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Federal Government Turns
Half "BillionDoSkarsnlnto
The Corn and
Farmers To Be Paid For
Reductions; Govern
ment Contracts for Bil
lion Bushels of Wheat
For Relief Distribution
Washington, Oct 18.?A half billion
dollar corn and hog program was to
day added to the government's efforts
to boost prices for the farmers.
Secretary Wa'lace announced the
two-year plan for balancing supply
and demand through $250,(XX),000 in
benefit payments to farmers in return
for corn and hog reduction.
While Governor Langer, of North
IV'sota, pressed upon other states his
plan for wheat shipment embargo,
the federal government contracted
for a billion bushels for relief distri
bution.
There were indications this figure
might be swelled to 40,000,000 bushels
and eggs added to the relief com
modities.
Organisation of relief credit cor
poration advanced to a stage where
it will be ready to make loans to
cotton growers by this week-end. The
producers- may borrow from 8 to 10
cents a pound off the unsold portion
of this year's crop if they agree to
join the 1884 acreage reduction pro
gram.
Governor Lunger's embargo plan
seemed headed for court test of his
authority to halt wheat movement
across the North Dakota line.
Secretary Wallace declined to dis
cuss the plan, but commented that it
should call attention to the farmers'
problems.
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Appies Aaaea
Apples were today added to the
surplus products to be purchased By
the government for relief purposes.
Harry L. Hopkins, relief adminis
trmctor, announced that 1^)60 carloads
of Grade C. apples will be purchased
in addition to batter, cattle and other
farm products. $300,000 has been ap
propriated to buy apples alone.
He said'that between five and ten
million dollars worth of low grade
range cattle, principally "she stock,"
will he purchased and processed for
relief purposes, most of this meat
i will be canned.
Bad Te Guard Federal Perk
Columbia, Oct 18 State relief au
thorities today were compelled to post
guards to protect a shipment of Fed
eral pork for needy South Carolin
'? ians from % general onslaught
Marvin Porter, relief official, said,
"we had to pot guards over the pork"
to prevent it from falling into the
hands of persons unauthorised to re
ceive it
A "regular mob," Porter said,
sought to obtain the pork a little
j wkfla after M arrived ha the state.
?rived at Spartanburg, it woe learned
j from ???*?*! relief authorities at the
f two petal*. <.
--- the cowatim according to the wn?b?
at >uU^iilifHy needy persona in
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\ottT_ whcTB ha ittciM a meettes
*jjk?? F^gancg CbrpoMtkm.^^'^'^'j
^ jtiktttKMssA iacdled ^|opin^
important vof.% ?hi as ? P*
utouss to this oart of the country wi
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Says M KeMy
Will Rsseue Her
From The FM
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Wife of Machine Gun
? man Hopes To Be Re
leased By Christman
Memphis, Oct. 17.?Boasting' that
her husband, George "Machine Gun"
Kelly will break out of his jail and
rescue her before Christmas, Kathryn
Kelly left here today for Cincinnati,
after a final parting- with her another,
Mrs. R. G. Shannon.
"Geprge will see me at Christmas,"
Mrs. Kelly told officers. "He told me
he would break out of jail by Christ
mas and get me out. He always does
what he says he will do."
The next minute the auburn-haired
wife of the desperado was weeping.
"Mother is so sweet and innocent,"
she cried. "I am worried only about
her."
The two women, both facing sen
tences of life imprisonment for their
part in the kidnapping of Charles F.
Urschel, Oklah<ma City Oil million
aire, arrived from Oklahoma City
shortly before 7 a. m.
They walked with guards to another
station where they said goodbye.
Mrs. Kelly boarded a passenger train
for Cincinnati at 7:50 a. m., ancT her
mother was removed to the Shelby
county penal farm, where she will
enter upon her life sentence.
Episcopal Bazaar
Dinner Thursday,
October the 26th
The first turkey dinner of the sea
son will be served by the ladies of the
Episcopal church on Thursday, Qcto
ber 26, at l.:00 and ^:00 o'clock, in
the American Legion Home.
Roast and hash turkey will be serv
ed together with gibkt gravy, cran
berries and everything else that goes
to make a sumptuous meal. A chick
en salad course will also be offered on
the menu and the dessert course will
include home made cake of all sorts
and ice cream.
? Popular prices will prevail and tick-.
| ets will be on sale early in the week. J
A cordial welsome awaits you and a
satisfactory dinner is being prepared
for you at the Epicopal bazaar. >
An enterprise which has no clear
division of responsibility and author
ity will probably fail.
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LaserJet Month
Motor Vehicle Mishaps
Result ini 63 People Be
in? Killed, 452 injured
A sharp decrease in the number of
persons killed or injured in motor
vehicle mishaps in North Carolina
was noted in September, as compared
with August; in the monthly report
released Wednesday.
During September there were 288
accidents, in which 68 people were
killed and 482 injured. In the pre
vious month there were 333 aaccidents
which killed 88 people and injured
500. .
Thus far this year, motor vehicle
mishaps have killed 563 and injured
3,374, according to the report.
In September drunken drivers
figured in 11 fatal aaccidents and 30
of a non-fatal nature. Five children
playing in streets were killed and
[14 were injured. Seventeen pedes
trians were killed and 59 were in
I jured.
Female drivers figured in five fatal
accidents and 30 non-fatal accidents;
male drivers were at the wheel 5 in
72 fatal and 328 non-fatal accidents.
The figures include drivers of all
vehicles involved in the accidents.
Most of the accidents happened be
tween 7 and 8 o'clock at night, and
most came on Saturdays.
Farmville To Have
Golden Weed Jubilee
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D. A. R. Chapter To
gether with Citizens of
The Town To Sponsor
Event Honoring Gover
nor Ehringhaus
It ?
Plans for an occasion, which will
even surpass Farmville's 60th Anni
versary and Home Coming celebration
of last year, remembered by this com
munity as the most enjoyable er-ent
staged here, are being made by the
local Major Benjamin May ehaptert
D. A- R, for a Golden Weed Jubilee,
to be held in honor of Governor
Ehinghans, who is being hailed as a
hero of the strife and the man of the
hoar by tobacco growers all over this
' land, and who is to be invited to at
tend that East Carolina may pay him
1 tribute and merited honor.
The local patriotic organization,
one of the strongest of the State, is
sponsoring the idea of which its re
vent, Mra T. C. Turnage, is the origi
t nator, bat it is depending on- the co
if 'in, y?- ffti - Mi
r operation of every citizen in rannvwe
. who has any sense of gratitude and
. appreciation for the Governors noble
? martimm, nH B? ftemoc egam to
meow action for the relief of the
cloud* of diecord, and peeping, hope
anj falth'idive^cmtil the ajpeement
interest ad "f**1* for the tobecec
spectacular affair, featuring: the
Golden Weed, and the proceeds will
be used as a fund for the. building of
a social library and museum center for
this community, on highway 264.
A tentative date, Friday, November
6, has been set for the Jubilee, but
farther announcements will be made
through the press regarding this* the
arrangements and program. Spffice
it to say Farmville is to have a Red
Letter Pay in ita November psiendar
and one that will be lbng remembered
by the thousands of East Carolinians,
who are expected to ?attend.
Pitt Go. Teachers
V
To-Win Ayden
General Session To Be
Held In Sfch School
sattdayri^m
GftmrnBe,
ing of eounty teachers will he heH
at the hi gh fcW ? Aydem fete**
morning at 10 o'clock, Dtaald Conley,
director of Pitt- County Depigment
of Education, said .today, gggig^
^^white^^c^ of tlm^county,
Roosevelt Replies
President Tells Gover
n o r Government I a
Ready to Aid Tobacco
Farmers
Raleigh, Oct 18.?Farmers of ,East
ern Carolina were hafcpy today as a
number of warehouses reported their
tobacco sales are now averaging more
than 17 cents per hundred pounds, the
estimated parity price of the Agri
cultural Adjustment Administration.
Figures showing the high averages
came in at the same time that the
office of Governor Ehringhaus an
nounced receipt of a personal letter
from President Roosevelt pledging
full support of the national adminis
tration to secure fair prices for to
bacco growers.
lagging of Sisal
Good, Says Jones
State Agriculture Com
missioner Defends
New Covering For Cot
ton Bales
Columbia, Oct 10.?Special: That
the use of standard open weave type
sisal or part sisal, bagging for cotton
bale covering has been proven entirely
satisfactory has been demonstrated
adequately in the opinion of*J. Roy
Jones, commissioner of agriculture,
commerce and industries for South
Carolina, who in an official statement,
released to the press of the state, has
deplored the recent practice of some
buyers of baled cotton in making de
ductions in the price paid because
sisal was used as a covering.
"This? discriminatory attack on|
sisal bagging is entirely unwar-j
ranted," the commissioner stated.!
"Many large and reputable cotton
mills in this state and in other
Southern states, have announced
that there are no grounds for any
objection to this character of . cov
ering or wrapping and thatcareful
observation of cotton so wrapped I
as it passed through each of the
manufacturing processes failed to
show any ill effects resulting from!
sisal fibres."
The commissioner pointed out in
his statement that the American I
Cotton Shippers* association in con
vention in New Orleans on April 28
and 29 had .passed a resolution inI
which the clearly differentiated be
tween the open weave construction
sisal bagging, which has proton in
every test to be a satisfactory cover
ing for cotton bales, and the objection
able closely woven coffee and cocoa
bean sacks made of very hard finely
twisted sisal yarn, against the use of
which as cotton bale coverings justi
fied complaints had been made. .
Commissioner Jones farther stated
that official* of other' cotton growing
states.alsohave commented on the
unjust penalising of users of sisal bag-l
ging, dm latent ^ wwiwwit to come
to his attention being that of Commis
sioner J. E. McDonald, of Texas.
The. Texas commissioner in an arti
cle in the Houston {Texas) Post of
October 6 said, in referring to open
weave sisal bagging said:
^Gotten buyers seem to be under
the .misapprehension that mills which |
consume cotton thus wrapped will de
mand penalties on account of this type
.made and proof and testimonies of
fered such charges are proven entirely
unwateanted as many large mills have
stilted there are no objections to this
type of bagging." . : ' ^
Man Attested
IwlWII * irl WtVU .j
For Sodomy
Roy Jones Charged with
Attacking 11-Year-Old
Youth
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Greenville, Oct. 17.?Roy Jones, 38,
was held in the city jail today awaiT
ingr trial in magistrate's court on a
charge of sodomy.
Jones was taken in custody by po
lice officers last night following an
alleged attack on a 11-year-old youth
by the name of Anderson on a farm
oast of Greenville.
The youth, who sells lightwood
splinters in the tobacco district, said
he was told by Jones if he would ac
company him to his camp on the out
skirts of the city he would buy what
lightwood he had left
He told police he followed Jones
to the Brown farm about a mile or
so from town and that Jones threw
him to the ground and attacked him.
The boy returned home crying, and
upon relating his experience to his
father, the parent immediately noti
fied police of the attack and Jones
was taken into custody with a formal
charge of sodomy being brought
against him. Jones is married and
has several children.
Automobile Drivers
Under Sixteen
Section 4606 (a) of the North Caro
lina Code (1931) reads as follows:
"Any person who, being the owner,
or in charge of any Motor Vehicle,
authorizes or knowingly permits a
person under the age of sixteen years
to operate such motor vehicle along
any public street or highway in the
State of North Carolina shall be guilty
of o misdemeanor, and shall be punish
ed by a fine not in excess of the sum
of $60.00."
Section 2614 provides "That no per
son under the age of sixteen shall
operate a motor vehicle upon the pub
lic highways of the State . . .
Many complaints have been made
to the Town officials relative to the
? '
violation of these sections. Not only
the child doing the driving, but also
the parents of the child who permit
him or her to drive, are guilty of the
violation of this section.
The statutes were designed (1) to
prevent injury to society by drivers
not old enough to operate a motor
vehicle safely and (2)1 to prevent in
jury to the child who is not old enough
to forsee his own danger.
The Town officials request the co
operation of the parents of those
young boys and girls who have driven
or may desire to drive to prevent fur
ther violation of these statutes.
Regardless of what most people
may think character is still the best
security for loans.
Assailants
Americans
Sent to Jail
Americans In Germany
Pleased With Speedy
j Work of Speed Court
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Berlin, Oct 17?Two assailants of
Roland Velz, an American who was
struck in the face when he failed to
salute the Nazi emblem, were sen
tenced to six months imprisonment on
charges of assault and battery in a
so-called speed court here today.
"Well, that is getting action," hap
pily exclaimed a high American em- '
bassy official on learning of the sen- *
tence. ~ '
The official who was intimately 1
acquainted with the case said: "That j
is great progress. I consider this the '
turning point in the attack on for- '
eigners." 1
The court acted speedily and stern
ly even though one of the assailants I
was a storm trooper. I
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Officers Recover $50,000
Currency Reported Stolen
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Police Discover pouches
In Ditch Practically
Hidden From View By
Tall Weeds
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Wilson, Oct. 18.?Local police this
afternoon recovered three registered
mail pouches containing a $60,0.0
currency shipment to a local bank
said to have been stolen from a mail
truck here early this morning.
The sacks, un tampered with and
with contents intact, were found in
a deep ditch in Smith's woods, three
miles from here, and near the scene
of the robbery. Local police dis
covered the pouches in the bottom
of the ditch practically hidden from
view by tall weeds.
Immediately after Detectives L. T.
Lucas, J. C. Fulghum and Officers
J. A. Gregory! and (J.IC. Pittman dis
covered the mail podches they check
ed contents with Postmaster John
R, Dildy who afterwards said all
registered parcels, including the $60,
000 shipment to a local bank,, were
accounted for. The locks on the
sacks had not been tampered with.
Hugh Hawley, local contract mail
driver, who was driving the truck at
the time of the robbery, was held
in the county jail tonight pending
completion of an investigation by lo
cal police> mid also pastel inspectors.
No charges had been .preferred
against the truck driver tonight
From Hawley's description of the
robbery it was a daring and care
fully planned and perfectly execuf
?h! crime. He told police that after
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of a foreigner leaped into the cab {
of his truck. The man, Hawley said,
thrust a gun in his side, disarmed (
him and commanded him to drive t
pout of town. i
The mail driver said he proceeded ]
out of the city on the old water (
works road and turned left into a
county road and was forced to stop ]
at Smith's woods about a mile from <
the water works road. He said there i
was a big car parked down the road j
and that another bandit walked up |
to his truck from that direction and
demanded to know which bag con- j
tained the money. He stated he in- <
formed the robbers he didn't know 1
and one of them proceeded to ram- i
sack his truck, selecting three from I
his load of seventeen, and carrying <
them to the bandit car. Hawely said
he was ordered to turn his truck (
around and retrace the route he took
from Wilson. The- bandit car pro
ceeded in the opposite direction,
while the bandit that boarded his
truck at the station continued to '
ride with him in the direction of 1
Wilson, Hawley said. About a half <
mile from the scene of the robbery, 4
Hayley stated, he was forced to stop
the truck, alight am* the bandft 1
bound his hands behind him. The
bandit then disappeared down the i
road o? foot ? 1
Hawley said soon as the bandit i
disappeared he walked to a nearby
farm house, aroused occupants by
kicking .en, the door. His bonds were j
severed and he asked that the police
be called. Meanwhile another car i
passed from the direction In which I
the bandit disappeared and it was )
thought the robber had it parked
Farmville Is Selling More
Tobacco Per Warehouse
Than Any Eastern Market
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For 23 Selling Days This
Season, With Three
Warehouses, the Farm
ville Market Sold 10,
051,918 Pounds; For
Four Days This Week
Averaged $16.75 for A
Total of 1,772,372 Lbs.;
Monday's Sale of 611,
756 Pounds Sold For
$111,069.63, An Aver
age of $18.15; Tobacco
Here Today Sold As
High As $71.00 Per
Hundred
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Sales on the Farmville tobacco mar- '
cet during the past week have been
:he best and most satisfactory from
;he standpoint of both pounds and
3rice8 since the opening of the cur
rent season. Weather conditions have
>een most favorable this week, for
landling and placing the weed on the
narket and sales have been heavy.
Monday's sale was the heaviest of
;he season and the best average up
x> date was also recorded, considera
te elation being felt and great satis
iaction expressed over the average.of
518.15 obtained for 611,756 pounds,
vhich brought $111,069.63, a gain of
52.87 par hundred over Friday. Sales
it one house averaged $18.49 for the
mtire poundage sold. Warehousemen
ind everybody connected with the
ale worked feverishly to prevent a
dock and were successful in their
ifforts.
Prices took a decided upturn here
;hat day with buying competition
nuch keener and bidding more spirit
Hi than on any day this season,
["hough fancy grades were absent to
cacco of quality was much in demand,
some bringing $66 per hundred weight, ?,
ind there was a renewed activity on
die medium and better grades.
While averages on Tuesday, Wed
nesday and Thursday were not up to
tfonday, farmers appeared pleased
vith prices received.
For the 23 selling days this season
die three warehouses here have sold
10,051,918 pounds and averaged for
die four days this week $16.75 for a
;otal of 1,772,382 pounds.
Sales have been quite heavy every
lay this week an average of a half
nillion pounds sold daily with a car
ryover of about 75,000 pounds for
Vfonday expected at the time this goes
\o press.
Sales were brisk today and many
ligh individual averages were noted,
he highest to our attention being that
made by Hill and Hayes of the Wals
tonburg. section, who sold one lot of
218 pounds at $71 per hundred.
Farmers are Well pleased with the
Free government grading service
established on this market Monday
jy Federal authorities and many new
customers are noted here daily, as
they realize the advantage of expert
classification.
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COTTON GINNING REPORT
FOR PITT COUNTY
,
There were 5,201 bales of cotton '
ginned in Pitt,County fromtth$ 1933 ?
crop prior to October 1, 1083, as
compared with 6,649 bales ginned to
October 1, 1982.
laving the appearance of bandits.
Officer L. C. Cooper, local poliee
nan, was near the depot and saw
the mail truck drive off from the
station but said he saw nothing sus
picious that would indicate a holdup
3r anything wrong. He said he no
ticed that the truck went to Green %
street instead of turning into Lodge
and then into Nash, the shortest
route, hut thought nothing about the
driver taking' the longer route. It
was estimated that there was in ex
cess of |100,000 in the registered
mail, but with the safe delivery of .v %
$70,000 to Greenville banks the ma
jor portion was accounted for. With
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