North Carolina Newspapers

----- ? . ' - ? ' ' . 1 * 1 1 1 1 1 Ti VOL. TWENTY-FIVE FAEMYILLE, PITT COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, JULY 2?, 1934 NUMBER ELEVEN Big Deer casein Tobacco Crop in North Carolina Fewer Acres Under Tobacco and Cotton This Year and Large Decrease Expected Raleigh, July 19.?A drop of more ] than 137,000,000 pounds of North ; Carolina's tobacco production this year, as compared with last is indi- 3 cated in the July bulletin issued yes terday by the State-Federal Crop ' Reporting Service. j The 1934 crop, it is estimated, will , total 400,912,000 pounds, against a j total of 537,979,000 pounds in 1933. The number of acres devoted to to- x bacco last year was 595,000, and this t year only 541,000 acres have been ( planted. t Cotton acreage, the report said, s stands at 977,000 acres as against an acreage of 1,320,000 last year, a reduction of 343,000 acres in the. State's current cotton crop. Last year 684,000 bales of cotton were harvested. No estimate is given for ^ this year's crop. An increase of slightly more" than ^ 8,000,000 bushels is indicated in the 1934 Irish potato crop, and there will be about a million fewer bush- t els of sweet potatoes, the report t stated. Present indications are thafl^ the Irish potato crop in North Caro- j t Una will reach a total of 10,413,000 oushels. Last year there were 7, 315,000 bushels harvested. This year's corn crop is estimated r at 43,130,000 bushels, as compared 1 with 44,253,000 bushels in 1933. c t There is an indicated rise in wheat] production this year, however, with an estimated crop of 4,253,000 bu- ^ shels as compared with the 1933 to- s tal of 3,174,000 bushels. A slight in- 0 crease is shown in oats, barley, rye ^ and tame hay. ^ ' , ^ a -- ~ ? f/> nat'O C AppiB production j w ...?? taken a nose dive while peaches appear to be holding their own, in u comparison with the previous year's s crops. The apple crop is estimated ^ at only 2.850,000 bushels against a total of 5,254,000 bushels last year. The State and Federal depart- g ments of agriculture, which issue f the report jointly, commented as fol lows on crop conditions in the nation and State: j "The crop situation is less promis- t ing than this season in any recent j. year and little if any brighter than it was a month ago. The nearly normal rainfall during June in the Dakotas, Minnesota and Wisconsin, c where conditions were worst, and e the lighter rains elsewhere in the Corn Belt, revived pastures and meadows somewhat, brought up , grain that had been seeded in the ^ dust, helped some late-sown spring grain and permitted what is prob ably a record acreage erf emergency crops to be planted. "Rains also saved crops in Central ] and Western Montana and relieved the shortage of stock water in much of the Northern range area. The June rains, however, were quite in adequate over most of the Corn Belt and in the Southwest a new drought area was developed. As soil moisture in nearly the whole Mississippi Val ley was depleted by drought in pre vious months and abnormally hot ^ weather prevailed there through , most of June, erops have suffered ^ over a wide area. } "July finds North Carolina crops ] in a very uncertain situation. It has ( been too wet for cotton. Corn pros- ] pects were good. Small grains were about threshed out. Pastures and t grasses are good. Most crops are looking good in most counties, but \ spotted areas are needing rain. i "An analysis of the State data < below finds the wheat acreage in- j creased about 10 per cent, but the yield is below the ten-year average. , Corn is increased about S per cent in acreage, but the yield prospect ig ] short about 6 per cent Hay pro- ] duction promises about the usual . crop. Prices continue in fairly loir , levels, especially for truck crops." ? i I N. R. A. APPROVES I 15 PER CENT CUT I ? ? I ? ?? ? ? I Washington, Jvly 17.?A lumber I price cut which may mean 16 per cent Wheat Program To Continue Next Year The wheat adjustment program for I the coming year will be continued on the same basis as- last year, announces John W. Goodman, of State College, bead of the AAA wheat program in North. Carolina. The reduction under the average for the 1928-1932 base period trill not be more than the 15 per tent reduced last year, he said. The parity payments will be made as be fore at the rate of 29 cents a bushel >n the individual grower's domestic illotment. Due to unpredictable changes that < nay arise in the world wheat situa- j ion, the exact amount of the re- , iuction next year will not be fixed j rntil later. It is possible, Goodman < aid, that the reduction will not be is much as 15 per cent of the base , icreage. . , The 1,102 North Carolina wheat ^ growers who signed contracts last < rear received $38,000 on their first ^ >3yment and $12,600 on the second ( jayment, bringing the total to over 150,000 for reducing their 22,387 s teres by 15 per cent. 1 Meanwhile, David Weaver, agricul- * .ural engineer at the college, said < hat the work of measuring cotton, j obacco, and corn lands under con- ( ract is progressing rapidly. i Measures are being set to work on i he 750,000 fields which are to be neasured in North Carolina to de- t ermine whether the. growers are ( omplying with their adjustment con- I raets. t To nuke sure the measurers are 2 loing the work accurately, skilled * urveyors will be sent to check up n some of the fields thus measured. c 'he fields will be selected at random, * rith a view of catching any possible c rrors in the first measurements. 1 Every farmer will be asked to help 1 a the measurements of his own field 1 o that he can see that th work is * eing done satisfactorily. , * Birds of a feather may flock to- ^ ;ether, but sometimes they have to * lock to the police station. ^ ] The bank looked a long time before t hey found a man like their cashier. < le had absconded with all the bank's 1 iquid assets. ( i Then there was the man who went ?razy from a constant buzzing in his ars. His wife wouldn't stop talking. * Spotlight To | Appear In August - Friends, in and out of town, have been inquiring about the .next, issue of the Spotlight, and to. them we wish to state that the second,' issue of this: publication will make its appearance in August. Facts'? concerning historical or current events, legends connected with the community or any help ful suggestions, relative to any angle of its make up, will be wel comed by- the editors. ? North Carolina Is Ready and Waiting Rural Electrification The rural electrification of North Carolina will be an important step forward in the agricultural advance ment of the State according to David 5. Weaver, agricultural engineer at State College. Thousands of farms over the State ire well situated to take advantage if the possibilities now awaiting de velopment, he said, and the time is :oming when farms will be equipped vith efficient and economical elestri :al appliances. Already there is a large potential source of power which may be ob tained by extending rural transmis sion lines from the 49 municipally >wned plants now in operation. Still nore power can be obtained by the levelopment of hydro-electric plants ilong the many streams in the Pied nont area. Before a transmission line can be irected with, assurance of profitable iperation, the farmers along the pro xtsed right-of-way must guarantee :he consumption of a reasonable imount of current for each mile of ransmission line. Weaver said that in a number of ommunities the farmers are getting ogether and ascertaining how many if their number will U3e the current f a line is erected. When a suffident lumber agree to install electricity, Legotiations can be made with the ocal power systems for extending ransmission lines. He is making a special study of ural electrification possibilities in ^orth Carolina, and is willing to iffer suggestions to any group of armers who communicate with him., ie hopes to soon have an investiga* or available for every two or three :ounties to go into the field and help he farmers plan for the obtaining >f a transmission line and the in itallation of electrical appliances. ? ? * ? Tis said that members of nudist's :amps don't mind playing strip poker, they've got nothing to lose. Improvements The Swiming Pool Here Vfrs. Sallie Horton Now In Charge of Ladies' Bathhouse; A Large Number Have Passed Swimming Tests. < j To the municipal swimming -|wbl,L iave recently been added the con veniences and pleasures of a screened >icnic pavillion, a widened street and , nore parking space. Mrs. Sallie K. , lorton has also been put in charge >f the ladies' bathhouse from 2:00 it m. to 11*0 r. m. Four picnicing groups took advan- . age of the tables this week; the ^ iotary* Club on Tttesday. evening* he Presbyterians Sunday School oh Wednesday, the Christian Sunday School Thursday and. the Epiacopal Sunday School 011 Friday* , .. ^ Sepcugenasians were, guests, of. the. nanagement on Friday. Twelve at ended bat only six partfcipated in he swimming. "Uncle" Watt Par- ; car's version of this unusual event.. will be found elsewhere in-these col lTTjnfl In' order that picnics may* not con flict, the manager, Sammy Bandy, should be notified of plans before #: efinite date is fixed by any- organi sation, upon which notification- every thing will be doim by in charge to nuke outing events as enjoyable B. O. Torsage, West Foint .cadet,} has succeeded Yynn SlaoB-as* one. of-L F^, y ?'iiii'tI thfl oMicf ont ntonoiMMi * ?Mm ? wt.attnn I ?Tv ?BWoWMlS I I Iffct IflftvA Oy <Uli I argw** I * ? ?. " * " *? ??*- ' t resigning to scc6pt & position witu j Lonnie Pierce, Jr^ Egbert Pierce, J. o> -Newton, Ueorge Warren, >. L. Finch, Charles Satterfteld; Swim nwre-^Borton Rountree, B. C. Bar ^66, Billy Qglesby, Lx?m6 Piorc#, Jt?j Jack Oardcaa; Junior Life Saying; Windham, Neffie Butler, Pete Eason, ^ft&nAyr V<>pniVa T jirto* JfinMi ROTARY CLUB ENJOYS OUTING / ' ??? The Farmville Rotary Club held ts annual- summer outing- last Tues day evening at-the. Municipal Swim ming PooL The members of the Club had as. their guests the wives and friends of-the Rotarians, all of vhorn enjoyed a-well prepared bar becue dinner. Thejtttire affair was quite inform iPand- thereforeall the more enjoy able. The meeting was opened with song followed by the invocation by John Therneu After the meal Irvin Morgan was asked to extend greet ings to the guest from the FarmviHe Rotary Club. Mrs. J. M. Hobgood responded with a clever and appro priate impromptu address. George Wheeler a. former member of "the Farmville Rotary Club was : recognis ed.- He- made brief remarks regard ing the spirit of-Farmrflle and the Farmville Rdtary Club. i|. Rithard Joyner, J(n, - George Wheeler, Bob Boyd - and Bill Roystfcr were called upon to* "speak their minds." The" me-ting then - adjourned to meet again at the Farmville High School Building July 24, 1934. HOSTS At BRUNSWICK STEW v / supper, o.-r- '?? ?f-? Lath Morrisa . and . LeRoy Parker entertained a number of their friends ???? ? lAdolpli Hitler Mete Prisoner Of ReicMr Death Toll Has Been Put By Absolutely Re liable Sources At No Less Than 2,000 Men and Women New York, July 19.?Johannes Steel, former German official who fled from the reich because of Kis opposition to the Nazi program, said in a copyright story in the New York Post today that a "quite wave of murder is sweeping the concentra tion camps" of Germany. The writer said the inmates of the camp "have according to secret or der of Gen. Goering (premier of Prussia) been cut off completely from the outside world." "Their relatives," writes Steel, "Have been without news from these prisoners for three weeks. It seems that massacres have taken place which are beyond human imagina tion. "The toll of deaths has been put by absolutely reliable sources at no less than two thousand men and women Steel said: The army during the last week has been able to consoli date its positions and the military dictatorship is complete. (Vice Chancellor Franz) Von Papen at this moment is the man who runs every thing. He has come out on top." Steel said Hitler "is the absolute prisoner of the reichswehr (army), which watches every move he makes and is waiting for the moment when | Hitler's prestige has dissipated to such an extent he can be put away [ safely." Hookerton Girl Wins I Co-op Essay Contest Smithfield, July 18.?Miss Mildred Speight, of Hookerton, won first place lover three other contestants here to day in the central district prelimi nary of the seventh annual essay contest of the North Carolina Cotton Growers' Cooperative Association. Second prize in the contest went to Milton Lord, of Cary high school. Runners-up were Helen .Parker, of Middlesex, and Hector Harris, Frank linton. All the contestants were winners in a series of school and county elim ination contests in .the central district which is composed of Wake, Warren, Lenoir, Johnston, Durham, Granville, Vance, Franklin and Duplin counties. Miss Speight will represent the central district in the State final con test which will be held in Raleigh as" part of the 32nd annual "Farm Home Week program at State College early in August. First prize tp the Stale contest is a one-year college scholar ship. SHIFT GEARS BO AND LO. (By Alex C. D. Noe) ?- ... i _ i When you can't be quite contented, With the office you have . rented, > And the days begin to lag and drag V* along;. Then ifs time to get the notion, For a visit to the ocean, Or to find a mountain trail or sing a song. , When you get up in the morning, With an inner sneaking warning,, That the* world has gone to fluey or ? to pot; Then it's time for. yoii to wander, "TS the ploy-ground' over' yoxiddr, ' In the land where cares and worries are forgot, ? . . ' * j When jour folks become disgusted, And your neighbors * think you're i I- '>buSted,- -1 -' <- '? And; you lose the merry twinkle in youir.eye; Then it's time to be dissecting, Highway maps, or be inspecting Places'wherethey dhhS^of-or fish or fly. When ^0? can't resist the feeling That, the. universe is -reeling, Apd that you would sell the future, for a-dime; Get your tent and other plunder, Climb a tree or burrow under, And you'll come '$f?; every time, *&>?* ' ? A man never begins to rise in the world until he begins to "perspire," *i*??r?:??? mM They took some fiction with them literature describing the place. ^ ? ? ?-? Farmers How Busy Housing Tobacco In This Section _ . J Quality Reported To Be Better Than In Years; Growers Hopeful Of Securing Much Better Prices The big job of curing the bright leaf tobacco crop is now underway in all sections of this belt, and the farmers are laboring hard, "putting in" the weed all day and "setting up" with it all night. With the curtailment of acreage by the government contract, the grower is in better spirits this year than in several, and he goes about this tremendous task of curing in a hopeful siprit, believing that he will realize more financial benefit than he has had from his tobacco crop in re cent times. Only a few farmers in this section took advantage of the opportunity offered by the government to in crease the acreage as planting had about been finished, most of them being contented to keep their original contract. The quality of this crop is reported to be the best in years, and with the reduced production and the reported shortage among the tobacco com panies, the farmers are very anxi ously awaiting the opening of the market in August. ; Most of the crop will be in the pack houses by that time and the acreage measuring . operations will also be completed. County Agent E. F. Arnold, who is in charge of the production movement in the county, has said the orders from Washing ton state that no farmer will be is sued a marketing card until his com pliance record has been approved and. forwarded to Washington. Farmers are being urged to assist measuring supervisors when they ar rive to measure their acreage, to the I best advantage, in order to speed' the work. Cleveland county farmers have re-! ceived $153,000 as a first rental pay ment on cotton land withdrawn from production this season. - J. J. Honeycutt of Cabarrus couii-' ty harvested 200 bushels of Italian rye grass seed from ten acres plant ed. : Wheat yields in Stanly county are from .one-fourth to one-third under the yields secured last season. The grain Ts chaffy. ; j Votes for Wet, Then Goes Prohibition Collier's Weekly Mysti fied by North Carolina Corn Liquor. ( ' NEW YORK, July 19th.?Colliers Weekly is frankly mystified by the Nortii Carolina attitude toward liquor. It recently sent one of its reporters, the fiery Owen P. White, down to North Carolina to travel around aiia find out what it was all about Mr. White's report appears in the cur rent issue. He states the "mystify ing" situation as follows: . "When a state- elects a repeal sen ator by a big majority, and then votes down repeal by 173,000, tlie natural suspicion is that' there must be, an angle in it somewhere. In North Carolina.. .tl^. .angle iB com liquor. Some of the' citizens of the state approve corn as a beveragfe, but don't -like to?o6e it decorated with expensive federal revenue stamp. As a result they have worked out a new device for protecting, what they, re gard as a state right" ? Now for< Mr, White's report, which startswith'V&apology and a tribute: "I have no intention of offending the people of North Carolina by mal| Hng. fun of their drinking habits, fl ccrWdn't and. be honest about it, bq cause instead of being disposed to make light of the drinking habits of the Tarheels, what I feel inclined-to da in rids -a^clU- M to express mjy admiration of their prowesa "Never anywhere have I seen any thing to surpass it When I visited the state, motoring lengthwise across it from, the Dismal Swamp section on the coast, where stills capable of pro ducing thousands of gallons daily were in. operation, clear over to beau tiful Asheville, the one thing that 1 could never get away from was tbe odor of corn. It was everywhere. The bottles were goneAbut the, memory of them lingered on in every hotel roo^u I occupied. "Something reminiscent of a recent drink was frequently to'be .noticed on the breaths of passing citizens,-and even as I drove along the open high ly* ruffing the fragrance of the dogwood, the xedbud and the wild honeysuckle, it was seldom that I in haled a lungful of atmosphere that was not laden with the scent of some thing delightfully .illegal. s "That's the. point r Its delightful illegality gives to Carolina corn the distinctive flavor that the Tarheels love. Moreover, it makes it very cheap. Why then, so long as their well-established system of liquor con trol appealed both to their appetites and their pocketbooks, should they yield to the hue and cry-for-law and license that recently swept the coun try and put the Eighteenth Amend ment permantly out of business ? Had they done so they would have been out of step with the spirit of their forefathers who, when they signed the Mecklenburg Declaration of In dependence, designated as a public enemy any power which interfered with any of-their private liberties. "And isn't a man's right to make corn liquor out of his own corn a private liberty ? Of course it is, and in more than one instance during the late period of- national prohibition insanity the Supreme Court of Die United States so declared. Still, un der the impulse pf reform'a majority of the states have voted to fprgo that liberty. But the North Carolinians cooldnt aee it that way. "On the contrary they stuck to their principle of protecting their rights, and at the mere thought that perhaps Uncle Sam might step in and begin to pot a tax on their booze and stick stamps on their whiskey bottles they move in droves to the polls and voted overwhelmingly against him. That happened last No vember, the majority against repeal being 178,000; bat what about the vote of the preceding November when Buncomb Bob Reynolds, who was run ning on a dripping wet platform call ing for more corn for Tarheels, and who whooped It up for repeal at every crossroads, gave Mr. Cameron Morrison, the noblest dry of them all, the worst licking that-any candi date for the national Senate ever got in North Carolina. "Thinking that probably that .ques tion would embarrass them, I asked it of perhaps a dozen more or less prominent Tarheel and in every in stance I was disappointed. It didn't embarrass a single mam On the con trary, they were all amused at the idea that the rest of the United States is so thick-headed that it doesn't ap preciate what North Carolina's atti tude toward corn liquor really is. "In conclusion then, what can one say, either in criticism or . praise, of North Carolina's attitude toward its corn industry? Nothing. The matter is one that comee strictly under the {lead of the personal business of the Tarheels. They are handling it ac cording to their own notion'of the : way it should be bandied. "To. say that on the whole they are heftier drinkers than the New York ers, the Ptennsylvanians, the Cali fornians or the denizens of any of the wet states, might be erroneous. $9 v.' say that they drink less certainly would be. Probably the per capita consumption is about even; but even if it is, North Carolina has this ad vantage: it pays no tax on the liquor it imbibes and therefore is not asking the federal government to protect It against any influx of booze from the wet and wkked yet law-abiding states which lie to the north of it. Perhaps, though, the time may soon come when those wet and wicked states will be asking Uncle Sam to build a Chinese Wall around North Carolina to pro tect them." ? 1 V v. ... ? ?? ^jThough -their are- some 'eases at American foul, brood in the apairies &|jjf of Burice county, the sourwood. bloom gives promise of a good crop of haney. W-: *?? Five-Day Program j ? For 4-H Short Course A well-rounded program of in struction, athletics, games, singings, lectures, and sight-seeing trips has! been prepared for the 600 or 600 boys and girls expected to attend the J 4-H club short course at State Col lege, July 25-30. Leaders are working hard to make sure that none of the members wdl' find a single dull moment while here, from the time they come to the time they leave, said L. R. Harrill, State club leader. Horseshoe pitching, kitten ball, vol ley ball, field events, swimming, anil Ian athletic tourney will feature the physical side of recreation. A pag eant, lectures, tours, style show, group singing, and general getting togethers are also scheduled. The 4-H honor club composed oif outstanding members who have1 com pleted four or more years' work and former State representatives at the national 4-H camps, will meet during the week in connection with the short course. The health contest, in which thb State King and . Queen of Health will be chosen, will be held Saturday eve ning in connection with the "Pageant of Progress."- The winners of district health contests will compete for jthe State honors. Sunday afternoon the members will be treated to a picnic, band concert, and a community sing.' The evening vesper service and the final camp1 firfe exercises Sunday night will come as an appropriate climax to the five eventful days of the short course. In stressing the entertainment side of the program, the leaders do not wish to imply, however, that the edu cational value of the classes, demon strations, and lectures will be neg lected. The program is being espec ially designed to train leaders in things worthwhile.I Sowing wild oats would be alright only some day the sower will be called on to do some mowing. The manager of a eafe hired an actor for. cashier. The actor was a lightning change artist. It is a fact that no man struggling to .support one wife is a - keen be liever in polygamy. First she went with a six-footer, then with a five-footer, which- was going to any length to get married. 4 > ? ? ? ? ?... Farmville-Woodward Lumber Co. Suffers Heavy Loss By Fire Firemen Have A Hard Struggle in Controlling Destructive Blaze At Big Lumber Plant With high wind blowing from a favorable direction and assistance from the Greenville Fire Department, local firemen, succeeded late Wednes day afternoon in controlling flames which at one time threatened to de stroy the entire plant of the Farm ville-Woodward Lumber Co., situated just beyond the town limits. The mill was in operation when fire was. discovered in the dry . kiln about 3 o'clock. The flames gained headway rapidly and the fire forces were, handicapped by lack of adjacent hydrants. A bucket brigade was formed to supplement the nose in use, and firemen, together with mill employes, battled desperately for more than two hours in intense- heat before the flames showed signs of being checked. Smouldering heaps of ashes 20 feet high mark the racks where an esti mated 500,000 feet of the finest pine and-gum were piled, representing a loss which will run between $15,000 and $20,000. There was between 2,500,000 and 8,000,000 feet of dressed lumber on the grounds, the safety of which de pended altogether on the prevailing winds of the succeeding 12 hours. Regarded as one of the most pro gressive industries of its kind in this section, catering to wholesale and re tail trade, the Farmville-Woodward Lumber Company plant here is one of four owned by this firm, tne others being located at Mt. Olive, Hobgood, and Williamston. R. L. Woodward, of Suffolk, Va., is president, and G. S. Vought, of Farmville, vice-presi dent and manager of the local plant, whieh employs 180 men when in full operation. We understand the dry kiln will be rebuilt as soon as possible and the work at the mill resumed as soon as completed. Warren Will Direct Celebration Program . Manteo, July 19.?Congressman Lindsay C. Warren today accepted the invitation of the Roanoke Island Historical Committee, to act as mas ter of ceremonies on August 18th. This date is to be the climax of a week of celebration in commemora tion of the landing of the. first Eng lish'settlers in America here on Roanoke Island three hundred and fifty years ago and the birth of Virginia Dare first white child born - on American soil, the date being her birthday. - Senators Robert R. Reynolds and Josiah W. Bailey will be -present, as will many other state notables including Governor J. C. B. Ehringhaus, Treasurer Chas. M. Johnson and Presdent Prank P. Graham of the university. Governor Peery and Senators Glass and Byrd of Virginia have been urged to attend. The dumb Romeo, when asked if his girl was of the tender .type, said that he didn't know?he hadn't bitten her yet.- r