSson, Tyr
*?, "3 Pasquotank, Pitt, Franklin,
Perquimans, Edgecombe, Naah, Cur
rituck, Pamlico^ Northampton, Mar
tin, Hyde, Warren, Beaufort, Craven,
Chowan, Hertford, Camden, Bertie
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Farmville -to Eookirtoli K* Ct jtt
The Feastof
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The Feast of the Red Corn, in
event referred to with veiled hints in
these columns last -week,' tome but
to be a i?li?Tiwiiig arui entertaining
American Indian operetta by Paul
Bliss, which will be presetted by the
FannviHe High School Glee Club on
Friday evening, October 6, at 8:U0
o'clock, under the direction of Miss
Vivian Case with Mrs. Haywood
Smith as accompanist. An admission
fee of 10c and 25c will be charged at
pie door of Perkins Hall, where the
operetta is to be presented.
; The Glee Club, composed of thirty
girl a, musical and endowed with dra
matic ability, holds an important
place in the life of the school, and a
large audience will doubtless be pres
ent when the curtain rises for the
first act
Rehersals have been held at inter
vals throughout the summer months
and the operetta is now in process of
being given a superior finish, by the
experienced director, which few ame
teur productions have.
1% cast and program are as fol
lows:
I Queen Weed Wants?Ruth Hart
Impee Light?Helen Willis.
Fudgee, Pudgee, Wudgee?Betsy
j Willis and Ann Jones.
Soceress?Frances Cutchins.
| Other Soloists?Eva Mae Hardy,
Louise Harris, Martha Turnage Ras
| berry.
[ Chorus: Spranos?Mary L. Ward,
Mary E. Smith, Annie M. Ward, Mary
E. Potter, Cam L. Patterson, Virginia
Mottinger, Martha Cobb, Frances
Beaman, Ethel Murphy, Elvira Ty
son, Eloise Hendricks, Virginia Har
ris, Annie L. Joyner.
Altos?Bertha Lang, Rebecca Whe
le8s, Elsie M. Carmway, Jean Hor
ton, Frances Joyner, Fannie C. Bar
rett, Sula Carr, Virginia Spell, Hazel
Bass.
j ? Act I ?
Overture?Mrs. Haywood Smith.
Cho. "Dead Leaves Amid the
Corn"?Chorus.
I "Somebody's Been Up To Some
I thing"?Soceress and Charm*.
| Cho. "She Is A Regular Indian"?
Chorus.
Cho. "Burn Her At The Stake"?
Chorus.
"O Star of the Farthest North"?
Queen.
"What Did. Impee Light Do"?
Fudgee, Pudgee, Wudgee.
-"I've Inherited A Most Peculiar
Failing"?Impee Light.
"Shadow Dance"?Sopranos.
"Sleep Song"?Queen and Chorus.
? Act II ?
"Tale of the Little Bears"?Impee
Light and Chorus.
"Canoe Song"?Queen and Chorus.
"Entrance of Socress"?Instrumen
tal v >? ,
*Song of Sorrow"?Soqpresa.
"Dance of Flaming Artow"?Altos.
"Song of Sorrow"?Chorus.
"Funeral March"?Instrumental.
"Was ''There Even' Anybody"?
Chorus.
- "Incantation"?Sorecess and Chor
us.
"O Uttl? Bed Ear" Finale.
U n rn Qo QQ Uinu
Oft The Mntet
State Farm Head Says
Blocked Sales Result
ing In Damaged To
bacco
Greenville, Sept 28.?B. F. Arnold,
director of the Pitt County Depart
ment of Agriculture today received
a telegram from I. 0. Schaub, direc
tor of the Agricultural Extension De
partment of the College, to use his
power to encourage farmers to hold
their tobacco crop off the market the
next few days until a satisfactory
price develops.
Mr. Schaub, who directed the to
bacco reduction drive in North Caro
lina, said reports indicated "blocked
sales on all markets were resulting
in damage to tobacco and consequent
ly lower prices."
More orderly marketing, it was
said, should help Washington in de
veloping a more satisfactory agree
ment.
Mr. Arnold said he would immedi
ately take steps to advise farmers
of the danger of glutting the mar
kets and urge them to take their
time and wait until prices have had
a chance,to develop.
Hie advice of the Farm Director
is similar to that given by Governor
Ehringhaus when the marketing
holiday came to a close. The chief
executive stressed the danger of
rushing the market, but growers, in
tent on getting their products on
the floors of the warehouses, did
not heed the warning and have seen
price averages dwindle the last two
days.
Referring to the tobacco reduction
recently completed in this county,
the farm director here,* said only five
growers refused to sign the govern
ment contracts. They were: F. L.
Stanley, S. T. Hooker, E. M. Tyson,
Henry Congleton and Rev. Luther
Joyner.
Think That Leaf
Contract May
IM Prices
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Warehousemen of Belt
Hope Washington
Agreement May End
Dissatisfaction
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Raleigh, Sept 28.?Tobacco ware
housemen * of the North and South
Carolina belts today evpressed the
hope that reports of an agreement in
Washington to peg prices at 17 cents
a pound would check what appeared
to be growing dissatisfaction of the
farmers.
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Discontent at prices paid follow
ing the termination of the voluntary
marketing holiday on Monday was
apparent on a number of markets
yesterday.
Prices on the markets of the belt
showed little change yesterday but
some markets reported an improve
ment in the value of the superior
grades.
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Georgia: (Examiners?J. N. Bell:
Griffin; Angus Edwards, Cairo; Sam
uel E. Groover, Statesboro; Wm. L.
Paullin, Fort Gaines; John G. Pttl
len, McDonough.
. North Carolina: J. E. Bobbitt, Ra
?eigh; G. C. Hunter, Klnston; H. W.
Purnage, Albemarle; William M. Wig
tins,- Raleigh. - ' :
Spoth Carolina: C. B. Carter, Ches
tekjfiP. & Evans, Marion; J. A. Pride
\TAmhaiMH.
^ew?eny;
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Wilkes county farmers report 13
03 er and most of them have been fill
i ur3v vrenca suo ior vuswcii cvuiiwy? i
Farmville Market
Ranks Second lit
August Turnovers
The battle for warehouse profits
does not necessarily go to the bfg
markets, an analysis of the August
tobacco sales report shows. While
a large market with six or more
houses may sell more tobacco than
a three-house markets, the circum
stances may make the larger mar
ket a money loser and the smaller
one a money maker. With prices
around the 10 and 12-cent level it is
doubtful if many warehouses are
actually making money, however.
As a rule, the big markets lead in
poundage per day per house, and the
smaller the market the less business
it does, but this is not true in every
case. This poundage per day per
warehouse is more significant than
any other index to the warehouse
men's business. The Farmville mar
ket ranks second in the acerage of
turnovers per day during- the first
week of the season.
The average sale per house per
day in the entire new bright belt was
64,560 pounds, and in the border belt,
66,144 pounds. More markets drop
ped below this figure than exceeded
it. At what point the market crosses
the border line1 from loss into profit,
is, of course, impossible for his col
umn to say, but that must depend
largely on local circumstances.
The records below gives the aver
age sales per house per day for the
East Carolina markets open in Au
gust:
New Bright Belt
Aver. Per.
Houses House
Farraville ,?. __ 3 102,891
Ahoskie , '2 26,195
Goldsboro 1 3 39,011
Greenville 8 90,743
Kinston 6 113,683
New Bern ^ 2 29,069
Robersonville 3 32,421
Rocky Mount ^4. 7 56,829
Sraithfield 3 37,673
Tarboro ;__i 2 , 35,036
Wallace 2 7,768
Washington 2 47,249.
Williamston __^4_ 3 23,308
Wilson 9 83,196
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U. S. Government
Watches Tobacco
Washington, Spet 28. ? Chester
Davis, chief of production of the farm
administration, said today finishing
at the flue cured marketing agree
ment was being held up by the gov
ernment's scrutiny of a provision
covering the administration's propos
ed agreement not to invoke its li
censing power at this time on domes
tic manufacturers who signed the
contract
Davis said the government wants
to retain the right to license domes
tic buyers on their flued cured oper
ations only later on if it is necessary
to license companies that do not sign
the contract
He emphasized this was intended
as a precautionary measure to pro
tect the growers and assure the
government of its ability to enforce
the contract if this should become
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necessary. ? . I
Davis said the farm administration
was not only desirous of giving the
contract every consideration but that
it was also anxious to get the re
action fttwt the Carolinas markets
before signing the marketing agree
ment He said the administration,
has - several investigators in-: the
larolinas who an making daily re
tMfeg.' On prices, grades and the re
action of growers to the proposed
mm^tipg agre^menV | . 1
"Ve .?> anxious to see. how the
vwfataum>putting:; . t?%
olan into effect on the market," said
"We plan to send.* number of
additional . probers to the Carolinas
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Much Dissatisfaction
Results From Daily
Decline Since Monday
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Farmville Market Clos
ed the Week Today ,
With Each of The
Warehouses A Whole
Day Behind Schedule;
Change In Selling Ar
rangement To Start
Monday
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The Farmville tobacco market re
opened on Monday of this week, fol
lowing the closing of the warehouse
holiday, proclaimed by Governor
Ehringhaus three weeks previously,
with the floors of the three huge
warehouses swamped with the weed,
a condition which has prevailed
throughout the past five days, and
which has set a precedent in volume
of sales experienced by this market
and all others of the belt.
The reason for the rush marketing
is laid to the desperation-of the to
bacco growers and anxiety to realize
cash with which to meet mounting
obligations, the warehouse holiday
giving them opportunity to grade the
weed and the atmospheric conditions
making it difficult to keep ? after
wards.
Local warehousemen and their
forces, scarcely taking time to eat or
sleep in their struggle to clear floors
of the deluge, are to be commended
for the admirable manner in which
they have handled the situation.
Though prices were far short of
the promised parity average of 17c,
a spirit of optimism reigned on this
market during Monday, when prices
showed a decided improvement over
those of opening week, and relief from
the strain showed plainly on the faces
of the growers, 'as they prepared for
their first realization of a fair deal
under the New Deal. A total of
588,352 pounds was sold for $75,940.
75 at an average of $12.91.
Figures for the opening day of this
season were 533,746 pounds with an
average of $10.46, those of opening
day for the 1932 season were 193,400
pounds, average $10.18. The day the
warehouses closed for the tobacco
holiday 411,513 pounds were sold for
a $9.62 average, the corresponding
day of the previous season 84,820
pounds average $11.27 per hundred
weight.
Tuesday, prices began dropping
perceptibly with a large amount of
damaged tobacco being blamed for
the average of $11.63 realized by
growers, who sold 530,742 pounds on
that day.
A slight strengthening was noted
on Wednesday, which brought the
average of $11.63 for 559,942 pounds,
a gain of ten cents per hundred over
the previous day.
Dissatisfaction became more and
more apparent throughout the entire
belt on Tuesday and Wednesday, with
disorderly conditions reported on the
Wendell market, where sales were
interrupted by bitter farmers, and
prices continued to decline on Thurs
day when 578,282 pounds brought
farmers on this market, $61,241.41,
an average of $10.68.
Official figures for today (Friday),
are unobtainable but prices show no
improvement, according to observers,
though the quality is better, with
very little damaged weed on the
floors
.
CONTENTNEA PRIMITIVE
^BAPTIST ASSOCIATION TO
CONVENE HERE OCT. 6-8
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Local Primitive Baptists and those
of the entire district are looking for
ward with great anticipation to the
Contenthea Primitive Asso
ciation, which will conyene-fiere in
Damacos church, Friday, October 6,
for three days session, to be featur
ed with sermons by some of the most
godly men of this denomination. A
basket spread each day in the Hor
ton grove. ?}?&"?,>?;. !{{:? -i ?>'
As the membership of the local
cliurch is very small, it is expected
festeds and thftt fnoods will assist in
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