* VOL. TWENTY-FIVE FARMVILLE, PITT COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, JULY 27, 1984 NUMBER TWELVE ???? . "? - ? . . 11.. ?. ???' .1 ?? ? - "" ? ;?/ ? Mr. J. C. LanierCode Administrator, Explains Marketing Agreement Explains the Warehouse Code; The Association Passes Stringent Rule A g a i n s t Employing Trucks; Ag-rees to Sup port Mr. Lanier in The Carrying- Out Of The Rules of The Code Wilson, July 25.?The ware rouse men of Eastern North Carolina met in the auditorium of the Charles L. Coon High School this morning and neard Mr. J. C. Lanier, National Ad ministrator of the Warehouse Code of Amercia explain the code, and the warehousemen agreed to support it and abide by it and work with him for its observance. There were more than 250 ware housemen present, and a most inter esting meeting was held. After Mr. Lanier had rinished with the ware house code he then explained the Kerr-Smith Marketing Act. During his talk he was asked many questions and very carefully, intelligently ex plained all of these, and gave the reasons why the government wanted cnese things done. Mr. W. Fenner, of Rocky Mourn, and a number of other prominent warehousemen in the district, asked questions and made explanations. Mr. Fenner is chairman of the Code administration for the tobacco area, and which is represented by ten code administrators, and he is the chair man of the group. Mr. Fenner stated that during his attendance on the code meetings m Washington that it was clear to him that unless the warehousemen of the country gave the farmers of the country the very best and most eco nomical method of selling tobacco that the auction system would pass out of existence, and it was the very fair and satisfactory method employ ed in Eastern North Carolina which saved the day, and that the system here was patterned 3fter by the rest of the country. Mr. Fenner mentioned a number of abuses obtaining on other markets of the world. For instance in Ken lucky he noted that a small farmer had little chance to sell his tobacco unless there was plenty of room on the warehouse floors, when the big farmer was given precedence over others. They also put two farmers' tobacco together when their floors j were crowded, and the average of the sale of the tobacco, regradless of the quality, governed. Resolutions were introduced and carried unanimously, to the effect that hiring trucks to haul tobacco directly or indirectly would not be tolerated, and no one could employ more people to work for them than were required in the warehouse, and a list of all employes must be sub mitted to Mr. Lanier on the opening day of the warehouses, so that if he thought there was any one who through any subterfuge was seeking to avoid operating under the code they would be dealt with. The meeting was presided over J? Mr. J. C. Eagles, of the TobaJsl Warehouse Association of Eastern Carolina. Mr.. Eagles welcomed the members of the Association to Wil son, stated the purpose of the meet- [ ing, and presented Mr. Lanier. At--, tencion was called to the trouble re garding the trucking of tobacco and all the subterfuges which are resorted to by warehousemen to increase the amount of tobacco coming to their warehouses through subtle contacts made with those who own trucks, and every warehouseman said that he would live up to the agreement, and the vote was unanimous. Each ware houseman present agreed to stand by the code, which Mr. Lanier said was for the purpose of making in dustry self regulating, and to do away with unsound practices, and enable it to give the farmer a square deal and to make a profit forxthem selves. m , To increase buying power, to in crease wages, and to do away with unsound and unfair practices is the purpose of all the codes that have been promulgated, for industry, Mr. Lanier explained. Mr. Fenner stated that every ware houseman knew what is right and what is wrong. Each one knew as many times as the trucking matter has been discussed in our meetings what a warehouseman has a right to do and what he has nnt got the right to da r Mr. Lanier promised to nee that the code was enforced if he had the backing of the members. He also told them that his office is already open in Greenville, where he will re j difference between a contract farmer ; who had agreed to ahide by the gov | ernment order with reference to the [amount of tobacco planted and sold in order to govern the supply and j the non-contract fanner who did not comply with the government order. The warehouseman must collect the tax. When a fanner comes in to sell his tobacco he will be con fronted by three men. One is the j bookkeeper for the warehouse who figures up the amount coining to the farmer for his tobacco. If he is a contract farmer the tweaty-five# per cent tax is added to the cost of sell ing his weed, and his allotment card which the fanner must have . with him and which is numbered is affiled' to the bill. Twenty-five per cenfr of the value of the first sale of his tobacco is taken from it. Stamps are affixed to the certificate by a representative of the agricultural de? partment, and the check is written out and handed to him by the repre sentative of the international reve nue department In that way a com plete record of the transaction is made. The contract fanner is given his check in full less his .warehouse charges, but the non-cntnract farmer has his twenty-five per cent deducted from his account, then and there. All tobacco must pay. the tax,-"but a way is provided for the contract farmer to deposit his in certificates which are kept by the ajarehouse as an evi dence that the farmer has paid his tax. It was suggested that mass meetr ings be held in every township so that the Farm demonstration agents could explain the. details of these transactions to the farmers. ' ' "? v ? - .r "?-.l sr. Local Tobacco Buyers Getting Off To Georgia Among the tobacco buyers pi Farmville who are leaying this week to represent A. C. Monk A Company, of this city, on-the Georgia markets are: H. F. Voss to Valdoeta; M. E. Dixon and Frank- Sanders to Doug last George Beckman, Jack Mozingo and Jimmio Lang to Blackshear; George Moore and A. C. Monk, Jr., to Waycross; J. S. Gates and W. P. Monk feKvjtrious markets. Others going from here to the Georgia markets are W. S. Royster, . ' Mrw8 T?" / - - \V-. /J^3rg28 baoco Co.; I. E. Satterfield, reprc- J septing. Export Leaf Tobacco Co.; C. T. Dixon, Biek Thiyrnton and %. M. ? Whitehurst, representing Imperial ' Tobacco Co.; H. N. Ho^rd, R. A. Lindsay and J. G. Spencer, repre senting _ the W. B. Lea Tobacco Co., of this city and Rocky Mount ? ? A Texan has combined 10 garden tools in <me, but it still isn't perfect as long as you have to go out and operate it.?Jackson (Miss.) Daily . . V. O: Sipe of Catawba County says he will have 3,000 bushels of peaches to market from his fM^acre orchard near the county home. A slight infestation of boil weevil is reported n Richmond County farms with a few farmers dusting with S&tan araenato. Over $8,000 worth or surplus farm products was sold at the Lenoir Curb market in Caldwell County during i Prospects Good For Higher Prices Flue Cored Weed! Says J. B. Hutson Whoi Spoke To-day At ,13th Annual Tobacco Sta tion Field Day Outlin ed Reasons Why He Believed Growers May Look For Better Re | turns Washington, July 26.?Prospect of better prices for flue-cured tobacco I this season was seen today by J. B. j Hutson, chief of the farm administra tion's tobacco section. Hutson spoke to an enthusiastic crowd Thursday at the 113 annual tobacco station field day at Oxford, and outlined the reasons why he be lieves the growers may look for bet ter returns. He cited what he said was an iu ] dicated smaller crop, a relatively higher price level, improved relation ships between supply and consump tion and prospects of a controlled' crop and further reductions of sup plies in 1935. ''The July 1st estimate of the crops reporting board placed this season's indicated flue-cured crop at 526,743, 000 pounds,' Hutson said. 'This is as much below annual world consump tion as last year's crop was above. .Reduced acreage, brought about thru the voluntary co-operation of thou sands of farmers who signed acreage adjustment contracts, is expected to contribute largely to the flue-cured supply." "Although bothdomestic and for eign stocks of flue-cured tobacco are higher than a year ago, the crop is enough below that of 1933 to cause a- decrease of approximately 120,000, 000 pounds, or 8^ per cent, in the supply. In addition, domestic con sumption is estimated to be * some what above that of the previous year, while the decline in foreign consump tion appears to have been checked in some importat consuming countries. Since world consumption for 1933-34 I shows no change from that of the I previous year, the ratio, of supplies, I to prices, have been considerably re I duced." 1 . '' . i _________ Townof Farmville Reduces Tax Rites 20c on the Hundred Reduction Justified By An Increase of Prop erty Listed and Great er Estimated Revenue from Public Utilities At a meeting of the Board of Com missioners of the Town of Farm ville on last Tuesday night, a budget for the year 1934-35 was adopted subject to approvai; it will renjain in the Clerk's office for inspection for a period of twenty days, during which time any interested parties may view same and make suggestions, j It wa^ found possible to reduce the tax rate levy from $1.40 to $1.20; this reduction was made possible by an increase of property listed and an increased estimate of revenue from the public utilities. The budget included, General 'Fund, $19,669,46; Fire Department, $2,400, 00; Debt Service, $16,115.00; Sink ing Fund, $3,000.00; and Water and Light Department, $35,613.50?a to tal of $76,797.96. Gambler Hid Dil linger Agents Say 1 Reported To Have Pro vided Shelter and Med ical Care When Wounded Chicago, July 25.?A "master mind" charted the murderous course of John Dillinger and took a large part of the loot seized in the out law's reign, it' was disclosed today. The brains behind Dillinger was iden tified only as "Fish" Johnson, a Chi cago gambler. At one time, Federal men said, Johnson collected $53,000 in., bonds from Dillinger. The "mas ter mind" provided Dillinger with .in formation, arranged hideouts for him and served as a "fence" to dispose of the gang's booty. Once, it was reported, when Dillinger was laid up for 12 days with-gunshot wounds the gambler provided him with a- hide out and medical attention. In the room of Mrs. Anna Sage, John Dillinger's "woman in Red," police said today, they found a mys- ? terious locked wooden chest, which they believed might have been Dil linger's, and may contain some of the $750,000 itt bank robbery loot the gang amassed. Keys fonnd on the desporado's body will be tried on the chest From the "girl in red" police learned today more about how John Dillinger walked into.the trap that ended with death his career of crime. , The "girl jn red," one of two wom en who were with the Indiana outlaw ? just before he was killed by . Federal bullets, was Mrs. Anna Sage, fprty two, brown-haired and brown-eyed. Police arrested her last night at her home, just around the corner from the Biograpth Theatre, out of which Dillinger. walked unsuspectingly Sun day night to his death. Two women tenants -of a basement flat were taken into custody today by a police squad under Capt. John Stege. on a tip that the flat had been a hide-out of John Dillinger. One of the women was Frances (Patsy) Frechette, twenty-eight, sis ter of Evelyn Frechette, the slain desporado's former sweetheart, now serving sentence for harboring the bandit. The other was Margaret Ed wards, thirty. - ? Mrs Sage told police she knew John Dillinger as "Jim Lawrence." j And . that he poped as an employe of the Chicago Board of Trade. fcPPIP? ' ? " ?! I | EASTERN DISTRICT ESSAYISTS Eight contestants, the largest num ber ever to enter the Eastern dis trict essay contest of the North Car olina Cotton Growers Cooperative Association, competed in Tarborofor first place and the right to compete in the State final contest for grand prize of a one-year college scholar ship. ? Miss Celeste Spivey, left, was the winner. Others competing, reading left to right, were: Grace Mewborn, Snow Hill; Evelyn Brown, West Ed gecombe; Kenneth Mclntyre, Red Oak; George Thome, Aurelian Springs; Adelle Norman, Saratoga School; Hubert Jones, Bethel; and Virgil Sutton, Hertford The cute little girl in front is Iteborah White, of Hertford, whose recitation was an added feature of the contest. The essay contest, now in its-seven- . th year, is in charge of M. G. Mann, 1 secretary-treasurer of the cotton as- 1 sociation. , ] Talking Tobabco With The Tobacco Farmers '? (By Ben Kilgore) A flood of letters from tobacco fanners has poured into the Tobacco Section of the AAA since the pas sage of the Kerr-Smith Tobacco Act. Since this far-reaching and pioneer ing measure appears to be upper most in your minds right now, I'd like to give you my ideas on some of its important provisions. You can disagree, if you like. This is a friendly personal visit and not an official lecture. Human nature forgoes to the front in most of these letters. Non-co operating tobacco farmers are seek ing'1 a loop-hole to escape the tax and are asking that their case be made an exception. A great many of these are doomed to disappointment Ifi they ^can secure an equitable base under thf reduction contract, the law j clearly states they will not be allot ted tax-payment warrants, unless they sign a contract. Large growers, especially, who wish to escape pay ment of the tax, should .take advant age of the extension of time to sign a reduction contract. The final day is July 28 or thirty days from the signing of the bill by President Roosevelt This seems fair enough to me. I see no logical reason why large or small growers who can qualify for an equitable base, should fare better than cooperating growers, who have reduced acreage and have made high er prices possible. In my opinion these growers should sign up or should take their medicine without complaining. Every effort will be made to take care of .small growers who, through circumstances beyond their control, were unable to qualify for an equita ble base, under the reduction pro gram, This is. right and is the hu man thing to do. After all, the "New Deal" stresses human values and the greatest good to the largest numbers. ? . -Contracting growers will receive, without applying-for them, tax-pay ment warrants to cover their pound age allotment under their contracts. Additional allotments, up to six per cent of those/ issued to contracting, growers, will be issued to non-con^ tracting growers, whonot quaM ify for a fair allotment. Non-qjH tracting growers?tepanja or loH owners?should make application .^KhN mediately for these tax-payment* warrants to their county agent or their county tobacco committee. Two thirds of the warrants to non-con tract signers shall be to small grow ers, whose allotments are .1500 poOnds pr-less. The balance can go to small growers, ralso, if the county tobacco committees so recommend. i If I understand the temper of tobacco committeemen aright, they're going to lean toward: the small grow er. I believe they should- These al lotments to non-contract signers are to iron out individual injustices that are. bound to occur in eny broad pro gram to help" an industry embracing 400,000 tobacco growers. Nonrcon tract signers receiving tax-payment warrants will be required to operate in line with the spirit of the adjust ment'iwogram and they will not re ceive rental or benefit paynietns, . Non-contract signers and those failing to fall in the six percent, will pay a tax of 25 percent of the sales price of their tobacco grown in 1984. Whether they like it or not, it must be paid. The majority of cooperat ing growers asked for the Act. Con gress granted their request. Tobac co committeemen, representing con tracting growers, will largely pay to whom the "free allotments" shall go. I'm glad cooperating tobacco farmers had the gumption to demahd that they be protected from the non cooperating minority,, who always In the past the minority has "<Hc :'J?8 r? ? ? ? ? ? ? tated" to the majority. Under the 1 present plan majority rule will pre- 1 vail. A few request for cancellation of contracts are being returned to" grow ers for reconsideration in view of the Kerr-Smith Tobacco Act. In addition to loss of future payment and a return of payments already made, cancelled contracts mean a tax of 25 percent on the sales value of the 1934 crop instead of exemption on the cooperatoris allotment. Grow ers cancelling contracts cannot re ceive tax payment warrants under the 6 percent qjlotment. Man Nabbed in Winger Case i Jumps ta Death: . ( James Probasco Jumps 1 To His Death Prom? 19th Story Window J Into Alley ? i ? ?? 7 i Chicago, I1L, July 26,?Brought to 1 the Federal Bureau of Investigation f for questioning in connection with t the Dillinger case, J as. Probasco, 67, c a West Side resident, committed sui- i cide today by jumping from a nine- i teenth floor window into the alley belpw. . , i S. P. Coyley, in charge of the i Bureau in the absence of Melvin i H. Purvis, said the government had v been informed that it was in Pip- t basco's home.at 2509 North Crawford a Avenue that Dillinger had his face t lifted in an operation performed. No pne could be found who wit- fl nessed the leap, but the .body land- a ed in an alley near Adams Street, r It narrowly missed a pedestrian and F was badly mangled. ; c Deputy Coroner A. L. Brody or dered police to remove the body to ah undertaking establishment. t " - " ' C moil Court '? FTo SitSoon'' ? ' Judge R. Hunt Parker ] To Preside Over Oue i Week Term August 20 -r? I Greenville, July 25.?A one-week I term of Pitt Comity Superior Court for the trial of civil cases will con vene in Greenville on August 20, with Judge EL. Hunt Parker of Roa noke Rapids, presiding. It will be the first Session of the 1 court in two and %? half months, the summer recess .being taken to give people of. this agricultural dis trict time to patch up. with their work before the grind of court is resumed. Several terms of both civil and criminal court were held here the I first of the year. In fact, somebody d asked if "they didn't have court here I all the. time,' and upon receiving as- t surance that court convened only in- g frequently, he couldn't take it in. Judge Frank A. Daniels and Judge s J. Paul Frizzeile presided over the a majority of sessions here the first o of the year and latter part of last j year, bat this time ah entirely new s face to this area will appear on the bench. Judge Parker has been t holding court in tforth Carolina for sometimo but this will be his first t visit to Pitt county, the greatest to- p bacco producing section in this coun- C He bar would get together in the [ear future and complete this im orfcant matter, ? "i.1" '/? ^ .Vv 5" ?. r; -?- - ? ?" -m . m . ? ^ Market fact of No Benefit to Wood Growers Asserts Agreement Wouldn't Help Farm er; Says That Short Crop Places Growers In "Flattering Posi tion" Washington, July 25.?Represent ing themselves as having the inter est of the tobacco grower at heart, representatives of eight large do mestic manufacturers, through their spokesman, S. Clay Williams of the Reynolds Company in Winston Salem, yesterday turned thumbs down on any kind of marketing agreement for the 1934 flue-cured :rop. After an all-day discussion be nind closed doors, the conference between tobacco buyers and Agri Eultural Adjustment Administra tion officials came to an end with the manufacturers declining to heed the suggestion of J. R. Hutson, chief of the tobacco section, that a mar keting agreement would assure a more orderly marketing of this year's crop and would benefit the grower. Williams, in a formal statement, ivhich he said represented the sen timent of the buyers present, stat ed that a marketing agreement vould be of no benefit to the farm jr. He took the position that the jhort crop and the "flattering po sition,, which flue-cured tobacco will occupy when the market opens will :ause it to bring more than any price which could be written into marketing agreement. Since discussion yesterday was oehind closed doors, it is impos-sible o report just what transpired but ?ertainly the announced results indi :ate "walked out" on the AAA. Hutson declined to comment last light on what further steps, if any, le would take. It is understood hat he is conferring with high of icials in the AAA and answer to Villi anms' statement may be re eased today. Certainly, the con ference was a disappointment to he AAA and may be the beginning >f a heated fight between the ad ninistration and the tobacco com lanies. Chester Davis, chief AAA admin strator, only last week stated at Secretary of Agriculture Wallace's ?ress conference that negotiations vere under way with buyers and here would be another marketing igreement for this year's flue-cured obacco. ~ "We know of no reason at this tage to assume that there will be my need for a marketing agree nent to bring the farmer a parity irice f6r his tobacco," Williams de lared in his statement His friends here are glad to learn hat Fred Jones, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Jones, who has been receiving reatment in Park View Hospital, tocky Mount, is now rapidly im ?roving, and returned to his home ere Thursday. _______________ Sheep growers of Washington and 'yrrell countties pooled 1,653 pounds f wool which hey sold through* the Inited Wool Growers' Association. ioosevelt Watches Eurapaan Crisis: ^ l<ast Minute Develop ments Are Constantly Relayed to Chief Ex ecutive hy Wireless Aboard Cruiser New Orleans with , ^resident Roosevelt, July 26.?Presi ent Roosevelt watches in silence the , European situation revolving about , be assassination of Chancellor En- , elbert Dollfuss of Austria. Last minute developments are con tantly relayed to him by wireless ? s the cruiser Houston carries him < n his unprecedented presidential ourney to America's far flung in- j ular outposts. j Likewise, he is kept in intimate ouch with official Washington. , He completed the new railroad re irement board today with the ap- < ointment of John T. Williamson of Jhicago and Lee M. Eddy of St. *'? 1 ' * ? Chancellor Dottfuss Is Shot B# Nazi Enemies ? - ? r ? . ? Other Members of The Austrian Ministery Also Reported to Have Been Captured and Forced to Quit Office Vienne, July 25.?Chancellor En glebe rt Dollfuss, the little dictator who ruled Austria for two years, was reported by a police commissioner today to have been shot ?*nd seriously wounded in the course of a Nazi "putsch" to capture the government of Austria. The police officer said Dollfusshas resigned. As the Nazis made a violent bid for power they were reported to have captured Dollfuss and members of his cabinet. Fighters swarming through streets of Vienna were killed, and the trouble was reported to have spread as far as Insburck and Klenfurt. In the latter city President Wilhelm Miklas was said to have been cap tured by the federal army. Dollfuss and his ministers were trapped in the federal chancellory. Armed men of his loyal Fascists heimwehr home guards of the fed eral army and the federal police poured into the Ballhaustlatz upon which the chencellory is locted. Machine guns were mounted on roof tops at strugetic points in the city. Some of them poured smash ing volleys into the government ra dio studio from which as sparks <to the political conflagration and an nouncement had come that Dollfuss had resigned and pro-Nazi politi cian, Anton Rintelen, had been made chancellor. At the height of the confusion, with rumors flying about from the same studio, came the announce ment that feace reigned throughout Austria. The second announcement came after authorities had recap tured the station where earlier they had killed a police guard and tak en over the control of broadcasting. They were supposed to have been Nazi. ? Weed Sales Without Tax * .? Tobacco Growers Of This State Allotted Amounts Under Kerr Act Under allotments by the Keer Smith tobacco control act, North "Car olina growers can market 356,173,853 pounds of the weed this year without : ? tax, E. Y. Floyd, extension specialist at N. C. State College, has recently announced. . ;? The Kerr-Smith act imposes a tax of 25 per cent of the market value of sales in excess of the allotted amount. However, under the act, growers who signed contracts will be permitted to sell tax free the amount of tobacco they grow under govern-; ment contract. The amount allotted by contract, Floyd said, was considered 94 per cent of the Kerr-Smith allotments The additional six per cent was pro vided for distribution among non signers and signers whose production is less than 1,500 pounds per year. J Under the act, the following pound ages have been allotted to the differ ent counties as the six. per cent which will be divided among non-signers and small signers. - - Alamance, 164,180; Alexander, 31, 280; Anson, 2,610; Caldwell, 14,615; Caswell, 375,325; Chatham, 94,085; Davidson, 120,210; Davie, 16,915; Durham, 147,155; Forsyth, 229,805; Franklin, 463,260; Granville, 618,985; Guilford, 374,140; Hoke, 96,100. Iredell, 15,995; Lee, 17,0,310; Moore, 181,310; Montgomery, 20,960; Orange 113,106; Person, 363,925; Rocking ham, 605,135; Randolph, 104,595; Richmond, 40,690; Stokes, 531,305; Surry, 419,785; Vance, 863,915. Wake, 895,365; Warren, 183,860; Wilkes, 22,420; Yadkin, 286,885; Ber tie, 244,285; Beaufort, ,442v016; Car teret, 46.080; Chowan, 13,540; Craven 100,230; Gates, 5,766; Greene, 766, 145; Halifax, 233,926; Harnett, 581, 115; Hertford, 129,290. Johnston, 1,092,636; Jones, 288,190; Lenoir, 781,815; Martin, 481,700; Nash, 1,037,465; Northampton, 6,870; Onslow, 307,456; Pamlico, 21,925; Pender, 83,950; Pitt, 1,559,025; Samp son, 479,380; Wayne, 744,690; Wash ington, 28,910; Wilson, 1,082,400; Bladen, 218,730; Brunswick, 72,655; Columbus, 690,430; Cumberland, 128, 115; New Hanover, 816; Robeson, 985,525; Scotland, 18,745. Estimated total, 21,370,415. ' * , " ? " ' ? -irt-n - -it CL * i in * _ spring report tncir piftHvv ? ^rowiu^

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