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VOL. TWENTY-FIVE FAEMTltLE. PfTT COUNTY, NORTH CABOUNA, FRIDAY. AOGPBT IT, 1M4 NUMBER FIFTEEN
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Good Reports Continue To Come In From Other Belts Regarding Prices Paid For Gotden Weed
TOBACWTSANDMiSSlENlXTiO WECOMETO Mi PATRONS Ai VISITORS
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Announces Plan For
Disposing of Excess Leaf
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Wallace Reveals Ar
rangement To Take
Care of Cooperating
Growers; Short Crop
Men May Sefi Others'
Surplus
Washington, Aug, 16.?While the
Bankhead cotton control at and
the Kerr-Smith tobacco control act
art .similar in principle, the differ
ences between the two- are becom
ing increasingly apparent now that
they have reached the stage of ac
tual enforcement.
Secretary Wallace today formally
announced the plan whereby co
operating cured tobacco growers
with short crops may sell the ex
cess for other cooperating growers
who have signed reduction agree
ments.
No similar plan has yet been an
nounced for cotton but it is being
worked out, but will differ sharply
in detail from the tobacco plan.
the differences between the two
laws are accentuated, insofar a*
North Carolina is concerned by the
fact that the state will produce this
year well over its quota under the
Bantfwad cotton act, while its to
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baeco production will be leas tnan
it* quota, under the Kerr-Smith act
Different In Purposes.
The differences in the two acts
arise out of a difference in purpose.
The object of the Bank head act was
to limit the total crop of cotton to
lQJfOQfiOO bales and to effect that
objective a prohibitive tax of 50
per cent was placed on all cotton
produced in excess of quotas, which
were set up by states, counties and
individuals.
The voluntary reduction plan had
proved more successful in the case
of tobacco and, instead of the sur
plus estimated for cotton before the
drought got in its work in Texas,
Oklahoma and Arkansas, it was ap
parent when die Kerr-Smith bill
was passed that the total crop would
not exceed the desired amount. The
purpose of that law was not limita
tion of the total crop but to pre
vent non-signers from profiting at
the expense of signers. Therefore, a
punitive tax of 25 per cent was laid
upon non-signers.
The Kerr-Smith bill was much
more flexible in its provisions and
its administration is also much more:
flexible.
N. C. Cettea Quota.
There are no definite required1
quotas as in the case of cotton. For j
North Carolina the cotton quota is
528^83 against an estimated produc-'
lion of 606JMQ hake. I
Secretary Wallace said today that'
this quota wiU not he modified al
'IfFfh the produc
tion. is moot then a million bales
under the limit of 10,000^)00 bales
of fifift pounds each or 10,460,251
bake of 477 pound each.
Secretary Wallace said he had
aat?ved. no letter from W. a. Gra-I
ham Nfleth Ciniisa r^miwmfr
of AffllCUlture. who annrmTvefi mmo
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TW? M"lthat.1*. would press for a
jppqwfrH) for Uw..?Me, hot that
th^ qqgatioa of pafcy cpwd >y
Mx. Graham Hni bem dsfiaiteiy de
tenanted. The Secretary aid ar
ratyeowau are being ,aa4e for
states with exceoa nroduction to
apQtf* .tax warrant* from stogtss
?ith mxfer production, bet declin
ed JfftKfr **? *#ce at which
these variants will in S ma tor
Jafcn H. Rafikhagt. ?f Alabama.
antkor of At vfcill. yesterday ore
dfc^ .they will sail for about three
cftfa ?. posof
Xhe .tobacco sUotments are baaed
per cent of average prduction for
%&?rz^&iL
pSSSLto SLFrm? of ttStMOO
pounds which is well Woe last
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that every state in the flue-cured I
belt will have sufficient quotas with
-the possible, but not certain excep
tion of Virginia, where farmers
may have to send some of their
tobacco to North Carolina, to be
sold by growers in that state, who
have more poundage on -their mar
keting cards than they need.
At the time each sale of tobacco i
is made, the number of pounds sold
is entered on the allotment card. A
contracting producer whose produc
tion exceeds 80 per cent of his base
production may arrange to sell all
or a part of this excess production
under the allotment card of an-1'
other contracting grower whose pro- <
duction is less than his allotment I >
In such cases, tax-payment war-1:
rants will be issued in the name
of the owner of the marketing and <
allotment cards under which the !
excess tobacco is sold. Any ar
rangements made between contract- i
ing growers to utilize allotment |;
cards other than their own for sell- ]
ing tobacco are private transactions.
Contracting growers who produce i
in excess of their allotment will not <
be permitted to market this excess I
tobacco and pay the tax provided i
under the Kerr-Smith tobacco act 1
but may arrange to sell this tobacco
under another contracting grower's i
allotment card. * ]
Adjustment Payments. :
Adjustment payments to be made <
under the voluntary contracts will <
be based on the number of pounds !
shown on the marketing cards of
each grower as having been soTd ?
regardless of whether all the to
bacco sold under an individual mar
etting card was produced by the
person to whom the card is issued. 1
Each person to whom a marketing [1
card is issued will be required to J
certify that ail tobacco sold under <
it was pinduced under a tobacco '
production 1 adjustment contract cov- ?
ering his own or some other farm. 1
Growers who have not signed con
tracts 'should make application for i
tax-payment warrants at the office J1
of their county agent. The Kerr- 1
Smith tobacco act provides that in i
each county tax-payment warrants,
covering an amount of tobacco i
equal to six per cent of the totalis
number of pounds covered by war
rants issued to contracting grow
ers, may be issued to non-contract j
growers who were unable to obtain
an equitable base under a contract.
Warrants issued under this provi
sion may cover all or only a part of
a grower's production.
Non-contracting growers, unlike
contracting producers, may sell to
| bacco produced in exeess of any al
j lotment given them under this pro
| vision, if they pay the tax of 25
per cent of the market value pro-1
vided in the tobacco act. They will
not, however, be permitted to sell H
tobacco under the market card of a h
contracting grower. 1
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Carl Cawb
flute Speaker!:
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Raleigh Magazine Pub- j
lisher Speaks At Inter-!
City Meeting At Bay- j
view
Greenville, Aug. 16.?Cad Goerch, !
Raleigh magasine puWiher md form- '
ex Washington, N. C., newspaperman 1
delivered the principal address at '
the Inter-City meetirg. of Botary
at Bayview last night. :
Mr. Goerch, referring to the pos
sibilities of North Carolina, said the 1
people did. not realise the potential- i
ities of Mr own Stgtp.r He Ma* j
ed North Carolinians have every wa- ,
son to be proud not only of their
progress in various fields of endeav
or, bat because of the faet that they >
are not troabtrt.by storm* rtnepgh* ?
and other /*Tl*rrf'Ta affecting other ?
parts of the nation.
The address of welcome was made
by John Bragaw, member of ,-ihe -
Washington dub, and the response
KEdmund Hanting. of the
club, was \
ftwn some of the
100 Men Needed By
The Town of Farmv
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County Tai Rate
Raised 3 Cents
Rate This Year Will Be
86 Cents on $100 Valu
ation Compared With
83 Cents Last Year
Pitt County people will pay a
higher tax rate this year than they
did last year as a result of adoption
of a boosted schedule by the Board
of Commissioners in special session
at the court house Friday night
The rate this year will be 86 cents
on the $100 valuation compared with
S3 cents for the previous year. ?
The Board levied four cents direct
ly for relief work this year. Last
year this was contained in a 5-cent
levy for the copnty home.
The recommended health depart
ment budget carrying appropriations
of $9,980 for the county, $1,500 for
the State and $400 from the Rosen
ivald Fund was accepted by the
aoard.
The increased health budget figure
it was said by members of the de
partment, will enable the employ
ment of a full-time sanitary inspector
and additional nurse this year to
rombat the serious outbreak of di
sease in several parts of the county.
VfASONS HOLD DISTRICT
MEETING HERE THURSDAY
. The district meeting of the Ma
sons, comprising the towns of Green
ville, Ayden, Grifton, Grimesland and
Farmvillo, was held here on Thurs
iay with J. B. Eure, District Deputy
Grand Master presiding, and Atty.
John Hill Paylor, master of the
Farmvi lie lodge, acting as host.
The well planned program was
featured by the exemplification of
Lhe third degree by the Greenville
lodge, of which W. J. Bundy is the
master.
A sumptuous barbecue dinner was
served at the picnic pavilion at the
swimming pool.
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For A Special Meeting
Scheduled for Monday
Nighty August 20
Final plans for an extensive and
intensive advertising campaign in
the interest of the tobacco market
and general trade here, will be held
in the City Hall, Monday night, Aug
ust 20, at -7:45 o'clock.
A report from the steering com
mittee, composed of D. E. Oglesby,
J. Y. Monk, R. H. Knott, L. R. Bell,
J. Branch Bobbitt, T. E. Joyner and
Alex Rouse, will be heard, together
with suggestions from those in at
tendance, and definite action will be
taken to launch a booster campaign.
As stated previously in these col
umns, financial aid will not be solicit
ed as sufficient funds have already
been subscribed to provide for the
advertising program, but the pres
ence of every business man, tobac
conist, and all others interested in
the progress and development, of
Farmville, as a marketing and trade
center, is greatly desired by those
sponsoring the campaign. "United
we stand," is the slogan of the com
mittee, which wishes supporters who
will lend their efforts for the better
ment of Farmville. .
Preacher
Kidnapped
Goldsboro, Aug. 16.?The Rev. R.
H. Askew, Golds boro evangelist, dis
appeared late yesterday while on an
automobile trip to Smithfield and to
day his wife received a letter de
manding ransome for his return.
The note received, by Mrs. Askew
thrugh the mails this morning, said:
"Have $26,000 in cash at once or
you will never see your husband alive
again. Instructions will follow."
The note was not signed. It was
typewritten on cheap paper and
mailed in a Jain envelope. The
stamp was canceled by the Golbs
boro post office at 8:30 p. m. last
night.
United Textile Workers
Vote for General Strike
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Approve Walkout Af
fecting Half Million
Textile Workers On or
Before September 1
New York, Aug. 16.?A nation
wide strike in the cotton textile in
dustry cm or before September 1
wee voted today at the annual con
ization of the United Textile Work
?rs of America.
The strike will affect 500,000 cot
ton textile workers, leaders said,
particularly in the South and in
England. The union has a
:otal membership of about 300,000,
The strike resolution approved by
>11 but 10 of the 571 delegates, em
powers the incoming executive
awncil.of the -union to caU a striike
in the cotton textile industry on or
Defore September l.
| Short Notice.
The council, which has yet to be
elected will meet Saturday at the.
close of the convention, but an
nouncement has already been made
that the date of the stike will be
Itepi secret and employers given
do more than 12 hours' notice.
The vote on the strike was taken,
?iter hoars of warm argument, -moat,
of it favoring a strike, and akhld
intense excitement. It was taken,
too, after Thomas F. McMahon,
president of the union, had admit
ted in answer to a question that
the organisation had no money to
ftnawne vJooaL; uaieos through the
siege.
t Norman Thomas, .Socialist leader,
urns one of those who urged the
textile workSm to "fight for jns
tice."
McMshon said the present exeCu
)ft* council of *he union had dis
catsed the strike proposal for three
days before urging it on the con
vention.
that unless I was absolutely con
vinced it was the only way out.
There is no other way.
"We will say to the manufactur
ers: Now that we know the power
we possess, we will wield it, but
we will wield it intelligently and rea
sonably.
"I urge immediate action upon
the new council. We know what
procrastination is. We have pro
crastinated possibly too long. The
hour is here."
The ten delegates who stood out
against the strike motion included
several from Newberry, S. C., who
argued that this was not the best
time to walk out
"The people from the Southern
States don't want a strike, at the
present time, and our treasury
wont stand it" said a Newberry
delegate. He was contradicted by
a burley fellow from Georgia, and
by another South Carolina dele
gate who said a large majority in
his state favored "action."
One delegate shouted that 76 per
cent of the cotton textile industry .
is "practically on strike now/' An
other, Horace Riviere of Manchester,
N. H., declared that New England
workers "have been ready for months
to go. on strike." He urged that the
strike be "brought up from Alabama
to the, state ?of Maine."
From North Carolina
Today's strike vote was not taken
until sifter the arrival of 40 dele
gates from North Carolina, who
had been attending the convention
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of their State Federation pf Labor.
J$$foman said the union' first ob
jective in the strike was to obtain
enforogaeat^ wage provisions in
$13 fo^lml^U^Jablin the
25 per cent curtailment order of
ly eknungs of textile 'Wciibri are
'Ctiiselers' Will
Have To Reckon
Witt Government
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Roosevelt Says There Is
Plenty of Food for The
Nation and There Is
No Excuse For Profi
teering
Washington, Aug 15.?President
Roosevelt gave notice today that
"chiselers" seeking to profiteer in
food prices as a result of the
drought would have to reckon with
the federal government.
Speaking at his regular newspaper
conference Mr. Roosevelt in response
to inquiries asserted there was
plenty of food for the nation and no
excuse for .any profiteering or any
alarm by customers.
He expressed little concern that
there would be profiteering, but
made it plain that all such cases
would be met by government action.
He also said federal agents were
intensifying vigilance over ths grain
and produce exchanges to prevent
undue speculation in food stuffs
which might jeopardize natural
prices.
Leaf Cards
Now Ready
Farm Department Mail
ing Out Notices Tell
ing Farmers To Come
For Cards
. E. F. Arnold, director of the Pitt
County Farm Deportment said the
first of the week that tobacco mar
keting cards were ready and that
notices were being mailed out telling
the fanners to come and get them.
Mr. Arnold made it clear that it is
necessary for farmers to sign for
the cards. He also said it was neces
sary that all growers bring their
contracts for identification.
In case it isn't convenient for a
grower to go to the office to sign his
card, lie may obtain same by send
ing somebody else with a written
notice and bis contract
Farmers whose acreage measure
ments have not been completed were
urged to speed up their work, obtain
their certificates and apply at the
Farm .Office for their marketing
cards.
With the tobacco markets scdedul
ed to open August 23, Mr. Arnold
said it was imperative that delivery
of the cards be speeded up as much
as possible so growers may be in
readiness to market their tobacco
when the market swings open.
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To Me future
Policy on Cotton
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Must Also Decide Part
It Will Play In World
Market, Declares Tug
well
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Clemson College, S. C., Aug. 16.?
The Sooth itself must decide future,
policy on cotton inducting the pert
it will play in/the world market Rex
ford G. Tugwell, under secretary of
agriculture, said here today.
The temporary acreage reduction
program must be transformed into
something at a permanent' policy,
he asMrted, and the dedaion must
be made in time to influence 1935
spring planting.
As to tfc# part the south may play
in the world market hi the future
Tugwell said "I doubt if you will
care to enter into world competition
Farmville Is A Steady And
Dependable Tobacco Market
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Crop This Year Estimated
Much Smaller Than 1933
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Farmers Await Opening
With Belief Tobacco
Price Average This
Year Will Exceed Last
Year's Price
Warehousemen are making their
"Last Roundup*.' this week for the
scheduled opening on Thursday,
August 23, noting personally that
everything has been done that would
be conducive to orderly marketing
of tobacco in the three huge ware
houses here; that all facilities used
in handling, weighing, placing and
sale of the golden weed are in perfect
order; farmers are standing in line
daily in front of the County Farm
Agent's quarters to secure their to
bacco marketing cards, and the busi
ness men of Farmville are making
extensive preparations for extend
ing a hearty welcome, and making
the visit of customers and visitors
to their establishments pleasant and
mutually profitable.'
Preparations are being speeded up
and everything put in readiness for
the flow of the golden weed into this,
one of the principal marketing cen
ters of East Carolina, and indications
point to the most satisfactory and
successful opening of many years.
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opening uaia i^veni.
Opening day is always a gala event
here and tie usual crowd, which
runs into the thousands, will doubt
less be augmented by hundreds of
new patrons and visitors this year,
all of whom will be keenly interested
in the prices of their main money
crop. Sales are expected to be heavy
and the Farmville market will have
need of its improved facilities and
increased floor space, which enables
it to handle" a tremendous sale with
all ease.
Golden Weed To Merit Name.
The golden weed is in a fair way
of meriting its cognomen this sea
son, following a depressive siege of
several years duration, and farmers '
of this belt, all of whom have kept
in close touch with prices prevailing
in other belts, are on tip toes and
breathless with expectation and won- -
der as to just what opening prices
will be here, as they grade their first
offerings.
Reports from the Georgia and bor
der markets are most encouraging,
and a display of samples with at
tached selling price, placed in the
window of a local grocery store, by
some visitors to the nearest mar
kets recently, are being viewed with
great interest, much comment and
comparison by passersby.
A Steady And Dependable Market
Fluctuation is a term peculiarly
applicable to tobacco markets.in gen
eral, but Farmville, with its many
isellimr facilities, unmatchable situa
tion and untiring efforts of its ware
housemen^ has attained a reputation
throughout the State of excelling as
a steady, dependable market.
Organization Of Fanners On Trial
Organisation of tobacco farmers
has been perfected to a higher de
gree than it was thought possible
hist year this thine. The situation
has been almost miraculously chang
ed and under the "New Deal" as in
augurated by President Roosevelt,
and brought to a culmination in the
Agricultural Adjustment Act, grow
ers have an exceptional opportunity
?and the first in the history of
agriculture, of receiving equitable <
treatment
The problem of organization,
which at first seemed very difficult, <
was really achieved with great ease.
For when the farmer, being made
to realize his position last, fall hi
such a tragic way, bad his confidence
renewed in his government by the i'
meritorous way in which it speedily
swung into action in dealing with
his emergency, created order from
chaos and obtained a fair exchange
for his tobacco, he sensed the im- ,
the wrecking of the entire agricul
tural structure was threatened, and
the farmer discovering the mighty
influence brought to bear on his be
half, decided that the program of
this administration deserved his re
spect and admiration. And so the
production adjustment plan, worked
out by government officials, in con
junction with an advisory committee
of representative flue-cured tobacco
growers, met with the immediate ap
proval and loyal support of the far
mere, as evidenced in the ready re
sponse to the sign up campaign and
proved in the strict manner in which
the agreements were observed. And
they are expecting a continuation of
their cooperation to result in ending
their long struggle of years with low
prices.
Farmville Market Increasing in
Popularity.
Outstanding and extensive im
provements have been made in tobac
co town this summer and the increas
ing popularity of this market will
have an opportunity of further devel
opment when newcomers witness the
manner and ease with which heavy
sales are managed and realize the
benefits of attentive and courteous
treatment, which they receive from
the warehousemen, buyers and sales
forces of the warehouses. These
facts, together with the consistent
consideration shown the customer
and the obtaining of high prices, are
constantly drawing customers for
this market from a wider area.
Knott's Warehouse.
Knott's warehouse, operated by R.
H. Knott and J. M. Hobgood, both
experienced and popular warehouse
men, has with the addition last year
of 75 feet, an added space of 12,000
square feet, erabling them to handle
a full day's sale without being crowd
ed, and causing it to be numbered
among the largest of the warehouses
in the Bright Belt. The interior bas
recently been painted white as a
means of securing the best light pos
sible and everything has been done
to the end that the highest dollar
may be obtained for the customer.
Monk's Warehouse.
Monk's warehouse, the largest of
any of the houses here, has recently
undergone extensive repairs and
every convenience and comfort, in
cluding a rest room for the ladies,
awaits its patrons. The proprietor,
J. Y. Monk, well known in the tobac
co industry, has done business at the
same stand for the past 21 years,
and is entering his 28th year as an
outstanding successful warehouse
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Planter's Warehouse
L. R. Bell, prominently connected
with the warehouse business hers
for a number of years and J. Branch
Bobbitt, experienced warehauseman
and tobacconist, will operate Plan
ter's warehouse again this season.
This house of modern construction
throughout, has been recently reno
vated and is entirely ready to accom
odate its many customers.
The daily poundage per warehouse
is an index to the warehousemen's
business, and the Farmvilie market
ranked second in this belt in the
average of turnovers per day during
the first week of the past season,
when a check was kept for the pur
pose of noting this feature of mar
keting. The average sale per house
per day in the new bright belt was
64,660 pounds and in the border belt,
66,144 pounds, the Farmviiie market
with three houses averaging 102,
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Crop Beat In Yean.
Curing results are declared aa ex
cellent by farmers in this section,
which with the improvement in prices
and the good quality of the weed this
year should1 make this season tksr
best in years. 1
WATERMELON PARTY
V*.
Mrs. S. A. Roebuck entertained
on Saturday evening, honoring her
quests, Misses Nita Grimes, of Titas
wflle, Fla., and Edith Ward Roebuck ?
of Roberwnville. Games, swimming
anda waberm^feaat was enpoyed'^^