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VOL. TWENTY-PIYE FARMVILLft PITT COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 24, 1934 NUMBER SIXTEEN
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Prices Went Beyond Expectations and Compared Well With Record Breaking Season
TWO SETS OF BUYERS SCHEDULEDTO BE ON THIS MARKET BEGINNING MUST 27
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Higher Prices Brings
Smiles To Farmers
Who Crowded Sales
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Opening Sales Consider
ed Most Satisfactory
In 15 Years; Heavy
Rain Storm Causes
Buying To Cease In
Mid-Afternoon; Prices
Equally as Good To
day
Thousands of farmers and their
families returned to homes from
this market, Thursday, weary and
fatigued in body from the strain and
excessive heat that made the ware
houses almost unbearable, but happy
and comforted mentally by the high
prices realized from the sale of their
tobacco, many of whom received
more than double for their offering
what they did on the opening sale a
year ago.
A heavy break of offerings from a
wide spread area was experienced on
the Farmville market, the sale of
which was not completed. A storm
with accompaning darkness caused
the market to close in mid afternoon.
Official figures for the opening are:
poundage, 199,366; money paid to
farmers, $56,348.92; average $28.28.
Prices Beyond expectations ?
Prices went far beyond expecta
tions and compared favorably with
the record breaking season of 1919.
Business men here joining with far
mers in jubilation over the improve
ment as the great surge of activity
and liberation of thousands of dol
lars, in tobacco town, brought the
liveliest trade to the business dis
trict that has been experienced for
years on. opening day.
First harvested offerings prevail
ing, in which smoking type predomi
nated, seemed to be most desirable
to buying concerns with bidding be
ing spirited throughout the day.
Prices ranged between 5c and 80c.
One bill noted, of good quality prim
ings, brought from $34.00 to $50.00
per hundred. 1
Tremendous Crowd.
The opening was also marked by
the tremendous crowd on hand, the
largest in the history of the market,
which was pubilant and oblivious to
everything except the sales, the-not
ing and comparing of prices. Fac
tory hands experienced great diffi
culty in removing purchases made by
their respective companies, as no at
tention was paid to roller carriers
and-tobacco hooks by the throngs of
people.
By dawn Thursday morning the
streets were crowded with motors and
jjeople, warehouse driveways were
full of loaded. wagons and trucks
that apparently came in an endless
stream, bringing to the market the
first offerings of the bright leaf crop.
To the tempo of traffic, pedestrain
and vehicular, was added a quick
3tep of anticipation.
Long rows of tobacco were lined
up on the multi-thousand feet of
floor space of the three huge tobacco
warehouses here" for the inspection
and approval of the buyers, the re
maining space, every available foot,
being crowded with farmers and their
families, pulses quickened by excite
ment, as the warehousemen, looking
at their timepieces and passing greet
ings with acquaintances in the horde
of spectators as they moved down
the golden weed lined aisles. Recog
nized and customary positions of the
warehousemen, assistant sales man
agers, auctioneers, ticket markets
and buyers were assumed, a nod
from the warehouemen as the nine
o'clock hour marked, the "sing-song"
of the auctioneer began and the to
bacco season of 1934-35 swung open
in Farmville and the Bright Leaf
Belt.
Sales were heavy and the Farm
ville market needed all of its improv
ed facilities and increased floor space,
which enables it to handle a tremend
ous sale with all ease.
Big Bad Wolf To Be Ousted.
The Big Bad Wolf of Debts has a
good chance of being driven from the
door of the tobacco farmer this year.
When the farmer was invited by
President Roosevelt to tell some of
his troubles and needs to the Fereral
government, he told it an "earful."
He told his government of the grow
ing impossibility of securing loans
on seemingly substanti^T collateral
from his banker to meet maturing
obligations; weakened .by four suc
cessive years of depression, he told
it of- the serious situation brought
about by a surplusage of everything
he produced, and of the serious dang
er of his being eliminated from the
economic picture altogether.
Realizing the farmer's plight, the
administration called for intervention
in his behalf, and the surplus prob
lem is in process of being overcome
and a profitable agricultural system
is being constructed. Agriculture is
indeed an industry "on its way" to
recovery, and not a mere cog in the
wheel but the hub.
The fanner has a big responsibili
ty- to preserve this manifestation of
faith and confidence that the admin
istration has demonstrated in a tan
gible and practical way.
Popularity Farmville Market Grows
Competition is keen in all bright
tobacco towns, each one striving to
reach a preeminent position in regard
to poundage and price. All of this
reacts in favor of the customer and
proves the assertion of each that it is
on its toes.
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rarmviue oeing situated m tne ex
act center of the large Eastern mar
kets, has, from the beginning, ex
perienced strong competition from
established rival markets, but confi
dence of the growers has been con
sistently maintained
A check of one day during the
past season found the following
counties represented by tobacco grow
ers selling on the Farmville market;
Pitt, Wilson, Greene, Edgecombe,
Martin, Beaufort, Lenoir, Wayne,
Craven, Jones, Hyde, Duplin, Samp
son, Nash, Johnston, Pender and Ons
low, proving the great popularity of
this market among the growers.
Double gales To Begin Monday.
Two sets of buyers will begin Mon
day purchasing tobacco cm the Farm
ville market, all the Bright Leaf mar
ets being handicapped this week by
an insufficient buying clientele, ow
ing to the early opening, which did
not succeed the height of the bonier
belt season as usual, but which is ex
pected to promote the more orderly
marketing of the weed in this belt
this season.
ATTENDS CONFERENCE
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Miss Alice Coggins, Home Eco
nomics teacher, who is directing the
reinlodeling of the cottage, to bo used
by this department thip session, left
Wednesday to attend the George -
Reed annual conference of Gaosge '
Reed teachers, held in Gxeeifsboro,
Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
Guaranteeing Factors
In Support of the
Farmville Market
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Tobacco Board Trade,
Warehousemen and
Their Forces, Buyers
From All the Big Com
panies, and Citizens of
Farmville, Cooperating
One Hundred Percent
Four factors constitute a guarantee
of continued adequate support, of
the Farmville market, unquestiona
bly strong and sound; the Tobacco
Board of Trade, a fraternity made up
of., representatives from every firm,
corporation and person, identified
with the sale of tobacco on this mar
ket. Organized in 1907, it settles
the various problems of the market
and works for its promotion. ? G. A
Jones, Imperial branch man, and
veteran buyer, is head of the Board
again this year, -J. Sterling Gates is
vice-president, G. A. Rouse, secretary
and publicity director, and J. T. Bun
dy, sales supervision
Warehousemen And Forces.
Experienced and popular tobacco
nists head the warehouses as pro
prietors; Jr Y. Monk, .of Monk's
warehouse, is entering his 28 year
as - one of the. most successful and
highly esteemed warehousemen in the
State, twenty-one years being spent
in running a sales house at the same
location.
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Mr. Monx s saies iorce mtmuw
this year: Grover H. Webb and
Johnnie Carlton, assistant sales man
agers; James Monk, Jr., assistant
general- manager; auctioneer, George
' M. Moore and J. N. Edwards; ticket
market markers, W. J. Teel Mid R.
D. Rouse; floor men, Leonard Carl
ton,, "Lewis Creech, Adie Flowers;
Jack Hardy; book men and office,
John . Bv Joyner, Mrs. M. V. Jones, L.
P. Thomas Ruck James, Frank Fon
vilfe; weighers, Curtis Flanagan,
Sohert. Lang, Jack Laughinghpuse;
check out man, Bennie Wheeler; leaf
men, Wyatt Tucker, J. H.-Stark, B.
Ml Lewis, Paul Frizzelle; door men,
Bob Fudford, H. G. Vandiford; trade
men, S. T. Lewis, A. R. Cannon, Jack
Tyson; watchmen, E. L. Russell, Ed
ward, Daughtry.
Knott's Warehouse.
Masters in sales management;
wide ai^ake and progressive ware
housemen are R. H. Knott and J. fi.
Hobgood, operators of Knott's ware
house, Mr. Knott having run this
house for 20 years, and Mr. Hobgood,
who was associated with him last!
season, is a veteran warehouseman.
The management of Hobgood's ware
bouse in Lumberton, and _ Knott's.'
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! warehouse here, is conducted under
the same partnership.
Assistants at Knott's for the cur
rent season are: Sales, W. Newson,
Frank Hart; auctioneer, Bob Ed
mondson; bookkeepers, R. Leroy Rol
lins, Mr. and Mrs. Zack MeWhorter,
Herbert Acton;ticket marker, J. L.
Shackleford; weighers, -L. L. Hardy,
Harry Dail, Earl Quinn, Paul Kir
by; floor managers, J. R. Allen, J.
M. Standi, assistants, Roy Vandiford,
Jesse S. Creech, Roland Taylor;
trade men, G. M. Shirley, E. C. Bea
man, Jodie Whitley, Jim Langley.
Planter's Warehouse.
L. R. Bell and J. Branch Bobbitt,
eminently fitted by their thorough
acquaintance with the growing and
handling of the weed from the seed
bed, and with many years of experi
ence in the warehouse business and
other branches of the industry, thiV
! particular partnership of Planter's
(warehouse is a great asset to the
! Farmviile market.
The Planter's force is made up of:
auctioneer, Ben Saunders; ticket
markers, Suggs Askew, Beanie- Bell;
floor managers, Walter Dees, Hay
wood Smith, A. E. Rackley, J. L.
Harrell; office, Mrs. J. Branch Bob
bitt, Ivey- Warren, Ernest Sylivant,
A. F. Felton; book men, Jerry South
erland, Ivey Warren; general assis
tants, Frank Dixon, J. L Musgrave,
Bill Ridenhour, S. B. HiH.
Each one of the warehouses has
recently been painted on the interior,
renovated and put in condition for
operation cn a 24-hour-a-day basis,
and to render every possible service
to patrons.
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Two Sets Of Buyers.
The third important factor of the
tFarmville market is the large and
highly regarded buying clientele, two
sets of buyers will be on the floors
Monday representing the various
[concerns: The Imperial Tobacco Co.,
Uhe American, R. J. Reynolds, Lig
igett and Myers, Export, P. Lonilard,
!j. P. Taylor Co., W. B. Lea Tobacco
[Co., and A. C. Monk & Co. Mr.
| Monk, president of the last named
(company bought the very first pile of
[tobacco sold here on opening day in
1905, and has bought extensively
since.
The daily poundage per warehouse
is an index to the warehousemen's
| business and the Farmville market
[ranked second in the average of
turnovers per day during the first
week of the past seasoiv wijen a
check was kept for the purpose of
noting this feature of m arketing.
The average sale per house per day
in the new Bright Belt wsa 64,660
pounds and in the
144, the Farmville market with 3
houses averaging 102*891 per house.
Citizens Of Farmville Support
Market
Aristotle wrote twenty-three hun
dred years ago* "Our end is not
knowledge but action." And for
years the citizens .of Farmville have
welded themselves together in the
interest of the Farmville tobacco
market, for the very simple reason
that the market in Farmville is as
neoessary to its livelihood and pro
gress as the mountains are to Ashe
ville and the ocean to Morehaod City.
And so the Farmville Tobacco Board
of Trade has the entire cooperation
of all the business firms and civic
organizations of the community,
which gives to the market a combina
tion of intellects ral planning and fi
nancial backing that ensures its suc
cess.
All of this is mutually advantage
ous as money in the farmer's jeans
will mean money in the cash regis
ters of merchants and will in turn be
passed on to the manufacturers and
workers of every industry. The en
tire country is dependent on the pur
chasing power of the farmer.
In The Vanguard Of Recovery
Program.
Uonsjstent improvement tutu ue*e?
opment along agricultural and in
dustrial lines, together with the ever
present desire, constantly demon
strated, to cooperate each with the
other, for tha welfare of all,has plac
ed Eastern North Carolina in the
vanguard of the nation's progressive
recovery program.
This spirit has been forcibly ex
emplified again and again, perhaps
reaching its highest point in the.
ready signing of the tobacco and cot
ton contracts and in strict adherence
to their agreements.
Optimism prevails on Eastern
Carolina farms for there- am .unmis
takable indications that "we are on the
waj*" To the man behind the plow
the best indicator is tha increased
prices he receives for his produce,
in the New Deal the farmer at pres
ent and for the first time in history,
is holding the ace^
termers Qnizzd
I Concannt Cups
thousands Of Atg^ffd
It u r e Questionnaires
[ Mailed In State
| -sFoibm?b were urged to answer spe
Lq| fead aadOi?etcik inquiries sent:
itifcyn Jby -thacxypi; reporting service
of the Department of Agriculture in
a statement issued Thursday by of
ficials of the Raleigh Bureau.
Fourteen thousand such inquiries'
soKgfct:te?nsAM*'to Mug *fce- live
stock andi feed requirements to
gether, were mailed to farmers in
'North Carolina.. Pointing oufrthat
Tgr Heel farmers had "wonderful
fntps, with a surplus of hay and
com, officials are i endeavoring to
ham^tfc* fitafer JRtt represented to
?tho report on a national survey. ?
The report must be compiled and
analyzed at Pefadgh, completed and
lowed for the ^ ^
Arizona Farmers Order
Japs to Leave Salt River
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I State Department Is j
Aroused Over Possibil- ,
I ity of Violence Which
May Precipitate Trou- j
ble for Americans In J
I Manchuria
Phoenix, Ariz., Aug. 22v?The Fed
eral government took steps today to |
prevent possible violence against I
I nearly 1,000 Japanese ordered by I
white tanners "to get out and stay I
out" of the fertile Salt River Valley. I
I Gov. B, B. Moeur was asked by I
the State Department to prevent I
I happenings "which would create I
diffifiroltier in the relations .between I
I the. United States and Japan." The
I governor was expected to make a
?fofrmioiit on the situation i
today,
"Simoltanecuyly ? county . officials
went ahead to enforce the alien land
law which forbids Orientals wfco are
not catiye Americans owning or less- ,
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lere might precipitate serious trou
>ie for Americans living in Man
:huria.
William Phillips, acting Secretary
*f State, telephoned the governor,
'I am confident that you will use
four authority toward preventing
my unlawful violent . treatment of
Japanese residents."
"The Japanese government has. air
eady approached me with regard
to this situation," the Secretary
said.
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6. A. Jones Again
Heads Board Trad*
The first meeting of lie FarmvUie
tobacco board of trade waa held, aa
is customary, the . night prior* to
opening , day, at which time planofte
promotingmarket were made*
and the following, officers were re-,
fleeted: 6. Ai Jonas, branch man
pnd veteran buyer of the Imperial
Tobacco Co., president; J. Sterling
Gates, vice president; G. A. Rouse,
$ntes,' A. C. Monk *' Co.-, H. "S:
*oward, W. B. Lea.
Farmville Is Again Chosen
Fir Federal Grading Kris Yur
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Selecting Faxxnvilie as a represent- i
afcive market of the true Eastern i
Carolina type, government officials 1
met with warehousemen here Mon
day night for completing plans for I
continuing government grading on
the Farmviile market this year, sup- 1
ported by the financial assistance of i
the Agricultural Adjustment Admin- !
istration, the State Bureau of Mar- i
kets and the Federal Bureau of Agri
cultural Economics. j
Frank B. Wilkinson, in charge of <
the Tobacco Standardization and I
Grading of the Federal Department
of Agriculture, was present at the i
meeting and M. L Dunn, who is to '
be Federal Supervisor of this market,
was in attendance also. ' i
The service, which is to be op- i
tional as heretofore, will be main- i
tained here this year, with only a
small charge to growers for grading
the weed.
The middle and old belts will also
have one key market only this year.
Farmers are well pleased with j
this service, which has steadily drawn
new patrons to the Farmville mar
ket, as they realize the advantage of
expert classification.
Interest in government grading
brought pupils, comprising the agri
culture class of the South Edgecombe
high school, to the Farmville market,
with a load of weed early in October
of the past season, the Young Tar
Teel Farmers, as they term them
selves, learning the value of this
service and being well pleased at the
3ales, resulting in prices which went
above the government standard.
Another Cotton
Loon OrM By
Pres. Roosevelt
Farmers To Receive 12
Cents A Pound for Un
sold Crop; Reduction
In Surplus Predicted
Washington, Aug. 21.?Another
government loan on cotton to help
the southern fanners?12 cents a
pound this time?was authorized
yesterday by President Roosevelt.
The announcement was made just
before Mr. Roosevelt left W ashing
ten for the mid-west to attend the
funeral of Speaker Henry T. R&iney.
The President said in his state
ment he had "requeued the Recon
struction Finance corporation to
make funds available to the com
modity credit corporation that will
enable it to increase its lending from
10 to 12 cents a pound on cotton,:
classing low middling or better,
which is and has been continuously
in the possession of the producer."
' This means that any cotton grow
er, if he does not wish to sell his:
staple at this time, may borrow 12
cents a pound from federal agencies
on the commodity.
Detailed regulations. were not an
nounced, although officials said that
in all essentials they would follow
those governing the 10-cent-a-pound
loan last year .
If'the same regulations apply, the
government takes the risk should
cotton go below 12 cents and stay
there. Should the price climb dar
ing the season, the grower may re
pay the loan, sell his bales and
pocket the profit.
Cotton is selling for more than 13
cents a pound at present but several
factors, have caused uneasiness. One
has been the projected general strike
in' the textile industry. Tide would
stop mill buying, presumably, and
have a bearish, influence.
Other things, which caused the
decision for government advances I
this year included a drop in con
.
? BRING YOUB^X|ABi$I?Fv
ING CARDS WHEN
YOU SELL TOBACCO
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|? Our tobacco fanners are .required
by the Agricultural department to
brinffe with them their 'cards when
they sell their tobacco, that the fed-.
inspectors may iCfceck up with
them and get in line to p&perly seti
their tobacco and make their adjust
ments. '
The fariMa?r-?houlck; brief their
cards every time they bring tobacco
to maptafcfor sale, and it will assist;
all hands very materially and avoid
deiay in receiving their money if
they will bring their, cards into the
office of the warehouses immediately
upon the fale tobacco. This
will avoid congestion in the office and
their work, and-thus cause ho delay
fa?r to j
fife//'' ?r- ?
More legumes an being grown this
year than ever before. Extension
Service leaders recommend legumes
for acres retired from cotton,
President Hurries
Baekto Gepital as
NRAjjew Breaks
Urgent Matters Cause
Roosevelt To Change
Plans; Richberg Silent
On NRA Rumor
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Washington, Aug. 23.?President
Roosevelt hurried back to the White
House as fresh reports sprang up of
a sharp controversy over the reor
ganization of NRA.
The chief executive, who paid his
last respects to the late Speaker
Henry T. Rainey yesterday, changed
his original plans to go diirectly to
his summer home at Hyde Park, N.
J., and returned to Washington in
stead in order to attend to some
urgent matters. The recovery pro
gram was one of the items slated
for Presidential attention.
Richberg Silent.
In Washington, Donald R. Rich
berg, Mr. Roosevelt's chief industrial
advisor,? declined to discuss reports
that he and Hugh S. Johnson, Blue
Eagle Chief, were in a bitter dis
pute over a new NRA structure. On
his return to the White House the
President is expected to take com
mand of the situation and outline
definitely principles for recovery re
organization.
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Unoinciai oDservers 01 me m ha
situation believed whatever differ
ences existed among the New Deal
advisors were due to whether the
proposed board to govern NRA
should have actual control along
with Johnson or should be dominated
by him as now.
Other differences were believed to
have arisen over whether Federal su
pervision should be relaxed under the
new set-up, with private industry
being given control of its own af
fairs through the code authorities.
Another group Was said to feel
Federal control should be increased
with an acceleration of legal efforts
to enforce code compliance.
Bethany Beach, Del., Aug. 23.?
Hugh S. Johnson used five words to
day to deny emphatically there had
been a split between him and Donald
R. Richberg and Secretary of Labor
Frances Perkins over NRA policies.
The NRA administrator was in
formed that reports of a sharp dis
pute in high command of his in
dustrial recovery campaign had been
publishd in Washington. He re
plied categorically:
"1. No break.
"2. No further comment"
r Cumberland cotton growers re
ceived $46,000 in rental .checks last
week.
Askew Confesses Kidnap
Story Untrue; Wrote Notes
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Says He Needed A Rest
Badly; Evidence Col
lected Turned Over To
U S. District Attorney
Goldsboro, Aug. 22.?The Rev. R.
H. Askew, four Square gospel even
gelist, confessed today, Sheriff Paul
Garrison said, that his story of be
ing* kidnapped was untrue and that
lie wrote the ransom message re
ceived by liis wife.
"I needed a rest and had to get
away," the slieriff quoted Askew as
saying in explanation of his action.
Tlje twenty-eight year old evenge
iist disappeared Aug. 18 and turned
up in NashviUe, Tenn., four days
later and told officers there he had
been held prisoner by three men in
a big green automobile.
Sheriff Garrison said Askew cbn-l
fessed that he fabricated the entire
story of the kidnapping, sent a note
and telegram to his wife demanding]
?2E,000 ransom and also sent a note I
to Aimee Semple McPherson de
manding a similar sum on threat
of death for Askew and bombing of
Angelus Temple.
Sheriff Garrison guoted Askew as
saying that .after he'&ft Goldsboro
on Aug. IS-he went to Raleigh jtnd
took, a train to Richmond, Va. The
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in Richmond.
From Richmond the sheriff said
Askew went to Washington by bus
and sent a telegram from there to ,
Mrs. Askew telling her Mto have the ,
money ready by Saturday."
Askew went from Washington to
Knoxville and from there to Nash
ville, making both trips by bus.
P. M. Stapleton, special agent in ,
charge of the Charlotte office of the
bureau of investigation, participated
with Garrison in th6 questioning of
Askew. He declined to discuss the
possibility of prosecution of Askew
for sending ransom notes through
the mail but said as a matter of
course all the evidence collected
would be turned over to the United
States district attorney.
Wiilmington, Aug. 22.?J. 0. Carr,
Wilmington U. S. district attorney,
said this afternoon he would have no
comment on the proposed confession
of R. W. Askew, Goldsboro Four
Square gospel minister, that his
story of being kidnapped was untrue
until he has been officially notified
by federal agents investigating the
case.
Mr. Carr said that for other than
the newspaper story he had no in
formation concerning the kidnap
ping and subsequent investigation.
He did hot offer any comment when
reminded of the ransom note having
been sent through the mails and
Askew had confessed he mailed them
to Ma ?